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Uplift: Despite checkered past she founded STEM Exposure to introduce Black girls to underrepresented STEM careers. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 2: My next guest Rose from inconstration to receiving the President's
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  Speaker 2: Lifetime Achieving Award She built her company in the cleaning
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  Speaker 2: industry and also provides architectural and construction camps inspire the
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  Speaker 2: next generational architects and builders through design experiences. Let's hear
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  Speaker 2: our story and the inspiration that changed her life. Please
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  Speaker 2: walk with the Money Making Conversation Masterclass. Robin Donaldson. How
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  Speaker 2: you doing, Robin?
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  Speaker 3: I am amazing, I am amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Robin, I've talked to you offline and you got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of energy. So I gonna get that same
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  Speaker 2: energy today because you went I'm amazing. I was kind
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  Speaker 2: of low key effecting that. There you go, now, Robert,
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  Speaker 2: where you based at?
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  Speaker 3: I'm in Tampa, Florida, born and raised. Down in Tampa, Florida,
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  Speaker 3: born and raised.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about your life growing up That nothing a
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  Speaker 2: consolation for it, just a part when you grew up.
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  Speaker 1: Any potential college in your life. Talk about your life
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  Speaker 1: as a teenager.
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  Speaker 3: Well, my life as a teenager was really sheltered. So
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  Speaker 3: I grew up in a very strict religious household and
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  Speaker 3: education was not something that was even really spoke of, right,
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  Speaker 3: And so for me, I went to a trade school
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  Speaker 3: where I learned industrial electricity. And so that is really
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  Speaker 3: where the love of construction came from as a result
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  Speaker 3: of me graduating. I did have an opportunity to attend
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  Speaker 3: Georgia Tech because I was the first female to complete
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  Speaker 3: that program. However, again my mom, she was very religious,
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  Speaker 3: and they did not believe in going off to college.
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  Speaker 3: She felt that, you know, a trade was sufficient and
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  Speaker 3: that I needed to get to work.
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  Speaker 1: So trade versus going to Georgia Tech.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't go off to college. I just got a
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  Speaker 3: job locally with the Electrical Fund and that's where I learned,
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  Speaker 3: you know, more hands on about industrial electricity. After a
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  Speaker 3: couple of jobs, I decided I didn't like being out
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  Speaker 3: in the sun, thank you and so, and actually I
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  Speaker 3: had at a temple right right, and I'm talking about
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  Speaker 3: being in it in small quarters. It was that was
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  Speaker 3: not what I wanted to do for a long term, right,
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  Speaker 3: So I changed my focus to being a hairstylist. And
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  Speaker 3: so I had got my license for cosmetology and for barbering,
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  Speaker 3: and for a while I was doing hair and that
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  Speaker 3: was until I got connected with my kid's father. Actually
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  Speaker 3: that's one of the reasons how I landed up in jail.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you coming to this relationship, when did your values
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  Speaker 2: changed the land to you being incarcerated.
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  Speaker 1: Was it easy money?
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  Speaker 2: Was it the thought process that hey, I was just
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  Speaker 2: gonna do it for a little.
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  Speaker 1: Bit and get out talk to his Robin.
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  Speaker 3: Well, in order for you to understand, I'm and have
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  Speaker 3: to back it up, let's back it off, do so
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  Speaker 3: because I was in such a restrictive household, right, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: the moment I graduated, I had my certificate in one
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  Speaker 3: hand and I had my luggage in the next. I
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  Speaker 3: had to give him away. And so from that I
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  Speaker 3: ran to the arms of an older guy and he
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  Speaker 3: happened to be a drug dealer, and things just really
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  Speaker 3: spiraled out. I mean from me selling drugs from hell
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  Speaker 3: to using drugs to make an stupid decisions in the
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  Speaker 3: way of using my account to harbor money to write checks.
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  Speaker 3: So I was just really running from one situation to
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  Speaker 3: the other, and being with that my kid's father, I
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  Speaker 3: was involved with a lot of illegal activity that's finally
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  Speaker 3: caught up to me and as a result, I did
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  Speaker 3: go to prison.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Now, how many children did you have at the
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  Speaker 2: time when you went to prison.
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  Speaker 3: I had two kids and I was pregnant with one.
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  Speaker 2: Now, when you say the word drug dealer, that's such
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  Speaker 2: a broad word.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: You could say that people who are these pharmaceutical companies
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  Speaker 2: are drug dealers the way because they got to pay
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  Speaker 2: out these money.
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  Speaker 1: But you are more along the lines of the street.
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  Speaker 2: What type of drugs were you guys selling crack cocaine?
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  Speaker 1: And you are a user?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 2: At one point, did you not say to yourself, very smart,
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  Speaker 2: young lady, this is not good.
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  Speaker 3: I was a that smart thing. It was BookSmart, but
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  Speaker 3: street smart. I had no idea. I was looking for love.
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  Speaker 3: I was looking for a father figure, and that is
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  Speaker 3: what I received.
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  Speaker 1: And so you are. I'm pretty sure you're a mentor.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel when you communicating your story to
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  Speaker 2: young ladies who you don't want to see go down
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  Speaker 2: the same path you and Don Robin?
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  Speaker 1: How do you connect with.
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  Speaker 3: Them by keeping it real? At one time, I was shamed.
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  Speaker 3: I was shamed to tell my story and then also
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  Speaker 3: to talk about all of the mental variable abuse that
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  Speaker 3: I had to undergo just the just in the name
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  Speaker 3: of love, Like I really did some crazy things like
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  Speaker 3: from the abuse. I thought that was his way of
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  Speaker 3: showing me that he loved me, to the point that
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  Speaker 3: I would instigate an argument so he can whoop my behind.
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  Speaker 3: Now that ain't that stupid?
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  Speaker 2: No, Now, when you got incarcerated, you say you were
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  Speaker 2: pregnant at two children.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so before I got incarcerated, Before because I had
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  Speaker 3: to turn myself in, I was eccluding the authorities until
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  Speaker 3: I had my daughter because I did not want to
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  Speaker 3: have my daughter in the penitentiary. So after I gave
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  Speaker 3: birth and I was cleared, I turned myself in.
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  Speaker 2: Now you have your child, you turned yourself in. How
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  Speaker 2: many years were you incarcerated? Five five years? Which that through?
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  Speaker 2: Did you get out early through probation or you did
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  Speaker 2: the entire sentence.
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  Speaker 3: I did the entire sentence.
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  Speaker 2: Now I have to asked the question, did you learn
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  Speaker 2: anything while you were in prison?
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  Speaker 3: That's what it all changed.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to me.
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  Speaker 3: I had time to think, I had time to explore.
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  Speaker 3: I had an opportunity to advance my education.
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  Speaker 1: Well a while in prison.
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  Speaker 3: While in prison.
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  Speaker 2: When you say advance your education, tell us about what
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  Speaker 2: level of education you advanced too.
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  Speaker 3: Associate degrees. So for me, president was very hard, and
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  Speaker 3: I spent a lot of time in concern and I
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  Speaker 3: made the best use of confinement. I'm confined for twenty
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  Speaker 3: three hours, I go out for a hour. My time
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  Speaker 3: my days was meditating and learning. Then I had guards.
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  Speaker 3: We became very very close, and a couple of them
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  Speaker 3: they were attending their local community college, and I would
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  Speaker 3: assist them with their books. In return, I'm able to
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  Speaker 3: read their books, you know. So if I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: help tutor you on business law, well guess what I
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  Speaker 3: know business law.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm talking to Robin Donaldson.
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  Speaker 2: She went from incarceration to be honored by the President
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  Speaker 2: with a Lifetime Achievement award, and all she does camps,
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  Speaker 2: mentoring camps for use in architecture and instruction design in
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  Speaker 2: the area of Tampa, Florida. She not only turned her
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  Speaker 2: life around, but now she's turning other young people's lives around.
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  Speaker 1: And she's really tell her story.
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  Speaker 2: That's why she's on Money Making Conversation Master Last Day
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  Speaker 2: to tell her story. She's not trying to hide her situation.
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  Speaker 2: She's trying to convey from authentic matter that you don't
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  Speaker 2: want to live the life that she lived. But if
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  Speaker 2: you live this life, you can't turn your life around.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the story I want to tell on the shoulderday, Robin,
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  Speaker 2: you turning your life around. Now when you got out
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  Speaker 2: of prison, you learned a lot while you were in prison.
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  Speaker 2: Robin was there steps as you were seeing you, they
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  Speaker 2: come up prepared for the exit.
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  Speaker 3: Well, at the time, I didn't really have an exit plan.
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  Speaker 3: And the exit plan came when I learned how to
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  Speaker 3: strip in buff floors in prison at the highest level,
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  Speaker 3: I mean the floor's glass, right, So what I did
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  Speaker 3: I took that knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Did they ask you to do that or you just
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  Speaker 1: stepped it up?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? So you want to get back to that story, okay, because.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you doing it at this level? But I
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  Speaker 1: know you could have just done it at this level.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So you want to know the story story because
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  Speaker 3: I again I frequent confined it a lot, right, And
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  Speaker 3: it was one incident where I was allowed to be
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  Speaker 3: released to the compound and the Wharton had stopped me,
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  Speaker 3: he said, MS Doc and McDonald's. And you have a
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  Speaker 3: problem with, you know, instigating things on the compound, He said,
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  Speaker 3: I got I got a solution for you. While everybody's sweep,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to put you on third shift. You go
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  Speaker 3: stripping wax the administrator build it right, all right? So
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  Speaker 3: again that is where I learned how to strip wax
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  Speaker 3: and buff floors like no other.
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  Speaker 1: On the third shift.
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  Speaker 3: On the third shift when everybody was sleep, when the
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  Speaker 3: cor pound was open, then hours sleep.
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  Speaker 2: So he saw your true gift was to stop you
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  Speaker 2: from having personal contact and put you to work when
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  Speaker 2: everybody else was sleep and when everybody would up, you
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  Speaker 2: were asleep. Yes, sir, Now, as you came out, because
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned in your intro you have you have a
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  Speaker 2: cleaning bit. But when you come out, we know that's
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  Speaker 2: not an easy accent. You know you have three children
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  Speaker 2: out there. Way to know you what was the man
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  Speaker 2: of your life at that point? Was he still in
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  Speaker 2: your life?
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  Speaker 3: He was doing time as well?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Cool?
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  Speaker 2: So you came out by yourself basically, how did you
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  Speaker 2: start getting those feet and putting those feet down on
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  Speaker 2: that concrete and start walking forward like you know you
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  Speaker 2: belong there?
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  Speaker 1: Talk to me, Robin.
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  Speaker 3: So what happened was I was able to get on
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  Speaker 3: work release. It was six months prior to my release state.
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  Speaker 3: They allowed me to go to a work release program
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  Speaker 3: where I would be local, not in prison. It's a
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  Speaker 3: halfway house.
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  Speaker 1: It's transitioning there.
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  Speaker 3: You go a transitioning house and one of the requirements
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  Speaker 3: is you had to have a job. And so right
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  Speaker 3: up the street there was a homewood Suites by Hilton,
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  Speaker 3: right and I applied, and that's where I learned how
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  Speaker 3: to clean at the highest level. Hilton is by far
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  Speaker 3: one of the cleanest chains that I know. And again,
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  Speaker 3: learning how to clean at the highest level, plus knowing
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  Speaker 3: how to strip wax and buff at the highest level,
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  Speaker 3: it only made sense for me to be a cleaning service.
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  Speaker 2: Reason I liked listening to you because that's to say,
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  Speaker 2: that's a smile on your face, because that means you
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  Speaker 2: good at it. You know, it's always great to be
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  Speaker 2: good at something. You know, I'm gonna take the word out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying good.
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  Speaker 1: She's smiling because she's great at it.
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  Speaker 2: Because she uses the word highest level, she's never used
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  Speaker 2: to work, I'm undermining her talents.
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  Speaker 1: And I apologize. She keuld use the word.
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  Speaker 2: I learned at the highest level. I buff at the
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  Speaker 2: highest level. So those skills you recognize were different from
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  Speaker 2: everybody else because you put in more effort. Are you
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  Speaker 2: just naturally talented at it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, see, it's part of a bigger plan. When I
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  Speaker 3: came home, I said, I opened the cleaning service but
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  Speaker 3: the ultimate goal was to be into the construction industry.
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  Speaker 3: That has been the overarching goal. And what better way
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  Speaker 3: to get into the construction industry is by cleaning the
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  Speaker 3: construction trailers. I mean, because that's where all the decision
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  Speaker 3: makers are, that's where all action happens. And so I
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  Speaker 3: started cleaning trailers. Then I developed relationships, and then they
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  Speaker 3: had me doing final clean, post construction clean. Now they
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  Speaker 3: haven't me cleaning their whole extablishment.
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  Speaker 3: And from that, that is how I was able to
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  Speaker 3: secure the contract for the Temple Convention Center.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: I had three shifts, three ships with sixty five employees,
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  Speaker 3: and then from that I was selected by the NFL
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  Speaker 3: as the premium cleaning company for the Super Bowl in Temple, Florida.
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  Speaker 3: They liked the job that I did so well they
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  Speaker 3: called me back for the NFL kickoff. From that, I
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  Speaker 3: was on the news Channel thirteen. I get a phone call.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody said, I'm calling from Home Depot. I want to
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  Speaker 3: make you a distributor. I said them, I'm getting pranked
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  Speaker 3: something right now, Like, how did you get my number?
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  Speaker 3: He said, I saw you on the news and we
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  Speaker 3: wanted to follow the money trail. And as a result
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  Speaker 3: of that, I'm a distributor from home depot. So now
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  Speaker 3: all of the clients that I cleaned for now I
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  Speaker 3: supplied them with their supplies and their paper products. And
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  Speaker 3: then I took it a step further because I am
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  Speaker 3: a minority, and so I had contracts with the City
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  Speaker 3: of Tampa, Mafit Cancer Center, and USF providing them with supplies.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Robin, first of all, you've been incarcerated five years,
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  Speaker 2: how do you get past that? Because I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 2: a trust factor that people a stereotype. You're black, owner drugs,
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  Speaker 2: incarcerated five years. How do you start getting past those
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  Speaker 2: negative points that stopped a lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: I start with it, like I don't I don't tiptoe
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  Speaker 3: around it. I mean, that is not a selling point,
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  Speaker 3: but it's nothing that I'm ashamed of either. Right, So,
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  Speaker 3: for for a long time, I would never use my
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  Speaker 3: government name because I didn't want anyone doing any type
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  Speaker 3: of research that I don't care. This is who I
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  Speaker 3: am right. And it was one superintendent who told me something.
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  Speaker 3: He says, Robin, that's what you were, not who you are.
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  Speaker 3: And he said, there is nobody walking, even breathing, that
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  Speaker 3: does not have a family member or have been affected
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  Speaker 3: by such. But you are a sterling example of what
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  Speaker 3: you could, what you were, what you could be. And
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  Speaker 3: I took it for what it was. And so again
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  Speaker 3: I have no problem introducing myself as inmate four seven, five,
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  Speaker 3: nine to eleven, because that's not who I am today.
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  Speaker 3: And if you want to stick to what I was
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  Speaker 3: when maybe we're not, we don't need to work together.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just how it is.
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm a novice here. When I start, I know
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  Speaker 2: nothing about the cleaning industry. How do you get recognized
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  Speaker 2: or how do you bid on jobs as a cleaning
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  Speaker 2: company and get it well?
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  Speaker 3: As of today, I no longer have to bid, But
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  Speaker 3: I'll answer that question for it.
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  Speaker 1: Was something else.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you know that that was a moment that
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  Speaker 2: right you say, you're talking to Rawber, I don't bid.
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  Speaker 1: They come to me when you were in your beating days, roping.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, let's go bedding day, Let's go back, Let's
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  Speaker 2: go back let's go back in.
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  Speaker 1: Your beating days. How are you securing jobs?
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  Speaker 2: And as an rn P, they call a request for
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  Speaker 2: proposed Right, what does that?
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  Speaker 1: What does that look like? What did you have to submit?
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  Speaker 3: So I start before the RFP ever comes out, So,
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  Speaker 3: to be very frank, it's like playing chess instead of
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  Speaker 3: playing checkers. When an RP hits the streets, right, you
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  Speaker 3: have to maybe a month to respond, depending on the
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  Speaker 3: scope of work. I don't I don't want to. I
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  Speaker 3: don't wait for those opportunities. I know first of all,
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  Speaker 3: I have a goal. I have a plan as to
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  Speaker 3: who I would like to work with and the type
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  Speaker 3: of work that I want to do. So I study
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  Speaker 3: those individuals. I understand what the forecast looks like for them,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to go ahead and develop the relationships.
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  Speaker 3: So when opportunities do arise, my name Renewed Construction Services
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  Speaker 3: is the first one on your tongue. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: notify me. And then also I attend events in understanding
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  Speaker 3: again the forecast of a found uh projects and again
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  Speaker 3: cultivating those relationships. And that's how I am able to
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  Speaker 3: secure most of the contracts. But I think that something
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  Speaker 3: else that I learned in prison. And it's the art
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  Speaker 3: of collaboration because one thing I do, I do not
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  Speaker 3: play small. However, I understand my limitations and my strengths.
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  Speaker 3: So one thing that I have done is other smaller
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  Speaker 3: construction companies that are looking to scale, I will respond
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  Speaker 3: to a large RFP that would require me collaborating with
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  Speaker 3: smaller pets, right, and so now they have an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to put on their resume that they have done or
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  Speaker 3: as a part of a project of such magnitude. And
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  Speaker 3: that's the classic example of what I did. Just past
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  Speaker 3: two months ago, we had the opportunity for to clean
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  Speaker 3: Yankee Stadium, the Styry Brenner Stadium here locally in Tampa,
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  Speaker 3: and I was yes, and that was a large contract
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  Speaker 3: and I was able to bring three other smaller contractors
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  Speaker 3: and collaborating together. Now they didn't have all of their insurances,
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  Speaker 3: which was okay because I brought them up undermind wing.
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  Speaker 3: And so now when we're looking for larger opportunities, this
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  Speaker 3: is a collaboration effort.
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  Speaker 1: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: Now being at your you've been blessed, how do you
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  Speaker 2: share those blessings with the young people in the community.
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  Speaker 3: Deal every time I can, I can get the ear
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  Speaker 3: of a youth. I impart something from Nugget. However, either
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  Speaker 3: the focus or the majority of the impact would be
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  Speaker 3: through the nonprofit which is called STEM Exposure. You know.
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  Speaker 3: STEM Exposure is a non a nonprofit whose mission is
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  Speaker 3: to expose black girls to unrepresent in its STEM careers
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  Speaker 3: as it relates to architecture, construction, beauty sports. I could
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  Speaker 3: honestly say that after I did start my business, I
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  Speaker 3: had a mentor and my mentor, her name is Ann
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  Speaker 3: mcmill down in South Florida. She's an amazing individual. She
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  Speaker 3: took me around the country and exposed me to different
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  Speaker 3: fastest though construction until I found my calling. And that
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  Speaker 3: is the same thing that I do to others. Basically,
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  Speaker 3: I encourage people to bring their talents to the construction industry. Right, so,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it is you're good at it, let's see how
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  Speaker 3: it applies to the construction industry. And then from that,
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  Speaker 3: I also teach the construction trades. So it's all about
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  Speaker 3: whether you are a third through twelfth grader or you
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  Speaker 3: are an adult. I'm going to inspire you one way
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  Speaker 3: or the other.
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  Speaker 2: You rose from a conservation to getting the President's Lifetime
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  Speaker 2: Achievement award. Now, it wasn't about getting the contract for
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  Speaker 2: an NFL, the Tampa or the Tampa Convention Center, all
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  Speaker 2: your legacies that you created. It's about those kids that
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  Speaker 2: you're changing, those girls who you were inspiring to pursue
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  Speaker 2: stam opportunities. That's what makes you special. When you got
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  Speaker 2: the President's Award, did you understand that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think you understand that, Lusha the same to
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  Speaker 3: see that locked me up was the same agency that
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  Speaker 3: gave me a Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award, And I'm a
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  Speaker 3: posed on that one.
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  Speaker 2: No Poles keep speaking because there was pain and fear
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  Speaker 2: there was tied to that agency. Now there was celebration
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  Speaker 2: and hope there was tied to that same agency. That's
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  Speaker 2: why I don't have to pause because I know or
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  Speaker 2: you go out the front door, sometimes going out that
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: back door, it's the same house, pbsolutely. That's why I
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: wanted to interview you because see, we all got these
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  Speaker 2: stories out here.
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  Speaker 1: Because your story is daring. Their movie.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just let you know that darn that movie now,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: cause you're because you were combative in jail and you
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  Speaker 2: know you didn't get along with nobody. They had to
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: put you in confinement all the time. That means that
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  Speaker 2: you didn't talk to nobody, couldn't nobody tell you nothing.
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  Speaker 2: You were just robbing, hard headed dogs, that's who you were.
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  Speaker 2: But somebody saw something in you put you on that
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  Speaker 2: third shift and the rest is history.
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  Speaker 3: Rest is history.
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  Speaker 1: So what's the future for Robin?
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  Speaker 3: Well, remember I told you in the beginning, the whole
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  Speaker 3: the over archering goal was to be a contractor, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, start my construction company. And I am glad
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  Speaker 3: to say that twenty nineteen is when actually we started
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  Speaker 3: the construction company. And I always knew what it was
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  Speaker 3: going to be, so I named it as such, Renewed
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  Speaker 3: Construction Services. We are licensed roofers, we are licensed contractors
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  Speaker 3: and architectural desires.
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  Speaker 1: Now I can pause. Now I'm pausing, not because you
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  Speaker 1: know you got that little smirk.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna tell you if I wish I was live,
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  Speaker 2: it's the only inview I would done about life. I
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: wish our lives like yeo, I five hug. And because
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: you're just so calm about it, because but you know
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: the hard work being put in place, When would you celebrate,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Robin or you've not at the finish line.
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  Speaker 3: Yet, Well, I celebrate all the time. I celebrate my
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: little wins. But I'm gonna tell you which one it
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: had the most impact. Okay, when I was able to
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  Speaker 3: put my bills on auto pay, Yes, let me know
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  Speaker 3: that I was doing.
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  Speaker 1: Something which is very smart, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: And you know it's a piece of piece. He's like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't have to even think about my bills like
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  Speaker 3: that gives me space to think about other creative things
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  Speaker 3: that I need to do. But that was again something
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: that I struggled with, you know, Robin Paul to pay Peter,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: not knowing how I was going to but to now
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: know that I can financially sustain myself not have to worry.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Robert, you have a foundation. Can we tell everybody
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  Speaker 2: how they can find your foundation?
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  Speaker 3: Stem Exposure ww dot, stem S t E m x
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  Speaker 3: p O s U r E dot org. I have
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  Speaker 3: wanted to mention that there's two opportunities if you are
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: one local. We are hosting an amazing timely summer camp,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: the Science of Survival. Because we live here in the
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Tampa Bay area and we were impacted by three hurricanes
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  Speaker 3: back to back. We're hosting our architectural camp where we're
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: going to introduce architecture, AI, engineering and construction. And then
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  Speaker 3: also we're going to have a global camp. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: make mention of the Global camp, but our global camp
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  Speaker 3: where we were in ten countries in four different time zones.
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  Speaker 3: And so we're going to host a camp the last
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  Speaker 3: week in July for the Global Architectural Camp. So anyone
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  Speaker 3: who wants to participate again is virtual and it will
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  Speaker 3: be an amazing opportunity because we will have different students
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  Speaker 3: from different parts of the country, different parts of the
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  Speaker 3: world collaborating together. And again you can find more information
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  Speaker 3: on our.
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  Speaker 1: Website stem exposure dot com.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, drop the E in exposure.
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  Speaker 1: Cool. Now, what about your business?
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  Speaker 2: If you wus just want to go down there and
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  Speaker 2: see this great business and learn more about you, Robert Donaldson,
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  Speaker 2: tell us your website that.
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  Speaker 3: Would be ww dot renew Construction Services dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Would it be renewed r E W R U R
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  Speaker 2: E N E W. There you go, my friend. I
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  Speaker 2: know you were recommended to come on my shall. I've
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  Speaker 2: never had a guest like you on Mishelle, which is
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  Speaker 2: always a new experience for me, which is good for
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  Speaker 2: me because there's so many paths in life that people
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: deal with to be successful or to achieve happiness. I'm
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: seeing both happiness and success, and more importantly, to be
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: recognized by the President of the United States for a
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  Speaker 2: lifetime achievement of war, for the work that you're doing
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  Speaker 2: in the community and how you turned your life around
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  Speaker 2: and became becoming an AX paying hiring individual. Just recognized
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  Speaker 2: from the n to the Center of Tampa. Congratulations, Robin,
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