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Corey & Tamara Galloway Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: heart or text I Heeart to five hundred, five hundred.
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Speaker 1: My next guests are a power couple for my They
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Speaker 1: live in my favorite city, New York City. I love
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Speaker 1: New York City. I was like there last week, so
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Speaker 1: next time I go up there, I gotta contact them
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Speaker 1: so we can. I'm sure they got some places where
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Speaker 1: I can go eat, because everybody knows I am a
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Speaker 1: king foodie. Okay. He's the first African American owner of
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Speaker 1: a pro sports team in New York City, New York history,
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Speaker 1: and first African American owner or a pro football team.
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Speaker 1: He is the CEO and she serves as Chief Revenue
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Speaker 1: Officer of the New York Streets. Their firm, Legacy Growth
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Speaker 1: Partners owns the team. LGB is a have an investment
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Speaker 1: firm with investments and entertainment, manufacturing, and real estate. Please
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Speaker 1: welcome to Money Making Conversations. Founder and chairman CEO at
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Speaker 1: the firm, Corey and Tamara Galloway. Hello, Oh you look.
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Speaker 1: Uh I was there. They just knew I was gonna
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Speaker 1: mess up your name. They can say, you know, but everything. First,
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Speaker 1: First of all, they tell me, is your birthday, mythday? Okay, alright, birthday.
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Speaker 1: You're doing my show on the birthday? So core what
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Speaker 1: you're gonna do? Brother? Come on now, we're Donn're gonna
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Speaker 1: We're gonna make this personal air. You know. Oh you're
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Speaker 1: gonna do that. Oh my god, but I have not done. Brother.
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Speaker 1: We celebrate no. We celebrate no on your show. That's
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Speaker 1: that's unique. That's the first. That's what you you used
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Speaker 1: to doing first, my friend, you used to doing first.
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Speaker 1: And I read your bio on both of you, and
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Speaker 1: it's really rather unique. And when I when I started
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Speaker 1: talking about trend setters, groundbreakers, visionaries, I'm sure those names
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Speaker 1: I have been used to describe both of you as
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Speaker 1: a couple as well as individuals. So how do you
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Speaker 1: get into football business? So we um. I started by
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Speaker 1: he's a consult with pro athletes, mainly NFL NBA players
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Speaker 1: for about ten years and Marcus Colston who played for
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Speaker 1: the Saints, and I remember he launched the team in
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Speaker 1: Harrisburg called Hansburg and I worked with him on that
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Speaker 1: for four years. And that's when I was introduced to
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Speaker 1: the arena sports industry and got to know all the
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Speaker 1: owners and different leagues from a f L to i
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Speaker 1: f L to n a L. Such a fragmented business,
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Speaker 1: but got the meat and understand a lot of the
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Speaker 1: players in the industry. And when I I'm a native
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Speaker 1: New Yorker and so we end up getting out of
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Speaker 1: that team and markets end up investing in the Philadelphia Soul,
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Speaker 1: which is an arena football team, and got to know
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Speaker 1: the owners there. And as we're getting to know the
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Speaker 1: owners there, they say, hey, you know, New York doesn't
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Speaker 1: have a market have a team, but it has a
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Speaker 1: big market. And that began the journey. And I was
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Speaker 1: three years ago just to um find a location so
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Speaker 1: we can actually launch a team. And that was a
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Speaker 1: three year journey. So how he how I got into
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Speaker 1: the arena space was through my consulting with pro athletes
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Speaker 1: with Marcus Colston and working on the Harrisburg Stampede let
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Speaker 1: us all the way to i think seven years later
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Speaker 1: launching the New York Streets explained to my listeners what
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Speaker 1: exactly is arena football. So arena football is uh played
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Speaker 1: inside hence the word arena. It's basically playing on the
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Speaker 1: same fifty yards field, similar to a hockey rink. And
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Speaker 1: basically it's eight eight Um about ten percent of arena
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Speaker 1: football players, Arena Football League players go onto the NFL.
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Speaker 1: So it is a place where, um, the NFL pays
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Speaker 1: attention to if you for anyone that's really in the
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Speaker 1: sports and really into the NFL from a geekish point
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Speaker 1: of view. In the collective bargaining agreement with the NFL
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Speaker 1: Players Association and the NFL, arena football is actually spelled
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Speaker 1: out in that collective bargaining agreement because it's such a
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Speaker 1: source of talent for the NFL. Well, one of one
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Speaker 1: of the famous alumnus from there is Kurt Warner is
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Speaker 1: now Hall of Fame for the back Kurt Warner, and uh,
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Speaker 1: he came for arena football and it's all about I'm
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Speaker 1: a fan of arena football. I watch it high scoring. Um,
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Speaker 1: you as a fan, you just like hockey because you
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Speaker 1: know you can run right up into those pads and
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Speaker 1: so so that you you you you mastermind. You found
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Speaker 1: in the chairman and then chief revenue. This is all
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Speaker 1: about money. Now, why do the females, the women in
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Speaker 1: our lives, the ladies control the purse tree. That's what
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Speaker 1: he said. They said that when it comes to the money,
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Speaker 1: the purse treings is controlled by the ladies. So Chief
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Speaker 1: Revenue officer, please come to the front of the room.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. He's pitching this idea to you about he's
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Speaker 1: been working on it. Professional football player down New Orleans.
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Speaker 1: Why receiver four years? Why does this seem like a
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Speaker 1: good idea to the chief revenue officer the New York streets. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, I gotta tell you, to be honest, I
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Speaker 1: wasn't really sure to begin with. How you know that
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Speaker 1: was my first reaction, But I have to say that
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Speaker 1: I love it. I'm with him all the way. We have.
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Speaker 1: All we do is strategize and figure out what it
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Speaker 1: is that we're going to be able to come blushed together.
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Speaker 1: And you know this is my background. Sponsorship has been
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Speaker 1: my life for the last twenty years. So being able
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Speaker 1: to leverage the football market and being involved on this
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Speaker 1: level with my husband has been a dream. Contrue. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is really interesting because when I go through resumes,
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Speaker 1: I try to pull out little bios and trying to
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Speaker 1: pull out a litle nuggets, and like one of the
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Speaker 1: the gems was a mother of four being able to
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Speaker 1: balance being a mother of four. Let's talk about that
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Speaker 1: because I always tell people or publicly on my show
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Speaker 1: that despite all my success, I did not understand how
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Speaker 1: to balance my life. I would just all in on work.
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Speaker 1: Were you like that, Corey of Were you able to
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Speaker 1: balance your life? Yeah? I think, Um, what I've been
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Speaker 1: able to do. The reason I set out to work
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Speaker 1: on my own is to actually have ultimate balance. So
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Speaker 1: you know the thing about an entrepreneurs You can schedule
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Speaker 1: your meetings according to your schedule and unless it's a
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Speaker 1: revenue meeting, right which I'll having and earth to take
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Speaker 1: those meetings with all the other meetings working around our
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Speaker 1: kids schedule. Family definitely comes from. Yeah, now I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: come back to the mother four that you know I
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Speaker 1: was talking to. Then I just lead over the court.
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Speaker 1: I think everybody went, are you talking to timer? The mother.
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Speaker 1: Now he's talking to Corey the mother, He's just he's
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Speaker 1: just a day. So talk about that, you know, the
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Speaker 1: whole responsibility of being a mom, and sometimes that can
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Speaker 1: be guilt when you're when you're working mom when it
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Speaker 1: comes to parenting and and being being responsible and wanting
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Speaker 1: your child to have all the time and realize that
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Speaker 1: they you were there for them, how they How are
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Speaker 1: you able to balance it being a mother for you know,
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Speaker 1: balance is such a hard word. You know, it worked
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Speaker 1: really really hard to make sure that we're balancing that.
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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, I'm something, something's not
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Speaker 1: a you know that we're never really fully satisfied. But
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, our values are very
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Speaker 1: much aligned Corey and I with you know, God, first,
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Speaker 1: family and just making sure that you know, everything else
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Speaker 1: will fall into place once we out of those. Those
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Speaker 1: those those are you know, our stars. But at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, my kids literally right
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Speaker 1: now we're trying to get our two oldest into college,
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Speaker 1: so there's a lot of time that's being spent on
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Speaker 1: you know, college applications and everybody being anxious and where
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Speaker 1: are they going? And I am available, like no matter
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Speaker 1: what you know, I'm definitely available no matter what we're doing.
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Speaker 1: Like obviously, revenue is definitely our number one priority. Like
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Speaker 1: just like Corey said, so when we're when we have
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Speaker 1: different meetings, but we have we're blessed to be able
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Speaker 1: to kind of schedule around it to make sure that
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Speaker 1: there is a balance. Now, you want to have to
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Speaker 1: say when you're doing when you're doing a venture like this,
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Speaker 1: let me just tell people about her background. You know,
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Speaker 1: she's work for Time Incorporated and was very instrumental in
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Speaker 1: the growth of iconic brands as Real Simple and People
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Speaker 1: I say People Magazine. Correct, Yes, okay, so these aren't
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Speaker 1: like you know, these are brands. Did you walk into
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Speaker 1: a store you see him on the sheriff recognizable. So
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Speaker 1: the idea of taking the New York streets and being
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Speaker 1: able to brand it and market it, what is the
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Speaker 1: plan when you have this tremendous background, which also means
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Speaker 1: you probably have tremendous connections and tremendous relationships, how do
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Speaker 1: you do you go into You know, you're proclaimed as
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Speaker 1: the chief revenue officer in the bio, but I'm sure
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Speaker 1: you're involved in the marketing and the branding and the
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Speaker 1: publicity of the New York Streets. Correct, correct, Yes, I've
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Speaker 1: got my hand a little bit of everything. Absolutely. I
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Speaker 1: just didn't let them just throw that one title on you.
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Speaker 1: I know you got five five up over there. Come on, Corey,
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Speaker 1: Come on that, Corey, you got to You got two
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Speaker 1: in the resume hire founder and chairman. She just has one.
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Speaker 1: You got three. You got founder, chairman and see, oh
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Speaker 1: you got a buttet of going. She just got one type.
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Speaker 1: So so I'm going through the bio. I'm just going, okay,
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Speaker 1: but she she's over here and we're not even got
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Speaker 1: the glad yet. I'm gonna go back there a minute.
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Speaker 1: Were about to go. Really, I don't know why Corey.
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Speaker 1: I want the show because she But let's let's talk
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Speaker 1: about that, because you did to do what I'm talking about,
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Speaker 1: and I know he's proud of you because of the
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Speaker 1: fact that you walk in the room and in an
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Speaker 1: environment of trying to be able to uh be able
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Speaker 1: to let people know that you can do the job,
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Speaker 1: and to be at the market people magazine Real Simple,
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Speaker 1: which is like basically a lifestyle magazine for the general market.
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Speaker 1: How do you how do you accomplish these things? What
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Speaker 1: is your point of view? Well, you know, it's interesting
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Speaker 1: because you're right, like I really I grew up at
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Speaker 1: Time Inc. And really being exposed to the best of
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Speaker 1: the best in terms of brands and marketing. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: my my draw on my experience from real simple from
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Speaker 1: people in Style Magaze being essence a lot. And really,
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Speaker 1: you know, the mantra that we have around here is
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Speaker 1: executing with excellence and making sure that you know, around
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Speaker 1: all of the people that we have around the table
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Speaker 1: definitely come with excellence, and you know, we draw on
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Speaker 1: that a lot, just in terms of I do have
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a reputation, I should say when
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Speaker 1: it comes to my expectations are and what we're delivering.
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Speaker 1: And I'm really I'm really impressed that you that you
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Speaker 1: noticed that. Well, I had to because of the fact that,
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Speaker 1: um my whole I'm I like to blame. I'm a
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Speaker 1: brand expert and I'm really into marketing and when I
12:35
Speaker 1: when I love to bring power couples on the show,
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Speaker 1: because that's a that's a that's a different combination, you know,
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Speaker 1: because of the fact that you have to be able
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Speaker 1: to work and then you're to be able to work together,
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Speaker 1: that I would be able to turn it off. We
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Speaker 1: able to say, look, we're good. We're good. Now we're
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Speaker 1: gonna go home and be with the family. That's an
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Speaker 1: interesting dynamics and a lot of people understand and so
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Speaker 1: like when when I'm going through your resume and looking
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Speaker 1: at what core is accomplished, and I'm looking at what
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Speaker 1: you accomplishing, I'm going, wow, you. Success has to happen.
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Speaker 1: There's no guarantee, but success has to happen because you
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Speaker 1: you both of you have some tremendous wealth of you
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Speaker 1: know what always said mentorship. You can mentor each other. Yes,
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Speaker 1: from your lips to God's ears. It's a very very hard.
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Speaker 1: We're definitely. We wake up every single day, you know,
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Speaker 1: we live, read the dream about it. You know, we
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Speaker 1: go and go to sleep. The other day I said,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe we should not talk about work in
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Speaker 1: the bedroom. But that lasted for only a few seconds.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely on the phone goes with me is Uh Tamara
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Speaker 1: and Corey Galloway. Today is her birthday, Happy birthday. By
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Speaker 1: thinking anymore, that means that they charged me. But we're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk more about their Legacy Growth Partners as l
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Speaker 1: G p UH. When you come back with more money
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Speaker 1: making conversations. It's a great day, Happy birthday. Okay, this
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Speaker 1: is Rashan McDonald. You're listening to money making conversations. I
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Speaker 1: have Corey and Tamara Galloway on the phone today as
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Speaker 1: a Tamas birthday. She's a native New Yorker that celebrating success.
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Speaker 1: She has four kids, an amazing husband who is Corey
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Speaker 1: by the way, And I want to apologize to Corey
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Speaker 1: because I said that he took all the job titles
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Speaker 1: and it wasn't distributing them because in this the bio
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Speaker 1: says he's the founder and chairman, and I misspoke that
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Speaker 1: cameras also the c OO and chief revenue officer. So
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Speaker 1: I had to do my research seeing the bio. So
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Speaker 1: it is two for two. But on this side, on
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Speaker 1: this side, she does all the marketing in branding because
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Speaker 1: she can't help herself. She can't help herself catching cart.
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Speaker 1: So tell us what what is a what is a
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Speaker 1: private investment firm? What is that? So basically where well
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Speaker 1: Angel Investment Firm. What we do is, you know, the
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Speaker 1: way we've pivot a little bit is now we're actually
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Speaker 1: operating the businesses versus finding the CEO to you know,
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Speaker 1: invest with now we're actually investing in operating at the
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Speaker 1: same time. So basically private investment does a company. Currently,
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Speaker 1: we're developers on a real estate transaction with New York
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Speaker 1: City and Goldman Sex. We're building first time home ownership
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Speaker 1: UM purchasers for affordable homes within New York City. UM.
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Speaker 1: We're also we're part owners of a facility which Camera
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Speaker 1: has another title as president of, which is a pact FLEX.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be b k l a SS seven
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Speaker 1: eight thousand square foot sports facility. Cameras the president of
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Speaker 1: that UM. So those investments we're actually operating and investing on,
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Speaker 1: and that's the private investment company, so that's a lot
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Speaker 1: of responsibility. He threw out another title for Tamara there,
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Speaker 1: she's the president. He's feeling in that he's gotta pass
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Speaker 1: it through time, which I love. Now, now, the inaugural
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Speaker 1: season on the New York Streets kicks off April, UM,
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Speaker 1: so tell us about that and tell us the location,
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Speaker 1: and let's let's get get some hype going here. And
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Speaker 1: I also want some some social media cars so I
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Speaker 1: can post and promote and put it in my and
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Speaker 1: my social media, my fan club that goes out monthly
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Speaker 1: as well. So yeah, so we kick off on April
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Speaker 1: thirte at Jacksonville UM. And you know, Jacksonville is a
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Speaker 1: long story franchise. Yeah, Jacksonville Sharks, they you know, playing
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Speaker 1: in a couple of different arena leagues UM, and they're
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Speaker 1: the ones that spearheaded to that arena league. So they
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Speaker 1: were one of the former champions of the Arena Football
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Speaker 1: League and now they're with us of the National Arena League. So,
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Speaker 1: you know, as a start up new franchise, I'm extremely
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Speaker 1: anxious on how we're gonna do on that day. But
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Speaker 1: April third teams, there's our kickoff April as our home opener,
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Speaker 1: and that's at West Shuster County Center. We've had a
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Speaker 1: great relationship with all the folks at West Shuster County Center,
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Speaker 1: specifically the County executive, and they had of economic development
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Speaker 1: really driving home, you know, the arena football product to
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Speaker 1: be presented in New York. UM. We're excited about the
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Speaker 1: kickoff because we're the only option in the springing summer
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Speaker 1: for live action football in the New York market. So
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Speaker 1: we're you know, looking at that as our competitive advantage.
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Speaker 1: We basically have you know, um, roughly eight million people
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Speaker 1: that are audience that don't have another option for football,
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Speaker 1: which is, you know, America's number one sports. Now I'm
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Speaker 1: looking at this, it says a capacity of three thousand
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Speaker 1: seeding capacity. Is that intimate? That's extremely intimate, Yes, for
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Speaker 1: a football game, extremely into it. And that's one of
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Speaker 1: the advantages of arena football is really you are It's
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Speaker 1: the closest you can be to football action. Obviously without
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Speaker 1: being honest that that's you know, because I've done a
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Speaker 1: lot of cars are which the producer, which Cedric, didn't
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Speaker 1: attain a lot of comedians. So I know what three thousand,
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Speaker 1: I know what three thousand people look like. And three
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Speaker 1: thousand people just say you're the football game, which is
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Speaker 1: like the fifty year half of the football field. It's
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Speaker 1: the size of a hockey field. That's pretty amazing when
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Speaker 1: I look at the whole aspect of its saying that, hey,
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Speaker 1: this is the size of the event, this is the
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Speaker 1: experience of the event Arena football, I just think one
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Speaker 1: has to go because now I'm being educated, and that's
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Speaker 1: a purpose of this show is to educate everyone on
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Speaker 1: how they can be part of the process. It means
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Speaker 1: that if you go to the game, the new York Streets.
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Speaker 1: Uh Corey and Tamara Galloway. Remember today is her birthday.
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Speaker 1: Where they are kicking off on April thirteen, and that's
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Speaker 1: West Westchester County Center in White Plains. And that's really
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Speaker 1: important that you know these things that we sometimes we
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Speaker 1: don't participate in events, or we don't participate in sports
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Speaker 1: or go places because we don't know, we're not educated. Now,
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Speaker 1: I've seen arena football on TV a lot. I never
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Speaker 1: knew it was that intimate. It was always always felt
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Speaker 1: like maybe if it's in an arena, maybe it's like
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Speaker 1: nineteen twenty thousand people surrounding and going. But they're they're
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Speaker 1: telling me that it's three thousand people. Wow, I went
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Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. I thought I had good seats.
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Speaker 1: These seats are fantastic. I gotta be able to I'm
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna become a big fan of this sport and
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Speaker 1: you should too. So what they got to do it
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Speaker 1: They're gonna give me some social media banners and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna have a spread the word about how to get
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Speaker 1: it out there in a big way. Because of the
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Speaker 1: fact that I know that the New York Streets is
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Speaker 1: an amazing opportunity and It premiers April thirteen. See how
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Speaker 1: I did that, Corey in timer, I just kept talking Hello, Hello, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm back. Don't worry. I've been promoting here ever since
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Speaker 1: you ever since to disconnect. We didn't lose, We didn't
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Speaker 1: miss a beat here. Okay, can you hear me You're
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Speaker 1: back on again. Okay, cool, they're gonna drop off. Oh
20:35
Speaker 1: keep following. Can you hear me that? Timra Okay, No,
20:38
Speaker 1: I apologize, but I've been promoting you the last two minutes.
20:41
Speaker 1: Was not lost. I've just been talking about because I
20:43
Speaker 1: was just telling it. Here's the thing is that I
20:47
Speaker 1: watched I watched Arena football on TV. I watch it.
20:51
Speaker 1: I never knew and you're telling me that all these
20:53
Speaker 1: arenas are that intimate. No, traditionally the arenas are you know,
20:59
Speaker 1: ten down in. Yeah, it's truly the thing about getting
21:05
Speaker 1: into the New York market is you have over eight
21:10
Speaker 1: million people, and of those of that eight million people,
21:14
Speaker 1: they have four options. So even you're gonna strike a
21:19
Speaker 1: deal with msg UM, which has a strong relationship with
21:24
Speaker 1: the Prudential Center in Jersey, while you'll strike a deal
21:28
Speaker 1: with Barclays, which actually manages Nasau County. So neilis is
21:34
Speaker 1: a strike a deal with either one of those venues,
21:38
Speaker 1: which you know and the offering with Westchester County, um
21:43
Speaker 1: of just making it something that they're rolling the red
21:47
Speaker 1: carpet to us for you know, attractive. So let me
21:52
Speaker 1: ask you about the team makeup. Okay, because of the
21:55
Speaker 1: fact that how many players? How do they travel? Is
21:58
Speaker 1: it bus travel? Is it chartered planes? How does there
22:02
Speaker 1: how many players on each team because they play because
22:04
Speaker 1: there's two way, right, there's a lot of two way
22:06
Speaker 1: play right on this one. Now, the IFL, which has
22:11
Speaker 1: been the FBI, they played two ays on the arena
22:13
Speaker 1: league side. We go one way, so there's eight players
22:17
Speaker 1: on each side of the ball. We carry twenty two players,
22:22
Speaker 1: UM and travel you know, it's uh taking up during
22:26
Speaker 1: a chartered flight. UM. And we really try to manage
22:30
Speaker 1: which is where I think a lot of the challenges
22:33
Speaker 1: have been over the years, managing your travel dates. So
22:37
Speaker 1: we'll you know, will travel to Orlando once, travel to
22:41
Speaker 1: Jacksonville once, will play like the closer teams in Massachusetts
22:46
Speaker 1: will play them twice. So we're really looking at it
22:49
Speaker 1: from a business point of view on how we travel.
22:54
Speaker 1: And you know, the dollars that go into traveling with
22:57
Speaker 1: the team. Well, I want to just close a little
23:00
Speaker 1: better talk about how impressed I am with you too
23:03
Speaker 1: being a power couple boy even more so Tamera Um
23:06
Speaker 1: beingish your birthday and the fact that time Inc Real
23:10
Speaker 1: Simple People magazine, and then the fact that you was
23:13
Speaker 1: involved as the executive vice president of development at GLAD
23:18
Speaker 1: uh and increased revenue about more than two That resume
23:23
Speaker 1: of yours is tremendous and it's so diverse. Um, how
23:27
Speaker 1: did that come about? That that relationship? How did you
23:29
Speaker 1: build How? How are you able to be so many
23:33
Speaker 1: good things to so many different people, are so many
23:35
Speaker 1: different platforms. Wow. You know, when I'm Glad was one
23:41
Speaker 1: of the best things that ever happened to me in
23:43
Speaker 1: terms of the highlight, and it's the highlight of my career.
23:45
Speaker 1: I worked at GLAD for five years and the woman
23:48
Speaker 1: who's the current CEO and I worked together for fifteen years,
23:51
Speaker 1: Arcade Ellis. She was at GLAD at a time Inc.
23:55
Speaker 1: And you know we worked we were literally worked very
23:58
Speaker 1: very close together. And so when she went over to
23:59
Speaker 1: be on the CEO, she said, you know, I'd really
24:01
Speaker 1: love for you to come over. It was in a
24:03
Speaker 1: depletion model, so there was always, you know, six minutes
24:06
Speaker 1: more to closing the doors, and so we worked really
24:09
Speaker 1: really closely to really right size the organization, make sure
24:13
Speaker 1: that there was a value added component to every single
24:16
Speaker 1: thing that we did, and make sure that the value
24:18
Speaker 1: of the brand, which is an amazing, amazing brand, was
24:21
Speaker 1: recognized by every single supporter that was investing in it.
24:25
Speaker 1: And that was one of the things that I have
24:26
Speaker 1: to say just I learned so much from that opportunity,
24:29
Speaker 1: and it really was an impact model, and going from
24:31
Speaker 1: corporate to a nonprofit, I was able to really kind
24:35
Speaker 1: of do everything that I've loved ever doing at Timing
24:38
Speaker 1: and really pour it and get back to the community
24:40
Speaker 1: and marginalized community. Well did we turned it around. It
24:44
Speaker 1: was a three million dollar organization to when I left
24:46
Speaker 1: five was the five million dollar organization. So a lot
24:49
Speaker 1: of the things that I did it glad Or I'm
24:52
Speaker 1: definitely applying to what we're doing to create impacts. Whether
24:55
Speaker 1: the owners of the New York Streets and Argos season
24:58
Speaker 1: kicks off a UM, I want to congratulate you, congratulations
25:03
Speaker 1: or an happy birthday to you. Core. You're an amazing individual.
25:06
Speaker 1: Please please, please please please come back on my show.
25:09
Speaker 1: Please give me that that those social media calls so
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Speaker 1: I can. I got like by forty fan club members
25:16
Speaker 1: in the New York City area. Love to get the
25:18
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25:22
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