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Ryan Morgan, goes from incarceration to Founder & CEO Aqua Equity Water · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: He makes change. His name is Ryan Morgan. While being
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  Speaker 1: the wrestled on that on the bank floor, and I've
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  Speaker 1: been to those banks in l A. L is one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest bank. They called l a bank rob capital,
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  Speaker 1: bank robbery capital, Ryan promised himself while he was laying there.
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  Speaker 1: This was not the end of his story. When he
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  Speaker 1: got out of the prison and his mid twenties, Ryan
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  Speaker 1: had a plan. He attended Laney College in Oakland, then
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  Speaker 1: went on to play football at the prestigious University of
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  Speaker 1: San Diego under my man who is now the Michigan
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  Speaker 1: head coach, Jim Harball, before before receiving his NBA from
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  Speaker 1: Concordia University. Since then, Ryan has spent the last twelve
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  Speaker 1: years in the alcohol beverage industry while working for two
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  Speaker 1: of the largest suppliers on the globe, where is mostly
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  Speaker 1: recently for net sales. Himself, Ryan Morgan thirty four million
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  Speaker 1: dollars He invested at least temperacy of his profits, to
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  Speaker 1: the Watts community, to his nonprofit and partners, please work
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  Speaker 1: with money making conversations for the first time. We're definitely
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  Speaker 1: gonna reconnect when I go out in l a Ryan Morgan,
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  Speaker 1: how you doing, Ryan, I'm fantastic man. Pleasure to be here, Shan,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Well. First of all, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's always a journey, you know. I come from the
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  Speaker 1: inner City, and I always uh tell people that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: mistakes are left and right decisions. You know, you go left,
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  Speaker 1: this is a decision, you go right. Nobody just can
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  Speaker 1: stand in the middle and just you live your life.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta make a decision. And sometimes a decision we
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  Speaker 1: make can come with consequences, good and bad, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that. Uh. I look back in my
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  Speaker 1: college life and I did some silly things that if
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  Speaker 1: they're if they're the right people would have caught me.
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  Speaker 1: I probably would have had a different record. But the
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  Speaker 1: right people didn't catch me, and I was fortunate and
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  Speaker 1: blessed in your situation. You participated in the bank robbery
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  Speaker 1: which led to you being arrested. Tell us about that journey.
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  Speaker 1: Because so many of our African American youth getting these
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  Speaker 1: bad situations and unfortunately can't come out of it. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have mentors who help them get out of that
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  Speaker 1: right them along the way. And that is part of
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  Speaker 1: your story. But let's go back to the beginning. Uh
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  Speaker 1: that led to that point where you were arrested for
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  Speaker 1: robbing the bank, attempting the robbing bank. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're trying. I just want to say, like to your point,
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  Speaker 1: there's a saying in the neighborhood that if you knew better,
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  Speaker 1: you would do better. And that speaks to us. I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of talented black men and women, black
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  Speaker 1: and brown men and women coming from inner cities. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: just a lack of opportunity and lack of nohaw know how,
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  Speaker 1: a lack of the right channels for success. So you
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  Speaker 1: knew better, you would do better. So I think my
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  Speaker 1: story reflects that. Yes, this nineteen um, two weeks after
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  Speaker 1: my nineteenth birthday, uh, in that summer, just when year
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  Speaker 1: out of high school and kind of this uh inner
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  Speaker 1: city uh started out inner city typical story, kind of
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  Speaker 1: one ft uh in the neighborhood, UM, one ft in sports. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: So by the time that I graduated high school. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was knee deep and gang banging and selling drugs
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  Speaker 1: and whatever way to hustle to make money. And so
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  Speaker 1: I find myself, you know, two weeks before I turned nine,
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  Speaker 1: on the floor of the bank we attempted to rob
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  Speaker 1: and right then and there, you know, with the guns
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  Speaker 1: to my head and the police, I just kind of
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  Speaker 1: sawt my life kind of flashed before my eyes. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and it's had this kind of sick feeling like this
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  Speaker 1: can't be it. Like I knew there was more in me,
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  Speaker 1: and I wanted more for myself, and I knew, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my family wanted more for me. And so I promised
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  Speaker 1: myself that I was gonna make this story. I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna make this you know, limits turned into lemonade, and
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  Speaker 1: this wasn't gonna be the end of my legacy. But
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  Speaker 1: but in the part of making that decision, you know,
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  Speaker 1: your decision that you made on that being on the
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  Speaker 1: floor came with consequences so that you couldn't control, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and also unknown because you're about to go into environment
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty intimidating. So two things I gotta ask you,
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  Speaker 1: Being that you was tied to sports, there was an
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  Speaker 1: avenue or positivity. But then the gang banking, because I
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  Speaker 1: want to undergo a clear understanding because I'm never participating
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  Speaker 1: in the game. What attracted to you to the gang
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  Speaker 1: participation and what held you in that position to be
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  Speaker 1: in a position where you were robbing a bank? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so um, and my story kind of weaves into why
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the Watch community now. It's it's a story
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  Speaker 1: of generational kind of cycling passing down. So Um. I
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  Speaker 1: grew up in San Bordino, which is uh inner city
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  Speaker 1: much like Watts or Oakland, a lot of projects, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of poverty, and therefore a lot of the gangs,
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  Speaker 1: and so my uncle's were involved in it, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking up to them, and it's just in that
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  Speaker 1: inner city environment back then. It's getting better now, but
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  Speaker 1: we still have work to do. A lot of the
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  Speaker 1: male role models where individuals involved in gangs or drugs
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  Speaker 1: or some type of criminal activity, and as a young boy,
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  Speaker 1: you're looking up and seeing that as an example of
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  Speaker 1: what manhood is. There's a miseducation and so you're falling
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  Speaker 1: those steps and you have a work mentality thinking that Okay,
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  Speaker 1: to be a real man, I gotta do X Y
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  Speaker 1: and Z for an example of these basically criminals. And
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  Speaker 1: so it's it's it was really easy to to get
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  Speaker 1: pulled into um. You you you feel like we're in
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  Speaker 1: the inner city and it's a it's a misconception and
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  Speaker 1: this is what we're trying to expose that to bring
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  Speaker 1: truth in life. But you feel like you have limited
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  Speaker 1: options to where either to make money, I gotta play sports,
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  Speaker 1: but where I gotta do some illegal hustle because I
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  Speaker 1: don't have another realistic avenue for me to help get
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  Speaker 1: out of this poverty uh and its hardship in its
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  Speaker 1: inner city. And so I bit into that line. And
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  Speaker 1: so that's why I had won foot in sports, which
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  Speaker 1: is was typical for a lot of males in the
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  Speaker 1: inner city. And then you got that pool. You're in
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  Speaker 1: your environment, you surrounded and so I'm getting pulled by
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  Speaker 1: my environment to do that. And so that was that
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  Speaker 1: duality where I found myself, you know, on that on
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  Speaker 1: that bank floor. And it wasn't the first time you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had done something you legal, So it was like
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  Speaker 1: a build up a peak and say, my life, the reason,
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  Speaker 1: the reason of my ryan you know, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not putting you on the Front Street. We're just telling
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  Speaker 1: the story about that moment because, like I said, we
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  Speaker 1: all have a journey to get to that that compromising
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  Speaker 1: moment where you understand that this is not the direction
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  Speaker 1: I can continue to live my life, but also the
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  Speaker 1: one that people know that you can recover, you can't
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  Speaker 1: make change, because so many people, when they make mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: they let their mistake overwhelmed them. They make that mistake
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  Speaker 1: prevent their dreams from happening because they feel that I
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  Speaker 1: can't recover. And one of the reasons I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: bring Ryan on the show a show that he's one
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  Speaker 1: of the many examples of people who have been roadblocked,
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  Speaker 1: who have been positioned in a high state of negativity,
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  Speaker 1: but they were they were they were able to come
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  Speaker 1: out of it by setting a plan in place, because
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  Speaker 1: you just can't dream your way out of it. You
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  Speaker 1: have to have a plan. And that plan when you
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  Speaker 1: got into prison, because you were in prison, how did
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  Speaker 1: that start leaning into the direction of getting back into
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  Speaker 1: athletics and how did you stay in shape? Because when
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  Speaker 1: you came out you attended Laney College in Oakland. Yeah, uh,
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  Speaker 1: for me, educational big and I believe that to this
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  Speaker 1: And that doesn't mean you have to get education from college.
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  Speaker 1: That's the route I went, but um, knowledge and education
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  Speaker 1: is going to help open up a lot of opportunities
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  Speaker 1: and avenues, open up your mind and help you make
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  Speaker 1: better choices and help you understand why you where you're
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  Speaker 1: at and why. Uh So Uh Fortunately in the federal
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  Speaker 1: prison system that I was in, they offered college courses,
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  Speaker 1: uh continuing adult courses, adult education courses, so I took advantage.
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  Speaker 1: Um I wanted to. I've always been a curious mind,
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  Speaker 1: and uh it just I'm thankful that it kind of
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  Speaker 1: clicked early. Um when I was in prison that education
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  Speaker 1: was gonna help me turn my life around. So I
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  Speaker 1: took every college course, every adult continued education course available.
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  Speaker 1: They had, uh courses in finance, the Spanish, heating, denilation,
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  Speaker 1: air condition, to whatever I can get my hands on.
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  Speaker 1: End up leaving Fellow prison with probably like nine college
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  Speaker 1: God gave you a natural talent that was sports. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of rejection, there's a lot of frustration. Talk
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  Speaker 1: about that rejection. Talk about that frustration, and talk about
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  Speaker 1: people holding your past against you and preventing you from
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  Speaker 1: living a positive future. Yeah, Uh, well I had when
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  Speaker 1: I was in prison. I went there right after high school,
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  Speaker 1: and I was a talented football player in high school. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I could in a scholarship if I wouldn't have want
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  Speaker 1: the criminal route. But so I had these dreams about
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  Speaker 1: playing football while was in prison all the time, like
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  Speaker 1: haunting me. And I knew if I didn't go out
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  Speaker 1: there and play after I got out at five, that
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  Speaker 1: it was gonna bother me for the rest of my life.
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  Speaker 1: And it was tied into my educational journey. So um.
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  Speaker 1: Actually was going to junior college for about a year,
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  Speaker 1: uh doing uh fitness training and you know, had the physique.
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  Speaker 1: So I got recruited just walking on campus, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to my classes, and uh, thank god I did. So
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  Speaker 1: I played for for Laney College, uh coach being They
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  Speaker 1: just did a Netflix special on Laney College coach being.
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  Speaker 1: So it was the first year there and I caught
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  Speaker 1: the attention with coach Hardball and it was his second
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  Speaker 1: year University of San Diego, and it's one of the
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  Speaker 1: best decisions of my life. Thankfully. I was focused on
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  Speaker 1: my studies at a three point six six prestigious university,
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  Speaker 1: so you've gotta have great grades to get there. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they accepted me, and um, I got my degree in
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  Speaker 1: marketing and it really just set my path straight. I
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  Speaker 1: mean the connections I made, um, you know what I
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  Speaker 1: learned there, and then um, just the opportunities that it
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  Speaker 1: opened up for me were incredible. You know he was
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  Speaker 1: there with was quar the quarterback Josh Johnson. Was you
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  Speaker 1: there when he was there? Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah, my boy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'st open absolute Marshawn Lynch cousin. Oh, you know. My
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  Speaker 1: whole thing is that when I look at the opportunities
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  Speaker 1: that that come me away, and I'm excited about you,
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  Speaker 1: the dreams and then the fact that I like you
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  Speaker 1: because you're a good looking guy and and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I just have to be a good looking guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take that. Oh yeah, you know, good, come on down.
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  Speaker 1: You know, like you said, you walked through campus. They
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  Speaker 1: knew you was, they knew you physically fit. I won't
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  Speaker 1: go campfuls. They said, what class sir, what class? They
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  Speaker 1: ask you what it's interesting with? Shall you say that?
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  Speaker 1: Because you know you're first, you're saying yego, you might
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  Speaker 1: not notice. I mean it's it's it's not a diverse campus.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the black and brown people that go there
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  Speaker 1: are playing sports. You know, I'm just being real. So
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  Speaker 1: when I got there, you know, I'm yoked up big,
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  Speaker 1: ye know I was when I got to University of
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  Speaker 1: San Diego. So I was always looked at like this,
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  Speaker 1: there was a story and uh like you know about
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  Speaker 1: me and uh mystique. So I think the world got
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  Speaker 1: out like we got this guy on campus who did
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  Speaker 1: a bid in prison and you know, from the hood.
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  Speaker 1: So I was kind of like they called me O
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  Speaker 1: G Triple O G around campus. Knew me before, knew
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  Speaker 1: then just you know, it was rare for somebody to
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  Speaker 1: be on that campus for my background for sure. That
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  Speaker 1: that's what we always talk about background, Ryan, you know,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: we talked about the future. Now you know our qua equity, equity,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: you know water, you know, we know California, so you
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: know it's a it's a heat wave going on. Let
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: me ask you this first of all, when you when
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: you see the heat wave does that me revenue in
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: your mind? You know people gonna be drinking water? How
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: do you treat weather in your in your line of business?
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: How do you cheat weather in your life? I need
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: transition because I see heatwave. I think my air conditioning
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: bill is gonna be stot. I need to transition. But
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: you're right, uh with the heat. So we have a
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: unique route to market and kind of customer base. Being
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: a we launched our product in March, right at the
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: height of the pandemic. We had to pivot on how
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: we were gonna get a route to market and our
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: points distribution. UH. So we changed from going to traditional
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: retail route to focus on corporate customers. UM. Just by
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: you know, being in Watson and UH contributing to the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: community outreach programs, we uh caught the attention and the
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: word of mouth got out to several producers UM directors
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: UM in the Hollywood industry. Molina matsukis being one of
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the first, and she's awesome. She got us in too
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Warner Media Studios. UM. So we're official vendor and there
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: a great customer. But we're picking up corporate customers like Kaiser, Permanente, GM,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Cadillac and and we're able to sell them larger quantities
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: UM and have them as a longer, long term customer
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: as opposed to a retail customer. They support our mission
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: and TV outreach we do, so you won't see us
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: in a traditional retail store as much. UM. We sell
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: mostly UH online to to to our customers UM residential customers,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: but our main focuses are corporate customers because they got
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the money to help support these these projects in the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: mission that we have our core equity. You know, it's water,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: That's what you know. It always amazes me that you
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: know you have all you go in the store, you
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: see all these different bottle brands of water. Were just
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: talking about water in general. One what diffrench rates water
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: from just tap water? Well, educate us on their own
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: water process for us, right right, A great question. So
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: it all depends on what your water source. Obviously, these
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: certain parts of the country, you're gonna have better UH
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: natural water sources, whether that's a spring, the ground water table. Um.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: So what we have is too offerings. We have a
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: pure mount of spring water out of Tiger Georgia. UM.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: They have some of the best smooth the taste of
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: spring water in California. A lot of people are apprehensive
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: about spring water, so we were very careful and picking
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the right one. And then we have an electrolyte and
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: enhanced water. What that means is the water is purified
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: through reverse osmosis and then we add calcium, magnesium and
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: potassium for the electrolytes to keep you hydrated um or
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: rehydrated faster. So those are two main offerings UM and
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I mean it's very simple. You know, rais up a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: great point. You know, you can get water from a tap.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: But so what we say is that we're not really
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: selling water. We're selling the good works in the mission
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: uh that we do and bringing people, bringing our customers
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: in that can't physically be there to be a part
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: of it. Well, it's important. I'm talking to Ryan Morgan.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: You know, our equity is his line of business, you know,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: but his company operates on three pillars, and we want
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to talk about those three pillars. One his community, one
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: his environment, and one his education. Now, it's always important
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: to have a direction, and you're motivated by your past
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: to have a brighter future, and I want to go
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: immediately down to one. We continue that conversation because I
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: think education has changed my life. You know, if I
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: didn't have an education, then I wouldn't have direction in life.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: So I always tell people if you just go to college,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: just go to college for the experience, because I like
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: high school. You have options in college. You know, you
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: don't have to take a course, it's just because that's
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: part of the curriculum for you being a junior, senior,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: a freshman in college in high school. So college have
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: impacted you educationally. Talk about that and then talk about
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: why it is one of the pillars with your watch
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: community core. Yeah, absolutely, thank you. So you know, college
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: is one of the best experiences of my life, not
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: only because of the knowledge and education, but to connectations
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and two of my co founders UM I met in college.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: We played football together in for San Diego UM and
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: part of that was that bonding experience creative in college.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I do recommend individuals to seek out of
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: college UM that that's accessible and and you know that
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you don't have to go into debt for get that education.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: You have a great experience. UM. So you know our
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: three pillars community, UM, environment, education, Education pieces huge because
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: UM I realize how it can change your life in
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: a lot of people in the inner city that we
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: deal with, they still don't know UM, and so we
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: want to open up opportunities which education can do UM
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: and sparked the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs coming
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: out of the wast community. And you know, we have
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: an entrepreneur training program to do that that we work
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: with our nonprofit partner uh SO. It's actually great foundation. UM.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: They are are connected to the l A City Mayor's
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: office uh SO GRIT Foundation that operate in thirty two locations.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: And then they have a a STEM lab in the
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Nickerson Garden Housing development, which is the largest housing development
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: west of the Mississippi, largest in the state. And so
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: at that STEM lab we have an entrepreneur training program
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: that is essentially a college course where you're gonna get
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the fundamentals of entrepreneurship. UM, You're gonna build out a
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: pitch deck for your business idea, you're gonna get that
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: practice of elevator pitching, pitching in front of a panel.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: And then we we have basically a grant award for
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the top three students to help them get started on
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: their entrepreneur journey three thousand for first place, two thousand
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: for second, in a thousand for third place. We bring
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: in guests entrepreneurs every class to to share their experience
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and their best practices so that our students can get
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: different perspectives and they can take from each entrepreneur and
• 24:03
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• 24:15
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  Speaker 1: almost on time. This morning. Mom is coming out the
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• 25:28
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• 25:41
  Speaker 1: they're off. Ah, but looks like Mom doesn't realize her
• 25:44
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• 25:47
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  Speaker 1: I ask you this like I've seen that the the
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  Speaker 1: Entrepreneur Training program, it's in Watch. It's at the Nickerson
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Garden Stem Lab Saturdays only on Saturdays. I know you
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: have zoom when you have Saturdays because I love the
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I love the you know, talk for you or be
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: one of your mentors, or be one of the people
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: you like to invite in and talk because that's part
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: of my my mantra, as part of my gearback. You know,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: it's time. You know, God He's given me the ability
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: to live a long life. I have to give back
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: these gifts and share it with somebody so you can
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: you can puncile me in or ink me in as
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: a rich and holding your to it. And I'm saying,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I hold you to that for sure, okay, because I
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: definitely want to do that. You know, because like I said, uh,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I know that l A was important in my life.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I lived there from nineteen ninety to two thousand five.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I know the impact is Steve Harvey and I had
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: on radio in the community. You know when I hear
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: when I see Nickers and gardens man brings back so
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: many memories because those are legendary, Uh locations. How's the
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: locations in this country? You know you're talking about you
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Nikins and guard and you go wow, you know, but
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I have to ask this question here because of the
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: fact that this is what happens when you stay in
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood so too long. Now it's a core group
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: of people that you gang bang with. You know, some
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: of them probably got arrested with you use on the
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: floor that bank way back in the day when he
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: was an eighteen years old any relationship now do you
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: know where they at or as like all lives that
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: live that life, it's been cut short, you know. I mean,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: well what you know one of was my family members,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: so he get time too. He got caught up later
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: on in the state and this some time and you
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: know he's out and successful in his own right, so
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: he's got his own story to tell. But um, so yeah,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: we keep tabs. And then another one uh went off
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: later on too, prison stay prisoned for something else that
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: got out and you know, he's got a family and kids,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: so you know he's got a great life to them.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: So there's some some kind of beauty um for those
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: ashes right there. Yeah, because I do want to bring
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: out I don't I said, I do want to bring
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: that up because that's a journey and you share those
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: journeys with individuals and just you know that what I'm
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: just trying to get out of your story, right And
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: of course, you know the aqua equity is that your
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: your story has told so many different ways by so
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: many different people who don't look like you but share
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the same path. You know, I can tell my innerguty path.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: But again, when you when you hit negativity, there's some
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: positivity to come out of it. Now. I wanted to
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: explain to people that, you know, we just was just
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: we didn't have the mentors, we didn't have the tools,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: we didn't have the environment. But wow, if we'd have
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: had that same opportunity that other people are being blessed with,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: guess who we could have been. You know, we could
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: have been we could have been Barack Obama. You know,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: we could have been the Reginald lewis Is of the world.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: You know, we could have been all these great people
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: and you are still great people made absolutely and so
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: that that's why it's important this interview. When I do
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: interviews with an individual, like it's your inspiration to me
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: because I know I know who I am, I know
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: what I am capable of doing. I know I'm capable
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: of doing because people stop me, Ryan, they stopped me
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to reach oud don't do that. They were mad at
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: me when I when I when I didn't follow the
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: path of greatness that they saw in me, which is
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: off the frustration frustrating because that path that they want
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: you to travel, it's kind of hard. It's kind of hard,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and it takes a little discipline. They're involved in that.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: And that's why I want to go back into the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: environment conversation, because the environment really is how you package
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: your water, because that's a path you gotta follow rules,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and a lot of times when you follow rules, it
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: can lead to frustration, especially when you're trying to build
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: your business model. And one of the second pillows in
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: there we're talking about education is environment, and then we're
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: gonna roll it up and talk about the community, how
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: you giving back. But I thought it was really important
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: to tell your story. Man not only the journey, but
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: what you're doing now and how to just structure thought
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: process you turn around not on your life but the
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: community of Watch. Let's talk about environment. Yeah, I mean
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: so the environment piece. I talked about it two ways,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you know. First with our packaging, UH, so you kind
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: of see the bottle behind me, aluminum bottle UM. We
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: especially in California, the single use plastic is a big issue,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and so we didn't want to contribute to a problem.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: We we wanted to help alleviate the problem. And there's
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: not a lot of bottle waters uh packaged in reusable aluminum,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: recyclable aluminum. So we went that way to kind of
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: start a trend and and be first movers in this category.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: But we felt it was really important to us that
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: our packaging being aligned with UH you know, where our
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: heart is is to take care of the community, the environment.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: So and then the other piece of the environment is
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: UM me showing up to the Watch environment, to other
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: community us in that environment, UM and telling my story
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: so that other kids or even adults that made mistake
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: realize that it's not over. It doesn't matter what happened yesterday.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Picked yourself up, be determined, to to to keep grinding,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: to keep working towards your goals. Um, and you'll get there.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: People will help will help you. UM. But a lot
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: of it is a mindset shift, and that's what we're
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: trying to spark, is uh, that mindset shift and open
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: up there kind of thought process. Uh. Two different opportunities
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: instead of the traditional current environmental opportunities that are a
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: cycle to prison or death right now, the last one
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: is community, you know, because we know it's really how
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: you've overcome a lot of things in life, dream dreams
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: sometimes because the pandemic could have been a dream killer
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: because you started this whole concept and march of a
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: and then in cried several corporate customers such as Wanta Media,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: k depermanented General Motors Corporation, and these are like these
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: are what we'd like to call Fortune five companies. Okay,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: every time that logo appears on the website that you have,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: it brings more credibility. But it's the bottom line is
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: the community made you, It raised you. Now you're giving
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: back to it. Talk to us. Yeah, I mean I
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: mean absolutely, And you know, I love Sanbordino, I love
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Watson and Oakland and Flint and these other black and
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: brown cities industries. I ain't even been there, and I
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: can say that because there's so many parallels. When I
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: was in federal prison, I got to be locked up
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: around brothers and you know, black and brown brothers all
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: over the country, and I realized that, you know, we
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: pretty much going through the same struggles. Um and ghettos
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: were designed right, So it's not a surprise now to
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: learn that there's some of the same struggles going on
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: in Watts that are in Oakland, that are in Cleveland,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: that are in Detroit, that are in Lanta. So anyways,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: UM community. I love the resilience of the people in
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: those communities, um uh, their mindset, you know, how they
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: find joy and happiness with you know, very very little
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: resources compared to you know, what they're aware of around them.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: So I love that residence and that that fighting at people.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: So I'm there with them to encourage them, to to
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: help them, and to to show them away. There's other
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: leaders in there I need to give a shout out to.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm the one here on this interview, but
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: people in the community that I've been there for ten
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: twenty thirty years, individuals like Donnie Joe Birt, Brandon, Seleen
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Bailey Sticks. Um, he just got the key to the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: city in l A. But they've been doing you know,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: major positive good works in the Watch community long before
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I got there and me connecting in the opequity, my
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: co founders, I got Brandon that speech, J T. Rogan,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Crystal Jackson. I couldn't do it without a team. So
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: us connecting with individuals like Donnie, Joe Bert and Brandisly
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Bailey Sticks that are already um in the community doing
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: their works, it made it possible for us to basically
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: be the fuel, you know, or the turbo to to
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: to their engine. So that's a big part of the
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: community is finding a team and people are like minded
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: with the synergy to work together to solve problems well.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: AQWA Equity says April twenty have donated with twenty thousand
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: follows and cases of water, two food drives, and various nonprofits.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: You're making the difference, Ryan Morrigan, I gotta see you soon, man,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and again I want to step up my part. I
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: want to be there speaking to the students because these
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: young people, these young adults, to let them know that
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: hey man, I'm not special. Uh. What I did was
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: I followed the rules of life, which means you have
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: to work hard, playing hard, and have a dream based
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: on the reality. And you live so many different dreams, sir,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: and and you've been so success for so many different
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: dreams that have come your way. I wish you continue
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: to sex success. And I will be seeing you because
• 35:06
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