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Karen Cuthrell Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Hi this for Sean McDonald And you're listening to money
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  Speaker 1: making Conversations. The great thing about money making conversation. I
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of foam interviews and today I have
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  Speaker 1: a live inch studio. She's in studio right now. Every
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  Speaker 1: I'm seriousing about our relationship. Every week I post a
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  Speaker 1: banner about who the talent that is appearing on money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversations. My Next Gifts wrote this about me in
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  Speaker 1: the comets section on one of those posts on my
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  Speaker 1: LinkedIn account. She said, you're worthy to be uplifted. The
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  Speaker 1: work that you're that you're doing is amazing. Your words
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  Speaker 1: of encouragement kept me on my journey. I have an
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  Speaker 1: investor for the Feeling Friends app Wake Forest Medicine Work
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  Speaker 1: Forest Medicine as my research partner to have creating an
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  Speaker 1: educational kit that gives educators the tools to teach socially
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  Speaker 1: emotional learning to preschool. Your encouragement and uplift kept me
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  Speaker 1: going years ago when I was ready to give up. Yes, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Studio right now. Yeah, I was working the money
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  Speaker 1: making conversation Karen for thrall. Yea, thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Those words mean the world to me, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean the world to me because I've been on
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  Speaker 1: this journey a long time. I've been on the journey
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  Speaker 1: very long time. And I was laying in my bed
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  Speaker 1: one day and the Holy Spears said, um, contact Steve
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  Speaker 1: Harvey's business management. I said, okay, and I did, and
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  Speaker 1: I contacted you, and you were on your journey, start
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  Speaker 1: your new journey of the time. And I started google.
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  Speaker 1: You know how we google, folks, And I started googling you,
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  Speaker 1: and I ran into a video that says, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: push your brand. You gotta push your brand, man, And
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  Speaker 1: those words right there got me out of bed and
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  Speaker 1: started me pushing the feeling friends brain end once again,
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  Speaker 1: because you get tired when you get so many rejections
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  Speaker 1: and people saying no, when you just keep going. And
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  Speaker 1: that night I was tired. But that night I looked
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  Speaker 1: at that video and you said, you gotta push your brand.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta push your brand. Man, I got up and
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  Speaker 1: started pushing my brand. And years later, right now, I
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  Speaker 1: got an investor. We're doing the things that I'm supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be doing on my assignment. And this is awesome
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  Speaker 1: to really meet you at this time. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited, So we're gonna have a good time. Good
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about our relationship. I started because you started
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  Speaker 1: with me when I was doing money making conversation on
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  Speaker 1: my Facebook page, correct, And it was something I was
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  Speaker 1: doing once and we just start and I was just
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  Speaker 1: like I would answer. It was funny because you know
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  Speaker 1: on my Facebook page it was like she respond I
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  Speaker 1: respond back, so like they knew it was me communicating
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  Speaker 1: because they asked a question. I respond back to their questions.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is more what we're doing today. It's
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  Speaker 1: a more advanced version of what I was doing back
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  Speaker 1: on my Facebook page because now I can talk and
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  Speaker 1: interact and and also I feel I'm providing a bigger service.
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  Speaker 1: So tell every about exactly what what you do and
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  Speaker 1: what is your company all about? Your brand? My brand?
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  Speaker 1: My brand is the Feeling Friends, and the Feeling Friends
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  Speaker 1: is a set of characters twelve characters at this time,
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  Speaker 1: that gives children the vocabulary to talk about their feelings.
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  Speaker 1: Social emotion learning is really huge now, very very huge.
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  Speaker 1: I started this journey twenty four years ago when social
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  Speaker 1: emotional learning no one knew anything about. And in this
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  Speaker 1: journey it felt like to me a job journey where
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  Speaker 1: you're stripped of everything, but you stay on the journey.
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  Speaker 1: But my daughter told me it was more of a
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  Speaker 1: Noah journey because I was building an arc that and
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  Speaker 1: when no abuilders aren't no one even knew of Rain,
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  Speaker 1: I was building this arc and that people eventually won't
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  Speaker 1: come on board. And right now, I built this arc
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  Speaker 1: with these characters, and yes, people did call me crazy
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  Speaker 1: because I gave up everything to continue to build this art.
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  Speaker 1: So the Feeling Friends are these wonderful characters that give
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  Speaker 1: children the vocabulary to talk about their feelings. When my
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  Speaker 1: daughter was um six years diagnosed with depression, and there
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  Speaker 1: were no six years six years old out there were
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  Speaker 1: no tools on the market to help her in. The
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  Speaker 1: psychologist said, you gotta get her talk about her feelings,
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  Speaker 1: and so I went out there to try to buy
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  Speaker 1: something that was nothing there. And so what I realized
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  Speaker 1: I had taught her all the words that a preschooler
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  Speaker 1: should know in a kindergarten should know, but there were
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  Speaker 1: no feelings words on there. So I knew she liked music.
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  Speaker 1: I knew she liked dance. I knew she liked songs.
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  Speaker 1: So I created these characters that gave her a way
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  Speaker 1: of talking to me about her feelings, like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Love, the lover u Billy, the Billy bully Goat, Patty,
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  Speaker 1: the happy hippo, Wesley the lonely well Slumpy, the sad Elephant.
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  Speaker 1: So when she would come to me and she says,
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling like Wesley, I knew she was lonely, and
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  Speaker 1: so it gave her the vocabulary. So it's almost like
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  Speaker 1: the first time I went to France, I couldn't speak
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  Speaker 1: the language is very difficult. So I gave my daughter
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  Speaker 1: the language to speak to me, to tell me about
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  Speaker 1: her feelings. Let's let's talk about this. Six years old.
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  Speaker 1: Six years old and your daughters diagnosed depression. Yes, okay,
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  Speaker 1: because that feels like an adult. Yes, the world, And
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  Speaker 1: so I want to want to stow people down because
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  Speaker 1: we tend to categorize different layers. You know, people only
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  Speaker 1: a certain type. People commit suicide on a certain type,
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  Speaker 1: people do drugs on certain people have an anxiety attack.
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  Speaker 1: It's six years old, six years old the day with
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  Speaker 1: social media being what it is, information being processed so
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  Speaker 1: quickly by young people, that's even a bigger, bigger leap
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  Speaker 1: for young people to start emotionally starting to deal with
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  Speaker 1: all these issues. It is, it is, And if you
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  Speaker 1: don't have the right tools to deal with those issues, Um,
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  Speaker 1: we were very fortunate. Her godmother, Kathy Jane phil y'all,
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  Speaker 1: was a school psychologist, and we saw it the first year.
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  Speaker 1: We really did see it the first year. My daughter
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  Speaker 1: didn't smile her entire first year. Well, you're in denial. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't want to deal with it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you hope something else is gonna come along, And UM,
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  Speaker 1: I have to really look back at me. I was
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  Speaker 1: depressed when I was pregnant. So when they say things,
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  Speaker 1: you sing songs to your children and you know, because
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  Speaker 1: what is going to happen, is gonna happen. That's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that. So I believe that the depression started
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  Speaker 1: with me and I transferred it to my daughter. But
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  Speaker 1: at six, Kathy Jane said we've got to do something,
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  Speaker 1: that we've got to do something now. But as I said,
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  Speaker 1: there were no tools to help her and going when
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  Speaker 1: she went to psych psychilogrists, psychologists, and the breakthrough was
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  Speaker 1: the Feeling Friends because she says now, the Feeling Friends
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  Speaker 1: were the light to her emotional darkness. Because how did
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  Speaker 1: you introduce your product to to to to parents, or
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  Speaker 1: to school systems, to daycare and senters? How many bows
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  Speaker 1: that introduction? Mate? We just can Before we just have
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  Speaker 1: the animals, the big stuffed animals, and children love those.
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  Speaker 1: But now we're gonna have this wonderful kit and then
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  Speaker 1: this kid will have the teachers God. And we wrote
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  Speaker 1: the teacher's God. I ask my educational pre k guru, Michelle,
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  Speaker 1: let's write this Feeling Friends for dummies, because we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make it so that parents could get the same.
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  Speaker 1: By someone like me who had a child that was
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  Speaker 1: suffering from an anxiety depression, or just want to teach
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  Speaker 1: her children about feelings, it wouldn't be so engrossed in
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  Speaker 1: educational stuff that they will be able to do it too.
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  Speaker 1: So we have this teacher's God, and we have these puppets,
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  Speaker 1: and we have the coolest music that you've ever heard
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  Speaker 1: in your entire life. It is just so, and the
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  Speaker 1: music reinforces the characters and so the characters we have posters.
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  Speaker 1: Is everything in there to give a teacher or a
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  Speaker 1: parent what they need to start the discussions about let's talk.
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  Speaker 1: Let's back up a little bit. Well, do you know
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  Speaker 1: when you made a statement that people thought you were crazy?
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  Speaker 1: I talk walking abround with the little dolls, and people
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  Speaker 1: talk about I thought I was crazy when I left
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  Speaker 1: IBM to tell jokes. Okay, you're gonna tell jokes, huh?
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  Speaker 1: And I couldn't tell him. I couldn't tell him where
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna tell jokes, like how technical and how
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna make money. I just knew this is
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  Speaker 1: what I wanted to do. So here you are, because
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a small it's it's your core group believing you.
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  Speaker 1: They love you. They really don't understand that, understand they
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  Speaker 1: don't understand this. And I want people to hear how
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  Speaker 1: were you able to go past that ago? You know,
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  Speaker 1: because really it's on you, it is, and sometimes even
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  Speaker 1: on you, there's doubt. Because they were doubt on me.
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  Speaker 1: Even though I left IBM, even though I knew this
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  Speaker 1: is what I wanted to do, that was still ten
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  Speaker 1: percent of me going, I hope this is the right decision.
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  Speaker 1: How did you get past that? From your standpoint? My standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: I got past it because, um all the stories. I
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  Speaker 1: was sitting down one night and I said, Lord, if
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  Speaker 1: you want me to do this, and I need to
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  Speaker 1: write some stories. And I started nine o'clock that night,
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  Speaker 1: and at nine o'clock the next morning I had written
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  Speaker 1: ten children's stories, and so I knew that could not
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  Speaker 1: be me, and they were great. I sent him to
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  Speaker 1: my door to read. At the age she said, Mom,
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  Speaker 1: who wrote these? I said I did, And she said
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  Speaker 1: when did you write him? I said last night? She
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  Speaker 1: said no, when did you write him? I said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: last night. And she couldn't believe it. She said, these
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  Speaker 1: are really, really great stories with children. I knew I
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  Speaker 1: was on a god assignment at that point, and so
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  Speaker 1: I could not give up on a god assignment. I
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  Speaker 1: just could not. I could not. So no, matter how
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  Speaker 1: bad it God, I just could not give him because
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  Speaker 1: I knew I was in my purpose. I knew I
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  Speaker 1: saw the way children reacted to me. If you got
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  Speaker 1: me with a group of children, I'm like the Mary
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  Speaker 1: Poppins of children. Children just loved me. Yeah, I was
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  Speaker 1: some feeling of friends, I got some deal. But children
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  Speaker 1: apps reutely adore me. It's like a magical spirit. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it's and came into my booth. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna using fire you and that's a beautiful came
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  Speaker 1: in with your two stuff animals here. And so with
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  Speaker 1: that being said, you're winning. You're winning, and then you
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  Speaker 1: gotta keep winning. So the thing that always when I
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  Speaker 1: when I started my making conversation, that's why I read
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  Speaker 1: that quote, because those quotes keep me going, because it's
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  Speaker 1: just a vision, it's just a dream. It's just what
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing affecting change, you know what I'm saying. And
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  Speaker 1: and so when I had to say that, because it did.
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  Speaker 1: When I read it, I couldn't believe it because the
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  Speaker 1: fact that I'm not in it for for self gratification.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in it because of the fact that God has
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  Speaker 1: given me a unique life, a unique talent to be
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  Speaker 1: able to communicate. And I've chosen this path to communicate
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  Speaker 1: and it's for free, and uh, you know, and when
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  Speaker 1: people listen to me, I just try to be consistent
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  Speaker 1: with them. That's my whole thing is that I want
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  Speaker 1: people to understand that Roshan McDonald's not going to change now.
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  Speaker 1: And you can, you can try to you can try
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  Speaker 1: to do it a little bit different from me, but
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna let you come back over to me because
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get up out of bed. You gotta you
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  Speaker 1: can't be married to that bed. And you gotta realized
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  Speaker 1: there are twenty four hours in that day. You have
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  Speaker 1: to learn the ulize every hour to your path to success.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you said you wrote those wrote those three
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  Speaker 1: stories overnight. See it wasn't about sleeping. You wasn't trapped
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  Speaker 1: into your vision and you developed it and that was
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  Speaker 1: the first step of you moving forward in your life.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was and made me go because I
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  Speaker 1: was spending up money. I used up all my um
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  Speaker 1: my divorce money, my retirement. I was spending money doing
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  Speaker 1: this because God said, Karen, um I said, don't you
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  Speaker 1: think I need to go back to work? Because I
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  Speaker 1: was laid off. I'm just gonna go at the work
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  Speaker 1: and said, no, I need you to create because when
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  Speaker 1: this hits, you're not gonna have time to create. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the reason I have fifty two stories already done
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  Speaker 1: and I'm still creating in my head, but mine that
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  Speaker 1: stop caring. Let's market things, Let's get is out there.
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  Speaker 1: Let's make some money on these. And so I have
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  Speaker 1: the most wonderful investors. And it's just when you're in
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  Speaker 1: that when you're in that role and you're in your vision,
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  Speaker 1: you don't sleep, You really don't sleep, because it's always
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  Speaker 1: what do I need to do to make this happen?
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  Speaker 1: And things just happen. Now, let's talk when we talk
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  Speaker 1: about more detail about the investments, because that was because
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  Speaker 1: you sent me a LinkedIn message about the limit of
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  Speaker 1: amount of African American women get into these conversations about
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  Speaker 1: being able to get capital investors in their vision and
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  Speaker 1: into their dreams. So right now, where is the state
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  Speaker 1: of your your company? Right now? Right now, we're in
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  Speaker 1: production for our first kids. We're in a a production for
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  Speaker 1: our first kids, um and those will be delivered in
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  Speaker 1: the end of August, and we'll be able to go
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  Speaker 1: out and sell those I'm gonna become a door to
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  Speaker 1: door salesman with a little Internet and I'm gonna sell
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  Speaker 1: those kids. So we can just grow the company, grow
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  Speaker 1: the revenue, so we can then go out and get
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  Speaker 1: the app, make the app that we want to go.
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  Speaker 1: So we want the teachers to do it in school
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  Speaker 1: and want the parents to have an educational app at home.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have the music and all that kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: the all up, so we have to make children that
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  Speaker 1: are emotionally stronger. Now, with that being said, Okay, we
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  Speaker 1: did it. Does it type of does it? You know?
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  Speaker 1: Mary kay? Does it? So your model is not a
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  Speaker 1: bad model, not at all. No, you're not you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're not back there and it's done on
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  Speaker 1: the regular basis. And so with that being said, that's
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  Speaker 1: a pathway that you want to win with by controlling
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  Speaker 1: your model. And also you're still at the forefront of
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  Speaker 1: learning about how to sell your mark correct correct, and
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  Speaker 1: and that it's interested you say that because I have
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  Speaker 1: retired educators who I'm just asking, you know, do you
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  Speaker 1: need something to do part time? And they said, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so if what about going out and becoming um feeling
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  Speaker 1: friends distributors and they're they're saying, let's talk about it here,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about it because they know the product, they
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  Speaker 1: understand the product, they believe in the product. So it
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  Speaker 1: is an m WE model. It is the type of yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're there, Okay, we're not talking to people on the
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  Speaker 1: then hyping and the great. We'll be right back with
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  Speaker 1: more UH feeling friends, feeling friends and learning. But the
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  Speaker 1: main thing here is that I want to thank you
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  Speaker 1: for coming in studio, and we'll be back with more
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  Speaker 1: to find out about the investment, part branding, part money,
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  Speaker 1: main conversations. I'm back on the air. Feeling friends. She
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  Speaker 1: got her a little animals out here. This is let's
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  Speaker 1: explain to me exactly if you're if you're on a
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  Speaker 1: UH Facebook page, you can see these lovely animals. Social
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  Speaker 1: emotional learning, What exactly is that it's social emotional because
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard that. Okay, is that is that the phrase?
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  Speaker 1: You corn? Social emotional learning? What they're finding. Daniel Goldman
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  Speaker 1: back in the nineties found that social emotional learning it's
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  Speaker 1: how being able to identify, express, and manage my feelings.
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  Speaker 1: And you've been able to identify, express, and manage your feelings,
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  Speaker 1: me seeing how you feel, being able to identify how
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  Speaker 1: you feeling, you being able to identify har Field so
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  Speaker 1: we can live in the world. So we can live
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  Speaker 1: in this world together. I'm just gonna talk to you. Everybody,
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  Speaker 1: What can we do give? We just trapped the microphone
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  Speaker 1: on our nose. Was trapping on our nose. We keep
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  Speaker 1: it in front of the alls now, so explain to everybody,
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  Speaker 1: because you're gonna like faded the way. Okay. Social emotion
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  Speaker 1: learning is about how I feel able to identify, express,
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  Speaker 1: and manage my feelings, and you being able to identify, express,
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  Speaker 1: and manage your feelings. Because we live in this world together,
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  Speaker 1: I should be with social warning. I should be able
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  Speaker 1: to see how you feel and react to how you feel,
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  Speaker 1: and you should be able to see how I feel
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  Speaker 1: and be able to work to how I feel. We
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  Speaker 1: should be kind, caring. It's those things that we were
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  Speaker 1: taught at a verb very young age, be nice, all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, But we left off that feeling
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  Speaker 1: part and being able to identify how we feel. Because
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  Speaker 1: you know as well as I know. All right, nobody
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  Speaker 1: to let us told us we could express how we feel.
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  Speaker 1: You better sit out and be quiet, and that's the
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  Speaker 1: way it was. But now they're finding that social emotional
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  Speaker 1: learning is and that's called EQ emotional intelligence. It is
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  Speaker 1: just as important as i Q, because if you do
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  Speaker 1: not know how to express how you feel and to
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  Speaker 1: manage your feelings, it's very difficult to learn well for
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  Speaker 1: very difficulks associates of the life, everyday life being polite, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and things like that. Because of the fact that that's
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  Speaker 1: why we're just talking about with with with social media,
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  Speaker 1: with with your whole life tied to your phone, that uh,
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  Speaker 1: that you can really just stay in your room and
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  Speaker 1: be captivated by what's in your hands and not be
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  Speaker 1: able to communicate and not be able to community. And
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  Speaker 1: we still have to communicate. We were just in Starbucks downstairs,
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  Speaker 1: and so my partners were there and they were having
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  Speaker 1: difficult to communicating to the star warts barista what they
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  Speaker 1: wanted and they were getting frustrated. Behind account, I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: all this, they were getting frustrated, and um my folks
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  Speaker 1: were getting frustrated. But they knew to manage their emotions
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  Speaker 1: and they just stepped up and manage there, so not
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  Speaker 1: to straight. So no one just had a fit and
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  Speaker 1: Starbucks got no problems. They don't need going out with
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: the feeling The Starbucks should have called the feeling friends
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  Speaker 1: and all that mess was going on, we could come
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  Speaker 1: in and take some lessons from the feeling friends, my
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  Speaker 1: feeling friends. Love is joyful, Love is peaceful, Love is
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  Speaker 1: love makes you laugh. Love makes me laugh and love
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  Speaker 1: makes me smile. Love makes me sing and dance for
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  Speaker 1: a while. Love brings me peace down in my soul.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: True love really makes me whole. This is a lot
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  Speaker 1: of love, and she's the foundation of feeling friends. We
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  Speaker 1: teach that love is the most important feeling. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: folks in their jobs realized that love was the most
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  Speaker 1: important feelings and could make their way back to love,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: we wouldn't have all these problems that we have today.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm a big musical fan. Yeah, I felt
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  Speaker 1: I was watching the Oklahoma work Listen. I'm serious of
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  Speaker 1: love makes smith, Love makes me happy. You know I've
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  Speaker 1: got noway are your Broadway connections. We got the feeling
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  Speaker 1: riche See how as you drop a spoonful of sugar
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  Speaker 1: helps the medicine go down. Yeah, we can do it.
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  Speaker 1: I can do that. Children, That's that's so natural. That's
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  Speaker 1: very see I'm I'm a child of the sixties, and
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  Speaker 1: so musicals like that, Robert Preston and all those guys Ilama,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I grew up with that. So so with
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: that being said, how does okay, you say you put
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  Speaker 1: together these kids? Tell us what exactly is contained in
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  Speaker 1: that kid? Okay, it's it's the most magical kid. Once again,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: it is the teacher's god, because teachers have to know
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  Speaker 1: how to use it. Is these twelve puppets like this,
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  Speaker 1: this is a lot of love. And this is Billy
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  Speaker 1: the bullygoat right, really yellow young, he's a bully. But
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  Speaker 1: in the story, Bully Billy comes to redemption because he
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  Speaker 1: realizes that a lot of love is around, and she
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  Speaker 1: takes him around. She's she's not gonna change, and so
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  Speaker 1: Billy a lot of takes Billy around the island and
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: all the feeling friends tell Billy Bully how they feel
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  Speaker 1: when he bullies them, and Billy comes to redemption. He says,
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  Speaker 1: I can't do this anymore. Life was that easy. I
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  Speaker 1: can't do that anymore. But for us, no child wants
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  Speaker 1: to be bully. Bully. No child And so we were
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: very early age. Yes, the whole principle of being a bully.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to wash it away, wash it away, correct,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: and so with that, and we are washing away because
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: nobody wants to be billy bully. We have a character
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  Speaker 1: I don't have her today, but she is Winnifred the
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: worthy wall was renting for no walls. Isn't that beautiful?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: And um, Winnifred, isn't that beautiful? But her parents teacher,
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  Speaker 1: that is the l o V that lives inside of her.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: And Winifred was really burtht out of me when Whitney
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Houston died and I heard um Kevin Costner say, Whitney
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: used to ask am I beautiful? And I smart? You
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: know those kind of things that she didn't even have
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  Speaker 1: that self worthiness. So Winifred was worth out of then
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  Speaker 1: she says, the l V that lives inside of me
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  Speaker 1: makes me worthy. We have so many children and adults
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  Speaker 1: not feeling their worth. And when you walk around feeling unworthy,
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  Speaker 1: you do not become the person that you're destined to be.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: And so once we build up your own worthiness and
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  Speaker 1: your self esteem, you can go out there and do
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  Speaker 1: what you need to do, become the person that you
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: need to be. And fulfill your real life's purpose. So
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: how does one get in touch with you? They can
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: because you motivate me. And I'll just tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: You got something, your magical, your personality is perfect for
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the passion that you're trying to get to everybody. And
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I love the fact that it's starting with the youth.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I would say, uh, catch up early and hopefully they
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: get it right, you know, because what you get in
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: a child's brain at that early nurturing that can care
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to a better human being when you become an adult.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: So how do we get in touch with you? Well,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you can reach me caring at the Feeling Friends dot com.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I answer my emails and you just answer at two
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  Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, which because that's my email answering time.
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  Speaker 1: Caring at the Feeling Friends dot com. We're redoing our website,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: but you can go to the Feeling Friends dot com www.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: The Feeling Friends dot com. You'll go to day and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: they'll say, if you want to contact me, because we're
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: redoing it, you can contact me that way, or you
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: can just call me to four oh five oh, one
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  Speaker 1: to six to oh. It's gonna go to voicemail, but
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I'll get you, lady, real quick, tell everybody how he
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: was able to get an inventor product. Oh, it's about
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the ecosystem in Weston Salem. You have to develop relationships
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: with people. Relationship. So I started off at the Small
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  Speaker 1: Business Center and oncest in Salem, and then I UM
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: came in second place, and another UM project and wants
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the same creative startups because we do this creative business.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: And then I went out and I met this woman
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: named Karen barn from Venture Cafe, and I told Karen
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: what my needs were, and Karen introduced me to Steve Leinberger.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Winston starts with an ecosystem there and one of our
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: citizens wants to Salem down Flow bought off if sixteen
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  Speaker 1: story building and he developed he gave to what thirty
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  Speaker 1: four thousand square feet to entrepreneurs and so they started
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: program not gotten that program. And from there, Karen Barnes
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: also introduced me to my mentors and my investors. Your
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: relationship relationship building getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: you build those relationships and build solid relationships. And my
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  Speaker 1: three investors UM they have their own company once Logic,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and they saw and believed in what I was doing.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: They saw him believed and it was hard to get
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: investors because as we were talking about, um, two of
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: one percent of African and marrying female ever get venture
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: capital and the average raises thirty six thousand dollars. And
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: they felt that was horrible, and so they said, we're
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: going to give you a chance. We believe in you,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and they are amazing men. You did you start singing
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: how I did? And I started crying to that. Let's
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: get it right. It's been a long journey. Singing got me.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I got ready to check live. You're changing lives. I
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: love about this project, and I know there's two things
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: about me. You know me. I need to stay in
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: touch with you when you when you go door to door.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Let's get those banners together. Let's get that branding together
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  Speaker 1: so we can go out as a unit. Okay, it
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  Speaker 1: that's important because people, because it's about relationships, and we've
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: had a relationship there. That's why I'm so exciting to
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: see somebody who who respected my vision when I was
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: just on my Facebook page and you carry this journey
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  Speaker 1: to you're sitting in the studio with me now talking
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  Speaker 1: about thank you for saying that I saved you because
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I I just was, I'm just being rash and thank
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you and I just wanted that you know, did you
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: keep winning and keep building and uh, we're gonna take
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  Speaker 1: some pictures we want to coach you love the pictures
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  Speaker 1: on social media. You stay about studio and tell your
• 23:45
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