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Laura Foos (2nd Appearance) Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My next guest. I'm mad at her. I'm gonna just
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Speaker 1: tell her right now and year they call show the phone. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna just let her know right now. Shears was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be in studio with me. She promised me
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Speaker 1: on separ timity and level. Rashan McDonald, I'm coming down
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Speaker 1: to Houston, Texas to do two breaks with you because
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this, the third time she's been
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Speaker 1: on my show, Everybody, the third time I always started
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Speaker 1: this show and May that's how talent that she is.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you somethingbody, my next guest is one
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Speaker 1: of my all time favorite. Her speaking topics include finances, taxes, business, startup, death, care,
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Speaker 1: co parenting, divorce, and living a big life. Please welcome
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Speaker 1: the money making conversations from the DC area. Laura Foods, Laura,
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Speaker 1: how's my girl doing? I'm doing great enough. Certainly wish
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Speaker 1: I was there, but as as as you know, as
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Speaker 1: I was explaining, because of Hurricane Harvey, my corporate office
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Speaker 1: is under nine feet of water and affected to be
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Speaker 1: back in our offices until probably November. So unfortunately they
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Speaker 1: canceled um the conference, so I was not able to come.
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Speaker 1: So thank you for still having me on the phone,
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Speaker 1: because I always love to call in and talk with
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Speaker 1: you and always have a great time with you. Guys. Absolutely, Uh, Laura,
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Speaker 1: first of all, you're very, very talented. Let's go and
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Speaker 1: get that out the way. Thank you so much. This
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Speaker 1: is this is the reason she's on my show. First
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Speaker 1: of all, she's talented, she's small, and she can talk.
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Speaker 1: She A lot of people understand that that that third
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Speaker 1: one I said, she can talk. You know, this is
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Speaker 1: the type of person that you know, I have no
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Speaker 1: problem during two breaks with her. You know, I just
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Speaker 1: shut it down. Let's he's just start talking. I was
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Speaker 1: gonna say, I could probably just talk to myself. I
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Speaker 1: know you got to steal set for that. But I
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Speaker 1: brought you on the show because of the fact that
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Speaker 1: of all the people that I can bring on the show,
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Speaker 1: and when we got to start doing Q and age
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Speaker 1: with you, how people call in if you don't mind,
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Speaker 1: oh of course, because because you you you are are
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Speaker 1: an expert. You you're and you're confident enough to know
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Speaker 1: if you don't know, you're gonna find out an answer.
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Speaker 1: So when you send me a resume and you have
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Speaker 1: all these speaking topics and let's let's briefly, just briefly
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Speaker 1: say when I when I, what do you know about finances?
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Speaker 1: When I'm just gonna throw it out like that, and
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Speaker 1: you just give me a quick synopsis so people get
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Speaker 1: a sense of who you are and your brain. Okay, okay, okay. Well, Well,
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Speaker 1: and I started my career very very young, unfortunately, so
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Speaker 1: I do have a background in a counting background which
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Speaker 1: I have used all the time. I knew when I
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Speaker 1: wanted to start business that I could go to school
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Speaker 1: and get a degree in accounting because any business or
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Speaker 1: anything that you're passionate about, someone has to handle the
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Speaker 1: money and the finances. That's the backbone of any business,
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Speaker 1: this in any area. UM. So I did go to
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Speaker 1: school for accounting. Then, as I said, I did start
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Speaker 1: my corporate career when I was eighteen now forty one,
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Speaker 1: so I've been in that corporate career for twenty two years.
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Speaker 1: I'm a business finance manager, so I oversee forty two
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Speaker 1: locations in the Washington Baltimore, Virginia area. UM as well
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Speaker 1: as you know, my corporation is into you know, an
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Speaker 1: international company as well as then the finance. UM as
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Speaker 1: I got more and more into finance that I grew
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Speaker 1: to have a passion for taxes. Don't you just go
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Speaker 1: don't jump a lane. I gotta set you up. I
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Speaker 1: told you talk too much, but you counted though. Okay, now,
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Speaker 1: now here's my next question. What do you know about taxes? Well,
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Speaker 1: in taxes, I mean, of course, you can look up
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Speaker 1: my name, Laura fous I'm on the I R S website,
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Speaker 1: so I'm a licensed tax preparer. I can do taxes
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Speaker 1: UM in all the states. We I do personal taxes,
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Speaker 1: I can do small business taxes us UM. And I
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Speaker 1: just thought it was important And now I'm even getting
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Speaker 1: more into educating people. A lot of people know me
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Speaker 1: for doing on my Facebook page tax tip Tuesdays, because
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Speaker 1: I found in taxes people really do have to understand taxes.
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Speaker 1: They just go to somebody and do it, but do
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Speaker 1: not understand why do I owe or why do I
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Speaker 1: get a refund. So that's how I've gotten so passionate
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Speaker 1: about taxes UM because people just don't seem to understand it,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of preparers don't educate their clients. Now
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Speaker 1: hopefully my clients I don't provide them too much education
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Speaker 1: and they leave me and start going to do their own. Um.
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Speaker 1: But I want my clients to be educated, you know,
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Speaker 1: and I want to and I prepare them all year long.
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Speaker 1: Like I don't want to just interact with them at
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Speaker 1: tax time. We want to interact all year long. And
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Speaker 1: that's when my tax tip Tuesdays are about. But next question,
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Speaker 1: what do you know about business startup? Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: don't do it now? Well, like I said, and most
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Speaker 1: of us know of salon Couture for the Neighborhood Awards.
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Speaker 1: We were very fortunate that to be recognized by d
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Speaker 1: C and then across the country four times for best
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Speaker 1: Maal Salon and then one time for best Beauty Salon
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Speaker 1: in the country. Um. And that's because, like I said,
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Speaker 1: we were four young women that had a dream. Of course,
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Speaker 1: now you can't have a dream, but you do have
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Speaker 1: to have some cash saved. Um. And we went from
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Speaker 1: you know, we have a brick and mortar business. This
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Speaker 1: is not just an online business. So I think that
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Speaker 1: those are two completely different things. You know, when you
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Speaker 1: are a brick and mortar business, there is a lot
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Speaker 1: that goes into starting a brick and mortar business. I
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Speaker 1: probably know more than I ever wanted to know about
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Speaker 1: d t U s and a heavy up for the
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Speaker 1: electrical panel box and the plumbing, you know all of
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Speaker 1: those things. Um, but so yes. And this year in
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Speaker 1: October we are celebrating ten years um that Salon Contur
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Speaker 1: has been opened. And then in this past October we
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Speaker 1: just opened a beauty supply store which is yes, yes.
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Speaker 1: And then my tax office is two doors down from that,
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Speaker 1: so I'm just taking over the shopping center. Nothing wrong
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Speaker 1: with that, Nothing wrong with I told you have a
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Speaker 1: big personality, So I pretty much one thing. It's just
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Speaker 1: gonna be a bill board above. Now what do you know?
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Speaker 1: That would be nice? Let's go next. What do you
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Speaker 1: know about death care? Um? Well, my corporate career, which
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Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know because it is a
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Speaker 1: corporate thing, so I don't talk a lot about it.
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Speaker 1: Or now I am going to begin to talk more
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Speaker 1: about it on social media. Just from doing your show,
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Speaker 1: we've talked about it and other people asking about it. Um,
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Speaker 1: But very passionate about this business as well because it
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Speaker 1: impacts a lot of families financially, UH and the death
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Speaker 1: care industry. What I what I do is is we
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Speaker 1: talk to families about pre arranging so that we don't
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Speaker 1: have go fund mese everywhere it excuse me, And it's
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Speaker 1: just educating families that they are able to take care
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Speaker 1: of these arrangements ahead of time, and then we educate
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Speaker 1: them about how are able to do that. So I
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Speaker 1: do know, and like I said, and I've been in
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Speaker 1: that industry for twenty two years so have a lot
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Speaker 1: of knowledge on the deathcare industry. Unfortunately, what do you
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Speaker 1: know about co parenting? Well that now that that could
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Speaker 1: be a whole that could be a whole show right there. Um.
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Speaker 1: But most of the people in the d m V market,
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Speaker 1: or if you follow me on social media, know that said.
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Speaker 1: The kid is my reason, she's my why, she is
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Speaker 1: my everything. Um. I became a you know, a mother
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Speaker 1: at a very young age, and we thought we were
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Speaker 1: doing it the right way. Um. And I did get
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Speaker 1: married when I was twenty two. And unfortunately, when you're
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Speaker 1: young and you don't know any better than you know,
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Speaker 1: sometimes that doesn't always work out. Um. But what what
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Speaker 1: I do try to teach people as far and anyone
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Speaker 1: that I can talk to as far as co parenting,
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Speaker 1: you know, is I love my daughter more than anything
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Speaker 1: or anyone, and and her relationship with her father is
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Speaker 1: very important to me, so we do not we don't argue,
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Speaker 1: and of course it's never enough money involved. You know,
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Speaker 1: I would like to have more money coming in or
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Speaker 1: more child support and all of those things. But my
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Speaker 1: key focus has always been on her. So yes, we
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Speaker 1: do still do Christmas Is together, we do the birthdays together.
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Speaker 1: I'm very good friends with his you know, when he
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Speaker 1: got remarried and his fiance, I'm very good friends with
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Speaker 1: them because we have to raise our children together. And
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Speaker 1: I think that you learn to put your feelings aside
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Speaker 1: or your emotions aside for the best interests of your children. UM.
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Speaker 1: So that's why I do talk to people about how
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Speaker 1: do we do this the right way so that our
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Speaker 1: children are good in a good environment and healthy environment.
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Speaker 1: They're allowed to love both parents. Um and even when
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Speaker 1: they get remarried, you're allowed to love those parents as well. Okay, cool.
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Speaker 1: Now there are two more topics I want to bring
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Speaker 1: up because I want to bring them up because I
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Speaker 1: want to be able to in the second break, because
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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about your brain, because
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Speaker 1: I think that you're you're such an exception no talent,
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Speaker 1: and I gotta say this, I think right now if
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Speaker 1: you can see me, you would see I'm blessing right now.
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Speaker 1: That's good because I'm too dark to blush. Okay, they
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Speaker 1: just just just see me, Grant, because see, the thing
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Speaker 1: about it is that is that I brought you on
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Speaker 1: the show because people go where you keep bring. I
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Speaker 1: need people understand who you are, and then I want
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Speaker 1: to I want you to understand who you are because
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Speaker 1: you right now don't know who you are because of
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Speaker 1: the fact that you know you throught all these ideas
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Speaker 1: because you truly are a life coach what I'm saying,
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Speaker 1: because you have the because you have the experience and
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Speaker 1: the the the the technical savvy to be able to
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Speaker 1: communicate from the start to the finish. You understand what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. You know you can raise them and you
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Speaker 1: can bury them. You know you can. You can, you can.
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Speaker 1: That's very important in that process. And you can tell
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Speaker 1: people how to gain their wealth, how to recover their wealth,
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Speaker 1: how to come from bankruptcy to success. All that's very important.
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Speaker 1: And I feel and I'm not saying, you know, and
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Speaker 1: when getting these little zones like that, people all say,
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Speaker 1: is he about to manage her? I'm not saying that.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying this is that is that me and
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Speaker 1: you and the relationship that we're developing is going to
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Speaker 1: be powerful because disguise are the limit limit. Laura with you,
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Speaker 1: and you need to understand that anybody I talked to,
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Speaker 1: anybody I talked to on the regular basis, It's really
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Speaker 1: funny because because I used to see you at the
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Speaker 1: Neighborhood Awards, it is funny I never spoke to her
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Speaker 1: at the neighbor of the Awards. I would see her
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Speaker 1: because I'm always running around that producing the show. She
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Speaker 1: just she'd be standing there and or she going stage
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Speaker 1: and get the award for winning best Nel Salon. She
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Speaker 1: walk off, take pictures with her and her her fellow
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Speaker 1: you know, co workers, she said, are partners, business pokers,
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Speaker 1: co workers, and they're getting mad. We're working for you now,
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Speaker 1: you know people people are turn on your fad. We
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Speaker 1: an't employee. But I just want to let you know
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Speaker 1: that we're gonna talk on the next break, and if
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Speaker 1: anybody wants to call in and talk to Laura, you
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Speaker 1: know what she can talk about. I'll talk to me
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Speaker 1: eight three two two three zero five five nine two.
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Speaker 1: That's a three two two three zero five five nine
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Speaker 1: two Again, you're listening to money making conversation. If you
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Speaker 1: have a problem in your life, if you want to
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Speaker 1: if you're tie the people telling you what you cannot do,
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Speaker 1: and you want to talk to somebody who will tell
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Speaker 1: you can do anything you want to life. Stop listening
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Speaker 1: to ignorant people. Get out of that boat, learn how
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Speaker 1: to swim. Guess what if you step out that boat,
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Speaker 1: the water may not be that deep. They told you
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Speaker 1: a ten feet it was on the two feet. Don't
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Speaker 1: follow the lies. Sell yourself on the truth. I'll be
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Speaker 1: back with more money making conversations. My girl, I'm gonna say,
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Speaker 1: my girl from d C, Laura Foods. I called out
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Speaker 1: for a phone call, Laura. How you doing. I'm doing great,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. I wish I was there in
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Speaker 1: the studio. They don't give me that. I don't hear
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Speaker 1: none of that, Lord, because I'm glad you're not here,
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Speaker 1: because I probably couldn't push you out the show. You
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Yeah, I was gonna say if
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Speaker 1: I come live like I did the whole two hours,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, he'd be embarrassing because you know,
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Speaker 1: be going on a fighting she won't leave because you
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Speaker 1: you you you know to be as successful as you
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Speaker 1: are and do all the things that you've done, You're stubborn,
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Speaker 1: so I know it's gonna be a battle to get
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Speaker 1: you out. I would be staying for the whole two hours. Well,
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Speaker 1: I gotta call in from the d C area. Uh, Sassy,
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Speaker 1: are you on the line? Sassy? Are you on the line?
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Speaker 1: I am here. How y'all doing? Hey, Sassy, you have
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Speaker 1: a phone call you You called in and have a
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Speaker 1: question for Laura. I do, Sassie, how are you? Thank
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Speaker 1: you for calling in? Good? Good, good. Lord's on my
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Speaker 1: favorite people on the planet, and I am the blessed
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Speaker 1: to have some insider knowledge UM that I want her
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Speaker 1: to share with all of your other listeners. So my
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Speaker 1: question for you, Laura, that I hope you can um
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Speaker 1: it gives them kind of anside the information is how
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Speaker 1: do you overcome the fear of failure that's associated at
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Speaker 1: it with starting and successfully operating your own businesses? Um? Okay,
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Speaker 1: So good question. Overcoming the fear of failure? Well, I
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Speaker 1: think when you are UM, when you first determine your why,
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Speaker 1: which for me my wife, of course, was being a
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Speaker 1: young single mother and having a child to take care
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Speaker 1: of that I took on as a huge responsibility and
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Speaker 1: just like anything else, just like with business, I had
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Speaker 1: to make her successful and I had to make her
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Speaker 1: the best baby ever. Um. So I think once you
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Speaker 1: take once you determine what your why is. And then
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Speaker 1: I found out early on my purpose, I know is
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Speaker 1: to share my information and educate people about finances, whether
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Speaker 1: it's personal finances, business finances. Then yes, um, have some
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Speaker 1: of the things that I've tried not worked. Have I
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Speaker 1: had some events where nobody shows up and there's two
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Speaker 1: people in the room, or then you go to other
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Speaker 1: events where there's a hundred people in the room or
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Speaker 1: there's six hundred people in the room. Um. But I
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Speaker 1: think it is knowing that you have a purpose and
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Speaker 1: I have a y and so failure is not an
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Speaker 1: option or like if you all watch my social media
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Speaker 1: pages and I post my morning motivation every day, it
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Speaker 1: is just what they say, I don't necessarily take it
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Speaker 1: as a failure. It is then talking to people and
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Speaker 1: asking questions of Okay, so what do I need to do,
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Speaker 1: how do I make this better? How can it be
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Speaker 1: better the next time? Because, as I said, my child
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Speaker 1: school tuition has to be paid, so failing is not
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Speaker 1: even an option. Um. But I do think one of
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Speaker 1: the key things is I do try to make sure
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Speaker 1: that I keep my core circle close and that I
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Speaker 1: have good, motivating, empowering people around me who they keep
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Speaker 1: me motivated because of course I have off seasons and
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Speaker 1: I have bad days or you know, or even seasons
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Speaker 1: where Okay, I'm done with this. Can I just work
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Speaker 1: my nine to five and I don't want to do
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Speaker 1: anything else anymore. Um. But when you have an empowering
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Speaker 1: circle around you, um, they keep you're going and they
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Speaker 1: keep reminding you of your why. Um. So I think that,
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Speaker 1: like you said, so that kind of sounds cliche, failure
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Speaker 1: isn't an option. But once you know your why and
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Speaker 1: your purpose, then I don't necessarily think you're failing. It's
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Speaker 1: you know, getting it right or making it better. Yes,
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Speaker 1: let me add let me add to that, Sassy. On
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Speaker 1: top of what the wonderful information you've just gotten from
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Speaker 1: law is that a lot of people, you know, they
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Speaker 1: don't plan and they because it's so hard. The number
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Speaker 1: one mistake that most people making small businesses they don't
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Speaker 1: have a business plan. They have a great idea, but
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Speaker 1: they don't have a business plan, and they look at
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Speaker 1: ten dollars. If they charged ten dollars for a hamburger,
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Speaker 1: they don't realize that, you know, you gotta pay for
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Speaker 1: taxes on in Hamburg, you gotta pay for the lettuce.
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Speaker 1: To me, they don't realize that you might be walking
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Speaker 1: away with three dollars. And so that's where the planning
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Speaker 1: part comes into it, and also the consistency. And also
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Speaker 1: make sure if you're going into business with everybody, with
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Speaker 1: other people, you all have the same values. And I'm
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna just go I'm gonna slow that down. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna slow that down because you can't make up another
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Speaker 1: person be like you. You have to accept them for
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Speaker 1: who they are and then and their strengths. Because I
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Speaker 1: can assure you all the partners in Salon Couture are
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Speaker 1: not alike, you know, because I can't nobody out talk Lord.
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Speaker 1: They all they all know that. They all know that,
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Speaker 1: they all know that. But each one of them have
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Speaker 1: a tremendous strength. And to what the number one mistakes
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Speaker 1: people make is like they'll say, well, I'm here twenty
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Speaker 1: four hours a day. What that's you If you decided
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Speaker 1: to be at your job or this company twenty four
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Speaker 1: hours a day. Don't try to make other people do that. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna get in business, know the person that
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Speaker 1: you're getting in business with, so that way you you
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Speaker 1: won't be blindsided or not if they're doing something down
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Speaker 1: the line that makes you upset, that's the number that's
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Speaker 1: one of the number one problems. It's the same thing
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Speaker 1: with your kids, with your wife or whoever your dating.
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Speaker 1: Do not try to force these people into your lifestyle.
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Speaker 1: You volunteer for this. You you decided to leave IBM
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Speaker 1: and go on the road and tell jokes. I couldn't
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Speaker 1: drag my mama out there. My mama name want me.
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Speaker 1: My mama was happy with me being that IBM so
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Speaker 1: I could guard my mama wind And hey, these folks
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Speaker 1: ain't laughing. In Kentucky, the folks they boomed me off
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Speaker 1: the stage. In Virginia, only fifteen people showed up. I
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Speaker 1: don't think this man gonna pay me. In Mississippi, they
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Speaker 1: didn't ask for that. And so what it happens is
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Speaker 1: a lot of people they try to put their burden
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Speaker 1: of their decision on other people. Guess what happens When
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Speaker 1: you do that, your your crowd and supports shrinks. It's shrinks,
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Speaker 1: and so when it shrinks, guess what all people see
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Speaker 1: you as bad news? Are you begging for something? Are
17:48
Speaker 1: you complaining about something? Here's the number one thing. When
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Speaker 1: you are a leader. You cannot have bad days. When
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Speaker 1: you are a leader, you cannot cry in public. When
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Speaker 1: you are a leader, you have to let everybody know
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Speaker 1: that the bullet you just shot, that you just got
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Speaker 1: shot with, you're gonna keep on walking. And you're gonna
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Speaker 1: keep on walking because is what you made the decision
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Speaker 1: to lead people up that hill and back down that
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Speaker 1: hill to victory. And that is really key. And what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying to anybody who's listening, and especially to you know,
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Speaker 1: and I know Laura's hearing me, She's gonna, yeah, yeah,
18:23
Speaker 1: I agree with everything he's saying, because guess what their days.
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Speaker 1: I would tell people I have had tears in my
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Speaker 1: eyes because I didn't want to get up. They have days,
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Speaker 1: their days when I didn't I wanted to call somebody,
18:37
Speaker 1: but I couldn't call them because I couldn't show that
18:39
Speaker 1: sign of weakness because they believed in me. So I
18:42
Speaker 1: had to do my research I had to have relationships.
18:45
Speaker 1: There are people, they're CEOs, their presidents of companies, they're
18:49
Speaker 1: famous athletes, they're famous actors who called me for advice.
18:55
Speaker 1: Now what if I decided to tell everybody I'm stupid,
18:58
Speaker 1: I'm I don't nor dawn things you think they keep
19:01
Speaker 1: calling me because guess what, I'll have have shown a
19:04
Speaker 1: sign of weakness, because that is not my brand. My
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Speaker 1: brand is a brand of success. And if you called me,
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Speaker 1: I will make you successful. And that's really what this
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Speaker 1: is all about. This is all what money making conversations
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Speaker 1: is about. And that's why in the first half of
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Speaker 1: this interview, I wanted to make sure people understood why
19:22
Speaker 1: I was talking to Laura. And I need Laura to
19:24
Speaker 1: understand who she is. See see what happens with talented people.
19:28
Speaker 1: They tend to only they tend to. They tend to
19:30
Speaker 1: kind of like keep their abilities in a very tight circle,
19:34
Speaker 1: and only a few people know about they're listed out,
19:36
Speaker 1: but they don't really understand what they've listed out. And
19:39
Speaker 1: so I just wanted her for the first time, maybe
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Speaker 1: maybe for the first time, for her to hear herself
19:45
Speaker 1: talk about herself so she can take in the information
19:49
Speaker 1: that she's has because you know you can go and said,
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Speaker 1: you know I can, I can shoot them. I can.
19:55
Speaker 1: You know, look at Lebron James. Lebron James a class example.
19:59
Speaker 1: He has game show on, he has a TV show on,
20:03
Speaker 1: he has foundations, he plays basketball. You know, he's an entrepreneur.
20:08
Speaker 1: He has a sporting agency. That's all I'm saying. He's
20:15
Speaker 1: embraced his ability to make money. Now when I look
20:19
Speaker 1: at Laura, when I look at her, she's she's feeling information.
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Speaker 1: Now when we hang up this phone, she don't have
20:26
Speaker 1: a different conversation about herself. And I hope you do
20:30
Speaker 1: because you are a an enterprise young lady, and it's
20:34
Speaker 1: it's enough of people telling you how talented you are.
20:37
Speaker 1: It's time for you to really look at your website
20:39
Speaker 1: and say who am I and started watching yourself. And
20:43
Speaker 1: once you find out who you are, then your bread
20:45
Speaker 1: will explode. Does that makes this, Laura, because right now,
20:51
Speaker 1: listen to me now, Finances, you didn't stumble when you
20:54
Speaker 1: talked about that taxes. You didn't stumble when you talked
20:57
Speaker 1: about that business startup. You didn't stumble when you talked
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Speaker 1: about that death care. You didn't stumble when you talked
21:04
Speaker 1: about that co parenting, you just stumble when you talked
21:08
Speaker 1: about that divorce. You wouldn't stumble when you talk about
21:11
Speaker 1: that living a big life. You will not stumble when
21:14
Speaker 1: you talk about that. You know why you won't stumble,
21:17
Speaker 1: because that's what you do, Laura. Okay, that's what you do.
21:21
Speaker 1: It's time when you hang up this phone with me today,
21:23
Speaker 1: it's time for you to make note of what I'm
21:26
Speaker 1: saying to you today. You are bigger than what you are,
21:30
Speaker 1: not saying that you hunt don't have a perception of
21:32
Speaker 1: who you are. But I'm just letting you know. I've
21:35
Speaker 1: been around a lot of famous people, a lot of
21:38
Speaker 1: great people called me and my wife go who just
21:42
Speaker 1: called you, don't worry about don't worry about don't worry
21:45
Speaker 1: about this, all right? They called me to And I'm
21:47
Speaker 1: letting you know this. Your ability now is to build
21:51
Speaker 1: your brand own. That's why I had a d dolphin
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Speaker 1: on the radio earlier. Today. I'm going to more and
21:56
Speaker 1: more people like you because I think I'll reach more
21:59
Speaker 1: people like you with your story to let them know
22:03
Speaker 1: that every day it ain't who you stopping for a selfie,
22:07
Speaker 1: who's walking by you that you need to be stopping.
22:09
Speaker 1: They're gonna make you great, Laura, your special thank you.
22:14
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I thought we were called it
22:16
Speaker 1: for questions or was this like my morning motivational speech
22:19
Speaker 1: to me? I appreciate that absolutely, absolutely, on time, absolutely
22:24
Speaker 1: because you know what, because see just the next level
22:26
Speaker 1: for your life. That's all I'm just saying this to you.
22:29
Speaker 1: You're about to go to the next level in life.
22:31
Speaker 1: And and that's why when I started money making conversation
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Speaker 1: May first and here in Houston, Texas, took it off
22:36
Speaker 1: my Facebook page, and I and I on a leap
22:39
Speaker 1: of faith, but with a plan, and people like you,
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Speaker 1: people I didn't even speak to. Not because I was
22:45
Speaker 1: a rude person. It's just that I didn't understand my
22:47
Speaker 1: purpose in life at the time when I was walking
22:50
Speaker 1: past you or you were standing over there. Are you
22:52
Speaker 1: walking off the stage of a show that I created
22:55
Speaker 1: every year to uplive small businesses and people in the community.
23:00
Speaker 1: Mess it too. It'll be back, don't work back. Here's
23:04
Speaker 1: the beauty of life with me and you is that
23:07
Speaker 1: is that I already know you're gonna be back on
23:09
Speaker 1: my show just one more time. A fall definitely we're
23:12
Speaker 1: gonna do a tax thing in the spring. Okay, we're
23:15
Speaker 1: gonna build that brand out, but more importantly, start figuring
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Speaker 1: out who you are, Laura. I will give yoursell number,
23:22
Speaker 1: email address, whatever you do. I want you to your start,
23:24
Speaker 1: young lad, a year of Laura. Now if you if
23:27
Speaker 1: you blush and there, you should be be beat red
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Speaker 1: right now. Okay, yes, my friend, I'm glad this time.
23:36
Speaker 1: So y'all can't see my place right now big time.
23:40
Speaker 1: I'm just letting everybody know this is a call I
23:43
Speaker 1: could be talking to you, and I want you to
23:44
Speaker 1: start calling me. Y'all. I want you to start understanding
23:47
Speaker 1: that this show has been built in place for people
23:50
Speaker 1: to know that they can be great, that they can
23:52
Speaker 1: just let let let me shine. Hear your story, let
23:55
Speaker 1: me let me understand why you why why are you
23:59
Speaker 1: not making it to the next love, Laura, I took
24:02
Speaker 1: two breaks with you. Thank you so much. This is this,
24:06
Speaker 1: This has been the Lara FEUs hour. You know, if
24:09
Speaker 1: you didn't know who she is, now you know who
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Speaker 1: she is, right. Thank you so much, Sassy, thank you
24:14
Speaker 1: for calling it from the d C area. She's a fan, Garrol. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I will talk to you Thank you so much, big timer.
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