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HBCU Alumni, Serial Entrepreneur, & Investor, Bryce Thompson, shares uplifting story of how he became a 25 year-old millionaire. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: a serial entrepreneur, event planner, investor in a business, mentor
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  Speaker 1: to millennials. At the age of twenty five, Bryce is
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  Speaker 1: considered an exception. He enjoys hosting events open to people
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  Speaker 1: of all ages and walks of life, but he caters
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  Speaker 1: primarily to the millennial mindset. Like every other black man
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  Speaker 1: in America, Bryce has felt the stings of racism, which
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  Speaker 1: which is sad. It's just twenty five, and think at
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  Speaker 1: my age, and you know which, I understand the era
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  Speaker 1: that I grew up in. It he wouldn't have to
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  Speaker 1: experience that, but he is. He's been subjected to the
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  Speaker 1: scrutiny and limitations of stereotypes and social structures designed to
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  Speaker 1: box those who looked like him in the life of
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  Speaker 1: mediography and of poverty. However, in spite of all this,
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  Speaker 1: he's called out a plan for success that is centered
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  Speaker 1: upon having an impact bigger than himself. He's the co
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  Speaker 1: founder of trade House Investment Group and chairman of it
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  Speaker 1: It'll All Makes Sense nonprofit. He's on the shore to
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  Speaker 1: talk about his new book, Millennials Accepted and Accepted. Please
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  Speaker 1: welcome to money Making Conversation. I'm calling a good friend
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  Speaker 1: because from Houston, Texas or the Missouri city, I knew
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  Speaker 1: exactly what that said. Bryce Thompson, you know, Bryce, how
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  Speaker 1: you doing? How are you doing? I'm happy to be
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  Speaker 1: or great? Bryce? Um that's that's you know, a twenty
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  Speaker 1: five man like going on in this book, brother, like
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  Speaker 1: going on a good last five years for sure. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the early years, because I think that's
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  Speaker 1: what lays the foundation. Um off Air. I was just
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  Speaker 1: telling you. I remember I was making decisions on where
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to go to college. LE gonna tell you
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  Speaker 1: some man, I didn't really want to go to college.
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  Speaker 1: You know, but I just thought I wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: a forklift driver. That's what I wanted. I was inspired
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  Speaker 1: when I was sixteen years old my first job by
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  Speaker 1: these by these guys, they were black men. They were
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  Speaker 1: living a good life driving forklifts and unloading trucks and life.
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  Speaker 1: I said, that's what I wanted to do. So I
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  Speaker 1: always feel that what you see it in early life
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  Speaker 1: could drive you to be what you can possibly be
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  Speaker 1: as you start to as send what inspired you as
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  Speaker 1: a young youth just to be the man that you
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  Speaker 1: are today, and you're still climbing to be even a
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  Speaker 1: bigger man than you are today. Talk to us about that, right, um, well,
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  Speaker 1: more more more surface level, I would say, uh, or
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  Speaker 1: or deeper rather, I would say my environment for one
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  Speaker 1: of my my mom especially always made sure I was in,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a really good environment. You know. First I
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  Speaker 1: started with school, uh you know. Then she was very
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  Speaker 1: particular about the people that I would hang around. So
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  Speaker 1: I was always surrounded around people that were out doing
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  Speaker 1: great things, like people that were out you know, striving
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  Speaker 1: for massive success. So in turn that inspired me. And
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  Speaker 1: then more serface level, my mom has always been an
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  Speaker 1: entrepreneurs she raised you know, me and my brother um
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  Speaker 1: strictly off of entrepreneurial income pretty much our whole lives.
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  Speaker 1: So that that really inspired me to go out and
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  Speaker 1: make something out of nothing. And then even more surface level,
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  Speaker 1: my older brother, uh, you know, he was the first
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  Speaker 1: person that I saw graduate college, you know, going to
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  Speaker 1: get a good job, and at the time for me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, going out getting a good job, especially a
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  Speaker 1: six figure income paying job. You know, that was you
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  Speaker 1: know seen in that as a kid or you know
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  Speaker 1: a college student. That was like my first figure of success.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, cool, I gotta go to college. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta graduate, I gotta get a good job. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: be successful. I gotta you know, be able to go
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  Speaker 1: out and support myself. So you know, early on, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I have to go out there and do something. I
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  Speaker 1: can't just stay at home and you know be you know,
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  Speaker 1: a regular, regular schegler. Well absolutely, I think that. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And when reading this book, you know, millions accepted and accepted, uh,
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  Speaker 1: because I always felt that when I was growing in life,
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  Speaker 1: I have been the accepted you there word or the acceptiontion.
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  Speaker 1: Guess basically what that is? You know, Well, people say
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  Speaker 1: I thought differently, I you know, I projected I'll come
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  Speaker 1: You know, I came from a black community. I grew up.
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  Speaker 1: I went to high school in Forest Brook in Houston, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Is not even opening the more effective touring the school
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  Speaker 1: down and as I so, my whole outlook was black.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I got him a bus to go downtown.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever black people on the bus. When I got back
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  Speaker 1: on the bus to go back to my house with
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  Speaker 1: other more black people on bus, it wasn't. I was
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  Speaker 1: eight teens. I started to see diversity in my life.
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  Speaker 1: And so when did you start seeing a diversity and
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  Speaker 1: like or was it always there? Because in your book
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  Speaker 1: you talk about how your mother it was very important
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  Speaker 1: that you have a diverse look perspective of life and
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  Speaker 1: it really kind of opened you up. Correct, right, absolutely, Um,
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  Speaker 1: I've pretty much lived a diverse life from as as
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  Speaker 1: long as I can remember, I would say early on,
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  Speaker 1: I you know, I remember being pretty much predominantly black,
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  Speaker 1: middle school and elementary. More so elementary. I just went
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  Speaker 1: to the neighborhood school and mis seriously, I don't went
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  Speaker 1: to Coil Valley. I don't know if you ever heard
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  Speaker 1: of Absolutely, Yeah, So I went to Core Valley Elementary School.
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  Speaker 1: And from what my mom tells me, and I can't
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  Speaker 1: really remember, but she remembers way way more than I do,
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  Speaker 1: I stood out from a lot of other students. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I made the best grades. I was at the top
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  Speaker 1: of my class, and my teachers they recommended, right and
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  Speaker 1: that my teachers recommended that she put me in, ah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a higher education like she put me around
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  Speaker 1: you know, people that that that were learning at a
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  Speaker 1: more elite level. So she started looking into, you know,
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  Speaker 1: higher learning schools around the area. She started looking in
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  Speaker 1: the private schools and then that's when you know, that
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  Speaker 1: was my first time going to private school back in
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  Speaker 1: the second half of like sixth grade. So I ended
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  Speaker 1: up getting into a private school um in the in
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  Speaker 1: the Houston area of Forben Foreben Academy. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you've heard of Foreben Academy. I'm just by Houston, man,
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  Speaker 1: this interview price. Oh yeah, you know more than other
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  Speaker 1: let me. But yeah, So I went. I went to
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  Speaker 1: Fort Been Academy, and that was like, that was the
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  Speaker 1: first time where I wasn't in a very diverse UM
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  Speaker 1: environment like I was. I was one of the very
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  Speaker 1: few African Americans. Um. You know, most of the students
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  Speaker 1: that I that I was going to school at the time,
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  Speaker 1: they were they came from pretty rich, wealthy, well off
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  Speaker 1: family household. So that wasn't me. It was a little more.
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  Speaker 1: I was more of an outlier for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: And but I still did really well in school. I
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  Speaker 1: still did I still did really well in sports. And
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  Speaker 1: first year, I got back into a diverse environment, um,
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  Speaker 1: but still at the top of my class I was into.
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  Speaker 1: I was in the be program. Still doing really well
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  Speaker 1: in school. Uh. And I also was playing sports at
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  Speaker 1: the time. So sports is what put me back into
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  Speaker 1: the private school environment because Lamar didn't have the best
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  Speaker 1: basketball program at the time. UM. At least my freshman year.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how, I don't know what it is
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  Speaker 1: right now, but I ended up looking into Westbury Christian.
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  Speaker 1: Westbury Christian had like top, top notch basketball program my
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  Speaker 1: freshman year, and I transferred back over the Westbury Christian.
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  Speaker 1: That was the first time I was in a environment
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  Speaker 1: where the education was a lot higher, but it was
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  Speaker 1: also still diverse. So it wasn't like a situation where
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was the only black kid, or I
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  Speaker 1: was the only, you know, kid that didn't come from
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  Speaker 1: a wealthy or rich family. It was it was a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of everything. And then when I went to
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  Speaker 1: Moor House, I went back into you know, this environment
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  Speaker 1: of like, okay, this everybody's African America, everybody's black. But
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that you know, really changed everything for
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  Speaker 1: me was the fact that I was at more House
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  Speaker 1: around a bunch of people that looked like me, came
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  Speaker 1: from similar backgrounds, but the common denominator of all of
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  Speaker 1: us was we really like everybody wanted to be successful
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  Speaker 1: at more House like that was like that that was
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  Speaker 1: a need. It was an assessment, like you needed You're
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  Speaker 1: going to more House, that are just just having that
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  Speaker 1: title attached to your name like you had to become
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  Speaker 1: you had to become something, which which was really interesting
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  Speaker 1: because you know, you wanted to go to Harvard, but
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  Speaker 1: you technically with the Harvard you know. And that's more
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  Speaker 1: when you look at the legacies that's tied to that
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  Speaker 1: post from a from a from an academic standpoint, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm always a proponent of advocate, I should say of
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  Speaker 1: what HBCUs. You know, eighty percent of the black doctors
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  Speaker 1: and Dennis come from HBCUs. Four the percent of the
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  Speaker 1: members of Congress who are black come from Hbcusif of
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  Speaker 1: the public who teachers who are black con from hsbc US,
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  Speaker 1: from hsbc U. So you went to Harvard, you know,
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  Speaker 1: West Christian Academy, that was a competitive environment. Because that
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  Speaker 1: was just explaining everybody what he was talking about. Lamar
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  Speaker 1: University in Houston, right off a West Tim is a
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  Speaker 1: football powerhouse. I mean that's a bad school. Now what's
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  Speaker 1: in the Christian Academy? They recruit people like he might
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  Speaker 1: be Bryce might be good, but they won't let him
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  Speaker 1: know that they're bringing in full more goods. And so
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  Speaker 1: that puts you in another competitive environment. So you've always
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  Speaker 1: been in a competitive environment. You've always been challenged physically
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  Speaker 1: to be better than the person sitting right next to you.
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  Speaker 1: So that probably played very well for you in the
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  Speaker 1: lanes that you're successful in now, correct, absolutely or now
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  Speaker 1: with that being said, when you when you when you
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  Speaker 1: had the option to go to Priview full Ride, full Ride,
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  Speaker 1: the book talks about it, you know, and uh previous
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  Speaker 1: an excellent institution right down the street by forty five
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  Speaker 1: fifty minutes from Houston, Texas. Dad took you down. Now,
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  Speaker 1: but that cut didn't sit right from you. Why didn't
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  Speaker 1: he sit right for you? Um? You know, for it
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  Speaker 1: didn't give me that like even though I got a
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  Speaker 1: full ride and you know, it wasn't too far from home,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't for the first time, I just didn't feel
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  Speaker 1: like I would be competing at an elite level. I
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  Speaker 1: felt like I wouldn't be, you know, surrounded around, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of people that necessarily I don't know like that.
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  Speaker 1: It was just that it factor that I was looking for,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why I wanted to go to Harvard. Harvard.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's Harvard. Like you hear Harvard, it's yo,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to Prayer of you. And it was it
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  Speaker 1: was more common coming from where I'm from, like you're
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  Speaker 1: from Houston, Texas. Even from a Zuri City, Texas. Mostly
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  Speaker 1: You know when I say changed your life from a perspective.
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  Speaker 1: My degree is in mathematics, okay, and my minors in sociology.
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  Speaker 1: I graduated from University Houston, like I went to college
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  Speaker 1: because like in your book and tell you talk about
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's the way of the world. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you go to high school, you graduated high school, and
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  Speaker 1: Again that good. I always love you follow your gut,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like I said. And so when you were
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  Speaker 1: during an internship program in Cleveland, great job, great opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: you know, eight to five. But every time you started
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  Speaker 1: every day, the excitement of going according to your book
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  Speaker 1: started diminishing. And that's when you start understanding and admitting
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  Speaker 1: to yourself at such an young age, this is not
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  Speaker 1: for me. Talk about that for sure. So first and
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: foremot let me just you know, just add on to that.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I drove an hour to work every single morning, and
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: that was, like, you know, that was a little different
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: for me, the first time I ever experienced anything like that.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: So I'm driving an hour, so it's more so like
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: a seven to five or six to five. I had
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: to wake up at six, leave by seven, get to
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: work by eight, so it was more like a sixto
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  Speaker 1: pob And as I'm driving, you know, you're driving and
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  Speaker 1: you're waking up. Really, you know, it has to be
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  Speaker 1: something to motivate you to do that every morning. And
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  Speaker 1: for me, the only thing that was motivating me was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if I didn't make it to work on time,
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't offer me a job back, or you know,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't get paid. But you know, it got to
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  Speaker 1: the point where I felt like I didn't even want
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  Speaker 1: a job back, Like I didn't even I didn't even
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  Speaker 1: care if they offered me a full time, full time
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: job because this isn't you know, I felt like, this
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  Speaker 1: is a part time job. And for me, it was
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: like a part time sacrifice. Like sacrifices are temporary for
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  Speaker 1: you to live, you know, the way that you really
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  Speaker 1: want to. So I understood for me that you know,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: that job was something that I I necessarily had to
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: do to get to where I wanted to go at
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the at the at that specific time. But for me,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: it was just part of the really building a foundation.
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  Speaker 1: Like I still you know, I owe that job, uh,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: you know, as as far as being a reason to
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: my success now, like I you know, some of the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: people that I met and some of the things that
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I learned, and you know, just it was just a
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: humbling experience for me. And and now that I can,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I can speak to it a little bit different when
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  Speaker 1: I'm when I'm talking to people that are interested in
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: what I do, or you know, they want to be
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur and they don't know exactly how to go
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: about it. But yeah, no, that that was the first
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: time I was making a little bit of money, like
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: I was making good money for college students. But you know,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I always remember, like I tell people, my experience that
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I be and has always been a blessing because he
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: taught me structure. And that's what you're talking about right now,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: all right, right, working that and in it stage with you.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: You know, at the time, I didn't really understand what
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: it was. It just work to me. They sent me
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: off the courses and I would always based in Houston.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: It would send me to Atlanta to train and and
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and those same disciplines that I did I experience, I
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: still apply today. And so for my entrepreneur standpoint. Entrepreneur standpard,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: when you're talking to people, you all you're doing is
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: about discipline. Like you said, you got up at six
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to start driving in seventh to arrive at eight. That's
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the same principle you have to do if you're an entrepreneur.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: You just can't be just because you run your company.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, you can't get up at seven one day,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: eight o'clock the next day, or nine o'clock next day
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: or six o'clock next day. There has to be consistency.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: And that's what your book talked about talks about it's
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: consistency as an entrepreneur, consistency to achieve your goals. Why
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: was that so important to you to reveal that side
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: of secrecy of secrets, you know, because we always want
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: to know the secrets to success. But that that that
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that that's becomes a profound dialogue in your book, right um, Now, Yeah,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: consistency is a big deal, and you know that's that's
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: really the difference. It's I find it to be easy
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: to be consistent when you know you're heading in a
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: direction of where you want to go. Like, you know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: when I was working that job, he it was a
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: lot harder to consistently wake up every morning knowing that
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: this isn't something that I want to do. And no
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: matter how early I wake up, no matter how many
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: donuts I bring to the office, no matter how many
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: how much coffee I buy everybody at the office, I'm
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: still gonna get paid the same amount. I'm still gonna,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: you know, do the same thing that I did yesterday.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Like the project's never really changed, And you know, I
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: wasn't really living I felt I felt like I wasn't
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: really living in my purpose. I felt like I was
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: just another number, and once I became an entrepreneur, Yeah,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I can still wake up early, if not earlier, I
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: could stay up later, if not later, because every every
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: morning that I wake up, this is another opportunity for
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: me to do something that's gonna get me closer to
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the lifestyle that I really only get to see in
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: my sleep. But you know, when you work in a job,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: you can wake up earlier, wake up at the same time,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: ware of a little later, You're still gonna get the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: same results. You know, entrepreneurship it as far as the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: consistency goes, it should be a whole lot easier for
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: anybody because one, you can't put a cap on your income.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: As an entrepreneur, you can always do something to increase it,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: and you can really focus on the things that you
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: love to do and make an income out of that,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: find a way to support yourself out of that. Absolutely,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to Bryce Thompson, the author of Millions Accepted,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Accepted and Accepted. One of the things that really now
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: we we've we we we we talked about a journey
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: after this point. We talked about the early stage from
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: grade school, middle school, high school, earliers of college. You
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: were focused to be an entrepreneur. You opportunely focused to
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: be a nine to five or for the hour week guy.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: He's working on this engineering degree. And then suddenly your
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: older brother said the magic word to you, bit coin.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Bit coin change your life for seventeen come on now
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and then. And then when you try to help out
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: this young lady, she stepped back on you. But you
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: think good that you didn't say her name, because she
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: probably track you down and beat you up. She know
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: you're trying to tell her, but she has so much doubt.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: And that's what you can. Like you said, you can't
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: take everybody to success. You can talk to him about it,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: but they have to have the dream locked in and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: understand what you're trying to communicate with them. But that
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: that your older brother who would graduated from college, who
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: showed you the way. Here you are at more House.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: You have not completed college, but he showed you an
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: opportunity that it was too much to pass up. Talked
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: about that journey into into the world, a big calm
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and also investments. Right. Um, Well, you, like I said
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: in the beginning, my my older brother, you know it
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: was one of my motivations to becoming successful and you know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: doing something and making something out of my out of myself.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: So you know, when he gave me an opportunity, it's
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: not I'm not gonna question I'm not gonna question it
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: too much, no matter what it is, as long as
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: it's legal, Like I'm not really gonna question it, of course,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: you know, of course against my morals. But you know,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: like we come from the same place as my older brother.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: When he introduced me to you know, cryptocurrencies and investing, um,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: it was it was like Chinese to me. It was
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: like a foreign language. But at the same time, you know,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I'm I wasn't scared to learn something new, especially being
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: at my job and that you know that that's why
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: that job plays a significant part of my story because
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I think I was more motivated because of what I
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: was going through, you know, as an employee over the summer.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: So when he is the time and the time and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: was just perfect. So when he gave it to me,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: not only was I making I was making a little
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: bit of money. So it's hard to invest when you
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: don't have anything doing best, so I was it was
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: for the first time I was making you know, I had,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I had some pocket, I had some money in my pocket.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: So I leveraged that money, that a little bit of
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: money that I had in my pocket, and I started
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: making a little bit of money on top of my money.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: And you know, it wasn't a whole lot, but at
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the time I realized, like, you know, this isn't a
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: lot of money, but this is for me, for a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: college student, for the average person, you know, this this
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: could help him out a whole lot. And that was
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the first time that I started talking about I started
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: telling my friends, I started you know, telling my family members,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: start really showing them and like you said that, you
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: know the girl that you just mentioned, that's why. That's
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: when I that's when I really ran into you know,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: that that feeling of rejection that every entrepreneur is going
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to experience, right that that rejection feeling like she she
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: rejected me. I tried to show her, tried to I
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: feel like it could help her, and she shot me down.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Made me feel like what I was doing wasn't a
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: big deal. And that was my first time experiencing that.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Not I I even old, you know, a lot of
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: my seat work, at least a significant part of my
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: success in early on to her like I really I
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: appreciate that she that she you know, because you know something, man,
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  Speaker 1: you have a lot of values like me. Bright. It's
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: just that I would tell people when they tell me
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  Speaker 1: no or they reject me, my goal is to get
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  Speaker 1: in front of you. I always tell people, I put
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  Speaker 1: my car in front of your bumper. That's my goal.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: If you if I'm in front of your bumper, that
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: means you can't go around me. And plus you have
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  Speaker 1: to get my license and find out who in front
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  Speaker 1: of me. So that's all too. You had that mentality,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: so you put your car. Your goal is to put
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  Speaker 1: your car in front of hers. Fortunately it didn't take much, okay,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: because you mean just during it ran off the road.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: That's how quickly you got in front of her. And
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: she said, on the side of the road called triple A.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: But it was too late because you're going about your business.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: But the beauty of this is the and the and
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the sad part of this is that you know, spite
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: six says, despite doing the right way, you were stereotyped.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: You know, you put in jail, told you're gonna be
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: in jail for ten days. It wasn't for your frapp
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: brother who was there and able to get you out
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: of jail, you know, telling what direction that would put you,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: to tell her what stereotype situation that would have led
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: to even more incarceration or more frustration. That's just you
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: know that even though you can do it right, because
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: of the nature of racism, it's still con stereotype you.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: But the focused point of what I really like about you.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: You know you started the Trade House Investment Group with
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: three of your boys. You know you also did that.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: You also have the HBCU Scholarship campaign. Did you do
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: with the scholar app? And if anybody knows what the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: scholar app is, it's an online search platform that helps
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: high school seniors you know, uh and current undergraduates and
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: graduate students match and win scholarships. In that he has
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a HBCU scholarship. And by the way, Privy n M
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: is one of the school on this platform along with Hampton,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: how you know, living Stone all in more House of course.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: So my whole thing is that when when I sit
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: down and talk to you, Bryce man, this this book
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: which I'm definitely gonna recommend to a lot of people.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: In fact, I'm gonna feature you on my Motivational Monday.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: So in a couple of weeks on Mondays, I feature
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: people I think who are making a difference in this
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: world and I highlight their success story. And your story
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: needs to be highlights. In a couple of weeks, I'm
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: gonna recommend people to get your book. Highlight you on
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: my Motivational Mondays. I've done everybody from Shack uh Rick
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Ross was a couple of weeks ago, so uh to
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: this week. I think I got Will Packer was today
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: as Will Packer, He's been highlighted this week. So next
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: week I gonna be my man, Bryce Thompson. This book
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: is worth it, I'm recommending. I know people have told
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: you interview by Rushan McDonald get ready, But brother, I
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: was ready for you because you're an inspiration. You are
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: my You are what I worked hard to to make happen.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: You know, I feel that anything that I do when
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I welcome you into my studio, realized that it's a
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: blessed it for me because it's an honor to understand
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: your values that you were able to understand at such
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: an early age. I didn't figured it out to allud
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: forty Okay, you figured it out, you know, when you
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: was twenty two, all right, and you're willing to share
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: it to your scholarships through your I Am Millennial events.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: The last one was at the hard Rock Stadium, you know,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: with h your brother came over here brag and telling
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: me all these thousands of thousands of people showing up.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: But I love both of y'all, man. But uh, And
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: just wrapping up this interview, rights anything you want to
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: say to your to your potential new fans and why
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: they should really invest in reading your book. Millennials accepted
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and accepted. Um. One thing you know, I do wanna
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: you know, say some light on not really just anybody
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: that's a just supports me, but any upcoming entrepreneur um,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: anybody that you know wants to to to make something greater,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: to do something greater, to get some something greater, to
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: acquire something great. Uh. The one thing worse than not
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: having something or acquiring what you want to acquire is
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: actually getting it and then losing it. So you know
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: what's big for me and just my whole journey and
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: how I came into the entrepreneurial space and what I'm
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna continue to share light on not just
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: in my book, but even specifically within my events. Um,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: just as financial literacy. I think, you know, especially a
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: lot of people specifically of color, we you know, we
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: come into money or we work so hard to gain something,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: but we never really understand the power of what it's
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: gonna be like once we have it, and we never
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: really educate ourselves on, you know, what what to do
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: when we actually get it. People know how to make money,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: people know how to spend money, save money. Not a
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: lot of people know how to multiply money. So you know,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: just the power of investing and knowing what to do
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: with your money and knowing how to move when you
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: acquire a certain level of success is gonna uh you know,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: in turn allow you to keep it once you gain it.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: And I think that's that's that's one of the most
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: powerful things that I want to share light on, especially
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: for young entrepreneurs that look look like me. Once you
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: once you actually get it, you know, our job is
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: to keep it, like our job is to have it
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: ten twenty thirty years down the line, so we could
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: pass it down to the next generation. But um, for Sean, again,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I appreciate the opportunity like you know, people tell me
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: about this, but I've been on fifteen twenty minutes early
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: to make shows on and I'm looking forward to you know,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: hopefully talking to meet you in the future. Over will
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Man again, thank you for coming on the show, Bryce Thompson.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: He'll be featured on my Motivational on Monday on my
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Facebook or almost a million followers on this so a
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: lot of people gonna see you. Millions accepted and accepted
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and my man, thanks for coming on Money Making Conversations. Okay, cool,
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