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Malaysia Pargo, Beverly Bond, Janice Bryant Howroyd & Carl Francis · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: will be Act One Group founder and CEO Janice Bryant Howard,
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  Speaker 1: Black Girls Rock creator Beverly Bond, Basketball Wives of l
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  Speaker 1: a star and CEO of Vanity in the City for
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  Speaker 1: Lasia Pago, and the director of Communications for the National
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  Speaker 1: Football League Players Association, car Francis. Let's drop that music.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to get started, because she's on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: My first guest is a model, music DJ, businesswoman, mentor, producer, writer,
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  Speaker 1: founder and executive director of Black Girl's Rock. She's she's
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  Speaker 1: going to show the day to talk about her new book,
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  Speaker 1: Black Girls Rock, Owning Our Magic, Rocking Your Truth. Please
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  Speaker 1: working the money Making Conversations, Beverly Bond, thank you, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for having me. That's a lot, huh. Let's say
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  Speaker 1: about you that means you. I mean, you've done a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things, young lady. Yeah. Did I want to
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  Speaker 1: get this out first because I didn't know this because
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  Speaker 1: we met several times over the years, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, you know, because you're a model, so
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  Speaker 1: you have that you know, model look all the time.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of times you know what to say
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  Speaker 1: to a person who has that model look. You just go,
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  Speaker 1: you stay at up because they are model. And so
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  Speaker 1: this is this. Beverly Ball's passion for music and her
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  Speaker 1: uncanny ability to read the crowd has solidified her as
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  Speaker 1: one of the premier music DJ's in the world. The
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  Speaker 1: time I've met you, I'm just looking at the model
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  Speaker 1: who could spend it on the ones and dudes, we
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  Speaker 1: kind of talk about that because that was that's a
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  Speaker 1: conversation stought. You know, if you don't know what to
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  Speaker 1: say to people, you go, oh, you know what what
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  Speaker 1: kind of make up? People know? What kind of use were?
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  Speaker 1: What is your music that you're spinning at the party tonight?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not spinning tonight, but I did spend last night, um,
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  Speaker 1: not only my own fleets to night. I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've I still DJ and I think DJs, when you're
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  Speaker 1: really passionate about it, you never don't. You never stopped.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I have a few other things on my
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  Speaker 1: plate right now, So it's not you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: in the club, you know when you know the local
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  Speaker 1: parties anymore. But yeah, you know, I'm a teacher. Well
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  Speaker 1: you know the thing about it is that you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I could go back to my little history, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not in the world famous premier DJ, but I remember
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  Speaker 1: back in college I was a spinner. You know, I've
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  Speaker 1: been paid five I was at the door to hear
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  Speaker 1: your boy spin. But I always, I always feel that
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  Speaker 1: that's that's why I feel that that I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: bring that out first, because whenever you start something like
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  Speaker 1: Black Girl's Rock, you go, what did that start? Because
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  Speaker 1: it's an emotion, there's a vibe, it's an energy, it's
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  Speaker 1: a street, it's a street cause that you built to
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  Speaker 1: something that's amazingly effective today. You know you've created a mantra.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us I know it started in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and six, because I want to go back before we
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  Speaker 1: talk about when it was picked up on on B
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  Speaker 1: E T. Let's talk about those early days of UH
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  Speaker 1: and then we're gonna talk about the book, which I've
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  Speaker 1: read and I have. I have a daughter who was
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  Speaker 1: in college, and I also have I was raised with
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  Speaker 1: six sisters, so you know, believe me, I understand the
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  Speaker 1: lays of the ways of the lady from the stand up.
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  Speaker 1: I should treat them, respect the process, motivate them to success,
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  Speaker 1: and also be respectful to the process. That where a
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  Speaker 1: female lives their life is totally different from where a
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  Speaker 1: male lives his life, and it should but that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean they're don't have they shouldn't have equal opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: succeed equally. And that's what Black Girls Rock is all about. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I think that you know, yeah, I started UM like
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  Speaker 1: I was walking two dozen six and that when I
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  Speaker 1: was DJA, and I think being a DJ has a
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  Speaker 1: lot to do with me creating this platform. I think
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that UM I was aware of
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  Speaker 1: more than other people were the messages coming through media
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  Speaker 1: UM that were directed towards women and women of color,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was messages in the music, whether it was
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  Speaker 1: messages UM in the videos, and whether it was magazine
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  Speaker 1: that excluded us, movies that excluded our narrative or kept
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  Speaker 1: us in a very narrow space or stereotype us, objective
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  Speaker 1: it or to humanize us. I was paying so much
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  Speaker 1: more attention to these things than other people because of
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  Speaker 1: I think I would go on tuned in because it
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  Speaker 1: was my job to be tuned in, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: to messaging in music, and so I think it's being
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  Speaker 1: a DJ absolutely had something to do with this. Now
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  Speaker 1: when you say, it's really interesting that you're saying, like
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  Speaker 1: you know two thousand six, you know, you've used been records,
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  Speaker 1: You hear, you hear the the determinologies that's being directed
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  Speaker 1: to women and a lot of the music and not
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  Speaker 1: of it's all positive, always very sexual. So so what
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  Speaker 1: what what did you did? You were you selective in
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  Speaker 1: your music plan or or you just play what was
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  Speaker 1: hot and you just dealt with the issue off you know,
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  Speaker 1: in your non dug line. Yeah, I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: good question because that's where the it's almost you know,
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  Speaker 1: it could be considered hypocritical sometimes when you're playing and
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  Speaker 1: I think that you know, that is a question, but
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  Speaker 1: I think that you have the you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: that we can be Um what do you what do
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  Speaker 1: you say? Um? You know, I think that there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of songs that are unfortunately or there were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of songs that were unfortunately directed towards women
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  Speaker 1: in very negative ways, and some songs may be extremely inappropriate.
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  Speaker 1: Um you know is it was very difficult in navigating
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  Speaker 1: and a space where your job is to make it hot,
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  Speaker 1: play to play the hotness, and then also pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to what was being said. And so there were a
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  Speaker 1: few songs that I was just like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I can't do it, you know, but but at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, I can't say that I'm so squeaky clean
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  Speaker 1: DJ because you know, but the beauty of it, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, I'm not knowing for being that,
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  Speaker 1: but I did try to do something to make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: But different think about it. Beverley. And I'm on the
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  Speaker 1: phone with Beverley uh the creator, executive director of Black
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  Speaker 1: Girl's Rock, and she had a book out that I
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  Speaker 1: just got. The released February twenty seven last week. Um
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  Speaker 1: Simon Schuster is on the Amazon on bookstores right now,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a book about empowerment and and I feel that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we talked about you playing music and being
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  Speaker 1: being sometimes compromised by the by the by the lyrics
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  Speaker 1: and then some of the songs that you play. But
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  Speaker 1: that's that's not the that's not the point of interview.
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  Speaker 1: The point of the interviews that you have an amazing
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  Speaker 1: organization that it's about motivating uh, young girls and who
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  Speaker 1: leave you become wrong women who in turn are leading
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  Speaker 1: lives that they can be special too. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: this empowerment and it comes from the fact that your
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  Speaker 1: mom was an empowering female. Correct. Absolutely. I think that
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  Speaker 1: that's where you know, when I described in the book
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  Speaker 1: I talk about, you know, how I found my magic,
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  Speaker 1: I think that it was my mother's influence on me.
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  Speaker 1: But what I was trying to show in the book
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  Speaker 1: when I speak about my mom and how she was
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  Speaker 1: able to harness this culture, uh and the things that
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  Speaker 1: were around her to teach me the importance of my
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  Speaker 1: intrinsic values and also teach me be the great treasures
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  Speaker 1: that lies within our culture. I was trying to describe
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  Speaker 1: what I see black women do. It wasn't like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: people read it and they're like, oh my god, you
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  Speaker 1: COM's just so amazing, and I'm like, yeah, that's my mama,
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  Speaker 1: But that's a black mama. That music planning forty five,
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  Speaker 1: just really making something out of nothing, taking what she
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  Speaker 1: had and trying to create a space for me to
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  Speaker 1: exist and feel that I don't know, I'm not missing anything,
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  Speaker 1: and giving me tools function when she doesn't have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the ability to give me the financial security that other
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  Speaker 1: people have, or having a partner to raise me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: she relied on the village to raise me, to help
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  Speaker 1: to help raise me. And so I think that those
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  Speaker 1: are things that black women have always done. We've always
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  Speaker 1: found a way, and I through my mother's example, I
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  Speaker 1: was trying to show that this is black women's example.
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  Speaker 1: He was one of what black mothers do right. He was.
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  Speaker 1: One of the great quotes from your book that I
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  Speaker 1: noted was that you noticed that regardless regardless of the environment,
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  Speaker 1: the messages about black girls were the same. There was
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  Speaker 1: an unspoken social hierarchy that existed that place black girls
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  Speaker 1: firmly at the bottom. This social grading of black women
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  Speaker 1: and girls is just as prevalent today. That was powerful
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  Speaker 1: for me because then let me know that there is
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  Speaker 1: a mission behind Black Girl's Rock, absolutely, and that was
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  Speaker 1: the mission. Frinday one, It was just watching seeing um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the like I said, the marginalizing or even
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  Speaker 1: the dispitial of black women's narratives. What we're staying right now,
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  Speaker 1: and people, you know, we have very short term memory
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  Speaker 1: now because we don't because of social media, but we can,
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  Speaker 1: I can. We all know that in two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 1: this was not the same. In the mind, I have
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  Speaker 1: these lady ladies like Terry, you know, Carrie Washington said
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  Speaker 1: to me on camera and Tewel she said, Black l
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  Speaker 1: Lrock is absolutely the reason that I am now able
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  Speaker 1: to take this role as leading lady um on a
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  Speaker 1: on a major network television show, which hasn't been done
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  Speaker 1: in thirty something years, you know, And so you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the work was the most important part shifting of
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  Speaker 1: the narrative, and and part of that was shifting um
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  Speaker 1: our own held that thought. We're gonna be back on that.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna really break down the book Black Girls Rock.
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  Speaker 1: She's on the phone. Um, incredible, lady, Uh, it's incredible
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  Speaker 1: because she's changing lives every day. Her name is Beverly Bond.
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  Speaker 1: She created a foundation called Black Girl's Rock, which in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and ten was picked up by Bet. I
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  Speaker 1: want to call a good friend of my Connie Constance Orlando.
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  Speaker 1: I called it Constan Orlando, but a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: call it Connie Orlando. Um. One of the persons introduced
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  Speaker 1: since and just walkington to grow. And it's kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 1: As this brand has grown on the BT, the videos
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  Speaker 1: have decreased become non existent o BT. So I think
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  Speaker 1: it has a major influence on how young girls of
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  Speaker 1: color are becoming powerful leaders in today's society. And did
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  Speaker 1: Your grounds is for me, it's for people who I
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  Speaker 1: think that you know, it was it was very you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was like, first of all, we had a very
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  Speaker 1: successful award show that we were doing in New York
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  Speaker 1: It was a real movement. I had already been you know,
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  Speaker 1: was something. I knew that we would get it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: but certainly, you know when you're when you're partnering now
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  Speaker 1: I used to have a host committee and before I
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  Speaker 1: you know to my host committee. So he's already saw it, bro,
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  Speaker 1: and he knew that it would be powerful. So he
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  Speaker 1: really tried to honor as much of my vision, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and not compromise. But certainly the fight, you know, fighting
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  Speaker 1: for it is what you know. And I think that
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: now everyone at Beach, he's glad that I did stay
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: in my ground and fight for it to be what
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: it is because you see that it matters. You see
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: people even trying to emulate it. You see other uh,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: you know, other shows. Everybody's kind of like going into
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: space now, which is a beautiful thing because this was
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: the whole idea, This was the whole idea to shift
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the culture. And so um, you know, it has been
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: a journey. It has been a lot of lessons, and
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I think that is it's an important lesson about partnership
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: when you partner with a corporation, because you know, at first,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I was just you know, I'm so passionate. I'm like,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: y'all a change it that you Now, let's shift to
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: the book. Let's let's let's shift to the I feel it.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I feel it's the final stage because we talked about
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: the foundation, we talked about the award show. Now this
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: incredible book that you have, this entitled black Girl's Rock
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: exclamation mark, and that's important because you're making a statement
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: every time. That's that's a man truct to me for
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the twenty one century black female. And uh. And then
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I broke it down to nine chapters and each chapter,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, like there's a couple of chapters
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I really got into and I like the way you
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: kind of broke up because the chapter is about you
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: take you take a significant and I'm not saying all
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: of them because I'm sure there's a lot of people
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: you wanted to put in this book, and I'm sure
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: it's a struggle as to who goes in the book,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Who don't go in the book. Ye look, I'm sure
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: that was a struggle girl because I was like, I'm
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: reading this book going or she could have added her,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: she could have added her. Well, what happened was I
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: ran out of time and my publisher was like, no more,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: no more. I mean, you know there are people that
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: are like, I'm like, I've tried so hard to get
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: you in this book. But you know, it was just
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: it was it was a time thing. So it's you know,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: it just didn't work out and some people just weren't
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: available at the time. Um, you know, doing things like
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: that happened. And you know, you know I already know
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: this from an award chair. You can't get every talent
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: you know that you want. You just can't. You know,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: when when you write a book like this, you know,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell people I'm a male. I read it.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I was motivated, not because I because I think any
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: time you read any story that's inspiring, it provides you
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: with information that you can do it too. So let's
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: let's say, why do you read this book with Sean mcgah.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Why would I read this book? One is motivational, is informative,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: It gives you an example that you can be successful.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: To those top three right there, that's why you should
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: buy this book. Those three are long. That's why you
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: should buy this book because of the fact that it's
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: letting you know that these are these are ordinary people
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: in the sense that we all are born, you know,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: into this or into this world with the hope that
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: we can be successful. They are achieving successful and they're
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: sharing you with you. And this book values of why
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: you can be successful too, and it's broken down in
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the nine chapters. And the reason I like this book
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: is that it's a it's a very current book, which
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: means that you know, she interviews a lot of current stars,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: but she also brings history into it, and so she
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: doesn't lead lead back. She wants to remind you of
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the Harriet Tugman's, the Robertal Flax. You know, you know
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: these people are important because all of a sudden, you
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: just go Mordern and you go and you can forget
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: your history. And I think if you forget your history,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: then you don't understand your future or your path to success.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, it was, you know it was. And I
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: love my publisher because in this in this space, you know,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: with my creative vision. Um. You know, she just gave
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: me the campus and to do what you do, and
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: so there was never a pushback. And so when I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: wanted be her story, what you're preferring to her story
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: blurbs at the end to remind people of all these
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: other women may not with the circle, may not be. Um,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I think both of them are not with us. There
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: there are a couple of theres on here, but I
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: still wanted to put their legacy in. But I wanted
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to tell that, just remind people of that history. And so, um,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: it started off with that one. I don't know if
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you're when you're referring to the Harriet something in um section. Um,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: it's in the Lift Every Voice chapter and UM, I
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: call it, you know, the the RBGS, you know, revolutionary
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: but gangster because these women right right right it's the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: hip hop of men' you know. I add a lot
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: of it's a lot of music, which is also also
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: in Lifted Revards is my girl mc light mc lights
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: in there. And then and you have another legend that
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you'd like to point out, Pauline Murray, who co founded
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the National Organization of Women. Yeah, this is why this
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: is so cool. This is so incredible. I'm a point
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: out a couple of chapters because I really certain people
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: who staid, I like, I love the Black Girl Magic.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: When you talked about Serena Williams and her explosion as
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: a tennis player. But then you go to ball Us Up,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Venus Williams is there and she's talking about her role
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: as an entrepreneur, isn't I'm glad that you caught that.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: That's so dope. You know, No, no, I would. I'm
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: telling you I was. I was sitting up in reading
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: this book and then and then you know, and then
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, I feel good when you know
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: I've lived a life where I've reading people that you're
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: honoring and I go, I know that person, that person
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: know me, like in the most more, more Black, more
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Beautiful with Susan Taylor come on that seven years at essence.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, and Susan was one of her She was
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: in our second year honor ay and then we honor
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: her again on TV. But she was one of the
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: very very beginning early supporters of Black Girl's rock. And
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: then again you like you said, still I rise. You
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: have Mary J. Bligh and now the most powerful person
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: in this book to me was this young lady and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: still I rise, and I hope I say her name
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: like aban Germer. Yeah, herst Hobbing the first death blind
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: graduate of Harvard Law School, and she in her story
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and April homes story are similar in the way that
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: they talk about perseverance and how they were able to
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: look at examples of things that they saw, like you know,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: which it was having seeing her parents having to walk
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: across the desert and you know, in their war torn
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: countries and meeting here in America, so she doesn't look
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: at her death blindness as something that's worse than what
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: they had to go through. And in April Homes when
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: she talks about you know, I just think hers was
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: so powerful as well when she talks about losing her
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: leg as an athlete, you know, in an Amtrak accident,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: and how she was able use that as a metaphor
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: um from looking at the experiences of black women and
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: in figuring out how to get that train off of
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: her so she can keep You heard that quote, did
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: you get her leg? Did you get her leg? Her leg?
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: That's that's and she and she is a champion a
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: parent athlete in the Olympics, Paralympics Para. I don't know
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: at the time she was Rushan McDonald. Let me just
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: tell you right now. Yeah, And I want to throw
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: out a couple of more shot caller Mara Brocker kill.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: If you're not having watched The Black Lightning, she's executive
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: us in this show, being Mary Jane the game, Um
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: girlfriends and then my favorite person, uh Young Gifford and
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Black gim Janelle Morne Beverly. Um. As you can see,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I love this book. I love what you're doing. Uh.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: You gotta give me two tickets to Black Girls Rock
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: this year. I'm bringing my silter, my daughter to it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: She needs to be experienced this and know that I'm
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a fan. I'm gonna keep promoting your brain. Okay, we'll
• 24:53
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  Speaker 1: an American television personality. She's known to the world with
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  Speaker 1: her parents and a very popular VH one TV show,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Basketball Wives of Los Angeles. She has an unrivaled sense
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: of fashion and social influencer and a philanthropist to those
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  Speaker 1: in need, entrepreneur, and her proudest role is that of
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a loving mother of three. Please walk on the Money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversation Malaysia. Poco Hi Hi, I like that high
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  Speaker 1: never get this. I'll ring your bio. Now where are
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: you based? Now? Where are you based? Now? Oh? My gosh,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I am by Hosto. So I am half of the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: week in Atlanta, Georgia, and half the week in l A.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Okay cool. So because your your bio says you're moving
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to Atlanta. Oh you just don't stay by coaster. Yeah,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I already moved to Atlanta. Yeah. So my home bases
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, but I work out of l A. Okay. Cool.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get that out the way because now you're
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: my body now you because I'm in Atlanta and I
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: also live in Houston, but I also hang out. I
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: like and I'm happy to have you on the show
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: because of the fact that you know, on this show
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: it's about entrepreneurship and also about entertainment, and you fit
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: both bills. But more importantly, you're motivating person because of
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: the fact that you're a single mom and I wanted
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and a lot of people, a lot of people don't
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: understand the difficulties of being a single mam. But also
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: you have a career, and how do you balance the two?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: How do you and I could write the book about
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: balanced lifestyle. How do you balance your life? Three three boys? Correct?
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I know? No, No, I have two boys and a girl.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I was, yeah, I was blessedically eleven year olds done,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and then I have seven year old twins with girls
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: that awesome graduations. How do you balance that? You already
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: said you in l A. You're in Atlanta, So how
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: do you balance that? You know what I look at
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: it as like how Nike that you just do it?
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: And I like, both situations are nonnegotiable. So what I
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: say is like, I like, I am a parent curse right,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: you know, I am a mom, you know, above all things,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: because God lends me these precious full soals and I
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: haven't you know, raised them up right, and then you know,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: but I also have to make money for them, and
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: you know, and and still live out my dream. So
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: you know, I just try to put a balance on
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the both of them. So that's why I'm in a
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: you know, Atlanta three or four days out of the weekend,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and I go and back to l A to film
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: and and do other things that I need to do,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: you know, And you're doing a lot of fantastic things
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and on the entrepreneur shop entrepreneurship side before we get
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: into that. When I'm reading your bio, you a graduate
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: of with a Bachelor of science. When you see a
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: like correct, okay, that that doesn't get out there in
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: general public. You know what I'm saying. You know, they
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: just to use. So that's so. And you began your
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: career you wanted to be a dentist. I did. I did? I.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I really I was interested in um in the dental field.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: But then I really realized that, like I'm just I'm
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a creative type and so like I you know, I
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: really sve the the art of you know, the human
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: body and the anatomy and things of that nature. I
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: just kind of was like, I'm so creative, like you know,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I like I love the duty empire, you know. And
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I guess that is like one of the sassiness of like,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: you know, your teeth. It's the first thing people see
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and assassinated at at a young gig Like okay, so wait,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: he said, lord Lingle, Okay, so what does that mean?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Like and so I knew from the time I got
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: braces when I was a child that this is where
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I wanted to do. I admired Um, I admired my
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: dentist and you know, and I would tell my mom
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: all the time, like I want to be the first
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: supermodel ventist. And she was like, okay, well your mom,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: look at you. Look at what's your saying, supermom? Were
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: you gad you got the degree? Okay? So he was
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: headed that way. Yeah I got there. And then I
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, okay, lady, I'm sorry for the money
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: that you put into this situation. Out piece, out piece out.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: You know. It's really cool because when when you're looking
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: at a person's lifestyle, you know, and television you can
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: only in media sometimes only shows one side. And it's
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: important for me to try to tell your entire story
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: because I think it's rather fascinating because that's why it
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: tells people because you're from Compton, California, and Compton, California
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: always just this incredible reputation. Don't go down, don't go down,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you know. And I I love Compton, I really do.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I feel like we were striving in so many different directions.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: We have a young African American, um, you know, mayor,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: and I mean she is amazing, and um, I just
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: think that like it's just so much hope for you know,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: pretty young kids to see that there's so many different
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: directions you can go in too, and it does not
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: have to just be like television. It could be you know, anything,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: just to be up hiller in your community. So like,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's why I'm always cringing to that the
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Mountain Top that I'm from Compton, because I wanted, yeah,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I wanted them to say like, yeah, you can do
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: it too, because a lot of people have in their
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: mind that you know, you can't do anything because you're
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: from the inner city. We know. I had Morchelle Wilet
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: from ESPN on the show and he was he was
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: he was screaming the same words of excitement about his city, Compton,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: how he gives back and all that good stuff. So
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: it's really awesome to who you talk about Anderson. We
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: have Anthony Anderson from Compton and I didn't even know that,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: and so I met him. He was like, yeah, girl
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: from Times and I went to Lazy, you know, So
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: it was like it was it's super dope because you know,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: we are are very proud of our little city. Yeah,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I believe me, I'm from here. I'm from there, or
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: in the sense that I lived there fifteen years. And
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: when I was doing the radio show Steve Harvey Show,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: we used to broadcast live from Compton. So I'm very
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: aware of the of the branding of what Compton has
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: has received in rap music and and and and also
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: and I also know that the great opportunities of entrepreneurship
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: they're great food, great people and um and it needs
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: to be promoted constantly and to hear people like you
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: who have media media access to come out and say Compton,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: that's my hood. Yeah, all day long. I mean I
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I brought the TV show there's a real time, you know,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: just with me giving back to the community with White
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: and he did. He has those organizations where he gives back,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: you know, especially all the time. So I heared out
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: with him and you know, and brought it on the show.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: And so it was this, It was really nice. The
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: mirror came through and you know, it was really really dope.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: It was you know, really amazing cool. Now we got
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: that she's from Compton. Got that out. She's a graduate
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: of Bachelor size from u c l A. Got that out.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: She wanted to be a dentist. And now she told
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: her mom she's gonna be a dental supermodel. So sold
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: you on this show. Let's let's go to let's go
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: to this show TV show Basketball Wives. Okay, it's a
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: reality show. You know when it when it when when
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: it came on, you know, there was a lot of activity.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: How did you get on the show? And did did
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: you think you would stay on the show as long
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: as you stayed on the show. Okay. So I was
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: approached by one of my girlfriends. She wanted to be
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: on the show. But she was like, I need a friend,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: you know, the other lady. You know, I don't really
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: know them and I don't really have much in common
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: with them, so when you do it? And I was
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: she needs to back up, she needs to back up.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: She was like, no, I'm here, Like we can you know,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: we relate to each other. We were really different at
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: that point. Yeah, so Brandy MacDill and so, uh, you know,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I was like at first, I said no, and I'm like, girl,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm shy, like I don't really see I
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: only come to life with my friends, you know. So
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: she was like, no, just please to do it with me.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: And I asked my husband at that time, my ex
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: husband now um and he was like, go ahead, fine,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. You know, I'll support to you.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: And so that's how you know, we met with Shawny
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and she was like, yeah, come on, let's you know
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to do it l A. So yeah, I'm
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: trying to do an l A show. Let's go pitch
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: this to the network. And they loved the idea. So
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: that's how that happened. Now was once my first season.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: If you to ask me if I would be here
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: seven years later, I probably would have told you no.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: It was definitely. I was like no, no, no no, no no,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: no, no no, no, no no, because like I was like, listen,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I am like sheep with a tackle woods. It is
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: not happening. I had to ask God several times, like
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: why did you place me here? I don't understand, but
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: to behave was driving you crazy? Hu Oh my goodness. Yeah,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: it was just driving me. I just didn't realizing what value?
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: What value? Did you seeing it? Though? You know, because
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: you know, because it's a balance there, you know, because
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: you're seeing you y'all don't need you for your friend
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: talk to you and to doing on the show. You're
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: doing the show. You know, it's bringing exposure I freaget.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Did I forget to tell you that my friend that
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: casked me to you know, to getting on the show
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: ended up getting pregnant and didn't start with me by myself,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: so you had no backup. You on the show by yourself,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: going what the heck if I got myself into and
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: then and Shanny was supposed to get on the show
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: is low and didn't show it either, So I was like,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: way to what a way to minute? So you know
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: the value that I've seen in the show is After
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: a while, once they started understanding who I was, um
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: not the pasmates, but I felt like production in the
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: network and I them allowing me to be myself, I
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: started I started to see, you know, the value in
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: the show because I felt like, Okay, God obviously brought
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: me here to for a reason. So when I you know,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: just me praying and fasten and acting, God like, why DoD,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: why do you have me in this situation? Why do
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: you want me here? You placed me here for a reason.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: A use me? Lord? And he was basically like, I
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: just need you to be a positive role model to
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: our young girls. I need you to I need you
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: to show them that you could do it. You can
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: be from you know, from the hood, you can you
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: can you know, also have some of those good values.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: But you can also be about your business. You can
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: have passion because I feel like a lot of the times,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: like being that the world is so crazy these days
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: that we don't have compassion anymore because we're afraid to care,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: you know, we're afraid of getting her. So just me
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: showing my vulnerability a whole lot, only because I am
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: so compassion and I care for people so much, and
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I'm a seeker. I'm a healer by nature, so I
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: just you know, I wanted to heal and help everyone
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: and sometimes to get me in trouble. But for the
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: most part, like a lot of people that understand like
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: life and that are you know, compassionate as they see that,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: you know, I am really coming from a great place
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: on the show. So that's why I am here, because
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: I'm like, not only am I doing that, UM, just
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: showing you know, message, an empowerment message. Yeah, just deligrant, Yeah,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: just deliver him empowering empowerment message. But I also get
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: to live out my dreams that make me not afraid
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: to just start projects that I wanted to do. Um,
• 37:57
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• 38:01
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• 38:04
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• 38:08
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• 38:12
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• 38:14
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• 38:17
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• 38:19
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• 38:23
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• 38:26
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• 38:30
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• 38:32
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• 38:35
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• 38:39
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• 40:43
  Speaker 1: on the phone as Malaysia pargo Uh, one of the
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: stars of vige One's Basketball Wives. She's employing her entrepreneurial
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: business skills and industry and entering the business industry and
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: launching Vanity in the City. Now you see, Roshan, what
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: is Vanity in this city. It's a lush line of
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: meek eyelashes and apparel. And she's on the phone to
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: tell us about one of her business. So we got
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: a lot to talk about this break. Tell us about Malaysia,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: tell us about Vanity in the City. Well, Vanity in
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: the City, um is just I told you I wanted
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: to be a supermado obviously, you know everything about fashion
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: and beauty and Vanity in this City is a luxury
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  Speaker 1: lash meek lash line and it starts there and then
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: it also have apparel that's coming um soon and so yeah,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: and so it's basically lashes that you can wear from
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: anywhere to twenty to thirty days if you keep them clean.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: You take them off obviously and you where um wash them,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: clean them up or whatever. But yeah, they are long
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: lasting lashes for you know, for their everyday woman. Now,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: one of your model is embrace your beauty without judgment.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: That's pretty powerful because you can for you to have
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: a month like that that we're just what're just the what'
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: just the background behind that model. Embrace your beauty without
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: judgment because I feel like a lot of women, you know,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: don't want to seem vain, um because people kind of
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: frown upon being vain and like caring about yourself. And
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that I want you to love yourself
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: whatever that you know, you can love yourself to death,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: you can love yourself too much. Just love yourself and
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of I feel like just loving yourself comes
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: with a lot of stuff. Um, when it comes down
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: to business, when it comes down to caring for people,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: when it comes down to caring for your children's UM.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: When you don't like yourself or love yourself, you're lacking
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: those in those areas and you won't be an entrepreneur
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: because you don't think that you're capable of it. So
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: when I say embrace your beauty without judgment, I want
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: you to look at I mean when you feel when
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: when you scare that you still your back and up cool. Now,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: one of the things that I've noticed throughout everything I
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: looked though you are. You are are a giving back person.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: You're a person that you serviced the community, your philanthropists.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Now that to me, you know it is important I
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: personally do that all the time. I gave a speech
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: this weekend at the Natural Organization of Women in Houston
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: and UM and it was about giving back and about
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: motivating people to be successful. Why is it important to you?
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: It's important to me because, like I said, and I
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: am a child of guy, and so he gives me
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: so much and he gives it to me because he
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: knows that I will get back and and I just like,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, so much is given to
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: me and I just want to I want to share,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: and I like and I want someone else to do
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: it in return. I feel like the more that we
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: hope each other as a community to grow, the better
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: off we will be. And you're growing so so now,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: just starting to explain the seven years on basketball wife,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: because that that being on there has allowed you to
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: do these get back campaigns and be able to enforce
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: women embrace your beauty without judgment mantras that you're creating
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: out there and also and diving into that entrepreneur because
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: you're not afraid to pitch an idea by the business model,
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: or to engage your brand with a business model, are
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: you No, I am not. I'm not afraid to. I'm
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: not afraid to sell. I'm not afraid to, you know,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: get out there and at least like and try it.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: You know, everything don't stick and you have to you
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: have to realize that. And a lot of people think
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: that because you open up a business that the first
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: year you're gonna be rich. You're not. Tell that one
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: more time, Tell that one Moila, not letting that go by.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people feel like if you
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: create a business, you're going to be rich. The first dear,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: You're not. You know, it's take time to take time
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: for people to recognize your brand, and take time for
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: you know, you to figure out the kings in the business,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: to figure out what work but don't work. You know,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: it's it's growing pains and learning, you know, learning your business,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: learning your craft, how to make it better. There's different
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: components to go with it, marketing, you know, getting the
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: right product, finding the right vendors, building the right team.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of things that go into it.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: And I just feel like it's it's growing things, almost
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: like raising a child. For those that have children. UM,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: you know, just you know, are just are you know,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: finding the right space to live in. Um I was
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: just even just playing yourself. So I just feel like, um,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: you know, just not being afraid. So just step out
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: of there, step out there and um and figure out
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: what works for you and and not giving up on
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: your baby figures. And I always call my business is
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: my baby, and I don't yeah, and I put it,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I put it in that frame of mind, so I
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: won't give up on them because I look at my
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: three children, and I will never give us on them.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, I will fix I will try to fix
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: the world when it comes down to, you know, those
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: three beautiful children I like, I will lay down on
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: the line for them. And so I look at my
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: businesses like my babies. Like I, I don't give up
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: on them. Sometimes I might have to, you know, step
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: back a little bit and see where they go. Or
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: sometimes I might have to, you know, put a nap
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: to it and then go do something else and come
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: back to it when it's time. But I will never
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, just raise my hand and and
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: they forget it, never agree. I believe that, and that's
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: the way I do my life too, and I think
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: that that's important to for my listeners to here those
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: mantras that you have in place, a consistency and don't
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: give up and then follow your dream with a plan.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: And that's what you're doing every day. Now. You have
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: another business that you created for affordable bidding line bedlining
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: called bedroom Glad. How did that come about? Karroom Glenn
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: came around about because because I am a basketball wife,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: I have lived all over the world and um, you know,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: and it's basically like I will have to pack up
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: and the matter's notice and then go set up shops
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: somewhere else. But you know, and I wanted my husband
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: and my kids to feel as comfortable as possible. So
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: I would like, you know, kill myself one trying to
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: make the house look like our normal house, you know,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: so that he would be comfortable, so that he can work,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: because he was a provider, and I wanted to make
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: sure that all, yeah, I did do was down to
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: the ball. And so finding comforter was like the heartest always.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: And when we moved to l A, I went months
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: without having like, you know, suitable comforters on my bed
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: because I was like, you know, I don't want just white,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: you know, I want this. This is what I want.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: So I ended up having a conversation with um, with
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: my really great friend, and she was like, well, why
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: don't you just start because I need them, You're like,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: and I was like what She's like, Yeah, I was
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: like okay, Well and I did, and I really I
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: had a great time doing it. And I mean I
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: have them all throughout my house and and and like
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of my friends, you know, have them on
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: their visit and it just rethinks out like you've got
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: a girl. So you know, I love it. You know,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I didn't know. What I love about you with Malaysia
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: is that there is such an honest sincerity about you
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: when you're talking about what's happening in your life personally
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: and what you're giving back. There's there's no expectation that
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: you're supposed to get something back because you're giving something out.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: And I think that's why you're successful and you're gonna
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: always be successful because that's a value that a lot
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: of people don't understand. You have to give to get. Yes. Yes,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: is that I feel like the atmosphere is that give
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: and take situations. What you put out is what you'll
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: get back. And when you put out negativity and that's
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: what that's is gonna be around you. You put out
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: positive and love, you're gonna get positive and love back,
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: and you're you just won't. You won't access anything. Let's
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: but positivity and love. That's what you're putting out. Yeah,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: I want, I want to I want to make sure
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I get this all because you have a tragedy, a tragedy,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: a personal tragedy in your life with your brother who died. Uh.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: You know several years ago at the hands of the police.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: How are you still coping with that today? And uh
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: are any personal causes that you that you involved with
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: to try to just keep you your spiritual because he's
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: never gonna come back. And but you always think about it, well,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I always, you know, I always think about it. And
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: sometimes I look at my son and you know, and
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: I just see how close they are, and you know,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, that's that was me and my brothers.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: You know, my I was there. You know, they're taken
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: law pretty much, and it really, really, it really hurts
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: me sometimes. But I I started to think, I'm gonna
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: use I'm gonna use a different method instead of reading
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: my brother, I'm going to celebrate his life. And and
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: so whenever I started thinking where I'm getting sad or whatever,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: I just started thinking about how he used to make
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: me laugh and how unique he was. He was a
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: little kid that was skateboard all the time, and you know,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: and he always had a smell on his face. So
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: you know, I started thinking of that, you know, so
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: I support him in that way. Now. My mom, on
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: the other hand, is not having a really good time
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: with you know, with dealing with it, and rightfully so,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: because I probably would be losing my you know too.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: But yeah, So these the last cash years two years,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: I've been working with my mom on you know, hilling
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: her up and you know and making her feel comfortable
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: and you know, allowing you know, her to be more
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: um more active in my children's life. So my mom
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: is my project at this point. And and I now
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: that I see growth in her, she's happy. Now you're awesome, girl.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on the show. Uh can you
• 51:18
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  Speaker 1: Is a very good friend of mine called Francis. How
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  Speaker 1: you doing good to hear from you man, family a
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  Speaker 1: few days something. Man, I can't do no but smile
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  Speaker 1: thinking about them days. Man and uh man, you you
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  Speaker 1: you were fun to work with. Bro I tell you
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: was a great time. Well, you know, the beauty of
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  Speaker 1: that relationship was that. And that's why, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: really because I want to really breakdown what you do.
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  Speaker 1: But it's about imagery, and it's about the players and
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  Speaker 1: how they are, how they portrayed in the media also
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: social media also how they portrayed themselves. And that was
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  Speaker 1: one of the reasons why we got together with Family
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  Speaker 1: Few was just a short lighter side of friendly side
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  Speaker 1: of the players with Steve Harvey on a very popular
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  Speaker 1: show called Family Few. And they fantastic. Man. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we had a great time and you know, one of
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  Speaker 1: the uh misconceptions about players is, you know, people really
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  Speaker 1: don't know the personalities of players because the game is
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  Speaker 1: such a a physical game. But also number one, they
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  Speaker 1: got pads, uniforms, a bunch of things. And I remember,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of the things we tried to do
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  Speaker 1: was show those guys, like you said, in a different light.
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  Speaker 1: And and I remember after the show, you pulling those
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  Speaker 1: guys to the side and talking to him about the
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  Speaker 1: importance of branding and imagery and wearing a suit and
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  Speaker 1: it's being okay to to to to express who you
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  Speaker 1: are as a person and man. And they sure did.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: They had a great time, and all the guys came
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  Speaker 1: dressed to impress, and I know they were dressed to impress.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Mandaniel Brown, you know he was on Tonio Brown. You
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: know Tonio Brown and uh you know my man who
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  Speaker 1: went from Arizona, Jacksonville, all of the fun guys man,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: And I think that's is what it's so important about.
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  Speaker 1: Antonio Gates was on that show, Matt four Tables on
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: that show. There's a great group of guys, uh where
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: who retired with from Dallas on My Time the Markets
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  Speaker 1: Where And now it's on NFL Network and when when
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  Speaker 1: I when I walked away from that show, I was
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  Speaker 1: just so First of all, you know, the brand of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL is the most powerful on TV. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: that out the way first. It's the most powerful and
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: also the most criticized because when you're the best, people
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: gonna point your point a finger at you all the time.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Before I get into your position, I want to talk
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: about your life, you know, from the stand. Here's some
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: information about Carl Francis. Twenty four years for experience in
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: marketing sales. Just how you get to be the director
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  Speaker 1: of Communications for the NFL. Twenty four years of experience
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  Speaker 1: in marketing sales, branding, website development, digital social media growth,
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  Speaker 1: video production, communications, public relations. This is very important. Crisis communication. Yes,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: it is the community outreach, an event marketing. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: that's a resume, ma Man, Yes, sir, yes, sir. And
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: I know that when you're in that position, you really
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  Speaker 1: do have to hav an awareness. You might not be
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  Speaker 1: an expert, but you have to have a strong awareness
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  Speaker 1: or what's going on in all these different departments because
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  Speaker 1: everybody has an opinion. Oh absolutely, And you know I
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  Speaker 1: take pride in what I do because I really care
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  Speaker 1: about our two thousand members and future members that are
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  Speaker 1: coming up. And one of the things that's important to
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  Speaker 1: my job is is to protect the image of the
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: NFL pre externally and internally, but more important, our players.
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  Speaker 1: They are a union. They represent our union. So when
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: they're out there and they're going through their transition of
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: figuring out their space of like you mentioned earlier, branding um,
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: their perception, their role, you know, I have to, you know,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: make sure I keep my finger on the pulse of
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: making sure that they understand importance of it, because we're
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  Speaker 1: only as good as our players are while they're in
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: the league. And then once they finish. See the most
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  Speaker 1: important thing you don't You don't judge a player while
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  Speaker 1: he's in the league. I think you really judge a
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: player how good he is once he leaves the league.
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  Speaker 1: Ten years after he finished the league. That's when you
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  Speaker 1: really figure out whether this guy really guided it or not.
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  Speaker 1: Because the athletic part, that's that's temper cent of the game,
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  Speaker 1: not a not a percent of the game. Is what
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  Speaker 1: type of man? Uh did he become? Did he take
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  Speaker 1: advantage of academic programs, resources initiatives in the in the
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL and what did he become after the
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: league and and those who are struggling, you know, we
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: still reach back. But that's how you really judge a player.
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  Speaker 1: You don't judge a player on how many touchdowns, how
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  Speaker 1: many catches. You you depend with what type of husband
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  Speaker 1: did he become, What type of man did he become,
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  Speaker 1: Did he work in this community, did he build a
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  Speaker 1: foundation for him and his family beyond football? And that's
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: how that's what we try to focus on, helping every
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: player to come through our league get to that point.
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  Speaker 1: It's a struggle because we're fighting a lot outside. Uh
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: sometimes challenges and distractions, but that's our main goal and
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: uh hopefully you know we're we're we're working hard to
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  Speaker 1: get there, one day at a time. Now, with that
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  Speaker 1: being said, you give us a little bit of what
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: the Players Association does, give us a full umbrella or
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: what the role of the players used as a union.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Uh what else is it doesn't the current players and
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: the retired players what role does it play in their lives? Well?
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Players a major role as a current player where the
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: exclusive collective bargaining agent for active players, meaning anything dealing
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  Speaker 1: with the players legal rights on the field, and as
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: an NFL player, we represent so it's important for us
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: to be connected to players when it comes to their contract. UH.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: They're there working conditions and they're welfare. So when you
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: see players have contract disputes, or there's the NIE and
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: TIS built around the healthcare players, whether we feel as
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: though our team went through the proper UH protocol channels
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: on the sideline with a guy gets a concussion, Russell
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Wilson was an issue, yet Russell Wilson was an issue,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: or whether the field people don't understand you know, there's
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of things that play a part of a
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: player's condition. That's that's the actual feel. Everyone don't maintain
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: the level of quality for the field of play, surfaces,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: making sure that they're kept up, making sure that their drain,
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: making sure that their proper standards for safety, to make
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: sure that the field the guys are playing on a
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  Speaker 1: safe I mean, these are all elements of our game
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  Speaker 1: that most people overlook because they want to see the
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: shiny helmets in it and any funny looking cliques and
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: then all those things and see the touchdowns. But we're
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: talking about the total and now the celebrations d right
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: in celebration making sure the guys have a little fun
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: once they enjoy themselves, you know, because it is hard
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: getting that in his own We we know it's it's
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: not easy. You know, it's almost like getting two points
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: in basketball, they're not just letting letting you go to
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: go to the lane. Need you're really working. And football too,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: they're not just letting you score. So we understand when
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: you score. And plus, you know, it's a marketing disadvantage
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: because players, you know, they have a brand. They want
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: to express themselves and they want to show that they're
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: real people. And sometimes it's hard to get that connection
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: with the fans because you have the helmet on all
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: the time. So you know, those type of things we
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: try to protect and make sure that players receiving and
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: for the former players who have a program called the Trust.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: It's a program that's dedicated to anybody that played in
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: the league two or more years where uh they get
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: a full body scan head to toe, UH, you go
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: through exers. Uh it's called Exos program where they send
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: you off to a site and one of four facilities
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: across the country and you can go through a week
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: long process of working out, teaching how to eat teaching
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: how to take care of yourself, to actually pay for
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: you to go back to school, up to dollars reimbursement
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: per year going back to school to get your education school.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's it's so many things that
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  Speaker 1: we do. But the problem is, you know, any a
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  Speaker 1: lot of our players, man, they go through so much
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: and there's so much pride that a lot of them
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: still trying to figure out who they are, what they
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: want to become because so much of who they are
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: was on that fields, on that field, and we and
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: we try to tell them that what's on that field
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: really wasn't you. This is what you did because you
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: were blessed with those abilities. But who you are is
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: an individual that's smart, intelligent, your thinker, Uh you you
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: you you, you gotta have a lot of skill sets
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: that you may not even touched on that that we
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: try to pull out of you so you can you
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: can have a productive life the next you know, thirty
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: or forty years of your life. So that's our focus.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: Before we're in this break, I gotta bring up this
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  Speaker 1: young man, Lindbacker University of Central Florida, Dallas, and they've
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  Speaker 1: been dazzling Twitter been dazzled, dazzling everybody in this sports world.
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  Speaker 1: To Quim Queen Griffin four point three eight in the
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  Speaker 1: forty reps pounds, A person like that is who you
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: grab onto. That's right, that's right, quality kid. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I have not honestly had to change to meet meet
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: the young man. But his story is what inspires. His
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: story is what our game is all about. And these
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: stories are are those that that inspire others to believe
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: that you can. And that's and that's how our league
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: is made up. But our league is made up of
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: a a lot of young men who have overcame a
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  Speaker 1: lot of tragedy, a lot of disappointment in their life
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  Speaker 1: and have become quality young men. And and and this
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  Speaker 1: young man I see falling no short of that and
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: based on a disability, but it doesn't have anything to
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  Speaker 1: do with his character as hardness desire. And that should
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: be a message to all young men. Uh and and
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: anyway women women for that part, in terms of you
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: can overcome any setback in your life if your mind
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: and your heart are connected in your desire. And I
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: think that young man will have a fantastic We're gonna
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: We're gonna wrap up this conversation. Our next break, we're
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: gonna talk about these the protests. Who'll talk about the concussions.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about a lot of great things that happened
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: in the NFL with Carl Francis. We'll be right back
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  Speaker 1: Call You're still there? Okay? Call crisis management. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it was. Part of your resume crisis communication planning the
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  Speaker 1: last two years that you've been dealing with it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the voice of the players trying to get their message out?
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell my listeners exactly what is the message
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  Speaker 1: that that that the players are trying to get out
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: about the national anthem protests? Can you tell us that basically, Well,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: let me say this for starters, I think Colin Kaepernick,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: his his protests was something that he felt sincere and
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  Speaker 1: he had a lot of passion about and so, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you commend him for his personal conviction on
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: what he believed in. UM, but as it relates to
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: a number of players just feeling the same sort of uh,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: having the same sort of mindset towards you know, how
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: our society has changed a little and to bring some
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: to bring some recognition, to bring some I'm more awareness
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: issues going to not recognition, but awareness, uh to these issues,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: to bring some light and really to open up a discussion.
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  Speaker 1: I think discussion has been important, like Malcolm Jenkins towards
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: that that whole team coming together and sitting down with
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: us the National Football League, to say, hey, look, how
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  Speaker 1: can we all uh brain conversation and more like to
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  Speaker 1: these negative issues in our communities because we are products,
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  Speaker 1: are members are products of many of those communities where
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of negativity has taken place in and we
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: want to help, We want to help change. And I
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: think that's been the calling card for a lot of
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: our members. And and you know the good thing about
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: this process is that I think it has really woke
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: up a lot of people in terms of understanding that
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: our players are humans. Okay, they are part of these communities.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: They are prod of society. Okay, they pay their their taxes,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: they pick up their children from school, they go to
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: the same grocery stores. So they're no different than the
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: average person that's walking other than their job. But you
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: can't exclude them from the conversation of having an opinion
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: on their community. That's the right, um. And they feel
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: like that their mothers still live in those communities, their
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: family members, their cousins there, there there people that's connected
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: to their lives are still a part of these communities
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: and they and they feel as though I'm a part
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: of it. Two. So I have just as much of
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: an opinion as anybody else. And I think, uh, Malcolm
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: jenkin Is and his team, the players Coalition and those
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: group of players really stood up and did a great
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: thing by really bringing all the groups together and having
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: a strong conversation. And I think Colin Kaepernick bringing light
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: to it to open it up for discussion. Uh, brought
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: a lot of conversation and good, healthy conversation towards these issues.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: And uh it looks like everybody is listening right now,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: which is awesome. And I and I commended because it's
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: a very emotional battle because as a fan, all you
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: wanna do is watch football. All you want to do
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: is you know, cheer, and you hear the word team
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: and it kind of throws you off mentally as to
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: because now you have to think about other than football.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: And that's why I think where the frustration she comes
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: with a fan is that you know, football is, in
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: this case escape escapism for us. You know we watch it.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: You know we can you can take me away for
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: six hours on a Sunday. I'm all in, dude, I'm
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: all in and so so I think that is the
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: issue that fans are having another talking about a lot
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: of fans. There's a few fans out there, but I
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: think in the overall, as a fan of Rushan McDonald,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: I'm a fan for life. I'm a fan who believes
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: I'm African American fan who also understands what they're trying
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: to do. Uh. Sometimes it's confusing because each one has
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: a different way of showing their role of protests. I
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: think that that kind of damages the format of bringing
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: awareness because one person is doing this way, one person
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: is doing this way. But I know that it's something
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: that is needed. When you have the most popular viewed
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: of formatal television, why not use it? And I commend
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: them for doing that. I want to move over to
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: the concussions. That has been a dominant point. That's another
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: level of crisis management that you have to deal with.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: Tell us the issues that that still brewing with concussions
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: in the NFL and how you guys are dealing with it.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: You know, football is very physical sports, um, and it's
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: a very fast pace with played by a lot of strong,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: fast human beings, and things happen. The only positive I
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: can say is that they have equipment on them versus
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: anything with soccer where guys are bumping into each other
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  Speaker 1: or using the head and hit the ball, or any
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  Speaker 1: other sport guys falling on the hardwood and basketball and
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  Speaker 1: running in the elbows pick you know. But in in football,
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  Speaker 1: we have a protocol. A few years ago we sat
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  Speaker 1: down with the National Football League and set up a
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  Speaker 1: set of rules and regulations in terms of how to
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  Speaker 1: manage a potential concussion whereby a player has to come
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  Speaker 1: out of the game, going to the blue tenants you
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  Speaker 1: guys have seen on the sideline and go through go
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  Speaker 1: through a series of tests in order to determine what
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  Speaker 1: level of concussion there is and if there any sign
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  Speaker 1: of concussion, he definitely does not go back in the game.
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  Speaker 1: So it could be a slight but even if it's
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  Speaker 1: a slight concussion, um, they don't go back in the game.
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  Speaker 1: So we're trying to set the standard so it could
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  Speaker 1: trinkle down to our colleges and our high school and
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  Speaker 1: our youth leagues, because you know, people look at the
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  Speaker 1: National Football League as, oh my god, these you know,
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  Speaker 1: these hits are very dangerous and it's causing guys that
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  Speaker 1: have a concussion. But you remember, I mean these hits
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  Speaker 1: and and these sort of collisions occur early on. So
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  Speaker 1: if we can get the high schools and the youth leagues,
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  Speaker 1: which I think us a football organization UM that we
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  Speaker 1: helped start uh several years ago, are educating um these men,
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  Speaker 1: so we just don't have um these these uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: runaway coaches that come out from working and just you know,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: infuse their frustration on a little eight nine year olds
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  Speaker 1: and say, hey, hit each other in the head until
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  Speaker 1: I say stopped. You know, those things need to stop.
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  Speaker 1: We need to stop having your everyday coach come up
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  Speaker 1: there and implement bad twos, bad techniques, and every time
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  Speaker 1: a good play they hit each other's side of the head.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be going like, okay, now, now can we just
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  Speaker 1: stop that the help me slap for a good play
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  Speaker 1: right right, jump on top of and just you know
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: it might sound selling, but that is an issue with
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: your head. Okay, yeah, yeah, you know it's it is
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: another knock up side to here. But one of the
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  Speaker 1: things we were put in their using more leveraging and
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: show the pads US and and and then your targets.
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  Speaker 1: We're trying to manage the targets because I think for
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  Speaker 1: a while people got excited of a knock off plays.
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  Speaker 1: But knockoff plays we're having some impact. But because they
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: used to sell a knock off plays, and so we
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: were trying to change the format and I think we're
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: getting better. Uh, sometimes it's causing a little confusing with
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: the descender because their decendors how to hit. He's he's
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: running up on a guy like Rob Gunkrowski and saying
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: to myself, with a minute, he making a business decision there,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: because you know, here's a guy six six six seven
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  Speaker 1: two pounds and now I gotta figure out how to
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: bring this guy down, which are not easy. Imagine. What
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: what role do you guys play in the in the
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: world's biggest draft, the NFL Draft. What role does the
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: Players Association pay play during the NFL Draft when we
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: happened in April this year. Yeah, one of the things
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: we do is we really have a program we kind
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: of initiation program, bringing them into the fold of the family,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: UH programs education, let them know our role where they
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: can uh become a part of it and early start
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: the better. And so we tell them about all our initiatives,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: all our programs we have available, and UH try to
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: get their parents involved and not just them them in,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: the parents involved because we know it's going to be
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: a transition for these young guys to get acclimated to
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: being a professional athlete, and so we just try to
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: let them know about our resource, let them know we're
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  Speaker 1: all going to be their form and will be their
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  Speaker 1: farm throughout their career and once they finished playing, will
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: we'll be their form. Man. This is the amazing You know,
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  Speaker 1: my whole thing about the NFL talking to you is
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  Speaker 1: that I just want people to just see another side,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: the business side of it. And basically, you know, you
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: have these incredible athletes who need to be protected um
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: and also a brand called the NFL that needs to
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: be protected to and sometimes you have two sides that
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  Speaker 1: don't even communicate. And that's your job to get people
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: to communicate and be one giant team. And you're we're winning,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: my man. And again, you know, if you ever need
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: any brand then you know where to come. I'll be
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: ready to tell them players about their brands to stay
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: off that social media, to keep it right and keep
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: that marketing straight because they can win. Man, you have
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: a great product, You're a great person. You know. I
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: appreciate respect the NFL just as a business model. And
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: these young men have to take advantage of it because
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: it's such a short career performance level, but a lot
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: of money is throwing their way and they can retain
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: their money and live a great life. Like you said,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: it's what they do away from the game, or so
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: what they do on the field, Carl, Thank you. Man.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: Can I kind of invite you back on the show? Man, Hey, look,
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: I'll come back in the next out with if you
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: want my brother, My brother, I love man. Put the
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: word out there my money making conversation. Man, appreciate it.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more from Msha McDonald and
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  Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations don't touch that doubt. As host of
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations, Rishan McDonald is uniquely positioned to provide
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  Speaker 1: a step by step, easy to understand blueprint that drives
• 1:14:24
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• 1:14:28
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• 1:14:32
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• 1:14:41
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• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: make money. Let me tell you about the host of
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations, Rashaan McDonald. He's a social media influencer.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: Of his seven hundred thousand plus social media followers are female.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: He's a two time Emmy Award winner, three time n
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  Speaker 1: double a c p Image Award winner, sitcom writer, stand
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  Speaker 1: Up comic, former, IBM executive, and has a degree in mathematics.
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  Speaker 1: More importantly, Rashan McDonald will use his business and celebrity
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: relationships to empower small businesses with information to succeed. Rashan
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  Speaker 1: McDonald is on the air with Money Making Conversations. My
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: next guest is an entrepreneur, educator, ambassador, businesswoman, author and mentor.
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  Speaker 1: She owns the largest female owned workforce solutions company, was
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: the first African American woman to build and own a
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: billion dollar company, and one of the richest self made
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  Speaker 1: women in the world. Please welcome to money making conversations
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  Speaker 1: Janice Bryan Howard, How you doing Janice? Fabulous? Come on here.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: She blew me away with that enthusiasm. I love it
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: about and I appreciate that. And I'm telling you something.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I want to tell you that I'm
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: a big fan. Um, you're an inspiration. Let me get
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: these self things out about Rushan McDonald in my relationship
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: from afar with you. Um, you've inspired me. We had
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: lunch one time, you and I and Steve Harvest sat
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: down and you set me on the right path. I
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: gotta tell people this story. I got this other story
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: now because we was meeting and she was doing some
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: stuff with North Carolina Auntie and she's a trustee there.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: Just love her and and and and and you know,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: I was I was just selling me and Steve on her.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: I was just telling about She said stop, She said stop,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: excuse me. She said, you are a very talented young man,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: but you're not saying anything. You know. And basically you
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: told me I was all hype and I need to
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: take my talent and put it in goals and move
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: forward with proper action. And nobody had ever told that
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: to me, and my life nobody ever told it to
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: me because I was always smooth. I all knew how
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: to talk. But I ran into I want look to
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  Speaker 1: the holy Grail. This is the holy Grail. Ran into
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: it and she said, stopped this nonsense. You're not fooling me.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: Go back home and do your homework. And I did.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: And because of that meeting, that's why Steve had the
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: best seller that sold over three billion, That's why Steve
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: got Family Few, that's the number one game show in America.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: That's why Steve Harvey now is the number one talent
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: in the world. Because of my lunch meeting with you
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: at Cape Mandolining that you remembered thank you. Wow, oh wow,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: wow wow. Well, you know what, we got a lot
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: of people that think you and I don't be because
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: it's it's paying it forward, paying it forward, or as
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: I say, you're paying your current. You know, some of
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: us are just catching up. We're not paying it forward yet,
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: you know. And that's that's what you did for me,
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: because because you know, when I look at your resume
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: and I look at your your value system, I see
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: your value system. Because I'm writing a book now too,
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: and one of the things in my book I'm writing
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: about Jane's is about a Bala's life. And I remember
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: and and that's shot lunch meeting with you. You talk
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: about you love to cook, you love to cook. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a lady running a big in there being all the company,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: thousands of employees, fortune five hundred, and you were just
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: talking about your love to cook. You love to have
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: a good meal on the kitchen table. You know, you
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: that that that you're talking about when you talk about
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: the company, when you talk about the employees, you're talking
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: about family, and you're talking about a very defined evolution. However,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: you're also talking about a little color Guo from Tabora
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: and North Carolina, one of the eleven kids, same mom,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: same dad, and some very you know, core principles that
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  Speaker 1: we all grew up from it. The table was the
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: center of our home, and priam was the center of
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: our lives. So you know, am I not gonna cook?
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: Come on? But you but you know, but you don't
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: expect that. I'm just telling you that. You know, I'm
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: a stranger, you know, and but you were willing to
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: share with me your values. And I think that that
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: openness is what makes you very special. Can I can
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: I just I know you used to the praise I'm
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: giving you, and I'm sure you you receive a ton
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: of awards, but you have a walking ability to shape
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: people's lives every day and that's important for you to
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: hear that. And because of that, those values, they've shaped
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: me Rashan McDonald and making me the person I am today.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: Just for a short thirty minute launch, you changed my life.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, Well, you know what, let us both be
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: grateful to that, and I am very grateful. Now let's
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: talk about how you became this mega self made female
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: billionaire that started in eighteen seventy six. How did that
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: get into your head that this is something you can
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: do as an entrepreneur. Let's first say that I never
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: saw it and and and different people take different paths,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: so this is not suggest that I prefer one path
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: or another for any particular person. We're talking about my path.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: My path as was always centered around the idea that
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: I would seek success through service. And um, I know
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: that lots of people teach their kids how to look
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: to certain incomes or they send them to universities aspiring
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: to certain levels of income for their degrees. And we
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: use money as a measurement for many things, but it
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: should never be the measurement of success. Teresa died successful
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: and penniless, um gandhi. So we've got models of success
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: where you make a difference in the world and you
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: provide for people, and that doesn't always mean that there's
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: that money indicator for yourself. For me, success is the
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: progressive realization of a worthy ideal. And as long as
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: you're continuously growing. You know, my husband loves to say,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: when you're green, your grow. When you're right, you're rot.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: As long as you continue to grow, I think their
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: success in that. Now, how did I choose the path
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: that I'm in? Basically, I came to California from North
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: Carolina and didn't find a job that I thought was
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: what I wanted and decided to attempt from my brethren
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: law did some work in his office. He loved it
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: when he came back and he said, Wow, you've got
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: a talent. You really should be doing this for a living.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: There was not a three year business plan when I
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  Speaker 1: in front of me. When I started my business. There
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: was a plan to be of service to people, and
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: he utilized what I did well and he helped me
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: to find that that's amazing. Now that happened in seventy six.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: That's when you work at a tipperary secretary job with
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: your brother in law. And then well that's when I
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: started my company. That's when you started your company. He
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: was your first customer. He was my first customer, and
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: he was one of the most significant ones for me.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why. He didn't let all he
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: was a brother in law, so he would always tell me,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: ain't no blood in my game. And he was a
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: very very strict guy. Uh. But you know, I learned
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: a lot from a lot of people when I came
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: out to California. So much of who I am was
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: um was taught me and and and fueled my desire
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: from North Carolina. But come into California taught me a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you think about this Rashan here, I am,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: this little nap headed girl out of talk where in
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: North Carolina, and I come to California, where everybody is
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: gorgeous and everybody carries a purse with somebody else's name
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: on it. Back in the day, nobody wore panty home.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: Some of your listeners probably don't even know what pantyos are.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: I totally freeing environment with streets, lines, with palm trees,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: and so basically I'm describing a dubt out of water.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: People would say a fish out of water. Right. But
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: but with the help of my sister and and and
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: a great foundation, I learned to swim. And I think
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: everybody can do that for themselves. You know, two different degrees.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: I think the troubled people get into Rashaan is when
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: you look at people's success and you identify what success
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: means to you by some of the physical things they
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: have instead of some of the physical things they do.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: I loved it. I love to remind anyone in my
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: presence that success, for me, it's not a noun, it's
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: a verb. Let's talk about that. That the whole thing
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: of success. Because this is one of the major reasons
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: why you're on the show. Is that Earl Nightingale. A
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: lot of people if that name there's a limit. Give
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: a little background about this gentleman. I call him the
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: father of motivational speaking because at the age of thirty five,
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: he wrote a speech for some salesman. He just wrote
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: it for them. It was called He named it the
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: Strangest Secret, and he later played for the salesman. When
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: he came back, they all wanted to get a copy
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: of it. Well, he didn't have a copy, just created
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: for them to hear because he was out of the
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: room when it was playing. Well, he went to Columbia Records.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: They recorded in eighteen fifty six. Now get this, he's
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: thirty five and eighteen fifty six. It sold over a
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: million copies. It went gold. Led him to a life
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: of a millionaire. The reasons Strangest Secret was evolved because
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: he grew up a poor person and he can understand
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: why some people had money and other people didn't did
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: not have money. So he researched and he became an
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: educated man and that's how The Strangers Secret evolved. And
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: you got to read it. So tell us your relationship
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: with that, because that's what we're gonna be talking about
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: from now on to the next break, because that's an
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: amazing you know, when you heard it for the first time,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: he was like, I do that already, I do that,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: And but here's what I got to tell you, Rashawn.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: First of all, when I read The Strangest Secrets, it
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: immediately became one of my favorite books. And it's such
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: a tiny book. Most people, so that's a pamphlet. However,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: what's exciting for me is that I was able to
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: take those very well de prompt defined thoughts and principles
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: and apply them in a real way in my life.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: And I will tell you it was so exciting and
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: so fundamental for me to keep using this book all
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: these years, since nineteen never not had a copy of
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: that book with me. However, I thought about it. I
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: speak out a lot of universities, and lots of young
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: people run up to me and asked me, and I
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: referred them to the book, and then I thought about it.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: You know, the book is really number one. It was
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: originally written and Earl Nightingale's audio version was written towards
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: a time in our history when you were speaking to men,
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: when you were speaking about types of success that he
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: described and his and his difference thoughts on how to
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• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: the B is about being be where you say you'll
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  Speaker 1: And then that C. That C is about circular communication.
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  Speaker 1: It can be marketing, it can be advertising. It's the
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  Speaker 1: full circle of conversation that moves you towards success. At
• 1:35:59
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• 1:36:03
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• 1:36:28
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• 1:36:33
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• 1:36:37
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• 1:36:40
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• 1:36:46
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• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: like you said. Like you said earlier, is the music
• 1:36:53
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• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: But most importantly people, as I would tell people, don't
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• 1:37:10
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• 1:37:13
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• 1:37:15
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• 1:37:18
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• 1:37:21
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• 1:37:47
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• 1:37:51
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• 1:37:54
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• 1:38:11
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