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Sylvia Weddington Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My next guest employs a diverse staff of professionals, many
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Speaker 1: of whom are multi lingual, which is an assets when
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Speaker 1: dealing with international clients, which lets you know she's worldwide,
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Speaker 1: she's not some domestic. She is also licensed realtor. Licensed
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Speaker 1: realtor in three states Georgia, Florida, in Texas because you
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Speaker 1: live in Houston as well, right, correct, I'm actually a
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Speaker 1: real estate broker. That's what I only show, just educated
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Speaker 1: because because I want to know I bought enough homes.
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Speaker 1: I want to what's the real estate broker world? We
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Speaker 1: get all that, you know, because I learned from my
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Speaker 1: guests as well, So you know that I know a
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Speaker 1: lot and I will tell people I'm gonna do it
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Speaker 1: at all, but then I also ask a questions about
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Speaker 1: what I don't know. So the only difference is is
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Speaker 1: that a real estate broker can own a brokerage and
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Speaker 1: higher agents. Every agent has to have a broker. Okay, okay, cool, Okay,
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Speaker 1: she's just at even said her name. Yet you know
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Speaker 1: she's you know, That's why that's why I have studio
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Speaker 1: guests right now, right the last two year guests of
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Speaker 1: the year right here, right last. She also follows me
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Speaker 1: up social media because she knows I'm a baker and
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Speaker 1: she loves the baker as well. Please working to money
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Speaker 1: making conversations. Sylvia Weddington, thank you, how you doing well?
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Speaker 1: Good here? Look fashionably, got your black ole, got your
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Speaker 1: hair flooring. That that's the look you will. You know,
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Speaker 1: I always tell people people said, you look nice to this.
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Speaker 1: I know where the mirror is. That it's there's a
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Speaker 1: purpose in my house. And so that's what I tell people,
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Speaker 1: and they compliment me, and I take the compliment in
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Speaker 1: a very you know, a humble manner because you know,
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Speaker 1: people don't have to say nice things about you. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: And so when I look at your company, was talking
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Speaker 1: about a broker and a realtor because you're all these
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Speaker 1: shows on TV. You know, you know, fixed this, flip this.
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Speaker 1: Are you one of those people. I'm not one of
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Speaker 1: those people. You're not flipping in slipping and you're not
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Speaker 1: going in by the house for a hundred thousand and
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Speaker 1: then tearing hous and walls and no. But I help
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Speaker 1: people do that. Okay, we help people do that. So
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Speaker 1: we definitely particularly literally in the area in the around
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Speaker 1: the Mercedes Benz Stadium, that's a hot area for people
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Speaker 1: to go in and fix something and flip it and
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Speaker 1: try to flip it. And so so what that means
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Speaker 1: that they were watching enough television means you buy the
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Speaker 1: home at this rate and do do you? They do
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Speaker 1: fix it up? Right? They fix it up and the
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Speaker 1: purpose of fixing it up under a certain fee so
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Speaker 1: they can sell it for some type of profit exactly,
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Speaker 1: and that you'll do it. But you know clients. I
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Speaker 1: know clients. I have clients that do that. So I'll
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Speaker 1: take them out to preview the property and they will
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Speaker 1: decide whether or not they want to purchase that property,
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Speaker 1: and they know what the budget is of what they
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Speaker 1: wanted are wanting to add into that property. And then
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Speaker 1: they purchase the property and go in and fix it
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Speaker 1: and they either most of the time they lease it
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Speaker 1: out or sometimes they sell it. Now here's isn't it?
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Speaker 1: You said Florida? You said Georgia and Texas. Correct. Why
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Speaker 1: are three locations for your company? Well, um, we are
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Speaker 1: a global company. And the three locations because because I
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Speaker 1: lived Texas, that's where I started, and we moved around
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Speaker 1: a bit. So I started, I moved to Atlanta, and
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Speaker 1: you know, so I needed to to have a license
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Speaker 1: here as well, So I kept Texas and then and
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Speaker 1: then it's also a place where a lot of people
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Speaker 1: who are athletes get traded to, so it's easier for
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Speaker 1: me to be licensed in those states. Plus I know
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Speaker 1: the layer of the land, right, and I know Texas
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Speaker 1: is a is a no tax state. Georgia is a
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Speaker 1: tax state. Florida is a no tax state. Correct. Correct. However,
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Speaker 1: in Texas the property taxes extremely um inflated. So you
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Speaker 1: may not have other taxes, but that property tax will
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Speaker 1: get you and that does not go away. And that's
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Speaker 1: the thing we let people know that the property tax,
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Speaker 1: you know, everything else, even the mortgage will go away,
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Speaker 1: but the property tax does not. Okay, So, so so
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Speaker 1: talk about walkers through your business because you have different layers.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not going to do a disservice in nect
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Speaker 1: like you do just one thing, because you have a
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Speaker 1: n tierre part of your business as well. So we're
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Speaker 1: talking about realty. Be a realtor or broker. You're broker, right, Okay? Cool?
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Speaker 1: So talk about how do you do your conduct your
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Speaker 1: business in three different states? Well, um, I have a
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Speaker 1: lot of frequent flyer mills. Um, So I probably can't
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Speaker 1: be too uh. But one of one of the ways
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Speaker 1: that we do our business is that we um we
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Speaker 1: are have a concert or service that if you were
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Speaker 1: buying a house uh anywhere in the world, we would
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Speaker 1: go and preview that house for you and and narrow
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Speaker 1: down to three to five properties and when you are
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Speaker 1: ready to maybe go to where it is, it could
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Speaker 1: be in Russia, it could be here in the United States,
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Speaker 1: we would meet you there. Russia. Yeah, in Russia. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I have clients in Russia. They mainly buy a lot
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Speaker 1: in Miami. So but yeah, you can come to Russia,
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Speaker 1: we could go to China, we could go anywhere in
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Speaker 1: the world, and um we are. We have a global
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Speaker 1: couple of Russian trips knock right there. Yeah, I don't
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Speaker 1: have a lot of those because I have two teenagers,
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Speaker 1: so that that that cuts down a lot of we're talking.
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Speaker 1: That's how we met them. Just a little backstories that
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Speaker 1: we went to orientation together the National Minority Supplies Development
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Speaker 1: councilor m b E. And I know why I well,
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to uh. First of all, I wanted my company,
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Speaker 1: which is third fifteen meeting. You can go to media
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Speaker 1: dot com and you can see I do talent management
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Speaker 1: that I have, I do live events, I do marketing
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Speaker 1: and branding. So I'm trying to find out and cree
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Speaker 1: relationships within the industry nationally and especially in Georgia, telling
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Speaker 1: people what I do and so what what what? What
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Speaker 1: was your purpose of joining the council? My purpose was
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Speaker 1: to be able to meet people like you, uh and
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Speaker 1: people who were serious about their business. Because, as you know,
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Speaker 1: it takes they don't just let you walk in the door.
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Speaker 1: It's a long drawn out process and you know, in
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Speaker 1: a strong vetting process. So when you know when you
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Speaker 1: walk into a room with the people who actually took
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Speaker 1: the time to invest in getting that certification that they're
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Speaker 1: serious about their business, and you know, just to be
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Speaker 1: able to work and network with with other business owners
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Speaker 1: like myself, well you know that that's really what this
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Speaker 1: is all about, because I was a number of our
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Speaker 1: organizations usually part of is a member of the World
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Speaker 1: e r C, which the Employee Relocation Council correct and
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Speaker 1: then you're also a number of the global mobilities, your
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Speaker 1: global mobility specialists. So when I'm going through your bio,
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Speaker 1: I'm seeing that you understand being connected and being and
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Speaker 1: being in these relationships and create an environment. Because quite frankly,
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Speaker 1: that's why you're on this show right now, because we
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Speaker 1: went to the same council. Otherwise you wouldn't be on
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Speaker 1: this show. So this is extending your brand outside of
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Speaker 1: what you would normally do comfortably. Yes, absolutely, absolutely, and
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Speaker 1: that's what this is all about. This may lead to
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Speaker 1: something nails, it may not, but it's still brand development.
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Speaker 1: It's brand exposure, and that's what it's all about with
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Speaker 1: your brand. How long have you been in this type
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Speaker 1: of business. I've been in this business for twenty years.
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Speaker 1: And it takes a long time to build a real
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Speaker 1: estate business, particularly because in real estate people see you
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Speaker 1: as competition and so there's not a lot of people
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Speaker 1: who will kind of reach out across the aisles to
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Speaker 1: help you, and you kind of have to. You say,
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Speaker 1: you don't listen to other people's stories because it's not yours,
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Speaker 1: and that's very true. However, you know, sometimes you don't
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Speaker 1: see a lot of that in real estate because they
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Speaker 1: just don't do it. You know, they like, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: like no, you know this is got that to you
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Speaker 1: out there? How do you get your hustle on? I've
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Speaker 1: knowing that you have no mentors. Yeah, well actually I do. Okay.
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Speaker 1: One of my mentors is one who I've absolutely never met,
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Speaker 1: and Nest Tyler here I read a lot. I read
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Speaker 1: all of his things and you know how he was successful,
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Speaker 1: and it's certainly different because we're two different things. But
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Speaker 1: you know what I like most is that he says,
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Speaker 1: you know, whatever you're gonna do, just step out and
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Speaker 1: and and do it. You know, if you're gonna start,
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Speaker 1: you know, walking or exercising, if you go out for
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Speaker 1: five minutes, is to start and come back. So and
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Speaker 1: I've actually done that because you know, I was like, yes,
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Speaker 1: and now I'm up to ten miles. Yeah, so I
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Speaker 1: started out small. Uh. My other mentor is Orlando Lynch
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Speaker 1: at Atlanta Peach Movers, and he's always available to answer
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Speaker 1: questions and help me out and text me back when
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Speaker 1: I have a problem, whether it be with staff or
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Speaker 1: the running up the business. And and it's kind of
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Speaker 1: related to what we do because you know, he's moving
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Speaker 1: people and and and that's what we're doing. We're moving
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Speaker 1: people as well, and so that's really interesting. So so basically,
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Speaker 1: by I guess that's what I'm doing. And I know
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Speaker 1: that's what I'm doing money making conversation because that's why
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Speaker 1: I start at this. Should just have your story. Your
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Speaker 1: story is compelling, its stories relatable, and people need to
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Speaker 1: hear your story. And so as as we as we
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Speaker 1: write down this information that you've given us, what is
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Speaker 1: your biggest takeaway? Give a gift of information to individuals
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Speaker 1: who who are listening to you right now because you
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Speaker 1: because you survived that little a little dip. Yes, I
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Speaker 1: did housing that the President Obama had to pull us
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Speaker 1: out of. So being licensed in three states was it
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Speaker 1: wasn't a great thing as well because in Texas we
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Speaker 1: didn't uh the market didn't take such a known statin
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Speaker 1: as it did here. Uh it did in my analgy
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Speaker 1: in Florida. Yeah, Georgia and Florida took a hard hit
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Speaker 1: because the real estate market. Uh there, I imagine that
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Speaker 1: there's there's more people that moved into the Georgia area
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Speaker 1: and and they were not that they owned more property
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Speaker 1: and they add a lot less um equity in the
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Speaker 1: in the in the in the properties. And so when
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Speaker 1: when they when they took a nose dive and they
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Speaker 1: had to leave it, it just plummeted. So that you know.
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Speaker 1: That's one of the main reasons. Um So let me
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Speaker 1: ask you this, because because you deal with all types,
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Speaker 1: you know, but you didn't start going to China, you
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Speaker 1: didn't start going to Russia, you didn't start dealing with athletes.
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Speaker 1: It was just you and you had to step out.
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Speaker 1: You had to like figure out who you who you
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Speaker 1: are and why you're doing this. Can you tell me
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Speaker 1: some of those steps? Well, because because like I always
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Speaker 1: tell people, when you're not doing something normal, then people
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Speaker 1: will question you. People will go that don't make any sense,
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Speaker 1: right because you because and sometimes you don't know because
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Speaker 1: you can't you know when you know. It's just like
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Speaker 1: I'm an entertainment I can't tell you all the time
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Speaker 1: how I'm getting paid, and that confuses people. And also
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Speaker 1: and I tell people that I do what's about eight
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Speaker 1: hour day, and they're go, I first of all, I
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Speaker 1: got try to tell because because it leads to more questions.
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Speaker 1: And so because so is the world you live in
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Speaker 1: a world a lonely world or world is engaged with
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Speaker 1: communicating with a lot of people all the time. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's it's a very lonely world when it comes to
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Speaker 1: being a business owner. But being engaged with people and
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Speaker 1: uh making them, um, helping them to find what they
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Speaker 1: need in terms of a home. So before I did this,
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Speaker 1: I was a hospital chaplain and and I had great
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Speaker 1: I have great passion for hospital chaplaincy. And one of
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Speaker 1: the things that, um, I couldn't keep a schedule. That
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Speaker 1: was the main thing. So I had two sons, I
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Speaker 1: can't keep a schedule, what do I do? I don't
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Speaker 1: want to stay at home. So I started looking at
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Speaker 1: real estate and I had a passion for that as well.
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Speaker 1: Also my neighbor's passion for real estate. What what is that?
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Speaker 1: You know? Like I understand Like I was a stand
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Speaker 1: up comedian and I was that was going to stage
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Speaker 1: telling jokes and all that stuff, and I wanted to
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Speaker 1: be an actor. Couldn't sing that I can, like it
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Speaker 1: look good trying. So so we said passion for real estate.
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Speaker 1: A passion for real estate is is like all I
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Speaker 1: thought about with structures, Uh, the anatomy of a house,
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Speaker 1: what it looks like, everything about it. So when when
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Speaker 1: you and I look at a house, we're going to
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Speaker 1: see something totally different. I'm gonna see, you know, how
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Speaker 1: it was made and constructed. Uh what maybe what century
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Speaker 1: that some of the columns, or if there were some
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Speaker 1: what they came out of, you know, all of the
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Speaker 1: different things that make up a house. And you know,
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Speaker 1: what is it going to be like if a family
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Speaker 1: moves into this house? And when when? When what people
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Speaker 1: walk into a house with me and they say, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know I can, I can make this work, then
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to sell in that house. I want
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Speaker 1: to hear. Oh, now this is it because I know
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Speaker 1: that you have to live there for you know, many
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Speaker 1: years or whatever, and you don't want that number becomes
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Speaker 1: on speed out exactly. Some money ain't good money, it's right, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: So you know, if I know it is close to
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Speaker 1: a landfield or something like that, we we we let
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, and we document I've been documented
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Speaker 1: all this. You knew all of this that we let
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Speaker 1: you know what it was gonna be living in a
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Speaker 1: society where they want to sue. Oh. Absolutely. We're talking
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Speaker 1: to Sylvia Weddington. Weddington Realty that's located in Georgia, Texas
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Speaker 1: and Florida, and we're gonna be right back cause I
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Speaker 1: want to talk about your balance. Like there's two somethings
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Speaker 1: who got that swimming because I have a daughter who
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Speaker 1: played tennis, so I know that's an expensive it is.
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Speaker 1: And you got to to be right back more with Sylvia,
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Speaker 1: and thank you for coming doing doing I appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, And we're gonna talk about won't get the
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Speaker 1: word at the phone numbers and website. We gotta promote
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Speaker 1: your brand. That's why you came on. That's what money
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Speaker 1: making conversations all about. We've been right back with Silvis. Hi.
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Speaker 1: This is Sean m Only you're listening to myny making conversations.
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Speaker 1: I think I've developed a long term friend there. You
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Speaker 1: certainly have yeah, special bridge the lord on that house.
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Speaker 1: Believe it or not. I've actually married people in homes
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Speaker 1: that they've bought, you know, and and and and done
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Speaker 1: baby dedications and baptism. You posted on social media. I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't put it out there, but it is a
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Speaker 1: point of difference. I had one client that called and
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Speaker 1: she was trying to get married and she couldn't find
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Speaker 1: it just as of a piece, and I'm like, well, wait,
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Speaker 1: do you have your license? Yeah, when do you want
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Speaker 1: to get married? I'll be there and I performed the
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Speaker 1: wedding and she posted it on social media didn't because
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Speaker 1: what role does social media playing your brand? Gosh, it
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Speaker 1: plays every role in my brand. You know, people get
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Speaker 1: to see who I am, what we're doing, um, and
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Speaker 1: what offers we have, what what real estate looks like? Uh,
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Speaker 1: how to purchase a home because it's there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of different steps and a lot of moving pieces. So uh,
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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's educational for people who want to
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Speaker 1: who particular people who have never bought a home. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: before I know, I started a little bit of this
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Speaker 1: conversation got off of we was talking about two thousand
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Speaker 1: and eight when the housing crisis head and I was
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Speaker 1: talking about Georgia in Texas and how Georgia Georgia and Florida,
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Speaker 1: or Georgia Florida and Texas and Georgia and Florida hit
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Speaker 1: a lot worse than Texas. But how did you survive
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Speaker 1: that moment? You know, because I'm sure a lot I'm
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Speaker 1: sure that's when a lot of doubts. As you've chosen
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Speaker 1: the right profession, how can you how can get around that?
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Speaker 1: But you said what helped you was you were in
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Speaker 1: three different states. Yeah, it helped me to be in
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Speaker 1: three different states, and it also helped that I didn't
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Speaker 1: really have to depend on real estate h and I
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Speaker 1: still worked as a chaplain part time. And when you
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Speaker 1: get into real estate, one of the things that you
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Speaker 1: have to do before you really can do it full
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Speaker 1: time is to be able to work until you can
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Speaker 1: get to that point. And that's and that's the hard part,
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Speaker 1: because it is it is a great investment as well,
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Speaker 1: it's not it's not um cheap to be a real
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Speaker 1: estate agent. They have a lot of fees, and a
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Speaker 1: broker has even more fees, right right, right. So, so
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Speaker 1: with that being said, because you've you've you we've talked
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Speaker 1: about that balanced life. You know, I always tell people
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Speaker 1: my show that from I didn't have a balanced life.
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Speaker 1: You know, building and working with Steve is a part
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Speaker 1: that Steve Harvey as a business partner, traveling all over
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Speaker 1: this country doing all these different television shows. You know,
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Speaker 1: My relationship with my my daughter was fantastic. But she
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Speaker 1: was a tennis she's a tennis protege as they would say,
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Speaker 1: you know, phenome as they say, and and so and
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Speaker 1: in fact, if you come to my house, she has
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Speaker 1: a little tennis I built tennis house, the tennis court, everything,
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Speaker 1: and so because that's whatever's a dream. And I felt
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Speaker 1: that I was not gonna get in the way of saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if you're gonna make it,
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Speaker 1: but I would tell you when I when I started
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Speaker 1: man geen uh, when I stop managing Steve Harvey in
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Speaker 1: s I got to go on the road with her
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Speaker 1: and H and I got to see women who were
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Speaker 1: eight thirty, and I didn't like what I saw because
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Speaker 1: I was, what's you know, what's that option? You know,
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Speaker 1: what if you don't make it? Because there's no guarantees,
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Speaker 1: And so I can get what would her life be
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Speaker 1: because she had no social life, you know, because she
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Speaker 1: was always out on the court, but she didn't go
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Speaker 1: to prom, you know, and so she was or playing tennis.
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Speaker 1: And so you have a similar situation that's extreme because
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Speaker 1: you because you have sons. I mean, at least they
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Speaker 1: get to talk to each other, like the William sisters
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Speaker 1: that the William sisters to help them kind of like
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Speaker 1: walk through the path and bounce things off each other.
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Speaker 1: But swimming, Now, when you say the words swimming, people
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Speaker 1: would rather go, oh, they're just diving in the water,
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Speaker 1: putting on this a little lotle thing that should be
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Speaker 1: a cheap spore. No, they are like the the they have.
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Speaker 1: They have a suit call a fascin and it's only
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Speaker 1: good for about five or ten swims faskin and those
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Speaker 1: are five hundred dollars, so they only put those on
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Speaker 1: for major races, and not to mention the goggles and
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Speaker 1: the training and yes, so okay, so it's almost comic,
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Speaker 1: but major races. Now you you see him just walking
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Speaker 1: out the house with and that's the cheap one, that's
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Speaker 1: five and so that makes them like I guess slide
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Speaker 1: the water propels the water a certain way and helps
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Speaker 1: to constrict the muscles. And so, uh, swimmers who are
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Speaker 1: competitive swimmers, as my sons are, that's that's what they have.
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Speaker 1: And what age are they right now? They're at sixteen
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Speaker 1: and eighteen. They just aged up. But they've been doing
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Speaker 1: this since they were two years old. So I've been
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Speaker 1: waking up at four o'clock in the morning since they
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Speaker 1: were two years old. How did that start? How did
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Speaker 1: that start? Actually? I wanted them to learn how to swim,
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Speaker 1: and we moved into a new subdivision and they they
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Speaker 1: had just opened the swimming pool and I took him
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Speaker 1: down there to learn how to swim, and they and
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Speaker 1: they did, you know, they did all the other sports
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Speaker 1: and then they decided that they wanted to swim competitively.
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Speaker 1: So it's swimming. It's very early, so they run in
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Speaker 1: the water, they wake up, you know, and they are
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Speaker 1: very dedicated. Um, they've been training for this for a
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Speaker 1: long time, since they were two years old. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: they've been in the water. So we get up. They
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Speaker 1: have to be in in the pool by five every
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Speaker 1: morning before school, and then after school they go back
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Speaker 1: at four fifteen in the evening and they swim until
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Speaker 1: about that's right, you know, that's what I'm saying that.
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Speaker 1: So it's so it's such a blessing that they have
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Speaker 1: each other because that's a rare isolated life. You know,
19:43
Speaker 1: there's no time to really mingle, right, and it it
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Speaker 1: well that their coaches is better at helping them mingle, uh,
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Speaker 1: the coach that they have now. But with swimmers, they
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Speaker 1: never get to mingle because they're actually in the water.
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Speaker 1: So they don't really get to tennis. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: unless you're playing doubles, you know, intendance, you might talk
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Speaker 1: to somebody, but basically it's an individual sport and so
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Speaker 1: so that's what I really, uh, I really feel good
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Speaker 1: about your situation because at least they get to understake,
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Speaker 1: get to bounce off anything that they want to they're
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Speaker 1: confused about, they have to run to you. They're they're
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Speaker 1: they're each other's best friends. Well not always they're brothers.
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Speaker 1: But you know, you know, I can't I'm gonna beat
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Speaker 1: you and I can't wait to a you know. So
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Speaker 1: they're you know, they're they're competitive, and especially now they're
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Speaker 1: in the same competitive group, so you know, now they
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Speaker 1: want but you know, but that's a good thing because
20:36
Speaker 1: of the fact that they pushes them, you know, because
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Speaker 1: I like that, because of the fact that you know,
20:42
Speaker 1: we know this is not an extreme competitiveness, and it's like, hey,
20:46
Speaker 1: you beat me today, I don't beat you tomorrow. And
20:47
Speaker 1: of course it's the younger one who's who's driving to
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Speaker 1: beat the older one. That sounds like you're at my house.
20:53
Speaker 1: I have a daughter, she's twenty two now. She said
20:59
Speaker 1: she blew out her knee when she was nineteen and
21:01
Speaker 1: uh and so when she looked at me and she said, uh, dad,
21:05
Speaker 1: I said, what do you want to do? Because I
21:07
Speaker 1: knew that was about her third serious injury and ship
21:09
Speaker 1: broken good a shoulder. So I knew at that point,
21:13
Speaker 1: you know that have their interest, they do it. And
21:16
Speaker 1: then so I was like, um, and so I I
21:19
Speaker 1: told him what you wanted world to college. And I
21:21
Speaker 1: immediately told her, do not worry about the expenses that
21:25
Speaker 1: you incurred in pursuing a tenant's career, because that that
21:28
Speaker 1: guilt and that that guilt will pop on them real hard.
21:32
Speaker 1: You know what they see like the swim bro if
21:36
Speaker 1: they make a decision to change then and then that
21:40
Speaker 1: that's when the guilt will come about. And you have
21:42
Speaker 1: to be really aware of that because of the fact
21:44
Speaker 1: that they know, they know how much money you're spending.
21:46
Speaker 1: You might think they don't know, but they're totally all
21:49
Speaker 1: that information in their heads and they are there there,
21:52
Speaker 1: there there. They feel they're blessed that is happening for them,
21:55
Speaker 1: but they also can can be overwhelmed by it. And
21:59
Speaker 1: so that's when I'm saying this really important. Oh, they
22:01
Speaker 1: can be overwhelmed by it. And so because of the
22:03
Speaker 1: fact that they do know, they know how much that
22:05
Speaker 1: two cars. When it goes bad, they know that mommy
22:09
Speaker 1: has to go get another one, and they really really
22:12
Speaker 1: don't want to, but they know that's the only way
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Speaker 1: they can compete because everything is down to a tenth
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Speaker 1: of a second that you can win or lose a major,
22:19
Speaker 1: major swimp meat and things like that. So so with
22:22
Speaker 1: that being said, what is the future for you, you know,
22:25
Speaker 1: for your company, for your brain? You know. I start
22:28
Speaker 1: off with this major introduction about you know, we got
22:31
Speaker 1: multi lingual, you know, and then you mentioned rushy and
22:34
Speaker 1: you try to reshine it's not many trips there, but
22:36
Speaker 1: there are trips. You know. Have Survibe two thousand eight.
22:39
Speaker 1: I'm in texasm and Jogia in Florida. You know. Yeah,
22:43
Speaker 1: you know something go bag. You can always pray about it. Yeah, yeah,
22:46
Speaker 1: Well I take a lot of turnaround trips, so I
22:49
Speaker 1: may leave at four in the morning and be back
22:51
Speaker 1: at four in the that's my girl. So my goal
22:54
Speaker 1: is that my children see me when they wake up
22:57
Speaker 1: and I make their breakfast, and they see me when
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Speaker 1: they get home because I will have made their dinner.
23:02
Speaker 1: So I put I use a lot of crop pots
23:05
Speaker 1: and things like that, and so dinner's ready. So when
23:07
Speaker 1: they get home, I'm there, you know, and I'm serving dinner.
23:10
Speaker 1: It's a very rare ocation that I'm not there, and
23:12
Speaker 1: I'm certainly at every every swim event. I don't miss
23:15
Speaker 1: any who. Now that's that's the family, that's that's work.
23:19
Speaker 1: Any charity, any foundations that you're tied to. Yes, I
23:23
Speaker 1: have a foundation. It is called Ella's Heart Foundation. It
23:27
Speaker 1: was a foundation that started started in memory of my mom.
23:31
Speaker 1: She uh as a young child, had rheumatic fever and
23:35
Speaker 1: at five o'clocks, I mean at five years old, she
23:39
Speaker 1: became a cook for the family because she couldn't go
23:43
Speaker 1: out and work like everybody else, like they had a
23:46
Speaker 1: feel so they had to work the field. But anyway,
23:50
Speaker 1: as her life progressed, she had heart problems and she
23:53
Speaker 1: had from Late Charles Louisiana, Louisiana. That sounds very well,
23:59
Speaker 1: Apple looses Louisiana. Are're gonna go back a little bit.
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Speaker 1: That's where she was. Everything is right up north of Lafaena.
24:09
Speaker 1: You gotta go to gotta go, gotta can't get through
24:11
Speaker 1: Houston unless you go to Lake Charles. That's exactly Golden Triangle.
24:15
Speaker 1: When you go through Vida and be poured off right,
24:21
Speaker 1: keep going, Okay, you don't want to have gas problems
24:29
Speaker 1: in no, no, not it still has their reputation for
24:32
Speaker 1: a very racist area right in the in the state
24:36
Speaker 1: of Texas, whether whether it's true or not. Within the
24:40
Speaker 1: black community, we are aware that that's not the neighborhood
24:43
Speaker 1: that you want to hang out in, yeah and seek help,
24:46
Speaker 1: right exactly, it might not be friendly help that you're
24:48
Speaker 1: gonna get. And so so we always drove. We drove
24:52
Speaker 1: the speed limit and we got through Vida all the time.
24:55
Speaker 1: But that that that life, you know, so you Louis,
24:58
Speaker 1: so you're Louisa in background Texas, that that that gives
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Speaker 1: you a sense of accomplishment with your life, I'm assuming yeah,
25:05
Speaker 1: it does, especially with the foundation and that we were
25:09
Speaker 1: talking about, and because I wanted to do something for
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Speaker 1: my mom. We were best friends and she loved children
25:16
Speaker 1: and UM and loved UM. UH express education a lot,
25:22
Speaker 1: especially with all of us. So the foundation supports UH
25:27
Speaker 1: scholarship for high school students and scholarship for students who
25:30
Speaker 1: would like to go to zoos and arboretums or you
25:33
Speaker 1: know the you know, the fine arts. So that's what
25:37
Speaker 1: the Ellis Heart Foundation is about. So we're partner with
25:40
Speaker 1: the American Heart Association and go Red for Women. So
25:44
Speaker 1: tell us how to reach you. That's that's the part
25:47
Speaker 1: of why we came on the show. Let everybody know
25:50
Speaker 1: to build those that revenue, the revenue the well. The
25:54
Speaker 1: our slogan at Weddington realtis married the home you love,
25:57
Speaker 1: So we help you marry the home you love. And
25:59
Speaker 1: we're located in Rosswell. I mean, I'm sorry on Rosswell
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Speaker 1: Road at thirty twenty Rosswell Road, and the office phone
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Speaker 1: number is six seven eight eight one nine three nine
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Speaker 1: o two. Again that number is six seven eight eight
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Speaker 1: one nine three nine o two. And I give you
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Speaker 1: my personal phone number and that's stuff four oh four
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Speaker 1: nine seven seven nine to two one. So now now
26:23
Speaker 1: they need to talk to me and they can. You
26:25
Speaker 1: can call me. Yeah, you have my personal phone number,
26:29
Speaker 1: give me a phone call, and yeah, this is how
26:32
Speaker 1: it works. I needs to talk to my customer. That's
26:35
Speaker 1: right number all the time. And uh if if people
26:42
Speaker 1: hear that number and they called me, pretty much, you're
26:45
Speaker 1: gonna know in a few seconds whether you should be
26:46
Speaker 1: talking to me anyway exactly. So I'll tell you you're
26:50
Speaker 1: not running me off my number exactly. That's how I
26:52
Speaker 1: feel too, not running me off. Yeah, you master the
26:57
Speaker 1: auto Okay, why you call it? And I asked what
27:00
Speaker 1: that means? What you can't do to me? Silver you
27:01
Speaker 1: can't call me and say, wish out what you're doing.
27:05
Speaker 1: I know what I'm doing. Why are you calling me?
27:08
Speaker 1: I know how to say that in the non rude manner,
27:11
Speaker 1: but you will know don't be calling me. And I
27:14
Speaker 1: really had my show got started, I said, I should
27:17
Speaker 1: I have. I don't have time for no non money
27:19
Speaker 1: making conversations, so much money making conversations. I want to
27:24
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on my show. I know that,
27:26
Speaker 1: Uh you know this is a place whenever you want
27:28
Speaker 1: to promote. Do you do any do you do any
27:31
Speaker 1: charity events for the foundation? Yes? I do. I actually
27:36
Speaker 1: with the American in conjunction with the American Hardest. Well,
27:40
Speaker 1: please let me know in the future if you need
27:41
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27:43
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27:45
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27:49
Speaker 1: know that you have a place to come to promote
27:50
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27:53
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27:56
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