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Laila Ali, Larry Smith, Sheri Riley & Laura Foos · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: guests are this show today another outstanding lineup of individuals
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Speaker 1: Sherry Riley, she's on the hall right now. She's been
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Speaker 1: my first guest. Stuff. She's a light strategist and the
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Speaker 1: one of the seventeen African American Literary Award for Self
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Speaker 1: Help Book of the Year. And Laura Foods out of
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Speaker 1: I'm ready. She's on the phone. Correct Or Jake Cool,
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Speaker 1: my first guest is a wife, mother, daughter, entrepreneur, empowerment speaker,
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Speaker 1: life strategist and author of the new book Exponential Living
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Speaker 1: God to making the most out of your life, not
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Speaker 1: just your work life. Please welcome to money making Conversation,
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Speaker 1: Sherry Riley. Thank you, Thank you, Sherry. Serry. I'm so
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Speaker 1: happy on the show now cause it can can I
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Speaker 1: get people your real bio. I want to give you
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Speaker 1: a real biou. You have a minute. This is gonna
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Speaker 1: because people need to know. So when you come on
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Speaker 1: my show, I try to get people. And I'm so
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Speaker 1: excited to have you on the show because you know,
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Speaker 1: we've been We've been, We've been following each other linked
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Speaker 1: in and social media, sothing. We're aware of your brand
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Speaker 1: and I just want let everybody know a little bit
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Speaker 1: more about your other than that little one sentence that
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Speaker 1: I gave you. Here's Here's Sherry Riley as a stated
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Speaker 1: by Rashad McDonald. The facts. Shay Riley is a wife, mother, daughter,
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Speaker 1: and entrepreneur and we all know this is not easy,
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Speaker 1: but she's discovered how to make it simple. As an
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Speaker 1: empowerment speaker and life strategist, she works with busy individuals
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Speaker 1: like me and how to make choices that lead to
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Speaker 1: less stress, more clarity, and inner peace. Moore, do I
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Speaker 1: need that? Riley is a founding partner of John Maxwell's
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Speaker 1: Global Coaching, speaking and teaching team and serves as John
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Speaker 1: Maxwell's President's Advisory Council. She has served as a personal
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Speaker 1: development coach of record for Steve Harvey's Radical Success Institute.
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Speaker 1: She has been the keynoe speaker as Steve Harvey's Act
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Speaker 1: Like a Success Conference, Prudentials Leadership Farm, CVS Health, the
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Speaker 1: NBA Wise Behind the Bench Conference, the National Black NBA
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Speaker 1: Association Leadership Retreat, Atlanta's Tributes Moving Your Business Forward Conference,
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Speaker 1: and the Walker's Legacy Foundation Paul po Our fifty Brunch,
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Speaker 1: just to name a few. She's a columnist for Black
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Speaker 1: Rolling Out dot com, which is based in Atlanta, and
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Speaker 1: she's been a columnist for Black Enterprise dot Com. She's
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Speaker 1: a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and she said
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Speaker 1: on the host Committee, advisory Board and rot of Directors
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Speaker 1: for the California Women's Conference, the y y w C,
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Speaker 1: a of creat Atlanta, the brons Lynd Film Festival, Wich
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Speaker 1: I've had three movies in Thank You very Much, and
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Speaker 1: the Georgia Entertainment Gailor just to name a few. She
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Speaker 1: loves to read, exercise, travel, and spend time with her
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Speaker 1: husband and a two daughter. Ladies and gentlemen, now please
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Speaker 1: welcome to Baking Conversation. Cherry Riley Jerry, Cherry Jerry. You know,
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Speaker 1: because I would going through everything, you know, I go around.
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Speaker 1: I've never done that before, but I would just read
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Speaker 1: your bio if you just flowed at such a uh
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Speaker 1: just a natural state. And I wait. You know, sometimes
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Speaker 1: when you know, you you put people out there, and
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Speaker 1: I always tell people your golden life is for your
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Speaker 1: resume and who you are to actually meet. And when
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Speaker 1: I read your bio, I felt that and I said,
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Speaker 1: you know something, she's don't mind. I want to read
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Speaker 1: it because usually you know, usually gets read when you
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Speaker 1: when they when they get your you know, a key
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Speaker 1: to the city, and they put all that stuff on there,
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Speaker 1: and the person who's reading it really can't read, and
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Speaker 1: it'd be like ten minutes you just standing and they're going, Lord,
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Speaker 1: I hope they heard every hope they put everything to
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Speaker 1: my bio on there, and they did. You just standing up.
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Speaker 1: This is the longest day of my life. It's both
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Speaker 1: be my happiest moment was the longest day in my life.
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Speaker 1: So Sherry, that is my Keys of the City, Mighty
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Speaker 1: making Conversations. I'm giving it to you. Ms Riley wlcome
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Speaker 1: to my show. Thank you, thank you so much. I'm
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Speaker 1: so excited to be here having a conversation with you.
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Speaker 1: And you see my energy because you know I've send
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Speaker 1: over the course of the week, and I know the
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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks death came on with a lot
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Speaker 1: low energy. So my energy is up. I'm ready. We're good,
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Speaker 1: and let's talk about you don't want to talk about
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Speaker 1: a couple of things, but of course we want to
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Speaker 1: talk about your book expll Nutral Living. I read the
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Speaker 1: book so we can really talk. And that's one thing
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Speaker 1: I always what if anybody on Facebook want to make
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Speaker 1: a questions or any questions throughout the show. Please do
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Speaker 1: go to Money Making Conversation at Money Making Conversations and
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Speaker 1: you can live with questions. Now, you young Kentucky girl,
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Speaker 1: came over down to Atlanta, got in the music industry,
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Speaker 1: and that basically tells me a lot about you because
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Speaker 1: you didn't allow your surroundings to limit who you could be.
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Speaker 1: Let's start there, why not very true. Well one my dad,
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Speaker 1: I mean my dad always said that they sharing love,
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Speaker 1: find what you love to do, and you'll never have
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Speaker 1: to work, right, And that just set in me. And
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Speaker 1: I've always loved for I always loved music, entertainment, and
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Speaker 1: I've always loved business. And so when I was about
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Speaker 1: fifteen years old, I just I really had this idea
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Speaker 1: that I wanted to work at the entertainment industry, that
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Speaker 1: I'm a date myself, because I would fisting. There was
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Speaker 1: no entertainment industry in Atlanta. There was no Google, no
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Speaker 1: cell phone. So the only thing me and my family
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Speaker 1: knew about in a tenment was trying, right, absolutely absolutely,
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Speaker 1: So if you go dat me, I'm in that dating club,
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Speaker 1: So you can stop talking all that. I would stop
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Speaker 1: you right now sharing okay on this dating because see,
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Speaker 1: first of all, I would tell people you have to
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Speaker 1: get older to have an experience, and you have the
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Speaker 1: older to have a value. So so look here that
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Speaker 1: the cell phone is less than ten years old. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's go through my iPhone. I don't know how much
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Speaker 1: dating you trying to do, because ten years ago, you know,
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Speaker 1: it didn't exist. It just becomes such a part of
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Speaker 1: our life. It makes us feel like it's been with
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Speaker 1: us twenty and thirty years, but it's only been around
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Speaker 1: with a ten years because that's when on the iPhone.
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Speaker 1: It's when Hillary Clinton announced her presidency, when she was
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Speaker 1: running for the first time against President of the Rock
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Speaker 1: Barack Obama. So so I that conversation because I brought
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Speaker 1: you on the show. And this is positive because of
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Speaker 1: the fact that your resume, like I told you, has
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Speaker 1: it reached the point in life when you talk, people
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Speaker 1: need to be listening because you're the truth. You're not
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Speaker 1: making up anything your experiences and that's what I took
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Speaker 1: away from your book was that exponential living because your
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Speaker 1: experiences were real. And then you said you don't believe me.
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Speaker 1: Let me go grab some people that you might know
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Speaker 1: and let them share exponential living advice to you, so
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Speaker 1: you can let people know that what I'm talking about
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Speaker 1: is real. So now we got that dated conversation out
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Speaker 1: the way, let's start the show right. I brought Shared
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Speaker 1: Riley on this show to change people's lives. I brought
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Speaker 1: Sherifed Riley on this show because guess what, when she
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Speaker 1: stands up in front of the room, people look at
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Speaker 1: them because they need to be focused, they need to
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Speaker 1: have a path to success. That's why I got to
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Speaker 1: the show. Well, you know what you just said is
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Speaker 1: so real, because that is exactly was my intention is.
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Speaker 1: I wanted this to be real. I wanted the message
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Speaker 1: to you because I started this journey trying to help myself.
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Speaker 1: That's why whistled all about I needed help. I was.
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Speaker 1: You know, when I resigned from a Faith Records, I
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Speaker 1: was burnt out. I was miserable. My hair was falling out.
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Speaker 1: I had this amazing career, I had this amazing light.
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Speaker 1: I was doing everything I wanted to do, but I
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Speaker 1: was just living in this nail to centers. That's who
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Speaker 1: I was. And so that was the intention in the book.
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Speaker 1: I didn't want theory. I didn't want to give someone
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Speaker 1: some research group. I generally wanted you to see, here's
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Speaker 1: the journey, and here's some other people that have experienced
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Speaker 1: the journey, and guess what, none of us are special.
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Speaker 1: You can do this too. You can do this too.
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Speaker 1: And that was the incentive the book. Now, you said
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Speaker 1: that the book is not about work life balance. Explain
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Speaker 1: that to me, right, because what I found is balance.
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Speaker 1: Is this elusive idea that we really can't accomplish. And
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Speaker 1: so many of us are trying to accomplish balances right.
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Speaker 1: We're trying to balance work and family, and we're trying
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Speaker 1: to balance our philanthropic endeavors, our community endeavors. And the
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Speaker 1: reality is that doesn't exist. If I'm in l A
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Speaker 1: speaking and my daughters in Atlanta, she spook, balance says,
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Speaker 1: I can pick her up. No, No, what really exists
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Speaker 1: its full life integration. We have to stop making everything
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Speaker 1: equal because it's not, and we have to start figuring
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Speaker 1: out how do we integrate our families, how do we
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Speaker 1: integrate dating if we're single, how do we integrate advancing
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Speaker 1: on the career ladder, how do we integrate being an
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Speaker 1: entrepreneur but still being active in our community. And when
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Speaker 1: we look at it that way, and when I help
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Speaker 1: my climents look at it that way, first of all,
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Speaker 1: it removed the guilt of this unrealistic idea of balance,
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Speaker 1: and then it allows us to have more realistic expectations
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Speaker 1: of what we can do. And so many women there's
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Speaker 1: the guilt of oh my god, I'm not sitting in
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Speaker 1: us of my family. And then for many men they
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Speaker 1: share that saying guilt as if I'm out here working
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Speaker 1: and I'm not with my family. But when you focus
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Speaker 1: on the more quality of the time, the quality of
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Speaker 1: the time, if you move that guilt. Now, let me
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Speaker 1: assu you this. This is really interesting because you know,
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Speaker 1: you're your speaker, and sometimes when you go in the
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Speaker 1: room and you see all these people and this and
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Speaker 1: this hope in this direction. So when you're introduced on
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Speaker 1: stage in front of the room full of strangers, what
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Speaker 1: is your top three themes that you're trying to accomplish?
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Speaker 1: The top one thing that you're trying to accomplish when
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Speaker 1: you immediately um such a stage for delivering your your
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Speaker 1: motivation or your empowerment moment, but those things you wn,
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Speaker 1: I'll probably surprised you the first step on that stage.
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Speaker 1: The first thing I want that audience to do is
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Speaker 1: to actually go, Wow, this is gonna be worth my time.
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Speaker 1: Because our time is our most valuable asset. And so
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Speaker 1: in that first thirty to sixty seconds, that first you know,
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Speaker 1: ninety seconds, I need to make the audience feel that
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Speaker 1: if I sit here and pay attention to her, she
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Speaker 1: is gonna give me something that it's gonna allow me
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Speaker 1: to make a this decision that's gonna help me and
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Speaker 1: this is not going to be a waste of my time.
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Speaker 1: That is the most important thing for me when I
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Speaker 1: hit that stage. And and so now now the wow,
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Speaker 1: now the wow, you know, okay, because that's that's very key,
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Speaker 1: you know, being a performer, stand up comic. I understand,
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Speaker 1: you know when people say, Rachel McDonald, give a couple
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Speaker 1: of credits, I want that applause, and I stand there.
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Speaker 1: I have to do. I have to at least let
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Speaker 1: them know I'm not afraid. And I think that that's
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Speaker 1: that's important because a lot of people don't understand that
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Speaker 1: you like anything. You can sense when somebody's unorganized. You
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Speaker 1: no value to you. So when we come back, Sharry Sherry,
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Speaker 1: I want you to hold that thought, because when we
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Speaker 1: get into the book, I wanted, well, I want to
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go all
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Speaker 1: over the book. And now I'm gonna go back and
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Speaker 1: talk to Junior, you know, James Lopez. You know, I
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Speaker 1: want to talk about your mom was with me. I
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Speaker 1: was just leting you know, I read your foot back,
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Speaker 1: you know, because of the fact that on page two
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Speaker 1: seventy five when you start talked about faith that book
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Speaker 1: that Chaptain right there, I read three times and so
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Speaker 1: because it's a different type of faith that you was
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Speaker 1: talking about. So when you come back, we have more
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Speaker 1: with Sharon Ryan. She gonna Rusan McDonald read my boot. Hi,
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Speaker 1: I'm back this Rushan McDonald on the phone. I have
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Speaker 1: the author of Exponential Living, Cherry Riley Sr. Are you
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Speaker 1: still there? I am, okay, Cherry. Let's talk about some
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Speaker 1: of the celebrities are influential people that you brought into
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Speaker 1: the book that I felt made a impact because it
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Speaker 1: validated basically the message that you're trying to get out
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Speaker 1: to everyday people. Uh. And several of my new you
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Speaker 1: know which is which is a good thing? And some
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Speaker 1: of them like James Lopez when when you when I
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Speaker 1: read about James Lopez, James Lopez used to be a
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Speaker 1: record labeled exactly now he's with will Packer. If you
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Speaker 1: know Will Packer, Will Packer. He's done all the ride
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Speaker 1: along movies. He did the movies with Steve and I
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Speaker 1: said myself, think like a man and think like a
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Speaker 1: man too. Very influential movie and TV producer in Hollywood,
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Speaker 1: graduated from FAMI you and now James Lopez is is
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Speaker 1: running all his films, his films uh UM and also
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Speaker 1: involved with Clint Colepepper, who's the president of screen Jams.
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Speaker 1: And it was interesting that when you brought him in
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Speaker 1: the book, Well, I was important to bring a person
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Speaker 1: like James Lopez, which is an everyday person into your
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Speaker 1: book to talk about exponential living. So so many of
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Speaker 1: us are afraid of transition. So many of us are
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Speaker 1: afraid of the reality is that we've accomplished a goal
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Speaker 1: and it's okay to have a whole another goal. And
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Speaker 1: James so represented transition. I mean, as you know, he
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Speaker 1: was a vice president at a record label. UM he
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Speaker 1: accomplished that at the highest level, but he also wanted
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Speaker 1: to get into film, which is though the industries are
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Speaker 1: both entertainment, they're very different, very different stuff wom influenced,
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Speaker 1: very different skill set and so over a five year
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Speaker 1: period he did the behind the scenes work that no
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Speaker 1: one knew about, reading scripts, learning how to read scripts,
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Speaker 1: and he did the work. So by the time he
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Speaker 1: got the opportunity, in his mind, he had already been
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Speaker 1: doing the job. And I wanted people to hear that story.
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Speaker 1: I wanted people to understand that you can reach high
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Speaker 1: levels of success in your area and then decide I
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Speaker 1: want to do something else. I've been a successful corporate executive.
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Speaker 1: Now I want to run a nonprofit and we can
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Speaker 1: do that. But so many people I come across, they're
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Speaker 1: absolutely dread getting up on Monday. He because they've been
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Speaker 1: somewhere for ten years too long, because they're too afraid
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Speaker 1: of transition. And I needed people to hear change the story.
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Speaker 1: And that was very important. So when you when you
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Speaker 1: take a person like him because he's he's more online
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Speaker 1: the everyday person, because he's a corporate person, you know,
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Speaker 1: nine to five person. And I do know James because
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Speaker 1: James sold did the Ring Toom deal for Steve and
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Speaker 1: I back when radio in Los Angeles. I do know
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Speaker 1: James the kid. I to make that transition. And then
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Speaker 1: the father, and he's a father, he's her father, he's
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Speaker 1: a husband. I needed people to see that here was
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Speaker 1: that complete story, corporate executive and parents and husband. And
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Speaker 1: then I then I love the factor you brought in
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Speaker 1: Junior Bridgeman, who was an athlete. You know, an athlete,
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Speaker 1: you know, this is the story. This is the athlete
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Speaker 1: are about the bankruptcy stories, but you don't hear about
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Speaker 1: the the junior Bridgements of the world, who owned over
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Speaker 1: a hundred and ninety five franchises in a predominant amount
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Speaker 1: of Wendy's. You know Wendy's. He's the man in Wendy's.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And so you bring him
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Speaker 1: in because that gives you a guy who's who's who's
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Speaker 1: up that corporate letter, who's he is truly the entrepreneur
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Speaker 1: and when we see it, he's he took his seed money,
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Speaker 1: which is that which was the athletic career and turning
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Speaker 1: into an entrepreneurship career. Why was he important to your book? Well,
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Speaker 1: and with JR. And here's the key he played at
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Speaker 1: the time when they didn't have those million dollar contracts. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: he was a sixth man too. He wouldn't even start.
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Speaker 1: He was a six months. I wasn't even started. He
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Speaker 1: was a sixth man. And and so it was key
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Speaker 1: with his story because when I'm a woman of faith,
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Speaker 1: I don't push my faith on anyone um. But I
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Speaker 1: knew his story of faith, and I knew how adamant
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Speaker 1: he was about representing this, you know, a man of faith,
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Speaker 1: and what's the principle of courage to be faithful? It's
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Speaker 1: about healing. Most people thought it was about like faith
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Speaker 1: from a Christian standpoint, but it really was about the healing.
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Speaker 1: And I wanted to really tell his story of how
18:56
Speaker 1: he had to stand in these very courageous places and
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Speaker 1: really grow through the process of being where he is now.
19:05
Speaker 1: I mean, he's almost a billionaire, right, y'all. He has
19:08
Speaker 1: the private plane, he has all of that. But when
19:11
Speaker 1: you meet Junior, as you know, he is just as
19:14
Speaker 1: down the earth every day, like if you didn't know,
19:17
Speaker 1: you wouldn't know. And so I wanted people to see,
19:20
Speaker 1: here's the story that they think they know that I
19:23
Speaker 1: needed them to go behind the veil and really understand
19:26
Speaker 1: how he really every day makes decisions dates on courage,
19:30
Speaker 1: and that courage comes from the ability to stand in
19:34
Speaker 1: the power of his own personal faith. Cool. And I
19:37
Speaker 1: wanted to know for one last person I gotta bring
19:40
Speaker 1: up is the Usher relationship, because that was important because
19:43
Speaker 1: it reminds me so much of a decision I had
19:46
Speaker 1: to make with Steve way back in ninety three four. Uh,
19:50
Speaker 1: And so I wanted people I want you to share
19:53
Speaker 1: everybody your story so I can show everybody a comparative
19:56
Speaker 1: story to let everybody know decisions like that I'll be
20:00
Speaker 1: made every day, and you need to join the club.
20:05
Speaker 1: You know these are unique decisions. So please tell him
20:08
Speaker 1: your story about Usher, and then I'm gonna tell them
20:10
Speaker 1: my story about Steve Harvey and guess what, both of
20:13
Speaker 1: them are gonna sound similar. They were tough decisions, but
20:16
Speaker 1: there were decisions we had to make. Yes, So I
20:21
Speaker 1: when I started at Leface Records, actual was a fifteen
20:24
Speaker 1: year old unknown like no one knew him. He was
20:27
Speaker 1: in the midst of trying to record an album, his
20:29
Speaker 1: voice was changing, he had dispassed me, and so when
20:34
Speaker 1: I got there, the record label didn't know what to
20:36
Speaker 1: do with him, and he wasn't a priority in any
20:39
Speaker 1: way and no shape form of fashion. People wouldn't even
20:43
Speaker 1: listen to me when I would talk about him in
20:44
Speaker 1: the meeting. And so for me, coming from Kentucky, mid
20:48
Speaker 1: western girl, I had a dream here as this kid,
20:51
Speaker 1: he had a dream, and so we really bonded in
20:55
Speaker 1: really building his career with me, him and his mom.
20:58
Speaker 1: That really spearhead did the work to launch him as
21:02
Speaker 1: an artist and and and so there was this trust
21:06
Speaker 1: factor that he had for me as his marketing recortive,
21:09
Speaker 1: as his friend and you know, Rashan, you have to
21:12
Speaker 1: have some key people you trust when you're an artist,
21:16
Speaker 1: and and that was critical. And for him, he was
21:18
Speaker 1: at this point an eighteen year old, still a kid.
21:21
Speaker 1: But for me, I knew my time that was faced
21:24
Speaker 1: was over. And so I had to make the really
21:27
Speaker 1: tough decision that in launching my business, that I would
21:31
Speaker 1: not work with us sure that he would not be
21:33
Speaker 1: a client, which was bananas, because you know, when you're
21:36
Speaker 1: launching a business, you're supposed to leave what a great client,
21:40
Speaker 1: which he would have been a great client. But I
21:42
Speaker 1: knew he needed my friendship more than my marketing exspatise.
21:46
Speaker 1: I knew that he needed someone solid in his corner.
21:50
Speaker 1: And so I've made the decision not to work with him.
21:54
Speaker 1: And you know, that's hundreds of millions of dollars that
21:56
Speaker 1: I passed up. But it was the rightest visions because
22:01
Speaker 1: that was so integral for him to go from child
22:05
Speaker 1: stars to grown man who is now an icon. Because
22:09
Speaker 1: in that journey, if I had remained a part of
22:12
Speaker 1: his team, I would have been one of the many.
22:16
Speaker 1: Everyone in his world was with him. He had nowhere
22:20
Speaker 1: to go to just be him. So we had those
22:22
Speaker 1: tough conversations when a lot of these child stars transition
22:27
Speaker 1: and they don't have anyone that's rooted and who there
22:29
Speaker 1: are as a man or a woman, and they make
22:32
Speaker 1: really challenging decisions that the public then gets succeed. Well,
22:36
Speaker 1: was usher. I used to say him all the time,
22:39
Speaker 1: I'm more concerned with you the man than he's a brand.
22:42
Speaker 1: And so I was able to stand in a place
22:44
Speaker 1: in his life where he could make really solid decisions
22:47
Speaker 1: because he had someone in his corner who wasn't making money,
22:51
Speaker 1: genuinely loved him, and it wasn't For me as a
22:53
Speaker 1: business woman, it was a very tough decision, because you know,
22:57
Speaker 1: I was there was my money that was like from
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Speaker 1: the table. But for me as a woman and as
23:02
Speaker 1: a person, it has been priceless, our relationships has been priceless.
23:07
Speaker 1: And then here was almost twenty five years later, he writes,
23:10
Speaker 1: before that really shares the journey of why the message
23:14
Speaker 1: of exponential living is so important. Awesome, Now, that was fantastic.
23:20
Speaker 1: Now let me share my little bit of story because
23:22
Speaker 1: it's very similar to that, because in ninety four, you know,
23:26
Speaker 1: Steve and I was on ABC's Me and the Boys.
23:30
Speaker 1: Um show was a hit on ABC, but ABC counseled
23:34
Speaker 1: the show. And so I always tell people that Robert
23:38
Speaker 1: Townsend rescued my writing career and brought me on parenthood
23:42
Speaker 1: and that enabled me to become an independent writer. Steve
23:45
Speaker 1: brought me into television as a sitcom writer. But Robert
23:49
Speaker 1: Townsend saved my career because he gave me a allowed
23:52
Speaker 1: me to diversify. I wasn't under Steve's my brother, very
23:55
Speaker 1: similar to what you just said with us. Now what
23:57
Speaker 1: Steve came back on TV with Steve Harvey Show. That
24:01
Speaker 1: was a tough decision for me to make. Do I
24:03
Speaker 1: stay independent and try to build my resume and try
24:06
Speaker 1: to build my resume this is important, or go back
24:10
Speaker 1: under the Steve Harvey umbrella, which had been my only credit.
24:14
Speaker 1: And that decision I made was to say, I'm gonna
24:16
Speaker 1: trust rou Sean McDonald just like you went, I'm gonna
24:19
Speaker 1: trust Sherry Riley. I'm gonna go out there and you go,
24:23
Speaker 1: who showing your podcast yourself hundreds of hundreds of thousands
24:26
Speaker 1: of dollars. Yeah, but I also wanted to build a brand,
24:29
Speaker 1: and even back then when the word brand wasn't being
24:32
Speaker 1: thrown out there, you understood that you had to you
24:34
Speaker 1: had to build who you were first. And by building
24:37
Speaker 1: who you were first, there's a high level of respect
24:40
Speaker 1: in your relationship, which is gonna carry a lot further.
24:43
Speaker 1: Same thing with Steve. Then, many years later, two thousand
24:46
Speaker 1: and I started managing him and the rest is history.
24:48
Speaker 1: But I started managing him because he saw the work
24:51
Speaker 1: that I had accomplished without him. That's why sometimes you
24:54
Speaker 1: gotta say no before you say yes. If you got
24:57
Speaker 1: to step away in order to get the respect act.
25:00
Speaker 1: And when you look at my resume and I'm able
25:02
Speaker 1: to step away from him, now you look at my resume.
25:05
Speaker 1: A body of work is not just a body of
25:07
Speaker 1: worker just Steve Harvey. It's a body where it's a career.
25:10
Speaker 1: And so when I look at Sherry's career, while I'm
25:12
Speaker 1: excited to have on the show, her body of work
25:15
Speaker 1: is a career. You know, when you start ludicrous, Will Packer,
25:20
Speaker 1: Boris Kojo, Eric Parker, you know there are different The
25:25
Speaker 1: key A Dult from Louisville, Peerless price Out, the University
25:29
Speaker 1: of Tennessee first round draft pick. Come on now, came
25:32
Speaker 1: from Buffalo all the way down to Atlanta to catch them.
25:35
Speaker 1: Rise up. That's not people on your resume. That's just
25:39
Speaker 1: a few of those people on your resume. That's why
25:41
Speaker 1: I know it's important that we keep building this relationship
25:44
Speaker 1: like that. Yes, And and that was so she you know,
25:50
Speaker 1: on the back end, because I should try for five
25:53
Speaker 1: years for me to still work with him, and he
25:56
Speaker 1: finally one day, he finally got it, and it was
25:59
Speaker 1: probably ten years later, and it was just what you said.
26:02
Speaker 1: He was like, Sherry, the one of the reasons I
26:05
Speaker 1: have so much respects to you beyond just our personal
26:08
Speaker 1: relationship is exactly what he said. He was like, you
26:12
Speaker 1: have never stood on my name to accomplish anything. He
26:17
Speaker 1: was like, and you, of all people could, He was like,
26:19
Speaker 1: you're the one person could, he said, but you never had.
26:23
Speaker 1: And he was able to see the work that I
26:26
Speaker 1: put into just being a woman of integrity. And that
26:30
Speaker 1: was what was so key for me, is I really
26:32
Speaker 1: wanted to always end this, you know, extremely challenging entertainment
26:36
Speaker 1: industry to always stand for integrity. And that's why something
26:39
Speaker 1: you said at the very beginning of this call means
26:42
Speaker 1: everything to me. And you said your body of work
26:46
Speaker 1: truly represents who you are, and that Rashaant, that was
26:50
Speaker 1: what I committed to just being. You know, like I
26:52
Speaker 1: said with my dad and his impact is in this
26:55
Speaker 1: entertainment industry. I always wanted my integrity to walk in
26:58
Speaker 1: the door before I did, and my body of work
27:01
Speaker 1: to then represent that. And so thank you for that,
27:03
Speaker 1: because you're not even knowing it said something so powerful
27:07
Speaker 1: for me, and I appreciate that. I appreciate you, and
27:10
Speaker 1: that's why I read your body of work because you're
27:13
Speaker 1: more than the introl your body of work. And when
27:16
Speaker 1: you're striving to let people understand why this this young
27:19
Speaker 1: lady talking to me, Why Sean McDonald have on the
27:23
Speaker 1: show because of our body of work, a lot is
27:25
Speaker 1: effected me. It is a body of work that I
27:28
Speaker 1: can share a story that is very similar to her change,
27:31
Speaker 1: and that's a lot. You know, when you can start
27:34
Speaker 1: just walking in the room and you affect so many people,
27:37
Speaker 1: that means that when you're communicating with people, you have
27:39
Speaker 1: an open understanding of how they can be successful too.
27:42
Speaker 1: That's why I wanted you on the show. Tell people
27:44
Speaker 1: how they can reach out to you to get the
27:46
Speaker 1: Exponential Living book because I'm gonna have you on back
27:48
Speaker 1: on the show to a t And I've already had
27:51
Speaker 1: a side conversation that we're gonna talk during the Christmas break. Yes,
27:55
Speaker 1: that I'm looking so forth to it. I am. My
27:58
Speaker 1: website is sharing Hiley dot com s h E R
28:02
Speaker 1: I R I L E Y. That's also my social
28:05
Speaker 1: media handles Instagram and Twitter, Sherry Wiley dot com. And
28:09
Speaker 1: the book is available everywhere e books, audio books and
28:13
Speaker 1: heart Coovers souls so you can get it on audio
28:16
Speaker 1: books all of us dis the individuals that are integrating
28:19
Speaker 1: UM and as well as e books for those of
28:21
Speaker 1: us who want a the digital version and then every
28:24
Speaker 1: Bonds and Noble anywhere where Heart Covers are sold. UM
28:28
Speaker 1: And thank you so much. I've definitely appreciated this conversation
28:31
Speaker 1: and looking forward to our faith to face before the
28:33
Speaker 1: top of the year. Right, invite you bry the all
28:35
Speaker 1: see you meet my wife you know, and I bring
28:37
Speaker 1: your husband and we're gonna far just gon be long
28:40
Speaker 1: term sharing. I really appreciate you don't make money to
28:43
Speaker 1: give in, Yes, appreciate you. Thank you for coming on
28:48
Speaker 1: the show. Money Mike conversations. Be right back Leila Lee.
28:51
Speaker 1: Obviously Leila a list. It's the boxers. We had those
28:54
Speaker 1: boxing gluble zone. Leila leaves. Want to make conversation to
28:58
Speaker 1: right back. Rachean McDonald, Hi, ra Sean McDonald. Fack, she's
29:09
Speaker 1: a hole. Let me get right to her. My next
29:11
Speaker 1: guest is a wife, mother, the daughter of the greatest
29:16
Speaker 1: Muhammad Adli. She's also an undefeated world boxing champion and
29:21
Speaker 1: fitness expert, a Cooper author, and the host of Homemade
29:24
Speaker 1: Simple on own network. Please work with the money making
29:27
Speaker 1: conversation later, I'll leave. Hello. How you doing this, Ali?
29:35
Speaker 1: I'm doing wonderful. How are you doing? Or you know,
29:37
Speaker 1: I see you on TV? You stay on TV, which
29:39
Speaker 1: is a good thing, right every time I see Yes
29:41
Speaker 1: said this curious, talented, you have a personality that's so engaging.
29:46
Speaker 1: And so you have this new show and I you know,
29:49
Speaker 1: I went online. I won't watched eight episodes of Wow,
29:52
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. Yeah, eight episodes and and
29:55
Speaker 1: uh and first of all, before I started just babbling
29:58
Speaker 1: about the show, telling body from your perspective, what is
30:02
Speaker 1: home made Simple? Two? Sisum three work Home Everybody and
30:07
Speaker 1: his word Made Simple, where she's the host and just
30:10
Speaker 1: on the Oprah Winfrey Network, is on Saturday at nine am. Yes,
30:15
Speaker 1: so homemade Temples. The show has actually been on for
30:18
Speaker 1: uh six seasons. This is seven seasons. I'm a new host.
30:22
Speaker 1: Or we do as we go into people's homes. People
30:24
Speaker 1: were very deserving. It's always like a backstory there that
30:27
Speaker 1: we share, uh now with me being the host and
30:30
Speaker 1: I going in with the designer and a carpenter and
30:32
Speaker 1: we make over a room for them, surprising them. And
30:35
Speaker 1: I also get in the kitchen kitchen with them and
30:37
Speaker 1: show them how to cook um some recipes and holes
30:40
Speaker 1: and recipes for their family. So it's been a lot
30:42
Speaker 1: of fun. So the show went from half an hour
30:44
Speaker 1: to an hour, which gives us more time to actually
30:47
Speaker 1: share some of the amazing stories of the cast of
30:50
Speaker 1: the people that are on the show. Okay, as a fan,
30:53
Speaker 1: as a producer, let me tell you what I loved
30:55
Speaker 1: about the show. First of all, you know the show
30:59
Speaker 1: have you crime? In the beginning, you know they set
31:02
Speaker 1: it up by introducing you to the family, the Worthy family,
31:06
Speaker 1: and you know that that approach is really cool because
31:11
Speaker 1: it got me hoo reach on eight episodes well, I
31:14
Speaker 1: guess what, you loved me. You got me hooked. You know,
31:20
Speaker 1: you meet the family. I met the family young lady
31:22
Speaker 1: with the cold cancer. Uh, the made the patio where
31:27
Speaker 1: her husband was dead when they had all the all
31:30
Speaker 1: the set up all those years they've been married forty
31:33
Speaker 1: nine years, you know, he had died. In saw that show.
31:37
Speaker 1: I saw the show where you know, they had the
31:39
Speaker 1: kids and it was homeschool and they had one bathroom
31:42
Speaker 1: and you know, the kitchen table and everything was the same.
31:45
Speaker 1: I met the Bacon Bits, you know, I saw that show,
31:48
Speaker 1: the Bacon Bits, and each one of these episodes, I
31:51
Speaker 1: enjoyed it because I was engaged with the whole process.
31:55
Speaker 1: And one of another reason I enjoyed the show, Layla,
31:59
Speaker 1: was the fact that your your designers, I know, Jonathan's
32:03
Speaker 1: I think is consistently on the show, but your designers
32:06
Speaker 1: were different, and it gave I thought a good point
32:09
Speaker 1: of view changed for you and I wasn't looking at
32:12
Speaker 1: the same people all the time. You think that's you
32:14
Speaker 1: think that's a key to to to to the show
32:17
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, I definitely think it's nice to switch
32:20
Speaker 1: up the designers because you know, for the viewers, it
32:23
Speaker 1: gives them something different. You don't always know exactly what
32:26
Speaker 1: to expect. You have your few constants that you can
32:28
Speaker 1: depend on, but then something changes, you know, along ways
32:31
Speaker 1: for people whose homes that we're doing, and we have
32:33
Speaker 1: two carpenters, um, Jonathan and James, and you know, so
32:38
Speaker 1: they switched back and forth. But I think it's nice
32:40
Speaker 1: um to have different designers with different styles as well,
32:45
Speaker 1: you know, and master them with the right family so
32:46
Speaker 1: they're actually happy with what they get in the end,
32:48
Speaker 1: you know, you were. I thought it was fun because
32:52
Speaker 1: I felt that you would never you know, not saying
32:54
Speaker 1: you would ever get bored, but it was like there
32:55
Speaker 1: was always a different level of communication with these different designers,
32:59
Speaker 1: and it kept energy up, it kept your curiosity up.
33:02
Speaker 1: And also you can said, you know, I'm sorry, I
33:05
Speaker 1: mean to cut you off now I'm saying, oh yeah,
33:07
Speaker 1: I was just agreeing with you, you you know. For me,
33:09
Speaker 1: uh well, first of all, it was my first season
33:10
Speaker 1: doing the shows. Every time we went to shoot, you know,
33:13
Speaker 1: I said, okay, with want to be like you know,
33:16
Speaker 1: because all the personalities are different, you know, so it
33:19
Speaker 1: makes the show more fun for everybody, I think. And great,
33:22
Speaker 1: now there's a couple of things about yourself, you know
33:25
Speaker 1: in your credit. I wanted to talk about you know,
33:27
Speaker 1: you know, being a fan of yours. I've known you
33:30
Speaker 1: many years. You did the Parkers with me in the
33:31
Speaker 1: episode when you was boxing, and I've always admired your
33:36
Speaker 1: your your professionalism for one, what's always amazing. But when
33:39
Speaker 1: I look at your resume now I was talking about
33:42
Speaker 1: tips or management, managing your time. You want to see
33:45
Speaker 1: the words wife, I see the mom daughter of the
33:48
Speaker 1: greatest fitness expert, cookbook author, host of Homemade Simple. Can
33:54
Speaker 1: we talk about you know, because this show I do
33:56
Speaker 1: money making conversations about getting people tips to the secrets
33:59
Speaker 1: of access and giving them their advice. When you see
34:02
Speaker 1: a person as diverse and multilayered as you, how do
34:06
Speaker 1: you accomplish all these things and basically stay safe? Well?
34:11
Speaker 1: For me, um, you know, it really is about putting
34:14
Speaker 1: your priorities in order. We'll hear that a lot because
34:17
Speaker 1: I have a lot of things that I want to do,
34:19
Speaker 1: and also I also have a podcast, um which I
34:22
Speaker 1: added one more thing was called as you know, a
34:26
Speaker 1: lot of work girl. Now you dinner? Can you get
34:29
Speaker 1: on my show? Can you come on my show? Late
34:32
Speaker 1: now you're dealing with trying to book guests, schedule and
34:36
Speaker 1: you know, editing and all this stuff. So then I thought,
34:39
Speaker 1: what what have I done? What have I done? Now?
34:42
Speaker 1: UM added one more thing. But I think it really
34:44
Speaker 1: comes down to putting your priority in order. And for me,
34:46
Speaker 1: it really started with UM. And I've been doing this
34:50
Speaker 1: was very young, writing out my goals, my short term goals,
34:54
Speaker 1: my long term goals, and then from there mapping out
34:57
Speaker 1: the plan and how I plan to get there. And
34:59
Speaker 1: that gets edited and changed along the way. And you've
35:02
Speaker 1: got to have a good team of people around because
35:04
Speaker 1: nobody that you see and the public is doing it
35:07
Speaker 1: all themselves because it's just simply isn't enough hours in
35:09
Speaker 1: the day. Um, And you gotta learn how to delegate,
35:12
Speaker 1: you know. So for me, like I said, it started
35:16
Speaker 1: with me though, you know, figuring out because I have to.
35:18
Speaker 1: You get a lot of offers, you get a lot
35:20
Speaker 1: of different opportunities, and I got to say yes to everything.
35:23
Speaker 1: You will be all over the place right all right,
35:25
Speaker 1: to choose the things that I'm passionate about right when
35:28
Speaker 1: the going gets tough, and when the work gets hard,
35:30
Speaker 1: I'm passionate enough about it where I'll be willing to
35:33
Speaker 1: do the hard work that it takes because it's not easy.
35:35
Speaker 1: You know, it never is. No no days every easy.
35:38
Speaker 1: Every day I wake up, it's kind of like like, oh God,
35:39
Speaker 1: how am I gonna get everything done? You know? And
35:42
Speaker 1: I usually don't move on to the next day. That's
35:44
Speaker 1: just a story in my life. But um, for the
35:46
Speaker 1: most part, like I said, just knowing what I want
35:48
Speaker 1: to be passionate about, you know, what my goals are,
35:51
Speaker 1: and checking in with that list, you know from time
35:54
Speaker 1: to time because you know, sometimes you know, there can
35:57
Speaker 1: be confusion and you could be unclear and you gotta
35:59
Speaker 1: cut me of things out or at night things and
36:02
Speaker 1: you know, and that's how that's how I stay balance.
36:04
Speaker 1: Now let me ask you this. Now you added and
36:06
Speaker 1: where did your podcast? What exactly is your podcast? We
36:08
Speaker 1: kind of brush through that real quick. So and what
36:10
Speaker 1: your platform is at all? Is it what My podcast
36:13
Speaker 1: is called Layla Ali Lifestyle. It's on podcast one and
36:17
Speaker 1: it's it's also available on iTunes. But pretty much I'm
36:21
Speaker 1: talking about my like health, wellness, parenting. It's it's a
36:26
Speaker 1: holistic wellness, you know, trying to just be um the
36:30
Speaker 1: best that you could possibly be. And it's very broad,
36:32
Speaker 1: you know. So I have a lot of just informational
36:35
Speaker 1: and inspirational conversations. Um. And so what I say is,
36:39
Speaker 1: I'm on my quest to be the best that I
36:41
Speaker 1: can be. So I'm taking my listeners along with me,
36:44
Speaker 1: so I never come off to be I'm an expert.
36:46
Speaker 1: I know everything, you know, I'm learning along the way.
36:49
Speaker 1: I know a lot more about certain things and the
36:51
Speaker 1: average persons. But you know, it's just a place for
36:53
Speaker 1: people to come and share and grow and you know,
36:56
Speaker 1: be inspired. And that's important. And when you when you
36:58
Speaker 1: say those things about you, because you have to have information.
37:01
Speaker 1: The thing I liked about this whole because you have
37:04
Speaker 1: a book coming out of a cookbook coming out in January,
37:07
Speaker 1: and then the show, this show used to be a
37:10
Speaker 1: half hour and naming your cookbook is food for Life.
37:13
Speaker 1: That is that when they added the hour, was it
37:16
Speaker 1: part of the plan to bring your cooking in And
37:19
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna trying I'm trying to get to with
37:21
Speaker 1: that part of the plan. They have the book come
37:22
Speaker 1: out in January. Because you know you're a planner. I've
37:26
Speaker 1: about you. You know your planner. You don't you'll just
37:28
Speaker 1: run about accident. Later, you got an accidental person now
37:32
Speaker 1: ex playing people. How you put that together? And then
37:35
Speaker 1: when we come back from break, we're gonna talk about
37:36
Speaker 1: the actual book. But I know you're you're a strategist,
37:39
Speaker 1: You're a life strategists, explained people. How that worked out? Well,
37:43
Speaker 1: I'm a strategist and my business farmer, and Alobial Garland
37:46
Speaker 1: is a strategist. So what happened is I had already
37:49
Speaker 1: been working on this book for a while. There you
37:52
Speaker 1: go plan. It was already slated to come out in January,
37:56
Speaker 1: and I took I took a step back to the
37:57
Speaker 1: one time I was hosting my coreter the shows, and
38:00
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, I really cannot do the
38:02
Speaker 1: things that I want to do that I'm passionate about,
38:03
Speaker 1: like a book, while I'm posting all these shows. So
38:06
Speaker 1: I cut back on the TV for about eleven months
38:09
Speaker 1: focus on getting my book done. And then when I
38:13
Speaker 1: was done, I looked at and said, oh God, like
38:15
Speaker 1: I need a platform, Like I'm not really you know,
38:18
Speaker 1: how am I gonna sell this book? You know, I
38:19
Speaker 1: need to get back on TV. And I just had
38:21
Speaker 1: a conversation with myself and with God, and I was like, man,
38:23
Speaker 1: bring me an opportunity and so crazy. A few days later,
38:27
Speaker 1: I get you know, Amber called me and says, you
38:29
Speaker 1: know that I got called a call about I possibly
38:32
Speaker 1: doing this show, which I wasn't that familiar with, and
38:36
Speaker 1: they actually on season on the prior seasons. Even though
38:39
Speaker 1: the thirty minute show they had some cooking, it wasn't
38:43
Speaker 1: always consistent. I don't think that everything looks show, I'm
38:45
Speaker 1: not sure about that, but they had different chefs come in.
38:49
Speaker 1: It didn't really fit, you know, they kind of pop
38:51
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. So when they called me to do
38:53
Speaker 1: the show, they weren't even aware that I had a
38:56
Speaker 1: so when I was able to tell them, you know,
38:58
Speaker 1: they already thought I'd be the perfect tone for them
39:00
Speaker 1: exam thing able to tell them she actually cooks and
39:02
Speaker 1: she actually has a cookbook, they were like what wow.
39:07
Speaker 1: And then of course they gave us the opportunity, which
39:09
Speaker 1: was amazing because it's not always that easy to get
39:11
Speaker 1: network to let you promote your own personal stuff. Who
39:14
Speaker 1: may actually we're willing and appreciative about you know, to um,
39:18
Speaker 1: I'm sorry and say they were actually appreciative that I
39:20
Speaker 1: have the book and willing to let me promote it.
39:23
Speaker 1: So every single episodes and I'm canding my book. I
39:25
Speaker 1: know if I do on their website saw the episode,
39:28
Speaker 1: I already know. You know what's a business person that's like,
39:32
Speaker 1: let's go, even come true, let's go, let's go. We
39:34
Speaker 1: come back. We're gonna talk about that book, Food for Life.
39:37
Speaker 1: We're talking more about homemade simple, Layla. I'm proud of you.
39:40
Speaker 1: Thank you for doing my show. We'll be right back
39:43
Speaker 1: talk about you know, because you know I could bake Lala.
39:44
Speaker 1: I don't know you know about that, but your boy
39:46
Speaker 1: is a baker award winning baker. We're gonna come back.
39:49
Speaker 1: We'll talk about more. Rashane McDonald late the Greatest, Hi,
39:57
Speaker 1: Rashane McDonald. I'm back on the office later, Ali. So yes,
40:01
Speaker 1: she's all the Food for Life, which is coming out
40:04
Speaker 1: to Bleak January. Uh, we're hitting bookstores. I'll be one
40:08
Speaker 1: day banner from you, Layters, so I can put it
40:11
Speaker 1: on my social media. Eight percent of my social media
40:14
Speaker 1: followers or female, and I'm sure they will be fans
40:17
Speaker 1: of your cooking post baking pictures all the time on
40:21
Speaker 1: my social media, So food is a big thing on
40:24
Speaker 1: my social media platform. So please engage yourself in my
40:28
Speaker 1: world when that book comes out. Okay, thank you appreciate that. Yeah,
40:32
Speaker 1: because so tell us about you know, because I've seen
40:34
Speaker 1: you cook on the show, and uh, the thing I
40:37
Speaker 1: like about it is that you seem like a natural,
40:39
Speaker 1: seem like you're not stumbling around in the kitchen. You know,
40:41
Speaker 1: some people can just get out, you know, saying you
40:43
Speaker 1: see some of these shows, go you know, you're just
40:45
Speaker 1: doing this show because they gave you the job. You got. Look,
40:48
Speaker 1: you can cook now, you can store out cook because
40:51
Speaker 1: you know you do. You know you're throwing some salt
40:52
Speaker 1: in there, so you know you you want to. People
40:54
Speaker 1: don't menasure everything. You just know by Field that's a cook,
40:57
Speaker 1: you know that, right. Yeah. Well the thing is I've
41:01
Speaker 1: been cooking since songs about nine. Yeah, you're kind of
41:07
Speaker 1: comfortable in the kitchen, you know when you've been cooking
41:10
Speaker 1: for that many years. So, yes, definitely that's why I
41:12
Speaker 1: was able to go on Shooting Network on Chopped and
41:15
Speaker 1: win a couple of times and all that because trust me,
41:17
Speaker 1: with the pressure that's on you when you're cooking in
41:19
Speaker 1: the cooking competition serious two times, know how to go,
41:22
Speaker 1: don't don't don't. Don't. Don't. Let's blow past that so quick.
41:25
Speaker 1: You're a celebrity champ twice, okay, And I know about
41:29
Speaker 1: the own competition, so that's not an easy show to win,
41:32
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Because they put a lot
41:34
Speaker 1: of impromptu things, and they also asked you to get
41:36
Speaker 1: out of your comfort zone on certain certain certain episodes
41:39
Speaker 1: of cooking things like that you have to and you
41:42
Speaker 1: pulled it off twice and that and I definitely out
41:44
Speaker 1: of your comfort zone because you don't know what your
41:46
Speaker 1: rest with your ingredients are and you're not in your
41:49
Speaker 1: own kitchen, and then there's only a certain amount of
41:51
Speaker 1: certain items, so you might have something all planned out
41:53
Speaker 1: and then somebody else took something your need and you
41:56
Speaker 1: know you gotta do it. You start over that alone.
41:59
Speaker 1: It's very mental a lot of people. You gotta be
42:01
Speaker 1: mentally strong, can't. You can't just know how to cook
42:03
Speaker 1: because all kind of sort of things happen. You know
42:05
Speaker 1: that'll throw you off. But it was a lot of fun.
42:08
Speaker 1: But yeah, I've been cooking for for a long time
42:11
Speaker 1: and the thing is that my cooking has changed over
42:13
Speaker 1: the years, and I think just being an athlete, being
42:16
Speaker 1: a mom and knowing what I know about nutrition, Um,
42:20
Speaker 1: I try to take the foods that I love and
42:22
Speaker 1: other people love and make them healthier. Um, so it's
42:26
Speaker 1: not always you know, chuck me. It's easy. It's easy
42:30
Speaker 1: to just cook with a bunch of butter and a
42:31
Speaker 1: bunch of just putting whatever you want the food and
42:33
Speaker 1: make it taste, you know. So you know you got
42:36
Speaker 1: to compare well, you know, because you bake, but that
42:40
Speaker 1: different My blood pressure king right here? Girl? Oh lord?
42:45
Speaker 1: You know the thing is I don't bake. That's one
42:47
Speaker 1: thing because baking, as you know, is a real science
42:50
Speaker 1: to it, and you gotta have your measurements right and
42:53
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And I taught myself how to cook,
42:56
Speaker 1: so baking, I mean, you could teach yourself how to bake,
42:58
Speaker 1: but it's much easier when you have somebody to show
43:00
Speaker 1: you some some basics, some basic But yeah, I never
43:05
Speaker 1: and thank god, I don't know how to bake because
43:06
Speaker 1: I love big goods. So if I knew how to bake, boy,
43:09
Speaker 1: I would just be about seven the pounds. Well you know,
43:12
Speaker 1: the brother just tell you. So you know, even like
43:15
Speaker 1: you said, like I use non salt butter, Okay, No,
43:18
Speaker 1: salt butter. I used two percent milk, so you know,
43:22
Speaker 1: I tried to put that, but it doesn't even change
43:25
Speaker 1: the taste of the food, you know what I'm saying.
43:27
Speaker 1: So so so when I hear you joked, I joked earlier,
43:30
Speaker 1: but I also understand what you're saying is that you
43:33
Speaker 1: can bake tradition. You can. You know you can. You can.
43:35
Speaker 1: You have to ride out that that you know that
43:37
Speaker 1: old You're gonna die when you forty recipes, you know
43:40
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because of the fact that you just
43:42
Speaker 1: piling that greasy and putting that LRD in that and
43:45
Speaker 1: that and that in the greens and all that stuff.
43:48
Speaker 1: So when you say make it a little bit healthier,
43:51
Speaker 1: like I just gave a couple of examples of two milk,
43:54
Speaker 1: I gave a couple of examples of no salt butter.
43:57
Speaker 1: What example of moving your your recipes to a healthier
44:00
Speaker 1: foremat but still maintaining the goodness of it and food
44:03
Speaker 1: for Yeah, what I normally do is it's just there's
44:07
Speaker 1: just some basic items that are just um things that
44:11
Speaker 1: I would stock to pantry with. So I have healthier
44:14
Speaker 1: oils that I would cook with. So coconut oil, avocado oil,
44:18
Speaker 1: grape seed oil. Um, there's so many different oils that
44:22
Speaker 1: you can cook with a high temperature. You can bake
44:24
Speaker 1: with them. You know, Coconut oil has a very distinct flavor,
44:27
Speaker 1: so it does change the flavor of certain things, so
44:30
Speaker 1: some people would not want it. But depending on what
44:32
Speaker 1: you're using for your spices or your seasoning, you can
44:34
Speaker 1: cover it up and ask it really well. But just
44:37
Speaker 1: things like that, Um, different flowers, you know, life flower,
44:40
Speaker 1: almond flower, coconut flour, you know, Kenois flour, and then
44:44
Speaker 1: in theo's ways that you can mix them where you
44:45
Speaker 1: can really um, you know, get the textures that you need.
44:49
Speaker 1: I add, I do a lot of attitudes like my
44:51
Speaker 1: kids meals for example, like I'm making spaghetti, um, you know,
44:54
Speaker 1: and I'm if I and I if I have you know,
44:56
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of time. I'm not always
44:57
Speaker 1: gonna just make my soft fresh. But I can get
45:00
Speaker 1: a really good organic sauce and then I can take
45:02
Speaker 1: vegetables and roast them really quickly, and then I blend
45:06
Speaker 1: them in my blender and then put them into the
45:08
Speaker 1: sauce so that the sauce actually has a lot more
45:11
Speaker 1: fresh vegetables in it. And I'm talking about like zucchini,
45:14
Speaker 1: you know, you're on your cellery, your garlic, all these
45:16
Speaker 1: things that you know, kids aren't gonna eat. A lot
45:18
Speaker 1: of they meet the nutrition from it. I don't even
45:20
Speaker 1: take ground flax seed and put it in things that
45:24
Speaker 1: I do bake and put it in like you can.
45:27
Speaker 1: You can put that in your taco meat. They want
45:28
Speaker 1: it to growth undetected, just to have that extra fiber
45:31
Speaker 1: to keep us using the bathroom like we need to,
45:34
Speaker 1: so we don't right right. And then I just stay
45:41
Speaker 1: away from, you know, if I'm making mac and cheese,
45:44
Speaker 1: even though I know some people like to add, you know,
45:47
Speaker 1: a can of cheese, soup or things like that, I
45:50
Speaker 1: try to stay away from, you know, adding canned items
45:53
Speaker 1: and things with a lot of preservatives in the um.
45:56
Speaker 1: So that's all just kind of bringing it back down
45:59
Speaker 1: to the basic and focusing on cooking whole foods. And
46:02
Speaker 1: you know, but like I said, even something as simple
46:04
Speaker 1: as the oils, because a lot of time people don't
46:07
Speaker 1: realize the oils will clog up, you know. And that's
46:10
Speaker 1: very true. And I think that when I look at
46:11
Speaker 1: your book, as she's on the cover, is a beautiful picture.
46:14
Speaker 1: She's wearing white. Food for Life is on the top.
46:16
Speaker 1: The book comes out of January twenty three. January twenty
46:20
Speaker 1: they write that down. The book comes out, and so
46:23
Speaker 1: can they pre order the book now later? Yeah? The book, Yeah,
46:26
Speaker 1: it is available for pre sales, so people can order
46:28
Speaker 1: it now, but they're not gonna get it until the
46:30
Speaker 1: twenty three. And how would they go about? What? What? What? What?
46:33
Speaker 1: What would they go Amazon? Go to Amazon, go to
46:36
Speaker 1: Barnes and Noble, and then you just place your order
46:38
Speaker 1: and then it will it'll let you know. And I'm
46:40
Speaker 1: going to be still I'm putting together a pre sale
46:43
Speaker 1: and centers. Okay, people who ordered the book they want
46:46
Speaker 1: to send, they'll be sending in their poots to purchase
46:49
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna provide all the information and I'm gonna
46:50
Speaker 1: give them my plan that I'm putting together right now,
46:53
Speaker 1: which is going to be like a seven day you know,
46:56
Speaker 1: we book. You are a flad a look after the holidays,
47:04
Speaker 1: everybody is ready to get back in order. You're gonna get,
47:08
Speaker 1: including myself, resolutions come out. The book to be at
47:12
Speaker 1: the top of the line with your resolutions. Now, with
47:14
Speaker 1: that being said again, when when you get that plan together,
47:18
Speaker 1: reach it. Tell your PR people, reach out to my
47:20
Speaker 1: PR people so I can support you to my social
47:22
Speaker 1: media because I know you know your strategist and you
47:25
Speaker 1: don't win by last minute activity. And you noticed the
47:28
Speaker 1: person year. This is when you're gonna grab people. When
47:30
Speaker 1: people looking for that that opportunity to get their life right.
47:34
Speaker 1: Why not Layla? Why not meat? Why a bo my
47:36
Speaker 1: food for life? Come on over here, let me help
47:38
Speaker 1: you out. So let me be, let me, let me
47:39
Speaker 1: champ in your cars on that. Okay, I will definitely
47:43
Speaker 1: will appreciate that. No problem I wanted. We're gonna wrap
47:46
Speaker 1: this up right quick. I want to let everybody know.
47:49
Speaker 1: On the phone. Laila Lee, she's the host of Homemade
47:52
Speaker 1: Central Simple. Homemade Simple is on their own. That's the
47:56
Speaker 1: Oprah one for network. It comes on Saturday nine am.
47:59
Speaker 1: Chall Girl Out is a great show. I've watched eight
48:02
Speaker 1: episodes this weekend. I binged eight episodes. It's it's just
48:06
Speaker 1: the opening the show when they described the families is
48:09
Speaker 1: so engaging. And then when Layla shows up with the
48:12
Speaker 1: with the carpenter and the designer is sold and they
48:15
Speaker 1: just walked through the whole process because the designer has
48:18
Speaker 1: already met with them, so she kind of filling in
48:21
Speaker 1: Layla on the experience before Layla gets there's really a
48:24
Speaker 1: cool set up. And as a producer, I went, this
48:27
Speaker 1: is awesome. And then January just a new book out,
48:30
Speaker 1: a cookbook because she won't chop celebrity chop twice twice,
48:35
Speaker 1: so she knows what she's doing. She's not just slapping
48:37
Speaker 1: her name on a book. If you don't think she
48:39
Speaker 1: can cook, watch Homemade Simple. She has show you she
48:42
Speaker 1: cooks every Saturday, Food for Life. Layla, thank you for
48:45
Speaker 1: calling me a podcast one you can hear show podcast one, Leila, LEI,
48:51
Speaker 1: thank you for giving me time to let the world
48:53
Speaker 1: know how great you are. Thank you so much. I
48:55
Speaker 1: appreciate you having me on all of us to use
48:57
Speaker 1: as well. And happy holiday every holiday. We talk soon,
49:00
Speaker 1: okay byeye Okay, thank you? Yeah? Were you there? Cool?
49:09
Speaker 1: Welcome back to money making conversations. I want to say
49:11
Speaker 1: hi to my boy mostly Garcia, Susan Johnson, my boy
49:16
Speaker 1: r J. Sharon Nicholson as my sister. Everybody mostes you
49:21
Speaker 1: should be in l A Man and Susan Johnson. We
49:24
Speaker 1: met in Atlanta, briefly during the event you met uh
49:28
Speaker 1: Leila Lesh. She is amazing and that book comes out
49:30
Speaker 1: June twenty three. Food for Life Again. Watch a show
49:35
Speaker 1: Homemade Simple on their own network as Oprah one for
49:38
Speaker 1: network every Saturday at nine am. There is one an hour.
49:41
Speaker 1: Our next guest is a strong business sense and leadership policies.
49:45
Speaker 1: They have led him to become a successful capital investor,
49:49
Speaker 1: entrepreneur and the first ever I repeat, the first ever
49:52
Speaker 1: African American license medical marijuana cultivation farm and Clark County
49:57
Speaker 1: in the valley. Please welcome to Money Make Conversation. Mr
50:01
Speaker 1: Larry Smith. Hello, Hello, how are you doing the ball
50:06
Speaker 1: you're doing? Larry? Come on, man, I'm gonna tell you something.
50:09
Speaker 1: You're in a field that just exploding not there. So
50:12
Speaker 1: how did they let an African American man get in
50:15
Speaker 1: this loop? Because this is a bottle money being made
50:17
Speaker 1: over there and everything has been cashed and carried. How
50:20
Speaker 1: were you able to get into this area? You got
50:23
Speaker 1: a lot of questions last, but I want to get
50:24
Speaker 1: that qution off the top. Explain to everyone because you
50:27
Speaker 1: have some companies that are some some states like Colorado
50:31
Speaker 1: that that that have passed America Medical with marijuana. California's
50:35
Speaker 1: another state, and then some states that you can't do it.
50:38
Speaker 1: And then you have some athletes if they take it,
50:40
Speaker 1: they get bad from the league if they smoke marijuana.
50:43
Speaker 1: So you're navigating a real tricky course out there. But
50:47
Speaker 1: you're in Nevada. You have a medical marijuana farm. Explain
50:51
Speaker 1: to people what exactly is that when you say a
50:53
Speaker 1: medical marijuana farm. So so, um, first of all, thank
50:57
Speaker 1: you for having me on the show. Than you're working
50:59
Speaker 1: as a on to be on here, and and uh
51:02
Speaker 1: we we we basically filled out the paperwork. Man, we
51:05
Speaker 1: want afraid. I mean, they make it seem like it's
51:07
Speaker 1: so um, such a big task, and and and don't
51:11
Speaker 1: get me wrong, it was. But but we filled out
51:13
Speaker 1: the paperwork, We had the capital, the funding to do
51:15
Speaker 1: it ourselves, and we and we went ahead and put
51:18
Speaker 1: it in And and don't be surprised in the next
51:21
Speaker 1: three to five years that all fifty states are are
51:24
Speaker 1: going on that route. I mean, obviously it's a financial
51:27
Speaker 1: money maker for the states and the counties and and
51:30
Speaker 1: and we're doing well in Las Vegas so far, in
51:32
Speaker 1: the in the state of Nevada, so far awesome. I
51:34
Speaker 1: know that and I'm gonna just tell you Larry's a
51:38
Speaker 1: humble guy when he makes this statement, because it is
51:40
Speaker 1: hard because like three years ago, I was approached about
51:45
Speaker 1: investing in American medical marijuana process, but Chot pushed me
51:51
Speaker 1: away of the fact that you know, banks weren't accepting
51:53
Speaker 1: your money and where you have to make the transactions.
51:56
Speaker 1: And it may have changed since then. You can educate
51:58
Speaker 1: me because at the time, you know, banks weren't accepting
52:01
Speaker 1: the money. But if you still don't accept it, okay, cool.
52:04
Speaker 1: And so when you made when you went and purchase
52:06
Speaker 1: the marijuana, you had to do it in cash, you know,
52:09
Speaker 1: And so you have to have bodyguards with you to
52:11
Speaker 1: protect you because you got all these large sums of
52:13
Speaker 1: money with you. And I was I just felt uncomfortable
52:16
Speaker 1: with that. So with a lifestyle like that, what how
52:20
Speaker 1: how how are you comfortable with that lifestyle with those rules?
52:23
Speaker 1: I feel so severe even though people making money off
52:26
Speaker 1: of it. Well, you know, it's one of those things
52:30
Speaker 1: that like, uh, you know, there's certain things that you
52:32
Speaker 1: just have to be very private about. So we don't
52:34
Speaker 1: we don't carry we don't carry cash on us obviously. Um,
52:37
Speaker 1: and we have a security team I actually hired. The
52:40
Speaker 1: irony about that is that I hired ex Metro police officer,
52:44
Speaker 1: that's right, and he's Wide officers and they kind of
52:47
Speaker 1: they take care of that for us. But so it's
52:49
Speaker 1: a very that's a you know, just like kind of
52:51
Speaker 1: any other company in a certain way, the certain things
52:53
Speaker 1: you don't want people to know about. So we just
52:55
Speaker 1: keep we we keep that portion of it very private.
52:57
Speaker 1: On what we do with the funds um. Listen, you
53:01
Speaker 1: know that's once again there's a big stigma. Like listen,
53:03
Speaker 1: cash is um. You know, you can spend your cashes,
53:06
Speaker 1: but the moment be cashing the banks, the banks stopnot
53:13
Speaker 1: your cap okay, don't get you know, but but you
53:17
Speaker 1: know the banks um, obviously they have an issue with it. Now. Um,
53:20
Speaker 1: there's a lot of banks to say, you know that
53:21
Speaker 1: they'll take it and then they then they close you
53:23
Speaker 1: down once you once they realize what's going on. But
53:26
Speaker 1: you know that that's the headache part about this business
53:28
Speaker 1: is that you know that the that you know how
53:30
Speaker 1: to pay your bills. But listen, we go in the
53:32
Speaker 1: Envy Energy and if the bill is seven thousand, we
53:35
Speaker 1: you know, we might take them seven thousand cash and
53:38
Speaker 1: they take it. That's the fun part. And the other
53:40
Speaker 1: irony invited this, and we gonna pay our taxes. We
53:43
Speaker 1: have to take that to the I R S and
53:45
Speaker 1: they take it cash. And when I've seen you know,
53:48
Speaker 1: I'm just getting started up, but I've seen companies going
53:50
Speaker 1: there with you know, half a million dollars in tax
53:53
Speaker 1: and you can take it. And that's an amazing part
53:55
Speaker 1: of your business. Because I commend you because there's a
53:58
Speaker 1: certain amount of strength and courage because first of all,
54:02
Speaker 1: not everybody is allowed to get into the game, and
54:04
Speaker 1: when you get out of the game, you know, that's
54:06
Speaker 1: a certain way you have to do business, and you
54:08
Speaker 1: have to be willing to do the business. And that
54:10
Speaker 1: literally to my first question, tell us about your entrepreneur journey,
54:14
Speaker 1: you know, to where you're at right now, because there's
54:17
Speaker 1: a lot of stuffs of courage they got you here.
54:20
Speaker 1: Just just break down some of the barras that you've
54:22
Speaker 1: had to break down over the years to be able
54:24
Speaker 1: to say, hey, I'm one of the few right now,
54:27
Speaker 1: one of the first right now. So so, you know,
54:30
Speaker 1: being in Nevada, um, you know, it's it's uh, it's
54:34
Speaker 1: a very interesting state. Um. You know, you know, you
54:37
Speaker 1: look back at the mob days, everyone thinks that the mob,
54:40
Speaker 1: you know, they were in they ran the uh the casinos,
54:42
Speaker 1: which which back into day they did that control. But
54:45
Speaker 1: there were some other people that I felt like really
54:47
Speaker 1: were in the the mobl I feel like, well, that's
54:50
Speaker 1: the Mormon's right in the mob. Let me you know
54:51
Speaker 1: the casinos back in the day. It's kind of interesting
54:54
Speaker 1: how Nevada's um shape um I was kind of taking force.
54:57
Speaker 1: But for me, I started off my entree entree spit
55:00
Speaker 1: very young. I was sixteen years old. I was betting.
55:03
Speaker 1: I was betting sports a sixteen. That was That's the
55:05
Speaker 1: funny thing about I was. I was literally going at lunchtime.
55:09
Speaker 1: I asked some friends, who's who's uh whose father was
55:12
Speaker 1: a professional gambler. So I got somehow I got attached
55:15
Speaker 1: to them, and I would leave at lunch and I
55:16
Speaker 1: wouldna make sports bets and you know, people arriving with
55:19
Speaker 1: your gambling, and I'm like, well, you know, the way
55:21
Speaker 1: I looked at it is I switched everything up and I, um,
55:25
Speaker 1: I took my It wasn't gambling to me, it was
55:27
Speaker 1: it was a business for me. I mean literally, I
55:29
Speaker 1: bought my first car from betting sports UM and I
55:33
Speaker 1: went on to create UM. You know, I'm considered probably
55:36
Speaker 1: one of the best UM sports UM handicappers in baseball,
55:40
Speaker 1: probably in the country. And I did that just by
55:43
Speaker 1: by instead of taking the looking at this gambling, I
55:46
Speaker 1: created a business for it. So for example, I would
55:48
Speaker 1: I would start my betting on Monday, and if I
55:51
Speaker 1: started with ten thousand on Monday, by the time Sunday
55:54
Speaker 1: reached all the games that I betted, if I had
55:56
Speaker 1: twelve thousand dollars, I made two thousand dollars for the week.
55:59
Speaker 1: And in this a little overhead UM and and you
56:02
Speaker 1: know a lot of people take, oh your gambling, you're
56:04
Speaker 1: getting But people gamble every day and don't even realize
56:06
Speaker 1: what they're doing. Like I'm looking at people like in
56:08
Speaker 1: bitcoin right now and they're putting their money in and
56:11
Speaker 1: they don't know where it's going. There, let's slow down
56:15
Speaker 1: many coin. I'm still trying to figure out what people
56:19
Speaker 1: investing in. Yeah, I don't even know the same here.
56:23
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. It's a it's an
56:24
Speaker 1: imaginary currency, right, Yeah, absolutely, I put it in really quick.
56:29
Speaker 1: I made a couple I was I got rotson now
56:31
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on where whereas I know
56:35
Speaker 1: what the Chicago Bulls are gonna look like tonight, right,
56:37
Speaker 1: all right, right, I have an idea how they're gonna
56:39
Speaker 1: be coached. You have an idea how to rate. I mean,
56:41
Speaker 1: so so people look at things and they know you're gambling.
56:43
Speaker 1: But if you structure it right, then then then you
56:46
Speaker 1: can create a business for yourself. Because really, really that's
56:49
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with you, like you're talking. You pay
56:51
Speaker 1: taxes because you are business correct and a lot of
56:54
Speaker 1: people act treat their stigma like if you're a gambler,
56:57
Speaker 1: that's something bad. But that's the business. And that's why
57:00
Speaker 1: wanted you to talk about your entrepreneurship journey because a
57:03
Speaker 1: lot of things that people do their are non traditional
57:06
Speaker 1: and that's a non traditional way to make a living.
57:09
Speaker 1: But the governors, the government still sitting there, they're gonna
57:11
Speaker 1: wear my money where my money right my absolutely, and
57:14
Speaker 1: you don't, if you don't pay, they're gonna shut you down. Absolutely.
57:17
Speaker 1: With sports betting is a lot different than than I'm like, like,
57:20
Speaker 1: I don't play like craps a black jazz. Sports betting
57:24
Speaker 1: is a little bit, a little bit differently. Well, we're trying. Yeah,
57:26
Speaker 1: I guess I would say sports betting is is. Um,
57:29
Speaker 1: they make a lot of money off of every year,
57:31
Speaker 1: and it's one of those things just um, it's uh,
57:34
Speaker 1: it's taxed. I mean, you know. And when I started
57:36
Speaker 1: doing was I started taking my winnings and I started
57:39
Speaker 1: buying houses in my old neighborhood, and I started rebuilding
57:42
Speaker 1: my neighborhood. So so we would take the winnings from
57:44
Speaker 1: that and and go buy a house in the neighborhood,
57:47
Speaker 1: fix it up, put somebody back in there who used
57:49
Speaker 1: to live in the neighborhood and back in the neighborhood.
57:51
Speaker 1: So we started, thank you. So we started, you know,
57:53
Speaker 1: we started doing it that way. So that way we
57:55
Speaker 1: don't lose the money back. We don't just waste the money.
57:58
Speaker 1: We're doing something with the money. As Dame Dash was saying,
58:01
Speaker 1: names with my partners in the cultivation, we we we
58:03
Speaker 1: basically flipped. We basically take it from one thing and
58:05
Speaker 1: investing something else. There's something that's something and especially in
58:09
Speaker 1: our neighborhoods, we wanted to we want to really clean
58:11
Speaker 1: up our neighborhoods and make our neighborhoods um um. Great again.
58:15
Speaker 1: Now with that being said, you know, I love the
58:18
Speaker 1: fact that you first of all, you started a six team,
58:20
Speaker 1: So that was a there was a there was a
58:22
Speaker 1: seed in you where who planted that seed in you
58:24
Speaker 1: to have that empowering ability to say I can do this.
58:28
Speaker 1: I'm a unique because that that's an important to start
58:31
Speaker 1: at that young age. Who who pointed you in the
58:33
Speaker 1: right direction. I'll be honest with you, it was the
58:35
Speaker 1: brothers on the corner because I didn't want to go
58:38
Speaker 1: on the corner. I was like, I gotta do something different.
58:40
Speaker 1: I always wanted to do something. I saw the reaper.
58:43
Speaker 1: I mean I saw people starting off on the block,
58:46
Speaker 1: hustling and and and for me, it was like, you
58:48
Speaker 1: know what, that's a dead end street. Actually it's a
58:51
Speaker 1: dead end like you just did. Even the early Yeah,
58:56
Speaker 1: you start you start seeing these guys. They looked there
58:58
Speaker 1: for a minute and then before you what what was he?
59:00
Speaker 1: Oh he got locked up. Oh he died. You know.
59:03
Speaker 1: So I was like, I don't want to that. That's
59:04
Speaker 1: that's like a no win situation for me. And um
59:07
Speaker 1: I um, I just I went into the sports book
59:10
Speaker 1: one they with my brothers and they and they were betting,
59:12
Speaker 1: and I didn't know what. I don't know what's going on.
59:14
Speaker 1: So I was, you know, I was playing basketball at
59:16
Speaker 1: the time, high school basketball, and I lived up and
59:18
Speaker 1: I was like, man, the bulls are gonna destroy dinner
59:21
Speaker 1: the night. And he was like what And so I
59:23
Speaker 1: he bet it and the bulls end up restoring that night,
59:26
Speaker 1: and so like he was like, man, you know, you
59:27
Speaker 1: did pretty good. I said, you end up winning the ticket.
59:29
Speaker 1: And so the next day I went with him again
59:31
Speaker 1: and I started picking just little little subtle things that
59:34
Speaker 1: I thought were wrong that they put up there. And
59:36
Speaker 1: and really sports betting, and that's kind of what that is.
59:38
Speaker 1: It's it's really your opinion versus someone else's. And if
59:41
Speaker 1: you do enough research, like I said, you treated as
59:44
Speaker 1: a business and not entertainment. That's the that's the problem
59:46
Speaker 1: that most people do. They treat as entertainment and not business.
59:49
Speaker 1: But it's a bit. It's it's the black man's stock market,
59:53
Speaker 1: that's that's the way. Laugh. So but you seem to
59:56
Speaker 1: have a natural instinct for making a decision, and that's
1:00:00
Speaker 1: what Betty is too, or being able to make a
1:00:03
Speaker 1: decision and and then not regret that decision. That you
1:00:07
Speaker 1: make and so so when you when you went into
1:00:10
Speaker 1: the cannabis business, the America medical marijuana business, Okay, that
1:00:15
Speaker 1: had to be a decision had to be made. Now
1:00:17
Speaker 1: you made the decision to get into it, what are
1:00:20
Speaker 1: some of the early roadblock that you didn't encounter? Have
1:00:23
Speaker 1: kind of like went, man, you gotta be kidding me. Well,
1:00:26
Speaker 1: you know, we've always felt shouting ourselves, signing myself, signs
1:00:30
Speaker 1: of my partner. We always felt like there's always been
1:00:33
Speaker 1: a um you know, when you walk in the room,
1:00:35
Speaker 1: there's three hundred people in the room and you're one
1:00:37
Speaker 1: of probably three or four African Americans in the room.
1:00:40
Speaker 1: We've always felt there's been like roadblocks to put in place.
1:00:43
Speaker 1: First of all, the first roadblock that they put up
1:00:45
Speaker 1: was the two hundred fifty dollar liquid assets that you
1:00:47
Speaker 1: had to have. Remember that, I think, and I think
1:00:50
Speaker 1: a lot of people what African Americans, well, we need
1:00:52
Speaker 1: to figure out what we need to understand. This is
1:00:54
Speaker 1: that that you know, they made it seem like you
1:00:57
Speaker 1: personally had to have that and that wasn't the case. Um,
1:01:01
Speaker 1: And what happens is that we as African Americans need
1:01:03
Speaker 1: to pull our money together for that two and get
1:01:06
Speaker 1: in and not be afraid. I mean, but you know,
1:01:09
Speaker 1: we've been smacked around so much in in in in
1:01:11
Speaker 1: in the marijuana business period that um that the we're
1:01:15
Speaker 1: so timid and shy, and I think that and that's
1:01:18
Speaker 1: why you see them stepping up and we're not. They
1:01:20
Speaker 1: don't get harassed like we do. So so so the
1:01:24
Speaker 1: biggest hurdles for us have been excuse, we we put
1:01:27
Speaker 1: up our own building, We designed it, we built it
1:01:30
Speaker 1: from scratch, and our only biggest hurdle we have was
1:01:33
Speaker 1: the power company. That was that. Everything else has been
1:01:35
Speaker 1: smooth sailing. Um. You know, we've represented the state of
1:01:38
Speaker 1: Nevada very well. Um obviously, you know, we we feel
1:01:42
Speaker 1: like we represent the urban black youth of American We
1:01:44
Speaker 1: wanted to show people that we can come in and
1:01:46
Speaker 1: do this on a very professional level and that you know,
1:01:49
Speaker 1: we're not You're not going to be the ones that
1:01:51
Speaker 1: are investigating us, or we're not gonna be selling pounds
1:01:54
Speaker 1: out the back door. I mean, I mean, you know,
1:01:56
Speaker 1: you know, I'm very proud to say like in our
1:01:58
Speaker 1: in our building um of seventy six buildings, we had
1:02:01
Speaker 1: a zero demerit um one of four companies that get
1:02:04
Speaker 1: zero demerits meeting they didn't find anything wrong with our
1:02:06
Speaker 1: building and and and I'm I'm proud of those type
1:02:09
Speaker 1: of things because you know, I know they expect us
1:02:11
Speaker 1: to come in to do something goofy to because Americans,
1:02:15
Speaker 1: you know, that's absolutely, they get the information for seeing in.
1:02:17
Speaker 1: They get the information absolute, you know, absolutely, And you
1:02:20
Speaker 1: know it's always the darker message. You know that, absolutely.
1:02:23
Speaker 1: You know it's just like, but we but we understand
1:02:26
Speaker 1: we represent something bigger. We understand I understand that I
1:02:28
Speaker 1: represent you. So when I go on my meetings, I mean,
1:02:31
Speaker 1: you may not be there with me, but I represent
1:02:33
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that because you understand. You know,
1:02:36
Speaker 1: if a black person see some another person on the news,
1:02:39
Speaker 1: I might as well have shot that person too. And
1:02:41
Speaker 1: you understand that's roll that you play in life and
1:02:44
Speaker 1: being successful especialists, very uh intense business that you And
1:02:48
Speaker 1: we've been right back with more. Larry Smith loving this conversation.
1:02:50
Speaker 1: Not in Nevada because I kind of loves Vegas all
1:02:52
Speaker 1: the time. So are you near Los Vegas? Larry? Oh no, no,
1:02:56
Speaker 1: we right, we did. We We smacked that in the city. Okay, cool,
1:02:59
Speaker 1: come with us. You will see me next time, I
1:03:00
Speaker 1: said at the Skylak when I come to town. Were
1:03:02
Speaker 1: right hap more Larry Smith talking about his career as
1:03:05
Speaker 1: a visionary and the man makes a decision, he sticks
1:03:08
Speaker 1: by it. I wanted to talk about that to my
1:03:11
Speaker 1: listeners because a lot of times we make decisions and
1:03:13
Speaker 1: we regret it. You can't regret something that was good
1:03:17
Speaker 1: for your life just because he didn't turn out. I'll
1:03:19
Speaker 1: be right back with more money Making Conversation with Larry
1:03:26
Speaker 1: Hides for Sean McDonald. I'm the host of Money Making
1:03:28
Speaker 1: Conversation on the phone. I got my man Larry Smith.
1:03:32
Speaker 1: He's the first ever African American licensed in medical marijuana
1:03:35
Speaker 1: cultivation phe and Clark County, Nevada. How you doing, Larry?
1:03:39
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm gonna find my friend Larry. Before
1:03:42
Speaker 1: I left, I wanted to uh talk about decisions and
1:03:46
Speaker 1: I noted that your personality, I feel reason you're successful
1:03:51
Speaker 1: because you're willing to make a decision and stick by it.
1:03:54
Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't know how to do that.
1:03:56
Speaker 1: Can you tell them, um the value and U and
1:04:01
Speaker 1: making that decision and then sticking to it. You know,
1:04:05
Speaker 1: it goes back to the to the to the sports
1:04:08
Speaker 1: betting for me and and and you know when you
1:04:10
Speaker 1: when you're making a bet, it's a risk. So so
1:04:14
Speaker 1: so you learned really quick in sports betting that that
1:04:17
Speaker 1: those risks you make them quick, and you live by
1:04:20
Speaker 1: them and you die by them. And so I think
1:04:22
Speaker 1: the sports betting truly has helped me in business because, um,
1:04:26
Speaker 1: I don't If I have a great feeling about something
1:04:29
Speaker 1: or an intuition, I roll with it and whether I
1:04:32
Speaker 1: want to lose, listen, I don't have any regrets about it.
1:04:35
Speaker 1: Um I take the shot. I would. I would much
1:04:38
Speaker 1: rather take the shot than not to take the shot
1:04:41
Speaker 1: and to look up and go two years later, goo, man,
1:04:43
Speaker 1: I should have did that, sir, you know, and that's
1:04:46
Speaker 1: when you know win to lose. I mean, you gotta
1:04:48
Speaker 1: take the shot. I mean, you can't win if you don't.
1:04:50
Speaker 1: If you don't, if you don't shoot, you know, you
1:04:52
Speaker 1: don't shoot. Now, use the word intuition. You know a
1:04:55
Speaker 1: lot of people use worth faith going out on you know,
1:04:58
Speaker 1: I use word intuition. When when I hear the word intuition,
1:05:01
Speaker 1: it seems like it's more to it than jest, just
1:05:04
Speaker 1: a just a just Uh's instinct. It means that you're
1:05:07
Speaker 1: you're putting together You're put together a series of information
1:05:12
Speaker 1: that you pulled together a real quick and go. You know,
1:05:14
Speaker 1: somebody feel this is the right decision to make that
1:05:17
Speaker 1: that that's that's really important And how did you gain
1:05:20
Speaker 1: that skill set? Because your intuition is tied to instinctive
1:05:24
Speaker 1: information that you know how to pull together to make
1:05:27
Speaker 1: that decision for the moment. Like you said, a lot
1:05:29
Speaker 1: of people, you know, they take people days to make decisions.
1:05:31
Speaker 1: It seems to me like it comes together rather quickly
1:05:34
Speaker 1: for you. You know, what I'll do is, um, you
1:05:37
Speaker 1: know a lot of times when people bring certain things
1:05:39
Speaker 1: to me, I'll sleep on it and then I'll go
1:05:42
Speaker 1: from that perspective. But intuition, I mean, you know, once
1:05:46
Speaker 1: again we go back to being on the block. So
1:05:47
Speaker 1: when I was younger, you know, you you you you know,
1:05:50
Speaker 1: I would go sit in the corner and there would
1:05:51
Speaker 1: be something you know, it's just something not right about.
1:05:53
Speaker 1: Let's let me get out of here, right, you know.
1:05:55
Speaker 1: And you know I always tell people you gotta listen
1:05:57
Speaker 1: to that, and a lot of people don't listen to that.
1:06:00
Speaker 1: Name leave the corner and you find out a man
1:06:01
Speaker 1: that came over there and they shot. You know, you're like, okay,
1:06:04
Speaker 1: we'll up on the second here. Like I was just there,
1:06:06
Speaker 1: something told me to leave. How many dogs barking over there?
1:06:09
Speaker 1: Why them dogs talking over there? Why then't barking to day?
1:06:14
Speaker 1: Okay exactly. Yeah. So it's one of those things that
1:06:17
Speaker 1: it's just listening to your in the self. I mean,
1:06:20
Speaker 1: I always say that when you close your eyes and
1:06:21
Speaker 1: you listen to, the soul knows that it's being aligned
1:06:23
Speaker 1: to and I and I feel I feel like that
1:06:26
Speaker 1: a lot of times that like we don't look, we
1:06:28
Speaker 1: don't trust ourselves. And that's another thing in in African
1:06:31
Speaker 1: American culture, in business, we don't trust ourselves. Prime example
1:06:35
Speaker 1: that is when um, when we started, they were trying
1:06:37
Speaker 1: to go to Colorado. These guys are experts in this.
1:06:39
Speaker 1: Why my partner, Sean, he's a you electrician, very smart brother,
1:06:43
Speaker 1: graduated top of his class, and here we are listening
1:06:47
Speaker 1: to them when he had the answers. And that's sometimes
1:06:49
Speaker 1: that and something kept telling me we don't need to
1:06:51
Speaker 1: listen to them. We can do this ourselves. We don't
1:06:53
Speaker 1: there's no need. We need to have a little bit
1:06:55
Speaker 1: more faith you that we're faith in ourselves. We need
1:06:57
Speaker 1: to trust in ourselves and believe in ourselves, and and
1:07:00
Speaker 1: and and go win and lose, take the shot. But
1:07:03
Speaker 1: the great thing about you, this is what I love
1:07:05
Speaker 1: about you. You you you don't you don't deny the
1:07:09
Speaker 1: natural instincts of street survival that you have been brought
1:07:15
Speaker 1: up into. You know, I come from an inner city.
1:07:17
Speaker 1: I'm very familiar with what you're talking about. And so,
1:07:19
Speaker 1: but did you educated yourself in college? You have a degree? Okay,
1:07:23
Speaker 1: so so you respect the process of higher education or
1:07:27
Speaker 1: extended education. And then but you don't deny you the
1:07:32
Speaker 1: decision has to come through you. Now, would that being said, exactly,
1:07:37
Speaker 1: how does the process of running American medical marijuana farm?
1:07:42
Speaker 1: How does that get to the customer? How does that?
1:07:44
Speaker 1: How do you buy stuff from you? How do you
1:07:47
Speaker 1: get stuff get distributed by you? Can you explain that
1:07:49
Speaker 1: process to my listeners? Yeah? So what happens is that
1:07:53
Speaker 1: we actually take the cannabis and we grow it in
1:07:56
Speaker 1: our facility, sir. And then what we what we do
1:07:59
Speaker 1: is then we then we then we package everything up
1:08:01
Speaker 1: in our facility. It goes through an extensive testing process
1:08:04
Speaker 1: here in nevadom and then we take that, we take
1:08:07
Speaker 1: that and then we sell it directly to the dispensaries
1:08:10
Speaker 1: and the whole cell price and they go ahead and
1:08:11
Speaker 1: sell it to the retail level. So so we we
1:08:14
Speaker 1: can't sell it to anybody off the street. We have
1:08:16
Speaker 1: to literally sell it to license dispensaries here in the
1:08:19
Speaker 1: states of Nevada. Okay. So so when people have people
1:08:23
Speaker 1: on my Facebook problem, we're gonna ride by that and
1:08:26
Speaker 1: see Larry right right, ride by that and get shot.
1:08:30
Speaker 1: That's what you go out, all right, So you know,
1:08:37
Speaker 1: we just sell it directly to a dispensary. Okay. So
1:08:40
Speaker 1: so that's how the process works. Now you now when
1:08:43
Speaker 1: you were saying that, because it's really interesting and and
1:08:46
Speaker 1: and the and the so, so you're your your process
1:08:50
Speaker 1: and you grow it your processes. Then it's tested to
1:08:53
Speaker 1: make sure it meets the standard, and then it's distributed.
1:08:57
Speaker 1: Now do you have to get on the Can you
1:08:59
Speaker 1: sell outside the state of Nevada? Are you just limited
1:09:02
Speaker 1: to sell it and inside the state of Nevada? No? No,
1:09:04
Speaker 1: I don't want to see Jeff Sessions. So anytime you sell,
1:09:06
Speaker 1: if you've got me crost line, that's trafficking at that point,
1:09:10
Speaker 1: so we can't sell. We can't sell. Um, you won't
1:09:13
Speaker 1: catch me on the news. You're not gonna catch I
1:09:15
Speaker 1: love that. I don't know who listen to this radio show?
1:09:19
Speaker 1: All right, yo yo ya yoya, No, no trafficking. Everything
1:09:22
Speaker 1: is done within the state. We have to stay within
1:09:24
Speaker 1: the state of Nevada. As long as I stay within
1:09:27
Speaker 1: the state, that then we can And as long as
1:09:29
Speaker 1: they're a legal dispensary, UM, then then um that we
1:09:32
Speaker 1: can sell. And then for us, our next step is
1:09:34
Speaker 1: to go ahead and apply for the license to get
1:09:36
Speaker 1: a dispensary, and then that way we're vertically integrated. We
1:09:40
Speaker 1: can sell it to ourselves. And in that way, it's
1:09:42
Speaker 1: another way for us to be able to not be
1:09:44
Speaker 1: knocked out of the game, because I still feel like
1:09:47
Speaker 1: they're still trying to keep it a good old boys network.
1:09:50
Speaker 1: Is it's it's it's like all it's like r like
1:09:54
Speaker 1: you said, it's like oil, you know, you know, dude,
1:09:56
Speaker 1: that's when you can when you can control, you know,
1:10:00
Speaker 1: the all prices, and eventually you'll be able to control.
1:10:03
Speaker 1: Like you said, this is gonna be nationwide. And when
1:10:05
Speaker 1: that happens, they're gonna be controlling the prices. So that's
1:10:08
Speaker 1: what I'm proud of the fact that you're able to
1:10:10
Speaker 1: get in and start your battle now because they at all,
1:10:14
Speaker 1: they're not letting anybody in. They're not letting anybody in.
1:10:17
Speaker 1: It's just like we encourage the African Americans to man, man, listen,
1:10:22
Speaker 1: pull your money together in your states, get your groups together,
1:10:25
Speaker 1: because that's all they did. I mean, these guys they
1:10:28
Speaker 1: got groups together. They didn't somebody I know, some of
1:10:31
Speaker 1: the guys here in Vegas who who literally were asking
1:10:34
Speaker 1: me for money two months before, and I'm like, well,
1:10:37
Speaker 1: hold on, how did he? How did he? How did
1:10:39
Speaker 1: that happen? And you look up, he's in the group.
1:10:40
Speaker 1: He's in a group of ten guys who one guy
1:10:43
Speaker 1: put in seventy five, another guy put in one, and
1:10:46
Speaker 1: then before you know, they got there to fifty. And
1:10:49
Speaker 1: that way they can start the process. So, I mean,
1:10:51
Speaker 1: we have to stop being afraid. We have to trust
1:10:53
Speaker 1: each other, pull our money together and and and get
1:10:56
Speaker 1: this stuff. This is something that we're really good at anyway,
1:10:59
Speaker 1: you know. And for there to come in and you know,
1:11:01
Speaker 1: for us for them to come in and and to
1:11:03
Speaker 1: dominate like they're doing. It's very discouraging. But the one
1:11:06
Speaker 1: thing I can tell you is that we're not going
1:11:07
Speaker 1: to let them o hustlers, especially you know, especially on
1:11:10
Speaker 1: on on this subject matter. I mean, it's something that
1:11:13
Speaker 1: the African Americans have done. We've been aroused for it,
1:11:15
Speaker 1: We've been we've been put through the ringers for um.
1:11:18
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw the article yesterday with
1:11:20
Speaker 1: they the Georgia players, they had um less than a penny.
1:11:24
Speaker 1: It was the size of a penny and they took
1:11:25
Speaker 1: them to jail for it. So it has to stop them,
1:11:28
Speaker 1: and we got to figure out how to get into
1:11:30
Speaker 1: this control is a lot better. Let's talk about the strains,
1:11:33
Speaker 1: you know, like the strains okay, and theeds a different
1:11:36
Speaker 1: versions of your product, correct, yes, okay, So yeah, so
1:11:41
Speaker 1: it's blain to people. So I'm just trying to educate them.
1:11:43
Speaker 1: And I'm about this because I was so excited to
1:11:45
Speaker 1: get you on this interview because there's always been a curiosity.
1:11:48
Speaker 1: But I know that let people know this is a
1:11:50
Speaker 1: normal business. That that's why I want to break it
1:11:52
Speaker 1: down to this is a business. This is like selling
1:11:55
Speaker 1: just going down and selling cookies, open a bakery or
1:11:58
Speaker 1: opening a brandchside open the mechanics that you just having
1:12:02
Speaker 1: to open up a cannabis medical marijuana. Uh, that's that's right.
1:12:06
Speaker 1: So so the strains are Um, every strain is different.
1:12:09
Speaker 1: And once you get into it, and I wasn't into
1:12:11
Speaker 1: it before until you know, my partner came to me
1:12:13
Speaker 1: and and broke everything down and I start doing the
1:12:15
Speaker 1: research and start touring around and going to places that
1:12:18
Speaker 1: were already had already started and m and so the
1:12:21
Speaker 1: strains are very important. The strange mean a lot. So
1:12:24
Speaker 1: for example, you have strains that have people that can't
1:12:26
Speaker 1: sleep at night, and there are certain strains of cannabis
1:12:28
Speaker 1: that will put you to sleep. There. There are certain
1:12:31
Speaker 1: strains of cannabis. You know a lot of people don't
1:12:33
Speaker 1: understand that a lot of people would cancer. Sometimes they
1:12:36
Speaker 1: can't eat and that's one of the biggest problems to them.
1:12:38
Speaker 1: So they are strains that that that obviously make you eat.
1:12:41
Speaker 1: They are strains that will make you get up and
1:12:42
Speaker 1: move around and be active. Um, there's Sativa's so so
1:12:46
Speaker 1: so that I mean every strain that they're just not
1:12:49
Speaker 1: just a name that they're just naming it. They actually
1:12:52
Speaker 1: do something. I mean, in our research and what what
1:12:54
Speaker 1: what we prought us that was on is that we
1:12:56
Speaker 1: we hope, we hope that you know that you're just
1:12:58
Speaker 1: not smoking it for the fun of we we hope
1:13:00
Speaker 1: that there's a purpose for you you to be um UM.
1:13:03
Speaker 1: In Hell, for example, you have people with lupus, I
1:13:05
Speaker 1: mean they're strange and help with chronic um, chronic pain.
1:13:08
Speaker 1: I mean the government's have known all of these things.
1:13:10
Speaker 1: They've always just kept it tight. I mean the government
1:13:13
Speaker 1: literally has patents on on cannabis strains, so that that
1:13:17
Speaker 1: should tell you a lot about you know, we've been
1:13:19
Speaker 1: kind of deceived, you know, so they know they know
1:13:21
Speaker 1: a lot um and and the strains are. For us,
1:13:25
Speaker 1: we have a lot of high um certiva strains because
1:13:27
Speaker 1: in Vegas that's what the kind of the market call.
1:13:29
Speaker 1: So people want to come here be active um. But
1:13:32
Speaker 1: for us, it will always be medical UM. And we
1:13:35
Speaker 1: want to make sure that by it being medical that
1:13:38
Speaker 1: if you do have an ailment, if you aren't sleeping,
1:13:40
Speaker 1: or you have chronic pain, and we can take that
1:13:43
Speaker 1: level of pain from a ten to or three that day,
1:13:45
Speaker 1: then we feel like we've kind of done our job.
1:13:47
Speaker 1: I mean I'm not sitting I'm not gonna tell you
1:13:48
Speaker 1: that we're we're trying to cure cancer because we're not
1:13:51
Speaker 1: at that level yet. Um. But but if we can,
1:13:53
Speaker 1: if we can give you a better quality of life,
1:13:55
Speaker 1: and that it just matters. And don't let anybody tell
1:14:01
Speaker 1: this is that you have your stoners, you have your
1:14:04
Speaker 1: guys that want to get high as a kite, but
1:14:05
Speaker 1: you have there's a lot of people that truly use
1:14:08
Speaker 1: this for medicine. We have um uh W when we
1:14:11
Speaker 1: put them doing a production license here coming up the
1:14:13
Speaker 1: next two months, and we have candies that that we
1:14:15
Speaker 1: make that um that we feel like they'll be really
1:14:18
Speaker 1: good for PTSD. And and all they do is they
1:14:20
Speaker 1: relax you, They calm you down, You can drive, you
1:14:23
Speaker 1: can do everything, you can function. It has very minimal
1:14:27
Speaker 1: um um T a c and it a lot of
1:14:29
Speaker 1: CBD and and it does it just gives you a
1:14:31
Speaker 1: very common effect or for someone who's normally antsy or
1:14:34
Speaker 1: right or I contend you know, yeah, absolutely, yeah, from
1:14:38
Speaker 1: I go, I want to I want to talk about
1:14:39
Speaker 1: it because it's been a nice journey talking to you
1:14:41
Speaker 1: because the fact that you're you're so normal. And and
1:14:45
Speaker 1: then when I say normal, that's because you're in a
1:14:47
Speaker 1: very intense business, and that seems like an amazing level
1:14:50
Speaker 1: of calmness to you. And when I say that because
1:14:52
Speaker 1: of the fact that when I look at your philanthropic side,
1:14:56
Speaker 1: I want to I want to tell I want you to, Tippy,
1:14:57
Speaker 1: why is that important that you're involved with the Latino
1:15:00
Speaker 1: organization that anger into agacy? Like you said early on,
1:15:04
Speaker 1: he was buying these houses back in the community, fixing
1:15:07
Speaker 1: them up and putting people. Why is that important? Lay?
1:15:10
Speaker 1: Why when it was driving you in that direction? Well,
1:15:14
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know, when I grew up,
1:15:16
Speaker 1: I played Um, I played basketball. I went on to
1:15:18
Speaker 1: play junior college, and I always thought me, you know,
1:15:21
Speaker 1: the thought was, man, I'm gonna make it big and
1:15:22
Speaker 1: be able to get back to my community. And then
1:15:25
Speaker 1: you know, I started realizing you don't have to go
1:15:26
Speaker 1: play basketball the football to be an entertainer to be
1:15:29
Speaker 1: able to give back to your community. And I just
1:15:32
Speaker 1: feel like that, Um, you know, my grandmother used to
1:15:34
Speaker 1: always tell me that you never know when people are
1:15:36
Speaker 1: watching and so, UM, I feel like that's the best
1:15:40
Speaker 1: form of um invitation and flattery is that when people
1:15:43
Speaker 1: are watching you. So I wanted to show people that
1:15:45
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about anything anymore. I want
1:15:47
Speaker 1: to do. So when I said I wanted to start
1:15:49
Speaker 1: buying houses and buying them and putting them back in
1:15:51
Speaker 1: my neighborhood and building and doing them up, that's what
1:15:54
Speaker 1: I started to do. Um. You know, as far as
1:15:56
Speaker 1: giving to the community, there's a lot of stuff that
1:15:58
Speaker 1: I do that I that I put out the look
1:16:00
Speaker 1: me in the stuff that I don't ever want to
1:16:01
Speaker 1: get out there. But um, it's one of those things
1:16:04
Speaker 1: that I wanted to show people that I don't worship
1:16:07
Speaker 1: the money. I worship the people and and and and
1:16:09
Speaker 1: that's a big thing for me is like you know,
1:16:11
Speaker 1: sometimes we start everyone wants to make all this money
1:16:14
Speaker 1: and it just sits there. So for me, I wanted
1:16:16
Speaker 1: to be able to, uh, you know, I wanted to
1:16:18
Speaker 1: I want to be able to do something that that
1:16:20
Speaker 1: you're gonna really when I'm dead and going, you're gonna
1:16:22
Speaker 1: remember and you're gonna be able to pass it on.
1:16:24
Speaker 1: I want you to understand that that this money comes
1:16:27
Speaker 1: into your account and usually leaves right away, so it's
1:16:29
Speaker 1: not yours. So but there but there are but there
1:16:31
Speaker 1: are things you can do to improve your community. There
1:16:34
Speaker 1: are things that you can do, and all you have
1:16:35
Speaker 1: to do is show them you can. You can, you
1:16:38
Speaker 1: can show I built the learning center in my neighborhood
1:16:41
Speaker 1: and it's free, doesn't cost anything. Um, I pay for
1:16:44
Speaker 1: everything over there, and I wanted, I wanted. I don't
1:16:47
Speaker 1: want there to be any more excuses in our community.
1:16:49
Speaker 1: It's free. If you need tutoring your math, it's free,
1:16:52
Speaker 1: if it's if you need English. If I mean it's
1:16:54
Speaker 1: free that we we we we we we keep putting
1:16:57
Speaker 1: a dollar value on things that we really don't have to.
1:16:59
Speaker 1: If allow up pulled together and build those things and
1:17:02
Speaker 1: let us stop depending on other people, the city of
1:17:05
Speaker 1: the county, the grants to start helping us, to start
1:17:08
Speaker 1: helping ourselves, I think as a people will be in
1:17:10
Speaker 1: a much better situation. So I just looked at it like,
1:17:13
Speaker 1: instead of me telling you what I'm gonna do, or
1:17:15
Speaker 1: let's talk about this grant that we're gonna do, let's
1:17:17
Speaker 1: just do it. No no no more, um no no
1:17:19
Speaker 1: no more, no more talking about let's just do it.
1:17:21
Speaker 1: We can do it. We don't we have enough resources
1:17:24
Speaker 1: in our community. I say this because um, in our
1:17:27
Speaker 1: in our when we built our building, we hired all
1:17:30
Speaker 1: African Americans to do the work. So we had a plumber,
1:17:32
Speaker 1: African actor plumber, we had African American drywall were African American. Um.
1:17:36
Speaker 1: The only thing we didn't have as the concrete. But
1:17:38
Speaker 1: but we had our We were able to pay our
1:17:40
Speaker 1: people from our neighborhoods that look like us that we
1:17:43
Speaker 1: weren't working, and they did a great job obviously. And
1:17:46
Speaker 1: then you know, same thing with my homes. We we
1:17:48
Speaker 1: have people. You have people in your neighborhood, electricians, plumbers,
1:17:51
Speaker 1: and we just need to give them a chance and show,
1:17:54
Speaker 1: you know, the honorable and we can do the right thing.
1:17:56
Speaker 1: I have a segment on my social media got seven
1:18:00
Speaker 1: hundred thousand followers called where a spotlight individuals who make
1:18:04
Speaker 1: a difference. I wish you'd do me the honor of
1:18:07
Speaker 1: spotlight you so on Monday's, Um, you know, it's just
1:18:11
Speaker 1: just tell your story with pictures. Um. You just your
1:18:14
Speaker 1: special young man. You're very specially man. I appreciate you
1:18:18
Speaker 1: allow me to tell some of your story because your
1:18:21
Speaker 1: story is way bigger than thirty minutes my friend, and
1:18:23
Speaker 1: I want to honor you by letting people learn more
1:18:26
Speaker 1: about you. In on my social media format. So my
1:18:30
Speaker 1: my team will be contacting you or Dale and we're
1:18:33
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna do something because that that that learning
1:18:35
Speaker 1: center man in the community. Brother, come on, the world
1:18:39
Speaker 1: just needs to know that somebody's out there caring because
1:18:42
Speaker 1: they want to spotlight this what you're doing over with
1:18:44
Speaker 1: G five, let's find like what you're doing over here.
1:18:47
Speaker 1: Larry's speaking to the community. We talked to my friend
1:18:50
Speaker 1: God bless you. Okay, alright, tax side, if you got
1:18:55
Speaker 1: any tax questions, it's the end of the year. You
1:18:58
Speaker 1: know anything you want to learn out a file. She's
1:19:01
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1:19:04
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1:19:08
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1:19:16
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1:19:21
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1:19:24
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1:19:28
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1:19:30
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1:19:37
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1:19:40
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1:19:44
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1:19:49
Speaker 1: I've been responded all the cracking jokes about this cultivation. Uh.
1:19:52
Speaker 1: Moses Garcia has been responding today sharing Ge Nickerson has
1:19:55
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1:19:58
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1:20:00
Speaker 1: the first time I brought on the show, she's with
1:20:02
Speaker 1: one of her business partners, but she talked so much
1:20:04
Speaker 1: I realized I can't ever bring home the show but
1:20:07
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1:20:10
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1:20:13
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1:20:25
Speaker 1: for having me back on Good Good Lord. First of all,
1:20:28
Speaker 1: we get started. How's your mom? How's she doing? Get
1:20:32
Speaker 1: that love, get those prayers out there, every good. She's
1:20:35
Speaker 1: doing well. I appreciate that she's doing well. We're doing good.
1:20:39
Speaker 1: Thank you. Until I said hi, you know, because she
1:20:42
Speaker 1: always said with Shine mcdowald, I'm gonna pray for that boy.
1:20:45
Speaker 1: He's gonna make you. He's gonna get you that baby,
1:20:47
Speaker 1: He's gonna get you there. He's well. The reason I
1:20:51
Speaker 1: brought you on the show again it was tax time,
1:20:53
Speaker 1: but also I wanted to bring out a couple of
1:20:55
Speaker 1: things that that you do that I think it's important
1:20:58
Speaker 1: when people start talking about who I'm too busy, or
1:21:01
Speaker 1: they keep talking about their dreams and they say they
1:21:04
Speaker 1: don't even have time for their dreams, and you seem
1:21:07
Speaker 1: to have mastered the ability to do very significant jobs,
1:21:12
Speaker 1: basically be full time jobs for certain individuals. I just
1:21:15
Speaker 1: filed out the other day by Mary Kay Cosmetics. I
1:21:19
Speaker 1: didn't know about Mary Kay, and so I got to
1:21:21
Speaker 1: start by my Mary Kay stuff from you, you know,
1:21:24
Speaker 1: so you know they know your boy. We start making
1:21:27
Speaker 1: this Marrikay purchases, you know, because you know I'm in
1:21:29
Speaker 1: the business. I bout makeup and stuff like that for
1:21:32
Speaker 1: when I do these shoots and everything. People a line
1:21:34
Speaker 1: of men. You know, they have everything for men as well.
1:21:38
Speaker 1: I don't worry, I could I'm the mayor about what
1:21:41
Speaker 1: I'm buying from. You know, what do you ever shot
1:21:43
Speaker 1: back from Maria, Hey, don't worry about I'm about makeup,
1:21:46
Speaker 1: make up coming up. This old face, this old face.
1:21:50
Speaker 1: Thats the part you need to be covered up. When
1:21:52
Speaker 1: I take you. I got you covered. You'll be my
1:21:56
Speaker 1: Mary Kay person from now on because it always because
1:21:59
Speaker 1: I traveled so much. You know, you can't buy America
1:22:01
Speaker 1: in the stores, and you got to go to a
1:22:03
Speaker 1: representative to get the product. Because I went in to
1:22:05
Speaker 1: Alta Alta and I went and I said, just laid
1:22:08
Speaker 1: on a little too with Merrika. She said, we don't
1:22:10
Speaker 1: say imric sir. I go, okay, I'm sorry. Let me
1:22:13
Speaker 1: get out of here. I'm looking like a crazy person
1:22:15
Speaker 1: right now. So you'll be here for me. So a
1:22:17
Speaker 1: couple of things I want to bring back. You know,
1:22:19
Speaker 1: a fact that you know you're you know you're you're
1:22:21
Speaker 1: you're in the death business. Just said this title out
1:22:24
Speaker 1: like that, full time corporate career plus hours a week?
1:22:28
Speaker 1: How many hours a week? Forty plus hours a week.
1:22:33
Speaker 1: That's write there down, y'all. That's forty plus hours a week. Okay.
1:22:36
Speaker 1: She's also in the beauty salon business, full time service
1:22:41
Speaker 1: law and they have a business supply store. How many
1:22:44
Speaker 1: hours a week is that? Um? And that is one
1:22:48
Speaker 1: good you know when you're a business owner that that
1:22:51
Speaker 1: could be all day, every day. Now I'm not physically
1:22:53
Speaker 1: at the salon because you sent my other three partners,
1:22:56
Speaker 1: but that's their full time careers. UM. But when is
1:22:59
Speaker 1: your own business us your or call every day all
1:23:02
Speaker 1: day there's no days off, but now dedicated hours. I'm
1:23:05
Speaker 1: probably at the salon, you know, maybe five to ten
1:23:09
Speaker 1: hours a week. UM. And then events, of course, we
1:23:12
Speaker 1: have events that we try to you know, be involved
1:23:15
Speaker 1: in the community. So normally if you look at my
1:23:17
Speaker 1: Facebook page, your Instagram plage, yes, I'm out all the time, UM.
1:23:20
Speaker 1: And that's just to promote all the businesses to our
1:23:23
Speaker 1: other business just be Lauren. And then and we talked
1:23:30
Speaker 1: about now let's talk about your your your tax and
1:23:33
Speaker 1: financial business. Yes, so the tax business. Now, of course
1:23:38
Speaker 1: we are full well all year tax UM prepared tax
1:23:43
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1:23:46
Speaker 1: focus on taxes for individuals and small businesses, UM. But
1:23:52
Speaker 1: we are available all year long. And I think when
1:23:54
Speaker 1: people are looking for tax prepares, you don't have to
1:23:57
Speaker 1: use me. Hopefully you do, UM, but let's make sure
1:23:59
Speaker 1: that they're available that when you called them if you
1:24:02
Speaker 1: need help. In October and November, someone answers the phone,
1:24:05
Speaker 1: they replied to your email, they get back to you,
1:24:08
Speaker 1: because you could receive letters from the I R S,
1:24:11
Speaker 1: you know, at the end of the year, and you
1:24:12
Speaker 1: can't just have those tax offices that they're only open
1:24:16
Speaker 1: January to May or they do taxes at home under
1:24:20
Speaker 1: and they might use turbo taxes at home and just
1:24:23
Speaker 1: put self prepared and then when you have an issue,
1:24:26
Speaker 1: you'll never find them again. So I also just caution
1:24:29
Speaker 1: people about choosing their tax prepare wisely. But yes, so
1:24:32
Speaker 1: one day I focused on that a lot of years, um,
1:24:34
Speaker 1: January through May, and then I'm available all year long
1:24:38
Speaker 1: um for other people who are maybe filing later, filing
1:24:41
Speaker 1: with an extension. So so, like I would tell you, so,
1:24:44
Speaker 1: I've never you know, I'm just I have a degree
1:24:46
Speaker 1: in mathematics. But I'm intimidated. I will tell you to
1:24:48
Speaker 1: I'm intimidated when it comes to filing taxes. Why am
1:24:53
Speaker 1: I intimidating? Why? And I'm sure's a lot of people
1:24:56
Speaker 1: out there, like me said, what's that big fear? Well,
1:25:00
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1:25:03
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1:25:07
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1:25:43
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1:25:56
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1:26:11
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1:26:14
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1:26:16
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1:26:19
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1:26:21
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1:26:23
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1:26:25
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1:26:28
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1:26:36
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1:26:39
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1:26:41
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1:26:44
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1:26:47
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1:26:49
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1:26:53
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1:28:24
Speaker 1: As as twenty seven team comes to an end, is
1:28:26
Speaker 1: there anything we can do to affect our taxes for
1:28:29
Speaker 1: this year? UM? I would say so, we have like
1:28:34
Speaker 1: two weeks left for this year, so if you want
1:28:36
Speaker 1: to change your tax situation, so of course, anything we
1:28:39
Speaker 1: can do is try to reduce our taxable income. And
1:28:42
Speaker 1: the way that we can do that is by increasing
1:28:45
Speaker 1: our itemized deduction, which would be to make donations to
1:28:49
Speaker 1: a charity UM, and that everybody could go this weekend
1:28:52
Speaker 1: and clean out your closet while you're on vacation next week.
1:28:56
Speaker 1: Just make sure you get it's a good will the
1:28:57
Speaker 1: Purple Heart, get a receipt. UM. You can also because
1:29:01
Speaker 1: we can write off some of your doctor's bills, hospital bills,
1:29:06
Speaker 1: let me pay some of those bills before the end
1:29:08
Speaker 1: of the year if you're able to. UM. But the
1:29:10
Speaker 1: biggest thing is you can still make donations. And then
1:29:13
Speaker 1: if you're self employed UM, and you need to defer
1:29:16
Speaker 1: some of that income. Maybe you can wait till the
1:29:19
Speaker 1: last week and December to send out invoices, so then
1:29:22
Speaker 1: you get that income next year prepaired tax wise, you
1:29:27
Speaker 1: got to clean out the income or increase our ademized deduction.
1:29:31
Speaker 1: That's what I recommend for the next two weeks. Yeah,
1:29:33
Speaker 1: that's that's really important. You know, if you're self imployed,
1:29:37
Speaker 1: you cannot leave money in that account because they just
1:29:39
Speaker 1: tax it just exactly exact. And that's that's important. Is
1:29:43
Speaker 1: just is sometimes I actually will pay some accounts like
1:29:48
Speaker 1: the first quarter of the upcoming year. That's a that's
1:29:51
Speaker 1: a trick that I do. I called some of my
1:29:53
Speaker 1: cousin said, you mind me paying you for the first quarter?
1:29:56
Speaker 1: Are you paying you in January? Is to the December?
1:30:00
Speaker 1: Can I pay your early so I get this tax
1:30:01
Speaker 1: out and I can write the tax off now. And
1:30:03
Speaker 1: they agree with this. So that's that's that's a technique
1:30:05
Speaker 1: that I do right there. Now, what do we need
1:30:08
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1:30:11
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1:30:14
Speaker 1: thing because so many people are going to be off
1:30:16
Speaker 1: during the holiday season, so just get yourself prepared, get
1:30:20
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1:30:24
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1:30:27
Speaker 1: documents begins to come in the mail in January and
1:30:31
Speaker 1: all the time when you come to me or your
1:30:33
Speaker 1: tax prepare a lot of times they don't have a
1:30:35
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1:30:38
Speaker 1: a space to cure place now and then just have
1:30:42
Speaker 1: a photo there so as they come in the mail,
1:30:43
Speaker 1: you don't have to do anything with it, just throw
1:30:45
Speaker 1: it in that photo. That makes my life a lot easier. Also,
1:30:49
Speaker 1: while you're on holiday, if you were not diligent and
1:30:52
Speaker 1: saving all of those receipts, are putting them in an
1:30:55
Speaker 1: organized file system during the year begins to get those
1:30:58
Speaker 1: together because more so now um with all these different
1:31:02
Speaker 1: smart systems with the I R s, they do want
1:31:05
Speaker 1: to have receipts. We need to have receipts to back
1:31:08
Speaker 1: up all of those itemized seductions. So that's a great
1:31:10
Speaker 1: time where you're on holiday vacation to pull those out
1:31:14
Speaker 1: so then we're not having to file an extension for you.
1:31:16
Speaker 1: When the IRS opens, you're ready to start filing. In
1:31:19
Speaker 1: the January beginning of February, I guess I should say,
1:31:22
Speaker 1: what's the mistake that people do this normally? I mean,
1:31:26
Speaker 1: it's the same mistake they make all the time, you go.
1:31:29
Speaker 1: If I see this mistake one more time, I'm gonna
1:31:31
Speaker 1: just I would say. The biggest mistake is thinking that me,
1:31:35
Speaker 1: their tax of prayer, is a miracle worker. Now I
1:31:39
Speaker 1: am here and just like your tax pre prayer. Yes,
1:31:42
Speaker 1: as your tax p payer, I work for you. I
1:31:44
Speaker 1: do not work for the i RS. I work for you,
1:31:46
Speaker 1: and there I am there to advise and work through
1:31:50
Speaker 1: and you know, discuss your situation with you confidentially. Of course, However,
1:31:55
Speaker 1: I cannot work miracles. When you come to me with
1:31:58
Speaker 1: your W two from last year and you made fifty
1:32:02
Speaker 1: thousand dollars this year and had no taxes, with hell
1:32:06
Speaker 1: and years and all kinds of deductions, there's nothing that
1:32:10
Speaker 1: I can do, you know. So, I mean, there are
1:32:12
Speaker 1: things that we can do, but for you, for the taxpayer,
1:32:16
Speaker 1: and myself to be legitimate and not end up in jail.
1:32:19
Speaker 1: There's only so much we can do. So the biggest
1:32:22
Speaker 1: thing is you know that everyone we have to pay taxes,
1:32:25
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna work with you to minimize how much
1:32:28
Speaker 1: taxes you're paying, but you have to have taxes with
1:32:31
Speaker 1: it all from those W two's, or if you're self employed,
1:32:33
Speaker 1: you have to pay tax on that money. So that's
1:32:36
Speaker 1: the biggest mistake. The whole chick. Take the whole chick
1:32:41
Speaker 1: will yes, yes, I have quite a few times to
1:32:46
Speaker 1: do that, and then they think I'm a real racal
1:32:48
Speaker 1: worker because that's how I educate them and explain it,
1:32:51
Speaker 1: asked them to change it for the next year. They
1:32:53
Speaker 1: still don't change it for the next year. So that
1:32:56
Speaker 1: is the biggest mistake that people make thinking, you know,
1:33:00
Speaker 1: that's a that's the issue as to why we're going
1:33:02
Speaker 1: to be and I'm sure we'll get to my live
1:33:05
Speaker 1: videos and what we want to work on in twenties. Okay, okay,
1:33:09
Speaker 1: we've transitioned to the live video. You you know, you
1:33:12
Speaker 1: smooth now, you smooth? Now, Lord, let's talk about these
1:33:16
Speaker 1: live videos here. Have you been doing them already? Well?
1:33:20
Speaker 1: I did for a long time. In seventeen we were
1:33:22
Speaker 1: doing tax tip Tuesday. Okay, there's all were fun, but
1:33:26
Speaker 1: of course you know that I talked way too much
1:33:29
Speaker 1: and I do get off track a little bit. So
1:33:32
Speaker 1: this year I'm gonna try to be more focused on
1:33:34
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1:33:37
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1:33:39
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1:33:53
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1:33:56
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1:33:59
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1:34:02
Speaker 1: you're an engaging person. But you gotta let people tell
1:34:05
Speaker 1: their story and respond to him. Though, Lord, you gotta
1:34:09
Speaker 1: you can't be the star. Your information has to be
1:34:12
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1:34:14
Speaker 1: because you're so talented. I remember what I was watching
1:34:17
Speaker 1: Jay Leno when he first took over Johnny Carson, and
1:34:20
Speaker 1: when he would come on the show, the guests were
1:34:22
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1:34:24
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1:34:27
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1:34:31
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1:34:33
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1:34:35
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1:34:39
Speaker 1: You can't be funny every night. And he went, oh,
1:34:43
Speaker 1: so the same thing here with you. She Joy has
1:34:46
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1:34:48
Speaker 1: the star and people and you go to outside, you
1:34:51
Speaker 1: go to a website, her Facebook, and you go, wow,
1:34:54
Speaker 1: these numbers are incredible, Okay and so and she doesn't
1:34:57
Speaker 1: even have a huge social media followers. So it's all
1:34:59
Speaker 1: about people finding you, sharing you, and just connecting with you.
1:35:03
Speaker 1: So it's important that as we have to build your
1:35:05
Speaker 1: brand out, let's let's because I want to work with you.
1:35:08
Speaker 1: I want to work with you. You know, you know
1:35:09
Speaker 1: I'm a fan of yours. I just feel that just
1:35:13
Speaker 1: to build you and you get you in the right
1:35:14
Speaker 1: direction I think would be a blessing and for so
1:35:17
Speaker 1: many people because you really do care. So so the
1:35:20
Speaker 1: important thing is for us to figure out who you
1:35:23
Speaker 1: are and what message you're trying to put out there
1:35:26
Speaker 1: in the tax season. So people, let me ask you,
1:35:29
Speaker 1: can you break down like certain people that that like
1:35:31
Speaker 1: you know, like you know, they're they're they're single parents
1:35:33
Speaker 1: and single mom and divorcesitate so you say it in
1:35:36
Speaker 1: a nutshell, which sounds like it was pretty small. Uh,
1:35:40
Speaker 1: individual taxes and small businesses. Can we expand that when
1:35:44
Speaker 1: you say individual taxes? What is that? What is exactly
1:35:47
Speaker 1: does that mean when you say that? So let not
1:35:49
Speaker 1: say individual taxes. That's you know, everyone who goes to work.
1:35:53
Speaker 1: You know, everyone who goes to work, or whether you're
1:35:56
Speaker 1: an employee or self employed, you have to file an
1:35:58
Speaker 1: individual tax returns. Even for um my good friends that
1:36:03
Speaker 1: work from home, they have their own side business. Maybe
1:36:06
Speaker 1: they're earning cash at home. The first dollar that you
1:36:10
Speaker 1: earn in these United States of America, you have to
1:36:13
Speaker 1: pay taxes or that, so you would file it individual
1:36:17
Speaker 1: individual tax return. So everybody has to file it individual
1:36:21
Speaker 1: tax return. And then if they have side businesses for
1:36:25
Speaker 1: small businesses where they you know, are self employed, then
1:36:29
Speaker 1: they would do a business return. Okay, cool. So so
1:36:32
Speaker 1: let's shoot for January night launch that's a Tuesday. Okay,
1:36:37
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1:36:40
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1:36:42
Speaker 1: is when people they need information what to do with
1:36:45
Speaker 1: your taxes? What do you do with your tax returns?
1:36:46
Speaker 1: And all that, but we gotta we gotta let everybody
1:36:49
Speaker 1: know they need to come to you. Stop telling people
1:36:51
Speaker 1: stop being afraid of taxes. I want them to be
1:36:53
Speaker 1: afraid because they need to come to you so you
1:36:55
Speaker 1: can calm them down. They'll go with to calm them
1:36:58
Speaker 1: down and let them understand that you can win if
1:37:01
Speaker 1: by listening to me, by bringing your business to me.
1:37:04
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1:37:08
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1:37:10
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1:37:12
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1:37:16
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1:37:20
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1:37:22
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1:37:24
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1:37:27
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1:37:29
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1:37:33
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1:37:37
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1:37:39
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1:37:42
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1:37:45
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1:37:48
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1:37:51
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1:37:54
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