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Overcoming the Odds: Highlights his journey as an immigrant entrepreneur from Africa. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Hi.
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  Speaker 2: My guest is the CEO and co founder of Amplify Africa, Inc.
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  Speaker 2: And leading African entertainment and media company in the US.
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  Speaker 2: Under his leadership, Amplify of Africa has averaged a digital
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  Speaker 2: reach of twelve million people monthly across the US, United
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom and Brazil. Notably, the company has organized over toward
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  Speaker 2: events worldwide, including his acclaim Afrikaan and Afro Ball. He's
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  Speaker 2: on the show to discuss who he is. We need
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  Speaker 2: to know what his brother is. Please welcome to Money
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  Speaker 2: Making Conversations. Dommi Kujabola. How you doing dom?
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  Speaker 1: Very well? Thank you man. I need to take you
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  Speaker 1: around everywhere I go so it can make interest from me.
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  Speaker 1: But this is dope.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate First of all, thank you for coming on
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  Speaker 2: the show. I've heard about your event. It's Africaan. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: talk to us about that, and we're gonna get in
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  Speaker 2: detail about you, but I want to really highlight that
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  Speaker 2: at the start of our conversation.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's super exciting. We're bringing together a cultural event,
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  Speaker 1: a cultural moment where you know, we want to unite
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  Speaker 1: the global black diaspora with the continent. The event essentially
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  Speaker 1: started out of the needs to again bring together the
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  Speaker 1: diaspora and create access to resources that we feel like
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  Speaker 1: its lacking. And you know, as far as like the
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  Speaker 1: diasporas concern, you know, one of the things I feel
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  Speaker 1: stronger about is that we need more information and like
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  Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who have that information
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  Speaker 1: and they don't purposefully want to get keep they just
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  Speaker 1: don't have the means to be able to share that information.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, the events is purely get towards access.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, one of the major reasons I wanted
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  Speaker 2: you to show down me is that the lack of
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  Speaker 2: education about Africa, a lack of education about it because
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  Speaker 2: people the motherland, you know, all the cold words mother land,
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  Speaker 2: the colors, and but when I went over to Africa.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Harvey and I went over to Africa. We actually
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  Speaker 2: went over to Durban, which is right just south of Johannesburg,
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  Speaker 2: and I was ignorant about the technology.
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  Speaker 1: I really was worried about how we were going.
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  Speaker 2: To broadcast where they have their technology, because I have
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  Speaker 2: been a victim of the stereotypes of how the lifestyle
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  Speaker 2: the technology of Africa. You're from with Legos, right, yes, okay,
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  Speaker 2: tell us about Legos Nigeria and are you upset with
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  Speaker 2: the stereotyping that is being promoted here in America about Africa?
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  Speaker 1: And that's actually the key reason why I said my
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  Speaker 1: company Amplify Africa. So to tell you a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: I came here from Nigeria and immigrant, so I came
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  Speaker 1: in from grad school and you know, I landed in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles at USC and like one of the very
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  Speaker 1: first questions that I got from people who knew us
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  Speaker 1: from Legos, Nigera was hey, like, do you guys have
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  Speaker 1: lions in your country? And right, the truth is this,
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  Speaker 1: I've probably never seen a lion in my entire life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm living in Legos because it's so metropolitan, right, So,
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  Speaker 1: being Nigerian, being very proud about where I'm from, knowing
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  Speaker 1: the level of like interest and access that we have,
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  Speaker 1: an influence that we have. You know, my goal is
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  Speaker 1: to essentially try to and so that people also know
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  Speaker 1: that like what we see on the media, the vision
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  Speaker 1: of staving kids and hey, you know that's not really
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  Speaker 1: what it is. And you know every country has its
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  Speaker 1: like short comments, right, So I think I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it's fair that Africa has been portrayed as this backward
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  Speaker 1: dark nation over the past couple of years, and so
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  Speaker 1: our goal as a company is to try to change that.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm talking to Dami Kujambola. You know Legos Nigeria.
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  Speaker 2: Stereotyping is as people of color in America, we have.
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  Speaker 1: To deal with a lot of that too.
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  Speaker 2: You know, people assume because of the color of my skin,
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  Speaker 2: I'm this type of person. You are coming from Africa,
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  Speaker 2: you have a double stereotype you have to deal with.
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  Speaker 2: How do you overcome that? And because you are seeming
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  Speaker 2: to overcomment, but you still have a lot of setbacks
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  Speaker 2: to be covered it correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, well, I think you know stereotypes are also uh
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  Speaker 1: you know, largely based off of like media projection, right right, huh?
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  Speaker 1: And so, like you know, in terms of overcoming it
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  Speaker 1: to my goal has always been to leverage the same
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  Speaker 1: medium right, which is media, to try to change that
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing that in like on TV, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the right with the right images being portrayed about
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  Speaker 1: Africa now. And I think it's also about leveraging moments
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  Speaker 1: like when people ask you our questions, leveraging as a
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  Speaker 1: teachable moment as opposed to being upset about it. So
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  Speaker 1: I personally, in my personal life, I try to use
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  Speaker 1: my personal platforms to say, hey, this is what's Africa is,
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  Speaker 1: this is we're no longer We're not the stereotypes that
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  Speaker 1: you that you that you think we are. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I also try to sort of make make it the
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  Speaker 1: points to teach people how to see or view Africa.
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  Speaker 2: Great transition into what I want to talk about is
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  Speaker 2: Dollywood Netflix And I'm not trying to promote Netflix, but
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  Speaker 2: Netflix I believe has done more for people of color,
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  Speaker 2: black people, people are from Africa who are promoted in
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  Speaker 2: major productions than any streaming network because of the fact
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  Speaker 2: that they have, you know, they they promote and they
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  Speaker 2: put out and produce content that is being done in
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  Speaker 2: these other platforms in particular Dolledgwood tell us about Dolledgwood.
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  Speaker 1: So, Nollywood is the actually the third largest production intry
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  Speaker 1: in the world. Right, it's it's Indian. Bollywood in India
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  Speaker 1: is the separate and they not mess around. India is Nigeria.
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  Speaker 1: Nollywood is Nigeria. And when you think about like outputs, right,
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  Speaker 1: we you know, our people are very resourceful and so
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  Speaker 1: there's always there's a ton of output when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the industry. And you know, a country that has
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  Speaker 1: over three hundred million people, you know, you think that
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  Speaker 1: there's so many original stories that come out of the continent.
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  Speaker 1: Every day is like you know, it's either a cause
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  Speaker 1: for chaos or laughter. And you know, so our people,
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  Speaker 1: because of the level of talent that that we have,
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  Speaker 1: have channeled that into like an industry and that's not
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  Speaker 1: you would, right, And so when you see the level
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  Speaker 1: of output, it's representative of the daily struggles. But like
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  Speaker 1: I said, it's one of the largest producing film industries
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  Speaker 1: in the world, and you know, we we boast of
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  Speaker 1: some pretty amazing talent. Like but you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you're familiar with her, but like even Interest
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  Speaker 1: has invested exactly and it's like, it's great to see
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  Speaker 1: the world's paying a lot more attention, right, Like, so
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  Speaker 1: it just Elba. There's uh trying to I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: remember some names now, but it just Elba is a
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  Speaker 1: great example of what of of someone from the outside
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  Speaker 1: who's seeing the potential of Nollywood. Damnson interests is one
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  Speaker 1: that's also somebody who's trying to do something.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know, one starting it right now with yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's the next superstar.
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  Speaker 1: He is is and he's thinking about how to sort
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  Speaker 1: of go back, sort of how to implement more of Nollywood.
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  Speaker 1: But Nollywood in itself right is doing is doing amazing
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  Speaker 1: work recently at some I don't know if you you
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  Speaker 1: knew this, but there was a a movie I think
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  Speaker 1: it was a cant that got one of the highest
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  Speaker 1: at Can't Can't Film Festival is called My Father's Shadow, right,
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  Speaker 1: and it's Nigeria and from Nollywood as well. So there's
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  Speaker 1: a big emergence coming up from the continent right now
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  Speaker 1: with African talent actually doing amazing things, and I'm super
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  Speaker 1: excited to see all the potential. My company actually partnered
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  Speaker 1: with we did a we partnered with the regal cinemas
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  Speaker 1: here in the US and did a nationwide release and
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  Speaker 1: it was probably one of the like the reaction from
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  Speaker 1: people in the US to Nollywood. I think it's one
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  Speaker 1: that needs to be like for the emphasize or for
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  Speaker 1: that like looked into its Honestly, I think that, like,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much potential and I'm excited to just see
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  Speaker 1: how that industry continues to grow.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I love talking to you becaure's a certain energy,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm also.
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  Speaker 1: Get rabbed up. Eleven years ago you show up and
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  Speaker 1: now you got this.
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  Speaker 2: Twelve million global following in the US and Brazil and
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  Speaker 2: Africa and the United Kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: How did you pull that off? Monthly? Now that's twelve
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  Speaker 1: million monthly. So I think I think it was an
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  Speaker 1: evidence of a need, right, a need. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not special. I say this a lot and actually
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  Speaker 1: been on cameras, But you're humble. It's very unuseful for
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  Speaker 1: Nigeria to be humble. But I guess you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think I am actually not special. I think that it's
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  Speaker 1: really representative of the need of people right now. People
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  Speaker 1: are looking for strong, real connections. People are looking to
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  Speaker 1: understand their heritage. People are looking to connects back to
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  Speaker 1: where they're from, and all we've done is to key
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  Speaker 1: into that. We've there have been so many years of
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  Speaker 1: people try to promote the culture and what my company
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  Speaker 1: tries to do best is to amplify that. But where
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  Speaker 1: you know, where we are one of the many people
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  Speaker 1: who are doing amazing work in the space. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you've heard, but there's a big festival in
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  Speaker 1: Detroit called Afrofuture, as well as one of our colleagues,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just I think there's where seeing the African renaissance,
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  Speaker 1: so to speak, with more people, especially here in the US,
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  Speaker 1: saying hey, I want to learn more about my heritage.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I want to learn more about where I'm
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  Speaker 1: from and now I want to go back. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Year of the Return kind of started that, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you're familiar in Ghana, where a turn
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  Speaker 1: of African Americans a record rates went back to the
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  Speaker 1: continent to learn more about their w they're from, and
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  Speaker 1: people like you and Steve Harvey a beginning to show
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  Speaker 1: the light on you know, what means to be black
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  Speaker 1: and African, and I think that is where the energy
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  Speaker 1: is coming from. That's why our platform is growing the
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  Speaker 1: way it's growing. Don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: We will be right back with more insights from Money
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  Speaker 3: Making Conversation Massic Class. Welcome back to Money Making Conversation
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  Speaker 3: Mastic Class with me Rashaun McDonald.
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  Speaker 2: Well, congratulations. First of all, you talk about black communities.
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  Speaker 2: You just mentioned that black communities and people from the
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  Speaker 2: black community are going back to get educated and living
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  Speaker 2: in these communities and growing and prospering because we're cutting
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  Speaker 2: through the stereotypes. You know, people going living in the Italy,
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  Speaker 2: people going to living in France. We may not have
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  Speaker 2: went because guess what we were looking at television and
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  Speaker 2: seeing flies and seeing movies that were not a pool
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  Speaker 2: portrayal of what that community was and how prosperous that
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  Speaker 2: community was. And I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, if
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  Speaker 2: you go there, you will be blown away because the
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  Speaker 2: stereotyping of the of commercialism, commercialized and how Africa is
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  Speaker 2: really horrible. Over here, you'd be like it may be,
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  Speaker 2: it might be drawing the tears, ignorant you are of
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  Speaker 2: the of the amount of information that's being presented to
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  Speaker 2: us over here, and when you land, you see the reality.
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  Speaker 2: But We've talked about that earlier. Now let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: this festival.
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta is such a great place, like just thinking about
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  Speaker 1: the proximities of the continent, thinking about like the also
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  Speaker 1: the level of black wealth and business that's been that's
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  Speaker 1: been here for years. I think that like it's one
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  Speaker 1: that like, you know, I kind of wish I started
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  Speaker 1: I came here earlier. You know, I've met a ton
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  Speaker 1: of people here who are the and it's is so infectious,
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  Speaker 1: Like the support that the city has for like everything black.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's something that like more people need to
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  Speaker 1: key into. And so for me, like thinking about you know, this,
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta reminds me of home when you walk around the
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  Speaker 1: street and you see everyone around you is black, right,
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  Speaker 1: And I think like that is representative of the kind
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  Speaker 1: of energy that we want to see. I think if
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  Speaker 1: there's any place that you need to we need to
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  Speaker 1: start like making those strong connections between the the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the US and the continent. It needs to be here
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta. So we're super excited about like what's the
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  Speaker 1: come we have, you know, the support of the Mayor's
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  Speaker 1: office again representative of the fact that like you know,
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  Speaker 1: of how support of the city can be about about
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  Speaker 1: the continents, and you know, I think from a position
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  Speaker 1: in standpoint, Atlanta just makes sense. Well, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: we're in the changing times dommy.
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  Speaker 2: Where race specific events are being challenged.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 2: And you an immigrant, talked about your journey, about you
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  Speaker 2: personal and then let's talk about what you how the
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  Speaker 2: impact is happened on the event you're trying to do,
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  Speaker 2: would amplify Africa.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, like I said, I moved here, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, back then it was a little easier. Things
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  Speaker 1: were a little easier in terms of you know, accessing
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  Speaker 1: like resources and sort of the exchange rates, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the economy itself was a little a little better. It
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  Speaker 1: was much better than than it is right now. I
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  Speaker 1: think with the current sort of dispensation, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fear about like sort of the immigration
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  Speaker 1: process and people been fearing that they'd be deported. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you think about like institutional organizations like
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  Speaker 1: U S. A I d in us us US, I
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  Speaker 1: think Prosper Africa is another organization that was set up
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  Speaker 1: by the U. S. Government to support sort of African
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  Speaker 1: aid or African African government with those sort of lines
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  Speaker 1: of support being caught right, those are things that like
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  Speaker 1: typically those are places where we will typically get support
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  Speaker 1: for conferences and initiatives like ours, and unfortunately those promote
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  Speaker 1: the values of Africa exactly, but unfortunately those things are
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  Speaker 1: no longer available, right, And then you think about like
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  Speaker 1: also wanting to bring a lot more people here into
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  Speaker 1: the US to have these conversations about bridson the gap
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  Speaker 1: between the diaspora and the continent, Like you know that
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  Speaker 1: that their concerns about the abilities to come here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and so like you think about like like you know,
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  Speaker 1: freedom of trade between these countries and like you know,
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  Speaker 1: the diplomatic relationships that are sort of very like that
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  Speaker 1: sort of at risk. Right now, you think like how
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  Speaker 1: can this help? How can how can our events survive?
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  Speaker 1: And those are things that like I real that I'm
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  Speaker 1: constantly thinking about. But you know, one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that you know we do best is making the best
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  Speaker 1: of any situation. And so for us we can only
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  Speaker 1: take think positively, and our hope is that like, like
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  Speaker 1: our intention during this period is mid known, and like
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  Speaker 1: our people are able to come out here and again
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  Speaker 1: connect and do business with folks who are going to
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  Speaker 1: be on ground here, which is one of the major
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  Speaker 1: reasons Domi.
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  Speaker 2: I'm speaking to Domini Kujuinbola, he's the CEO and co
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  Speaker 2: founder of Amplify Africa, Inc. Because I know the times
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  Speaker 2: we are there and I know there's resistance to be
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  Speaker 2: able to promote your cultural values. And that's what this
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  Speaker 2: this event, it's about promoterial cultural value. But people are
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  Speaker 2: now twisting it to make it feels like you're you're
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  Speaker 2: not saying nobody can come, You're not restricting anybody from
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  Speaker 2: coming to this event at all, But then they're twisting
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  Speaker 2: corporate sponsors and all those things to believe that there's
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  Speaker 2: something negative happening there. But when you let's walk through
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  Speaker 2: the steps. Oh, the experience of going to AFRICAAN. So
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  Speaker 2: you know African is, like I said, trull immersion. So
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  Speaker 2: for the first day is an open air reception.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So we have a long day of conference programming,
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  Speaker 1: We have a big export hole that's going to feature
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  Speaker 1: about one hundred businesses and then we're like a marketplace. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the market place. We're inviting the likes of like Kroger
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  Speaker 1: and Walmarts to meet us sort of buyers and retailers
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  Speaker 1: to meet with some of these businesses are small businesses
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  Speaker 1: are going to be at the export hole to talk
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  Speaker 1: about scaling their businesses and scaling distribution. And we also
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  Speaker 1: have pitch competitions happening throughout that. Talking about the pitch computer.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds creative, yes, but they talked to us about that.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's on two ends, right, we want we
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  Speaker 1: have one for startups. So if you're able to if
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  Speaker 1: you're running a business, a tech business, which is the
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  Speaker 1: term obviously it's called like if you're running a startup,
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  Speaker 1: which is the term that's been used for businesses in
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  Speaker 1: this space, you're able to pitch to sound and investors
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  Speaker 1: like Collab Capital, who's who is also local and Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: based for investment. But we also have on the creative
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  Speaker 1: side a short film competition and so you're able to
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  Speaker 1: also pitch as well your short film to get funded.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, this is really good and exciting. Now I know
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  Speaker 2: you're not a one man operation, Dammit, talk about your setup,
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  Speaker 2: talk about your team.
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  Speaker 1: So I think you think about like bridging the gap
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  Speaker 1: between the content and the disk where there are tons
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  Speaker 1: and tons of countries, ethnic groups and interests, right right,
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  Speaker 1: Rights itself has fifty four countries, and so my team
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  Speaker 1: itself is made up of people from multiple multiple countries,
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  Speaker 1: parts of the disk where and you know, our goal
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  Speaker 1: has always been to make sure that we're very diverse
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  Speaker 1: in the way that we're thinking about programming for the conference.
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  Speaker 1: And so our team it's made up a diverse group
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  Speaker 1: of people from all over the world.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you don't tell me that there's no music there, man,
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  Speaker 2: there's no event.
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  Speaker 1: It's an amazing experience. Man, I think it's amazing experience.
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  Speaker 1: We cover all the different all the different parts of culture,
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  Speaker 1: from music to film to fashion. And if you love
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  Speaker 1: African fashion, I love what you're wearing right now. I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm probably going to get you an African fit
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  Speaker 1: for sure. But if you touched it, I'm not right
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  Speaker 1: no that I said I love it. I love it,
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think I think honestly, like the events
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  Speaker 1: itself is supposed to be a culture expertly, so from
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  Speaker 1: the music to the fashion to the food, all of
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  Speaker 1: those things are things that you get to experience from
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  Speaker 1: being in the environment. And you know, our goal is
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  Speaker 1: to make our world smaller, right and so like, if
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  Speaker 1: you're here in Atlanta, We want you to feel like
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: you are in Lego Snatcher and you're in or in
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  Speaker 1: South Africa, depending on like what you like or you.
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  Speaker 2: Know the beauty of it I mentioned earlier, I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: to Domi and uh and Kujambola.
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  Speaker 1: You know he came and go just tell me Domi,
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  Speaker 1: I say, brother, don't. We don't do it like that.
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  Speaker 2: On Money Making Conversations Master Class, we speak the truth
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  Speaker 2: about who you are and what you're trying to do,
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  Speaker 2: and that's important. Your last name is important, just as
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: important your first name. I don't want to handicabin your
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  Speaker 2: promotional experience or what you're trying to do here now.
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  Speaker 2: But you're done over two hundred events. You have another
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  Speaker 2: event called afro Ball. What is that?
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  Speaker 1: So one of the things that like I thought I
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  Speaker 1: was missing when I moved to this country was I
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know where to find successful people who are
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: who look like me, right, and now there's like platforms
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: like LinkedIn, but I didn't know how to start. The
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  Speaker 1: afro Ball itself is supposed to be a platform where
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  Speaker 1: we are people of African desire graduations who are doing
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  Speaker 1: really amazing work in the fields. And so at the
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  Speaker 1: closer of the conference is it's an annual gala hold
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  Speaker 1: the Afro Bawl, and we'll be hoary in about five
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  Speaker 1: to six amazing folks who are doing amazing things so
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  Speaker 1: that like they can inspire other people who are coming
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  Speaker 1: up and to let them know that regardless of your
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: skin color, your dreams are valid. I'm talking to the
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  Speaker 1: CEO and co founder.
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  Speaker 2: Amplify Africa, a leading African entertainment and media company in
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  Speaker 2: the US. Under his leadership, I mean's Domine's leadership, Africa
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  Speaker 2: has to tease a digital reach of twelve million people
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  Speaker 2: monthly across the US, United Kingdom and Brazil. You know,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: when you talk about eleven years ago talking to my audience,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: how were you able to achieve it? Being an immigrant
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: coming to this country, going to the USC, and I
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: know this is not the endgame for you because you
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: have visions, but how have you dam been able to
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: get it to this point?
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  Speaker 1: Now it's been again, it's been the work off I
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  Speaker 1: know you. I know that, like you know, anyone else
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  Speaker 1: would be tempted to say, hey, this was all me,
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  Speaker 1: but it's really the work of the community. I think
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  Speaker 1: people coming together and saying, hey, we really want this
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  Speaker 1: to succeed and like and you know, and that has
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  Speaker 1: really been my experiences that whenever I make phone calls,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I think people are really keen excited about promoting that
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  Speaker 1: push in the culture. And we've been able to leverage
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: that effectively over the years to reach more people. You know,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I could call the likes of Jackie Irono, who has
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: over a monthly reach of probably like two hundred million
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  Speaker 1: people online, but she can say, hey, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: come out and support your events to tell people about
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  Speaker 1: where I'm from. I think that has been that's really
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  Speaker 1: been the reason why our platform has been able to
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: succeed over the past years.
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  Speaker 2: With my friend, I want to thank you for coming
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  Speaker 2: on my show. You know, it's by education, man, it's
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: by education and about your entrepreneur, your small business owner,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: building a brand in this country that impacts the world.
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  Speaker 3: This has been another edition of Money Making Conversations Masterclass
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• 23:18
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