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Rushion Interviews Chef Jernard Wells, Host and Celebrity Chef, Food Network and Cleo TV | Star of the OWN Series, Ladies Who List: Atlanta, Attorney Tiffani Hawes! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations Masterclass. I am your host,
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  Speaker 1: next guest is a dear friend chef Jernard Wells. He's
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  Speaker 1: annoyed winning TV hosts, celebrity chef, best selling cookbook author,
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  Speaker 1: and best known from numerous appearances on the Food Network
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  Speaker 1: and Cooking Channel shows. He's the host of New Soul
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  Speaker 1: Kitchen remix on Cleo TV. Is the co host on
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  Speaker 1: The Best Thing They Have eight, which I hate watching
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  Speaker 1: him on that because it just makes me mad because
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  Speaker 1: the food looks so good. He's already a great chef,
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  Speaker 1: but then when he's talking about it, he is. He is.
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  Speaker 1: He is all the right term of knowledge to make
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  Speaker 1: you want to reach through the TV and grab it.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see him on the Cooking Channel? New Soul
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  Speaker 1: Kitchen is preparing for a new season after winning three
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  Speaker 1: national awards in his first season. The show is geared
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  Speaker 1: towards the black millennial woman because of their unique style
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  Speaker 1: of preparing food compared to the previous generation. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the show's direction and being more health conscious for
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  Speaker 1: today's healthy lifestyle and his new cookbook coming out November,
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  Speaker 1: First Southern Inspired more than one hundred recipes from My
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  Speaker 1: American Table to Yours. Please the Money Making Conversations Masterclass
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  Speaker 1: jar Wells. Hello, thank you for having me, I am
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  Speaker 1: doing good. You know, hey, I think you you got
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  Speaker 1: a damn packed. I spend so much time with you
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  Speaker 1: on the introduction, but I well, first of all, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: I got to share a kitchen with you several weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago last year in December, and got to watch how
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  Speaker 1: gifted you really are, you know, and how simple you
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  Speaker 1: make something that looks difficult and it really you know,
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  Speaker 1: it really is an art form. And so it's like anything.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if Jordan walks on the floor, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you just gonna say, you know, the king on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: Same thing with Lebron. So I play around in the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: chef enor Wales, you the king brother. I received that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, hey, it's it's time and time and practice
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  Speaker 1: and practice and practice. But look, you know how to
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  Speaker 1: throw down, so I can even if you do of
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  Speaker 1: the holiday. So I tell what you can do. You
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  Speaker 1: know what it really amazed me was how you able
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  Speaker 1: to take cabbages, you know, And I make this big
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  Speaker 1: announcement alright, I planted my new guarden this weekend. I
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  Speaker 1: put cutecomas down, I put collar greens down, cabbages, Brussels sprouts.
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  Speaker 1: For the very first time, I put us sweeping down
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  Speaker 1: the peppers palapeenia green, yellow bell peppers. I got uh my,
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  Speaker 1: my my husky cherry tomatoes on the back row, along
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  Speaker 1: my beefsteak tomatoes in the back row. And then I
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  Speaker 1: added a row of strawberries back there, and then I
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  Speaker 1: got a row of catalopes and a royal watermelons. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm ready, I'm ready. When when you're yet?
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  Speaker 1: Because the reason the reason I'm bringing up that because
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  Speaker 1: you talk about healthy food living, because that's a good
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  Speaker 1: way to invite yourself into the healthy lifestyle. Because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not buying products that are traditionally buying the store with
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  Speaker 1: some people shot away from because of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: they feel of that there's a lot of pesticides being used.
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  Speaker 1: They're not being they're not being sold to the general
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  Speaker 1: public and a healthy format. And talk about that chef
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  Speaker 1: to Darwells, you know, and one of the biggest keys
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  Speaker 1: is that this is so smart what you what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing with your your space creatively growing it because it's
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  Speaker 1: all about knowing what's in your food. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: we we we we've heard time and time again, well
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  Speaker 1: my my, my, my grandparents, my great grandparents, they ate
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  Speaker 1: this and they live to be eighty ninety years old.
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  Speaker 1: And what's the difference now, It is what's being put
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  Speaker 1: in the food and what's being put on the food.
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  Speaker 1: So when you take time to even start growing your
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  Speaker 1: own urge, your own vestials, now you truly know what
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  Speaker 1: it is that you're cooking and you control what's being
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  Speaker 1: put in it, which ultimately, by doing it long enough,
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  Speaker 1: you chased the outcome of what you're putting in your
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  Speaker 1: body and your family body. There also, it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a lifestyle, and the lifestyle is is how do
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  Speaker 1: we bridge the gett of great food and keeping it
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  Speaker 1: health hunters at the same time. And that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that I spent so much time teaching people
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  Speaker 1: only so KidSing them so kids remix, and also how
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  Speaker 1: to do it in the fraction of the time. With
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  Speaker 1: that fraction of the time, what messed over me was
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  Speaker 1: when you did the cabbages. I'm gonna tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: I was sitting over there, you know, because like he
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  Speaker 1: tells you, You'll tell you. I think I could cook,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can cook all bake until I get
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  Speaker 1: people like him. Then I was like, I'm just staring
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  Speaker 1: going Okay, that's how you really do it. So when
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  Speaker 1: you look at that skills set, just like anything, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like shooting free throws if you're an athlete. It's
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  Speaker 1: like you know, running for a touchdown passing if you're
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver and an athlete. Is it something natural? Because
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  Speaker 1: you know your mom was a pastry shell, what did
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  Speaker 1: this talent start to become an honest gift for you
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  Speaker 1: that you wanted to pursue shift your nord wealth? You know,
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  Speaker 1: one of one of the biggest things is my mom
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  Speaker 1: was a patry chef from my father was a chef.
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  Speaker 1: And when my parents made these strategic decision to move
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  Speaker 1: us from Chicago, where I was born and raised the
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  Speaker 1: air love part of my my life, to Mississippi, where
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  Speaker 1: my great grandparents owned two farm land, it was a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a culture shock that I have to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: But what it is stealed in me having the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to be raised on the farm and and cultivate croc crops,
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  Speaker 1: live stock, the smoke house that my great grandfather used
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  Speaker 1: to smoke hands and turkeys, and oh so amazed and
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  Speaker 1: spending that time in the kitchen with my mother and
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  Speaker 1: father cooking. You know. It wasn't that they were instilling
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  Speaker 1: any Jannardi you need to cook. It was a way
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  Speaker 1: of life because we know food bridges people together in
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  Speaker 1: the community was always migrating around us because our house,
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  Speaker 1: our family was always is known as the cooking family.
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  Speaker 1: And the and the biggest thing was what I loved
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  Speaker 1: about it is the reactions people give when they eat
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  Speaker 1: great food. And that's one of the things that made
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  Speaker 1: me want to gravitate in and going into culinary arts
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  Speaker 1: of life later on, is because the art form of
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  Speaker 1: how it makes people feel when you're cooking something good.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the art of breaking bread, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's a whole ritual around and you think
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  Speaker 1: about it, Hey, when when people are celebrating, Hey we
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  Speaker 1: gotta promotional job. Let's go out to eat weddings, it's
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  Speaker 1: all about the reception, you know, or just having gatherings over.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what really made me fall in love with
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  Speaker 1: cooking was the process of how once I go through
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  Speaker 1: instilling who I am, how it made people react to it,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And it started earlier, right absolutely, when I
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  Speaker 1: look at the talent, because you are a talent and
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  Speaker 1: we know that, especially cable TV and now streaming TV,
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  Speaker 1: have made celebrities out of chefs, and you are a
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  Speaker 1: celebrity chef. Uh. You know, when I represented I represented
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  Speaker 1: many talented people in life, most notally Steve Harvey currently
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  Speaker 1: represent stephen A. Smith. When I would take Steve Harvey
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  Speaker 1: to the Today's Show or Good Morning America or whatever show,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there was a certain reverence. They were excited about, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: Steve's here. And so when I see you on TV,
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  Speaker 1: you're becoming that star that that how you welcomed on
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  Speaker 1: these shows and are you're starting to feel they knew
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  Speaker 1: who I am because you know, when you get on
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  Speaker 1: the stow you just happen to be on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're starting to be on these shows so often
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  Speaker 1: they kind of know who you are, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: certain level of expectations, especially from the producers of these
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  Speaker 1: TV shows. Talk about that change in your brand as well. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and and over time the brand extremely grown where when
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  Speaker 1: I where we don't have to reach out to these
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  Speaker 1: networks to have me on their shows What's Today, Good
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  Speaker 1: morn America they reach out to They reach out to
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  Speaker 1: much to my team and I and it really feels
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  Speaker 1: good walking on the show and being at a point
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  Speaker 1: in life where the brand and my culinary point of
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  Speaker 1: view speaks for a set, because for so long people
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  Speaker 1: always wonder, Okay, what is his unique style, what is
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  Speaker 1: this his way of cooking? What messages he bringing? And
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  Speaker 1: and and ultimately we know, hey, it's now. Um. It
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  Speaker 1: went from the Shelf of Love to the Family Chef
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  Speaker 1: because it's about showing people how we come together with food.
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  Speaker 1: But with my new book that's coming out that you
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  Speaker 1: that you mentioned earlier, Southern Inspired My American Table, I
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  Speaker 1: am diving into it a lot further and explaining how
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  Speaker 1: our art cuisine, especially from the African American coach to
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  Speaker 1: contribute so much to the American table and what we see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I even give outside of giving amazing
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  Speaker 1: recipes that I created with my family growing up, and
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  Speaker 1: even it's in rolling over to now with my children,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get history explaining about like why we use oprah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, oprah is one of those ingredients that's truly
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  Speaker 1: indigenous to the African culture, and ochre is one of
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  Speaker 1: those ingredients or or vestials. They came over when slaves
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  Speaker 1: was brought over because they didn't know where they were
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  Speaker 1: going they went, nor if they were going to have
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  Speaker 1: food to eat. So you know what they did, They
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  Speaker 1: hit the ochre seeds in their braids so when they
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  Speaker 1: came over they were able to plant and start growing
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  Speaker 1: these and ochre is normally used as a thinker for students,
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  Speaker 1: for gumbos and things like that. And these are things
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  Speaker 1: that I talked about and I share in Southern inspired
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  Speaker 1: and while we cook the way we cook and love
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  Speaker 1: the food that we loved. Last year, I grew oprah
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  Speaker 1: in my garden and that's a tough loom plant. That man,
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  Speaker 1: it was like I was like caught off Guard's just
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  Speaker 1: a tough look. The really have to you know, really
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  Speaker 1: have to sauted and slowly. It's not something you just
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  Speaker 1: throw in there because to get it soft you have
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  Speaker 1: to know that background about it. And so because I
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  Speaker 1: was not even by it. And that's the great thing,
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  Speaker 1: like you're talking about, you're talking about the history where
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  Speaker 1: it came from, Why it is the way it is
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  Speaker 1: because of our ancestors used that knew it was a
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  Speaker 1: sturdy crop. I knew what it was purpose because I
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  Speaker 1: love you know, okra and tomatoes. That's my favorite right there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always had it made. So you know my smarty
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  Speaker 1: pants say, well, you know I got the majors got
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  Speaker 1: some ocra, man, I would not think, Man, it's some
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  Speaker 1: hard oak. And I had to learn and educate myself.
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  Speaker 1: And so even though you can do these gardens, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't know the history, doesn't know the relationship or
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  Speaker 1: what this food is about, it also contempor your success
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  Speaker 1: in the kitchen. And that's what your cookbook is gonna
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  Speaker 1: help us get through. Yes it is. It's so true.
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  Speaker 1: While while making you knowledgeable and giving you the education
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  Speaker 1: of peace on as they say, how do we know
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  Speaker 1: where we're going if we don't know where we came from?
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  Speaker 1: And and seeing the creativity other unique food, even all
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  Speaker 1: the way down to grits, we know, especially when we
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  Speaker 1: think about shrimp and grits. Hey, they had derived from
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  Speaker 1: Charts to South Carolina. But one of the fool things
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  Speaker 1: was the African culture. They were growing. They were growing grits,
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  Speaker 1: and they were growing the weak the barley. You know,
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  Speaker 1: at one point they were producing some of the rice
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  Speaker 1: and everything gilse. They was producing enough props coming out
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  Speaker 1: of South out of South Carolina where it was enough
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  Speaker 1: to aford the United States. That's how much it and
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  Speaker 1: they were important. We were thinking that, Hey, when we
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  Speaker 1: hear about rice, we think about coming out of Asia
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  Speaker 1: and that being the biggest, the biggest import exports. But
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  Speaker 1: at one time, that freaking Carolina gold rice, it was
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  Speaker 1: sweeping the nation where we were, we were supplying those
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  Speaker 1: countries with it. And if we had we possessed such
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  Speaker 1: a scheme where we mastered the art of how to
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  Speaker 1: grow it and grow up phenomenally well and keep it
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  Speaker 1: growing to this day. Right, we'll be right back with
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  Speaker 1: more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's
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  Speaker 1: return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when you think about all these things and putting together
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  Speaker 1: a book, because they said it's one hundred recipes, more
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  Speaker 1: than one hundred said, more than one hundred delicious recipes
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  Speaker 1: from my American table to yours. You've been doing this
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. You've done books in the past.
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  Speaker 1: What separates this book from the previous books? And how
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  Speaker 1: did you start Because people have asked me to do,
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  Speaker 1: you know, cookbooks, and I sat down and I started
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  Speaker 1: doing it. It's a lot of want it is. It's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of work I have to this. This has
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  Speaker 1: been probably my my longest project on writing and creating
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  Speaker 1: a book because we've really done it. We really wanted
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  Speaker 1: this to be a master for master for peace that
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  Speaker 1: I created, and of course the differences all of my books.
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  Speaker 1: I put out a total over five different books, and
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  Speaker 1: over the course of those years of creating those books,
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  Speaker 1: one of the things is is I wanted to tell
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  Speaker 1: a story. I wanted to tell the story around creating
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  Speaker 1: these recipes. I wanted to tell the story of how
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  Speaker 1: they were born, what what made him come about? And
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  Speaker 1: being also not to mention, my other books were self published,
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  Speaker 1: and this one is actually I signed a publishing deal
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  Speaker 1: last year, so this one is actually gonna be nationwide
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  Speaker 1: national through Actually I mean he, I mean, you gotta check, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta check and said, let me said he worked
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  Speaker 1: the hardest ever because they gave a check up from Hey. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a motivational a fact we must say. But
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: the thing is, wasn't the key things when we talk
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: about money making conversations, as they always say, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to wait, you don't have to wait for a
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  Speaker 1: seat at the table when you can build your own table.
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  Speaker 1: And I learned that early in the game when I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a brand, I didn't have a name, but
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  Speaker 1: I was a chef and I had great recipes, and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have the opportunity to to for a major
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  Speaker 1: publisher pay attention. So I started writing my own coople.
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  Speaker 1: I started sending them through copy editing to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that it was done right. And then after I wrote
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  Speaker 1: those books self published them. I had I got out
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  Speaker 1: of beat the payment and marketed and showed my books
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  Speaker 1: to the point of where I made Barnes and Noble
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to me as a self published author because
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  Speaker 1: I was generating sales. So all those things played played
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  Speaker 1: a major part. And when a major publisher approached me,
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  Speaker 1: I actually had something to bring to the table, show Hey,
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  Speaker 1: if I could do this by myself and my own
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  Speaker 1: man power, imagine what we can do together. And so
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  Speaker 1: so it's true, it's true. It's truly been a blessing
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  Speaker 1: owned on just really just bringing forth this and the
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  Speaker 1: other recipes were recipes in my in my previous books,
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  Speaker 1: were recipes that I learned that I picked up from
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  Speaker 1: traveling around the world and different things, and this book,
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  Speaker 1: Southern Inspired. I really wanted to tap into the roots
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  Speaker 1: of my foundation and the style of cooking. You know,
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of people intend to say when when
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about recipes, and especially from your southea African America,
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  Speaker 1: Oh you you you could sol food? Right? No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't could sol food. And this is the thing. So food,
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  Speaker 1: as I always tell people, so food is American cuisine.
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  Speaker 1: So food is the is the cuisine that the backbone
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  Speaker 1: of America was buil though when when when slaves came over,
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  Speaker 1: they took their they took the culture and their recipes
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  Speaker 1: for African civilization that merged with Western civilization, and hence
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  Speaker 1: this cuisine was born. If you think about it, doing
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  Speaker 1: those times when our cuisine, when we were cooking and
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  Speaker 1: and and feeding our cuisine to the masses as slaves,
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  Speaker 1: it was us in the in the in the plantation
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  Speaker 1: houses cooking. It was our cuisine. But then when that cuisine,
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  Speaker 1: when they realized how great this cuisine he was in
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  Speaker 1: this cuisine had a monetary value around it, it was
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  Speaker 1: stripped away from us. So when you hear if you
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  Speaker 1: see me, a person would say, okay, it's so. But
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  Speaker 1: if you see anyone else that don't look like me
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  Speaker 1: and would be considered American cuisine, which is one and
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  Speaker 1: the same. But it's about the person who's bringing in
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  Speaker 1: the how we create these dishes, and then not about
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  Speaker 1: all the heavy pasioners that say cooking with fat back
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  Speaker 1: and all those different things, these recipes that have been
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  Speaker 1: modified for today's healthy lifestyle. So you can, as they say,
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  Speaker 1: you can have your cake head even too. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you say American cuisine is a so food, you
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  Speaker 1: automagical thing, high blood pressure, you know, diabetes. We said
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  Speaker 1: so food, American cuisine Automagican field sound white sound, culture
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  Speaker 1: sounds like everything's cooked correctly, you know, measured correctly. And
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  Speaker 1: it really is how people can define your your culture,
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  Speaker 1: defining your eating habits, and and be eating the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, corporates, you know rice, you know, you know
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because I know I remember,
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  Speaker 1: I remember a long time ago, when I was growing up,
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  Speaker 1: you could go get a chicken pot pie three four
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  Speaker 1: dollar chicken pop, and I remember there was this restaurant
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  Speaker 1: so that same chicken pop pop, but they made it
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  Speaker 1: for twenty dollars, you know, twenty dollars not but that
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  Speaker 1: same chicken poper because you're not You're not gonna change
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  Speaker 1: the inflexibles in there. It's still that chicken and there's
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  Speaker 1: still that broader there. Steal that dope. You went over
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  Speaker 1: the Crockers three four dollars, I went in this restaurant
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  Speaker 1: twenty dollars. It's how you sell it, it's how you
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  Speaker 1: put it. And so in your book, your Teller's eight,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna do it. We'll understand when a different time period,
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  Speaker 1: Healthy Conscious Eden hundred recipes. Now, we talked about old
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  Speaker 1: crewk we talked about you know what, we ain't talked
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  Speaker 1: about getting this dessert snap. You know you gotta tell
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  Speaker 1: us about what's coming out of the dessert and that
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  Speaker 1: because you're gonna get me mad if you don't start
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  Speaker 1: talking about some dessert. I'm gonna end this phone call
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  Speaker 1: because everybody else I'm the dessert king. Yes, yes, and
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  Speaker 1: I have. Look, there's problem about thirties some different recipes
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  Speaker 1: from from strawberry trifle kades all the way down to
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  Speaker 1: our signature banana. Looksure, look sure a banana putting with
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  Speaker 1: my mom. I'm saying that what I'm saying, she's ain't
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  Speaker 1: look cool, look cool, look cool. See is a bank.
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  Speaker 1: But now the putting guy here, Mr Rob. See, that's
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  Speaker 1: what happ when you're when your mom a pastry, shall
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  Speaker 1: your dad and shell two acres, he's educated, look cool.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even come to look cool. But now he
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  Speaker 1: has a book. Well, just what we're gonna do when
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  Speaker 1: you when you when the book comes out, it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: come out November first. Correct. Okay, We're gonna do a
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  Speaker 1: Facebook live a series of them, and I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 1: fun with you all that fancy stuff. He's gonna do
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  Speaker 1: the look cool version, look cool version of the pudding.
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  Speaker 1: I would do Rashaw McDonald bag. But now they're putting
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  Speaker 1: slap your mama in the face, and they both gonna
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  Speaker 1: look good, taste good because we're enjoying food. But it's
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  Speaker 1: all in how you deliver the message, correct, it is.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: It's all about the messages, all about the message and
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  Speaker 1: the enself and what I tell people. If I can
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  Speaker 1: show you how you can get the same errands though
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  Speaker 1: by using this process and and and have and have
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  Speaker 1: an amazing tasting dish, there's no need to bed it
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  Speaker 1: because this is the thing. It was. It was that tail.
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  Speaker 1: Later on in life, we're cooking, we started doing all
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  Speaker 1: put adding all these extra additives and and over we
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  Speaker 1: over saw now food. If you think about it, when
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: we originally was cooking, we were using the basis for
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  Speaker 1: bare minimum of fresh earth, spices, granulated sugars, molasses, different
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  Speaker 1: things like that to to get these enriched recipes. And
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: somewhere along along the lines, we feel that, hey, we
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: could sub that out and put all this other stuff in.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: So this is all about showing you how you create
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  Speaker 1: great food. Well, let's jump and on top of that. Look,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm always about putting time back in life
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: because we got business scheduled. So my biggest model is
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: showing you how you can create these dishes and on
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  Speaker 1: yourself and the kissing the fris of the time. Because Richelle,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when our grandmothers and mothers used going to kitching,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna be in the kitchen. It was to the
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  Speaker 1: point that you would be in the so long you
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  Speaker 1: holry summer crowning, you were you instantly thinking to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: I don't never want to come because I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to go in the kitchen. But the reason why grandmothers
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  Speaker 1: were going to kitchen and staying the kids and for
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: hours was to give away for my granddad. That was
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  Speaker 1: That was the relaxing point because going here, I want
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  Speaker 1: this is Southern inspired coming out nowhere first, but you
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  Speaker 1: can't buy pre sale. That book will be available on Amazon, Target,
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  Speaker 1: Bonds and over website. You can go to either book
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  Speaker 1: right now. So it's important to get that out. But
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: you have a couple of TV appearances coming up. I
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: want to talk about that. Let's go into that and
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: they we're gonna get into the new Sold Kitchen that
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  Speaker 1: starts in several weeks and new Chen, New Sold Kitchen remix.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about the upcoming TV appearances so we
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  Speaker 1: don't want to miss that, and then new Soul Kitchen. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: um April twentieth, I'll be on the Today Show, um
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  Speaker 1: our Rock and myself. We're gonna be whipping up one
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  Speaker 1: of my kids and myself. See a broker him good people. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is just a shame. I remember him four years ago.
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  Speaker 1: He was barely getting on my little money making show
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  Speaker 1: that I had, my make conversations, I had the used
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  Speaker 1: he was out there buying this product off of Whole
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  Speaker 1: Food like he was actually selling them and confession that
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  Speaker 1: his product was hot. That was four years ago. Now
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I'll be on the show with our broker, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not Mr Roker, not Mr Roker, Al Roker. See, it's
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: all about supplying demand. Like when you mentioned like my
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: products hall Cusine supply. I created the demand and the
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  Speaker 1: supply down. I knew it was just the love it.
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  Speaker 1: So you'll be on that with our broker and then
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  Speaker 1: withoutter that after After that, I'll be in St. Augustine,
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  Speaker 1: Florida doing the St. Augustine Wine and Food Festival Mother's
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  Speaker 1: Day weekend. And when you go to you cook and
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  Speaker 1: people sample that they pay a fee to come into
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  Speaker 1: the festival, they can just sample different products. How does
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  Speaker 1: that work? Yes, Timpa. When you go to the festivals,
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  Speaker 1: you you you get a risk band. That risk band
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  Speaker 1: normally met you in where you get a chance to
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  Speaker 1: sample all of the signature wins the contathers this year
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  Speaker 1: believe we're gonna have Maker's Mark on deck is one
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  Speaker 1: of the church sponsors. We have Costello wins. That's gonna
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna be in the house and one of the
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  Speaker 1: things you get to experience outside of all of the
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  Speaker 1: signature wines hotails and konyaks Is. We're doing a one
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  Speaker 1: of the opening nights I believe is Thurstday night U
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  Speaker 1: cat Cora, which is an iron chef Amazed and she's
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  Speaker 1: actually Mississippi native as well myself and as serious of
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  Speaker 1: other other chefs. We do on a curated dinner. And
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  Speaker 1: for that dinner, one of the ditches that I'm doing
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: is actually a shrimp and grits, but ain't doing a
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  Speaker 1: recenting wine route. That's gonna be overlaid over the shrimping
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  Speaker 1: grit cake. And then we take the grits after cooking
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  Speaker 1: them up and fusing with smoke goodle, we let them
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  Speaker 1: cheer with form in the cakes, paint for bread from them,
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  Speaker 1: and then flash frown so they have that nice crispy
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  Speaker 1: crust on the outside, but go on the inside with
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the recenting wine route casscading down the sides of the
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  Speaker 1: jumbo shrimp. Those are the things that we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: doing right there. And then also I'm gonna do a
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  Speaker 1: live cooking segment on the on the cast on the
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  Speaker 1: cat on the cash starn Um, the cash Star a
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  Speaker 1: skillet stage. So and then there I'm gonna make my
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: signature new Orleans Creole barbecue shrimp. Stop. Man, just stop,
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's move on. See that, See that? See what
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  Speaker 1: he ain't spank for y'all. It's like, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: like he had the jabbar hook shop on it. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't blocked the shot. No I was coming, but
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  Speaker 1: he just whipped me out of the New Soul Kitchen
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  Speaker 1: New Season award winning you have to do in your thing.
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that now it's really your show. Correct,
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  Speaker 1: Yes it is. Yeah, New Soul Kitching and New Soul
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  Speaker 1: Kitchen remakes. Uh. The difference in the two shows. New
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Soul Kitchen is more of the the slow pace and
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: be like, Okay, we're doing longer recipes and I take
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  Speaker 1: the step by step so that you can either cook
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  Speaker 1: along with me, because normally what I'll do on my
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  Speaker 1: social media page and on Cleo on Cleo's, on my
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Cleo TV social media page, what I normally do is
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: well provide the recipes where you can cook along or
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: after the show because of the pace and rate that
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I cook it, you can go back and follow and
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: create those dishes. And I love for the fans and
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  Speaker 1: the beers to recreate an antagg me in and man,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: they put out some amazing stuff and it just feels
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: so good inspired and then new soul kisr remix. What
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  Speaker 1: they do is for that fast paced lifestyle. Hey, you're
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you're working through the week, you got a family, or
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: it's just you. That's neverant only you want to come
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  Speaker 1: in with something the quick and fast. I give you
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  Speaker 1: simple ingredients that you can grab from the grocery store
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: with it up in the fraction at the time against
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: what you're eating good. You know what you're putting in
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: your body, the whole nine yards. And if you like
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  Speaker 1: Rachean plints your guarden, you just don't pick from it
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: as usual. Man, you're a fantastic demand. Your communication skills
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  Speaker 1: are about food. Is like it's as good as you
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: cook it in the kitchen you make it. You're what
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I call consumable conversation. When I watch you talk about food,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I'm consuming and I'm eating and enjoying it and want
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: to sit down and really eat what you actually have
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  Speaker 1: talked about. That's the beauty and the gifts of your talent.
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  Speaker 1: Shift to nor Wales Man, and every time you bless
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  Speaker 1: me with the time to talk to you again. My
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: job now as a friend and also a person that
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  Speaker 1: I believe I've mentored you to certain paths that you
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  Speaker 1: have been since I've been in your life. Let's let's
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  Speaker 1: make this book number one, brother, Let's make this book
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  Speaker 1: number one. Okay. So look, because because the because because
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  Speaker 1: the ride game, you know it blew it blew me
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  Speaker 1: out and blew my mind at the body you broke
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  Speaker 1: you asked me to write it up, and I know
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  Speaker 1: it caught you all guard and just said, wow, you
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  Speaker 1: mean everything you say, absolutely absolutely, and we're gonna take
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  Speaker 1: this to the next level man, and look forward to
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  Speaker 1: seeing your TV. It was so funny. My my wife
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  Speaker 1: the other day, she said, we need to we need
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  Speaker 1: do something with chef you. Well, do we have something
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  Speaker 1: we you know, she try to figure out something to
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  Speaker 1: so so gifted and so so massively uh liked and
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  Speaker 1: uh and of course you know Keena, your wife, who
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  Speaker 1: I love the death. Your family is awesome. It's a
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  Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. My next desk is Tiffany Halls.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: How are you doing, Tiffany? How are you? Let's get
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: it all out. You know, what do you do for
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: a living, Tiffany? Because I thought you're gonna be a
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: studio with me. I thought so, but they said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't make it in I'm not mad at you
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  Speaker 1: because you're my friend. You're my friend. You're my friend.
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  Speaker 1: But tell us about what you have right now with
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: your career. Um. You know, I am a let's stay
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  Speaker 1: close on attorney UM in Atlanta. Yes, ma'am. Now when
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: you say that, because you know we've been to view
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  Speaker 1: individual before and you know my whole fear about having
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  Speaker 1: a closing attorney because I signed a bunch of papers.
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  Speaker 1: I've been fortunate to buy a house in my life
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  Speaker 1: and there's a stack of papers. I know nothing about
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  Speaker 1: what I'm signing, but I'm told to sign. So can
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: you help? I'm sure it's a lot you laughing at me,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: and you laughing because you know this is this is
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: a look that you can people give you all the time.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of trust I have to have
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: with an attorney like you, So tell us exactly what
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: are they may be doing the same thing out signed.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: What are we signing? So it's not necessarily a lot
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of trust that you have to have with the attorney.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: It's just you knowing what you are agreeing to as
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: far as the terms of the actual loan. And so
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: as a humor or as a buyer, if I'm purchasing
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  Speaker 1: a home, the number one thing that I'm concerned about
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: is can I afford to purchase this home? Is the
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: interest rate going to be sufficient enough for me to
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  Speaker 1: be able to make my mortgage payments each month? Um?
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: And so those are the important factors as a homeowner,
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  Speaker 1: UM that I'm gonna go over with you in detail, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is your note, and on your note, you know
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: it says your interest rate is three point five and
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: your principal and interest is this figure. But now on
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: top of that, we have to add in your s
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: grows for your taxes, your property taxes, and for your insurance.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: And so although your principal and interest is this amount,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: your monthly payment will be this amount once we include
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: those s grows. And so as a buyer, that's the
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: most important thing because you have to realize that when
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: a lender is um lending you money, you're not signing
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: anything in your favor. Everything is always going to be
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: in the bank's favor. So if we make them of sake,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: you will correct it by her um. If something goes on,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: you will correct it. If you have done anything fraudulent,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: we can't fork close. If you don't pay, we can't
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: fork close. So all those terms are definitely going to
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: be in favor of the lender. So it's just important
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: for you to know what you're comfortable with UH and
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: what you can afford. And once you figure that out, UM,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the truth is you're either signing the documents to getting
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the loan or you're not. You can't negotiate anything. Well,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: you know this interesting because we're gonna talk about the
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  Speaker 1: show that your star, the unscripted series on Own Ladies
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  Speaker 1: Who List Atlanta. But one of the reasons I invited
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  Speaker 1: you on my show, the live show on w C. Okay,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: let's just talk about it, because sometimes you get lost
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: in reality and TVs. That's what she does for a living.
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  Speaker 1: She play acting because I really wanted to because I
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  Speaker 1: knew that wasn't the truth and I want to make
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  Speaker 1: sure clarify that. But because you deliver our skill and
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  Speaker 1: U and uh that am I wrong in this saying
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: that's that not many African American LA female participate as
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: closing attorneys. Um, there's a there's a handful of us
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  Speaker 1: out here. I wouldn't say that there's not a lot.
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  Speaker 1: There are definitely um enough of us out here. And
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: and actually it's the area law where you're starting to
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: see more minorities UM entering this area of law. So back,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: you know, five ten years ago, you didn't see as
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: many African American closing attorneys. But now like I'm literally
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: seeing them pop up everywhere around Atlanta, around this metropolitan
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: you know, sitting here. UM, but we're still a minority,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: We're still not UM the main person that you see
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: at the closing table. Um, even in Atlanta, Tiffany. Uh.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: You know, this interview is part of answering questions for Rishwan.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: And people call it because an experience of how did
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: you get started? Because you said you can go to
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: school for this, you know, like I went to college.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: You know, I started off as a civil engineer, and
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: I went over the chemical engineer, and then I went
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: over to uh, the math and then you got a
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: degree in math and I minored out and um and
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: the sociology. Was this what you wanted to do when
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: you went to college. So when I went to I
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: went to Savannah State University undergrad and I made a
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: major that political science and minored in English. And my
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: goal was to go to law school. Now, at that time,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I had no idea about transactional law. I had no
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: idea about real estate closing. I didn't even know when
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: attorney was involved when you purchased the house. It wasn't
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: until UM when I graduated. I ended up getting pregnant
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: with my oldest son. And instead of going a law school,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I went and got my pair of legal certificate and
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I applied to like a whole bunch of law firms,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: and the law firm that called me back was a
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: real estate closing attorney's office. I got my first job,
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: and so that was the first time that I was ever,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: you know, even aware that there was law associated with
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: purchasing homes. And that was back in two thousand and six,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: two thousand seven. And once I got into that arena
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: and I started learning the process and how everything went. Eventually,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: when I went to law school, it's all I knew
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: how to practice. And so once I graduated laws at
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the bar, I just immediately, um, you know, opened up
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: my own firm and started doing the residential real estate closing. Now, okay,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: now opening your own firm, is that a Is that normal?
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just asking simple questions in my mind,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: you know, because that means that you know, you have
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: from there the word firm. You know, they're all on
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: TV now. They all got commercials out there, and you know,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: they had billboards. It was drong on with the law
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: and you know Morgan and Logan and you know they
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: they they they sponsored local news, which is shocking to me.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: You know, how you can have a law firm sponsoring
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: local news. I don't get that. But they do it.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: And so how do you compete with all that super
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: hype that's going on, all this news of dollars as
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: being spent. How does your firm cut through all that clutter? Um? Well,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I never looked at it as a competition. UM. When
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I opened my firm, it was simply because I knew
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: how to do everything. UM and I paid three hundred
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars to go to law school. Why am I
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: going to apply tool law firm make seventy thousand dollars
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: if that um and then has to work, you know,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: my ass off for everyone else. So the goal in
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: my mind was, No, I did all this work, I
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: know how to do this, so I'm gonna open up
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: my own firm. Now I knew how to do all
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the real estate stuff, the practice, but when I didn't
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: know how to do which actually builds UM my business.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: And I still at that time wasn't like, oh what
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: am I gonna do with all these big law firms. No,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I was like, more like, how am I gonna find
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: my way? What's gonna benefit me? And I found the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: power of social media. UM. I have three children, so
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: it's very hard for me to do traditional networking. UM.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Like going to different places, lunches, shaking hands, getting out cards.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: It was very Um, it's difficult for me to um
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: even kind of like put myself out there being in
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: front of people like, hey, I just graduated law school.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Here my business cards. But then when I found out that,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: like my audience, the people that I want to do
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: business with with your real estate agents, they're all over
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: social media and of course they want everyone to know
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: that they're a real estate agent, so it's easy to
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: find them, and that became my niche and how I
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: got my business. Now, I may not be the largest
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: law firm out years, but the business that I do
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: is enough for me. It's enough to employ um eleven people,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: it's enough to you know, take care of my family.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: And so for me, that's enough. There are people out
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: here with lofty goals of wanting to be you know,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: the largest closing attorney, are not even closing attorney any firm. Um,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I just don't have those goals because you know, a
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: lot of my goals are now to just you know,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: pour into my children. Um. So it's just all about
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: you know, what you want, And I just really never
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: looked at anybody else to compare myself and what I'm
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: doing to what they're doing. Now when you when you
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: look at first of all, when I when I hear
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: the way you talk, that means that you walk through
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of unknown situations with a lot of courage,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: because that stops a lot of people. A lot of
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: people want their dreams to be accomplished, but fear the
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: not feeling comfortable, not not knowing, hey is a paycheck?
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Wait on me? If an idea is gonna work, Who's
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: supporting me? How did you overcome the fear of the
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: unknown before we go to break? Well, the big thing
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: is you just mentioned is support. Um. So I am married.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I have a husband, UM who is a traditional husband
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: in the sense that he pays all the bills. So
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: it wasn't a situation where I was, you know, deciding
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: whether I'm a pay my rent or open up my
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: law firm. You know, I didn't have to think about
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: something that some some people have to think about. So
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: the fear of paying bills and all that stuff that
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: was removed because the support that I had from my husband. UM.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Now with that support, of course, you still have to
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: have the focus and the mindset to actually go out
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: here and get business and and find ways to be successful.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: But I honestly couldn't have any of that without the
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: support of of my family. That is that was that
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: was paramount and me opening up my law firm. Now
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: we got two calls for you right now. Are you ready? Okay?
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Nikki from Atlanta? How are you doing, Nikki? Hi? Rashon
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: lating great. We have Tiffany on the call. What is
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: your call today about? Hi, Tiffany, I'm a realtor as well.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I'm a realtorday night as well. But I'm a realtor
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: and I just want to give you props because you know,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: we do look for closing attorneys that return our calls,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: they get the paperwork done on time, that do it right,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: have no issues with titles, et cetera. And you must
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: be doing something right. So I really am calling into
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: just pat you on the back and say you must
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: be doing a great job. And I'm gonna look you
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: up and see you know what's going on, because we
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: are always looking for a great, great closing attorney. So
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: I just really want to call in and congratulate you well.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Nissy. Sometimes this industry is crazy.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: If you're a real estate agent. Then then you know,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: so we're always trying to do, you know, the best
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: that we can to just make our way through the
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: craziness of a real estate transaction. So it's always good,
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: um to get that pat on the back, um, just
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: to keep us going. You know, real estate is brutal.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: It is. I was gonna say, it really is. And
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: because you're dealing with you know, such a large purchase
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: them the buyers or sellers can do. You know, it's
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: just an emotional roller coasters drive. But um, you know,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: if you have a good closing attorney that can keep
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: everybody staying at the table, you know, obviously you're doing
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: something right. So good job. Well, yes, so at our
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: clothing table we have Margarita's and wine and so yes,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: well you know the thing what she called in Let
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: me just roll back here a little bit because obviously
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: by Nikki's response, there are certain there there's different type
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: of closing attorneys. You try to bring levity and calmness
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: and celebration to your closes, right, and so now that's different. Now,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: what what makes you what makes it good? I may
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: have asked this, but for having her call in, what
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: makes a really good closing attorney. UM. The what really
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: makes a good closing attorney is just the ability to
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: relate to the party said. Real estate is very emotional.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: The sellers are on high emotions. Number one. They may
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: be selling a home that they have like emotional ties to.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Their kids may have been born there, they may have
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: lived there for several years, and so although they may
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: be walking away with a check, it's still a very
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: anxious and emotional time for them and for the buyers.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: You know, getting financing for a home is not easy.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: You go through a lot of ups and downs. The
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: lenders take you through hell and back just to get
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: the money, you know, to buy your home. So a
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: lot of times, once you get to the closing table,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: you're honestly exhausted. Now, you know, I have to bring
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: you from that point of exhaustion to now realizing that
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: this is a happy occasion for you. Let's celebrate home ownership, UM.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Let's celebrate the ability to purchase homes and sell them
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: and create wealth for our families. And that's really what
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: separates me apart from other attorneys, just my ability to
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: relate to people on all levels. You know, I close
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: your standard buyer and seller are closed, celebrities are close athletes, um,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: and you just gotta come to people where they are.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: And when people know that you can relate to them,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: it just makes for an easier transaction. We'll be right
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with ru Sean McDonald. Now,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: You are articulate, you have three kids. Do you have
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: a husband who as your back your employee? Loving people?
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: You are very busy. I'm sure you do a lot
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: of speaking engagements. How do you have time to do
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: a television show on own? It call that entitled Ladies
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Who Listed Atlanta? How did that come about? Tivity? Because
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: your schedule scenes pretty robots. My stentile is definitely busy,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: but a lot of my schedule is surrounded with real estate. Um.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: The show is a real estate show. And so this
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: is not you know, real Househoves of Atlanta or um
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: any show like that where I would have to actually
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: change the trajectory of my life. This is about real
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: estate and it's in my life. It's surrounded if I
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: real estate, so it was an easy thing for me.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Is not basketball wife, you know? It's not all that
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: over there, you know, all over that, And we're not
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: saying anything negative about Real Housewives of Atlanta. What she's
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: saying is that she was invited to come on the
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: show that aligned yourself with her career in her background
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: what she does real estate, So it wasn't like a
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: fictionalized role or character she had to play or scripted. Basically,
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: they're kind of like recording what you do for a living, correct,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: correct exactly. The unincorporated a lot of my family with
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: as well, and so it was just something that would
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: aligned with my lifestyle. Now, with that being said, are
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: you enjoying being no, no, being uh notice on the
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: streets being what is that and what is that participation
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: in the TV show done for your brand? It's a
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: little weird for me when I go in two public
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: cases and people know who I am and they're like,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: oh my god, there's a they don't do that tiff
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: They'll do the oh my god, dude, oh my god,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: I'm just Tiffany, or they want to take pictures and
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm just I'm just Tippany. I'm nobody.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: I'm nobody's special, and you know, I'm just you know,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: just a regular person. Well, I'm gonna tell you this,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: you're not a regular person because people want to call
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: and talk to you on my show. We got another call,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: if you're ready for another call? Sandra Soandrop from Atlanta.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: How you on, Sandra, You're on the call with Tiffany Halls,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: the very humble who doesn't like getting notory g brought
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: to in public? Oh my god, it's Tiffany. Oh my god, Sandra.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: What is your question for the humble? And you know,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: regularly regular, regular, regular Tiffany? Can you guys hear meal
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: a little? But I love the show she was on.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: I love her spirit. She's beautiful and God is gonna
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: always continue to bless her in her family. But I
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: had one quick question. I'm kind of embarrassed about the question,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: but I'm an act. Is it I've always rinched almost
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: sixty years old. If the age factor a factor is
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: first time hold ownership, absolutely not. In fact, the benefit
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: of actually purchasing a home as you get older is
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: that in some counties, like when your large metro counties,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: they have senior exemptions for taxes where you don't have
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: to even pay the school taxes on your tax bill,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: and that is um the majority of the tax bill.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: So if your tax bill is four thousand dollars and
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: you get the senior exemption, your tax bill may go
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: down to five hundred dollars. And so now instead of
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: s growing um based on a four thousand dollar tax bill,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: you're now s growing based on a five hundred dollar
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: tax bill, So your payment is even lower. So there's
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: tons of benefits for purchasing, you know, at home, even
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: if you're not young, you still have the ability to
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: purchase something for your family. Yeah, okay, Because I had
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: thought about homeownership and then I felt like, well, I'm
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: too old home. But anyway, and I was thinking, well,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: maybe I can get something and putting me in my
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: daughter's name, and would that be a something to consider
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: because I know as time go on and and she
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: could just have it or however and just we both
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: have our names on the deed. Is that a possibility?
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: So let me just change your son, get that home
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: in your name. It's called a will, you know, get
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: a will, get a will, live your life, Gusto. You know,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: that's one thing I was getting on black people, African
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Americans about you are a special person first of all,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: age and not be an excuse. Did anybody listen to me?
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Do not if you're seven years old you want to
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: buy a house by and you able to buy, ninety
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: years old, if you look at the house while you
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: roll it down the street and you're able to buy
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: and go by, Because that's what life is about. A
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: life is about. Adventure is guaranteed. Come on, Tiffany, wrap
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: it up. Tim you you're the motivator. Come on different
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: each other, tell them saying, Okay, something else can something
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: can happen to you at that young age. Um, I'm
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: totally in agreement. Don't ever let age stop you from
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: doing anything any day that you wake up living in
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: a day worth going after what you want in life.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: You hear that sounds yes, don't do don't anyway. I
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: like her from the show Chilled. You don't like a
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: lot of bes. I'm like, and when we got heard
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: her on the radio, I'm like, I gotta figure out
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: how to call it that. I have to figure this out. Well,
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna teach some some I'm gonna slow you down
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: before you say a word on my little show. They
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: get me taken off that you already said the word
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: that be as we can't get with no farther than that. Okay,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: sound Sundra, listen to me. Now you're special, okay, and
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: it's a blessing. You have a daughter you can share
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: this opportunity with if you can get you know, you
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: already got the closing attorney. She's the real deal. That's
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Tiffany Halls. Okay. So go out there and find that home.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: You know it might be a little tight right now
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: because home mortgages are inching up, and they're doing that
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: to slow down home purchases. You know, that's what they
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: do when their inflation. They raised the interest rate. That's
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: how they bring prices down because everything is available. It's
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: kind of weird how they do. They They make you
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: spend money so you can stop spending money. That's how
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: inflation works. The battle left. But it shouldn't stop you
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: from going out there, taking your time. It doesn't have
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: to be a big home, just a home that you love.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: But one thing for sure, I'm gonna give you this advice.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Whatever home you want to buy, go by there in
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: the daytime, go by there at noon, go by there
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: at night, go by there on the weekends. Because your neighbors.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: What you can't pick as your neighbors want you buy
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: at home. That's who you got on the left and
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: the right and in front of your in behind you.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: So take your time. It might be a cute little house,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: but make sure who you living next to is somebody
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: that you want to be next to. Is that correct, Tiffany?
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: That is definitely because you cannot change your neighbors. Absolutely,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: So thank you for calling in. We're about to wrap
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: up this show, and I appreciate you. Still a fan
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: of her? Okay of hers? Okay, so yeah, I will.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I can't wait till the next show come on? When
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: are they coming? She's on the own network? Ladies who
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: list Atlanta or Tiffany. I'll tell you something. We were
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: wrapping up the show here, yeah, and blew up my phone.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: People calling in want to know what's going on. That
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: means that you bring something, some great quality of life.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: And I want to appreciate you for coming on my
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: show and hopefully come back. But this time you're being studios.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: We have a lot of fun. Yes, sounds good to me.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Just connect with me being Emil and let's make that happen. Okay.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you and stay safe. Tell your husband high
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: for allowing me a few times in the afternoon, and
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: your children stay blessed. Alright, Tiffany, alright you Oh, definitely, definitely,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: And I want to tell everybody who listened to Money
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Making Conversation again. Sandra called in on the show about age.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: We let we allow that limit and limits us so
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: much and what we want to do in our lives.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: We get thirty, we think we not not in in,
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: we're not inspired to do anything. Forday, we start regretting
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: our life. Fifty we're trying to run the retirement. There's
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: no such thing that there's nothing to run to. Look
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: in the mirror, everybody, you can be whatever you want
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: to be, as long as you want to put forth
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: the effort to be that person that you want to be.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: UM with Sean McDonald host the Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: See you next week. I'll talk to you next week.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: You've been listening to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: McDonald Always remember to lead with your gifts. Money Making
• 53:55
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• 54:02
  Speaker 1: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: of Inspiration with Rashan McDonald. This week, I sat down
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: with veteran Hollywood movie producer and farmer music executive James Lopez.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: James talked about going from working on the job he
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: enjoyed to discover his true gifts to be involved in
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: film intelligion. There were no examples for us. I had
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: no idea what a producer did. I didn't know that
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: there were people behind the scenes predominantly called casey. So
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: I just took the natural route into music because there
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: were several examples that we as black naked point to,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: and then getting involved in soundtrack. In the music business,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: I started interacting with studio executive and producers, and then
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: I started to get exposed to the possibility of where
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: where I wanted my life to go. If you want
• 54:55
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• 54:58
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