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Rushion Interviews Melody Shari Full Exclusive Interview on being betrayed, love for music, and redefining her life! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations Masterclass. I'm your host with
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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. As always, we recognize, I recognize that you
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Speaker 1: all different definitions of success. I'll talk about that all
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Speaker 1: the time, and there's no there's nothing wrong with thinking different,
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Speaker 1: being different. But it's important that you making not maximize
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Speaker 1: your effort to be successful. For you, it may be
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Speaker 1: the sides of your paycheck. Mine has inspired people to
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Speaker 1: accomplish their goals and live their very best life. Always
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Speaker 1: tell us on every episode my guests as hers as
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Speaker 1: many times, please stop reading other people's success stories and
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Speaker 1: believe me, she is writing her own right now. Please
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Speaker 1: always to leave with your gifts. If you leave with
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Speaker 1: your gifts in don't let anybody, not even your friends,
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Speaker 1: family and co workers, stop you from planning and living
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Speaker 1: your dreams. Those last two statements absolutely epitomizes my next guest.
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Speaker 1: It's a new year, It's time to start fresh and
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Speaker 1: most importantly, build your brand. We're gonna talk about that.
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Speaker 1: My guests or Money Making Conversations Master Class is Melody Schari.
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Speaker 1: She's a start and produce her on owns hit series
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Speaker 1: Love and Marriage Huntsvield know Melody, She's successful, entrepreneur, home builder,
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Speaker 1: TV personality, slash host, motivational speaker, author, and now recording artists.
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Speaker 1: Within the last year. Melanie just released the Ladies single Down,
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Speaker 1: which is charting number one on iTunes. She's also the
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Speaker 1: founder of the beauty line Seventh Avenue Premier Skincare, which
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Speaker 1: I've ordered by the way. Now the latest session of
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Speaker 1: Love and Marriage hunt Fields and right now on the
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Speaker 1: own Network, Melanie discussing the new season of four season four.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe it's four years, four seasons I've known
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Speaker 1: you there hit serious Love and Marriage hunts Field. Being
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Speaker 1: a parent, We're gonna talk about that, her social life,
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Speaker 1: we will talking about that, and being a serial entrepreneur,
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Speaker 1: which comes to the forefront of all my conversations that
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Speaker 1: I have with her when she comes on this show.
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Speaker 1: Please welco with the money Making Conversation master Class. Melody Chari,
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Speaker 1: How you doing? Melody? Hey, Hey, hi everyone, how are
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Speaker 1: you doing? Look at this? Look? You know, I always
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Speaker 1: enjoy getting a chance to come and talk with you. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, because been a journey with us, you know,
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Speaker 1: and throughout that journey, you know, when when I met you,
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Speaker 1: you guys were a couple and inspiring to get into
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Speaker 1: this lane of television. But you had aspirations always about
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Speaker 1: what you want, and that's what I've always loved about
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Speaker 1: you know when I always tell people when you are
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Speaker 1: a couple, that doesn't mean you have to deny your
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Speaker 1: dreams and your aspirations and your opportunity to be successful.
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Speaker 1: A couple doesn't mean you have the couple. It means
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Speaker 1: that they're shared opportunities and once your support the other
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Speaker 1: in the process. But don't ever deny your dreams when
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Speaker 1: you are married, or you're in a relationship or in
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Speaker 1: a partnership, because it only works if both people are
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Speaker 1: giving max effort, and it only works if both people
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Speaker 1: respect each other's aspirations or dreams and in turn helped
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Speaker 1: support each other getting to the next level. Talk about
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Speaker 1: your dreams and talk about so far the journey that
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Speaker 1: you're making. Right now, we're gonna talk a lot. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna slow this down because she has a lot to
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Speaker 1: talk about. I feel very honored to have Melody takes
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Speaker 1: since aside twenty five minutes of time to talk her
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Speaker 1: career and the future. So where are we at right now? Melody?
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Speaker 1: You know I will to payback off of what you
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Speaker 1: just stated, I will say that you know, I've always
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Speaker 1: you know, loved and enjoyed singing. My first performance was
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Speaker 1: when I was five, and from there i was always
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Speaker 1: singing on television, doing padgets talent shows, playing keyboard at
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Speaker 1: the church and in the prey on the praise and
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Speaker 1: worship team. And so I've always had a love for
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Speaker 1: the arts being in place, right, I've always had a
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Speaker 1: love for the arts, and so what I am seeing
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Speaker 1: right now is literally the thing that God gifted me with,
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Speaker 1: um that started in my early years. I'm seeing it
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Speaker 1: come to fruition. Um, I'm seeing me God opening doors
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Speaker 1: for me in the same arena of arts and entertainment
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Speaker 1: and me being able to you know, pursue my music career,
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Speaker 1: acting and hosting, producing, and so for me right now,
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Speaker 1: I'm in a phase and stage of thankfulness and gratefulness.
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Speaker 1: I am just super super excited about everything that God
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Speaker 1: has in stored despite the obstacles that I've gone through
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Speaker 1: and I've experienced. As you mentioned, it is important that
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Speaker 1: you know when you're a spouse, when you're married to
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Speaker 1: still support one another in your dreams and your you
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Speaker 1: know your aspirations which includes as well making sure that
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Speaker 1: your mate is in the best place when it comes
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Speaker 1: to their mental well being, their emotional well being, because
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Speaker 1: it's something about what you can do when you are
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Speaker 1: in a great space mentally and emotionally, Melanie. Because you
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Speaker 1: know when people I always tell people are calling multi
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Speaker 1: level or multi tier levels of income, multi tier levels
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Speaker 1: of opportunities. And when I say that, some people say
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Speaker 1: we shouldn't stop now. I'm sure some people go, you know,
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Speaker 1: Melani needed to go somewhere and sit down. Now, she's sanking.
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Speaker 1: Come on now. That's why it's important that people need
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Speaker 1: to hear that this is not something you thought of
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Speaker 1: last week. This is part of your d N, a
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Speaker 1: part of your life. So I didn't know you had
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Speaker 1: a skill, a skill outside of thing. I know you
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Speaker 1: can see, but you go about that. You know, I
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Speaker 1: can get it the keyboard and do my thing too.
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Speaker 1: So really, I've said this many times on my show
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Speaker 1: that you know, the eighteen forty and sixty a key
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Speaker 1: aide key parameters as far as what you want to
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Speaker 1: do with your life, because eighteen that's when you're in
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Speaker 1: free spirit, you know, that's when you want to do
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Speaker 1: all these things and somewhere Aloneline in your kids. You
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Speaker 1: got married, and sometimes when you get married, became a
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Speaker 1: parent positive the parents, you supported, your husband, and y'all
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Speaker 1: were still doing things together, but still not the things
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Speaker 1: that you could do. So right now in your life,
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Speaker 1: am I saying it correctly? You're now doing the things
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Speaker 1: that you want to do and can do and should do.
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Speaker 1: Correct Absolutely absolutely. And it's funny that you get at
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Speaker 1: those different age ranges because I'm thirty six, and so
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Speaker 1: you know, I still have a few more years to
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Speaker 1: go before I hit forty. But I'm closer to forty
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Speaker 1: than i am eighteen our thirty, that's for sure. Um.
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Speaker 1: And you know, many of us have many talents. You know,
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Speaker 1: we have a story in the Bible where it talks
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Speaker 1: about where people were given different talents, right, and so
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Speaker 1: even sometimes when you know, I've gone on social media
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Speaker 1: and I've been playing the keyboard while I'm singing, and
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Speaker 1: people are like, oh my gosh, I didn't know she
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Speaker 1: knew how to play. You know, Um, we all have talents.
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Speaker 1: And I feel like in due time and in due season,
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Speaker 1: you know, those things show their head again and they show, hey,
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Speaker 1: look this is here, this was instilled in you. This
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Speaker 1: is a gift that was God given. And so me
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Speaker 1: walking in my purpose and walking in that and being
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Speaker 1: you know, using that, you know to help other people,
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Speaker 1: specifically women who can relate to my music. You know,
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Speaker 1: for me, that's exactly where I'm supposed to be now
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Speaker 1: now when you talk about your music, because the beauty
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Speaker 1: of when I say that, we're beauty, because you are
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Speaker 1: a beautiful person. And sometimes people will use that against you,
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Speaker 1: you know, and say that, you know, oh, she's just
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Speaker 1: getting that because she's attractive. Of she's just getting that.
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Speaker 1: My whole thing is that I have six sisters, so
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Speaker 1: I get really sensitive when people start getting into that
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Speaker 1: that that that gender bending about this is why they
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Speaker 1: are successful. I love the fact that I've seen you
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Speaker 1: grow and I want to be in a relationship with
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Speaker 1: you with the next twenty years so I can see
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Speaker 1: that hopefully that the next end game, because I do
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Speaker 1: feel that when I said the word eighteen and forty,
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Speaker 1: well she's doing everybody is that a lot of times
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Speaker 1: when people have not accomplished their dreams or not living
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Speaker 1: their dreams, when they get the forty, they feel depressed.
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Speaker 1: They feel that they feel that they can't do anything
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Speaker 1: other than what they're doing at that time. At forty,
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Speaker 1: they feel that there's no future. She's said the word
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Speaker 1: thirty six. She's four away from forty. But guess what
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Speaker 1: she's not doing what she wants to do in her
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Speaker 1: life and can do. That's important And I really I
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Speaker 1: want to use this episode of interviewing you as a
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Speaker 1: motivating factor, not only for your fans, because a lot
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Speaker 1: of people who will be hearing this interview Melody Schari
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Speaker 1: for the first time. Let's write Shari for the first time.
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Speaker 1: We'll understand she's an independent thinker, and you are a
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Speaker 1: brand now officially called Melody Shari. Correct. Absolutely yes, And
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Speaker 1: you know, speaking of that, you know, I spent many
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Speaker 1: years where of course when I was married, building a
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Speaker 1: brand as this power couple, power duo in business together
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Speaker 1: and so now me having to rebrand myself solo, and
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Speaker 1: then of course after being divorced, going from Melody Hole
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Speaker 1: to Melody Shari and UM. I will tell anyone that
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Speaker 1: hard work is definitely where it's at. UM. You know,
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Speaker 1: you have to have a strong work ethic with anything
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Speaker 1: that you do. I literally had a conversation UM yesterday
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Speaker 1: and I told them, yeah, I actually did my song
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. I went in the studio, recorded my song Sunday,
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Speaker 1: did the cover shoot on Tuesday, dropped it on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: And they said, WHOA, you did all that in a week.
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Speaker 1: I said absolutely, And I went and recorded my other
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Speaker 1: song on that Wednesday and they were like wow. UM.
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Speaker 1: To say my work ethic is unmatched, um, that would
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Speaker 1: be an understatement. I don't look or expect anything to
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Speaker 1: be handed or given to me, um. But I believe
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Speaker 1: in working hard and my my mindset is as long
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Speaker 1: as I'm moving, God will meet me where I need
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Speaker 1: to be meant to make sure I get to where
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to go. So I wake up early three
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Speaker 1: or four o'clock in the morning. I'm there every day
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Speaker 1: for the weekends, absolutely even for me, even all the weekends,
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Speaker 1: and I utilize every minute, every second of the day, um,
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Speaker 1: to make sure that I don't feel like something didn't
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Speaker 1: get handled because I decided to, you know, not put
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Speaker 1: my all into the day. And so you have to
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Speaker 1: be willing to make those sacrifices you have to. But
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Speaker 1: that comes from it being in your heart and something
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Speaker 1: in your heart, and UM, it means a lot to
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Speaker 1: you your gonna put in the work. You know, when
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Speaker 1: you're passionate about it, you're gonna put in the world.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna back up a little bit here and your
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Speaker 1: journey and the journey watching you become who you are today,
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Speaker 1: and believe me, there is a even brighter future for her.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to limit like this is her. She's
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Speaker 1: gonna drop a single, drop another single. Her heart entrepreneurship
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Speaker 1: and her giveback has always been strong. In fact, you've
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Speaker 1: seen it and some of the episodes of Loving Marriage
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Speaker 1: Holly Huntsville when she was starting her own podcast type
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Speaker 1: set up and trying to get her voice out there
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Speaker 1: and trying to tell everybody her story. And that started
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Speaker 1: with the master classes. And I remember you said, Rashan,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start these masterclasses and you start rolling it
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Speaker 1: out on your Instagram account. Why was there that? I
11:52
Speaker 1: think that was the first foray until you really starting
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Speaker 1: establishing your brand and then we're gonna talk about the
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Speaker 1: makeup line. But that was the first part of stepping
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Speaker 1: out of the entrepreneurs and out of the entrepreneur entrepreneurship
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Speaker 1: lane as yourself and sharing your knowledge with other people,
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Speaker 1: especially women correct well, yes, especially women. You know, I've
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Speaker 1: had UM a situation where I'd actually been heavily a
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Speaker 1: part of UM a friend getting into this industry called
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Speaker 1: property preservation, and so it was successful, and UM, you know,
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Speaker 1: there was something in me that says, you know what,
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Speaker 1: if I can do it once, I can do it again.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I had this idea of taking the
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Speaker 1: time to teach others how to get into into this
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Speaker 1: white male dominated industry and showing them the way. It's
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Speaker 1: a multibillion dollar industry, so showing them the way, showing
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Speaker 1: them how they could get another level of financial freedom
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Speaker 1: and build well. And so I launched my first class
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Speaker 1: in JUNI. To date, I've had over four hundred students
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Speaker 1: who have gone through my course, UM, mostly African American females.
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Speaker 1: I've had people who've been able to resign from their
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Speaker 1: nine to five. I've had people who are already teaching
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Speaker 1: their sons and their nephews about the industry to build
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Speaker 1: that generational wealth and that family business. And so it's
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Speaker 1: been great for me and fulfilling for me. To be
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Speaker 1: quite honest, UM, to have my master class where I
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Speaker 1: am able to pour into others and teach them the game.
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Speaker 1: That honestly helped me to resign. To be able to
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Speaker 1: resign from teaching in April eleven. Awesome. Now when you
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Speaker 1: go in a little detail exactly what that those courses are,
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Speaker 1: so my listeners and my viewers can get a clear
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Speaker 1: understanding of how they can be a part of that
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Speaker 1: and also register and are is it is it just
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Speaker 1: a period where you can join online or is it's seasonal?
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Speaker 1: Can you update them a little bit more with more detail. Absolutely? So.
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Speaker 1: Property preservation is the process of maintaining for clost properties
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Speaker 1: for banks. So when the property is for close on
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Speaker 1: as a property preservation is you know, you changed the lout,
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Speaker 1: you maintain the lawn, you clean the property, any issues
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Speaker 1: that happened, theft, vandalism, storm fire, you take care of
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Speaker 1: those things for the bank and the bank page shoes. UM.
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Speaker 1: I covered seven states at one time, so it is
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Speaker 1: a national industry. I've had students from all over the country,
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Speaker 1: from California to New York, Okay to Florida. And so
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Speaker 1: what I will say is that, UM, if you are
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Speaker 1: you know good at project management. This is definitely an
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Speaker 1: industry that you can get in because what you're doing
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Speaker 1: is you're managing these different projects, these different work orders.
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Speaker 1: I actually usually have the class about every three months.
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Speaker 1: I currently have the most recent class I just started.
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Speaker 1: We started two weeks ago. It was a five week program.
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Speaker 1: And if you're interested, of course, follow me on social media.
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Speaker 1: I always post one I'm having in a class coming
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Speaker 1: up and the website to register is Masterclass with Melody
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Speaker 1: dot Com. Right, all a while, y'all listen to me.
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Speaker 1: She's doing all this, still doing love and marriage hunt Field,
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Speaker 1: still being a great parent, dealing with a lot of
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Speaker 1: social media issues out there, personal life, she's building her brand,
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Speaker 1: she's working, she's focused. Now let's go to the seventh Avenue,
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Speaker 1: Premier skin Care. That's the second lane that you brought
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Speaker 1: into my life. You know you said we're shine and
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Speaker 1: work because up there our relationship is fun. And she
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Speaker 1: has she has she had direct message me what working up?
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Speaker 1: What do you think about it? Right now? I've always
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Speaker 1: been like a mentor to her. I'd like to believe
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Speaker 1: I've always been there to give a positive advice and
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Speaker 1: I've always been there to uplift her because that's what
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Speaker 1: people need. I'm just tell you, if you want to
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Speaker 1: win in life, surround yourself with people who believe and
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Speaker 1: share your journey. Understand what I'm saying, not participating it,
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Speaker 1: share your journey, which means they're willing to advise you
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Speaker 1: or physically assist you in some ways financially aid you
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Speaker 1: to make sure your dreams come true because they understand them.
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Speaker 1: So tell us about Seventh Avenue Premiere skin Care. So
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Speaker 1: at Seventh Avenue Career Skincare. I actually grew up on
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Speaker 1: Seventh Avenue, so that's why it's called Seventh Avenue. And
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Speaker 1: nothing to do with New York, nothing to do with
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Speaker 1: New York. There's nothing to do with New York. No,
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Speaker 1: nothing to do with New York. And so actually a
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Speaker 1: small talent in Alabama, running Alabama. But that is where
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Speaker 1: I started to learn the importance you know, as a
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Speaker 1: young girl, the importance of care, taking care of myself,
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Speaker 1: taking care of my skin, my body, and so um,
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Speaker 1: that's why it's name Seventh Avenue Career Skincare. But I
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Speaker 1: was blessed to work with you know, a black female
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Speaker 1: chemists and formulate my products. I knew I didn't want
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Speaker 1: to get products from overseas and just throw a label
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Speaker 1: on them. And I knew that I wanted to include
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Speaker 1: some of the things that my great grandmother taught me
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Speaker 1: to help me come back. Pete right, pet rss rosatio,
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Speaker 1: which is a skin condition that I had growing up.
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Speaker 1: And so, um, it has been doing phenomenal, been doing phenomenal.
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Speaker 1: Is clean, natural, vegan, um animal cruelty free, and I've
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Speaker 1: already gotten opportunities for it to go into retail, and
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Speaker 1: so the sales are phenomenal, the support is phenomenal, and um,
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Speaker 1: I mean this is gonna be a brand to stick
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Speaker 1: around for quite some time for sure. Okay, cool, Now,
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Speaker 1: listen to what she's doing, y'all. She's taking advantage of
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Speaker 1: all the things that God has introduced her life mentally, physically. Okay.
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Speaker 1: She talked about the skin care, this was something she
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Speaker 1: had to deal with personally, Okay, her singing career, she's
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Speaker 1: been doing this since she was a kid in church, okay.
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Speaker 1: And then the preservation business, the on line five week course.
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Speaker 1: It's something that she's doing so she's not stepping out
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Speaker 1: of her comfort zone, she says, expanding the opportunities. That's
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Speaker 1: been built into her DNA. So that's what I really
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Speaker 1: want people to understand about it. Now. When we're talking
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Speaker 1: about launching a product like this, you know, I don't
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Speaker 1: want people just to hear because everybody wants to launch
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Speaker 1: your product. Everybody wants to launch some muffins, they want
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Speaker 1: to launch some some some food products, they want to
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Speaker 1: all kinds of products. How did you get to the
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Speaker 1: point to be able to say, I got this idea?
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Speaker 1: Did you get with the chemists? What was what enabled
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Speaker 1: you to bring this brand, which is fantastic by the way,
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Speaker 1: to where it is right now. Well, I will tell
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Speaker 1: you this. It took three years. It took three years, um,
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Speaker 1: pretty much three and a half. I started working on
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Speaker 1: it in two thousand and eighteen. I didn't lunch it
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Speaker 1: until two I had to go through the process of
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Speaker 1: rebranding it, you know, because of my divorce, and so
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Speaker 1: I had to see what that looked like, what did
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Speaker 1: that feel like? What felt good to me? How was
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Speaker 1: I supposed to move with the new what what was
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Speaker 1: gonna be the new name, what was gonna be the colors?
18:26
Speaker 1: I had to come up with all of that again,
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Speaker 1: and so, um, three and a half years of work UM,
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Speaker 1: which meant patience, because I do believe that things happened
18:37
Speaker 1: when they're supposed to how they're supposed to UM. So yes,
18:41
Speaker 1: definitely during my research UM getting with the chemist, because
18:46
Speaker 1: I you know, you have to decide those things that
18:48
Speaker 1: are absolute meaning, this is what has to happen. And
18:50
Speaker 1: so for me, one of those things was it had
18:52
Speaker 1: to be um USA made, and I knew that I
18:55
Speaker 1: wanted to be a part of the formulating process. And
18:58
Speaker 1: so what I will say is no, when you're starting
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Speaker 1: a brand or starting a skin care line, hair care,
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Speaker 1: whatever it may be, stick to UM those core things
19:10
Speaker 1: that you're saying that can't be changed or can't be moved,
19:13
Speaker 1: don't be so easily been, you know, don't being so
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Speaker 1: easily with what others may say. True enough, it may
19:19
Speaker 1: have cost less if I just got something from overseas
19:21
Speaker 1: and through a label line, but that's not what I
19:23
Speaker 1: wanted to do, and that's not what I felt my
19:25
Speaker 1: supporters UM what they deserved, And so stick to no
19:29
Speaker 1: matter what, you know, what feels good to you in
19:32
Speaker 1: your hearts, and then go after it, go full force,
19:36
Speaker 1: full fledge after it, and allow nothing, no hindrances, no delays.
19:41
Speaker 1: I say, all the time delayed does not being denied.
19:45
Speaker 1: Um let none of that stop you from building the
19:48
Speaker 1: brand or building the company that you know you're supposed
19:51
Speaker 1: to be building. We'll be right back with more Money
19:54
Speaker 1: Making Conversations Masterclass with ru Sean McDonald. Now, let's return
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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Well, you
20:05
Speaker 1: know the interesting point that then this is the transition
20:07
Speaker 1: to a TV hosts. You know when she got the
20:10
Speaker 1: opportunity to host this series. I remember she because she
20:13
Speaker 1: came on the show and I interviewed about it, and
20:15
Speaker 1: she was she at that point, she wasn't sure that
20:18
Speaker 1: that was something that she could do, but she pushed
20:21
Speaker 1: past the fear. And I'm not saying anything. We not
20:23
Speaker 1: talked on the air and interview and she went, Rushan,
20:26
Speaker 1: this is something I want to do on the regular basis.
20:29
Speaker 1: I want to act. I want to produce that that
20:32
Speaker 1: last step because I went through the because we're gonna
20:34
Speaker 1: get back to parenting. Because that because when you're doing
20:36
Speaker 1: all this, people want to what the kid is it?
20:38
Speaker 1: What the kid is that? So after you asked this question,
20:40
Speaker 1: we're gonna get back to parenting and then we're gonna
20:42
Speaker 1: slide back over to Love and Marriage hunt Field, which
20:45
Speaker 1: airs every Saturday night a pm Eastern Pacific on the
20:48
Speaker 1: own network. We wnta find out what's happening this season?
20:51
Speaker 1: What was important on this interview, because I know they
20:54
Speaker 1: dived straight into that all the time. She has to
20:56
Speaker 1: kind of like squeezing this, squeezing this. This is about
20:59
Speaker 1: money making conversation. Magic Class is about talking to individuals
21:02
Speaker 1: like her who are making the difference in our community
21:05
Speaker 1: as an entrepreneur, especially females who are the largest and
21:08
Speaker 1: the fastest growing popular special women of color in the
21:12
Speaker 1: entrepreneurial field. Now answer that lad, next question, and then
21:15
Speaker 1: we're gonna get the parents. Being a host absolutely, So
21:20
Speaker 1: hosting gives me a nice break from reality. You know,
21:25
Speaker 1: we all know that reality TV has to have some
21:28
Speaker 1: drama and a lot of times, you know, the cameras
21:31
Speaker 1: are there when you're in situations that you may normally
21:35
Speaker 1: wouldn't being as quickly or you know, as soon, but
21:38
Speaker 1: you gotta go ahead and have that conversation sometimes. And
21:41
Speaker 1: so reality hosting gives me a break from that and
21:45
Speaker 1: it allows me, you know, to just show another side
21:48
Speaker 1: of me. So I definitely enjoyed hosting. You know, I
21:51
Speaker 1: hosted Girlfriends Check in her own, I hosted Behind every
21:54
Speaker 1: Man for own, and I hosted something recently. Most recently
21:58
Speaker 1: was for Essence in Coca Cola. And so I will
22:01
Speaker 1: say that for me, that is definitely a comfort. Comfort
22:04
Speaker 1: zone for me is hosting. Well, she's a brand ladies
22:07
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. You know, I met her. She was just
22:10
Speaker 1: a young lady who's married, which is nothing wrong with that,
22:15
Speaker 1: but I love the fact that she's always been focused.
22:19
Speaker 1: And when you watch the show Love and Marriage hunts Field,
22:21
Speaker 1: like I said, ares every Saturday night a pm Eastern
22:24
Speaker 1: Pacific on their own network, you know you're doing all
22:28
Speaker 1: these things NonStop. Where does the time for the kids
22:32
Speaker 1: fall in? Like, how do you align their relationship because
22:35
Speaker 1: there's a lot of moms out there who want to
22:37
Speaker 1: do what you do. How are you able to be
22:39
Speaker 1: able to manage the love, because the and the need
22:42
Speaker 1: Because I always tell people, these kids didn't ask to
22:44
Speaker 1: come in this world. We brought them into the world. Absolutely. So,
22:49
Speaker 1: for one, it's very important that you have an amazing
22:51
Speaker 1: support system. It's important that um, you know, you also
22:56
Speaker 1: communicate and talk with your children so my children know
22:59
Speaker 1: what I'm when they know what I'm working on. I
23:01
Speaker 1: have those real conversations with them, you know, I have
23:04
Speaker 1: conversations with them about what it is that they want
23:07
Speaker 1: to do as they get older. Right, and so my
23:10
Speaker 1: hope and prayers always that I'm knocking down doors that
23:12
Speaker 1: they will then be able to easily walk through. So
23:15
Speaker 1: everyone in the family understanding the assignment, so to speak,
23:19
Speaker 1: it's super real important. Um, I can tell you that
23:23
Speaker 1: my children, they still get their mom. We still go
23:27
Speaker 1: on vacations. I still you know, pack them up. We'll
23:31
Speaker 1: go to the indoor water park, We'll go to the beach,
23:33
Speaker 1: We'll go to David Busters. I still cook. You cook
23:37
Speaker 1: the other night, their favorite chicken pope pie. I still cook.
23:41
Speaker 1: I still take them to school. Um, you know, they
23:45
Speaker 1: come first, regardless period, they come first. Well, I'm talking
23:49
Speaker 1: to the brand Melanie to the star Loving Marriage and Producer.
23:55
Speaker 1: Let me put that back. Let's lap back Star and
23:57
Speaker 1: Producing Loving Marriage hutch Field, which airs every Saturday night
24:01
Speaker 1: a PM on the own network. What is going to
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Speaker 1: happen this season? You know, I'm gonna let you kind
24:07
Speaker 1: of tell it because you know, I might get to
24:09
Speaker 1: tell out too many details and then I want to
24:12
Speaker 1: let you back on much show. But it's still high power.
24:16
Speaker 1: You're brought up in to Africa, you know. He coming
24:19
Speaker 1: back with all these ideas, social media posts getting people
24:22
Speaker 1: fired up. Uh, infidelity questions, relationship questions, WHOA just let
24:29
Speaker 1: everybody know, why did you do the show and how
24:32
Speaker 1: did you guys come to come together as a couple
24:35
Speaker 1: before we start talking about what's happening in this season.
24:38
Speaker 1: Absolutely so. We pitched the show to Carlos King my
24:44
Speaker 1: X and I, I and UM had a consultation with him,
24:47
Speaker 1: pitched the show to him and UM in the midst
24:50
Speaker 1: of that, and once we agree, you know, to go
24:52
Speaker 1: with his production company to get us a show. It
24:54
Speaker 1: took us about three years of us selling Huntsville to him.
24:58
Speaker 1: I would test Carlos all the time and let him
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Speaker 1: know what was going on in the city and what
25:02
Speaker 1: was going down in terms of the how the city
25:05
Speaker 1: was growing and UM. Eventually he sent us a contract.
25:08
Speaker 1: He was like, look, we put together a sizel for him,
25:11
Speaker 1: send it to him and he said, oh my gosh,
25:12
Speaker 1: I want to sign you guys. I don't want you
25:13
Speaker 1: to sign with anybody else. I want to work with you.
25:16
Speaker 1: He sent a contract that day we signed it. It
25:19
Speaker 1: gave him a certain time frame to get the show
25:22
Speaker 1: picked up. Um. The next conversation we had was, Hey, look,
25:26
Speaker 1: I'm getting some great feedback, but I am really great
25:29
Speaker 1: at getting unsemble soul. What do you guys think about
25:32
Speaker 1: doing it unsemble? Um, do you have any friends that
25:35
Speaker 1: you maybe want to bring along? And so at that
25:37
Speaker 1: point we presented several friends to him. You know that
25:40
Speaker 1: we do several couples that we knew, and they went
25:44
Speaker 1: through the process of interviewing them and talking with them
25:46
Speaker 1: and you know, deciding how they wanted to go. And so, um,
25:51
Speaker 1: you know, that's where we are. That's how we're here
25:53
Speaker 1: with Love and Marriage Huntsville. I think for me, the
25:57
Speaker 1: the idea from the beginning was really to show young,
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Speaker 1: young black couples who were successful doing things in the community,
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Speaker 1: working hard to you know, enhance the community as much
26:10
Speaker 1: as possible, while also showing real life issues that are
26:13
Speaker 1: happened in relationships and that happened with friendships, and just
26:16
Speaker 1: being transparent, transparent, honest and open um about life like
26:22
Speaker 1: a reality TV show that is actually real, that is transparent.
26:27
Speaker 1: That was the goal. And authentic, and and you also
26:30
Speaker 1: changed the game because you went from that big city format.
26:33
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna I'm not being negladant I say that,
26:35
Speaker 1: you know, And am I calling Huntspital a small town
26:37
Speaker 1: for the smaller city? You know? But if you ever
26:41
Speaker 1: go to the Huntsville which is the home of NASA,
26:44
Speaker 1: very well educated, you go there, they got everything it is.
26:47
Speaker 1: It is a baby version of Atlanta, you know. When
26:50
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the the the the the lifestyle, the
26:54
Speaker 1: education level and the and their job availability. It's a
26:58
Speaker 1: beautiful city. I went that many times. I was fortunate
27:00
Speaker 1: to go there when I was when I was being
27:02
Speaker 1: an entertainer. And so with that being said, what should
27:06
Speaker 1: we expect, Melody sheari? What is season for? And why
27:11
Speaker 1: should we look? I know why because I'm watching you,
27:14
Speaker 1: But why should we look some season for us? In
27:19
Speaker 1: one word, it would be whirlwinds whirlwind Yeah? Um, and
27:24
Speaker 1: you thought last season was something else after that reunion
27:28
Speaker 1: that has happened and everything else that's going on, honey,
27:30
Speaker 1: you better buffle up for season four. Okay. You know,
27:36
Speaker 1: like I said, you know, that's why I wanted to
27:37
Speaker 1: let everybody here how they started so you can see
27:40
Speaker 1: that you know some of the manipulations, some of the production.
27:44
Speaker 1: You know, you get into these projects and you don't
27:45
Speaker 1: know your journey and their journey. Unfortunately, and melody situation
27:50
Speaker 1: has led to a divorce, situation played out in the
27:52
Speaker 1: public side, played out in the social media. But it
27:55
Speaker 1: didn't break her. It didn't break her spirit, didn't break
27:58
Speaker 1: her relationships. And know that that's important because you got
28:01
Speaker 1: a lot of haters out there, and these haters are
28:03
Speaker 1: trying to manipulate the system and make people feel that
28:06
Speaker 1: they're wrong. Again, Melanie Shariad, as always, you bring good.
28:11
Speaker 1: You dropped the gems, you dropped the enthusiasm, and just
28:15
Speaker 1: watch our relationship grow. And you know you have a
28:18
Speaker 1: home here, have money making conversations masterclass. I was the
28:20
Speaker 1: board show. Tell them to send those those videos. Tell
28:23
Speaker 1: me now, I said, you can tell me about the
28:27
Speaker 1: song drop out wise how to put that in my
28:28
Speaker 1: news letter? But that's all right. I'm gonna with a
28:30
Speaker 1: little hate knowing you you could have thrown your bar. Uh, Richard,
28:33
Speaker 1: can you drop this first? I say you need to apologize.
28:35
Speaker 1: You need the apologize. D D E M me on
28:38
Speaker 1: everything else. But again, tell them to send me some
28:41
Speaker 1: videos so I can drop them in next week's newsletter.
28:44
Speaker 1: Because I've got no banners to promote that. I got
28:46
Speaker 1: a hundred and five thousand fan club members go out
28:49
Speaker 1: every Wednesday, and I dropped him every week the sizzles
28:52
Speaker 1: that go out to promote the upcoming episode. Because I
28:54
Speaker 1: believe in you. I love the people on the show.
28:57
Speaker 1: You are my number one on that show. I will
28:59
Speaker 1: protect you, I would support you keeping who you are.
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Speaker 1: You are a blessing and uh what can I say?
29:07
Speaker 1: A star of what we needed, what we were. You know,
29:10
Speaker 1: you represent a lot of great things and keep winning. Okay,
29:13
Speaker 1: thank you for coming my show, Melodisary. You're wonderful. If
29:18
Speaker 1: you want to hear or see any of my interviews
29:19
Speaker 1: or Moneymaking Conversations, please go to money Making Conversation dot com.
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Speaker 1: I'm Sean McDonald. I am your host.