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Tracey Edmonds, Attorney Ben Crump, Kat Tat & Charlie Jordan Brookins · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: He is here this morning to talk about his new
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Speaker 1: Evidence of Innocence, and the launching, most importantly of his
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Speaker 1: new national law firm, being Crump Law. Please work with
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Speaker 1: the money making conversations. Attorney Benjamin Crump, Good morning, Rashan McDonald.
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Speaker 1: So happy to be here with the mentor, Sir. I
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Speaker 1: Thank you, and sisters and susters that its sisters. Wait,
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you took the time. I know your scheduled busy,
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Speaker 1: and I called you personally to be on my premier show. Um,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about a lot of things, and I
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Speaker 1: want to talk about a side that people kind of
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Speaker 1: don't know, the pro bono side of you. You know,
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Speaker 1: when you know everything is not about a check when
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Speaker 1: it comes to you trying to not only change the
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Speaker 1: wrongs in society on the daily basis, because you called
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Speaker 1: me one day late in the afternoons there used the
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Speaker 1: big brother Rashan, I'm I'm in Atlanta, I'm dying, I'm
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Speaker 1: in Georgia. I said, well, come up by the house.
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Speaker 1: You said, no, no, no, I got a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Tell everybody about the situation that happens with the cemetery
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Speaker 1: where black people can only be buried on one side
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Speaker 1: of the fence and white people can only be buried
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Speaker 1: on the other side of the face. Let us know absolutely,
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Speaker 1: Reshine and the mottel for the firm is justice sequels respect.
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Speaker 1: And that's what it really is about, trying to make
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Speaker 1: sure we respect my own lives in America and in Cammilla, Georgia,
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Speaker 1: where the population is African American white. Uh, they're their
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Speaker 1: first African American man to be mayor of the city,
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Speaker 1: first black mayor, and he and about forty other citizens
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Speaker 1: called to retain my services because they wanted to desegregate
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Speaker 1: the city of Camilla. That for no matter how many population,
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Speaker 1: how many demographics show that blacks should have a stake
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Speaker 1: in what happens in the city. The white minority ruling
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Speaker 1: class continued to treat the black is under class citizens.
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Speaker 1: In every week there were no black fireman, no black
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Speaker 1: police officers. They were only three black city employees. That
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Speaker 1: was one was a ganitor, the other was a trash collector,
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Speaker 1: and one was a city clerk. And they had a
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Speaker 1: segregated cemetery Sean McDonald, which was shocking to me that
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Speaker 1: they had a segregated city on cemetery where black people
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Speaker 1: could not be buried. There's the white people. They had
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Speaker 1: a fence where one side of the cemetery was well maintained,
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Speaker 1: where a culture everything with documented aka proper respect to
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Speaker 1: their loved ones and their memories. And then on the
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Speaker 1: other side of the fence they didn't maintain it at all.
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Speaker 1: It was when they buried black new records. I mean
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Speaker 1: in two thousands, seventeen and eighteen, we still have this
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Speaker 1: ignorance that says Rashan, even the spirits can't be integrated.
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Speaker 1: The dead people gotta be separate. So so so when
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Speaker 1: you get a case like that, you said, all these
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Speaker 1: people call it's a pro bone on cage, which a
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Speaker 1: lot of people on that they don't know that beans free.
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Speaker 1: That means you weren't pay for that, but with a
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Speaker 1: miss your business schedule because you you you flew down
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Speaker 1: there on your own dime. You flew you took care
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Speaker 1: of the whole situation. It's not It's something that goes
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Speaker 1: into your on your on your court schedule, on your schedule.
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Speaker 1: How do you balance that, the balance your law firm,
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Speaker 1: the TV show, old the books. How are you balancing that? Ben?
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Speaker 1: You know a lot of times I talked with you
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Speaker 1: big brothers that he don't tell them no secrets. Don't
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Speaker 1: tell your secrets. But you have to keep everythinking perspect
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Speaker 1: to being on this. Have to understand at least I
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Speaker 1: have a more compass that tells me, uh, the blessings
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Speaker 1: that God gave us this, this legal education, then decrease
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Speaker 1: these talents. We have to use it for more than
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Speaker 1: just the benefit of ourselves. That you know, success is
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Speaker 1: measured in different ways, and it's not always just about um,
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Speaker 1: you know, financial success. Some of it and a lot
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Speaker 1: of it is about what we can do to help
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Speaker 1: up theft for other people, even when you don't have
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Speaker 1: anything to benefit from it. Because you know, your blessings
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Speaker 1: has been a blessings to other and if nobody else
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Speaker 1: is watching, God is watching, and so rich And when
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Speaker 1: I thought about this case, I really thought this here
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Speaker 1: I thought the city leader is in Camilla, Georgia, who
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Speaker 1: were worried about that when they died, they would be
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Speaker 1: buried next to a black person, as if there was
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Speaker 1: a white heaven or a black heaven, was gonna find
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Speaker 1: themselves in an integrated hell. And that's the message I
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Speaker 1: wanted to convey to America. Using a lot of the
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Speaker 1: techniques that we've worked on together. It became a trend
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Speaker 1: in national story and I'm so excited to announce that
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Speaker 1: for the first time a shine in eighty five years.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a historic victory. We saw that
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Speaker 1: fence of segregation and racism taken down. And the last
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Speaker 1: thing I said about it, yeah, it was it was
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Speaker 1: profound because there was a seventy two year old black
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Speaker 1: woman who had been an activist or her life born
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Speaker 1: in Camella. When I went out to Semessary the first
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Speaker 1: time to sit because I just didn't believe it. Nobody
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Speaker 1: believes that. The people from the New York Times in Atlanta,
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Speaker 1: Joana Constitution didn't believe. You had to go see this
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Speaker 1: fence separating the cemetery. It wasn't a big fence, it
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Speaker 1: was a cheap looking fence. I saw it yeah, I mean, unbelievable,
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Speaker 1: But it was just that symbol, that symbol that you
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Speaker 1: can't come over here, you can't do this, even if
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Speaker 1: your loved ones, you can't reach this ground. This ground
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Speaker 1: is different. We're gonna treat it different, We're gonna manicure
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Speaker 1: it different. You're better than us even in death, you know.
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Speaker 1: And that's really the symbol you're trying to destroy. Yep.
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Speaker 1: And Gwen Thomas phraise that in her lifetime, she han't
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Speaker 1: see that fence come down. And I was so proud
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Speaker 1: to look at that old black woman's face when she said,
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Speaker 1: we defeated Jim Crow, We defeated you, we defeated segregation.
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Speaker 1: And so she said, now that we have got this
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Speaker 1: phylical fensive segregation down to Turning Crow, we got to
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Speaker 1: work on bringing down these invisible fences and segregation to
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Speaker 1: make all the children and Camilla have a chance at
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Speaker 1: the American dream. And that the shift over to the
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Speaker 1: entrepreneur side of Mr Crow, the law firm side, because
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Speaker 1: you're your personality, not because you know you just recently
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Speaker 1: hosted the in these very popular special TUPAC and a
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Speaker 1: Biggie Special investigative series, and US made a cameo in
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Speaker 1: the movie Marshall. But uh, but that that's a personality side,
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Speaker 1: but the entrepreneurship side. Taking your law firm from a
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Speaker 1: local office in Tallahassee, Florida to a national platform, and
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Speaker 1: one of the first officers that you opened was in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Speaker 1: Tell us exactly because you're known as an in the
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Speaker 1: national platform, you know for civil rights. This is not
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Speaker 1: a civil rights uh guided law firm. This is about
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Speaker 1: an injustice in a different form. What explained to us absolutely,
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Speaker 1: and thank you for getting me tracking because I don't
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Speaker 1: want Yagan mad at me. I don't want your Morgan
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Speaker 1: mad at me. And you have to make money to
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Speaker 1: try to do good things, uh help race acide of
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Speaker 1: the big law firm. Uh. One of our first offices
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Speaker 1: in the Atlanta, Georgia. We also have office opening in
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, California. We will be headquartered in Washington, d C.
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Speaker 1: And we have offices in Florida, Uh, Memfis, Tennessee, and Jackson, Mississippi.
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Speaker 1: But Atlanta was important, uh to be that first office
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Speaker 1: because Atlanta represents to many in America the black Merca
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Speaker 1: for black people in America. So you wanted to make
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Speaker 1: share and there's so many success stories out of Atlanta, Jarsia,
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know you were falling a trail that
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Speaker 1: had been blows and so we're doing a person who
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Speaker 1: wro't with Deluth's all those things that try to but
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Speaker 1: you do good. It's a super rights but all so, bib,
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Speaker 1: what does happen? Gonna go to commercial break on the backside,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna finish because I really want the detail information
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Speaker 1: about the law firm. Get that that number and everything,
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Speaker 1: because that's impressed, said man. The last person who attempted
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Speaker 1: this was Attorney Journey Carckrew. We'll be right back with
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Speaker 1: more Attorney Benjamin Crump on Money Making Conversations. We'll be
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Speaker 1: right back from Rajan McDonald and Money Welcome back this
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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald your host the Money Making Conversations I have
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Speaker 1: on the line. Good friend, big little brother, Attorney Benjamin Crump.
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Speaker 1: Before we left, he was talking and he was breaking
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Speaker 1: down the launch of your national law firm out of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Speaker 1: Please tell us again reiterate put you why Atlanta was
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Speaker 1: significant and also give us the background on some of
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Speaker 1: the other officers locations that are opening around the country. Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: and Rashin, you know you put me on TV's first.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm doing a lot of promotions of these law
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Speaker 1: ben Crump Law Firm and UH office in Atlanta, Gara,
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, California, UH at Washington, d C. Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, Miami, Florida.
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Speaker 1: Because like my personal hero third Good Marsha, you want
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Speaker 1: to be able to use your voice to try to
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Speaker 1: make a difference, not just in communities where you're at,
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Speaker 1: but use that influence that God bless you will fall
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Speaker 1: around America and try to make it better for all
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Speaker 1: our children. And so we're gonna not just be doing
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Speaker 1: civil rights work, but we're doing a lot of UH
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Speaker 1: legal matters that can impact your family directly, whether the
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Speaker 1: personal injury walks, but their UH Malcolm Powder with a
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Speaker 1: lot of black women, A high percentage of black women
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Speaker 1: And so we're doing that class action work, that important
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Speaker 1: And so that's why we want you to call the
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Speaker 1: bankrupt Law firm at eight hundred eight five nine nine beaus.
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Speaker 1: Justice really does equal respect, and it's about making them
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Speaker 1: respect you as a citizen and as a person. And
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Speaker 1: that's why we're fighting to do all these things on
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Speaker 1: a whole uh large scale, national scale, and that's really important.
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Speaker 1: And so so you have a brand, and your brand
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Speaker 1: was brought out by the infamous Trayvonn Martin case. Now
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Speaker 1: there's a big Trayvonn Martin project that's a coming up
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Speaker 1: of this this spring. Please tell us about that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: jay Z is the executive producer if Trayvon Martin Rest
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Speaker 1: in Power. It's going to be on Paramount Television and
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a four part docuseries. His parents, Trade
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Speaker 1: never forgotten. There's gonna be all the Wed movie coming
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Speaker 1: after that there. But it's an important story because you know,
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Speaker 1: if all our children can potentially be traybone walking home
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Speaker 1: and targeted, uh, you know, a racist person who don't
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Speaker 1: see our children as children. Well, we just talked about
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Speaker 1: the story that people did want, you know, minorities being
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Speaker 1: the grave site or share the same ground, the same
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Speaker 1: side of the ground, so we know racism isn't over.
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Speaker 1: But sometimes because of we see success, we see television commercials,
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Speaker 1: or you see strong assimilation, you see movies, you see
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Speaker 1: inter racial relationships. Racism is still here. It was shown
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Speaker 1: recently in Virginia. Well, your protester was run down by
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Speaker 1: a person who had, uh, you know, racist behavior. So
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Speaker 1: when you talk about all these things and that launched
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Speaker 1: you into the mainstream, your your brand, your bars, I've
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Speaker 1: been with your The airport people stop you, they pray
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Speaker 1: for you. That's a lot of that's a lot of
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Speaker 1: stuff that's that's hung on your shoulders. How do you
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Speaker 1: deal with the expectations you know of saying that you
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Speaker 1: are a deliverer of good, a deliver of the righteous,
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Speaker 1: equal lines in the wrong. How do you how do
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Speaker 1: you overcome that? You know, Rashan, you try as best
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Speaker 1: you can to say, God, I'm standing as you would
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Speaker 1: have me stand. And that's what you have to do.
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Speaker 1: First and foremost. You have to have the courage to stand.
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Speaker 1: Just like you know, when we were talking about television,
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Speaker 1: he said, hey, your brand is growing. You have to
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Speaker 1: have the courage to take that next step. I think
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Speaker 1: about evidence of innocence. You know the show that you're
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Speaker 1: executive producing with me Richard and telling those stories of
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Speaker 1: all those unknown unnamed people who were completely innocent and
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Speaker 1: they were incarcerated and exonerated othys sometimes decades in prison
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Speaker 1: by clin convincing evidence and DNA evidence. Well, that's what
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Speaker 1: it's about. In this show is gonna be on tele
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Speaker 1: TV one coming up this summer series. Let me just
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Speaker 1: let me just break it down. He just slid into
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Speaker 1: evidence and it's so now you know he is the
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Speaker 1: host of this show. Uh. It was an idea I
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Speaker 1: came up with, uh where I felt that individuals who
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Speaker 1: spend time in jail for wrongfully in a cues and
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Speaker 1: they get out, I mean the fifteen twenty years, I
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Speaker 1: thought there was a story. They're not that, not that that.
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Speaker 1: How do you not break? How do you what? What?
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Speaker 1: What keeps you motivated? Because when they get out, these
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Speaker 1: people were featuring. When they get out of jail, they
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Speaker 1: are doing exceptionally amazing things in the community. There's no hate,
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Speaker 1: there's no I've been screwed, so I'm gonna screw you.
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Speaker 1: And when I approached the idea to bid heathless Rashan,
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Speaker 1: that's what I want to do. I want to tell
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Speaker 1: those stories. And so we came on board and he's
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Speaker 1: the host of the show. That's a magnificent jaw of
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Speaker 1: of walking into these people's homes, walking into their lives
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Speaker 1: and telling their story. And you was emotionally moved a
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Speaker 1: lot of times. And because we went on site to
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Speaker 1: the different cities, we don't this is not a cookie
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Speaker 1: cutter show. You actually went to these different cities. Tell
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Speaker 1: em about it been. Yeah, we went to Connecticut, we
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Speaker 1: went to Texas, we went to Oregon, was in Russia.
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Speaker 1: You know, we we don't think about black people being
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Speaker 1: in Oregon. But this sister was wrongful, inconcerated a lot
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Speaker 1: to do, I believe, with racism and her sexual preferences. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And so I mean we hit on a lot of
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Speaker 1: aspects of it. But you know the thing that I
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Speaker 1: always remember in the sherwy Shine that just really touched
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Speaker 1: me in a way. These are the people that we
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Speaker 1: say was the worst that society had the offer. We
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Speaker 1: we were gonna fock him up and throw away the key.
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Speaker 1: But even after it was shown that they had been
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Speaker 1: dealt terrible blow, that they were completely innocent, these people
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Speaker 1: cared to reveal that they really was the best that
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Speaker 1: society had offer because they didn't have hate, they didn't
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Speaker 1: want to UH been a'm out saying we want to
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Speaker 1: it was a terrible thing, but I'm gonna get on
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Speaker 1: put it in perspective for me. You think you having
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Speaker 1: a tough life, you having a tough day, Well imagine
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Speaker 1: what these people have went through and the fact that
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Speaker 1: they don't give up hope. I mean, that's the motivational show.
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Speaker 1: It's a motivational show, and that's the beauty of it
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Speaker 1: because I want to get back your law firm and
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Speaker 1: get that number back out of the game. But give
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Speaker 1: us a sneak peek, man, a sneak peek of that
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Speaker 1: new hot book that's coming out of Hopper Collins called
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Speaker 1: open Season. Give us a quick preview of what's that
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Speaker 1: all about. Come on that I know be coming out
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Speaker 1: this fall. Come on now, but we gotta we gotta
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Speaker 1: start that hype machine now about open season? Yea open
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Speaker 1: season the legalized genocide of black lives. And what it
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Speaker 1: talks about is the justice uh that has happened legally
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Speaker 1: since the inception of America, and things to make you
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Speaker 1: aware of that you may not have been aware of.
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Speaker 1: And we're going much deeper than three fifths of a
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Speaker 1: person and slavery. It's talking about things today like qualified
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Speaker 1: immunity when they shoot out children and they're not held accountable.
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Speaker 1: It's talking about the laws where we talk about environmental racism,
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Speaker 1: whearing black communities, they're allowed to talk dump these toxic chemicals.
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Speaker 1: And so it really is a book that is going
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Speaker 1: to talk about not only how the law intellectually justifies
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Speaker 1: the discrimination, but what we have to do as a
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Speaker 1: Throughout her career in Hollywood, which included directing two feature
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Speaker 1: films and serving as a development and original program executive
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Speaker 1: for MTV Films and BT Networks, respectively, she has remained
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Speaker 1: as sharing and teaching the good news of whole body
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Speaker 1: health through a unique brand Fit through Faith. Please work
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Speaker 1: on the money making conversation, Charlie Charlie Jordan's brookings. I'm
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24:12
Speaker 1: it's you know, I'm gonna do a little quick history
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Speaker 1: life so long, you have to tell the story. My
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24:24
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24:27
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24:32
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Speaker 1: say I met this talented young lady who's been in
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24:54
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24:56
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24:59
Speaker 1: many opportunities to pitched TV shows and also help me
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25:05
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Speaker 1: entrepreneurship side of her life to be able to represent
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Speaker 1: on the radio and carry this um this this knowledge
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Speaker 1: nation wise is a beautiful thing. So I just wanted
25:18
Speaker 1: to get that out Charlie and UH special and you know,
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Speaker 1: I've invited you to the Neighborho Awards and all you know,
25:24
Speaker 1: we we've we've been we've been together a long time
25:27
Speaker 1: and we go and I say that because that's about relationships.
25:31
Speaker 1: And I always tell people that, uh, one of the
25:34
Speaker 1: keys to success is relationships. And also don't bite the hand.
25:40
Speaker 1: Don't bite the hand that gave you your opportunity. And
25:43
Speaker 1: a lot of people who don't understand that, they think
25:45
Speaker 1: they can be successful and they get some success and
25:48
Speaker 1: they just forget forget that path, and I can never
25:51
Speaker 1: forget the path. You always be special. Whenever I see
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Speaker 1: Robert Towns and he just stopped with shaw and stop
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Speaker 1: as you know, man, you saved my career. Dude, look here,
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Speaker 1: Townsend in my life. And Charlie, you know you were
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Speaker 1: special because you saw a rough young medium be be
26:10
Speaker 1: carved into a comedian too, a very talented writer, you
26:14
Speaker 1: know the peers. I spent over there learning the craft
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Speaker 1: and understanding that and just seeing a young young African
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Speaker 1: American female like you because we met before. Kind of
26:23
Speaker 1: like when when Robert dropped his first movie. I used
26:25
Speaker 1: to call you when I was doing radio in Houston, Texas,
26:28
Speaker 1: trying to push that movie. I didn't even know y'all.
26:30
Speaker 1: You know, it was just that I just love what
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Speaker 1: y'all was doing. So so tell us about your new project,
26:36
Speaker 1: because we got a couple of breaks here and so
26:37
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna burn up too much of your time
26:39
Speaker 1: because this is all about you. Charlie. What is faith,
26:43
Speaker 1: food fitness connection? What is that connection? The thing? I
26:48
Speaker 1: think you know there are lots of diets out there
26:51
Speaker 1: and diets don't work, and they don't work because they're
26:53
Speaker 1: based on willpower and that's limited. Um. The faith food
26:58
Speaker 1: fitness connection is really about beginning from a position of faith,
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Speaker 1: beginning with a purpose driven desire to be healthy, because
27:06
Speaker 1: when we're in our best health, we can do our best.
27:09
Speaker 1: So at the bottom of fit through faith is spirit power,
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Speaker 1: and spirit power is available in abundance anytime you need it.
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Speaker 1: And so when you base your reason for being in
27:20
Speaker 1: faith and base your reason for being healthy and faith,
27:23
Speaker 1: then the ball game changes. Then you can really begin
27:26
Speaker 1: that mind renewal. Oftentimes we're just like that time. We
27:29
Speaker 1: have all these excuses, but the reality is everyone and
27:33
Speaker 1: you say this all the time, has an epic impact
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Speaker 1: to make on this world. And if you don't make
27:38
Speaker 1: that alignment like and get in your best health, you
27:41
Speaker 1: can't get that vision out there right because in pain,
27:45
Speaker 1: we're tired, we're you know, we're excuse lad In because
27:49
Speaker 1: we don't make those small changes one day at a
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Speaker 1: time to really connect our faith with the food that
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Speaker 1: we eat and our fitness. When you see, okay, this
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Speaker 1: is the rest of the year, this is the you know,
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Speaker 1: always do use resolutions Happening in that first quarter and
28:04
Speaker 1: then about that second quarter that they said I didn't
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Speaker 1: say that. I did say that, how do you keep
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Speaker 1: that motivation? I really like one of the exciting reasons
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Speaker 1: I have you on the show because you should never
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Speaker 1: lose faith. So you have a great anchor anchor to
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Speaker 1: the plane. You know, as long as you have faith,
28:23
Speaker 1: there's opportunities, there's opportunities, there's potential for success, and to
28:27
Speaker 1: build your fitness around that program. What was what was
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Speaker 1: the I would say the light bulb, They said, this
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Speaker 1: is the way, Well, the light bulb actually was was
28:39
Speaker 1: the whole spirit? And to be honest, I was. I
28:43
Speaker 1: was actually working at MTV and I was not in
28:47
Speaker 1: a probably shouldn't call them out, but it was my
28:51
Speaker 1: current position. I just didn't feel fulfilled. Something was missing.
28:56
Speaker 1: And I've been married, but we were trying to have
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Speaker 1: a child. So I started going what I call these
29:00
Speaker 1: faith walks. I was like, I need to I need direction,
29:03
Speaker 1: and I would walk, took the earbuds out, and I
29:05
Speaker 1: was really only I needed to hear a word and
29:09
Speaker 1: I and I one day finally I felt the Holy Spirit,
29:12
Speaker 1: my people are dying. Now. I didn't know what that
29:15
Speaker 1: meant or what I was supposed to do about it.
29:18
Speaker 1: But I kept seeking and then the vision for fit
29:20
Speaker 1: through faith came through. And you know, the scripture was clear,
29:23
Speaker 1: and the words were clear, and the direction was clear,
29:26
Speaker 1: and ultimately, you know, there's a verse and songs. One
29:30
Speaker 1: it says, unless the Lord builds the house, the builders
29:33
Speaker 1: labor in vain. So unless you start with faith, all
29:38
Speaker 1: of your actions aren't necessarily going to build the house
29:41
Speaker 1: or build your exceedingly abundant life. You need to start
29:44
Speaker 1: there because that it's it's bigger than you. We get
29:48
Speaker 1: stuck because we disappoint ourselves, like we will let ourselves down.
29:52
Speaker 1: But if we are serving a higher purpose, like what
29:55
Speaker 1: that call is on your life, then there's a better
29:57
Speaker 1: reason and a bigger reason to be in your house. Now,
30:00
Speaker 1: you know, immediately the entrepreneurs side of the goals, there's
30:04
Speaker 1: a bunch of churches out there need to hear you. Yeah,
30:07
Speaker 1: you know, it's it because because that's the base of
30:09
Speaker 1: faith starts there, because that's what churches are built on.
30:12
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, People go there or become members.
30:16
Speaker 1: They hear that bars there. How have your approached you know,
30:20
Speaker 1: spreading your brain? You know, and how receptive because I
30:24
Speaker 1: do want to make this statement. It's like with anything,
30:26
Speaker 1: you know, people put so much pressure on faith, much
30:30
Speaker 1: pressure on God. You know, I think you can deliver
30:33
Speaker 1: the but effort, effort, effort has to be in that process.
30:38
Speaker 1: You're not gonna pray these pounds off. You're not gonna
30:40
Speaker 1: pray until six back. So how are you getting the
30:44
Speaker 1: message out? And you know, just just you know, this
30:46
Speaker 1: is a playing out there for you, dude, that you
30:47
Speaker 1: have a great concept, how is it being delivered? So
30:51
Speaker 1: right now? You know you mentioned it even in your
30:53
Speaker 1: open you know, social media is really you know, kind
30:56
Speaker 1: of open the floodgates in terms of you know, beyond
30:58
Speaker 1: local to national even international and so you know, so
31:02
Speaker 1: social media has been my my main platform. Um. You
31:05
Speaker 1: know I started with a group of forty and now
31:08
Speaker 1: I have a group of a thousand forty one you
31:10
Speaker 1: know in in in actually and so so the message
31:13
Speaker 1: is getting out there. Um, I do speak. I actually
31:16
Speaker 1: want to do more. Um I was you know, it
31:18
Speaker 1: was blessed to be able to speak at Megafest in
31:20
Speaker 1: June and has to to really large rooms and got
31:24
Speaker 1: to teach a fitness class um which is the other
31:26
Speaker 1: thing like the fitness part um and I'm really looking,
31:29
Speaker 1: you know, seeking more speaking opportunities. But you know, I
31:32
Speaker 1: have different programs that I have and you know, you
31:33
Speaker 1: can check out the website and you know I do
31:35
Speaker 1: a cleanse and I do a you know, kind of
31:37
Speaker 1: a ten week plan. But but it is so much
31:40
Speaker 1: of it is getting the message to the people because
31:43
Speaker 1: once you have a purpose driven health and once because
31:46
Speaker 1: I just want people to stop waiting for the pain
31:48
Speaker 1: to make a change. And that's what we're doing. We're
31:50
Speaker 1: waiting for our doctor to make us do something, or
31:53
Speaker 1: waiting for a relative or a friend to die, or
31:56
Speaker 1: we're waiting for you know, we finally see that picture
31:59
Speaker 1: that scares us like oh I didn't know, or that
32:02
Speaker 1: number on the scale. But we don't have to wait
32:04
Speaker 1: for the pain to change. We can do things today.
32:07
Speaker 1: Let me issue this. This is really cool because you're
32:10
Speaker 1: talking to a guy back in the eighties. I was
32:12
Speaker 1: an aerobic constructor. You know, James Father was my my queen.
32:16
Speaker 1: You know, everyone her DVDs and so so what is
32:20
Speaker 1: what is what is a session with you? What is
32:22
Speaker 1: the training session in a class? And how long is it?
32:25
Speaker 1: So the session, the classes I do. It is called
32:27
Speaker 1: actually called Proverbs thirty one Body, and I love it
32:31
Speaker 1: because it really is about it focuses on stability, stamina,
32:35
Speaker 1: and strength. So stability obviously we all need strong cores
32:38
Speaker 1: because our cores really are the center of our being,
32:42
Speaker 1: that we have a core focus. The then um staminas
32:45
Speaker 1: is cardio. Cardio usually is some kind of interval training
32:48
Speaker 1: because that's the most efficient way to get the best
32:51
Speaker 1: exercise and burn the more most fat. And then um
32:54
Speaker 1: strength strength training is so important, and especially for women,
33:00
Speaker 1: tend to either not do it or you know, kind
33:03
Speaker 1: of use excuses for it. But the reality is as
33:06
Speaker 1: we age, we're losing muscle mass, and so our metabolism
33:09
Speaker 1: is slowing down. And then we wonder why our waistlines
33:12
Speaker 1: are growing and we're still easy. Metabolism is slowing down,
33:15
Speaker 1: but our spoon yes, indeed, and and and so we
33:21
Speaker 1: we can do things about that, right if we if
33:24
Speaker 1: we do our stability, stamin and strength, then we actually
33:28
Speaker 1: will start to we'll see that waistline decrease and we'll
33:31
Speaker 1: feel better, we'll have more energy. But we've got to
33:34
Speaker 1: also eat the right food now before we go to
33:37
Speaker 1: break tell us how we can reach you, uh website
33:40
Speaker 1: social media and so we can get that out on
33:43
Speaker 1: this on this side, so we can really establish a
33:45
Speaker 1: conversation on when we come back. Tell us about your
33:49
Speaker 1: social media handles. Take your time. And the website, okay,
33:52
Speaker 1: the website is www that Fit through Faith dot M
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Speaker 1: through is th h are you? My faith Facebook page
34:02
Speaker 1: is Fit through Faith? And then I have a group
34:05
Speaker 1: it's to Fit through Faith Village and I'm happy to
34:07
Speaker 1: add you into that. And on Instagram, I'm at I
34:11
Speaker 1: am Fit through Faith. I love to get in conversation there. Now,
34:15
Speaker 1: know what you said, No Twitter? Why is that? You know?
34:18
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. But but being a solo preneur, I'm
34:25
Speaker 1: concentrating on those things that I can do best. Now
34:28
Speaker 1: I do plan to add Twitter. But I love that
34:30
Speaker 1: so well. I will tell you I can't complain because
34:36
Speaker 1: here my base. You know, I have several thousand followers
34:40
Speaker 1: on Facebook, like thirty thousand on Instagram and like eight
34:43
Speaker 1: thousand on Twitter. So focus with your strengths that you know.
34:48
Speaker 1: So I'm teasing you, but pretty much I'm saying the
34:50
Speaker 1: same thing. Whatever hanging that child, I'm gonna says some
34:55
Speaker 1: foods your way in a minute, because I can't say
34:57
Speaker 1: you every day because you know, because it really is.
35:01
Speaker 1: That's what I like about because you know I'm in
35:04
Speaker 1: the fitness I'm not. I'm not a guy who well
35:07
Speaker 1: you'll see I do twenty pound arm curls with I
35:12
Speaker 1: won't be doing that at sixty. I'm not trying to
35:14
Speaker 1: look like the rock. You know I'm saying, I'm just
35:16
Speaker 1: trying to look like Rashan McDonald. And when I see
35:20
Speaker 1: and I've been in jack Lelane as a kid, I
35:22
Speaker 1: used to watch this guy, and I see it coming
35:24
Speaker 1: back to that when I hear an individual like you,
35:27
Speaker 1: I see cameras, I see a group of four or
35:30
Speaker 1: five people because ESPN was all into that in the eighties,
35:34
Speaker 1: and I see it coming back. But on the social side,
35:37
Speaker 1: that's really powerful to me, really really powerful. And just
35:40
Speaker 1: give out their website one more time before we go
35:42
Speaker 1: to break Through Faith dot com U. We'll be right
35:47
Speaker 1: back with more Charlie Jordan's brooken you know, fit through Faith, Roshan,
35:52
Speaker 1: I know a little bit about that faith. You know.
35:55
Speaker 1: I try to stay fit, but I still will eat
35:56
Speaker 1: that apple. Right back from more wanted making conversations, We'll
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Speaker 1: Making Conversation down I just for Sean make about high
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Speaker 1: this Rashaan Meggal, the host of Money Making Conversation and
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Speaker 1: what happens when you've been off air for a month.
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Speaker 1: Your lips in your tongues and you and you don't
36:19
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36:21
Speaker 1: phone with She's on the phone, Charlie, you're calling from
36:25
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Correctie, absolutely, Hey, let's let's talk about you know,
36:29
Speaker 1: this is all about entrepreneurship. It's all about motivating people
36:33
Speaker 1: through the secrets of success. The reason I really got
36:36
Speaker 1: you on the phone talking about, you know, fit through
36:39
Speaker 1: faith is to let people know how being in shape
36:43
Speaker 1: can can make them better business people, make them better employees,
36:47
Speaker 1: make them get up when he's supposed to get up.
36:49
Speaker 1: Talk a little bit about that that side of it,
36:51
Speaker 1: and why are you're pushing it so hard because you
36:54
Speaker 1: mentioned it earlier, But I really want to drill down
36:56
Speaker 1: because when your entrepreneur, you you know, at twenty four
36:59
Speaker 1: o'clock be really shortened when you're trying to sleep and
37:02
Speaker 1: you gotta get up the work and you start expanding
37:04
Speaker 1: to that family. So you've got to figure out ways
37:06
Speaker 1: to stay in shape or stay active to a point
37:09
Speaker 1: that you know, you don't build high cholesterol, you don't
37:12
Speaker 1: build high blood pressure situation because you're eating their own things.
37:16
Speaker 1: Talk to us absolutely, so you know. So we talked
37:18
Speaker 1: about faith, and then the next thing is food because
37:22
Speaker 1: basically our bodies were made perfectly, and perfect food was
37:26
Speaker 1: created for our bodies like and I call it God's
37:28
Speaker 1: abundant buffet. So when we eat those single ingredient foods
37:31
Speaker 1: that God created that plant base but not plant exclusive,
37:36
Speaker 1: but but making sure you have those plants, and then
37:39
Speaker 1: those clean foods that even the animal proteins that are clean,
37:43
Speaker 1: our body actually runs the way it's supposed to run.
37:46
Speaker 1: So if you are tired and fatigued and brain fog
37:51
Speaker 1: and not getting enough sleep and all of these things,
37:53
Speaker 1: and then you wonder why you're not productive, it's because
37:57
Speaker 1: you're putting your rolls Royce and I say, stop putting cheap,
38:00
Speaker 1: low octane knockoff gas in your tank. When we eat
38:04
Speaker 1: man made foods, our bodies run like Kong. When we
38:09
Speaker 1: eat the food that God made, our bodies run zoom.
38:13
Speaker 1: And that's what makes the difference, and so for an
38:16
Speaker 1: order in order for us to be effective in the workplace,
38:18
Speaker 1: especially those visionaries, those who have dreams and goals and
38:22
Speaker 1: purposes and calls on their lives. And we all do
38:25
Speaker 1: because God wants use all of us in big ways.
38:28
Speaker 1: But we're not even available because because our our communication
38:31
Speaker 1: systems all clogged up and gunked up with processed foods.
38:36
Speaker 1: My goodness, you said it. I would tell you so
38:38
Speaker 1: so a guy like me, I'm a bad eater. I
38:42
Speaker 1: got uh, I got in my phone. I got an
38:44
Speaker 1: app for Crispy Crean. Okay, so I'm gonna eat bad.
38:50
Speaker 1: So so the fitness how do because like I said,
38:53
Speaker 1: you know, I know when to stop. Though I would
38:56
Speaker 1: tell you I know I have that big old piece
38:58
Speaker 1: of German chocolate cake, but I know when to stop.
39:01
Speaker 1: So so so when I hear you speaking, and you're
39:04
Speaker 1: a fantastic speaker, I was just gonna let you know,
39:06
Speaker 1: I gotta give you credit with credits due. You should
39:08
Speaker 1: do more speaking because you have the right tone and
39:11
Speaker 1: saying all the right the information that will keep me focused.
39:15
Speaker 1: And that's really what we're talking about here. When you're
39:17
Speaker 1: trying to put all this package together by fifth, fifth faith,
39:21
Speaker 1: food and fitness and being focused correct through a webinar
39:24
Speaker 1: series that you have coming up, right, Yes, I have
39:27
Speaker 1: a Conquered Cravings Conqueror coming up which starts to break
39:30
Speaker 1: it all down, but it all focuses on on pat
39:33
Speaker 1: food and fitness. Now what what is that webinar? So
39:37
Speaker 1: the webin I'm doing a free webinar actually next Wednesday.
39:41
Speaker 1: Did you hear that free free webinar? Because you gotta
39:46
Speaker 1: tell people off time they just hit webb and they
39:48
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41:29
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Speaker 1: because a lot of people are afraid to take that step,
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41:47
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's a leap, and it has to be.
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Speaker 1: The timing is always challenging because you know, you have
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Speaker 1: this this this thing deep down in your value that
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Speaker 1: you have to do and I've known that for a while.
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Speaker 1: The timing for me really was, you know, kind of
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Speaker 1: a collision of a lot of different things, you know,
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Speaker 1: I also wanted a better work life balance for my family,
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Speaker 1: and so I finally made the leap. But if you're
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Speaker 1: not ready to make the leap yet, then you have
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Speaker 1: to reframe your mind and look at your job as
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Speaker 1: your investor. So if your job as your investor, then
42:23
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Speaker 1: amount of money in order to do this dream. But
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42:32
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Speaker 1: it was this is time, you know, and you know,
42:42
Speaker 1: obviously conversations with a husband, um, but I had a
42:45
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42:48
Speaker 1: of financially it's tight, and I have to do everything myself.
42:52
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Speaker 1: on time. You know, it's a natural so in all
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Speaker 1: at the end of the time and stuff that it's
43:07
Speaker 1: so dark down there? Used to go, oh my god,
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43:19
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43:23
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43:28
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Speaker 1: had ten thousand steps before seven o'clock in the morning
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43:36
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43:38
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43:40
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43:43
Speaker 1: actually manifest and the light bulb goes off for somebody else.
43:47
Speaker 1: You don't just share this story about you know, working,
43:50
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43:52
Speaker 1: day at five am. That's a that's a consistency thing
43:54
Speaker 1: about me, because if I changed that, then if my
43:57
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44:00
Speaker 1: And so five am and so this is Sunday morning,
44:03
Speaker 1: so it's a stagger around. Don't say I get up quickly,
44:08
Speaker 1: but I get I get up and then by by
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Speaker 1: six o'clock, I just went to my LinkedIn account and
44:13
Speaker 1: I started messaging people. I'm talking to CEOs, entrepreneurs, owners
44:18
Speaker 1: and everything and so so just I'm and I'm thinking
44:21
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44:25
Speaker 1: got responses from CEOs from Las Vegas. I got responses
44:29
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44:32
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44:35
Speaker 1: on Sunday morning, from from network executives h in New York.
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Speaker 1: And I was that let me know. And I must
44:42
Speaker 1: have said about thirty messages that morning. And that's important
44:46
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44:49
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44:52
Speaker 1: thing that's stunned me a little a lot was that
44:55
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44:57
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Speaker 1: an incredible talent one of the true millennial leaders of
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Speaker 1: this country moving forward. How many talents includes She's a
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Speaker 1: tattoo artist, she's a painter, entrepreneur, philanthropists, social media influencer,
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Speaker 1: which is very important these days, reality TV star, and
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Speaker 1: educated in mathematics. Please welcome to money making conversations, cat Tat,
49:22
Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. Now, what city are you calling from.
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Speaker 1: I'm calling from Los Angeles. Good, good, good God. I'm
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Speaker 1: happy to get you on the phone because I'm a
49:32
Speaker 1: big fan. Okay, let me just get that out of
49:34
Speaker 1: the way, big fan of yours. And I know we've
49:37
Speaker 1: been trying to connect up since late early December, and
49:41
Speaker 1: I'm so appreciative that you came onto my new launch
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta. I'm excited. Uh this is my first show
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and uh, I wanted to bring a brand
49:49
Speaker 1: like yours on the air as my on my premier
49:53
Speaker 1: show because all those things I mentioned. Entrepreneur, you know, philanthropists,
49:58
Speaker 1: you know, a TV star. But the thing that I
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Speaker 1: love the most because my degree, cat Tat, is in mathematics.
50:05
Speaker 1: That's my degree. I graduated with a degree from the
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Speaker 1: University of Houston and mathematics with a minor in sociology.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I love you, So tell us about
50:18
Speaker 1: that college life where it all started. You know, you
50:21
Speaker 1: went down the University of Missouri studying studying math. How
50:25
Speaker 1: did all this tattoo, all this all this skill set?
50:28
Speaker 1: What drove you to this direction? Let's talk about that first. Well, um,
50:33
Speaker 1: you know, and well, first of all, congratulations on your
50:36
Speaker 1: Atlanta lunch and thank you so much for having me. Um.
50:39
Speaker 1: But I always possessed the challenge of art, like it
50:42
Speaker 1: was something I like to do in my free time. Um,
50:45
Speaker 1: you know. And I guess towards your senior year of
50:48
Speaker 1: high school is when everybody starts to get tattooed. So
50:50
Speaker 1: that's when people would like start asking in a sketch
50:52
Speaker 1: their tattoo ideas. But my passion in high school is
50:55
Speaker 1: really math. I was always really really good at that.
50:58
Speaker 1: I wasn't I wasn't always the best student. UM. I
51:02
Speaker 1: was more focused on, you know, just drawing and things
51:05
Speaker 1: like that. But my my A C two scores what
51:07
Speaker 1: actually got me into college. So I graduated with a
51:10
Speaker 1: regular GP A. I think I had like a two
51:12
Speaker 1: point and when I graduated, but I ended up scoring
51:14
Speaker 1: I think a twenty nine or A thirty in the
51:17
Speaker 1: math department. UM uh, thank you. Yeah, the math department
51:22
Speaker 1: on the act. So I actually ended up getting showsen
51:26
Speaker 1: for a scholarship program that was for UM students of
51:31
Speaker 1: color with either low g p a s and high
51:34
Speaker 1: test scores or low test scores and high g p as.
51:38
Speaker 1: And we had to go through a transition program UM
51:40
Speaker 1: in order to get the scholarships. I completed. Transition program
51:44
Speaker 1: was like summer school, and that's when I ended up
51:46
Speaker 1: getting my scholarship of mathematics. And I went on to
51:48
Speaker 1: study math education. And that is where I began tattooing
51:53
Speaker 1: in my dorm room. I had so much free time
51:55
Speaker 1: during summer school. Um, I just ordered up the kids.
51:58
Speaker 1: So I was, you know, like I halfway tattoo artists
52:01
Speaker 1: and a HALFWAYE come tell you so that you cannot
52:07
Speaker 1: now in college, I was making pizza in my dorm room.
52:10
Speaker 1: So so please don't act like just just I just
52:13
Speaker 1: thought tattooed. How did you gain the confidence, because you know,
52:18
Speaker 1: this is something that's very compiling, didn't vary, something permanent.
52:22
Speaker 1: How did you gain the confidence in yourself first of all,
52:26
Speaker 1: and then the potential clients that would allow you to
52:30
Speaker 1: tattoo them. Well, you know, I was honestly, I was fearless.
52:36
Speaker 1: And that's one thing when you're eighteen and you know,
52:38
Speaker 1: you go away from home for the first time, all
52:41
Speaker 1: the people there was just something in the air. I
52:44
Speaker 1: was literally fearless. I didn't overthink it. I didn't think
52:47
Speaker 1: about the consequences. I could have gotten a lot of trouble.
52:52
Speaker 1: But you know, there were only thirty five students chosen
52:55
Speaker 1: for this transition program college program, and we automatically got
52:58
Speaker 1: to the closed. So when I ordered that kid, they
53:02
Speaker 1: just trusted me. I don't know why, but they just
53:05
Speaker 1: they just let me practice on them and don't practice.
53:09
Speaker 1: Please consider practice no worse than that. They let me
53:15
Speaker 1: take a risk, right right right. That's awesome, thank you.
53:21
Speaker 1: But you know, UM, I'm not gonna lie. I had
53:23
Speaker 1: no business taking that route, but it worked out for me. UM.
53:27
Speaker 1: And then by the time the real, the real school
53:29
Speaker 1: year started, UM, I was good enough to actually lay
53:33
Speaker 1: down some you know, some twenty dollars tattoos. And then
53:36
Speaker 1: from there I just got better and better and started
53:39
Speaker 1: working in professional shops and it just took on a
53:42
Speaker 1: life of its own. This is very important that UM, Uh,
53:46
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons I created money making Conversation
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53:51
Speaker 1: value that you have that even at a young age.
53:54
Speaker 1: I always tell people, people who get it at a
53:56
Speaker 1: young age, I feel, are just so amazing. That's why
54:00
Speaker 1: at a young age you knew this is what you
54:02
Speaker 1: wanted to do, and so you were driven by faith,
54:06
Speaker 1: by confidence, by I can you can't, the world can't
54:10
Speaker 1: stop me. And that's that's that's one of the lynchpins
54:13
Speaker 1: to your success. And can you share that value with
54:16
Speaker 1: my listeners and my viewers? Yeah, yes, absolutely. Um. People
54:21
Speaker 1: always asked me, like, you know, what got you into
54:23
Speaker 1: tattoo and what started you? And that like pointed you.
54:26
Speaker 1: I felt like it was something that found me, you know,
54:28
Speaker 1: like the seconds that I started it, it felt right.
54:32
Speaker 1: And you know, even though I had ups and downs
54:34
Speaker 1: with you know what I mean, starting in my dorm
54:36
Speaker 1: room and practicing, you know, trial and error. UM, I
54:40
Speaker 1: knew that it was something that I wanted to do.
54:43
Speaker 1: So I was gonna, by any means necessary, get good
54:46
Speaker 1: at it. And that required me, you know, walk into
54:49
Speaker 1: every local tattoo shop like hey, I want to do this,
54:52
Speaker 1: you know, and I got turned down by a lot
54:54
Speaker 1: of them. But I was very, very persistent, and once
54:57
Speaker 1: I had my mindset on it, there was nothing that
54:59
Speaker 1: was gonna stay. I mean, okay, what did you really
55:01
Speaker 1: get your foothold and tattooing? What did you? What? City?
55:05
Speaker 1: Um in Columbia, Missouri? Okay, and then you transition to
55:08
Speaker 1: where for Chicago? And that's when you got turned down
55:13
Speaker 1: a lot. Um. No, I got turned down a lot
55:18
Speaker 1: while I was in college because okay, small town, small
55:23
Speaker 1: college town. And I would walk to those local shops
55:26
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, no, I'm do this. I'm
55:28
Speaker 1: starting with my dorm. And they were like, you're what,
55:31
Speaker 1: like you can get a lot of Why are you
55:33
Speaker 1: trying to be a tattoo artist if you're a mass major? Right,
55:38
Speaker 1: But I want to Chicago. So you're being insulted because
55:41
Speaker 1: you were being shut down because you're smart. Though you're smart. Yes,
55:45
Speaker 1: that's that's funny, that's fun So so you're Chicago. And
55:49
Speaker 1: so you started to become because once you get on TV,
55:53
Speaker 1: you know, social media starts coming in your direction, your
55:55
Speaker 1: branch starts growing, you know it say they said, once
55:58
Speaker 1: you hit over fifty followers in any platform with his Instagram,
56:03
Speaker 1: Twitter or Facebook. You are an influencer. How did that
56:07
Speaker 1: change your role as as a as as not only
56:10
Speaker 1: a tattoo talent, but that's a person because now the
56:13
Speaker 1: world knows who you are, not only on TV but socially. Yeah,
56:18
Speaker 1: you know, before before the TV show, I think I
56:21
Speaker 1: had a I had an okay following. I think had
56:24
Speaker 1: like thirty thousand followers, and I would just post tattoos
56:28
Speaker 1: all the time because I wanted to be proved. I
56:30
Speaker 1: didn't post any pictures of myself. You know, I literally
56:33
Speaker 1: would post pictures of tattoos all the time because you know,
56:36
Speaker 1: I got rejected by the tattoo orrold so much, you
56:39
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So I wanted to prove that
56:41
Speaker 1: I was a great tattoo artist. And I'm taking this seriously.
56:44
Speaker 1: So when we got the platform of the TV show
56:46
Speaker 1: and my following began to grow, it allowed me to
56:49
Speaker 1: open up about who I was. So the world got
56:52
Speaker 1: to see me tattoo so they know I'm a great
56:54
Speaker 1: tattoo artist. Now I get to show the world who
56:56
Speaker 1: I am and share my story that I am a
56:58
Speaker 1: regular girl from sure Cargo who went to a university,
57:02
Speaker 1: who started like this and really, you know, show the
57:05
Speaker 1: world who I am. So it just allowed me to
57:08
Speaker 1: really open up about myself and reach out to other
57:10
Speaker 1: girls and you know, other young men and just other
57:13
Speaker 1: people like me and really share my story. And that
57:16
Speaker 1: has been effects on people. You know, people wanna get
57:20
Speaker 1: to know the person you know behind the ink and
57:24
Speaker 1: whatever you do. So it definitely allowed me to I
57:27
Speaker 1: love it because I love it because when I hear
57:30
Speaker 1: your voice, I hear a certain genuine um uh mentorship.
57:36
Speaker 1: You know that you're willing to share. You wouldn't have
57:37
Speaker 1: opened up because the reason that I'm really I'm excited
57:40
Speaker 1: about you interviewing yours that you talk about your setbacks,
57:43
Speaker 1: and you didn't let the nose. You didn't let people
57:46
Speaker 1: telling you a pigeonholed you or tell you you put
57:49
Speaker 1: you in a box. You're supposed to look at a
57:51
Speaker 1: certain word, you're supposed to do a certain thing. To
57:53
Speaker 1: be at tattoo Auder. You took risk, and that's a
57:55
Speaker 1: value that a lot of people run from and and
58:00
Speaker 1: you didn't. And you didn't. Why why didn't you run
58:04
Speaker 1: when he told you you you got a math degree?
58:06
Speaker 1: Why didn't you need to stop tattooing in the dorm.
58:09
Speaker 1: Why didn't you run? Um? You know, I'm I'm very
58:14
Speaker 1: very strong in my face and um, I'm just a
58:20
Speaker 1: strong deliver. When when something fills right, you can't ignore that.
58:26
Speaker 1: If you're doing something you know that is not um
58:30
Speaker 1: what God has for you, it doesn't sit right with you.
58:35
Speaker 1: If that makes sense, like it, when you're following your
58:38
Speaker 1: purpose and walking in the right path, Guy shows you
58:40
Speaker 1: signs that it's what you're supposed to be doing. So tattooing,
58:44
Speaker 1: just from day one, I knew that it was what
58:46
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be doing. So there was no
58:49
Speaker 1: man or no thing that could serve me away from
58:53
Speaker 1: what my purpose was. We're gonna come back in a minute.
58:56
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about your art shows, your tattoo clients,
58:59
Speaker 1: and your clothes. On money making conversations. Hey, just Ra
59:04
Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. I'm on the phone or she's on the
59:06
Speaker 1: phone with all the Los Angeles Katak. She's one of
59:11
Speaker 1: the start reality stars on the Viage one series of
59:14
Speaker 1: Chicago Black Ink. And I got on the phone and
59:18
Speaker 1: really because she's a math she studied math in college
59:21
Speaker 1: and I have a degree in math, so you know,
59:22
Speaker 1: there was a mutual kinship and amazing level respect. But
59:26
Speaker 1: I wanted to go back a little bit about tattoos.
59:29
Speaker 1: So sometimes people think tattoo just suddenly started. Currently, I'm
59:34
Speaker 1: a big fan of the Vikings on the History Channel,
59:37
Speaker 1: one of my favorite TV shows. If you look at
59:39
Speaker 1: that TV show, everybody got tattooed. Everybody got tattooed on
59:43
Speaker 1: Viking because tattoosn't just start last week. So it's an
59:46
Speaker 1: art form that has a lot of history and a
59:49
Speaker 1: lot of and tattoos also retired to spirit, to faith,
59:54
Speaker 1: so it's a lot of things that people aren't aware of.
59:57
Speaker 1: White people get tattoos, and there's always a great story
1:00:01
Speaker 1: behind every tattoo. Correct tattoo um I would say about
1:00:07
Speaker 1: about fifty fifty. I think some people get tattoos for
1:00:10
Speaker 1: the sentimental, you know, or for spiritual reasons. And I
1:00:14
Speaker 1: think that especially now. I think people are just big
1:00:17
Speaker 1: fans of the artwork, and a lot of people like
1:00:19
Speaker 1: to collect the art because they're all bodies. They are
1:00:22
Speaker 1: they all bodies of art, you know, and that's that's
1:00:24
Speaker 1: an amazing thing. So so it's interesting you said that
1:00:27
Speaker 1: about you know, some people get it on faith and
1:00:30
Speaker 1: some people just get it, you know, just I want tattoo? Okay,
1:00:34
Speaker 1: is there a waiting period? Now we're getting into the
1:00:36
Speaker 1: tattoo word. Is there a waiting period to get at tatted?
1:00:39
Speaker 1: If I just came in and say I want to
1:00:40
Speaker 1: eagle on my chest? Do you say, hey, hey, hey, wait,
1:00:44
Speaker 1: come back tomorrow? What is how is that? How's that
1:00:46
Speaker 1: process of getting the tattoo? How does that work? Um? Well,
1:00:51
Speaker 1: there are so many amazing tattoo artists out there today,
1:00:56
Speaker 1: and um, if you really really want a big tattoo
1:01:00
Speaker 1: or you know, anything, then I would recommend doing your
1:01:03
Speaker 1: research from finding a great artist that you like. And
1:01:05
Speaker 1: the chances are, you know, if they're great artists, they're
1:01:08
Speaker 1: going to have a small waiting list or a big
1:01:10
Speaker 1: waiting list. I know artists that are booked up for years,
1:01:13
Speaker 1: and then I know, um, artists that are you know,
1:01:17
Speaker 1: booked up for a couple of weeks. But the chances are,
1:01:20
Speaker 1: you know that there is going to be a small
1:01:22
Speaker 1: waiting less. Okay, what is your client list? Because I
1:01:24
Speaker 1: know people listen, Okay, who is she and tatted? Who
1:01:27
Speaker 1: has she done? On that athletes side or the celebrity side.
1:01:31
Speaker 1: Let's just give us a food rundown to some of
1:01:33
Speaker 1: the famous people that that that is wearing the tattoo
1:01:36
Speaker 1: artwork of Cat tat Um. Well I have. Um, I've
1:01:41
Speaker 1: tattooed a lot of athletes. UM, a lot of football players. Um.
1:01:45
Speaker 1: Jamie Collins, he played with the Patriots. Um, Shane Ray.
1:01:50
Speaker 1: He's with Arizona, right, Jamie Collins with Arizona right linebacker corp.
1:01:56
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I was sports guys and I'm sorry. Yeah,
1:01:59
Speaker 1: he's with Arizona. I'm a sports guy, so so you
1:02:01
Speaker 1: just tatting up people. I'm a sports nut. Yeah, you know,
1:02:06
Speaker 1: when when they when they come in my chair, all
1:02:09
Speaker 1: that stuff, you know, goes out the window. But I
1:02:11
Speaker 1: was lucky enough to tattoo him right after they won
1:02:14
Speaker 1: the Super Bowls. There you got the Super Bowl rain
1:02:17
Speaker 1: and everything. So but yeah, I tattooed uh Shane Ray.
1:02:22
Speaker 1: We did a huge backpiece on him and that actually
1:02:24
Speaker 1: got picked up. That was all over espn UM because
1:02:28
Speaker 1: people with the Denver Broncos and he had just won
1:02:30
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl with the Broncos. But he's from Kansas City,
1:02:33
Speaker 1: so he got a Kansas City backpiece, and um, there
1:02:37
Speaker 1: was a Kansas City Chief logo incorporated in that. So
1:02:41
Speaker 1: like the Twitter fans like, you know, ripped him apart. Uh, yeah,
1:02:50
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. I didn't. I was not expecting that outcome.
1:02:53
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, doing the tattoo. But I woke
1:02:56
Speaker 1: up the next day and literally was on he has. Yeah.
1:03:01
Speaker 1: That's what I love about you at that You're just
1:03:03
Speaker 1: an artist, you know, you just people come in okay, yeah, okay,
1:03:07
Speaker 1: you look muscular, you play for super Okay, cool, lay
1:03:10
Speaker 1: down and that's that. That means that this you're you're
1:03:15
Speaker 1: invested in your craft, which means you're you're an artist.
1:03:18
Speaker 1: Tell us about your whole paintings and all these things
1:03:21
Speaker 1: that are just just as a going down that leads
1:03:24
Speaker 1: to the clothing line because you're an entrepreneur. That's what
1:03:26
Speaker 1: this show is about. Entrepreneurs. Yes, absolutely. Um. So with painting,
1:03:33
Speaker 1: painting a little different than tattooings. Taptooing, you're providing a
1:03:36
Speaker 1: service for someone else. You know, I have to be
1:03:38
Speaker 1: persive and what I'm painting is when I can just
1:03:41
Speaker 1: kind of release whatever is in my mind, whatever I'm feeling,
1:03:44
Speaker 1: you know, um, and there's room for you know, there's
1:03:47
Speaker 1: no pressure like if I you know, there's not that
1:03:50
Speaker 1: pressure of messing. Uh not that there is a tattoos
1:03:53
Speaker 1: because I'm professional, but you know, um, it's my expression,
1:03:58
Speaker 1: my creativity, so it's a little bit a friend. UM.
1:04:01
Speaker 1: And I actually started painting, um after I started tattooing.
1:04:04
Speaker 1: Like I said, I've always drawn and you know, sketched
1:04:07
Speaker 1: and things like that, but um, I got into painting
1:04:10
Speaker 1: more um a few years ago, and I've been having
1:04:13
Speaker 1: a few r shows just to you know, show the
1:04:15
Speaker 1: world that we can buy your art. We can buy
1:04:17
Speaker 1: your art. Yes, absolutely, um I just sold. I had
1:04:22
Speaker 1: a show here in Los Angeles a couple of months ago.
1:04:24
Speaker 1: I was called Model Type, and um, I sold half
1:04:28
Speaker 1: the paintings of that collection and then the ones that
1:04:30
Speaker 1: are left over on my website cat tech girl dot com.
1:04:33
Speaker 1: But um, my paintings are big, They're large spell paintings,
1:04:36
Speaker 1: and um, not everybody can afford and original. So that's
1:04:39
Speaker 1: where I came out with my clothing line. Because I
1:04:42
Speaker 1: know my following and my following destin system a lot
1:04:44
Speaker 1: of young girls and young women who you know may
1:04:47
Speaker 1: not have a big home yet to purchase that huge canvas.
1:04:51
Speaker 1: So I created a clothing line that they can wear
1:04:54
Speaker 1: my art, you know what I mean, and and still
1:04:55
Speaker 1: have a piece of it. So my clothes just has
1:04:58
Speaker 1: my paintings featured on it. So where can they go,
1:05:01
Speaker 1: cat to get your art, to get the clothing line.
1:05:04
Speaker 1: Let's let's go and be business people. Now, where can
1:05:06
Speaker 1: they go, miss entrepreneur? Yeah, they can go to my
1:05:09
Speaker 1: website cat tach girl dot com and they can find
1:05:12
Speaker 1: the paintings. They they there, it's on the navigation bar.
1:05:17
Speaker 1: They're just right there on the homepage. Click it. The
1:05:19
Speaker 1: same thing with the common line. Yeah, once you go
1:05:22
Speaker 1: to my homepage and if you throw down, you see
1:05:24
Speaker 1: a little bit of my blog. But there's a menu
1:05:26
Speaker 1: bar on the left hand side and they can see
1:05:28
Speaker 1: paintings and it will take you to that. Okay, now
1:05:32
Speaker 1: Chicago where you blew up? Then you move to Los Angeles.
1:05:37
Speaker 1: Chicago to Los Angeles? Why? Um, you know, I want
1:05:45
Speaker 1: to take this as big as they can possibly go. Okay,
1:05:50
Speaker 1: you're not gonna be a reality star that just goes
1:05:53
Speaker 1: with the show. You you've seen the big picture now,
1:05:55
Speaker 1: huh exactly, and that that's what it's all about, you know,
1:06:00
Speaker 1: Like in Chicago. The show is based off Chicago, and
1:06:05
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's not to say that's where
1:06:09
Speaker 1: it ends, but there's just so much more opportunity past
1:06:12
Speaker 1: the TV show and you know, with my art and
1:06:14
Speaker 1: with my talent, like I don't want to get um,
1:06:17
Speaker 1: you know, caught up in the fifteenth minute of things,
1:06:20
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm here for to extend that and
1:06:24
Speaker 1: you know, to really really um make my art have
1:06:26
Speaker 1: a lasting impression. And in l A, it's just so
1:06:29
Speaker 1: much opportunity to grow, and I mean the opportunity out
1:06:32
Speaker 1: here is just really really endless. So I chose to
1:06:36
Speaker 1: move out here and you know, see where I can
1:06:38
Speaker 1: really take it. Okay, So it's just just asking transitional.
1:06:42
Speaker 1: You know, you you you you, you know, you know
1:06:45
Speaker 1: your ground in Chicago. Obviously some people also advised you
1:06:50
Speaker 1: that that would be a good move and he bumps.
1:06:53
Speaker 1: Or in the successes you want to tell us about
1:06:55
Speaker 1: or just about motivating people, you know, because you keep
1:06:58
Speaker 1: making these dramatic moves. It a lot of people stop,
1:07:01
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people. You know, when I
1:07:02
Speaker 1: went on and gotten that math degree and just went
1:07:05
Speaker 1: on being a teacher or work for some giant corporation
1:07:08
Speaker 1: like IBM, like I did, and then with the Chicago,
1:07:11
Speaker 1: your black ink, your star, You're beautiful. You your tattooing
1:07:15
Speaker 1: stars or athletes, athletes, they're changing teams. You don't even
1:07:19
Speaker 1: know about them. All you know they got Super Bowl
1:07:21
Speaker 1: ringked or you. You you first in line on that,
1:07:23
Speaker 1: so you know how to get publicity. Now you say,
1:07:26
Speaker 1: I'm not satisfied, I'm going to l A. How do
1:07:29
Speaker 1: you do these things? I just want I just want
1:07:31
Speaker 1: you to tell the listeners don't let them, don't let
1:07:34
Speaker 1: don't let them stop their success stories. Yeah, I'm really
1:07:38
Speaker 1: really glad you asked that, um And That's one one
1:07:41
Speaker 1: of the most positive things that I've gotten from the
1:07:44
Speaker 1: TV show. And just like we spoke earlier my social
1:07:47
Speaker 1: media platform, UM too, because people can you know, it's
1:07:51
Speaker 1: easy for me to tell my story, like, yeah, I,
1:07:53
Speaker 1: you know, became a tattoo artist, I got on a
1:07:56
Speaker 1: TV show, I moved to l A, and it can
1:07:57
Speaker 1: seem easy, but I try to be an open book
1:08:01
Speaker 1: because I have gone through so many different ups and
1:08:05
Speaker 1: downs with you know, deciding to leave college. I stayed
1:08:08
Speaker 1: in college and waste so much money and you know,
1:08:11
Speaker 1: loans and for three years before I decided that I
1:08:14
Speaker 1: was gonna put a dent into text and then then
1:08:17
Speaker 1: with that, you know, I'm a regular girl. I've dealt
1:08:20
Speaker 1: with the relationship problems. I've dealt with, you know, moving
1:08:23
Speaker 1: across the country and losing all your money. You know.
1:08:26
Speaker 1: Not every art so that I've had was a huge success,
1:08:30
Speaker 1: but I've had a plan. I've had end goal. So
1:08:33
Speaker 1: as long as you stay focused on that end goal,
1:08:35
Speaker 1: you're gonna have ups and downs, but as long as
1:08:38
Speaker 1: you keep going, it's okay, you know. So, so that's
1:08:42
Speaker 1: important for me as well to just show like you know,
1:08:44
Speaker 1: it's not always going to be a smooth ride. You
1:08:46
Speaker 1: will go through things, but you can keep going. Don't
1:08:49
Speaker 1: let it knock you off your track and just keep
1:08:51
Speaker 1: things focused and you'll get there. You know, you're amazing.
1:08:57
Speaker 1: Let me tell you you're amazing. Okay, keep out the
1:09:00
Speaker 1: website one more time for we close out the show.
1:09:02
Speaker 1: Cat Tat the website it's cat tat girl dot com.
1:09:06
Speaker 1: So it's k T A g I r L. She's
1:09:10
Speaker 1: a tattoo artist, a painter, entrepreneur Forilanthropus, social media influencer,
1:09:14
Speaker 1: reality TV start and she's been educated in mathematics. Cat
1:09:18
Speaker 1: Tat thank you for calling on my show. Thank you
1:09:21
Speaker 1: so much for having me pleasure your fan. I'm a
1:09:24
Speaker 1: fan and anything you need promoted. I'm an influencer to
1:09:28
Speaker 1: now I'll do it for you. Be safe and keep
1:09:31
Speaker 1: being special and keep changing lives. Okay, thank you, all right,
1:09:36
Speaker 1: we'll be back. She's coming up, Tracy mu you've seen
1:09:41
Speaker 1: on Extra now she has this all this shows. Its
1:09:44
Speaker 1: been so good to me because about motivation. Don't go nowhere,
1:09:47
Speaker 1: Tracy Admans is coming up. I'm your host Rashan McDonald
1:09:51
Speaker 1: and you're listening to Money Making Conversations my premier. I'm
1:09:55
Speaker 1: back in Atlanta. This is where I live. I live
1:09:57
Speaker 1: in Houston too, but I really really live in Atlanta.
1:10:00
Speaker 1: Listening to me on bussy level ninety, it's been a
1:10:02
Speaker 1: great show. My next guest is a mother of two,
1:10:06
Speaker 1: television film producer, health wellness advocate who seeks to empower
1:10:10
Speaker 1: others with a combination of pertinent, enlightening and inspirational information.
1:10:15
Speaker 1: She's the former host of the TV entertainment magazine Extra.
1:10:19
Speaker 1: Please welcome the Money Making Conversation. Tracy Emmonds were good morning.
1:10:28
Speaker 1: I'm doing Jason. I'm so excited to be congratulations. Let
1:10:35
Speaker 1: me tell yourself I'm starting a movement. It's called that
1:10:37
Speaker 1: money making conversation movement. I'm national. You know what I'm saying. Uh,
1:10:42
Speaker 1: you know social media influence. So I got a fair
1:10:45
Speaker 1: club almost a half million. You know, come on it,
1:10:49
Speaker 1: the deal trades. I'm just gonna let you know. This
1:10:51
Speaker 1: is that, um, you know, being a fan, you know,
1:10:54
Speaker 1: because you know we're in the business and we might
1:10:56
Speaker 1: not ever see, but you just track people's success. And
1:10:59
Speaker 1: you've been and being a female, it's even more important
1:11:02
Speaker 1: that I see what you do in your your African
1:11:05
Speaker 1: American female. I see what you do in your different
1:11:07
Speaker 1: layers and the versatility, and and this shows about asking
1:11:11
Speaker 1: people to step out of their comfort zone. That's what
1:11:14
Speaker 1: this shows about. As an entrepreneur, as a people who
1:11:17
Speaker 1: sit around, they put so much on faith then and
1:11:19
Speaker 1: then when faith, when faith fails them because they put
1:11:22
Speaker 1: out and they put out in their effort, then they
1:11:24
Speaker 1: just give up. So I want to bring up just
1:11:27
Speaker 1: a short transition that you did TV, not just regular TV.
1:11:32
Speaker 1: You know you had never done that in your life. Wait,
1:11:35
Speaker 1: what are we talking about? The on camera side of TV?
1:11:38
Speaker 1: The on camera side of TV? Rishawn? You know, Okay,
1:11:43
Speaker 1: So talk about stepping outside of your comfort zone. Okay,
1:11:48
Speaker 1: let me just tell you. Okay, for you know, I
1:11:51
Speaker 1: started producing, and so the whole time I was producing,
1:11:58
Speaker 1: like people would kind of offer for me little things.
1:12:00
Speaker 1: They'd be like, you know, okay, what if you played
1:12:03
Speaker 1: you know, so and So's wife. You know, we need
1:12:05
Speaker 1: somebody play so and so's wife. You know, we need
1:12:07
Speaker 1: an actress, we need somebody to play so and So's
1:12:10
Speaker 1: girlfriend love and just what. And I would always be like,
1:12:13
Speaker 1: oh no, I'm not that chick. I'm behind the scenes.
1:12:18
Speaker 1: I'm behind the scenes. I'm behind the scenes. And so um,
1:12:21
Speaker 1: and that's always again that was my comfort zone, like
1:12:24
Speaker 1: where I felt comfortable and stuff. And so finally, you know,
1:12:29
Speaker 1: you know, I think this is just you know, this
1:12:30
Speaker 1: is just God who had another plan for me, you know,
1:12:34
Speaker 1: another aspect of my career. Um. You know, of course
1:12:37
Speaker 1: I meet Dion Sanders, and so I become his producer
1:12:42
Speaker 1: of his reality TV shows. And so then we start
1:12:47
Speaker 1: you know, dating and seeing each other step And this
1:12:52
Speaker 1: happened before we sold the show. And so by the
1:12:56
Speaker 1: time we went out to sell the show, you know,
1:12:59
Speaker 1: everybody in the industry kind of knew that we were
1:13:01
Speaker 1: a couple, and so I'm pitching this show as the
1:13:05
Speaker 1: producer that's going to cover Dion's life as a single
1:13:08
Speaker 1: parent dad, and then you know, trying to just hope
1:13:11
Speaker 1: everybody in the room doesn't understand that I'm part of
1:13:14
Speaker 1: the equation. And so they're like, well, okay, well what
1:13:19
Speaker 1: about you being on camera? And I'm like, oh no,
1:13:21
Speaker 1: I don't do that. I'm just producing. And they're like, well,
1:13:23
Speaker 1: Tracy and Dion, if we're going to cover Dion's life,
1:13:27
Speaker 1: we're not covering it without including you, you know, on camera.
1:13:31
Speaker 1: So really, you know, I kind of got stuck into
1:13:35
Speaker 1: like jumping in and being on camera and stuff, and
1:13:37
Speaker 1: so I kind of said, well, if I do this,
1:13:40
Speaker 1: it's only going to be like a little cameo you know,
1:13:42
Speaker 1: every now and then and stuff. And so but when
1:13:45
Speaker 1: you know it like, we really shot dion show authentically,
1:13:49
Speaker 1: you know, we did not scripted. We were shooting it
1:13:52
Speaker 1: in real time as things were going down. And as
1:13:55
Speaker 1: part of that, you know, I was really you know,
1:13:58
Speaker 1: part of everything you know going on in his life
1:14:01
Speaker 1: and stuff, and so in order to be authentic, I
1:14:04
Speaker 1: had to go on camera. And so, um so that
1:14:07
Speaker 1: was my first venture into being on camera. Was doing
1:14:10
Speaker 1: Dion Show for three seasons and then um, wouldn't you
1:14:15
Speaker 1: know I go on to Extra a daily show daily. Yes, yes,
1:14:21
Speaker 1: we're sure, I'll go on to promote UM Dion's Family Playbook,
1:14:25
Speaker 1: you know, and Mario Lopez is interviewing me about Dion's
1:14:28
Speaker 1: Family Playbook, and so I'm being interviewed as his guest,
1:14:32
Speaker 1: you know, on Extra and stuff. And so I'm talking
1:14:34
Speaker 1: about the show and stuff. And then you know, right
1:14:37
Speaker 1: as I finished the interview, they're like, um, our executive
1:14:40
Speaker 1: producer wants to talk to you, and I'm like about
1:14:44
Speaker 1: what They're like, just just you know, just talk to her.
1:14:47
Speaker 1: So then that was Lisa grigori Ish, who's the executive producer.
1:14:51
Speaker 1: First Lisa g Okay, yes, you know her as Lisa
1:14:55
Speaker 1: G is the best, the best, She's she's she's so animated.
1:15:01
Speaker 1: You know, she's doing a kickboxing move right in front
1:15:03
Speaker 1: of you. Go, okay, she had a dress on all right,
1:15:06
Speaker 1: now she just do a kickboxing move on you because
1:15:09
Speaker 1: she's just so patching it. So you you were going
1:15:12
Speaker 1: to lose that conversation going in. I sure was, because
1:15:17
Speaker 1: um I went I went to meet with her and
1:15:21
Speaker 1: again going, look, you know, I don't do this. I
1:15:23
Speaker 1: think you've got me confused. I don't have any experience
1:15:26
Speaker 1: hosting or whatever. And so she's like, Tracy, I know
1:15:29
Speaker 1: your career. Just be yourself. So I literally rashawn I
1:15:33
Speaker 1: turned the job down a couple of times. And then
1:15:35
Speaker 1: I was talking to Dion and was like you that
1:15:39
Speaker 1: you actually was talking to the wrong person, because that's
1:15:42
Speaker 1: Captain Fearless and you know I'm just doing just do
1:15:46
Speaker 1: a little side note about Dion, Dion Sanders, you know
1:15:49
Speaker 1: prime time, that's what we're talking about. And because to me,
1:15:53
Speaker 1: he invented branding as far as I always tell him that,
1:15:56
Speaker 1: because as a high school student he understood how to
1:15:59
Speaker 1: market himself. And so you were standing next to a
1:16:02
Speaker 1: brilliant marketeer. So you you're trapped now you Diana, stand
1:16:06
Speaker 1: just on this side. Mr. I don't turned out nothing.
1:16:09
Speaker 1: I believe in myself. You can do whatever Guard allows
1:16:12
Speaker 1: you to do. Just believe in yourself. And Lisa G.
1:16:15
Speaker 1: So you had to take the gig, yes, sir, okay.
1:16:18
Speaker 1: So Dion flies out, He's like, well, I'm I'm going
1:16:21
Speaker 1: to meet with Lisa G on your behalf. I was
1:16:23
Speaker 1: like no, and so he flies out and he and
1:16:27
Speaker 1: I together we go to Lisa G's office and the Dion,
1:16:31
Speaker 1: you know, he did the alpha male thing, and he
1:16:33
Speaker 1: enters her office and he's like, you know, I'm Dion, Lisa.
1:16:36
Speaker 1: You know, you and I are gonna talk. Casey's hang
1:16:40
Speaker 1: out on the lobby for a little bit. So he
1:16:45
Speaker 1: as my manager. That was a dream come true Ford,
1:16:49
Speaker 1: to be a manager, a manager or a true talent,
1:16:52
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So, so you made his
1:16:54
Speaker 1: career right there. He handled he handled business rashan and
1:17:00
Speaker 1: so you know, so you know, make a long story short,
1:17:03
Speaker 1: you know, I end up taking it and I was
1:17:04
Speaker 1: the co host of the extra for three years and
1:17:06
Speaker 1: I've been in mid June, and it was fun. It
1:17:09
Speaker 1: was good, and it was it was great because you know,
1:17:13
Speaker 1: you know, because I brought Steve Harvard many times up
1:17:15
Speaker 1: there and to do the show in Los Angeles, Universal
1:17:19
Speaker 1: and um who was always impressed with your professionalism, but
1:17:23
Speaker 1: also the fact that you knew both sides of the camera.
1:17:26
Speaker 1: So whenever you talk during an interview, you you could
1:17:29
Speaker 1: just see wheels turning because you could any talent, any
1:17:32
Speaker 1: direct or anybody did you talk to you understood truly
1:17:36
Speaker 1: their story. Oh you know what, and I appreciate that.
1:17:40
Speaker 1: It's i mean, having been in the business for such
1:17:43
Speaker 1: a long time, you know, and I used to manage also,
1:17:46
Speaker 1: so I managed actors and actresses and stuff. So I
1:17:49
Speaker 1: definitely understood their play and their journey and their psyche.
1:17:54
Speaker 1: And so that's why, you know, it's really cool, you know,
1:17:58
Speaker 1: to be able to interview, especially people that I had
1:18:00
Speaker 1: actually worked with before, and so I really really love
1:18:04
Speaker 1: that and um and then also to it really trained
1:18:08
Speaker 1: me on, you know, how to be in front of
1:18:10
Speaker 1: the camera. So like having to do that for three
1:18:12
Speaker 1: years and and do it under pressure too. It's like,
1:18:16
Speaker 1: you know, especially when I was doing the you know,
1:18:17
Speaker 1: the award shows and yeah, I mean my my first assignment,
1:18:22
Speaker 1: Rashaan was covering me INNY and I had no experience,
1:18:26
Speaker 1: and so Lisa g as soon as that contract, she
1:18:30
Speaker 1: was like, okay, girl, go and cover the INNY and
1:18:33
Speaker 1: I would like what I was like, I don't know
1:18:35
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. And so she's like, again, just be yourself,
1:18:38
Speaker 1: just ask whatever questions you want to ask, and you know,
1:18:41
Speaker 1: and so I did that. So they kind of threw me,
1:18:43
Speaker 1: threw me out there. Now let's talk about why I
1:18:46
Speaker 1: really brought you on the show. It's all right now,
1:18:50
Speaker 1: you leaning on this big old blue ball, okay, healthy,
1:18:53
Speaker 1: well at that little parallel angle. You know, you can't
1:18:56
Speaker 1: even use that picture to promote it because you you
1:18:58
Speaker 1: at an angle. You know, go to your website. So
1:19:02
Speaker 1: you know, I really really wanted to talk about that
1:19:05
Speaker 1: because what I hear your voice, I hear you see
1:19:08
Speaker 1: your career. I know you've been told no, and I
1:19:11
Speaker 1: know people have made suggestion to you and you resisted it.
1:19:15
Speaker 1: You resisted and people saw more in you than you saw.
1:19:19
Speaker 1: I thought you could do and accomplished. So that's what
1:19:22
Speaker 1: this shows about. It's about being able to reach into
1:19:25
Speaker 1: people and understand their true values and expectations are sometimes
1:19:29
Speaker 1: they don't even see them, and other people see more
1:19:31
Speaker 1: than you. So you have this site, this health and
1:19:34
Speaker 1: wellness site that's a faith site. Is the stories and
1:19:37
Speaker 1: talks about motivation, how to eat, and all that good
1:19:39
Speaker 1: stuff called all right now, tell us what led you
1:19:42
Speaker 1: to create this? You know, Rashan part of my life
1:19:45
Speaker 1: that I've never shared with anybody is my health and
1:19:48
Speaker 1: wellness journey and so um you know, which really started Rashan.
1:19:52
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm fifty now, and so I
1:19:55
Speaker 1: mean like time has flown. You just made a lot
1:19:58
Speaker 1: of people mad, right, you know, just made me mad
1:20:03
Speaker 1: just laying on that little out that ball burst. Now, okay,
1:20:08
Speaker 1: I hope that blue ball burst missed fifty. Okay, look
1:20:11
Speaker 1: like thirty five. Okay, I love you, two kids, two kids, Okay,
1:20:16
Speaker 1: really just stopped talking to me. Gonna get a text
1:20:20
Speaker 1: from me. It's gonna be some chart words and that
1:20:23
Speaker 1: text for me about you today. You missed fifty alright,
1:20:27
Speaker 1: Well okay, So so here I am fifty years old
1:20:30
Speaker 1: and I started, I started this journey, was shot when
1:20:33
Speaker 1: I was twenty five. And so my dad, you know,
1:20:37
Speaker 1: bless his heart and rest in peace, who just passed
1:20:39
Speaker 1: away in September when I was twenty five years old.
1:20:43
Speaker 1: He had quadruple by a past heart surgery and so
1:20:47
Speaker 1: four clogged arteries. And you know, I'm twenty five years
1:20:50
Speaker 1: old and I don't know anything at that point about
1:20:52
Speaker 1: health and wellness, and so I'm like, well, how did
1:20:55
Speaker 1: that happen? I'm like, how do you get clogged arteries?
1:20:58
Speaker 1: And so then you know, the doctor's that explaining to
1:21:00
Speaker 1: me high cholesterol, bad diet, you know, and all that
1:21:05
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And that's when I really really started
1:21:07
Speaker 1: reading up on you know, diet and nutrition. And so
1:21:12
Speaker 1: that day I really made a vow and I, you know,
1:21:15
Speaker 1: I really talked to God and I said, you know what,
1:21:18
Speaker 1: because my dad this is a life threatening surgery. And
1:21:20
Speaker 1: so I said, you know, God, if you if you
1:21:23
Speaker 1: get my dad to this, and I know you will,
1:21:25
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna really be healthy. You know, I'm
1:21:28
Speaker 1: going to really make sure I'm healthy. And so I
1:21:32
Speaker 1: just dumped, you know, all the fast foods, the processed foods.
1:21:36
Speaker 1: I stopped eating poorly and started reading up on on
1:21:39
Speaker 1: diet and nutrition and exercise and wellness. And that was
1:21:43
Speaker 1: really like my first day one of my journey and stuff.
1:21:46
Speaker 1: And so I, you know, from that day on, you know,
1:21:50
Speaker 1: no fast foods. I only eat you know, organic foods
1:21:53
Speaker 1: because you know the other foods they're sprayed with pesticides
1:21:57
Speaker 1: and stuff, which is really bad for your body and stuff.
1:22:00
Speaker 1: And so and I, you know, I supplement and you know,
1:22:03
Speaker 1: I have my my go to that I do every morning,
1:22:07
Speaker 1: Like lemon water is so amazing for your body. It
1:22:11
Speaker 1: builds your immune system, It cleans out all the toxins.
1:22:15
Speaker 1: It gives you clear skin, it gives you clear thought
1:22:18
Speaker 1: and energy. So I do that every morning and throughout
1:22:21
Speaker 1: the day. I have you know, supplements that I take
1:22:24
Speaker 1: and smoothies, and I do yoga and fitness and that
1:22:28
Speaker 1: is really so I'm taking everything that I've learned over
1:22:31
Speaker 1: the years and I'm incorporating that into this website all
1:22:34
Speaker 1: right now and I'm sharing it with everybody. Well that
1:22:36
Speaker 1: thought right there, Tracy. We're gonna be right back and
1:22:38
Speaker 1: going more detail about that. And also I want to
1:22:40
Speaker 1: ask you something because you're a mentor to a lot
1:22:42
Speaker 1: of people and especially young women and in this era
1:22:46
Speaker 1: hashtag me two times up. You know, your blessings are
1:22:50
Speaker 1: just changing the world. Right now. We're so hanging there.
1:22:53
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. I'm back just with Sean McDonald,
1:22:56
Speaker 1: host the Money Making Conversations on the Line. She's a
1:22:59
Speaker 1: mother to television film producer, health wellness advocate, and the
1:23:04
Speaker 1: former host of Extra Extra. Tracy Edmonds, Tracy, um, as
1:23:09
Speaker 1: you know, I've been looking at your pictures deal man
1:23:11
Speaker 1: man man mother to steal mad now. But I wanted
1:23:15
Speaker 1: to bring up some tips that I wanted to talk
1:23:17
Speaker 1: about you as an entrepreneur, you know, because what tips
1:23:21
Speaker 1: do you have for young female entrepreneurs, because, like you're
1:23:24
Speaker 1: talking about, you've been in the business a long time
1:23:27
Speaker 1: and a lot of bumps. What are some of the tips. Well,
1:23:30
Speaker 1: I mean tip number one is really believe in yourself.
1:23:35
Speaker 1: You know, you know, really you know, know your worth,
1:23:38
Speaker 1: know your value, know that you can do it, and
1:23:43
Speaker 1: you know you just have to stay focused. I've had
1:23:46
Speaker 1: so many people along the way in my career that
1:23:50
Speaker 1: have said no, no, no, no, And especially being in
1:23:53
Speaker 1: the entertainment industry, you hear you hear the word no,
1:23:56
Speaker 1: and you face rejection. So I mean, like every of
1:24:00
Speaker 1: your life, you know, it's almost like a miracle when
1:24:02
Speaker 1: somebody says, yes, we'll buy it. Yes, So but um,
1:24:06
Speaker 1: I've always said no just means find another way. And
1:24:09
Speaker 1: so you know, when someone tells me no, I'm like, okay,
1:24:12
Speaker 1: all right, well let me regroup, let me kind of
1:24:14
Speaker 1: tweak something, and let me go back out there again
1:24:17
Speaker 1: and try it again. And sure enough, that's been successful
1:24:20
Speaker 1: for me. I've had projects that have taken me five years,
1:24:24
Speaker 1: you know, to to see you know, the big screen,
1:24:27
Speaker 1: or to get to television because so many people have
1:24:29
Speaker 1: told me no. But then finally, you know, I figured
1:24:32
Speaker 1: out the right formula and I get it done. And
1:24:35
Speaker 1: so I think that's that's probably one of the most
1:24:37
Speaker 1: important things. Okay, that's that's we got the entrepreneur, female entrepreneur,
1:24:41
Speaker 1: now the single mom the domains. How were you able
1:24:44
Speaker 1: to balance that because you know, we're talking about nutrition,
1:24:47
Speaker 1: we're talking about standards, shape, We're talking about all these things.
1:24:50
Speaker 1: And also in the era that we live in, you know,
1:24:53
Speaker 1: because as a parent, being a parent myself, you know,
1:24:55
Speaker 1: you're so paranoid. Oh yeah, you just turn on TV
1:24:57
Speaker 1: and you've got social media. Can't control your kids. I
1:24:59
Speaker 1: tell a only you're watching YouTube. That's a single mom.
1:25:03
Speaker 1: What advice do you give to people trying to young
1:25:07
Speaker 1: women or women who in their thirties or forties, And
1:25:09
Speaker 1: I tell everybody there's no age limits to start your
1:25:12
Speaker 1: dream just started, right, Yeah. I mean I encourage every
1:25:19
Speaker 1: woman out there that wants to have children and that
1:25:23
Speaker 1: thinks that they can't have a career and have children
1:25:27
Speaker 1: to yes, you can. You know, you can do it.
1:25:30
Speaker 1: You can do both. You can have that dream of
1:25:34
Speaker 1: having it all. You know, you can have a balanced life.
1:25:37
Speaker 1: You know, it may not be perfect, and you may
1:25:40
Speaker 1: have a little bumps along the road, and you may
1:25:41
Speaker 1: feel guilty sometimes because you're running late for your kids
1:25:45
Speaker 1: soccer game or or something. You know, um, but it
1:25:49
Speaker 1: is so worth it and I mean, my joy, you know,
1:25:54
Speaker 1: every day working was knowing that I was coming home
1:25:57
Speaker 1: to see my kids at the end of the day.
1:25:59
Speaker 1: I know the feeling I felt. You know, I have
1:26:02
Speaker 1: a daughter and she's a freshman in college, major in
1:26:05
Speaker 1: the mechanical engineering and I'm so proud of her just
1:26:09
Speaker 1: watching her grow. And my job was to get her
1:26:12
Speaker 1: there and my job. Kudos to you, because it's hard.
1:26:16
Speaker 1: It's hard. It's hard. So so when I when I
1:26:18
Speaker 1: look at all these things you've done all right, now
1:26:22
Speaker 1: there's a business model tied to health and wellness. How
1:26:27
Speaker 1: do you get in this business of trying to say,
1:26:29
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start this portal and how do you aggregate
1:26:32
Speaker 1: all the information you're trying to do into this site
1:26:35
Speaker 1: so an everyday person can understand it? Well? You know what, Rashaan,
1:26:41
Speaker 1: You know, I almost have to give it to God
1:26:43
Speaker 1: because it's like it's like everything that I put into
1:26:46
Speaker 1: this site, you know, just kind of flowed out of me,
1:26:50
Speaker 1: and so I had a vision to do this site
1:26:53
Speaker 1: about a year ago, and so well a little over
1:26:56
Speaker 1: a year ago is before my mom passed away, and
1:27:00
Speaker 1: I just had I was on a mission where I
1:27:02
Speaker 1: just said, you know what, it is really time in
1:27:05
Speaker 1: my life to pay it forward, to give back, to
1:27:08
Speaker 1: share what I've learned along the way with other people,
1:27:11
Speaker 1: because I have so many people that are always emailing
1:27:14
Speaker 1: me and tweeting me and saying, hey, do you ever
1:27:16
Speaker 1: mentor people? You know, can you mentor me? And I
1:27:19
Speaker 1: wish I had enough hours in the day to to
1:27:22
Speaker 1: mentor you know, all the people that reach out to me.
1:27:24
Speaker 1: And so I'm like, well, how can I reach the
1:27:26
Speaker 1: masses and share with the masses, Which is why I
1:27:29
Speaker 1: decided to create you know, all right now website. Now,
1:27:33
Speaker 1: um you know, those that have been following me know
1:27:36
Speaker 1: that within the last year, I lost my mother and
1:27:40
Speaker 1: my father, you know, in the same year my mom
1:27:43
Speaker 1: died of mesothelioma cancer, and then my father passed away
1:27:47
Speaker 1: you know, a few months ago in September of finally
1:27:50
Speaker 1: a heart attack, and so, um, so this just made
1:27:54
Speaker 1: me even more passionate, what you know, to get this
1:27:57
Speaker 1: site done. To share knowledge with people about lifestyle changes
1:28:02
Speaker 1: that they can make to you know, prevent health problems
1:28:05
Speaker 1: and to prevent diseases and so um. And then also
1:28:09
Speaker 1: to you know, our site, we have um. You know,
1:28:12
Speaker 1: we have a section call Succeed, which is career advice motivational.
1:28:16
Speaker 1: Yet we have Relates, which is relationship advice, you know,
1:28:20
Speaker 1: on love and parenting. You know, we have the fitness,
1:28:24
Speaker 1: we have the health and wellness. And then really finding
1:28:27
Speaker 1: a balanced life is also like escaping sometimes and traveling
1:28:31
Speaker 1: and stuff, and so we're talking about that too. So
1:28:33
Speaker 1: it's really designed to help people find balance in their life,
1:28:37
Speaker 1: to like live their best lives and to be the
1:28:41
Speaker 1: best youth. When I when I went to the site,
1:28:44
Speaker 1: you know, because of the fact that you know, are
1:28:46
Speaker 1: you guys doing any live events through your site or
1:28:50
Speaker 1: uh what are something to takeaways that you can tell
1:28:54
Speaker 1: my listeners and also the viewers of Facebook. Well you
1:28:58
Speaker 1: know what we you know, our goal is to really grow,
1:29:02
Speaker 1: like we're we're starting in the infancy stations. Like yeah,
1:29:06
Speaker 1: like I literally like I was determined. I said, I'm
1:29:08
Speaker 1: launching the site January first, because that's you know, the
1:29:11
Speaker 1: new year, and so Rashan. I was working around the
1:29:15
Speaker 1: clock because I asked you. You know, Rashan, I'm the
1:29:19
Speaker 1: marketing and Brandon guru. So if you don't mind, let's
1:29:23
Speaker 1: set up a conference call you know me for a charge.
1:29:26
Speaker 1: I just I just, you know, I see something. I God,
1:29:30
Speaker 1: that's the gift. I've been doing this since I was eighteen.
1:29:32
Speaker 1: I realized that, you know that that God gave me
1:29:34
Speaker 1: a gift to be able to, you know, just reshape
1:29:37
Speaker 1: things and redirect and motivate. And when I look at
1:29:40
Speaker 1: the site, I go and because there's so many people,
1:29:43
Speaker 1: this is the direction there's so many people are going
1:29:45
Speaker 1: in their lives nowadays, you know, you know, the the
1:29:49
Speaker 1: health that they watch, what they eat, their motivating to win.
1:29:53
Speaker 1: And when I see you. When I saw this site,
1:29:56
Speaker 1: I immediately told my program director Day I said, we
1:29:58
Speaker 1: gotta get on the show. I want on the premier
1:30:00
Speaker 1: show because I know your life. I know your life
1:30:03
Speaker 1: has been always about you know, people telling you you
1:30:07
Speaker 1: look a certain way, you're supposed to do a certain things.
1:30:09
Speaker 1: Like you said, you're trying to be a producer. People
1:30:11
Speaker 1: trying to get you the what I'm saying as a misdirection,
1:30:14
Speaker 1: you was what I want to do. But did they
1:30:17
Speaker 1: get to upon your life where you had you had
1:30:19
Speaker 1: created the resume that you were comfortable. You were comfortable
1:30:23
Speaker 1: with making that transition because you don't have to prove anything,
1:30:25
Speaker 1: and I always you have to prove it that they
1:30:29
Speaker 1: I always tell people your goal in life is for
1:30:31
Speaker 1: your resume and the things that you hype to intersect
1:30:35
Speaker 1: and when you walk in the room, you can be yourself.
1:30:37
Speaker 1: And when I look at you, Tracy, and we joked about, uh,
1:30:40
Speaker 1: you're being fifty and looking fantabulous, you know, and all
1:30:44
Speaker 1: the successes. But that's what you're the point in life
1:30:46
Speaker 1: where you're sharing. You're sharing your values and your success.
1:30:51
Speaker 1: Because you easily talked about being a parent, You easily
1:30:54
Speaker 1: talked about being an entrepreneur. You talked about the setbacks
1:30:58
Speaker 1: and people telling you know, and you just going, no,
1:31:00
Speaker 1: that's not gonna stop me. That's not gonna stop me.
1:31:03
Speaker 1: And now you got this site because that's why I
1:31:05
Speaker 1: started money making conversations because everybody want me to mentor
1:31:08
Speaker 1: that everybody, Oh yeah, And it's like, I mean, having
1:31:12
Speaker 1: a site like this is really the best way for
1:31:15
Speaker 1: me to share information because it really is coming from
1:31:18
Speaker 1: a personal and testimonial space. I wrote sixty articles, you
1:31:21
Speaker 1: know for the site and stuff and so like, like
1:31:23
Speaker 1: I said, I was we we were launching January first,
1:31:27
Speaker 1: Rashaan and so, and I was like, we're not missing
1:31:29
Speaker 1: our deadline. Am She's gonna do it, you know, crazy four.
1:31:40
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But I did down the
1:31:43
Speaker 1: road Rashaan, just kind of what you're saying. I want
1:31:45
Speaker 1: to do, you know, conferences and retreats and things like
1:31:48
Speaker 1: that and really kind of grow this into a positivity movement.
1:31:52
Speaker 1: And and I feel that wild happened through the relationships
1:31:55
Speaker 1: like me because I want to get involved. I want
1:31:57
Speaker 1: to I want to get our hand on the phone.
1:32:00
Speaker 1: Charlie Jordan Brookins, she has to think of faith fit
1:32:04
Speaker 1: through Faith that she's started. And a girl Nikki Curly NICKI.
1:32:08
Speaker 1: You know, she has over a half million Twitter followers.
1:32:11
Speaker 1: You know, she's doing these emotional wellness type of yoga
1:32:15
Speaker 1: classes in the DC area. All these people, we gotta
1:32:19
Speaker 1: bring them together to your poem. You know what I'm saying,
1:32:21
Speaker 1: Because that's what I'm saying. You're You're an aggregate of
1:32:24
Speaker 1: so many people who are trying to who you. I
1:32:27
Speaker 1: want you to become the voice of this movement, because
1:32:29
Speaker 1: that's what it is. And that power stroke that you
1:32:33
Speaker 1: have done, that's why you were smart to you know something.
1:32:35
Speaker 1: I'm launching, Okay, I gotta date. I'm not gonna lunch
1:32:38
Speaker 1: black History Mark. I'm not launching in Easter. I'm I'll
1:32:41
Speaker 1: launching in the first quarter. And this is my date
1:32:44
Speaker 1: because that because I can now talk to people about
1:32:48
Speaker 1: your brand, and I know they want to hear it, Tracy.
1:32:51
Speaker 1: They want to hear it. They want to see you,
1:32:53
Speaker 1: they want to You're a poster for success from a
1:32:56
Speaker 1: female side, from an entrepreneurship side, a parent's side, from
1:33:00
Speaker 1: a single mom side. But just you have romance in
1:33:04
Speaker 1: your life. You know you really you're able to balance
1:33:06
Speaker 1: business and emotion. That's a that's a blessing girl. And
1:33:10
Speaker 1: when I look at this site, I'm a fan and
1:33:12
Speaker 1: I'm a champ in your calls. I'm a champ in
1:33:14
Speaker 1: your calls, young lady. Thank you so much. And you know,
1:33:18
Speaker 1: I mean, I really appreciate your support and I appreciate
1:33:21
Speaker 1: you're giving me a platform because that's the thing is that,
1:33:24
Speaker 1: like you know, people like us, especially when we're starting
1:33:26
Speaker 1: new businesses, and stuff. We need a platform like yours.
1:33:29
Speaker 1: You know, they just spread the word, share what we're
1:33:32
Speaker 1: doing and stuff. And then you know, and then the
1:33:35
Speaker 1: brotherhood and sisterhood in this business is so important. I
1:33:38
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