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Rushion Interview Miguel Wilson, How Morehouse Graduate & celebrity menswear designer, and changing the wedding industry! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Like Yesterday. O Money Making Conversation Master Class is Miguel Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: Is the founder and CEO that Miguel Wilson Collection, a
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  Speaker 1: boutique formal were designed business for men and one of
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  Speaker 1: the only men's wear designers that specifically cares a wedding
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  Speaker 1: collection for grooms and grooms men for twenty years. The Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d C. Native design suits, sports coach, trialsers, shirts and
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  Speaker 1: accessories for men with a long client list and include
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  Speaker 1: celebrities and other high profile people including Bishop t d
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  Speaker 1: Jake's pastor, Jamal Bryant, hollybod Hollywood producer Will Packer, Rappers
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  Speaker 1: To Chain, and Walker Flocca, and We're Housewives of Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: husbands Peter Thomas, Todd Tucker, and Michael Sterling, just to
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  Speaker 1: name a few. He currently maintains four locations in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: d C, Miami, and New York City. Are also traveling
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  Speaker 1: around the world to accommodate his clients and providing his
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  Speaker 1: services virtually. Thank god they're zoom. Please walking with the
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  Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Miguel Wilson, How are you doing,
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  Speaker 1: sir Sean? How you doing well? First of all, high
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  Speaker 1: fashion Okay, Um, you know, if I've managed a guy
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  Speaker 1: who's a high fashion king, Steve Harvey for sixteen years
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  Speaker 1: and um, and so that was that you know, his
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  Speaker 1: sup line and everything, and so he's so just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be dressed Macciller and Taylor made clothes or part
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  Speaker 1: of his DNA. I've been blessed to be able to
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  Speaker 1: say I've been able to afford tailor made clothes in
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  Speaker 1: my lifetime. So there makes it different. So what you
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  Speaker 1: being in the tailor made business? What is the difference
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  Speaker 1: from listening to my customers listeners, because this is a
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  Speaker 1: live show, what is different between buying a tailor made
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  Speaker 1: suit and buying it off the rack in the store
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  Speaker 1: in a quality store. Well, you can find quality. I'll
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  Speaker 1: sell quality suits in my stores every day. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: you can buy quality. But it's something very special about
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  Speaker 1: a gentleman being able to be a part of the
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  Speaker 1: design in it's clothing. So to be able to choose
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  Speaker 1: the lapel, choose the fabric, choose the lining, pockets, and
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  Speaker 1: then you know, even have your name inside of it.
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  Speaker 1: I just think that's a it's it's at it's you
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  Speaker 1: know what it is? The difference is one, it's more
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  Speaker 1: of an experience. I think going through the process of
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  Speaker 1: having a suit made is more of an experience. Um,
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  Speaker 1: there are features in a custom made utilo made suit
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  Speaker 1: that aren't generally available and off the wrap. So guys
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  Speaker 1: who have these suits made can generally identify a suit
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  Speaker 1: that was that was made based on these these qualities.
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  Speaker 1: So if you see, for instance, like functional button holes
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  Speaker 1: on the sleeves, things in the ship generally identifies as
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  Speaker 1: something that was you know, had to be made. Only
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you when you when you talk about
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  Speaker 1: suits and clothes or people when they hear the word Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they're just running out of fear. I can't afford that.
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  Speaker 1: I can't afford that. And and I tell people all
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  Speaker 1: the time because we're talking about men and we're not
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  Speaker 1: talking about women's fashion. And you know, I'm a I'm
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  Speaker 1: a I'm a guy who watches old TV, watches westerns,
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  Speaker 1: and men fashions really don't change, you can correct me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they kind of stayed the same. It just
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  Speaker 1: just gets updated a little bit. But you know, they
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  Speaker 1: were wearing button downs and the twenties and thirties and
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  Speaker 1: they were wearing two buttons and three buttons, suit jackets
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  Speaker 1: and the westerns Western Western era and all that stuff
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  Speaker 1: and pop up collars and all that stuff. So, so
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  Speaker 1: what what makes fashion fashionable for men? I guess that's
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  Speaker 1: the question. Okay. So so let's understand this fashion changes
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  Speaker 1: a little bit every single day. It doesn't move fast,
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  Speaker 1: but it's just like you took it. You move one
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  Speaker 1: inch today, nobody really recognizes the inch. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: realize you're moved any but in the course of a
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  Speaker 1: year or two years, you know you're down the street now,
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  Speaker 1: and so now we see you moved. Okay, So fast
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  Speaker 1: is the same way and that you if you were
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  Speaker 1: in fashion certain things today people will notice it as
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  Speaker 1: something that's in now and and and it's and it's
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  Speaker 1: not just the clothing. A lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fashion is around the wear. It's one so it could
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  Speaker 1: be the same things, but it's one differently. For instance,
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned Steve Harvey. You know, everybody still to this
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  Speaker 1: day kind of recognize when they see a baggy pair
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  Speaker 1: of pants on it say, it's like Steve Harvey pants now,
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  Speaker 1: although he doesn't wear those types of things today. It's
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  Speaker 1: just ingrained. The people with mind that that's the Steve
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  Speaker 1: Harvey look for sale. Okay, so today you guys with
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  Speaker 1: their pants more European cut, slimmer plea. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: used to the deep pleats. Now we do no police.
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  Speaker 1: So wow, there's some similarities. There's always these subtle changes
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  Speaker 1: that that really separate something that's currently in style versus
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  Speaker 1: something that was previously in style. Right when you and
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  Speaker 1: I agree with that, I know that I know that
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  Speaker 1: you know a lot of ministers from talking about Steve
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  Speaker 1: Harve in his fashion that a lot of it grew
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  Speaker 1: out of the fact that he was hosting showtime at
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  Speaker 1: the Apollo and uh and so ministers would wear his fashion.
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  Speaker 1: It really caught on. It became very popular and uh
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  Speaker 1: and like I said, it grew into the point and
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  Speaker 1: you know, Macy started carrying his shoe line and other
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  Speaker 1: people around the country start caring the shoe line. Well
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  Speaker 1: what let's let's go back up a little bit, because
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  Speaker 1: I jumped out real quick and ask you questioned by Fashion,
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  Speaker 1: Mr Wilson, how did you get started in this whole game?
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  Speaker 1: And in the early days before you became in high
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  Speaker 1: profile and people trusted you to be able to deliver
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  Speaker 1: on these fashion based on the names that I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: when I mentioned the Bishop t d J's you know
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  Speaker 1: will pass and then you jump over the rappers to
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  Speaker 1: change which is a totally different fashioned look and fashion style.
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  Speaker 1: But let's talk about how it all started, because it's
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  Speaker 1: all about promise when you start, but then you have
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  Speaker 1: to believe in yourself to make it happen. Story sir, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know I would say this that one. Um, I've
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  Speaker 1: always had a passion for fashion. My grandfather and my
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  Speaker 1: father both for like a better word, closes horses. Guys
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  Speaker 1: like to dress. They were closing to this day they
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  Speaker 1: both think they dressed better than me. So and I
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  Speaker 1: make a living at it. But um, so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: proximately in the nineties, I had a good friend of
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  Speaker 1: mine who actually I was having ice in my soups
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  Speaker 1: made and a friend of mine was in the business.
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  Speaker 1: Uh he wanted to start his own companies working for
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  Speaker 1: someone else and asked me to be a partner. And
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  Speaker 1: I invested and worked in the business for seven years
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  Speaker 1: and learned what I need to learn. And it's just
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  Speaker 1: trying to just went from one level to the one
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  Speaker 1: stage to the next with you know, so um, the
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  Speaker 1: greatest you know, to transition from you know, just starting
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  Speaker 1: out or you know, getting the name out there and
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  Speaker 1: then really catapulted to the next level where you do
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  Speaker 1: have the celebrities and people become more trusted names. You
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  Speaker 1: will is a result of a lot of trial and error. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: being in this business as long as I have, I've
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  Speaker 1: made pretty much every mistake a person can make. The
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  Speaker 1: thing is I didn't quit as result of mistakes. That's
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  Speaker 1: the first thing. Second thing is I changed because of
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  Speaker 1: those mistakes. One thing about me I tell my people today,
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  Speaker 1: I'm fine with you are making mistakes. Mistakes are gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: What I don't like is the same mistakes being repeated.
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  Speaker 1: So when we have a mistake, we have to come
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  Speaker 1: up with solutions and and ways to prevent it from
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  Speaker 1: being any stake tomorrow. So this, this has been part
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  Speaker 1: of what I feel to be the trust that people gaining.
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  Speaker 1: These the a that I think over a period of
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  Speaker 1: time we've been able to eliminate a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: mistakes and create, you know, a high rate of quality
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  Speaker 1: service and quality products. We'll be right back with more
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  Speaker 1: money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Now let's return
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  Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. We've lost
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  Speaker 1: some great um now. I know Andre Leon Tally. I
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  Speaker 1: interviewed him with Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I read his
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  Speaker 1: book Inspiring and Virgil we just lost him. When you
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  Speaker 1: see talent like that leave your industry and then, uh,
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  Speaker 1: those are those mentors to you, are those people you
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  Speaker 1: look up to. Talk to us about that. Um. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I take a little bit from everyone, and you know
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  Speaker 1: I can. I learned from entrepreneurs business so so as
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  Speaker 1: as a fashion as I am, I'm also a businessman, right,
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  Speaker 1: so taken from you know, from the fashion standpoint. You know,
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  Speaker 1: my inspirations come from a variety of places. It can
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  Speaker 1: come from people that can't come from just art. It
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  Speaker 1: can come from traveling. Um. But I think I learned.
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  Speaker 1: I learned a lot just talking to business people. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, through those conversations, sharing stories, you know, details
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  Speaker 1: about issues and problems and things how they handled it.
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  Speaker 1: I think has been a great part of the process
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  Speaker 1: as well. So but good. You know, the thing I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to about is that you know that
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  Speaker 1: because you mentioned about customer service is not making mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: Let's because you're dealing with fashion, and this is something
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  Speaker 1: that somebody puts on it's gonna go out in public.
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  Speaker 1: And then you're dealing with high profile families. They may
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  Speaker 1: be on red carpets, they may be on TVs entertainment tonight,
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  Speaker 1: maybe on a uh different different layers or restaurant or
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  Speaker 1: an event. And so your brand is not like something
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  Speaker 1: that it doesn't get recognized and can be put on
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  Speaker 1: the spot. It can be meaned on social media, it
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  Speaker 1: can be it can be uh, it can be a
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  Speaker 1: blessing and also a curse if it's done wrong. And
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  Speaker 1: so you know, you know what I'm saying it. So
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  Speaker 1: when you when you're looking at fashion and individuals come
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  Speaker 1: into you for your brand, you they're seeking your advice.
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  Speaker 1: I know I do. When I'm sitting down with someone
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  Speaker 1: who's designing something from or I might pitch an idea.
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  Speaker 1: They might go, uh, Sean, I don't think that's a
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  Speaker 1: good idea. How do you work that through the process.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're a trusted leader in fashion, but you
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  Speaker 1: also pitched ideas. How do you work their ideas of
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  Speaker 1: a client into your fashion talents to deliver the clothes
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  Speaker 1: that they want? That's a that's a great question. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people come to me with ideas all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and realistically, I have to be able to see it.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, people come with ideas that are kind
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  Speaker 1: of way out there and yeah, but but but if
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing it like then I will tell them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is I understand what you're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't see I don't have a vision for
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  Speaker 1: this what you're trying to do or or I see it.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't like it, right, okay, And I just
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  Speaker 1: I think being honest one of the biggest traits, your
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  Speaker 1: greatest traits a business person and have is integrity and
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  Speaker 1: good character that when you say something, people know you
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  Speaker 1: mean it. In this it's from the heart. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't try to I don't say things to me. I
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  Speaker 1: don't say anything just to make somebody feel good. I
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  Speaker 1: don't tell people what they want to hear. I tell
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  Speaker 1: them what I think and what I feel, and that
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  Speaker 1: that comes with people give you a lot of respect
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  Speaker 1: when they feel like you know, I can trust his opinion.
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  Speaker 1: All about the dollar is about the honest relation, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, these people need to learn just about fashion
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  Speaker 1: and like when I would sit down with a person
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  Speaker 1: like you, Miguel, personal as trust. And also I'm seeking
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  Speaker 1: advice to Okay. You know, I might be a person
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  Speaker 1: who might write to check, but I'm also kind of
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  Speaker 1: a little bit stupid too, okay, and so you have
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  Speaker 1: to educate me a little bit. So I appreciate what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying. And people need to hear him when he
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  Speaker 1: says that, because a lot of times people when they
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  Speaker 1: ask questions and ask for advice, they really want the truth.
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  Speaker 1: They want to know. Now it might not be what
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  Speaker 1: they want to hear. Otherwise they would never ask the questions.
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  Speaker 1: So it means you need to tell them something they
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  Speaker 1: need to hear to make them have a balance of reality.
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  Speaker 1: So if something that comes into your restaurant and they
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  Speaker 1: have an idea coming to your pitching an idea to you,
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  Speaker 1: and in the back of your mind, the average person
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  Speaker 1: walks over, I ain't want to hurt their feeling. Okay, right,
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  Speaker 1: there's the mistake. I don't want to hurt their feeling.
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  Speaker 1: You probably needed to hurt that person's feeling. Then they
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  Speaker 1: won't be embarrassed, they won't be opening the restaurant with
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  Speaker 1: no budget, with no business plan because you didn't step
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  Speaker 1: up to the plate. And I know because of you
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  Speaker 1: being a guy who's a designer, it took At what
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  Speaker 1: point did you realize that this had to be part
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  Speaker 1: of the conversation, to be honest, that's that's a very
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  Speaker 1: good question. In two thousand eleven, foul bankruptcy and pretty
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  Speaker 1: much lost everything I owned, had to start over from scratch.
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  Speaker 1: And as I evaluated the loss, I realized that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it was self inflicted, that I really had
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  Speaker 1: no one to blame by myself. The economy and so
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  Speaker 1: forth was a part of it, but I made some
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  Speaker 1: bad decisions and didn't really run business right. So in
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  Speaker 1: rebuilding a new company, I knew that I had just
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  Speaker 1: changed in certain ways. And one of the ways was really,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just having a good character about stuff and
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  Speaker 1: not putting the dollar first. And then let me give
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  Speaker 1: you example. I wouldn't intentionally doing I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of business don't intentionally lie potentially mislead, But let me
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  Speaker 1: give an example. People will come used to come to
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  Speaker 1: me and say, hey, can you do this for me
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  Speaker 1: or can you make this from it? Now? Without me
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  Speaker 1: really knowing I could execute against it. I would say
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  Speaker 1: yes and I'll just figure it and let me figure
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  Speaker 1: it out. And I had every intention of figuring it
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  Speaker 1: out and getting it right, but sometimes I failed, and
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  Speaker 1: as a result, you not deliver on the promise or
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  Speaker 1: the customers expectations. So too often we're getting these desperate
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  Speaker 1: situations and business where we make deals and situations to
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  Speaker 1: pay rent or to or to or to fix us
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  Speaker 1: a serious problem we have financially. But at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, we've messed up by our integrity and
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  Speaker 1: messed by character and messed up the potential for someone
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  Speaker 1: to refer to other people to do more business with us.
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  Speaker 1: So through evaluating myself and those types of destit, I
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  Speaker 1: just made a decision that I'm making make any money.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any money at this point. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have much, and so let me just operate, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: in a way that I know I can deliver and
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  Speaker 1: be absolute and great and great at what I do.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
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  Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now let's return to Money Making Conversations
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  Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. He was talking about mentoring which
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  Speaker 1: I which I, which is a modern term in the
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  Speaker 1: sense that. I know when I was growing up, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have that word to my disposal. And the in
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  Speaker 1: the millennials, they in gen Z they understand the value
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  Speaker 1: of mentoring. And I also want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: say that that's the purpose of me creating this show
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: was to create lanes where people can come on this show,
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  Speaker 1: either call on the show or or just hear interviews.
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  Speaker 1: Through mentorship, maybe they won't make the mistakes. Talk about
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  Speaker 1: your mentorship, sir, or for what you do in this
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  Speaker 1: area as well. And you're right, millennials do understand it
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  Speaker 1: better than you know previous generations. UM. You know, knowledge
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  Speaker 1: is power, and you know sometimes you can learn the
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  Speaker 1: hard way. You're gonna learn from others. I'm the hard way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the hard way back. I'm a hard way. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, so as a result, I have you know,
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  Speaker 1: many um, I do fashion shows and things, have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of designers that participate that you look at me
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  Speaker 1: as as a mentor and call on me for advice
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  Speaker 1: and questions stuff. But one of the things, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think a common mistake is that designers or people
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  Speaker 1: who intend to be designers and want to start a
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  Speaker 1: line or whatever, set it up based on just their
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  Speaker 1: own personal likes and dislikes and not with the customery mind.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that you need to if you're if
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  Speaker 1: you're in fashion, if you want to stand out in fashion,
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  Speaker 1: because there are millions of of brands out there now, right,
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  Speaker 1: So how do you how do you segment yourself or
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  Speaker 1: separate yourself from everything else that is there. You have
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  Speaker 1: to do something or have a particular purpose or client
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  Speaker 1: or a niche that you're focused on to really do that.
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  Speaker 1: So back I talked to you about when I filed
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  Speaker 1: bankruptcy and started had started over. One of the other
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  Speaker 1: things that did was identified a space in fashion that
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  Speaker 1: was unoccupied and that was serving grooms. So when I
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  Speaker 1: started that process, nobody was really doing it. Men's warehouse,
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  Speaker 1: rental tuxedos, but nobody's really catering to men having not
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  Speaker 1: only great clothes, but a phenomenal experience. You know, women
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  Speaker 1: when they get engaged their girlfriends ye bridal shop, they
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  Speaker 1: sit in champagne. It is a party, right so right,
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  Speaker 1: so so and then they show up at the you know,
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  Speaker 1: they feel phenomenal to their wedding day because they know
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  Speaker 1: that they that they're wearing the most beautiful gown they've
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  Speaker 1: ever created for themselves. So men deserve the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: particularly in this day and age when so many of
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  Speaker 1: us are paying for the weddings our own pocket too,
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  Speaker 1: unlike previously with the fathers used to help out and
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  Speaker 1: so forth, you know, in the case today, so a
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  Speaker 1: lot of us are paying for it. And and truthfully
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  Speaker 1: it's probably the biggest party that most of us will
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  Speaker 1: throw their wedding. So the man deserves, the groom deserves
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  Speaker 1: to look great, feel great, and you know, not be
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  Speaker 1: short changed after the you know, desserts. You know. The
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  Speaker 1: fun part about that is that it's almost like it's
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  Speaker 1: about time, you know, because that is true. Is that
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  Speaker 1: the experience of going and getting that perfect gown. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm any, I'm any texed as I've rented and it's
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  Speaker 1: just been uh he told me to come get that
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  Speaker 1: color in the corner, and I get it and get
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  Speaker 1: some ugly shoes and I go okay, And that's really
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  Speaker 1: that's the experience. I remember, I was just telling you
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  Speaker 1: the truth. I've I've done this several times. So it's
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  Speaker 1: always a hard pair uh pad leather shoes and uh
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  Speaker 1: fitting up a tux so that that somebody else has
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  Speaker 1: worn maybe four or five hundred times before I put
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  Speaker 1: it on. So what I've done is looked at the
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  Speaker 1: total wedding experience for a man and recreated it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it starts thank you, thank you. It starts off with
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  Speaker 1: the clothes, of course, but at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: day too. They got groomsmen, and I want them to
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  Speaker 1: come in for the moment you coming into our just
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  Speaker 1: want our showrooms. I want them to steal special like
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  Speaker 1: we're celebrating you were celebrating this case. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: about the wedding day. It's about the process, and I
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  Speaker 1: want you to enjoy the journey along the way going
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  Speaker 1: to it. So we do a thing called grooms Lounge
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  Speaker 1: where we invite the groom to bring all the groomsmen in.
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  Speaker 1: We have champagne and cocktails, and we do all the
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  Speaker 1: fittings and then we ended with our roast and toaster
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  Speaker 1: the groom. And I'll tell you this is probably one
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  Speaker 1: of the most phenomenal things that I have come up with,
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  Speaker 1: because every week when these guys coming near and I
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  Speaker 1: don't care where they're from around the country, but they
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  Speaker 1: get together and they're roasting and toasting one guy is groom,
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  Speaker 1: their friends, their brother and to hear these brothers tell
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  Speaker 1: this man how proud they are of him, how much
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  Speaker 1: they love him, how much they support them. It's something
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  Speaker 1: that we don't see in America much often. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people tend to think that, you know, we kill each other,
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  Speaker 1: we do this, we do that. But one thing about
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  Speaker 1: that roast and toasts in my stores every week, you
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  Speaker 1: see that brothers black men in particular, I love each other,
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  Speaker 1: that we support each other, that we have good fathers,
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  Speaker 1: good brothers, but also we love our women. Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: You know it's it's society or or the media or
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  Speaker 1: to tell a story, it would be nothing like the
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  Speaker 1: reality that we experienced every single week in our stories.
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  Speaker 1: So it is amazing and um. But the thing is
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  Speaker 1: the groom and the groomsmen walk away feeling like they've
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  Speaker 1: just experienced something that was much needed and and just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't happen. Because how often do we just tell each other,
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  Speaker 1: even though we might talk frequently, whatever, how long can
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  Speaker 1: we tell each other man, I love you and I'm
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  Speaker 1: proud of you. Bro, you're doing the great thing that
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  Speaker 1: we need some help whatever, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: So this is this is a great time that will be. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: every guy that goes through this just would be one
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  Speaker 1: of the highlights of what you know. I'm getting I'm engaged,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting married and may myself and I'm telling you
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that I've created for my
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  Speaker 1: grooms are the very things i want for myself. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna do a brooms lounge, there you go, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do roaps and talks. I'm gonna have all
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  Speaker 1: these same things for myself and dropping on social media
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  Speaker 1: because if we all need to see it. Miguel, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell you something. Man, You're You're inspired me. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, I really appreciate you coming on the show.
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  Speaker 1: In fact that can you be a regular? Can you
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  Speaker 1: come back? When you're about to do can you come back?
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  Speaker 1: And man and mate, because I want to talk about
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the polo team at more House and all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But what my big takeaway from you is that man,
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  Speaker 1: that's a love man, and what you're doing there's a
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  Speaker 1: passion and the desire to be the best, but not
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  Speaker 1: the best, because that's what people compete for. It's about
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: it's about breaking stereotypes, about being living the lane of
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  Speaker 1: black excellence, and you're doing it in the lane of fashion.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to Miguel Wilson. Collections for locations support the
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  Speaker 1: whole principle of black excellence, and I appreciate you coming on.
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  Speaker 1: Money made of conversations is one thing you know every
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  Speaker 1: week I mean Splauds in Atlanta, and these guys, these
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  Speaker 1: brothers have to walk by a good sheet, have to
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  Speaker 1: walk by Rasage. She has to walk by tom Ford
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  Speaker 1: in all these places to get to my store. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And the one thing I want them to do when
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  Speaker 1: they make their work, I want to make it worth wild.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing we do is make each and everyone
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  Speaker 1: of them feel a love that they feel this is
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  Speaker 1: the place that you are honored, and treat it well
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  Speaker 1: and feel great. Thank you. I thank you, Miguel Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your brother. We're gonna talk to him. May
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you get married, right? May right? Hey? Yeah? Okay, cool,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I get on after that show, after I get married,
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  Speaker 1: we come on back on. Thank you.