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Ernest & Barbara Furlow-Smiles: Founders of the Bedazzled and Customizable “Smiles Shield” · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Barbara Furlough Spiles and earnest smiles. She is the least strategist,
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  Speaker 1: Global head of Employment, Research Group and Diversity Engagement at Facebook. Now,
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  Speaker 1: outside of her role in Facebook and operating Smiles Chill,
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  Speaker 1: Barbara's found a BT consultant, LLC and co founder a
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  Speaker 1: nonprofit globu Smiles Health, which is focused on sustainable health
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  Speaker 1: and providing people with the basic needs of living around
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  Speaker 1: the globe one community and smile at a time. Now
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  Speaker 1: Smiles Shields as a family owned and operating company founded
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  Speaker 1: about Barbara and her husband, muscle Bound Earnest Smiles the
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  Speaker 1: Smiles Seal as a major arnor for the categories of children, luxury,
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  Speaker 1: be Dazzled, and name customization. Please work into the money making.
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  Speaker 1: Please work with the money making. I'm laughing, so please
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  Speaker 1: work with the money making. Conversation Earnest and Barbara fellow smiles.
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  Speaker 1: How y'all doing. We're doing an amazing rush. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for having us. Like I said, man, I've
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  Speaker 1: been looking forward to this interview. I've been counting down
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  Speaker 1: the clock to to this, so I'm happy to be here.
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  Speaker 1: My wife and I well, first of all, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank everybody who are who are challenging
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  Speaker 1: themselves when I look at what you guys are doing.
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  Speaker 1: You challenge yourself to understand that we're in the pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: When you see the stock market is flying off the charts,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to be the person that's been laid off.
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  Speaker 1: Other person who's in the line saying waiting for somebody
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  Speaker 1: to hand out. And I'm not saying that negatively, but
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  Speaker 1: we have to be smart about it because somehow in
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  Speaker 1: this pandemic, when we see unemployment, we see food lines,
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  Speaker 1: somebody's making money and somebody's out there going to cost code.
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  Speaker 1: Amazon stock is on fire because old Line. Just on
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  Speaker 1: the Cyber Monday it was twelve point seven billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: in sales. On Black Friday, there was over nine billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars in sales. So there has to be a sense
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  Speaker 1: that there is economic positivity in play right now. So
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  Speaker 1: the whole concept of what you guys are doing with
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  Speaker 1: the shields are right in line with what we're dealing
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  Speaker 1: with with the dim It now tell us about how
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  Speaker 1: the concept came about. And I know it's the first
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  Speaker 1: time coming on money making conversations. Please we artist about
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  Speaker 1: everything you've done. I'm not here to blasting your thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's want you to tell your story is a power
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  Speaker 1: couple because Earnest you have your shield on, and Barbara
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  Speaker 1: you got your shield on. And the reason I love
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  Speaker 1: it I can see your smiles. And then here's the
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  Speaker 1: thing about YouTube, y'all, y'all tied it to your last names.
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  Speaker 1: That's beautiful. That's beautiful. So so I'm gonna Earnest talk
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  Speaker 1: that's my man. Before he might he might, I got you,
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  Speaker 1: I got you Cover Rush, Well, be honest. This product,
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  Speaker 1: just if I must span it was actually shot down
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  Speaker 1: in an NBA program. I go to Syracuse University finishing
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  Speaker 1: up my last two classes and it was developed during
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  Speaker 1: the last semester and I actually brought it to an
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  Speaker 1: NBA group and say, I have this great idea about
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  Speaker 1: these customized shields. And they were like, well, that's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna work because we have to wear man. I said,
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  Speaker 1: you don't understand what I'm saying. I have this great
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  Speaker 1: idea about designing customized shields for customers to have. And
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  Speaker 1: it was declined. But I said, you know what, I'm
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  Speaker 1: still gonna make these shields and I'm gonna prove to
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  Speaker 1: you that you don't have to listen to what any
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  Speaker 1: other group says. If you believe in it, and you
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  Speaker 1: know there's a market. Just push yourself through right now,
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  Speaker 1: because I I love that. Then, Bobby, I don't you
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  Speaker 1: want to comment on that because that's somebody told him. No,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, And quite frankly, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he hears that word. Right. So, so tell us
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  Speaker 1: about the whole process of you know, because it's trademark
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  Speaker 1: and we know and and all that stuff, and so
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  Speaker 1: talk about the process of developing a product. Yes, So
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  Speaker 1: Ernest came home like he normally does with the brilliant idea.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we do. We support each other. And the
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  Speaker 1: first and shield was a Dodger shield. So you see this,
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  Speaker 1: you see the makeup and it and the flyness. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, we gotta take it to another level.
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  Speaker 1: So one of the things we initially thought of was
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  Speaker 1: creating different collections. So you see here laying around the shield,
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  Speaker 1: um dazzled. We have luxury, um, et cetera. Now this
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  Speaker 1: is right, I means I can contact you and it's
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  Speaker 1: made to order. Correct. Yeah, So we have a website. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: now I'm gonna I'm gonna havep some people, cause like something,
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  Speaker 1: some of this place back on podcast too, so it's
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  Speaker 1: all the only of course it plays off on video
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  Speaker 1: and on YouTube. Now there are two things she has
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  Speaker 1: to shield and on the outside of the shield it
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  Speaker 1: said smile and then inside there's a band that place.
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  Speaker 1: They strategically allowed you to put the logo branding on
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  Speaker 1: that as well. Who came up with that? I did
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  Speaker 1: the double brand logo. That's double branding. Yeah, yep, can
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  Speaker 1: you hear me, Rush, I can hear that? Okay, cool? Now,
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  Speaker 1: who came up with the idea of the double the
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  Speaker 1: double branding of the logos? Oh? I did? Um. What
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  Speaker 1: I thought about was and when even when I saw
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  Speaker 1: the first Dodger one, I said, I'm gonna take this
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  Speaker 1: back to Detroit, Michigan. And I'm explaining I'm from Detroit.
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  Speaker 1: We used to wear a name but belt buckles, and
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  Speaker 1: I said, I said, man, I bet people would love
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  Speaker 1: to have a face shield just like the buckle. So
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the black band, it's nothing but
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  Speaker 1: a belt with with your what's your what's your name
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  Speaker 1: on it? And I just thinking back to back to
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  Speaker 1: that time, and I said, we were we went crazy
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  Speaker 1: for these, right, I said, I know this will work
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  Speaker 1: on a face shield, and this is what you see
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  Speaker 1: with both what we both have on at the present moment. Okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: let me ask you this the process of making a
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  Speaker 1: custom mind, what is is it? A number of hours?
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  Speaker 1: Is a number of days? And so let me just
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  Speaker 1: take for attention to the shield that you have. I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking at two different shards because on your shild, Barbera,
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  Speaker 1: you have bedazzle around the trimp. You have a bedazzle trimp. Okay, now,
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  Speaker 1: earnest on your shield's clean. It's a very clear screen.
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  Speaker 1: You can see their eyes, their nose, beautiful smiles and
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  Speaker 1: which I missed with masks. I missed that because I
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  Speaker 1: like to encourage people with a smile that guess what,
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  Speaker 1: we're into this together. We're gonna get through this together.
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  Speaker 1: When you wear a mask, you can't do that, okay,
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  Speaker 1: But a sill allows you to smile at the person's
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  Speaker 1: saying hello. You know, look up beat when you're going
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  Speaker 1: in the grocery store, look up beat when you come
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  Speaker 1: out of home depot. Life is not that bad. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not mad. I'm not mad at white people. White
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  Speaker 1: people shouldn't be mad at me. You know, this is
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  Speaker 1: important when the in the in the in the world
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  Speaker 1: that we live in now, when you see so much anger,
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  Speaker 1: so much hate, so much doubt, people afraid of so
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  Speaker 1: much bad media that's put in social media, that's put
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  Speaker 1: in the digital world. So with that said, the numbdazzo,
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  Speaker 1: how long does it take, Trim and how does it
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  Speaker 1: take them do the bidazzo trip? Barbara? Yeah, so it
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  Speaker 1: takes pretty much forty eight hours. Well, let's let's make
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  Speaker 1: sure we get that fully correct. That's her like orders
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  Speaker 1: of twenty and thirty. We can make one of one
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  Speaker 1: or more the shields and approximately. Honestly, if I call
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  Speaker 1: right now said make me a money making conversations, I
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  Speaker 1: get you one of thirty minutes. See with my staff. See,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I gotta do. I gotta give me a
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  Speaker 1: money making conversation. So I can I need to have
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  Speaker 1: that wait till I make that shilpa because you know
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it on social media. You know, I've
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  Speaker 1: let all my million, my million followers know about this
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  Speaker 1: because first of all, first of all, the entrepreneurs. Now, okay,
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  Speaker 1: on Ernest, what do you do with your your your
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  Speaker 1: forty hour week or your entrepreneurs side other than the shields.
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  Speaker 1: And also I'm gonna ask you to at because i
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  Speaker 1: want to let everybody to know that I would your people,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to be successful, take that twenty four
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  Speaker 1: hours as you could every day, learn to take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of every hour. It seems that you guys following that motto, Well,
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  Speaker 1: let me say first rush that there is no forty
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  Speaker 1: hour week for us. Yes, there really is. Our Our
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  Speaker 1: week runs congrueing, meaning they all blame all the days
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  Speaker 1: blending together. We we work off for goals, meaning you know,
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  Speaker 1: the days just are there to set our goals. And
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  Speaker 1: what we do is we live off of what is
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  Speaker 1: the goal for the week. Meaning if my goal is
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  Speaker 1: something that requires me to work another twelve hours, I'm
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  Speaker 1: working the whole twelve hours. So there there's no such
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  Speaker 1: thing gas at the eight hour mark. I'm shutting it
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  Speaker 1: down at four o'clock. I wake up at three in
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  Speaker 1: the morning and say, I still got some emails to
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  Speaker 1: see and I'm sending my emails, So I'm based I
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  Speaker 1: based my week off a task, not not off of
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  Speaker 1: off of the day. So when you understand it's the entrepreneur,
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  Speaker 1: there should never be an eight to four set clock
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  Speaker 1: because then that would mean you just limited yourself. And
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  Speaker 1: if Rush call for money making conversations and want you
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  Speaker 1: to come on the show, you say, Rush, I can't
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  Speaker 1: make it because I'm off at four o'clock. Right, so
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  Speaker 1: he Rush called me rushing here two and the one
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  Speaker 1: on the show. I'm getting on the show. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I like about you, sir, Thank you very But now, Barbara,
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  Speaker 1: I I know I got hercules over that to you, right,
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  Speaker 1: know something there is a deal because when you came
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  Speaker 1: on before she was in a job. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: was up. I said, I'm ready for this interview, and
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: I see you know you you're married to the zer bunny. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you can't. You can't come home and not be happy
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  Speaker 1: to see each other. And that's important because you know,
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  Speaker 1: God has blessed y'all with a clear understanding that why
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  Speaker 1: I produced a sad day with a happy day is better. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And so now that now the pidazza one, that pidazz
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  Speaker 1: a trim that put out what is that trim made
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  Speaker 1: up or what is what is creating that pedazzle nous? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so it's called when you go on our website you
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  Speaker 1: can add this to any shield. It's called blamed around
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  Speaker 1: the shield. Um, it's really what it is. He said,
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  Speaker 1: he's from Detroit. Where are you from? I'm from Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: So they called me Hollywood that Hollywood together, I got
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  Speaker 1: the Motor City. I got Hollywood. No, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 1: See see he know I've been in Detroit many times.
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  Speaker 1: Me and Steve Barber used to go up there and
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  Speaker 1: do comedy shows and all that stuff up at the
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  Speaker 1: Fox then, so I know about dressing. So when you
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  Speaker 1: start talking about Detroit, I know exactly what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I lived in l A for fifteen years, so I
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  Speaker 1: of course, like you said, the NBA thought this wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. How did you start introducing it on
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  Speaker 1: social media? Did you shoot videos? How did you guys
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  Speaker 1: start introducing the brain? Yeah, I'll take that. I actually
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  Speaker 1: work at Facebook and Instagram, the number one social media company,
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  Speaker 1: and what we see in particular COVID nineteen talk about
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  Speaker 1: the pivot. So we pivoted to purely social media e
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  Speaker 1: commerce UM, and we utilize our social media platform. We
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  Speaker 1: have amazing photographer and designers. Where we took some shots
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  Speaker 1: of people in the shield UM and we created organically
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  Speaker 1: the following on Instagram. What we also did. I'm also
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  Speaker 1: getting my NBA U c l A. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: shout that out, so you're not the only NBA in
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: the house. UM. And what we did was we bypassed
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  Speaker 1: all the traditional ways and go to market, right, so
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  Speaker 1: you have your market analysis. It takes years, UM, And
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  Speaker 1: we said, why don't we try the social media out
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  Speaker 1: and so we had the direct to consumer interaction with
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  Speaker 1: our customer that let us know that we were onto something.
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  Speaker 1: UM and rest I wanted to also mention you talked
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  Speaker 1: about being trademark. So one of the early signs that
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  Speaker 1: this was going to be successful. When we were in
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  Speaker 1: the process of getting trademark, there were over ten thousand
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  Speaker 1: applications from masks and shields. But when you talked about
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  Speaker 1: other people making money, you know, many people saw this
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  Speaker 1: as an opportunity and many people that don't look like us.
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  Speaker 1: And I agree, and I you know, that's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: happy about it because I have some friends, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they've been very successful with masks okay, and I've helped
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  Speaker 1: them and dropped their information in my newsletter and dropped
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  Speaker 1: it on my social media. Because that's that's why I
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  Speaker 1: created money making conversations. And so when I when I
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  Speaker 1: look at African American's clearly understanding the pivot clearly understanding that.
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  Speaker 1: And this is this is why I'm excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: And this is just because of the fact that there's
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  Speaker 1: a vaccine coming out and black people don't want to
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  Speaker 1: take it. They don't trust the system, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, And so I think it's time that in
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  Speaker 1: order for us to create trust, we gotta move you
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  Speaker 1: guys face to the front of the line. You know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, isn't that's more than just me taking
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  Speaker 1: a photo with myself on it. I want to take
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  Speaker 1: a photo with YouTube to post on social media talking
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  Speaker 1: about it's a black couple that have invented you know,
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  Speaker 1: these shields and you can buy from them online. So
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  Speaker 1: that's way more important than anything because that because that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna encourage black participation. Blacks and say, I supported blacks
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  Speaker 1: may even take the vaccine because we understand that we
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be guinea pigs. But then also we
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  Speaker 1: want to be able to participate in the support system
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  Speaker 1: of profitability. And that's what you guys are doing with
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  Speaker 1: the shield. Look, it's a health it's for your health,
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  Speaker 1: it's for safety. COVID NATI safety lots to create social distance,
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  Speaker 1: to me, it creates a very social experience. To me,
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  Speaker 1: I think that in the end that's gonna be honest.
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  Speaker 1: You can still eat, you can still you can still
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  Speaker 1: do uh a straw, you can do a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things where this shield here, and that's what your kid.
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  Speaker 1: So all that was taken in consideration, Earnest, when you
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  Speaker 1: really started thinking about this whole process. Oh yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: We we thought about, like you said, the social experience,
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  Speaker 1: and that, like you said, we're gonna be going through
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  Speaker 1: COVID in and out for the next couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: So we we recognized that, and our goal as entrepreneurs
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  Speaker 1: was was to embrace it, not to act as if
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  Speaker 1: it didn't exist, or to go into a shall of fear.
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  Speaker 1: And and that's and and I'm gonna be honest, my
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  Speaker 1: wife and I we we did go to an initial
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  Speaker 1: during this tumultuous time and why not use this opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to build something beautiful together and the last piece of
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  Speaker 1: future what's our future outlook of this? So it could
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  Speaker 1: be quite honest with you. We've only been in business
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  Speaker 1: do partnerships. So for partnering with Sydney Jackson who has
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  Speaker 1: And then in Instagram and fluencer Toy Hardy, who's also
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning, we saw this opportunity in their lot
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  Speaker 1: in this for some time. Well, that's why I wanted
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  Speaker 1: somebody modeling the product. And that's what I would be.
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