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Rushion Interviews former Destiny Child's and Raising Kanan star LeToya Luckett | Former Roc Nation President Benny Pough; he discusses life after a near fatal accident! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to money Making Conversations. It's to show that she
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Speaker 1: we come. My guest is Benny Pew. He's a music
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Speaker 1: industry executive entrepreneur and when Amazon announced his newly released
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Speaker 1: books chart this week, his book on Impact was number one.
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Speaker 1: Well respected in the entertainment industry, he is a veteran
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Speaker 1: of the game. I've known him over two decades. The
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Speaker 1: careers he's worked with in the industry include Jay z Rihanna,
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Speaker 1: Kanye West, Travis Scott, Future twenty one, Savage, Puture, pew
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Speaker 1: as p o U g h. I remember I first
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Speaker 1: made I thought it was pe w Beanie Peuple. I
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Speaker 1: remember Steve Harper said, how you spell Latin as a
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Speaker 1: p W. And now then I looked at that is
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Speaker 1: p o U g h bet P. Well, he's living
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Speaker 1: indelible mark on the music industry, holding executive roles at Motown,
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Speaker 1: Death Jam, you know, Epic Records. That's why I made
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Speaker 1: him at Epic Records, m c A Records, you know,
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Speaker 1: just chronicling a career and culminated with the ultimate position
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Speaker 1: for him at that time president of Rock Nation Music
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Speaker 1: in twenty four teen, a dramatic accident and the current
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Speaker 1: in Bennie's life. I'm bringing him on the show for
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Speaker 1: that reason and it is chronicle in his book on Impact.
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Speaker 1: Without further ado, let's listen to the man himself tell
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Speaker 1: his story and why we should understand that when it
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Speaker 1: seems dark, there's always light. Welcome to Money Making Conversations
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Speaker 1: And then while listening to you and watching looking at
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Speaker 1: it almost feels like one of the mega churches, you know,
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Speaker 1: next time I ever come on your show, bro, I'm
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Speaker 1: the wall is the truth, Bro. The wall is what's
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Speaker 1: gonna last for happens that wall. Man. And I appreciate
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Speaker 1: you for bringing me on here. Man, Thank you so
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Speaker 1: much for your friendship. Thank you so much for your time. Man,
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Speaker 1: and I appreciate it. Well, you know the thing, you know,
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Speaker 1: and so I felt it was just fantastic to bring
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Speaker 1: on you a long time for end. You and I
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Speaker 1: met Steve Harveying. I was doing local radio the Beat
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and you and the idea about by
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Speaker 1: the record, uh collaboration where we bring in a bunch
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Speaker 1: of artists, new artists and oh, you know, a star
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Speaker 1: artists and collaboration and that's how we met. And we've
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Speaker 1: been friends. We've been uh dinner, dinner, buddies, lunch buddies,
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Speaker 1: breakfast buddy, laugh, all that stuff all these years. But
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Speaker 1: that's been the key to you being you understood the
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Speaker 1: value of relationships. Wow, you know it's interesting that you
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Speaker 1: that that we're gonna revisit that story, because I mean,
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Speaker 1: you guys invited me in your lives. I was the
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Speaker 1: guy who was just a local promoter and Los Angeles
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Speaker 1: UH senior vice president. But you know, I always saw
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Speaker 1: myself as a worker, and I remember when you brought
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Speaker 1: me in and it was like, only introduce you to Steve,
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Speaker 1: and we got this idea. We got this concept right on.
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Speaker 1: You know, rap music was different, you know, it was
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Speaker 1: actually starting to morph into what it is now, and
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Speaker 1: you guys wanted a positive message in the marketplace and
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Speaker 1: in doing so, that's how we got to the compilation
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Speaker 1: which was super exciting and also pennetrated the market. And
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Speaker 1: you know it was an entree for both of both
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Speaker 1: of us want me being aligned with superstar manager and
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Speaker 1: superstar artists as well as you guys connecting into a
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Speaker 1: whole another audience and music. So what the shows is
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Speaker 1: when you foster and people see something in you that
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Speaker 1: you may not see in yourself, or you see something
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Speaker 1: in yourself that someone needs identified that it's all about
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Speaker 1: patients and perseverance, absolutely, And the thing about it is
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Speaker 1: when I met you, you know, I always tell people
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Speaker 1: you know it was. It was a very interesting time
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Speaker 1: in my life. I just transitioned from being a sitcom writer.
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Speaker 1: I was doing the Parkers and then January Fox and
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Speaker 1: Sister Sister and and Steve and I was on radio
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Speaker 1: in l A. We came in the number and eight
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Speaker 1: team when we walked in that building, and in six
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Speaker 1: months we was number one, and so we like owned
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Speaker 1: l A. We were like the face of l A.
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Speaker 1: Music wise. It was a couple of young guys. Man,
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Speaker 1: there was just kind of like wilding out because we
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Speaker 1: didn't know why we were number one. We just went
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Speaker 1: gut instinct. And our relationship with you was tied to
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Speaker 1: gut instinct because you had that same fire, Benny, that
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Speaker 1: same man you with Steve Harp. And now when we
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Speaker 1: were walking away from you, man, go that've been in
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Speaker 1: that been in something, because your energy, that laugh man,
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Speaker 1: and you were like you truly were like you said,
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Speaker 1: you know and this is a compliment, you know the
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Speaker 1: used car salesman, because used called smellsman can say you
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Speaker 1: a call and it might not be the call. You're
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Speaker 1: about to drive off that lot. And Benny would sit
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Speaker 1: down man and talk to you, and you go, it's
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Speaker 1: been but they don't have no will. Don't worry about that.
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Speaker 1: Don't worry about that. Later. Yeah, you ain't a call.
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Speaker 1: Will You came here for a car? Bills come later.
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Speaker 1: See know what I'm saying, Come here for a car
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Speaker 1: with wills. You gave me for a car. I got it.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get your wills. You, We're gonna get you wills. Man,
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Speaker 1: we leave him, Man, we'd be driving laughing so hard, man,
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Speaker 1: because we go Benny Man, Betty something else Man and
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Speaker 1: Betty going to room with your white folks and started
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Speaker 1: talking and if he's listening, and we just just we
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Speaker 1: re quiet as little church bouts because Benny knew what
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Speaker 1: he was doing. Is he still knows what he's doing
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Speaker 1: to day. And then you know, you started transitioning like
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Speaker 1: we started transition. Start looking for other opportunities. What made
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Speaker 1: you look at and said I was bigger than where
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Speaker 1: I was at, And then start challenging yourself to really
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Speaker 1: start reaching what God talents that God gave you. So
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Speaker 1: first and foremost entering into the music business, I realized
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Speaker 1: there were no salt and pepper hair black man walking
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Speaker 1: in the buildings. So that's when I decided on two
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Speaker 1: Plan aid's and my first Plan A was this corporate job,
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Speaker 1: which which actually played paid exponentially, but knowing that this
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Speaker 1: would not be my retirement because it was no one
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Speaker 1: in their mid fifties late sixties, so it wasn't gonna
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Speaker 1: be like my mother at the Post Off getting a
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Speaker 1: golden package. So that's when I invested in real estate.
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Speaker 1: So every bonus I made for the last twenty years
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Speaker 1: twenty five years went to purchasing a piece of property,
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Speaker 1: whether it was a single family, whether it was a
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Speaker 1: condo or co op, you know, a residential building or
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Speaker 1: even a city block. That's what I said was going
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Speaker 1: to be important for me being blessed in an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to um, you know, um make make make the living
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Speaker 1: that I was that that I was doing the time.
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Speaker 1: And so as we go through the process. But you
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Speaker 1: you know you you you engaged in superstar talent. You know,
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Speaker 1: you know we we we you know, the industry is
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Speaker 1: different now, you know, because STUDIOST had the relationship when
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Speaker 1: we were back and we met, had the relationship with
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Speaker 1: the talent. Now they got streaming and they could drop
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Speaker 1: their own music and all this, so it's a it's
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Speaker 1: kind of like a more independent world out that I
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Speaker 1: don't really know how Lizzo is really successful or how
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Speaker 1: meg the Statue is successful. A chance to wrap us
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Speaker 1: successful or tank it successful because there are different ways
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Speaker 1: for them to just say I gotta social media platform,
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Speaker 1: I can drop my own thing. It's just like with Beyonce,
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Speaker 1: it's usually gonna drop our music at midnight. Same thing
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Speaker 1: with Taylor Swift. I'm gonna drop my music at midnight.
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Speaker 1: They ain't got they I have to ask nobody if
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Speaker 1: they want to drop their music. How has that impacted
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Speaker 1: how you look at the industry because now you're looking
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Speaker 1: at it from a perspective as an entrepreneur and not
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Speaker 1: somebody who's employed by it. Well, I mean, in in
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Speaker 1: all seriousness, um, there are there are two ways to
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Speaker 1: look at it. They are independent artists who are truly independent.
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Speaker 1: That means you own your masters and you can go
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Speaker 1: to a just show kid you can go to you
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Speaker 1: can upload it yourself right or you can go through
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Speaker 1: one of the distribution companies and put it up. When
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Speaker 1: you actually going to a deal with a label, you
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Speaker 1: just can't do what you want to do because they
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Speaker 1: actually own in control. You know, your your your your
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Speaker 1: Master's so being in the space and that's always existed,
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Speaker 1: be quite honest with you know, we're old enough to
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Speaker 1: be to know about one stops and you know distributions
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Speaker 1: UM as well as major corporations. And the one defining
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Speaker 1: factor is the majors have always been in the position
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Speaker 1: of power for artists that come through that funnel. And
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Speaker 1: that works for you and against you, right, and there's
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Speaker 1: nothing wrong. If you're an artist that can strive and
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Speaker 1: make it independently and don't need a major, that's great.
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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of benefits of being in a
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Speaker 1: major because guess what they can take you from zero
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Speaker 1: to sixty or zero to ninety if if if the
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Speaker 1: thrust of the building goes behind you, which you might
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Speaker 1: not be able to do over yourself in a in
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Speaker 1: a in a in a runway that you know it
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Speaker 1: is best for exploitation. So we're talking to benef you. UM.
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Speaker 1: This book on Impact is number one on Amazon and
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Speaker 1: will main there as long as you keep buying it.
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Speaker 1: That's why he's on the show to day we to
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Speaker 1: talk about this book, talking about his croup, but we're
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Speaker 1: really here to sale books. I wouldn't be here if
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Speaker 1: that book wasn't number one, bro. As much as you
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Speaker 1: love me, you like yo Benny if he was number forty.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's hard to climb up with a backpack.
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Speaker 1: It's really heavy, okay, but when you you could climb down.
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Speaker 1: You know when that when that backpacks life. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Everybody, ate up the food. Let's go
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Speaker 1: back down to get some both food. But when you're
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Speaker 1: climbing up, brother, and that backpack full of rocks on
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Speaker 1: Impact ain't got no rocks in it because it's number one,
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Speaker 1: number one, you know, And that's what really when when
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Speaker 1: you talk about the energy of success and the energy
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Speaker 1: of what we're trying to do. You know, I read here,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna read this, uh this uh quote by you
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Speaker 1: and I both know her. Over my seven decades, I
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Speaker 1: have read two many books that even guess the number
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Speaker 1: most honestly meant on Impact has impacted my life and
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Speaker 1: such of my sensibilities like none other in a very
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Speaker 1: very long time. Truly a road max, Truly a road
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Speaker 1: map to fulfilling one's potential while at the same time
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Speaker 1: guiding others to achieve the same. The one and only
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Speaker 1: Cathy Hughes, founder and chair person when I was working
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Speaker 1: for a radio one Na's called Urban one, which is
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Speaker 1: TV one Radio one, Urban one Digital platforms. Kathi Hughes,
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Speaker 1: she has been a face of radio and music. When
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Speaker 1: you went to her, I'm assuming there was no hesitation
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Speaker 1: to get her to give you a quote. Why I
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Speaker 1: was cool? Man, let me say this, I was extremely nervous.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we we know miss Hughes, all of us
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Speaker 1: and we've we've been blessed by it, but we don't
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Speaker 1: really some of us, let's say this is just the
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Speaker 1: people in our generation and younger don't know what she's
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Speaker 1: meant to people of color, black people and women like
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Speaker 1: she was the first woman to have a company on
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Speaker 1: woman and woman of color and asked that, right, So
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Speaker 1: that's just huge in in the money game, right, like
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Speaker 1: showing who and what her influence was. And she's an
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Speaker 1: avid reader and she's also just like you know, a
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Speaker 1: dynamo in business. So as a friend and just like
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Speaker 1: you and I appreciate you bringing me here. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not want to to ask folks to help me.
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Speaker 1: I want to bring tee it up for them to
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Speaker 1: want to be engaged, right, because you don't never want
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Speaker 1: to be that person. You know that's begging, right, you
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Speaker 1: know it perceived to be so when I when I
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Speaker 1: went to her, I didn't bring it to her until
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Speaker 1: I had it in its best state, in its best form.
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Speaker 1: And of course, just like what you said, she said, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: I'll give you a quote. Absolutely, I'll give you a
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Speaker 1: quote for the book. Send it over. Because she would
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Speaker 1: have gave me the quote anyway, right, but I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have accepted the quote. Has she not read the book?
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Speaker 1: And when she read the book and we spoke, she said, Benny,
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Speaker 1: this is phenomenal. I read it three times and this
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Speaker 1: was in like two days. Bro, I ain't read the
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Speaker 1: book three times and two days right, right, Like I've
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Speaker 1: never read the book three times and two right, just
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Speaker 1: says the power of her mind, right, And then I
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Speaker 1: knew I had something. Right. You know what when when
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Speaker 1: people of of of of that level, that value, and
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Speaker 1: had that intuition and have seen the past, the president
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Speaker 1: of the future is telling me that I have something.
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Speaker 1: Then I realized, like, Okay, this is everything I wanted
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Speaker 1: to be impactful to people. We'll be right back with
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Speaker 1: more money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald Now let's
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Speaker 1: return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking to any Pew, the one and only Bene Pew,
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Speaker 1: former record executive entrepreneur, the number one book on Amazon
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Speaker 1: available right now just go to Amazon called Own Impact.
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Speaker 1: I have a six questions I want to ask you.
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Speaker 1: This is an entrepreneur show. I bring individuals like you
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Speaker 1: on here to just seed information into my fan base.
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Speaker 1: And the first one is the key to building mentor relationships.
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Speaker 1: I talked about that a lot. You shown me it works,
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Speaker 1: You shown me the value of it. Can you give
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Speaker 1: us my audience some keys or just a couple of
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Speaker 1: a statement of the building mental relationships? So you know,
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Speaker 1: I actually talk about that in the book as well.
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Speaker 1: So for me, mentoring as a mentor, you have to
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Speaker 1: realize that you're in the position of giving right and
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Speaker 1: you may not get anything back other than that person
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Speaker 1: getting the best from you. So for me, it's all
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Speaker 1: about from the mental perspective giving as a mentee. You
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Speaker 1: need to realize the value of what people who are
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Speaker 1: on the other end of doing. They're giving you your time,
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Speaker 1: so don't waste it right. And also that's because you know,
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Speaker 1: like I said, I always tell people, like when I
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Speaker 1: stepped away from Steve, it was the mentor and the relationship.
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Speaker 1: It's two words that are key, mentor and relationships. The
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Speaker 1: relationship can be equally as more powerful as the mentorship,
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Speaker 1: and so the membership. Let you know that as you
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Speaker 1: grow older, you're seeing people who can come back and
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Speaker 1: be an asset to you, not just not that you're
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Speaker 1: trying to be self and say, hey, I ain't gonna
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Speaker 1: look here. I'm doing this for you, not don't forget me.
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Speaker 1: That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about because
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Speaker 1: I because I was. I remember I was. I was.
15:35
Speaker 1: I was talking to Sherriff Shephard yesterday. In fact, I
15:37
Speaker 1: was a new Yard and she was and were she
15:40
Speaker 1: had me come on the show. We're sitting in the
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Speaker 1: addressing room shiphip. She's ash. I remember when I was
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Speaker 1: on the show and you and I was selling you.
15:47
Speaker 1: I was selling my book, and you was telling me
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Speaker 1: repeat the name, keep repeating the name, keep repeating the name.
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Speaker 1: And I didn't know why you kept saying. They said, look,
15:56
Speaker 1: because you never know when somebody's gonna start listening to
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Speaker 1: this interview. That moment stayed with her stay because you
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Speaker 1: reminded me in the dressing room. And I get that
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Speaker 1: a lot from people. I've gotten that from Gabriel Union.
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Speaker 1: I've gotten that from Lal Anthony. I've gotten that from
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Speaker 1: Nick Cannon. I've gotten that from Michelle Williams. I've gotten
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Speaker 1: that and it's not so so. Your mentorship can just
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Speaker 1: be advice that people hang on to and it shapes
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Speaker 1: a decision they may make in that life that proves
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Speaker 1: to be important. And that's what it really is. When
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Speaker 1: you're talking about a lot of people tag mentionship. I
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Speaker 1: gotta be there holding somebody's hand. I gotta be there
16:32
Speaker 1: pick him up out to school. I gotta be there
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Speaker 1: to open their books and club mentorship and just conversation
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Speaker 1: on this conversation that you can have with somebody when
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Speaker 1: they come to you, and not blowing them off with
16:43
Speaker 1: some cavalier statement or a statement that that you don't.
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Speaker 1: You should need to be restarting to always tell people
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Speaker 1: you go if you're a doctor, you don't go to
16:51
Speaker 1: a mechanic for advice. Now, if the mechanics started telling
16:53
Speaker 1: you about how to be a doctor, then you need
16:56
Speaker 1: to walk away and realize that he's lying. I don't
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Speaker 1: care if he's your daddy. Oh y'all, he's a mechanic. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So let's talk about you know, it's just me in
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Speaker 1: the words of social media, and you're not developed our
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Speaker 1: relationship with for social media. Interview the value of personal
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Speaker 1: branding all day every day, man, like, you know, I
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Speaker 1: am who I am because I work at it. I realized,
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Speaker 1: you know, my shortcomings. I realize, um the my area
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Speaker 1: of growth. I realized what my gifts are, and I
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Speaker 1: make sure that I tap in and ask people questions.
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Speaker 1: You know, what do you think? Like? You know, you
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Speaker 1: and I have candid conversations every time we went together.
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Speaker 1: It's greatly Even after this interview, I'm gonna say, Sean,
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Speaker 1: what can I do better? Because there's gonna be another
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Speaker 1: Rushan that's gonna come in my life for the rest
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Speaker 1: of my life. So I don't want to just think,
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Speaker 1: you know, and have people around me that go, hey, man,
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Speaker 1: now you did a great job, and then when you leave,
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Speaker 1: they go, you know, he's, oh, my god, horrible and
17:56
Speaker 1: he can't speak right. So truth is so important and
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Speaker 1: surrounding yourself with people who can actually give you what
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Speaker 1: you need, that's gonna help you as you evolved and
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Speaker 1: become the person you need to be. We know when
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Speaker 1: when you early in this conversation, you were talking about investing,
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Speaker 1: and that's a visionary approach to any You know, I
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Speaker 1: always tell people, you know, President Obama, you know, he
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Speaker 1: had to do things in his life as a young
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Speaker 1: person to make sure it didn't come back on him.
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Speaker 1: Otherwise people have never been president never. You know, that
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Speaker 1: means he had he had a vision. And the fact
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Speaker 1: that you just said, every shod every time I got
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Speaker 1: a bonus, I invested in property, I invested in the building,
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Speaker 1: in invested in the car or a house. Where did
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Speaker 1: that come from? My mother? We grew up in a
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Speaker 1: five family house and we were in the We lived
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Speaker 1: in the attic and um in the winner it was
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Speaker 1: really cold and then the summer was really hot because
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18:51
Speaker 1: I always say to him, he's the black mcgo because
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Speaker 1: he could fix and do any and everything. So he
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Speaker 1: worked around the house and he gave the woman was
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Speaker 1: an older woman from Kansas. Um he uh did all
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Speaker 1: a different way on how people moved right. You know,
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Speaker 1: it's that barter kind of thing. You know. The rent
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Speaker 1: never went up, but he did all the work, right,
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Speaker 1: It's just how it was. And there's a lot of unstated,
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Speaker 1: father um lived the life that he wanted to him
19:53
Speaker 1: and my mother in their relationship. She worked at the
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Speaker 1: post office so I benefit health insurance was covered, and
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Speaker 1: my father was able to be the man and as
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Speaker 1: strong man as he was living his life fixing cars,
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Speaker 1: fixing homes. You know, just like yo, man, I'm free.
20:09
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Speaker 1: I mean the grit said he used to make for
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20:21
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20:31
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Speaker 1: like breaks on your show so you can buy. I
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Speaker 1: just threw out those you not me. I just thought
21:10
Speaker 1: those big names, you know, and then I did Deaf
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Speaker 1: jam Me and Dave Japelle and all that stuff, you know,
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Speaker 1: boy Matthew Knows back in Houston, Texas. And so my
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Speaker 1: life is that's my life, but the life of being
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Speaker 1: able to work with amazing talent like Travis Scott future
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Speaker 1: in these rooms. These rooms can just suck all the air.
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Speaker 1: They could suck all the air when they walk in
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Speaker 1: the room. But you also have to maintain who you
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Speaker 1: are an identity, and you've always been able to do that, Benny,
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Speaker 1: without intimidating the star. How were you able to pull
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22:15
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22:25
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22:28
Speaker 1: Obviously you're gonna learn what you learn, how you learn it,
22:31
Speaker 1: when you learn it, and what stage in your life.
22:33
Speaker 1: But for me, it was my mom and like you know,
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Speaker 1: our spirituality, like my mother had us in church. Man,
22:38
Speaker 1: we hate it going to church. We was those kids, right,
22:41
Speaker 1: and me and my sister was talking not even just
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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. You know about our mom
22:46
Speaker 1: um God you know, um, God bless God, bless her. Um.
22:51
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, she raised me as a little man,
22:54
Speaker 1: like I never really was a child. I was five
22:58
Speaker 1: year I was a little man. So you know, she
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Speaker 1: taught me about economics. Um, she taught me about your words,
23:04
Speaker 1: she taught me about the discipline, She talked me about
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Speaker 1: or God. Spirituality is that loose term. We believed in
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Speaker 1: jaw God, in Jesus Christ. Right. So, Um, when I
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Speaker 1: got into music, I never let go my fundamentals to
23:22
Speaker 1: subscribe in the situation that I was in. You know, ultimately,
23:26
Speaker 1: the reason why I last thirty years is because I
23:29
Speaker 1: didn't rush the process. You know, I didn't get invited
23:32
Speaker 1: to every party. I didn't get invited on every boat.
23:34
Speaker 1: I didn't go to every event. But you know what
23:36
Speaker 1: people knew when they came and they sat with me,
23:39
Speaker 1: They need what I said because I was rooted in
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Speaker 1: what I was rooted in the truth. So therefore, you
23:46
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23:49
Speaker 1: they say game recognized games, we all recognized real So ultimately,
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Speaker 1: at the end of all of those conversations, cats knew
23:56
Speaker 1: I was gonna be like, Hey, can I get your number?
23:59
Speaker 1: You know? You know, can I come over? Um? You know,
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Speaker 1: you know, what's your little brother doing? What's his number?
24:05
Speaker 1: You know? All of that stuff is about the business.
24:08
Speaker 1: So I always kept it business. And then they had
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Speaker 1: the opportunity whether they wanted to invite me in their life.
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Speaker 1: of Inspiration with Rashan McDonald. Hi, I'm Rashan McDonald for
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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation Masterclass teacher Daily Minute of Inspiration. Recently,
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Speaker 1: I spoke with one of the hosts of HDTVs Marriage
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Speaker 1: Real Estate, Egypt Sharad. She explains to fulfillment that comes
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Speaker 1: For us the blessing in this entire experience, as no
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Speaker 1: one has asked us to change a thing like I
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Speaker 1: was on the Today Show this morning. In Dreadlocks, I
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Speaker 1: shot a commercial for the Intercontinental Exchange RICE Stock Market
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Speaker 1: and no one asked me to tone down anything on
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Speaker 1: Now let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald.
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Speaker 1: My guest today is LaToya Luckett. She broke in the
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Speaker 1: industry and saying, you know, I gotta go back on
27:36
Speaker 1: this because you know, we got a little history, my
27:39
Speaker 1: history with her, you know, backing with the iconic girl
27:42
Speaker 1: group that's the child. But I love her for acting.
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Speaker 1: LaToya previously recurring on one of my favorite shows, Owns
27:48
Speaker 1: green Leaf for three seasons. Love this show. She's also
27:51
Speaker 1: a period in recurring roles in Fox Rosewood and HBO's Ballers,
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Speaker 1: another two of my favorite shows. And start with my
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Speaker 1: bar Morris Chestnut, Okay over there and rose Wood and
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Speaker 1: now LaToya luck at Stars as Ken your peers in
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Speaker 1: the newer season of Power Book three, Raising Canaan Aaron
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Speaker 1: Sunday at nine pm Eastern on Stars Plus. I want
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Speaker 1: to get into it with her new YouTube channel show,
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Speaker 1: which I love to death. Leave it to LaToya please
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Speaker 1: working to Money Making Conversations master Class, the one in
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Speaker 1: the owned LaToya Lucky. How you doing, I'm good? How
28:22
Speaker 1: are you first to get to you had a lot
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Speaker 1: to say, which is good? Which is good? You know
28:29
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because that means you've had a career,
28:30
Speaker 1: which means that this because when we talk about this business,
28:35
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm a fan of your YouTube channel
28:38
Speaker 1: because it tells I think if anybody in the industry
28:42
Speaker 1: wants to know, how does industry work? Because there's no
28:45
Speaker 1: guarantees in this industry and you are an entrepreneur. A
28:48
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know when you become an actor,
28:50
Speaker 1: you basically an entrepreneur because yourself employed. You're going from
28:52
Speaker 1: gig gig people they walk in a room audition, and
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Speaker 1: you don't know if they like you. You You know, you
28:58
Speaker 1: might have killed They said, you know, we want to
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Speaker 1: go with this skinny chick. You know, we want to
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Speaker 1: go with the light of complexion. We want to go
29:05
Speaker 1: with the gel with the long hair, the straight hair,
29:07
Speaker 1: we want to go to go with the silly laugh.
29:09
Speaker 1: But what about Latoria? She killed it? Man. I think
29:12
Speaker 1: I wannach good chick good, but I'd like to do
29:15
Speaker 1: with it. How do you how do you deal with
29:18
Speaker 1: that level of challenges because it's every day and the
29:23
Speaker 1: world we live in, but you've been able to rise
29:25
Speaker 1: above it and build a successful career. I mean, I mean,
29:30
Speaker 1: I can honestly tell you I, as a matter of fact,
29:32
Speaker 1: I just came off of the audition of tests and
29:35
Speaker 1: if you're an actor, you know what the test is. UM.
29:38
Speaker 1: I was so excited about the role and I just
29:41
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, I was trying out for
29:42
Speaker 1: two roles because I felt like, Okay, I think they
29:45
Speaker 1: really want me to be a part of this because
29:47
Speaker 1: they got me auditioning for two roles and you know,
29:50
Speaker 1: test deal is done, it is done, And then you
29:52
Speaker 1: get the news it didn't go your way, and like wait,
29:55
Speaker 1: what did I do? What did you know? And you
29:57
Speaker 1: just you start to realize the old saying everybody gonna
30:02
Speaker 1: say it was for you? As for you, um, And
30:07
Speaker 1: as much I want to believe that, you know, you
30:11
Speaker 1: still have those moments of disappointment where it's like, but
30:15
Speaker 1: I felt like this was this was mine right? You know,
30:20
Speaker 1: he would go with the tection again. I have to
30:23
Speaker 1: get through that but you know what comes with it,
30:25
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know, like in football, you're
30:29
Speaker 1: gonna get hit right right right. I think that, Um,
30:34
Speaker 1: you know once once the sting goes away, Uh, you
30:39
Speaker 1: just keep going. You just keep going up and you
30:42
Speaker 1: keep going. It is it the people around you, your
30:46
Speaker 1: support group that has enabled you to sustain the career.
30:49
Speaker 1: And when I've talked like this, I'm not talking in
30:50
Speaker 1: the negative manner. Just young man has had a brilliant
30:53
Speaker 1: career and it will continue to have a brilliant career.
30:56
Speaker 1: But I was just telling that everybody who wants to
30:58
Speaker 1: jump out there and being an actor or sing girl,
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Speaker 1: it's not easy, baby, And you do need a tribe,
31:03
Speaker 1: and you need a whole tribe of folks to believe
31:05
Speaker 1: in you and will continue to continue to encourage you
31:08
Speaker 1: and lift you up when you feel down, and you know,
31:10
Speaker 1: push you back in the room when you want when
31:12
Speaker 1: you're done, when you're kicking and screaming. Um. It is
31:17
Speaker 1: not something that's easy. That's something that you can I
31:22
Speaker 1: just think it's gonna be easy money, it's not. Um.
31:27
Speaker 1: So you know, if the passion is there, if the
31:32
Speaker 1: um work, your work ethic, if it's there, and to
31:39
Speaker 1: be resilient, you have to you have to have all that. Absolutely,
31:45
Speaker 1: a good group of folks talk some sense and to
31:48
Speaker 1: you when you're ready done with it. Um. But it's
31:52
Speaker 1: not easy at all, but it's reporting. The payoff is beautiful,
31:57
Speaker 1: beautiful beauty when life is interesting. Because, like I said,
32:02
Speaker 1: my all my degrees in mathematics minor and sociology left
32:05
Speaker 1: IBM pursuing the crowd thought are gonna be the next set?
32:08
Speaker 1: And Murphy definitely the next Richard Prior and I made
32:10
Speaker 1: great headway into the comedic industry as a stand up comedian,
32:14
Speaker 1: and I too was in l A doing my thing,
32:16
Speaker 1: and I decided to move back to Houston to say,
32:18
Speaker 1: you know something, I'm going to be the big fish
32:21
Speaker 1: in the small palm as used and Uh. I opened
32:24
Speaker 1: a comedy club called the Hip Hop Comedy Stop. And
32:26
Speaker 1: it was hot. I mean people were lines around the block.
32:29
Speaker 1: It was hot, it was pop. And that's when I
32:31
Speaker 1: had the first time. Because Matthew knows that they ran
32:35
Speaker 1: into me at the hotels. I got this new singing
32:36
Speaker 1: group they I said, okay, he said, can they come
32:41
Speaker 1: open to your spot? And that's when I had the
32:42
Speaker 1: first pleasure of meeting this talent of the young lady
32:46
Speaker 1: and her friends on that stage, and even then, you know,
32:50
Speaker 1: the politeness and the innocence of being young. There was
32:53
Speaker 1: a unique talent about you that still out there that
32:57
Speaker 1: that resonates today. But you came into the industry the
33:00
Speaker 1: toy as a singer when in your mind you felt
33:03
Speaker 1: I could do more. Um, you know what, I feel
33:06
Speaker 1: like that was a God moment because I remember being
33:14
Speaker 1: asked to come and meet with an agency in New York. Um.
33:17
Speaker 1: I hadn't really done any acting outside of school plays
33:19
Speaker 1: and and they asked me, you know, to uh come
33:23
Speaker 1: down and take a meeting. They sent me on my pcation.
33:25
Speaker 1: I went, I didn't know how to read script I've
33:28
Speaker 1: been on the stage play, but stage plays are very
33:30
Speaker 1: different from on screen. Yeah, and so I especially scripted,
33:37
Speaker 1: and so you know, I just I just said yes,
33:41
Speaker 1: I jumped and when I offered me to do that thing,
33:46
Speaker 1: I did it. And I ended up being cast as
33:51
Speaker 1: the lead in this movie called Preacher's Kid. And that
33:53
Speaker 1: was my first act. So God says lead when he says, go,
33:58
Speaker 1: Baby go, And that was that was the MTV. That
34:01
Speaker 1: was MTV E T and a few other things, because
34:06
Speaker 1: I whole Vidcom family, you know. But you know, the
34:10
Speaker 1: thing about it is that one of the interesting things
34:12
Speaker 1: of me wanting to get you on the show, not
34:15
Speaker 1: only just to promote your role on this hot new
34:17
Speaker 1: series on Stars and Stars, has created this little power universe,
34:22
Speaker 1: like you know, the Marvel Universe and the d C
34:24
Speaker 1: Universe or you have the Power Universe, and now you're
34:28
Speaker 1: part of that power universe. You you know, different than this,
34:31
Speaker 1: you know than the you know, Black Widow. You know,
34:33
Speaker 1: you want of these characters now that they brought into
34:35
Speaker 1: that family, and to know that you're in this power
34:39
Speaker 1: universe that has a certain cashade to it, doesn't it?
34:44
Speaker 1: I think it does. Um. I mean, first of all,
34:46
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of the show, even before some
34:49
Speaker 1: part of Raising Kane, and I was like, oh my god,
34:52
Speaker 1: the body of work, the cast what it was a
34:56
Speaker 1: little stating um the first season and going okay, how
35:00
Speaker 1: where do I fit even even what your body worked
35:04
Speaker 1: now you can say casually because you gotta you gotta
35:07
Speaker 1: resume now as an actress, Okay, but even still watching,
35:12
Speaker 1: you know, watching them in these roles, I was just
35:16
Speaker 1: kind of like, Wow, this is outstanding work. And it
35:22
Speaker 1: was a period piece of UM, which is my favorite
35:27
Speaker 1: favorite era. Come in and buckle down and give everything
35:33
Speaker 1: that I had at the time to this character. And
35:36
Speaker 1: because she has such a complex story to tell, I
35:39
Speaker 1: felt like her story was one that people would in
35:43
Speaker 1: some ways be able to relate to be quick to judge,
35:46
Speaker 1: um and also UM that you know, I was having
35:52
Speaker 1: a trouble with seeing why she made the decisions that
35:55
Speaker 1: she made, especially as a mother too, and her being
35:58
Speaker 1: a mom that abandoned her daughter right. And one of
36:01
Speaker 1: the it was the singer wanted to pursue a singing career,
36:03
Speaker 1: you know, I mean for singing career, you know, a
36:08
Speaker 1: lot of levels, but on more, you know, on on
36:12
Speaker 1: other levels, we just didn't get it. Um. But I
36:16
Speaker 1: just I still felt like even with all of that,
36:20
Speaker 1: her story deserved to be told in a very special
36:23
Speaker 1: way and amongst beautiful a beautiful cast. UM. So being
36:29
Speaker 1: a part of the Power universe is some something that
36:33
Speaker 1: I can say I am truly proud of and excited about. Well,
36:36
Speaker 1: when they gave you a character that has a lot
36:38
Speaker 1: of levels, you said that you know, you know, and
36:41
Speaker 1: then let me just explain to everybody about when you
36:44
Speaker 1: see a lot of levels. Okay, the character abandoned its child, Okay,
36:48
Speaker 1: abandons child. That right there, you hear the word selfish. Okay, selfish.
36:52
Speaker 1: Then the character comes back into the city, ignores the child,
36:59
Speaker 1: then cares a life of a religious flavor, as they say,
37:06
Speaker 1: found God, but not flavor. I would say flavor because
37:09
Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna say, flavor Latoria because of
37:11
Speaker 1: the fact that we know your past. So I don't
37:15
Speaker 1: think you can find God without about acknowledging what you've done.
37:21
Speaker 1: But that's the that's the layers of your character, which
37:23
Speaker 1: I love. And so because you know and then knowing
37:26
Speaker 1: who you are from Houston, Texas, southern here going up
37:30
Speaker 1: to New York and get that accent right, talk to
37:33
Speaker 1: us about that if that was that was one thing
37:37
Speaker 1: that I struggle that I had this um coach and
37:41
Speaker 1: um he was very with me, and I was like,
37:46
Speaker 1: this is such a big piece of her. I cannot um,
37:52
Speaker 1: I cannot allow that to be swept under the rug.
37:56
Speaker 1: This has to be this has to be great, you know,
38:02
Speaker 1: distract distraction from her character. And so they were like, no, no,
38:07
Speaker 1: what is suddenly you're a come from now, don't you know?
38:12
Speaker 1: I'm so glad um that I was able to nail
38:15
Speaker 1: that down a bit and also made it fun. You know,
38:18
Speaker 1: it also made it fun. We'll be right back with
38:20
Speaker 1: more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's
38:28
Speaker 1: return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. What
38:33
Speaker 1: the thing about is, uh, you have to use your authenticity,
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Speaker 1: you know. And one thing about New Yorkers don't don't
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Speaker 1: play with don't play with them folks up there, Okay,
38:44
Speaker 1: don't play don't don't you start getting on them Burrows,
38:47
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn queens and Bronks and and you acting like
38:50
Speaker 1: you you're talking with a half of accent or non accent.
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Speaker 1: They will strike you down the place to play with
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Speaker 1: anything Like if if I was, you know, in New
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Speaker 1: York could come in to play a Southerner, we might
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Speaker 1: give a little growths that, you know, we're just a
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Speaker 1: little warmer down here, right right right. But I do
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Speaker 1: going into this that I had to get that particular
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Speaker 1: accent right. They didn't. They trold you. They will trolly.
39:19
Speaker 1: I lived in New York twice, so I know exactly
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Speaker 1: how hard they would have trolled you. I'm talking to
39:23
Speaker 1: LaToya luck At, the star of so many series of
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Speaker 1: incredible singer launched your career many years ago back in
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Speaker 1: the city of Houston, Texas. I was fortunate to be
39:31
Speaker 1: there to see her in the early stages of greatness
39:34
Speaker 1: and then watch her over the years. And it's the
39:36
Speaker 1: first time I'm interviewing that. So I feel like, you know,
39:38
Speaker 1: everything's life is like that. It gives you a chance
39:40
Speaker 1: to see people and then to say congratulations because when
39:44
Speaker 1: you have a career that she has has succeeded, because
39:48
Speaker 1: you know, everybody want to be some form of you.
39:51
Speaker 1: And that's why I started the conversation about the the
39:54
Speaker 1: the You can get these one off, you might start
39:57
Speaker 1: one series, you might get this five and under, you
40:00
Speaker 1: might get this commercial, but you have a career, Dolata. People,
40:07
Speaker 1: when I say that, you know, who do you think
40:10
Speaker 1: the most? Who do I think the most? Oh man,
40:16
Speaker 1: there's so many people to think. I would first say
40:18
Speaker 1: thanks to God. Period um he I mean, I've been
40:24
Speaker 1: showing out when I tell you, showing up enough blows
40:28
Speaker 1: my mind consistently every day my mom for her to
40:35
Speaker 1: be a woman of faith and to have the courage
40:38
Speaker 1: to almost get out of the way in a low
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Speaker 1: and get out of the way, and not put her
40:44
Speaker 1: beliefs or what she thought I should be, and just
40:50
Speaker 1: allow me to be young age. I've started to pursue
40:54
Speaker 1: my career at twelve. I left home at you know,
40:57
Speaker 1: to to pursue my career and traveling on the road
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Speaker 1: with des shall at well. So, Um, that takes a
41:06
Speaker 1: very that's a that's a different kind of faith. Um.
41:11
Speaker 1: So I'm so grateful to her. The tribe that God
41:14
Speaker 1: has put around me of wonderful people who are of
41:17
Speaker 1: my heart, who on a daily literally lift me up
41:21
Speaker 1: in prayer, send an encouraging word. Um, I am so blessed.
41:29
Speaker 1: But these phenomenal people around me, who I mean, stay
41:34
Speaker 1: on me and for just beautiful experiences that God has
41:39
Speaker 1: allowed me to have, um good and bad, um which
41:44
Speaker 1: all ended up working for my good. Oh yeah, She's
41:49
Speaker 1: starting in the Power Book three raising Kanan Aaron Sunday's
41:52
Speaker 1: at nine pm Eastern Standard Time. Not only that, but
41:56
Speaker 1: she's also starring in her own production of honesty, a
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Speaker 1: motivation of of lifting information called Leave It to LaToya.
42:07
Speaker 1: It's a YouTube series got roughly by the hundred and
42:10
Speaker 1: twenty six thousand subscribers and growing. If you want to subscribe,
42:13
Speaker 1: please go to the channel right now and subscribe. And
42:17
Speaker 1: so when I when I look at this, first of all,
42:19
Speaker 1: I want to know my first question is gonna be
42:21
Speaker 1: before I get into any questions, why did you do this?
42:25
Speaker 1: I didn't because I feel like people need a safe
42:27
Speaker 1: space to come and feel like they're not alone, that
42:32
Speaker 1: there's someone out there who has been through something like
42:35
Speaker 1: what's there UM and didn't give up. I am a divorced,
42:44
Speaker 1: single mom of two UM who comes from a divorced
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Speaker 1: family in a very complex industry and still remain positive
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Speaker 1: and humble and UM still wanting to believe the good
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Speaker 1: and everything. So I feel like the show allows me
43:09
Speaker 1: a space is very therapist feutic for me by the
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Speaker 1: way UM allows me to be me, allows people to
43:15
Speaker 1: see me for me and UM just to just be.
43:22
Speaker 1: But you know, to me, you know, I'm with it
43:26
Speaker 1: and the laugh abouself some time and cry And do
43:28
Speaker 1: you do a lot of crying? Now? You do a
43:30
Speaker 1: lot of crying that I'm a lot of my crying.
43:33
Speaker 1: You cried again, girl, cried again. But you look good
43:36
Speaker 1: when you cried. You have a good looking cry. I'm
43:38
Speaker 1: an ugly cry. I'm an ugly cry. I forgot to
43:41
Speaker 1: ask this one question. I gotta go back to the
43:42
Speaker 1: raising kanan playing a playing a series this gangster guns,
43:48
Speaker 1: people dying, people getting killed. Now, you've never done that
43:52
Speaker 1: on TV before, at least I never, so I think
43:54
Speaker 1: I've watched everything you've done. How did that? How did that?
43:58
Speaker 1: How did that whole approached to coming into a series
44:02
Speaker 1: that's tied to violence? How did they how did they
44:06
Speaker 1: sink into your mind? That was a lot because I
44:10
Speaker 1: normally don't do well with shows like that and watching
44:13
Speaker 1: them because I'm a very sensitive person. Even that's the
44:17
Speaker 1: first season, I was like, oh no, um, but I
44:22
Speaker 1: you know what I watched. I heard as I was
44:27
Speaker 1: as traumatized as I thought I would be really enjoying
44:33
Speaker 1: the show. Um, and it was something different for me.
44:37
Speaker 1: It was very different for me. Like you said, I'm
44:39
Speaker 1: a soft and fuss, I'm a busy you know, rom
44:43
Speaker 1: com I want you on the wrong camp. But I
44:47
Speaker 1: watched the Netflix got me. Netflix got me on the
44:50
Speaker 1: romantic comedy. I watched them all the time. Now that
44:55
Speaker 1: the reason I'm gonna telling everybody I cheated a little
44:58
Speaker 1: bit on this interview everybody because she I went to
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Speaker 1: her series and then one of the episodes called high
45:03
Speaker 1: Landing My Highlight My Powerful New Role is an episode,
45:08
Speaker 1: and so some of the questions I got were not
45:10
Speaker 1: the questions they sent me or from what she openly
45:13
Speaker 1: and honestly talked about her career, the trusting, the process, uh,
45:19
Speaker 1: sometimes losing faith and realizing the faith they left you.
45:23
Speaker 1: You left faith, okay, um, realizing that just because you
45:28
Speaker 1: got something that me is guaranteed. All this is in
45:31
Speaker 1: this one less than twelve minute interview. You know this,
45:35
Speaker 1: this confessional, this twilve minutes. This usually getting this in
45:39
Speaker 1: an hour. She cried, she laughed, She talked about losing
45:42
Speaker 1: one of the best friends. This is what I'm talking about.
45:45
Speaker 1: If this is like must see YouTube television and this
45:49
Speaker 1: is one episode, it's like she does a combination of
45:53
Speaker 1: five levels. She guys these jad whoop ear rings on,
45:56
Speaker 1: and she keeps fiddling with him because one goes this way,
45:59
Speaker 1: she puts an in to go the other way. It's
46:02
Speaker 1: just it's just I'm telling I watched one thing. I
46:05
Speaker 1: don't do LaToya when people come to this show. I
46:08
Speaker 1: don't ask these generic questions because I think it's offensive.
46:11
Speaker 1: I want everybody to know that I'm just honored for
46:14
Speaker 1: a talent of your caliper coming on my show. So
46:16
Speaker 1: I have to be the most respectful part and let
46:18
Speaker 1: them know that I respected so much that I'm going
46:21
Speaker 1: to give my time to have a clear understanding of
46:23
Speaker 1: what you're doing in your life. And this whole YouTube
46:27
Speaker 1: channel called leave It to LaToya so YouTube and the
46:31
Speaker 1: honest journey that you go through each episode, it's incredible,
46:35
Speaker 1: you know, confronting my absent father, having a conversation with
46:38
Speaker 1: my ex. Wow, you for real, LaToya. It's a lot.
46:45
Speaker 1: It's a lot. It's it's a lot. Yeah, But I
46:50
Speaker 1: feel it's necessary in order for us to grow and
46:53
Speaker 1: and living our truth, are honest to God truth. M
46:58
Speaker 1: that it takes some stretching, It takes getting uncomfortable, It
47:01
Speaker 1: takes you know, asking those very um complicated questions um
47:07
Speaker 1: that you might not be ready for the answer for um.
47:11
Speaker 1: It takes all of that in order for us to grow. Right.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I feel it's necessary. Okay, now, because I
47:20
Speaker 1: love reading comments, you know, and I think that that
47:23
Speaker 1: that you know, that that drives why you should do
47:25
Speaker 1: things that you're also tells you what people are really
47:30
Speaker 1: motivated about when you do that. And so in reading
47:34
Speaker 1: these comments, I've realized how much you know your fan
47:37
Speaker 1: but you have such a Laurel fan base first of all. Secondly,
47:40
Speaker 1: how much you know that I'm not telling you nothing.
47:44
Speaker 1: You know. The one thing about you know the social media,
47:48
Speaker 1: and I see I respect even to subscribe as a
47:51
Speaker 1: little bit more on social media, because that's a clearly
47:53
Speaker 1: commitment when people subscribe on YouTube or subscribe to a
47:57
Speaker 1: fan club. Because sometimes you can just like a Hamburg
48:00
Speaker 1: or not really mean they like you, or like a flower,
48:03
Speaker 1: like you in a bikini, or like you in a trip.
48:05
Speaker 1: They don't mean they really like you, They're just like
48:07
Speaker 1: that moment. And so so when I'm reading YouTube, it
48:09
Speaker 1: really gives me an honest sense of who cares about you,
48:13
Speaker 1: and I think that's really important and how you're affecting people.
48:16
Speaker 1: So what is the future of leave it to your LaToya? Well,
48:20
Speaker 1: we're working on season two right now. I'm super excited
48:24
Speaker 1: about that. I think it's one of the things that
48:28
Speaker 1: will um just file. It's a legacy moment for me,
48:32
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Either earth, that content will
48:36
Speaker 1: still be here and people will get to hear me,
48:39
Speaker 1: see me, get to know me UM, and I think
48:43
Speaker 1: that that's important. I think it's a part of leaving
48:45
Speaker 1: my mark. Uh So we're working on UM season two.
48:50
Speaker 1: You said we Okay, now you say the word we
48:52
Speaker 1: assuming like I know or who is the week there
48:56
Speaker 1: we go about people you know, they know you, but
49:01
Speaker 1: we we use your cousin that the village. That's what
49:08
Speaker 1: I say awesome because again, you know, when I look
49:11
Speaker 1: at the shows, I when I was watching the episode
49:14
Speaker 1: a boy confronting my absent father, I have to wear
49:17
Speaker 1: ask one question. Well, the big question is why, and
49:21
Speaker 1: then the second big question is what did you get
49:24
Speaker 1: out of it personally? Because I know it's a message
49:27
Speaker 1: to understand some form of forgiveness or some formal understand,
49:30
Speaker 1: some form of closure that people have to have in
49:33
Speaker 1: their life. But for you to take on that responsibility,
49:36
Speaker 1: you know, this is not no, no, big daytime talk show.
49:40
Speaker 1: This is an intimate moment where you said, you know something.
49:43
Speaker 1: All right, I'm going out of my way because that's
49:45
Speaker 1: what Because this is decision. Nobody's pitching in the room here.
49:48
Speaker 1: You know something. We got this hot daytime talking show.
49:50
Speaker 1: We want to bring your dad. They on, No, this
49:52
Speaker 1: is something you decided you wanted to do. Why I
50:00
Speaker 1: I needed that more than ever. Um. I got a
50:04
Speaker 1: lot of questions answered. There was so much helling in
50:07
Speaker 1: that moment um, and we both came with open hearts
50:13
Speaker 1: and a listening to here. Um the accountability was there.
50:18
Speaker 1: Um the UM. I feel like the transparency on my
50:26
Speaker 1: father's side and me really getting to kind of go
50:30
Speaker 1: back in time too, when he was twenty four and
50:32
Speaker 1: having to make some real adult decisions. Although you know,
50:38
Speaker 1: yes he was a father and he was a husband,
50:42
Speaker 1: he was also still coming into his own and so
50:46
Speaker 1: did he make the best decisions Maybe not, but for
50:50
Speaker 1: a person his age, I just feel like I had
50:53
Speaker 1: to show him some grace. I had to understanding, you know,
50:59
Speaker 1: I had to present some understanding as to why my
51:04
Speaker 1: father made some of the decisions that he made. But
51:09
Speaker 1: I think because he was so open and so transparent
51:12
Speaker 1: and so, you know, he was just showing up with
51:15
Speaker 1: all this accountability. The wall of of I did what
51:21
Speaker 1: I did and get over it was down, you know,
51:25
Speaker 1: he I there was some trust developed there because he
51:29
Speaker 1: was being so honest in that moment um, and I
51:33
Speaker 1: just felt it was necessary. I felt there's so many
51:35
Speaker 1: people out there that have this built up unforgiveness, bitterness
51:41
Speaker 1: towards people in their lives or in their experience, that
51:45
Speaker 1: if they just would have an honest conversation, UM, and
51:49
Speaker 1: hopefully a mature conversation, that they would get the answers
51:52
Speaker 1: they need and you know, be able to push forward
51:54
Speaker 1: and move on um and not hope that bitterness because
51:58
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, that's killing us, you
52:00
Speaker 1: know what I mean, that the weight of that is
52:04
Speaker 1: killing us. And I just was hoping that through my
52:07
Speaker 1: conversation somebody would be bold enough and you know, have
52:11
Speaker 1: the courage to finally have the conversation that needed to
52:14
Speaker 1: take place between themselves and their loved one. Well, ladies
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52:26
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