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Loni Love, Holly Robinson Peete, Arrington Gavin, Leslie Antonoff & Seth Brundle · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's to show that she
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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's given me
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Speaker 1: now and it's really amazing. Three years. Three years, okay,
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Speaker 1: two years in Atlanta, two years in Atlanta, Okay, just
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Speaker 1: you know, just give me full credit there three years. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I want to make a conversation one of my one
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Speaker 1: of the people who helped break my show when I
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Speaker 1: was in Houston performing his home on the phone right now.
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Speaker 1: She's an actress, author, philanthropists and executive producer of Hallmark
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Speaker 1: Movies and mysteries A Family Christmas Gift. Please work with
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Speaker 1: the money making conversations, my dear friend, Holly Robertson, Pete,
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Speaker 1: But good morning, how are you doing? First of all,
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're in California. No, I'm actually in New York.
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Speaker 1: Oh wow, so you really perky for a reason. You
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Speaker 1: didn't know how much more. Awake up down, Awesome, awesome, awesome. Now,
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Speaker 1: before we get into the movie which is gonna premiere,
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Speaker 1: A Family Christmas Gift, which is going to premiere Mber
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Speaker 1: twenty two on Hallmark Moves in Mysteries nine pm Eastern
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Speaker 1: and Pacific a pm Central, let's talk about the event
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Speaker 1: that I want to It was the one design care
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Speaker 1: Gaylor the Holly rod Foundation, hosted by you and your
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Speaker 1: amazing husband. You just fel funny, Jason, You're rightnay funny.
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Speaker 1: So finally I finally came all these years, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, always in the check, which she reminds me,
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Speaker 1: I said the check, and I finally, I finally came.
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Speaker 1: I brought my wife, my wife. So now because I
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Speaker 1: brought my wife, you'll see us every year now, hollyge Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I knew she loved so much. I'm so happy to
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Speaker 1: see you guys there. And first of all, let me
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Speaker 1: say thank you for assesting your hard earned dollars uh
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Speaker 1: into Holly Rod. And we can't do what we do
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Speaker 1: for twenty plus years without people like yourself, who's just
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Speaker 1: you're one of those yes skies. And I mean that
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Speaker 1: in a good way, like I hear a lot of
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Speaker 1: nose in philanthropy because it's basically creative begging and calling
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Speaker 1: around asking for money for your cause. And every single
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Speaker 1: time I think I've just slightly asked you, it's just
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Speaker 1: been of course, yes, no problem, where do I send it?
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Speaker 1: So I want to thank you for that, and I'm
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Speaker 1: just it really did thrill me to see you in
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Speaker 1: the house, actually be able to say your name. And
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Speaker 1: she's so funny because you know, she calls out different
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Speaker 1: people who have donated, you know, and she called out
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Speaker 1: my name with the with the with the with the
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Speaker 1: feeling that I wasn't there. Rashan McDonald, I'm here. Oh
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Speaker 1: he's here because she's called out that name so many years.
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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald crickets, crickets, crickets difference than it's just really
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Speaker 1: it was just awesome to have you all in the house. Well,
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Speaker 1: first of all, I'm proud to be a part of something.
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Speaker 1: Let's make the announce smith that as without on the
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Speaker 1: press release and back in UH. The charity this year
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Speaker 1: raised seven hundred thousand dollars for the Holly Robinson Pet
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Speaker 1: and Family UH for Autism and Parkinson Correct. Mm hmm,
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Speaker 1: that's correct. And you know, we we felt short of
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Speaker 1: our goals. Um, but we're gonna We've been trying to
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Speaker 1: hit that million mark for several years now. But you
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Speaker 1: know what, but we feel like we every year we learned.
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Speaker 1: Every year we get new partners. We have got some
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Speaker 1: new partners this year, and we we we get we
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Speaker 1: get We talked to our partners after we asked them
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Speaker 1: what they think of the charity, the event, and we
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Speaker 1: build on that. So we're very confident that we're going
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Speaker 1: to hit that goal next year. Well, first of all, UH,
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Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand dollars is uh is a proud number
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Speaker 1: for Rashan McDonald's say on this show Money Making Conversations,
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Speaker 1: I know your goal is a million, and I'm there
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Speaker 1: to next year to contribute to make sure we get
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Speaker 1: closer to the number or past that million dollar mark.
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Speaker 1: Because now I know the goal. So you know, I
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Speaker 1: didn't know that. All I do was right to check.
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Speaker 1: So now I know the goal. So my motivation has
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Speaker 1: to be different. Now you know, brand awareness and so
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Speaker 1: in short, just tell people about what exactly the foundation does.
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Speaker 1: So Hollywood Foundation was started, uh like twenty almost twenty
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Speaker 1: three years ago because of my father. My father, Matthew
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Speaker 1: Robins knew a lot of people at a certain age
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Speaker 1: will remember the original Gordon on Sesame Street, which just
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Speaker 1: celebrated at fifty ath anniversary, which is pretty amazing. Um.
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Speaker 1: And my dad was a television pioneer. He was really
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Speaker 1: the first one of the first black men on TV
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Speaker 1: in that role. I mean, those of you who are
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Speaker 1: over fifty will remember that. You know, there really wasn't
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Speaker 1: much diversity in children's television or television period back then,
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Speaker 1: and my dad came along and really changed the game.
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Speaker 1: As the not just the star Gordon and the first
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Speaker 1: person you saw in the first episode of Sess Street,
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Speaker 1: but also an executive producer and somebody who wrote and
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Speaker 1: had made a had a muppet called Rosa about Franklin.
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Speaker 1: It's really part of that culture. Um Later on he
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Speaker 1: ended up writing and producing many shows like Samford and
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Speaker 1: Sons of Walton's, Eight Is Enough and The Cosby Show.
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Speaker 1: And then he Um was diagnosed with Parkinson's dis at
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Speaker 1: the young age of forty eight years old, maybe even
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Speaker 1: forty forty six. We didn't know where it was yet,
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Speaker 1: so he got Parkinson's. I was a freshman in college.
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Speaker 1: Um I didn't really know what to do about that,
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Speaker 1: but we later on when I met and Mary Rodney Pete,
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Speaker 1: he helped show me that we needed to start a
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Speaker 1: nonprofit to get the word out because there was not
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Speaker 1: much information about Parkinson's and helping families. So that's what happened.
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Speaker 1: Then later on our twins are born, our j was
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Speaker 1: diagnosed with autism. When we knew we had to share
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Speaker 1: expand our mission to autism, so we helped families with
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Speaker 1: compassionate care for both autism and Parkinson's disease with the
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Speaker 1: funds that we raised. Last year, we were able to
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Speaker 1: open our J's Place, our very first one in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: which will help prepare young people on the spectrum to
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Speaker 1: get jobs and in the workforce. So that's what we're doing,
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Speaker 1: and we're really proud of the work we're doing, and
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Speaker 1: we have a lot more to go, a lot more
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Speaker 1: things to do. Well. You know, the thing about it
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Speaker 1: is that I recommend everybody, Um, I'm on the bandwagon
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Speaker 1: and teen moving into uh PRE promoted to get the
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Speaker 1: word out early, because I know that's how you hit
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Speaker 1: the million dollar mark. You don't get to hit a
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Speaker 1: million dollar mark just just doing an event and walking away.
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Speaker 1: You have to continue expand the brand that advertisers know.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I wanted to make this part of
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Speaker 1: the interview. We're going to talk about the Christmas TV
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Speaker 1: special coming up. But the thing about it that my
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Speaker 1: walk away from the event was that I smiled the
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Speaker 1: whole time. I had a good time the whole time.
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Speaker 1: It felt like family. When r J came out, that's
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Speaker 1: her son came out and adapt up Magic Johnson, it
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Speaker 1: felt like a routine that has been happening and part
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Speaker 1: of the presentation and Magic sitting right there front and center.
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Speaker 1: For years, it just felt like, you know, the whole um,
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Speaker 1: they hold the whole set up with with Rodney hosting,
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Speaker 1: and and you know, you know, you know, you you're
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Speaker 1: you're the extreme professional. You know you can add lib
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Speaker 1: and and Rodney, you know, he knows how to call
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Speaker 1: an audible. He knows how to up with me, right,
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Speaker 1: he knows how, he knows how. He knows he's gonna
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Speaker 1: get sacked out there hanging out with you. He knows
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Speaker 1: because because back they I'll be wearing him out because
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Speaker 1: I'm like, what happened to you? When you're a quarterback?
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Speaker 1: You've got to be ready for those hot reads, those audibles.
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Speaker 1: You gotta change the call the line of stream because
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Speaker 1: you know, some phase weren't working in order. And I'm like,
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Speaker 1: and he was like wait, because you know he likes
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Speaker 1: plays like if you don't, just roll with the punches.
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Speaker 1: So but we get soon. We have a lot of
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Speaker 1: fun on stage, and we do have a room full
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Speaker 1: of really amazing people like yourself who understand our mission.
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Speaker 1: And we couldn't do without you, guys. I want to
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Speaker 1: make announce me because a couple of guests could not
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Speaker 1: be announced to actually performed there. That did an amazing
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Speaker 1: performance because at the time that person was still in
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Speaker 1: competition for America's Got Talent. Correct the announcement of who
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Speaker 1: that will? Why his performance was so amazing? Well, I
9:03
Speaker 1: think many of us saw Cody Lee from America's Got
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Speaker 1: Talent when he went viral. It was something like thirty
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Speaker 1: million views. And I'm not even under exaggerating over exaggerating.
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Speaker 1: He when he sang came out blind with autism and
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Speaker 1: sang uh and that audition uh and busted out with
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Speaker 1: that Donny Hathaway song. We weren't ready, I mean, nobody
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Speaker 1: was ready and it just it went viral and it
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Speaker 1: was amazing, and it was really incumbent upon America's Got
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Speaker 1: Talent to really slow down the expectations of that because
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Speaker 1: it was so viral. So when he went very viral,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people like myself in the whole world
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Speaker 1: were were very touched for about, you know, what was
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Speaker 1: going on. So I reached out to Cody League and
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Speaker 1: his mom and they responded and said that the show
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Speaker 1: would allow them a couple of appearances. Um, and that
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Speaker 1: was it. Because they were stilly competitions, which of course
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Speaker 1: we now know that he ended up winning and he
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Speaker 1: chose Holly Ride to perform um and he also chose
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Speaker 1: perfectly and they they made the perfect choices, uh, to
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Speaker 1: perform with Layla Hathaway, which makes absolute sense. So Layla
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Speaker 1: and I were talking about, you know, we're friends and
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Speaker 1: how amazing this kid is and was so now he's
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Speaker 1: in Vegas performing Cody Lee and um, he's just phenomenal body.
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Speaker 1: When I interview you wherever you come on the show
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Speaker 1: and we're talking about it is a family conversation. It
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Speaker 1: was about promoting your brand, is about you know, being
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Speaker 1: able to extend because you have a career and and
10:25
Speaker 1: and we all know that in Hollywood there are no guarantees.
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Speaker 1: And if you want to give people to have advice,
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Speaker 1: you know, and I know you've had what I feel
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Speaker 1: that your support system has been powerful. And then the
10:36
Speaker 1: fact that your parents were in the entertainment business. Your
10:39
Speaker 1: mom is amazing and if we could talk a little bit,
10:41
Speaker 1: I've been mentioned it several times, if you could tell
10:43
Speaker 1: them exactly who your mom is and what she's doing today,
10:46
Speaker 1: because your mom is Uh, now you're living in Palm
10:50
Speaker 1: Springs living her best life. At eight three, she really deserves,
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Speaker 1: deserved and earned everything. But you know, she came to
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Speaker 1: California in the seventies with two kids Flean, you know,
10:59
Speaker 1: trying to look for a better life, and she ended
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Speaker 1: up in these rooms where no one looked like her.
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Speaker 1: So she broke through glass ceilings as a talent manager.
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Speaker 1: Her first client with LeVar Burton on the eve of Roots,
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Speaker 1: for an answer. Um. And so she was able to
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11:19
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11:29
Speaker 1: people and done some things that she wasn't supposed to do.
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Speaker 1: So when she set off to find this better life
11:34
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11:42
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11:46
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Speaker 1: That's right, ma'am, I'm good. You sure, sure. So before
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Speaker 1: we leave this show, let's let's get one final wrap
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Speaker 1: up about the Hallmark movie. Uh, let us know when
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Speaker 1: we can find it. Give us some last minute of
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Speaker 1: details so we can make sure we promoted and again,
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Speaker 1: congratulation on your foundation. A family Christmas Gift will premiere
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Speaker 1: Amazing as usual. Thank you for coming on my show,
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Speaker 1: please tell Rodney High and I see you guys next year.
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Speaker 1: But of course we're talked prior to that, because I'll
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Speaker 1: the story. I just made up something and got the
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Speaker 1: fifty dollars. And that made me realize that people actually
18:44
Speaker 1: pay people to tell stories. I was like, oh, this
18:46
Speaker 1: is this is this is nice. But I decided to
18:50
Speaker 1: go ahead and get my degree since I was already
18:52
Speaker 1: down there, got a job. I got a job in
18:56
Speaker 1: UM in Los Angeles at Zeros and then UM I
19:00
Speaker 1: worked there and I never really thought i'd be a
19:03
Speaker 1: stand up but then one day I was like depressed.
19:06
Speaker 1: I didn't know what I wanted to do in my life.
19:08
Speaker 1: I just knew I wasn't happy. I didn't want to
19:10
Speaker 1: be married. UM I had had boyfriend and all that
19:14
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and you know, and you know, you
19:16
Speaker 1: get a nice job and all this kind of stuff.
19:18
Speaker 1: Is happy to make the fishes in your life. But
19:20
Speaker 1: I just wasn't happy. And one day I went to
19:22
Speaker 1: the comedy store and I saw all these men doing
19:26
Speaker 1: stand up and I only saw one woman and I
19:29
Speaker 1: was like, wow, that's interesting. It's just one woman. And
19:31
Speaker 1: she was talking a kind of stuff, you know, you
19:34
Speaker 1: know back then, you know, and in the nineties that
19:39
Speaker 1: rough stuff. So that's when I started getting back in it.
19:44
Speaker 1: I started getting back in the stand up. I built
19:46
Speaker 1: up my career and one day we had a layoff
19:49
Speaker 1: at my job and I went to my boss. I said,
19:51
Speaker 1: you know, save the job and lay me off because
19:54
Speaker 1: I was I was the worst engineer United States of Maylica.
19:59
Speaker 1: I was just right because first of all, you would
20:04
Speaker 1: not That's not what you wanted to do. It's just
20:05
Speaker 1: like IBM, I don't care. I as good as job
20:09
Speaker 1: as they said I was doing. My heart was not
20:11
Speaker 1: in the job. That was not your passion. Your gift
20:13
Speaker 1: was someplace else. And that's why I bring individuals like
20:16
Speaker 1: you're on the show, because there are a lot of
20:18
Speaker 1: people out there doing jobs right now. They're afraid to change,
20:21
Speaker 1: they're afraid to transition. How did you overcome that fear? Well,
20:27
Speaker 1: I overcome the fear by making a plan. I need something.
20:31
Speaker 1: First of all, I have faith, and then I had
20:34
Speaker 1: faith that I knew that God was gonna you know,
20:36
Speaker 1: show me the way. And then um, I had to
20:40
Speaker 1: make a plan. And my plan was basically what what
20:43
Speaker 1: was I gonna do? So I tell anybody, no matter what,
20:46
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you want to open up daycare, you
20:48
Speaker 1: want to you know, open up a restaurant, you want
20:50
Speaker 1: to do a catering business. You know, any whatever is
20:53
Speaker 1: you're trying to do, study it. And that's one thing
20:56
Speaker 1: I like about engineering. Engineering taught me how to study,
21:00
Speaker 1: and actually it teaches you how to solve problems. For
21:03
Speaker 1: the problem was I wasn't happy and I wanted to
21:05
Speaker 1: get out of my current situation for I study. And
21:08
Speaker 1: I just sat started studying comedy and and and understanding
21:13
Speaker 1: you know, what was a joke, what was funny, what
21:15
Speaker 1: wasn't funny? When people say you can't you you could
21:18
Speaker 1: be naturally funny, you have to have that talent. But
21:21
Speaker 1: there's also mechanics to understanding comedy. And so that's what
21:25
Speaker 1: I did. I studied and then once I saw that,
21:28
Speaker 1: you know, the sign for me was that layoff when
21:31
Speaker 1: they were I was like, oh, everybody was crying. I
21:33
Speaker 1: was like, this is my time to get up and
21:36
Speaker 1: get because the layoff you got severanth package you know.
21:41
Speaker 1: So that gave me a little cushion. You know. Then
21:44
Speaker 1: I had already started developing some contacts in the comedy world.
21:48
Speaker 1: So it was it wasn't an easy transition, but at
21:52
Speaker 1: least it wasn't like I know some people they said, well,
21:54
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do comedy for six months. Comedy is not
21:57
Speaker 1: a six month thing. You when you get it, you
22:00
Speaker 1: gotta get in it, and it's going to be for
22:02
Speaker 1: a lifetime. You know. It's really funny. Just just I've
22:05
Speaker 1: never spoken to a comedian with a with an engineering degree,
22:08
Speaker 1: and it's the same logic that I have in math,
22:11
Speaker 1: and I'm hearing a person talked similar to me. Because
22:14
Speaker 1: it's a plan through the whole process. The plan I
22:16
Speaker 1: went out there I had. I would go into the
22:18
Speaker 1: clubs and give people like, uh, can you evaluate by
22:21
Speaker 1: comedy performance? And I would put it in the folder
22:24
Speaker 1: you get my sheet. They look at me, going, what
22:27
Speaker 1: are you talking about, saying, here's a it's a form.
22:29
Speaker 1: Just check off what you think of me in and
22:31
Speaker 1: you can mail it in later and I'm gonna use
22:33
Speaker 1: this to get me bookings at other clubs. They went, oh, okay, okay,
22:37
Speaker 1: We've never had anybody to do this before. I said, yeah,
22:39
Speaker 1: I'm this is how I've been trained from my BM.
22:41
Speaker 1: You do a job, you give, evaluate, evaluated by, and
22:44
Speaker 1: people will pay you based on your evaluation and just
22:47
Speaker 1: hearing your logic. It's all in the same place. It's like, Okay,
22:51
Speaker 1: here I see these layoffs. Here's an opportunity to let
22:54
Speaker 1: me take this severance pay But you also know there's
22:56
Speaker 1: no guaranteed. But you also know that hey, you you
22:59
Speaker 1: know you gotta works as a long run, and that's
23:02
Speaker 1: where people start falling off. M Yeah, there's been so
23:06
Speaker 1: many comics that I know that I've tried to transition,
23:09
Speaker 1: Like you know, I knew I needed to be in someplace,
23:12
Speaker 1: either Los Angeles or New York if you really want
23:16
Speaker 1: to be in the business. I know some comics they
23:18
Speaker 1: were like, well, you know, I saved up enough money
23:21
Speaker 1: six months and I'm gonna make it. And it's like, dude,
23:23
Speaker 1: you're not gonna make it in six months. You know,
23:26
Speaker 1: it's just it, don't It doesn't work like that. So
23:28
Speaker 1: I tell anybody, no matter what type of transition you're
23:31
Speaker 1: trying to make, you gotta have a plan. You um,
23:35
Speaker 1: And there's nothing I think people feel like, well, you know,
23:38
Speaker 1: sometimes I don't have to have a security net. Nothing's
23:41
Speaker 1: wrong to me. Nothing's wrong with having a security net.
23:44
Speaker 1: I knew that if it didn't work, I could always
23:47
Speaker 1: do something else. I could teach after that. And that's
23:49
Speaker 1: another thing. And you have your plan, but also having
23:52
Speaker 1: like a little backup plan. And the backup plan doesn't
23:54
Speaker 1: mean that you're gonna fails. To me, it's just something
23:58
Speaker 1: in your subconscious that you know will be all right,
24:01
Speaker 1: you know, instead of having nothing at all, you know
24:04
Speaker 1: you have plan. This is the great thing about this,
24:07
Speaker 1: you know I'm talking about because I gotta, I gotta
24:10
Speaker 1: make this. I made it announcement in your credits about
24:13
Speaker 1: hosting Essence music festivals called Essence Festival now and walking
24:18
Speaker 1: on the stage you know it can be as many
24:20
Speaker 1: as seventy thousand people in front of you, okay, and
24:24
Speaker 1: then knowing where you started. You know, you knowing because
24:26
Speaker 1: when you when you start making these transition, telling people
24:29
Speaker 1: you're telling jokes. They wait, girls, don't you have to
24:31
Speaker 1: a degree in engineering? The people a doubt. You know,
24:34
Speaker 1: your family members are question you will how are you
24:37
Speaker 1: gonna get paid? How are you gonna get paid? Well,
24:39
Speaker 1: where's the regular check at Now? You you're leaving something
24:41
Speaker 1: good here? You sure you? Sure you? Sure? So in
24:45
Speaker 1: that transition, you have to start surrounding yourself with people
24:48
Speaker 1: who think like you and have your same passion. Otherwise
24:52
Speaker 1: you won't make it through the whole process. And to
24:54
Speaker 1: go and to go from that to being on the
24:59
Speaker 1: stage walking out. Talk talk about first of all getting
25:01
Speaker 1: the opportunity of getting the call to do that and
25:03
Speaker 1: then walking out on stage the first time at Essence Festival. Well,
25:08
Speaker 1: the thing is what people have to realize is number one,
25:12
Speaker 1: a lot of times, everybody's not gonna be happy for you.
25:16
Speaker 1: A lot of that doubt that they that they that
25:18
Speaker 1: they sincerely, they're they're trying to act like they're sincere
25:21
Speaker 1: and they're worrying and caring about you is their own
25:25
Speaker 1: fear is that they don't believe that you can do
25:27
Speaker 1: what you say you're out to do. UM. So I
25:30
Speaker 1: tell people that you have to believe in yourself with
25:33
Speaker 1: nobody else believes, and you believe in yourself. But with
25:37
Speaker 1: me being the first woman to host a SUS festival
25:41
Speaker 1: UM with seventy thousand people, UM to to be the
25:45
Speaker 1: host to introduce m Michelle Obama the first date United States.
25:50
Speaker 1: That just doesn't come overnight. I've been in this for
25:53
Speaker 1: twenty years. And the thing is is that you know, um.
25:58
Speaker 1: The thing is that that was all part of my
26:00
Speaker 1: plan too. It's many nights on the road. It's um
26:05
Speaker 1: many hours on the road doing stand up, doing stand
26:08
Speaker 1: up all over the world and understanding what everyone likes,
26:13
Speaker 1: what makes me different, what makes me funny, what will
26:16
Speaker 1: work for me? You know, I love you because I
26:19
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26:21
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26:24
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26:27
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28:18
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28:20
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28:22
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28:25
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28:51
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28:55
Speaker 1: life meaning vacation, maintaining time with your kids, maintaining making time,
29:00
Speaker 1: maintaining time for yourself. That's really important in the whole
29:03
Speaker 1: process of this. My next guy, I got two two
29:05
Speaker 1: people on the phone, so you know I'm gonna have
29:07
Speaker 1: fun to a one male, one female. I know I'm
29:10
Speaker 1: gonna have fun because I got six sisters and two brothers,
29:12
Speaker 1: so I'm used to talk to a bunch of people
29:14
Speaker 1: at one time. My next guest. You can watch their
29:16
Speaker 1: cooking show on the Aspired network. There there are their
29:20
Speaker 1: creators of Butter and Brown. They showcase creative ways to
29:24
Speaker 1: prepare fantastic food and tasty cocktails. That's that's the word
29:28
Speaker 1: for drinks liquor. You know they drink and eat at
29:32
Speaker 1: the same time with popular ingredients viewers are likely to
29:35
Speaker 1: have on hand. Please walk for the money. Make conversations
29:38
Speaker 1: first time the creators and hosts a budded Butter and Brown,
29:42
Speaker 1: set Brundo and Leslie on too Off Good morning. Let's
29:48
Speaker 1: got the last name right? That they get the last
29:50
Speaker 1: name right, because I don't want to get you mad.
29:51
Speaker 1: I've seen you on TV. I want to make sure
29:57
Speaker 1: I get that right because you know you you're dealing
29:58
Speaker 1: with knives. First of all, how did you two get together?
30:05
Speaker 1: Lesson it, saith. Let's talk about the beginning. How did
30:07
Speaker 1: you guys come together as a dynamic cooking duel? Sure, Um,
30:13
Speaker 1: Seth and I both grew up in Los Angeles and
30:15
Speaker 1: we also went away to college. I was to Howard
30:18
Speaker 1: University in Sethman Tomorrow House Um and so right right, yes,
30:24
Speaker 1: so Man in DC. Um and so when we were
30:26
Speaker 1: done at school. We both returned home, and you know,
30:29
Speaker 1: when you leave away from home and you come back,
30:31
Speaker 1: things are a little different and sometimes you you know,
30:33
Speaker 1: you hang out with the new crowd. Um. And so
30:35
Speaker 1: we were introduced to a mutual friend of ours and
30:38
Speaker 1: we just kind of bonded over our love of you know, food, fashion.
30:41
Speaker 1: We're both gone to black colleges, but we had a
30:43
Speaker 1: lot in coming and we just you know, kind of
30:45
Speaker 1: became friends fairly quickly. Okay said that was really short story,
30:50
Speaker 1: you know, and I know she could talk, so can
30:53
Speaker 1: you add some stuff that she missed out? Seth, please,
30:56
Speaker 1: thank you, sir man. So um, we actually if you
31:00
Speaker 1: don't know why, I don't know why she acted like
31:01
Speaker 1: she can't talk on my show. I don't know why
31:04
Speaker 1: she acted like she can't talk because you can't shut
31:06
Speaker 1: up on the TV. I know it's a lot of
31:08
Speaker 1: footage on the floor where she just keeps talking and said,
31:11
Speaker 1: I'll be looking at your brother. You know you look
31:13
Speaker 1: you look at the screen sometime. Can I just say
31:15
Speaker 1: three words? How are you? Can I say? She come
31:19
Speaker 1: on my show? She gave us anopsis of one minute.
31:23
Speaker 1: That's our whole relationship. He went right, what we had on. Well,
31:31
Speaker 1: he want to know where we ate, So we we've
31:34
Speaker 1: about that a little bit more so we met, we
31:36
Speaker 1: actually met for the first time. We always tell people
31:40
Speaker 1: this story. We met for the first time at a
31:41
Speaker 1: taco Tuesday. L A and I don't remember that time,
31:45
Speaker 1: but it was me in my full you know, twentysomething
31:48
Speaker 1: year old um self. I used to walk around with
31:52
Speaker 1: like a king's crown on. You know, my style has
31:55
Speaker 1: always been like very bold, very bright, very buoyant. Um.
32:00
Speaker 1: So she thought I was like obnoxious at first, um
32:03
Speaker 1: and which I'm sure like it's not too far off
32:06
Speaker 1: from the truth because I personally was back then. And
32:09
Speaker 1: then the following time we met with that a mutual
32:12
Speaker 1: friend's house where we kind of you know, we're in
32:15
Speaker 1: a corner together, and you know, we were just vibing
32:18
Speaker 1: on all of our life experiences and all of our
32:20
Speaker 1: interests and things like that, you know, from food to
32:23
Speaker 1: fashion to you know, both of us being two of
32:26
Speaker 1: the only ones in our group of friends who attended HBCUs.
32:29
Speaker 1: And from there we just hit it off. We were
32:31
Speaker 1: we were like inseparable. We were at each other's houses,
32:34
Speaker 1: you know, every other day. We were you know, going
32:37
Speaker 1: to kickbacks when the parties hanging out, like we were
32:39
Speaker 1: like family like instantly. Um So, you know from the
32:44
Speaker 1: friendship grew you know this this amazing television show, um
32:50
Speaker 1: that we have now that started off as a web
32:52
Speaker 1: series on ether Race YouTube networking. You know, the way
32:56
Speaker 1: everything happened was really naturally. Leslie and I are two
32:59
Speaker 1: of the main ones in our group of friends who cooked.
33:01
Speaker 1: So when we would have these Friday night white and
33:03
Speaker 1: wine doowns or you know, when we have these kick
33:05
Speaker 1: backs and stuff like that, we were always the ones
33:07
Speaker 1: in the kitchen, and not because people forced this, so
33:09
Speaker 1: because we loved it. Um So, Leslie sent me a
33:12
Speaker 1: tech message one day, like out of the clear blue,
33:15
Speaker 1: Like I remember I was driving down the One Time Freeway.
33:17
Speaker 1: I can't remember where I was coming from public downtown
33:20
Speaker 1: and some showroom or something like that, but I was
33:22
Speaker 1: driving down the one Time Freeway. She sent me a
33:24
Speaker 1: text and said, Yo, we should do a cooking show, um,
33:28
Speaker 1: and we should show it to Eesa because you know
33:30
Speaker 1: she's looking for new content and so on and so forth,
33:32
Speaker 1: and it was it was just a no brainer for um.
33:34
Speaker 1: Um So, you know, like I don't think either one
33:37
Speaker 1: of us ever considered that we would enjoy the success
33:40
Speaker 1: that we have in the culinary room. But it was just,
33:44
Speaker 1: you know, it was just something that was birth naturally
33:46
Speaker 1: out of our friendship dynamics, out of our love for food,
33:50
Speaker 1: out of our love for comedy. You know, if you've
33:52
Speaker 1: watched Butter and Brown once or twice, you know that
33:55
Speaker 1: we always infused sketch comedy into our show because that's
33:57
Speaker 1: a very important aspect of our friends shop. We love
34:00
Speaker 1: to laugh, you know, laughing at you right right right now,
34:10
Speaker 1: right now, y'all silly. That's that's a couple. You know,
34:17
Speaker 1: It's a big part of our friendship, and we really
34:19
Speaker 1: wanted to you know, the other thing that we've that's
34:22
Speaker 1: been validated by fans of the show is we really
34:25
Speaker 1: wanted to create a cooking show that was for everybody.
34:28
Speaker 1: You know, not everybody is a fan of cooking, especially
34:31
Speaker 1: not everybody body is a fan of um cooking shows.
34:34
Speaker 1: But we make the show that you know, people who
34:38
Speaker 1: are not interested at all you want to watch because
34:39
Speaker 1: it's just like hanging out with your friends and laughing,
34:41
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and you have to get
34:43
Speaker 1: like a cocktail and some good food. That's the key
34:46
Speaker 1: because I watched a lot of shows of cooking shows,
34:48
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you some people are always wanting
34:50
Speaker 1: to do a cooking show of some making show. It's
34:53
Speaker 1: a gift. And you too have that gift. In other words,
34:56
Speaker 1: when you're cooking and you're and you're and you're making things,
34:59
Speaker 1: it's like it's like an extension of your hand and
35:01
Speaker 1: extension of your conversation. And that's what's jarvb or about
35:05
Speaker 1: the whole process. When I watch YouTube are on TV
35:09
Speaker 1: or watch a video YouTube video, it's just like it's
35:11
Speaker 1: so effortless, and it's so and and and and the
35:15
Speaker 1: fact of the matter, it's just like, you know, it's
35:16
Speaker 1: like a brother and a sister in the kitchen together
35:18
Speaker 1: to me, okay, and and and so and so and so,
35:22
Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm gonna go per episode. I
35:25
Speaker 1: don't know who I'm gonna get though, you know, because
35:28
Speaker 1: you know, Leslie just don't know what to do with
35:31
Speaker 1: her hair. Okay, yeah, you know she's a beautiful woman.
35:35
Speaker 1: One day she got the hair down her back, next
35:37
Speaker 1: thing is cut off. When that changes us up, so
35:39
Speaker 1: that's pardon the next time you gotta have the beauty.
35:42
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of black woman. I know, I know
35:44
Speaker 1: that I got six sisters, I got sexcession can literally
35:47
Speaker 1: do anything, literally, But that's a beauty of it. Though.
35:54
Speaker 1: It's that, but it's never been done in the kitchen though,
35:56
Speaker 1: I've never seen that. And this is this is a
35:58
Speaker 1: good thing because that's a person reality, and I worries.
36:01
Speaker 1: This is a very complimentary statement that I'm making to
36:04
Speaker 1: both of you guys, like something, you have your little
36:06
Speaker 1: hat on, you know, your little brim on. Who wears
36:08
Speaker 1: a brom in the kitchen? Your boy, I'm saying, who
36:13
Speaker 1: wears a broom in the kitchen? But you said you
36:15
Speaker 1: the entertainer or somebody in the cooking you right, right,
36:20
Speaker 1: right right? You know, we always I mean you just
36:22
Speaker 1: hit the nail on the head. We always want to
36:24
Speaker 1: give people something refreshing. If you turn on a butter
36:27
Speaker 1: and brown week to week and you're get in the
36:29
Speaker 1: same format, the same clothes, the same hair, the same
36:34
Speaker 1: you know, instructions, the same ingredients and things like that,
36:37
Speaker 1: like nobody's gonna want to watch after a couple of episodes.
36:40
Speaker 1: So you know, it's just very much the style stuff
36:43
Speaker 1: is very much reflective. Again, like of our personalities about
36:46
Speaker 1: them is really love fashion about stuff is really love
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Speaker 1: next guest was fourteen years old, he had a full beard.
43:27
Speaker 1: The last time he was clean shaving was for high
43:29
Speaker 1: school graduation. Today he is the CEO of Rugged Evolution
43:34
Speaker 1: A Beard a Beard Carolina Products. Please welcome back to
43:38
Speaker 1: money making conversation. Hadn't hadn't had him on in a
43:41
Speaker 1: long time, very good friend of mine, Arrington Gavin a
43:47
Speaker 1: long time time. But you still look good. You still
43:51
Speaker 1: look good. Let's let's thank you. Let's talk about you know,
43:56
Speaker 1: just talking about a little bit of personal experience, because
43:58
Speaker 1: you know, we all know that. Uh you know when
44:01
Speaker 1: when you when you look different and you talk different
44:03
Speaker 1: and you act different, people tend to treat you different. Now,
44:06
Speaker 1: in in my intro I talked about you had a
44:08
Speaker 1: full beard or a full beard at the age of
44:11
Speaker 1: four teens? Were you tease by that when that was happening, No,
44:17
Speaker 1: I was, it was Actually it made me more possible. Actually,
44:19
Speaker 1: I mean man, So I enjoyed it. I loved it. Um.
44:28
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day. I attended private school,
44:30
Speaker 1: so we had to know Facebook hair policy, so I
44:33
Speaker 1: had to get rid of it. So that was that
44:34
Speaker 1: was a downfall, but I love it. Well, it's probably
44:38
Speaker 1: good that you went to that type of school. Stopped
44:40
Speaker 1: all the madness. That's fun. That's Fun's fun. So let's
44:45
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about you know, being a person who
44:47
Speaker 1: who got face your hair at such an early age.
44:50
Speaker 1: What were the challenges for you or who did your
44:52
Speaker 1: turn for advice or information at that at that state,
44:55
Speaker 1: Even though you didn't carry your round because your your
44:58
Speaker 1: school uh made you cut cut it you do you could,
45:02
Speaker 1: you had to deal with the issues are shaving. I'm
45:03
Speaker 1: much you're daily shaving or least shaving because over times
45:06
Speaker 1: a week. How did you deal with that? And who
45:08
Speaker 1: did you turn for advice? Well? I actually turned I
45:11
Speaker 1: went to a Derman Talegest because I could never really shave.
45:14
Speaker 1: I never used a straight razor on my face because
45:16
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45:19
Speaker 1: reason why I went to the dermantlogist. So I went
45:23
Speaker 1: to my Derman Talegest for the advice. Um also the
45:26
Speaker 1: doctor's note to give to my school so I wouldn't
45:28
Speaker 1: have to really shave too much. Just keep it a
45:31
Speaker 1: little you know, closer, but you know, so they wonn't
45:33
Speaker 1: really you know, notice it. But uh, the best that
45:36
Speaker 1: would be the person who I I attend to for advice. First,
45:39
Speaker 1: I had to go on the medical side. I'm like,
45:40
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this is I don't want to continue
45:42
Speaker 1: to you know, mess up my skin. So once uh,
45:45
Speaker 1: once graduation came uh and I was I was a
45:48
Speaker 1: freeman from high school. I embraced that here, I know,
45:52
Speaker 1: because I have the same problem, Like if you put
45:54
Speaker 1: a razor on my face, I would break out, you know.
45:57
Speaker 1: I I used an electric raiser all my life, you know,
46:00
Speaker 1: because that's the only way I can actually shave around
46:03
Speaker 1: my neckline with which you know, when you have a beard,
46:05
Speaker 1: that's where you shave, and that's where there's a general
46:07
Speaker 1: tendency to bump up although your neckline and things of
46:10
Speaker 1: that nature. So I know that I know you're having
46:13
Speaker 1: to deal with That was a pretty frustrating period for
46:16
Speaker 1: me to admit that this is how I have to
46:18
Speaker 1: deal with my my hair facial hair conditions, because so
46:22
Speaker 1: many people don't. They just look at facial hair and
46:24
Speaker 1: think it's just a simple process, and it's really a
46:26
Speaker 1: lot more complicated than that. Correct, Oh yeah, sir. And
46:30
Speaker 1: on top of that, I'm still in the stage of
46:32
Speaker 1: almost puberty. I mean fourteen, the ages were between maybe
46:37
Speaker 1: elevenists to fourteen fifteen, So I have you know, had
46:40
Speaker 1: acne also in high school. So with sad on the
46:43
Speaker 1: top of this, I'm like, no, no, I can't, I
46:45
Speaker 1: can't do this. I can I can't. I can't. Right,
46:50
Speaker 1: And so so as you, as you, as you go
46:52
Speaker 1: through life, you you you, you dealt with this through
46:54
Speaker 1: high school. Now it's on the college and like, so
46:56
Speaker 1: you have a full beard. When did the entrepreneurs side
46:59
Speaker 1: of you started to develop out of this? Well? I
47:03
Speaker 1: always as a kid watching my parents, who are both entrepreneurs,
47:06
Speaker 1: I've always had that in my blood. Never knew what
47:09
Speaker 1: journey was gonna take me. But fast forward once I'm
47:12
Speaker 1: in college. Um, I had a beard. As a college sophomore,
47:15
Speaker 1: had a beard. I love my beard, and I wanted to,
47:18
Speaker 1: you know, find out how much how how can I
47:21
Speaker 1: maintain it? So I started purchasing a lot of beer
47:24
Speaker 1: care products. Some were okay, a lot weren't okay. And um,
47:27
Speaker 1: I'm spending my money months to month on beercare products.
47:31
Speaker 1: Money that was, that was that was my weekend money.
47:33
Speaker 1: That was. That was my turn. I turned on money.
47:36
Speaker 1: So I'm like, wait a minute, Wait a minute, Wait
47:38
Speaker 1: a minute. So I did my own research on various
47:41
Speaker 1: essential oils, utters and all natural products. And I also
47:44
Speaker 1: had you know, close excuse me close friends that were
47:47
Speaker 1: new to the beard community, so they were kind of
47:49
Speaker 1: like my testers. So I started to make, you know,
47:51
Speaker 1: whip it up in the kitchen and um made it
47:54
Speaker 1: for myself as well as my friends, and got great reviews.
47:56
Speaker 1: And for me, I'm like, okay, I got great reviews. Okay,
47:59
Speaker 1: that's good. That's that. Then I'm walking around campus. Uh
48:02
Speaker 1: you know, I look in all different directions north, south, east, west,
48:05
Speaker 1: and I realized I'm looking at guys with beard, gotees mustaches.
48:09
Speaker 1: So right then and there, I knew it was a
48:11
Speaker 1: market for it. And that's pretty much where I said, okay,
48:14
Speaker 1: let me write down my business plan. And from there
48:17
Speaker 1: on until graduation came, I took the lease of faith
48:19
Speaker 1: in Mons online store November of Wow. Congratulations, By the way,
48:24
Speaker 1: first of all, let's let's let's go back to this.
48:26
Speaker 1: I'm in the kitchen, just whipping something up. I get
48:31
Speaker 1: a lot of guests who come on my show with
48:33
Speaker 1: that same philosopher, you know what, they because you know,
48:36
Speaker 1: because your degree was in what your degree was h
48:38
Speaker 1: what my degree was in health and wellness, health and
48:41
Speaker 1: once I wanted to pursue athletic training. So I've always
48:44
Speaker 1: had a passion for the human body. So I had
48:47
Speaker 1: to take because I'm trying to I'm trying to get
48:48
Speaker 1: to this, I'm trying to get to this part in
48:50
Speaker 1: the kitchen, just whipping this up. You know what? You
48:53
Speaker 1: know what, what were you whipping up? Man? Were you
48:56
Speaker 1: I got me some baby all over here? I got
48:58
Speaker 1: me some Jergins, I got me him. You know what
49:00
Speaker 1: were you whipping up in the kitchen? Man? They got
49:02
Speaker 1: to this point, not trying to give away your trade secrets,
49:05
Speaker 1: but definitely just to say you whipped up something and
49:07
Speaker 1: then you just slapped in on your face and you
49:09
Speaker 1: started smile, and then everybody starts smiling with you. What
49:12
Speaker 1: because it wasn't sticky? You know, you know, because I
49:14
Speaker 1: use your product, it doesn't it's not sticky. It's you know,
49:18
Speaker 1: it's shines and you know I can put things, you know,
49:21
Speaker 1: it's really a really, really great product. So let's talk
49:24
Speaker 1: about the early stages of you and in the kitchen
49:26
Speaker 1: whipping stuff up. Okay, well, various butters and all that,
49:32
Speaker 1: all natural essential oils. That's that's that was my main
49:35
Speaker 1: ingrediments I was opening up. I can't you know, I
49:36
Speaker 1: can't give any sense out, but uh, but things like
49:40
Speaker 1: bees wax. I was researching things that were good for
49:43
Speaker 1: hair textures and good for our skin. Make sure it
49:47
Speaker 1: had all the right vitamins that can help nourish and
49:50
Speaker 1: help help take care of our beers. Right now, let's
49:54
Speaker 1: talk about your product. You have it. How could your
49:57
Speaker 1: product help men in the bearded community, because you know,
50:01
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, James James Harden, you know it's really
50:04
Speaker 1: NBA the beer, which I really I don't know that
50:06
Speaker 1: excites you because that means the bears are being more
50:09
Speaker 1: and more popular and the board beers are not just
50:11
Speaker 1: tied to any particular ethnic group either, and so so
50:15
Speaker 1: so the branding of the beer is just like Michael
50:18
Speaker 1: Jordan's came along in the eighties and they made the
50:20
Speaker 1: ball head popular, and now James Beard, James James Harden
50:24
Speaker 1: is making the beer popular in the NBA and and
50:27
Speaker 1: that that's hitting that millennial market share that you want,
50:30
Speaker 1: because I always tell people you get your customers earlier
50:32
Speaker 1: to stay with you forever. And so how would the
50:35
Speaker 1: question back to us, how would your product help men
50:37
Speaker 1: in the bear of the community. We'll help all around
50:41
Speaker 1: first with cleansinginess. It will keep it nice and clean,
50:45
Speaker 1: a great very moisturized and all around maintained because I
50:48
Speaker 1: always tell people, remember, a clean beard is a healthy beard,
50:52
Speaker 1: and that will that will prevent because our facial hair
50:55
Speaker 1: is the magnetsu bacteria and greasely. You want to help
50:58
Speaker 1: maintain that because if you don't, material will sometimes will
51:03
Speaker 1: lead to irritation to the skin and might lead to infection.
51:06
Speaker 1: And right, it's little things like that that that you
51:11
Speaker 1: don't even realize they the overall. You know, if you're
51:16
Speaker 1: lazy with you know, it can go back to your
51:18
Speaker 1: facial hair. Just if you don't have facial hair, you know,
51:21
Speaker 1: just not washing your face. Now you got hair on
51:23
Speaker 1: the face, which means that's a double because you have
51:26
Speaker 1: to worry about your skin drying underneath your beard. And
51:31
Speaker 1: so talk about your product in general, how you you
51:36
Speaker 1: know got I got because I've gotten several kids from you,
51:38
Speaker 1: and I bought a couple of kids where they have
51:40
Speaker 1: the brush, they have the comb, they have certain oils,
51:43
Speaker 1: they have certain sometimes talk about the whole process of
51:47
Speaker 1: putting together the brand. I'm talking to, Uh having excuse me.
51:52
Speaker 1: Arrington Gavin, who's the CEO of Rugged Evolution, is a
51:55
Speaker 1: bearded bearded hair Caroline and he were talking about the
51:59
Speaker 1: whole process of in Seen, he launched an online store.
52:04
Speaker 1: I am a user of his products. I'm a believer
52:06
Speaker 1: of his products. Uh. If you go online, you see
52:09
Speaker 1: the quality of the art work, You see the quality
52:13
Speaker 1: of the website, which is always really key when people
52:16
Speaker 1: launched their brands because that's the first line of experience.
52:19
Speaker 1: When you start to put your brand out. How does
52:21
Speaker 1: it look online? How does it look on your smartphone?
52:23
Speaker 1: How does it look on your large scream laptop or desktop.
52:27
Speaker 1: So now we'ret the point now where you have a
52:29
Speaker 1: product out there, how do you start developing the lines
52:33
Speaker 1: within your product? Well, first, first what I did made
52:38
Speaker 1: sure I had my business plan out on paper, and
52:41
Speaker 1: then I h made sure that there first was a
52:44
Speaker 1: market for it. And this is this is all that
52:47
Speaker 1: for them. While I was in college, made sure it
52:49
Speaker 1: was a market spard then of course building on UH,
52:52
Speaker 1: building on a great excuse me, a marketing team that
52:55
Speaker 1: can help with the marketing and the finances. The H
52:58
Speaker 1: TO main companon on its incorporated and being trademarked UH,
53:03
Speaker 1: and the to the two different UH for anybody that's
53:06
Speaker 1: not too familiar with it. Being incorporated will help you
53:09
Speaker 1: in your state, They'll protect your name within your state.
53:11
Speaker 1: Being trademark will help you around the country. So that
53:15
Speaker 1: was my main focus as far as building building that
53:18
Speaker 1: brand UM. But but given building that side UH, as
53:22
Speaker 1: far as within my UH, within Rugged evolution, I wanted
53:26
Speaker 1: to first have the quota that UH you can whether
53:30
Speaker 1: you're a man of UH, whether you're a labor worker
53:32
Speaker 1: or work in corporate America, you can still be a
53:35
Speaker 1: man of distinction and rocket well groomed beers. Your brand
53:39
Speaker 1: can be built by itself. You know, it has to
53:41
Speaker 1: be UH. You know, it has to be the customers
53:43
Speaker 1: that you have, the employees that you bring on board,
53:46
Speaker 1: You're inner circle. They all have to think forward and
53:49
Speaker 1: be forward thinking about what you're trying to do with
53:51
Speaker 1: your brand. Again, I'm so happy for you. Samantha is
53:54
Speaker 1: gonna contact you. We're gonna do that Cyber Monday with
53:56
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53:59
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54:01
Speaker 1: then uh and just watch your brain continue grow again.
54:04
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Arrington Gavin, the CEO a Rugged Evolution Incorporated,
54:09
Speaker 1: My man again. Congratulations. Our relationship will continue to grow
54:13
Speaker 1: in but before that, let's sell some product. Thank you
54:19
Speaker 1: for having me a great friend, and you've been a
54:21
Speaker 1: blessing to myself and my family. Thank you so much
54:24
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