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Grant Aldrich Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guests founded online degree dot Com with a
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  Speaker 1: purpose driven mission may hire your education more accessible and
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  Speaker 1: affordable for everyone. After after graduating college with an overwhelming
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  Speaker 1: amount of debt, he was determined to change how students
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  Speaker 1: embark on their college education. Online degree dot Com helps
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  Speaker 1: anyone save up on their college degree for free. Please
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  Speaker 1: walk with the money making conversations, my man Grant Aldrich, Hi, Rasha,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Well, thank you. Where are
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  Speaker 1: you calling from this morning or this afternoon? Sir? I'm
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  Speaker 1: in sunny southern California, rights nearby Los Angeles. Okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: Well that's the part of the Los Angeles. They can't
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  Speaker 1: get sunny. You're down in the desert. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: people don't know Los Angeles. You're in the desert. My friend,
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  Speaker 1: I lived there for fifteen years. I know about southern,
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  Speaker 1: sunny southern California. But you can look to you to
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  Speaker 1: your right, then you see mountains that are skiing. Just drive,
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  Speaker 1: just dravel a little bit. You get to him. Get
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  Speaker 1: you can go to go to go west and get
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  Speaker 1: to the beach. That's why people love California. It's the
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  Speaker 1: beautiful places. So so you so your native stay for
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  Speaker 1: the weather and complain about Texas. Absolutely, that's stay taxes
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  Speaker 1: for sure. So, uh, let me ask you this. So
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  Speaker 1: are you are you a native? Are you just living
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  Speaker 1: there right now in California? No, I was raised, born
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  Speaker 1: and raised in California. And I've also then my my
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  Speaker 1: wife and I split time between Nevada and California. And
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  Speaker 1: so we we've we just recently had we're about to
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  Speaker 1: have our third child. Congratulations were you know, thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much, and uh, we want to be closer to family,
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  Speaker 1: so we split time. We're mostly based in Nevada, but
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  Speaker 1: right now we're in where I'm originally from, in the
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  Speaker 1: l A area, Right, So Nevada, Las Vegas is one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite cities. A you areno guy, Las Vegas. Whatever,
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  Speaker 1: Las Vegas, right, you go with another desert. He just
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  Speaker 1: likes deserts, like he just likes desert because the grass
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  Speaker 1: is just killing them out there in Las Vegas for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Now now that now, before we get to oldline degree
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Who are you prior to this? Uh this
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  Speaker 1: this brainstorm that that that that that that came out.
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  Speaker 1: You love college and you was like any other student.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got a degree, but bore it's some
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  Speaker 1: dead weight knowing you and can I ask you how
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  Speaker 1: much your debt wire you're in at the time when
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  Speaker 1: you left college. Absolutely? And by the way, ra Sean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm embarrassed to begin because when I start talking about myself,
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  Speaker 1: I feel that around you, I've accomplished so little in
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  Speaker 1: my life when I read your biot about everything you
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  Speaker 1: listen to your show that I'm embarrassed to talk about
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  Speaker 1: what I've done before. But I'll give it a crack,
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  Speaker 1: but beleaves. I'll be embarrassed because you because of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you know what I've accomplished is what you
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  Speaker 1: will accomplish. And when you look back on your life
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  Speaker 1: because of the fact that you're a special human being.
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  Speaker 1: And I try to bring individuals on my show who
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  Speaker 1: are making a difference in people's lives, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: you're accomplishing on a daily basis is a passion job
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  Speaker 1: that you're doing something they're fortunate for you, you can
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  Speaker 1: make money off of, and it also has changed your
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  Speaker 1: life and changes the lots of people every day. So
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  Speaker 1: when you say you have not done a lot, know
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  Speaker 1: that what you are doing is affecting a lot. What
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  Speaker 1: we'll thank you for saying that I really do have
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  Speaker 1: a big dream to make college affordable. And yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think I took a pretty typical path, you know,
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  Speaker 1: graduate high school, went to a four year university, got
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  Speaker 1: into the workforce, and then only later did I realize that, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't pay off that debt until I was in
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  Speaker 1: my late twenties, and it left a real mark on me.
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  Speaker 1: And I decided, you know, I I was lucky in
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  Speaker 1: that I've exited I've been in startups with my whole career.
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  Speaker 1: I exited two start up companies, and I was I
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  Speaker 1: was around. I got to I really got to sit
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  Speaker 1: and reflect and say, what is the next big mission?
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  Speaker 1: What what do I want to do to make the
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  Speaker 1: world a better place? And to love what I do
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  Speaker 1: every day? And I decided that I want to help
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  Speaker 1: more people get to call it and not have to
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  Speaker 1: deal with all the debt that surrounds us. And with
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  Speaker 1: that being said, now the amount that you're in debt
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  Speaker 1: was how much it was probably upwards let me think
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  Speaker 1: about this now, probably almost se Yeah, that's that's that's
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  Speaker 1: what I hear a lot. You know, I was watching
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  Speaker 1: TV the other day and uh, and and that's that's
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  Speaker 1: a normal that doesn't That doesn't frighten me as far
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  Speaker 1: as when I hear it thrown out there because you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about four year or four year institution and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know a room and board, the lodging, all that,
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  Speaker 1: you know from start to finish. That's about right. But
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  Speaker 1: at the time when you was every year getting alan
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  Speaker 1: wasn't an issue that when you're going there and you
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  Speaker 1: said it needs amount of money. That's that's the part
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  Speaker 1: that I think that students don't understand. It's easy to
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  Speaker 1: get access to this amount of money to pay for
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  Speaker 1: your education, but you never really told the story of
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  Speaker 1: the payback. Right, Yeah, that's that's the key, because you're right,
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  Speaker 1: you know college in some sense you will get the
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  Speaker 1: loans to pay for it. They don't. It's you're right,
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  Speaker 1: very accessible in that sense. But the key problem is
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  Speaker 1: is that people don't understand until it's too late that wow,
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  Speaker 1: I have to pay this money back at some point
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  Speaker 1: and the interest has been accruing and it is an
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  Speaker 1: incredible sum that can prevent you from buying your first
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  Speaker 1: home or having the flexibility to choose the right job
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  Speaker 1: that you want. You have to make your debt payment
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, it has a it's a it's a huge effect.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're effect that Lisa, I kind of mentioned it
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  Speaker 1: earlier about online degree dot com. What exactly is online
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  Speaker 1: degree dot com. So the way that we decided to
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  Speaker 1: to to solve this problem is we have a platform
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  Speaker 1: where someone can come on, get started in sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: register and take as many college level courses as they want.
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  Speaker 1: And that could be that I think where they could
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  Speaker 1: earn credit towards their degree and unlock instant scholarships and
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  Speaker 1: discounts towards universities across the country. And it's completely free.
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  Speaker 1: So really, what we've done is we've created a free,
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  Speaker 1: more accessible, modern alternative to the community college. And then
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  Speaker 1: it's just where it will help everybody take that first
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  Speaker 1: step to go back to higher us. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the whole room got quiet over here when you say
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  Speaker 1: it free. Everybody kind of like, you know, stared at me.
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  Speaker 1: But I had to let you finish your life because
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  Speaker 1: you said free. You know, you know how to say
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  Speaker 1: free to free dramatic calls one, two or three. And
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  Speaker 1: because because so, because it's the beauty of it is
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  Speaker 1: that you know, online education has like a skyrocket because
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  Speaker 1: what type on the process. You thought of online education
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  Speaker 1: with the Phoenix University of Phoenix, you know that all
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  Speaker 1: the time University of Phoenix. Now every major University of Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: University Alabama, University of Houston, all schools have an online program.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter, she's a tennis pro in high school as
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  Speaker 1: a prodigy, so she went to the uh University of Miami,
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  Speaker 1: you know, high school UH training. So so when you so,
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  Speaker 1: you're not so you're you're you're getting an audience that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of comfortable, which is type of educational planning. Correct,
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  Speaker 1: you're right. There was this misconception that online only meant
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  Speaker 1: the for profit schools that we've read about the newspapers.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right. The reality is everybody's moving all of
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  Speaker 1: their programs online because there's such a huge demand. Technology
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  Speaker 1: has enabled it, and so that's the future in higher education.
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  Speaker 1: The fastest growing segment is the online education and every
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  Speaker 1: state school, private school, everybody's going in that direction because
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  Speaker 1: it is so convenient for us working adults, who you know,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have time to leave our job to go
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  Speaker 1: to campus every day. We don't. We don't we have
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  Speaker 1: our we've got families, were busy and so it's conducive
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  Speaker 1: to our lifestyle. Okay, great, we're gonna go back, We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go to a and we're going to talk about more.
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  Speaker 1: And I was just using as an example. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about online degree dot com the format that will work
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  Speaker 1: for you when we come back and talk to Grant
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  Speaker 1: about their working adult how they can use this format
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  Speaker 1: to their advantage. Again, Money Making Conversations is the world
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  Speaker 1: that allows you to be successful when you listen to learn. Hi,
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  Speaker 1: this is ro Sean McDonald. I'm talking to the founder
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  Speaker 1: of online degree, online degree dot com. Um you graduate
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  Speaker 1: from college with an over them. Wa On made them
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  Speaker 1: out of debt and he was determined to change how
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  Speaker 1: students embark on their college education. So he found it
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  Speaker 1: after many years of everybody you know he did. He
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  Speaker 1: did different jobs, different startups, and then the concept of
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  Speaker 1: online degree dot com. Anyone save with on their college
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  Speaker 1: degree for free. Please welcome back to Money Making Conversations,
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  Speaker 1: my friend Grant Aldrich. Grant, quick question, they're here. What
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  Speaker 1: the students dead? And when you talk about the student
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  Speaker 1: debt in the United States, is that something that can
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  Speaker 1: be resolved because now we see politicians of using it
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  Speaker 1: as part of that campaign. I've heard said, I've heard
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  Speaker 1: some of Bernie Sanders talking about he got he wants
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  Speaker 1: to pay off for everybody's student debt. That's when his
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  Speaker 1: campaign statement and so, which I think is a fantasy
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  Speaker 1: because we're talking about a trillion dollars worth for debt.
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  Speaker 1: So you're you're, You're the real thing, You're the real deal.
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  Speaker 1: You you're you you walk it, you talk it, you
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  Speaker 1: live it online, degree dot com. For a working person
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  Speaker 1: who's trying to change their lives, who got to go
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  Speaker 1: to work at eight hours, got kids at the house,
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  Speaker 1: how did they use your format to change their lives? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, to answer your question now, I think
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to hear a lot in this next
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  Speaker 1: election about forgetting student debt. But to your point, it
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  Speaker 1: really is impossible. It's too large and and the current
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  Speaker 1: system is not conducive to forgiving it because school is
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  Speaker 1: getting more expensive, and ultimately, if someone's gonna pay for it,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be the taxpayer. It's gonna be all
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  Speaker 1: of us. And as we all know, we're it's really
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  Speaker 1: getting hard for us to pay for all these things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're going trillions of dollars in the debt
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  Speaker 1: as it is, so I don't think it is feasible
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  Speaker 1: for us to do. I think that we need a
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  Speaker 1: whole new system which which precipitated what we're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: And so the way we work would be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: again we're a an alternative to going to community college.
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  Speaker 1: So instead you would register on the website and again
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  Speaker 1: get started sixty two. You would then be able to
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  Speaker 1: identify we've got different college level courses. They're all introductory,
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  Speaker 1: really interesting stuff that you could take, you know, intro
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  Speaker 1: to computer science, robotics, history, all these really neat courses
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  Speaker 1: that are all self paced and online. You could take
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  Speaker 1: it to your leisure and as you complete those courses,
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  Speaker 1: we've worked out arrangement with great universities across the country,
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  Speaker 1: big state schools, private schools where they will accept those
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  Speaker 1: courses for credit. So as you start taking these courses,
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  Speaker 1: you're getting closer towards your degree. And then we've even
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  Speaker 1: arranged discounts for our students at these schools where you
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  Speaker 1: can unlock instant scouts ten percent off tuition off tuition,
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  Speaker 1: and when you put all that together, it could be
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  Speaker 1: up to at savings on your degree and help you
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  Speaker 1: finish faster. So that being that was being a big
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  Speaker 1: paradigm ship in trying to lower the cost of school
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to paying for it from the taxpayers. He
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  Speaker 1: is an interesting thing about this. Share some history about
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  Speaker 1: Roshan mcgonuth. I went to community college. I graduated with
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  Speaker 1: a math degree and mine in sociology uh in computer
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  Speaker 1: science from the University Houston. But along the way I
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  Speaker 1: went to community college, I took polic side and so
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  Speaker 1: I know that I didn't at the time that I
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  Speaker 1: went to college, there was no online degree dot com
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  Speaker 1: available to me, and I know that I was working.
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  Speaker 1: So what I like about this, this pitch that you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about, this opportunity I should say you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: is day I would tell people go to college. Although
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  Speaker 1: just going to college will change your life, just educating
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  Speaker 1: yourself beyond high school will change in your life because
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  Speaker 1: it just opens your eyes about the opportunities and also
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  Speaker 1: really allows you to see how talented and what life
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  Speaker 1: has to offer. And when you got an opportunity, well
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  Speaker 1: you know you can't get in the car, go to
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  Speaker 1: a campus, sit down in a behind a chair where
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  Speaker 1: you can put a computer it's your table or in
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  Speaker 1: your bed while you're about to go to sleep, and
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  Speaker 1: you can pursue a higher level of education. That's what
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  Speaker 1: this is all about. This is this interview is about opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: This interview about allowing yourself to say, I'm tired of
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  Speaker 1: the rut. I'm tired of the routine that I am in.
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  Speaker 1: How can I change that? And that's what online degree
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  Speaker 1: dot com can do? Correct Grant, you nailed it, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's so sad to me that there's so many
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  Speaker 1: people who want to make their lives better. They want
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  Speaker 1: to take that first step, they want to improve their
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  Speaker 1: career or get into a career that they think is
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  Speaker 1: their future. But they're not able to take that first step.
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  Speaker 1: And it's because, just like we've discussed before, they can't
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  Speaker 1: leave work. They don't I can't justify the cost. And
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  Speaker 1: so we're trying to enable it for those people and
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  Speaker 1: make the world a better place, lower students that and
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  Speaker 1: ultimately for society, create a more educated society. Because I
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  Speaker 1: agree with you. I mean, education is one of those
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  Speaker 1: things that has a direct correlation to the benefits of
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  Speaker 1: a culture, and it's a huge deal. So I think
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  Speaker 1: that we're really checking all those boxes. You are. And
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  Speaker 1: I always tell people you can't repull your degree. Once
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  Speaker 1: it gets on that wall. Nobody's gonna report. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you can have bad credit, but you can't. You can
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  Speaker 1: always tell somebody and point to that wall and said, look,
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  Speaker 1: I've accomplished that. And that is what drives me in
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  Speaker 1: my life. You know, as I went through college and
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  Speaker 1: I was dumbling, it took me seven years to give
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  Speaker 1: my degree, so I could have saved a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money with online degree dot com because I was, I
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  Speaker 1: was saving out some cash for seven years. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a chief college student grant. I was out there,
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  Speaker 1: I was, I was, I was paying for some people
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  Speaker 1: to go extra, people going to school behind me. But
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  Speaker 1: I thought, you're right, you know. But the thing about
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  Speaker 1: it is that when I look at and I talk
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  Speaker 1: to you about what you're doing, it feels so comfortable
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  Speaker 1: to be the sell is to individual. It feels so
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  Speaker 1: comfortable to tell people that, look, you can change your
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  Speaker 1: life by making this minor adjustment in your schedule. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: I think that we need to have that tough love
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  Speaker 1: with so many people who are not taking that step.
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  Speaker 1: And so now you know, there's no more excuses, right.
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  Speaker 1: I understood why people weren't taking that step when you
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  Speaker 1: look at the current cost benefit analysis and process to
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  Speaker 1: get started. But now we proved all the excuses. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it could not be easier or more cost effective now
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  Speaker 1: to take that first step. And the first step is
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  Speaker 1: what sir. Come on, let's go and take it to
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  Speaker 1: the finished line. That first step getting started with registering
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  Speaker 1: for free with online degree dot com. Uh and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's where of the first step. And you know the
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  Speaker 1: other thing that makes us a big difference. So we're
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  Speaker 1: Shawn back to your experience when you went back to
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  Speaker 1: community when you're in community college to start with, because
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  Speaker 1: that's the path that so many people take. Absolutely of
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  Speaker 1: the things that in addition to you know now that
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  Speaker 1: courses can be online, which makes it more accessible. One
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  Speaker 1: thing you probably remember not getting at that community college
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  Speaker 1: was the support and guidance that you really needed if
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  Speaker 1: they say it's there, but unfortunately they never have enough
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  Speaker 1: resources to help every person to help them craft, figure
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  Speaker 1: things out, provide support. That is another of the key
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  Speaker 1: differences is that we provide that kind of supporting coaching
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  Speaker 1: to help people get to where they need to go
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  Speaker 1: and because ultimately the end of day, these are people,
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  Speaker 1: these are uh, these they need they need that human
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  Speaker 1: touch and that support. You can't just you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: a complicated thing. And that's another key differentia that we
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  Speaker 1: try to provide well. And tell you them about the education.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you something about what you're offering because usually, uh,
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  Speaker 1: this the opportunity is being made available to working students, adults, students,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of adults, students who have families, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of probably single parent households, And when you try to
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  Speaker 1: pursue the education outside of the household, it becomes, uh,
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  Speaker 1: it can become very destructive to the overall family environment.
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  Speaker 1: But when you're at your house and your kids or
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  Speaker 1: your kids or your children are seeing you make a
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  Speaker 1: difference in there in your personal life, it also changes
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere is home. It makes them want to be
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  Speaker 1: better in their school. It makes them Mom's doing better,
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  Speaker 1: Dad's trying to do better, then I will do better.
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  Speaker 1: It will create a culture in your house that can
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  Speaker 1: change the value system when you're within your home on
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  Speaker 1: a daily basis. So when I look and I look
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  Speaker 1: at this and that that's why I was happy. Grant
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  Speaker 1: to have you on my show, because sometimes when us
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  Speaker 1: an individual, you know, you built this. I'm just looking
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  Speaker 1: at the overall social structure of what your program and
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  Speaker 1: your online dot com online degree dot com format offers
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  Speaker 1: to to students, to the middle class, to the lower
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  Speaker 1: middle class, to the structure to structure people who can't
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  Speaker 1: see uh see at the front door because they don't
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  Speaker 1: have time to get out the front door. They barely
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  Speaker 1: try to get in the front door because the back
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  Speaker 1: door is already shut. And so your educational opportunities. I
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  Speaker 1: want to become a friend of yours, man because uh,
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  Speaker 1: because I just see a lot of opportunities for you
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  Speaker 1: to grow what you're trying to do. And I would
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  Speaker 1: do with everything within my power to be able to
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  Speaker 1: help you get the word out, especially in my community.
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  Speaker 1: You know, my community, I feel in any community of
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  Speaker 1: color needs to understand the value of the format that
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  Speaker 1: you're offering, because we are working uh more than eight
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  Speaker 1: hours a day. We are you know, typically on the
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: low end of the of the of the payroll opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: So so to have you on my show talking about it,
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  Speaker 1: it's really a blessing to me. Hopefully it's a blessing
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  Speaker 1: to my audience to take advantage of what you're doing.
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  Speaker 1: I want to support you in so many levels because
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  Speaker 1: I was that working adult. That's why I had to
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  Speaker 1: go to community college. I had to drop out of
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  Speaker 1: of a four year institution because I couldn't afford it.
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  Speaker 1: I had to go work a four time job. And
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: when I worked the four chap job, when I left
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the four champ job, I had to go to a
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  Speaker 1: community college. And he's saying, he's abolutely right, that was
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: the most functional environment because it was everybody had that
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: same hustle. They leave class, break to their cars, go home,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: and so you are creating something that I feel is
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  Speaker 1: very positive and very whole to the everyday family lifestyle.
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  Speaker 1: Grant Sean, thank you. Thank you for saying that. You
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  Speaker 1: know you're you're such an accomplished person who I respect greatly,
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  Speaker 1: and your viewpoint on that is is valuable to me
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  Speaker 1: very much. And you know, I think that what you
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  Speaker 1: just said was very profound that people often forget in
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  Speaker 1: that you know, that paper and that degree is not
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  Speaker 1: just the economic benefit which we all know is there.
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  Speaker 1: There's that real cultural raw um everything within that family
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  Speaker 1: which you just touched on that nobody ever talks about.
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  Speaker 1: And that is that's so important in making people feel
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  Speaker 1: better about themselves and driven, and yeah, that's you know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad to be part of that. And guess what,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: You're part of Money Making Conversations family, my friend, and
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: you'll be hearing from me soon because I just want
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: to just help you take it to the next level
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  Speaker 1: and also spread your information worldwide because you are a star,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: because you're changing lives on a daily basis, and that's
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: why I created Money Making Conversations Grant. Welcome to the family,
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  Speaker 1: my friend,