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Shaun Robinson, Derek Anderson, Reginald Ware & Melissa Proctor · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Corporated and the CEO of Black Doctor dot Org. Your
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Speaker 1: Daily Medicine for Life. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations.
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Speaker 1: Reggie Ware, Hey, John, how you doing? Buddy's pretty good?
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Speaker 1: My friend? What's city your We'll city Chicago? Now that's right,
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Speaker 1: I'm sus I'm walking around. You know, it's been five
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Speaker 1: years in Chicago doing the Steve Harvard Talk Show. Um,
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Speaker 1: right now. Yesterday I was walking around in short pants
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Speaker 1: and flip flops in Atlanta, Georgia. What were you walking
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Speaker 1: around in Chicago in Reggie, Well, I had a light jacket,
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Speaker 1: you know. So it's the weather has been good this year.
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Speaker 1: It's been For example, it's gonna be fifty three to day,
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Speaker 1: So that's you know, that's like anywhere that's a warm
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Speaker 1: me when we was at the cr Double A Tournament
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Speaker 1: many years ago, and you see its growth and to
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Speaker 1: see that you steadfastly held onto your dream is amazing.
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Speaker 1: Black doctors tell me about it. Well, we're a healthy
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Speaker 1: lifestyle website and our mission is to UH to get
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Speaker 1: every Black family healthy. And what we our strategy is
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Speaker 1: to leverage culture, content and technology to help improve people's lives.
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Speaker 1: And so every day we're creating content that we feel, uh,
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Speaker 1: and the numbers are proven. That's resonating with our people
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Speaker 1: and it's motivating them to make the changes that they need.
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Speaker 1: So it's a it's a labor of love, you know.
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Speaker 1: That's what really has captured my our thought process. The
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Speaker 1: views that you get when you post videos on your website,
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Speaker 1: it's pretty phenomenal. Man. I'm just gonna let you know,
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Speaker 1: very prey thank you. You know. Um. You know, our
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Speaker 1: And so we've been able to enjoy the success basically
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Speaker 1: on the shoulders of our audience that understand that everybody
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Speaker 1: needs to be getting this information. So it's interesting thing
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Speaker 1: about why I have you on the show. When you
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Speaker 1: when you hear the word black doctor dot org, you know,
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Speaker 1: you you immediately think this is a website about medical
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Speaker 1: information only, you know, but when you go to the website, now,
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Speaker 1: please you gotta go to the website black doctor dot
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Speaker 1: tax information, recipes, beauty tips, relationship advice. Now is that
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Speaker 1: a message because that you did you really trying to
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Speaker 1: get out there, or or when people just hear black doctor,
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Speaker 1: you just want to keep it simple black doctor dot org.
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Speaker 1: Well okay, so um, alright, so the name it represents, Okay,
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Speaker 1: when you're talking about health the Black people, you know,
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Speaker 1: we're very distrusting of the healthcare and right, and I
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Speaker 1: believe every population group is it's just maybe multiplied by
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Speaker 1: twenty times when you're talking to um African Americans, and
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Speaker 1: so we wanted to create a name that our audience
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Speaker 1: would say, wow, this is something I can trust. And
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Speaker 1: so in the Black community are too much trusted icons
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Speaker 1: or the black creature and the black doctor. So it's
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Speaker 1: an iconic name that our audiences man, health information that
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Speaker 1: I can trust, phenomenal and even the dot org versus
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Speaker 1: dot com. I mean, we own black doctor dot com too,
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Speaker 1: but when you punch that in, it points us, it
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Speaker 1: drives you to black doctor dot org. And so trust
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Speaker 1: is a big piece of what we do. And now,
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Speaker 1: health the way we look at health is health is
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Speaker 1: more than the absence of disease, Right, health is feeling
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Speaker 1: good about yourself, being happy, being whole, and so a
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Speaker 1: lot of things impact your health, your relationships, the diet, exercise, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know this, traveling stress, being stress free. So we
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Speaker 1: try to take a uh we try to take a
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Speaker 1: sort of a broad approach to everything that's going to
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Speaker 1: impact your life in a positive way, because at the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, all of these things are factors
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Speaker 1: in terms of whether or not you're gonna be able
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Speaker 1: to be healthy and live a life you want to
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Speaker 1: live and so forth. How do you raise your parents,
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Speaker 1: relationships with your significant other, meeting people when you're look
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Speaker 1: in the mirror, do you like who you see? All
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Speaker 1: of that, We cover it all and and you cover
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Speaker 1: it very well because, like I said, you think because
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Speaker 1: you know, I was texting back and forth on Sunday
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Speaker 1: and so that's usually my my my research day when
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Speaker 1: I because I want everything to be fresh, and I'm
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Speaker 1: just stuck on your website Black doctor dot org just
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Speaker 1: read just be entertained, and I found that. That's why
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Speaker 1: I wanted to bring that out to the top of
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Speaker 1: our interview, is to talk about how it's how diverse
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Speaker 1: information that I wouldn't expect to go to but you're
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Speaker 1: absolutely right. Stress. So get this tax information off your back.
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Speaker 1: You haven't taxes. You what you can create stress, we
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Speaker 1: can turn and affect your health. That's what you can
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Speaker 1: get over there. Here's the recipes to eat right eat
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Speaker 1: And so I just really found that phenomenal and I
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Speaker 1: felt that that I definitely want to be, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: a brand participant when when where I can assist you
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Speaker 1: and uh, just expanding information, just expanding knowledge and awareness
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Speaker 1: of what you're doing that black doctor dot org. Believe me,
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Speaker 1: I'm a fan and I'm with your friend. Yeah, And
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you. I appreciate all the work that you're
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Speaker 1: doing because I mean you're helping you're helping people. On
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Speaker 1: the entrepreneurial part, which is as a population group, the
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Speaker 1: only way we're ever gonna thrive is if we develop
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Speaker 1: more entrepreneurs. Because entrepreneurs drives wealth. It also allows people
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Speaker 1: to get more jobs because a lot of times and
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Speaker 1: people go to go to these uh go to white companies,
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Speaker 1: they may not get the job. And it may not
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Speaker 1: be racist. It maybe people just like to hire who
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Speaker 1: they know, who they're comfortable with. Right, And if we
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Speaker 1: get more entrepreneurs that look like us, then we're gonna
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Speaker 1: hire more people we'll give it would be more opportunities
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Speaker 1: for people. So I really, I'm really impressed and thrilled
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Speaker 1: with what you're doing, and we want to work with
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Speaker 1: you moving forward as much as we can. Well, okay,
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Speaker 1: let's let's just get a little history on you. You You know,
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Speaker 1: here's a guy. Okay, Well, what was your major in college?
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Speaker 1: And are you doing what you thought you would do
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Speaker 1: when you went to college? Okay, I was the marketing
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Speaker 1: major in college. I am marketing and I'm with to
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Speaker 1: school on a football scholarship, and uh but I was
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Speaker 1: one of the few people that said, let me actually
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Speaker 1: get my degree while I'm here, and uh so, um,
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Speaker 1: after school, I went to work for an ad agency.
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Speaker 1: So in my mind I was thinking that, uh, my
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Speaker 1: core skill set was in marketing, marketing, sales, and so forth,
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Speaker 1: and I wanted to be involved in media, and I
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Speaker 1: was thinking it was more from the advertising side, passing
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Speaker 1: copy copyright. We're you're writing the copy that pure and
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Speaker 1: adds and so forth. But once I got out of
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Speaker 1: school and start working for an ad agency, I saw that. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I think I saw that the true leverage and even
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Speaker 1: my true passion was the media side of it, where
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Speaker 1: we're publishing the content and then letting the people advertise
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Speaker 1: on the content around the content that I'm publishing. And
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Speaker 1: so my um so, my first the business that most
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Speaker 1: people know me by it when I started the Heart
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Speaker 1: and Soul magazine out of Los Angeles, which was in
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Speaker 1: the early nineties and uh as as you may may
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Speaker 1: not know, that was the nation's first health magazine for
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Speaker 1: black women, which we eventually uh was eventually sold to
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Speaker 1: a BT right right, Yeah, Now, with that, so you
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Speaker 1: always had that I got to use this word visionary approach,
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Speaker 1: you know, because you were doing things with hard and soul.
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Speaker 1: Now you came up with black doctors got on. Okay,
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Speaker 1: it's just still an idea, and you have more naysayers
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Speaker 1: or saying that's crazy or I don't think that's gonna work,
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Speaker 1: because most people do, they leverage negativity before they try
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Speaker 1: to support you. And you have to be your own
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Speaker 1: personal cheerleader. How does that work? You know you bring
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Speaker 1: a but great, that's that's really a very insightful and
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Speaker 1: and and powerful point. You're right. When I was starting out,
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Speaker 1: whenever I would create a business, it wasn't until I
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Speaker 1: was maybe nine when I would tell a person what
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to do and they wouldn't tell me immediately
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Speaker 1: that's not gonna work, that's never gonna work. And it
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Speaker 1: was so bad people telling me what I couldn't do
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Speaker 1: that I used to that was my sort of my
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Speaker 1: uh that was sort of my trigger to know that
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Speaker 1: it was a good idea. If everybody said it wasn't
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Speaker 1: gonna work, to go and let me know that it
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Speaker 1: was gonna work. And it was. It was a big adjustment.
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Speaker 1: Once I started telling people what I wanted to do
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Speaker 1: and they said, oh, yeah, that's that's that's a good idea,
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Speaker 1: that's gonna work. I had to step back and say,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, what's wrong here? You know? But uh,
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Speaker 1: but you're right. A lot of times people aren't going
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Speaker 1: to be able to share your vision and they will
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Speaker 1: probably probably give you negative feedback. But if the vision
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Speaker 1: When I said generic is not a negative way, but
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Speaker 1: For Red l Well, success for me is how many
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Speaker 1: people's lives can I impact. I mean, I want my
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24:06
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26:13
Speaker 1: the ball girl the CMO. Yes, sir, please working the
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Speaker 1: you very much, and I'm so honored to be here
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Speaker 1: with you today. Thank you, thank you. You look fantastic
26:24
Speaker 1: on a rainy day in Atlanta, and you came in
26:27
Speaker 1: looking at as they say, fantafuls. Let's talk about the
26:31
Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks. Okay, because you just CMO. Please tell everybody
26:35
Speaker 1: what exactly is the responsibilities of a CMO. Well, you know,
26:38
Speaker 1: CMO duties and responsibilities very dependent on your organization, and
26:42
Speaker 1: so with the Atlanta Hawks, mean a lot of it
26:44
Speaker 1: is obviously marketing and advertising and the things that you
26:46
Speaker 1: see out there to get you excited to want to
26:48
Speaker 1: come to the game's motion. But in addition to that,
26:51
Speaker 1: there's so much that happens behind the scenes, So everything
26:54
Speaker 1: from what we do on game days to the execution,
26:56
Speaker 1: the cheerleaders and mascots, all of the production and the
26:59
Speaker 1: people that absolutely huge team with people behind that are
27:04
Speaker 1: involved in that on a daily basis. You know, I
27:06
Speaker 1: didn't think there was absolutely not um In addition to
27:11
Speaker 1: the retail, so I store all the amazing hawkscal that
27:14
Speaker 1: you see people wearing around the city. That as well
27:17
Speaker 1: our social media, all of our amazing brand voice that
27:20
Speaker 1: we have on Twitter, on LinkedIn, especially we're doing a
27:23
Speaker 1: lot of cool things on social so that team as well,
27:25
Speaker 1: I mean all of the videos that you see that
27:27
Speaker 1: come out around the Hawks, and so there's there's a
27:29
Speaker 1: big team of people down because a lot because I
27:32
Speaker 1: didn't think you get I thought it was gonna be
27:35
Speaker 1: to like a little bit of a couple of sentences,
27:37
Speaker 1: and now you went from the social media to T
27:40
Speaker 1: shirt sales to actual cheerleaders. So so just just tell
27:46
Speaker 1: me a day in the life one day, like the
27:48
Speaker 1: Monday you on the radio show with me when you
27:50
Speaker 1: leave here, why does this? Well? When I get when
27:53
Speaker 1: I get to the office, we have a number of
27:55
Speaker 1: meetings and a lot of it is just approval. So
27:57
Speaker 1: right now one of our big priorities as an organization
27:59
Speaker 1: is really the Serena transformation and what we're doing with
28:02
Speaker 1: So we have some some meetings coming up of how
28:04
Speaker 1: we're gonna cover the market and let everybody know all
28:06
Speaker 1: the amazing things that are coming to Philips Serena Um
28:09
Speaker 1: at probably around October, so October of this fall, the
28:13
Speaker 1: entire building will be redone and completely renovated. Now some
28:16
Speaker 1: changes have happened already. Car Yes, okay, because because I
28:19
Speaker 1: was kind of confused, going like I was just there,
28:22
Speaker 1: you know, I went there for the new Jersey New
28:25
Speaker 1: Jersey of Brooklyn nets a basketball game, and I was
28:31
Speaker 1: in this week, you know, with free food and everything.
28:34
Speaker 1: You know, I was looking good girl, But nobody's twitting
28:37
Speaker 1: meat and so so, and I just you know, first
28:41
Speaker 1: of all, the know it was let's talk about the renovations.
28:44
Speaker 1: They are there now and what's going to comment the future.
28:47
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the changes now. So last summer we
28:49
Speaker 1: closed for the entire summer. We did a lot of
28:51
Speaker 1: behind the scenes work and even now if you come
28:53
Speaker 1: into the building, there's some banners up where some of
28:55
Speaker 1: the sweets are still being renovated. But currently we have
28:58
Speaker 1: our Courtside Club, which it's been an amazing new innovation
29:02
Speaker 1: for the buildings. So a lot of the court side
29:03
Speaker 1: seat holders now have an amazing new club where they
29:06
Speaker 1: can go during the game day. We have a court
29:08
Speaker 1: that's literally on the floor, so behind the backboard you'll
29:10
Speaker 1: see that's the logo, right, that's you see the Hawks
29:12
Speaker 1: logo on the floor, and so now people can actually
29:14
Speaker 1: stand out there and watch the game. And a lot
29:16
Speaker 1: of that has happened on football, but it's never really
29:18
Speaker 1: happened in basketball. So here in Atlanta with the Hawks,
29:21
Speaker 1: we're really trying to be innovative and be different as
29:23
Speaker 1: we turn. Because y'all logo allows to create that that
29:27
Speaker 1: that kind of like that bar design because I've seen
29:30
Speaker 1: it that went that's pretty slick because it's right behind
29:32
Speaker 1: the basket. And so there are a number of people
29:35
Speaker 1: who are now taking that opportunity and want to be
29:37
Speaker 1: down court side. It's very exclusives. You can only get
29:39
Speaker 1: down there if you have those courtside seats. However, it's
29:41
Speaker 1: one of the first things that you can go in
29:44
Speaker 1: at the top. Well, there may be some opportunities if
29:47
Speaker 1: you're in a suite you know, like you are, you
29:50
Speaker 1: know you'll have those opportunities. You have just look down
29:54
Speaker 1: in there and then feel the log But next season
29:56
Speaker 1: we'll have a lot of different things for people who
29:58
Speaker 1: are even up at the top. So a lot of
30:00
Speaker 1: about about stay right here, right here, I want to
30:02
Speaker 1: go to the next sea. I got two breaks with
30:03
Speaker 1: you stuff because you know, you know you this is
30:06
Speaker 1: what you do for a living. And sometimes when you
30:08
Speaker 1: tell your story, you tell us so fast you think
30:10
Speaker 1: people here, but they don't because you just you know,
30:13
Speaker 1: your your your machine. You know, you constantly want to
30:16
Speaker 1: sell your brand at the highest level and you're excited
30:18
Speaker 1: about Okay, let's talk about some of that. I saw
30:21
Speaker 1: golf over there. I saw talk about barbershop. Okay, killing
30:25
Speaker 1: Mike swack shop. So let's talk about that. Now. I
30:28
Speaker 1: saw killing Mike bobbershop. I went okay, and I'm ball ahead.
30:31
Speaker 1: So you I ruled out. Oh no, they got stuff
30:33
Speaker 1: for you. Let's talk about those changes that really caught
30:37
Speaker 1: me off guard. So all of those that we're talking
30:39
Speaker 1: about that everybody that we're talking about the Philips Arena
30:43
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, Georgia, where the Light of Hawks play as
30:46
Speaker 1: well as all concerts come through there. Broke Steve Harvey
30:50
Speaker 1: there several times and we sold a lot of several shows.
30:52
Speaker 1: I'm more bragg about it at the Philips Arena. And
30:55
Speaker 1: now you guys have renovated it and we're talking about
30:58
Speaker 1: the change is currently and we have saw him in
31:00
Speaker 1: the future. Yes, so we are transforming this into an
31:02
Speaker 1: all new building under the same roof, and so it's
31:05
Speaker 1: gonna be phenomenal. So a lot of the changes that
31:07
Speaker 1: you're talking about are ones that are gonna come next season.
31:10
Speaker 1: But you know, one of the signature items that we're
31:12
Speaker 1: bringing in kind of three big things, one's top golf.
31:15
Speaker 1: So many people are familiar with tops just as an experience,
31:18
Speaker 1: and so we're literally gonna bring top golf into the building.
31:21
Speaker 1: We're creating these top golf swing suites where you and
31:24
Speaker 1: a group of guests and all the folks here on
31:26
Speaker 1: your team can go and enjoy a basketball game and
31:29
Speaker 1: play golf in the swing suite at the same time.
31:31
Speaker 1: Here here's here's the players a bight getting mad at you,
31:34
Speaker 1: just like the Land of Facton players mad because there's
31:37
Speaker 1: nobody in the stands sometimes, you know, because they've got
31:39
Speaker 1: all this activity going your head shave, you know, swing
31:44
Speaker 1: the golf. You're at the little bar down there behind
31:47
Speaker 1: if where are the people in the stands? So how
31:49
Speaker 1: do you balance that? Well, you know, we really think
31:52
Speaker 1: that by creating exciting basketball on the court, period, people
31:55
Speaker 1: are gonna come out and watch that. But everyone comes
31:57
Speaker 1: to a game and has different experiences. So even if
31:59
Speaker 1: you come to the game out, it's it's a social
32:01
Speaker 1: activity there. And we really target the next generation at Lantin,
32:04
Speaker 1: so we know it's about the bars and hanging out
32:06
Speaker 1: with friends and being able to connect with people. So
32:08
Speaker 1: even the idea of the swag shop. You know, we're
32:11
Speaker 1: at a barbershop, that's where you know, people go to
32:13
Speaker 1: interact and talk trash and all of that. But we
32:16
Speaker 1: will literally have four barber's chairs there where you can
32:19
Speaker 1: get your haircut while watching the game at the same time. Now,
32:21
Speaker 1: now here's the fun part about this conversation is that
32:24
Speaker 1: because it has changed, you're telling me Rashan, Look, we
32:28
Speaker 1: have to entertain on the court and off the court.
32:31
Speaker 1: And what do you think Creates has created that shift?
32:35
Speaker 1: First about WiFi, Remember they wanted to make sure you
32:37
Speaker 1: have WiFi so you can watch the game on your
32:39
Speaker 1: cell phone. Now, as like physical activity, that can keep
32:43
Speaker 1: you not only your interest going, Okay, let's go to
32:46
Speaker 1: the game. You go, well, oh, you know we're gonna
32:48
Speaker 1: go hang out to kill a mics his swag barbershop,
32:50
Speaker 1: or we go let's go swing some some golf balls
32:53
Speaker 1: and the Hawks game. That's really a phenomenal well, I
32:57
Speaker 1: mean I think for us, you know that coupled with
32:59
Speaker 1: amazing food. We have chef Joe Schaeffer, who was formerly
33:01
Speaker 1: at Baccanalia who's now our executive chef. She said that
33:07
Speaker 1: name real quick, like say, I'm a professional eater. Okay,
33:11
Speaker 1: we're talking about in Las Vegas. Now, that is the
33:14
Speaker 1: best buffet in Las Vegas. Now, if if they got
33:18
Speaker 1: they got crawdads on that buffet in Las Vegas. So
33:21
Speaker 1: I know he knows what he's talking about. So so
33:24
Speaker 1: did you throw that name out like I wasn't gonna
33:25
Speaker 1: catch you. You You know a lot of people don't catch that.
33:27
Speaker 1: But you're looking at the foodie. I can tell, Okay,
33:30
Speaker 1: and when and if I'm just gonna verify this with
33:32
Speaker 1: this dude, if he's the man from there, you need
33:35
Speaker 1: to start eating at the Hawks games well there as
33:37
Speaker 1: well as the other restaurant Baccanalia here in Atlanta. But
33:40
Speaker 1: he is bringing a whole new direction of the food
33:44
Speaker 1: and beverage to the arena. And so I really believe
33:46
Speaker 1: that through all of our guests. I mean, I mean,
33:48
Speaker 1: you know, now, especially with millennials and we call them
33:51
Speaker 1: next generation Atlanta's, there's so many things that occupy your time.
33:54
Speaker 1: Attention spans are so much shorter than they used to be,
33:57
Speaker 1: so for you to get up off your couch and
33:59
Speaker 1: to get out of your behind your iPad to come
34:01
Speaker 1: to a game. We're all about the power of live entertainment.
34:04
Speaker 1: And you mentioned selling out Philip Srina all the big
34:06
Speaker 1: shows and absolutely I took my daughter there to see
34:09
Speaker 1: a concert and it was just phenomenal. And yeah, I
34:13
Speaker 1: want to talk about a little bit about Tender Night. Yes, now,
34:17
Speaker 1: tender everybody know about the social the social or app
34:21
Speaker 1: dating apps with friends, connect with friends. It has brought
34:25
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of positive publicity and made your basketball
34:30
Speaker 1: game even more social. That one couple has recently gonna
34:33
Speaker 1: get married at the game because they married a lot
34:36
Speaker 1: of Hawks Tender Night. So three years ago we did
34:38
Speaker 1: that first Tender Night. That is brilliant. It was a
34:41
Speaker 1: combination of folks you know in our our CEO. You know,
34:43
Speaker 1: Steve Coonan is incredibly creative, funny him, he's funny, and
34:47
Speaker 1: so you know, the idea was, how about we take
34:49
Speaker 1: something that we know our audience is doing in the
34:52
Speaker 1: digital space and bring it into the physical space. So
34:54
Speaker 1: if we were going to allow people to connect online,
34:57
Speaker 1: they can just come to our building. We'll give them
34:58
Speaker 1: an opportunity to connect physic leave with each other. And
35:00
Speaker 1: so that was the first Tender Night, and we had
35:03
Speaker 1: a love lounge and people can come up and meet
35:05
Speaker 1: each other on the lounge and and so a lot
35:08
Speaker 1: of people connected. Two of my employees who participated regularly
35:13
Speaker 1: in your Tender Night, they so I knew about it
35:16
Speaker 1: before I went to the game, and they thought it
35:18
Speaker 1: was fun, they thought it was innovative. They felt no pressure,
35:22
Speaker 1: you know, so it was just like some another cool option,
35:25
Speaker 1: and they were they were ticket holders. And even if
35:28
Speaker 1: you didn't know it was Tender Night, you can still
35:29
Speaker 1: come out and still be a part of it, which
35:31
Speaker 1: was really exciting for fans who are just coming and learning.
35:33
Speaker 1: And so literally after the first one, uh, we said, hey,
35:36
Speaker 1: you know, if anyone, Steve said, if anyone meets and
35:39
Speaker 1: ends up getting married, we'll take on you. We'll have
35:42
Speaker 1: your wedding here at Philip Philip Serena. They've been said
35:48
Speaker 1: yet this weekend, this week this weekend, did you explain
35:53
Speaker 1: this scenario how they gonna get married, you know, the
35:55
Speaker 1: halftime before the game, not during the game. They're literally
35:58
Speaker 1: having their wedding in Philip Serena. So there's not another
36:01
Speaker 1: event happening during the games, happening on the court and
36:04
Speaker 1: their receptions in our new court side clubs. It doesn't
36:07
Speaker 1: feel like a throwaway, not at all. This is this
36:10
Speaker 1: isn't a special experience for them, and we wanted to
36:12
Speaker 1: make sure that we can kind of be there. With
36:14
Speaker 1: your social media. You're gonna be good or you're gonna
36:16
Speaker 1: be shooting video. I know you CMO, I know that
36:20
Speaker 1: there is a game plan here when you know they're
36:23
Speaker 1: really excited about it or partnering with Tender and with
36:25
Speaker 1: the not and so you know, David's Bridle supplied the
36:28
Speaker 1: dresses for the bride and all of the bridal party,
36:32
Speaker 1: so it should be a really great event and we're
36:33
Speaker 1: very happy for them. I'm happy to I saw a
36:35
Speaker 1: cute couple in that way. I wanted to bring it
36:38
Speaker 1: up because I thought that was very innovativele and like
36:40
Speaker 1: I said, and when it was when it launched, you know,
36:43
Speaker 1: it got a lot of the cool national buds that
36:45
Speaker 1: you guys thought of that. So when you when I
36:48
Speaker 1: look at what you guys doing, if you've not been
36:50
Speaker 1: to a Land of Hawks game, I'm telling you go.
36:53
Speaker 1: And it's not about the record, it's about the experience.
36:55
Speaker 1: When I say that, what you guys do with the
36:57
Speaker 1: with the with with the kiss cam, with the with
37:00
Speaker 1: the cheerleaders, with the mascot is almost global trottersh you
37:05
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, because y'allre so creating an experience
37:09
Speaker 1: even you know, now Hot Sauce is kind of one
37:11
Speaker 1: of the new things that we're doing. Is a part
37:12
Speaker 1: of our game, and he's taking people on and it's
37:16
Speaker 1: really exciting and we thank you know, for people of
37:17
Speaker 1: all ages coming down to a Hawks game and really
37:19
Speaker 1: experiencing what we have this season. But next season knowing
37:22
Speaker 1: we're gonna take it to a whole different level with
37:24
Speaker 1: the transformation that the next break. Run out of time
37:27
Speaker 1: on this break. But I want to keep this focusing
37:29
Speaker 1: because you you got information, because I really want to
37:32
Speaker 1: talk more about that experience, especially from the social because
37:36
Speaker 1: I've been to like about five I live in Atlanta,
37:39
Speaker 1: I've been about five games, and I like that recently
37:43
Speaker 1: went to a game this this this year, and the
37:46
Speaker 1: experience has always been fun. And I like the way
37:49
Speaker 1: you're able to do social media, have people take pictures
37:54
Speaker 1: and then so you keep them connected even if they're
37:56
Speaker 1: not at the game. That is so sharp and so
38:00
Speaker 1: so that's what your team does yes, I mean on
38:03
Speaker 1: a regular basis coming up with new ideas and new
38:05
Speaker 1: ways that we can kind of entertain our audiences. For example,
38:08
Speaker 1: you know, coming out at the beginning of the season,
38:11
Speaker 1: really looking at how we even tell people what the
38:12
Speaker 1: schedule is and doing a schedule release with emojis right right,
38:17
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38:19
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38:21
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38:23
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38:25
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38:28
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38:32
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42:23
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42:51
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42:55
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43:25
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43:30
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43:34
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43:36
Speaker 1: for the next game. And it was a volunteer job
43:38
Speaker 1: and it didn't pay. He said, you gotta keep up
43:40
Speaker 1: your grades. You be here at four o'clock every game
43:42
Speaker 1: day and stay till about midnight. When we finished cleaning
43:45
Speaker 1: the locker room, hanging uniforms, folding towels. He said, it's grungework.
43:48
Speaker 1: You try to discourage me. Oh, you know, you're not
43:50
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43:53
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43:55
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43:57
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44:03
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44:06
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44:10
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44:14
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44:16
Speaker 1: so much. And I would, you know, stand Van Gundi,
44:19
Speaker 1: who's now the head coach for the Pistons, was an
44:21
Speaker 1: assistant under pat Riley, and so I would help him
44:23
Speaker 1: run drills with players, and you know, players would teach
44:26
Speaker 1: me how to rebound and how to shoot, and so
44:27
Speaker 1: I really started learning the fundamentals of the game. I
44:30
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44:32
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44:34
Speaker 1: would still do gallery exhibitions. Some players would buy my
44:37
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44:38
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44:41
Speaker 1: decided to go to Wake Force for undergrad and the
44:44
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44:46
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44:48
Speaker 1: here to help and support you. It really became like family.
44:51
Speaker 1: And Eric Spoelstra, who is now the head coach, was
44:53
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44:55
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44:58
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44:59
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45:01
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45:04
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45:07
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45:09
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45:11
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45:14
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45:18
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45:21
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45:23
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45:26
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45:28
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45:31
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45:34
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45:36
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45:39
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45:41
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45:44
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45:45
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45:48
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45:51
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45:54
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45:56
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45:58
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46:00
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46:02
Speaker 1: was part time with the Hawks. Things changed a bit
46:06
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46:08
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46:10
Speaker 1: that was here. The All Star Game was in Atlanta,
46:12
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46:13
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46:16
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46:19
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46:21
Speaker 1: and that was my entire experience. And that was the
46:23
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46:25
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46:28
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46:30
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46:34
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46:36
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46:39
Speaker 1: health and wellness startup called up Wave. Turner had invested
46:41
Speaker 1: a lot of money into it. You know, I was
46:43
Speaker 1: really thinking about the future and you know, health and
46:45
Speaker 1: content and how you can bring those things together. And
46:48
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46:50
Speaker 1: left and the new CEO, John Martin, came in and
46:52
Speaker 1: at the time, you know, it's a difference in strategy
46:54
Speaker 1: for the business. And so that was the last business
46:57
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46:59
Speaker 1: about thirty five of us that got laid off. At
47:01
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47:04
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47:06
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47:08
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47:11
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47:13
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47:15
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47:18
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47:21
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47:22
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47:26
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47:29
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47:33
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47:35
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47:37
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47:39
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47:42
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47:45
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47:48
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47:51
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47:53
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Speaker 1: and just spend time with myself and be happy about
52:40
Speaker 1: my success. I was constantly challenged by the whole idea
52:43
Speaker 1: that if I stopped what I was doing, that would
52:45
Speaker 1: be a complete failure. So that whole balance is really
52:48
Speaker 1: key when I interviewed these successful people who will tell
52:52
Speaker 1: you they're working constantly, that their story is not one
52:55
Speaker 1: this overnight. It's not like they wanted a lot of
52:58
Speaker 1: to get the achieved the success that they've achieved. It's
53:00
Speaker 1: really an amazing thing. On my show today, as you
53:03
Speaker 1: just heard, was Melissa Proctor, the CMO from Ball Girl,
53:06
Speaker 1: the CMO original ware of the CEO or Black Doctor
53:10
Speaker 1: dot Org is on the show. And again these all
53:13
Speaker 1: these interviews that I do with these people are about
53:16
Speaker 1: their success, about how they achieved you know, moments in
53:21
Speaker 1: their life that way they didn't think they would achieve it.
53:23
Speaker 1: My next guest is an inn ci, a champion in Kentucky,
53:26
Speaker 1: NBA champion when he played for the Miami Heat. Success
53:29
Speaker 1: tends to be a part of his DNA. He's the
53:33
Speaker 1: CEO and president of the Stamina Foundation. Please work on
53:37
Speaker 1: the money making conversations, Derek Anderson, How are you doing?
53:42
Speaker 1: How you doing? Derek? Derek? Right now? Where are you located?
53:44
Speaker 1: That y right now? Oh man? I tell you. Being
53:50
Speaker 1: a farmer, stand up comic, I just drive through their
53:53
Speaker 1: telling jokes and those those those fences really are white,
53:58
Speaker 1: you know, literally, But we'll go on. It looks seemed
54:02
Speaker 1: like for miles man. So it's so it's a beautiful,
54:05
Speaker 1: beautiful place to be. And uh now right now, isn't
54:08
Speaker 1: this some kinde of a lot of flood issues in
54:10
Speaker 1: that area of the country. Yeah, it was a little flooding,
54:13
Speaker 1: some restaurants and whatnot. No, not too many houses. A
54:16
Speaker 1: lot of people moved out of those areas, the older, old,
54:19
Speaker 1: different neighborhoods. But yeah, most people are safe. No tragedy.
54:23
Speaker 1: And how are you doing? How how are you and
54:25
Speaker 1: how are you and your family doing? We are great.
54:28
Speaker 1: I got my three month old signed with me and
54:30
Speaker 1: we are uh headed to the gym. So so that's
54:35
Speaker 1: really that's really working a out too early, man, we're
54:37
Speaker 1: talking about the stamming the foundation. Man, You really building
54:40
Speaker 1: this stammon a little bit too early in the game.
54:42
Speaker 1: So let's talk about your life man. You know you
54:45
Speaker 1: know that you know, eleven years old, Uh, you experienced
54:51
Speaker 1: things that a normal eleven year old wouldn't experience. I
54:53
Speaker 1: say normal eleven years old. I think I was running
54:55
Speaker 1: around my friends, my dad was thanking me, and my
54:58
Speaker 1: mom was telling me what I couldn't do? Well, what
55:00
Speaker 1: were you experiencing that? Eleven years old survival mode? Every
55:05
Speaker 1: day I woke up was how can I get a meal?
55:07
Speaker 1: How can I survive? How can I stay warm? All
55:11
Speaker 1: those things? When I'm gonna come home and see my
55:13
Speaker 1: parents had left. My daddy left for a few years
55:15
Speaker 1: before um, but then my mother just got came home
55:17
Speaker 1: and my mother left and leave a note. She just left,
55:19
Speaker 1: took everything. My brother ran away from home a few
55:21
Speaker 1: weeks before. So I was basically just a left child.
55:25
Speaker 1: And I wasn't a bad kid, which is amazing, as
55:27
Speaker 1: I uh as I've heard and she told me. As
55:32
Speaker 1: I got older and I connected with my mother, she
55:34
Speaker 1: told me I was a great kid. She was a
55:35
Speaker 1: bad person. And I think those situations when you're eleven,
55:39
Speaker 1: you just you just get lost. And everything that I
55:41
Speaker 1: did was I worked a win Dixie did, worked to
55:42
Speaker 1: get my first three dollars, and instead of getting the
55:45
Speaker 1: two piece of mill at KFC, I went to win Dickson,
55:47
Speaker 1: got a lower bred and bologne. I was in survival
55:50
Speaker 1: mode at that age, and you didn't need a degree
55:51
Speaker 1: to do that. You don't need it now. To be
55:53
Speaker 1: in survival mode. But you have to self educate yourself.
55:56
Speaker 1: And I did that. Uh worked at a candy store,
55:59
Speaker 1: took candy this, you know how the prices of ten
56:02
Speaker 1: dollars boots mins twin doubling up when you're when yeah,
56:07
Speaker 1: most people did. When you're in survival mode or you're
56:10
Speaker 1: you're in the mode that you want to win even
56:12
Speaker 1: if you have everything, you still want to win at
56:14
Speaker 1: your own, your own pace, in your own way. You'll
56:17
Speaker 1: do things like that. You'll do the extra things that
56:19
Speaker 1: other people wouldn't. And that's what that's what I was
56:21
Speaker 1: doing to day, to be levin all the way until
56:22
Speaker 1: the seventeen So when you you know, when you look
56:26
Speaker 1: at that, you know, um do you do? You do
56:29
Speaker 1: you feel you miss some of your childhood or you
56:31
Speaker 1: feel like, hey man, that's part of your life. I
56:32
Speaker 1: dealt with it, and it's made me who I am,
56:34
Speaker 1: the man the man I am today. Well, I don't
56:38
Speaker 1: look at any of those things as far as I
56:40
Speaker 1: missed any thing, because I always said I'd rather miss
56:42
Speaker 1: out than mess up, And a lot of people failed
56:45
Speaker 1: to realize. A lot of people just say I want
56:46
Speaker 1: to do everything while I can and for me, it
56:49
Speaker 1: was like a lot of people didn't get to go
56:51
Speaker 1: do the things that I did, and I can't look
56:52
Speaker 1: at them and be like, I know they wish they
56:54
Speaker 1: were me. I would tell them, just be who you are.
56:56
Speaker 1: I'm not Michael Jordan, I'm not the billionaire, I'm not
56:59
Speaker 1: the greatest bad football player. But I was somebody that
57:01
Speaker 1: was happy with who I was. I think that's what
57:03
Speaker 1: I always try to stay focused. I started complaining about
57:06
Speaker 1: I missed my childhood, a lot of my other thoughts
57:08
Speaker 1: will become negative like that, and I'll start making excuses
57:11
Speaker 1: about certain things that had happened to me because as
57:14
Speaker 1: a kid, I had fun, you know, I mean, granted
57:16
Speaker 1: I didn't get to do what I did. I played basketball.
57:19
Speaker 1: I had a son in fourteen, a single dad in fifteen.
57:21
Speaker 1: Even though that was stressful, I look back at it. Man,
57:24
Speaker 1: my son just got our face time talking about let's
57:26
Speaker 1: go to the movies today. You know, he's thirty years old,
57:28
Speaker 1: unfore score. So it's like I've I've had a trying
57:31
Speaker 1: time in life, but I've I've enjoyed the times that
57:33
Speaker 1: I could make the most out of. So never complain
57:36
Speaker 1: about me being missing something Okay, cool, So now you
57:41
Speaker 1: have a child, Now, how many children do you have?
57:44
Speaker 1: How boys? All boys? With that being said, how how
57:50
Speaker 1: are you gonna how yaw? Do you look at them now?
57:52
Speaker 1: Because you know my life. I have one daughter and
57:54
Speaker 1: my whole gold in life that's given a better life
57:57
Speaker 1: than they had previously. Mm hmm. Is making sure they're
58:02
Speaker 1: better they're good people. It's like, I know certain people
58:05
Speaker 1: think that, you know, they want to have a better life,
58:07
Speaker 1: but a lot of kids get spoiled and don't not
58:09
Speaker 1: understand the real things of life. Like some people are like,
58:12
Speaker 1: well I'm used to this. I'm not used to that,
58:14
Speaker 1: but I still don't matter if you have a dime
58:16
Speaker 1: or if you have a million dollars. You gotta treat
58:17
Speaker 1: people with kindness. You've got you have to be respectful.
58:20
Speaker 1: All my boys are always yes, sir, yes, ma'am. Open
58:23
Speaker 1: doors of people. Ten years old? Do that? Yes, sir? No, sir, yes,
58:30
Speaker 1: sir no, sir. My eight and ten year old open
58:32
Speaker 1: the doors or their mother for people. And it doesn't.
58:35
Speaker 1: You don't have to be a rocket scientist of that.
58:37
Speaker 1: You just got to treat teach them the same manners
58:39
Speaker 1: that they treat everyone. Else, no matter how much you have.
58:42
Speaker 1: So I have a thirty year old or twenty four,
58:46
Speaker 1: ten eight and I got a three months old. Oh boys.
58:51
Speaker 1: Now with that being said, how you start this organization
58:55
Speaker 1: called the Stammina Foundation? Why why do you do that?
59:01
Speaker 1: Because of what happened, Because of what happened to me.
59:03
Speaker 1: And also I believe that the people that came before me,
59:07
Speaker 1: from the Harriat Tubmans to the further Douglas who self
59:10
Speaker 1: educated themselves and learn how to do it, to my
59:11
Speaker 1: hometown hero uh Muhammad Alis. Everything that they've done, everything
59:16
Speaker 1: that they did was about other people. That's how they
59:19
Speaker 1: became successful. It wasn't about them. They were doing things
59:23
Speaker 1: to help to use their platform to help other people.
59:25
Speaker 1: And that's what my job is. I can't look at
59:27
Speaker 1: my history and say, oh, that's what they did. No,
59:30
Speaker 1: that's what you're supposed to do. And I don't mean
59:32
Speaker 1: financially standpoint, I mean the self education. Everything that people think,
59:35
Speaker 1: oh just because you this is that you should give back. Man,
59:38
Speaker 1: You're supposed to give yourself. That is what your life is.
59:41
Speaker 1: Take care of your family, love your family, to love
59:44
Speaker 1: your community. That is who we are. People failed to
59:46
Speaker 1: realize that because no one's teaching that anymore. School systems aren't.
59:49
Speaker 1: So my foundation is teaching kids common courtesy, self education
59:54
Speaker 1: and learning how to progress and think for yourself. These kids,
59:57
Speaker 1: now you get them on the phone, they'll know everything
59:59
Speaker 1: you tell to go find a fill out a job application.
1:00:02
Speaker 1: I'll ask you a hundred questions, why, how much skin
1:00:09
Speaker 1: how much? Friend? They want to read you know, you
1:00:15
Speaker 1: know you have a great life, but I want to
1:00:17
Speaker 1: I want to keep you for another break if you
1:00:18
Speaker 1: have time, because I really want to go in detail,
1:00:20
Speaker 1: because you know, you just can't drop our information that
1:00:23
Speaker 1: eleven years old, I was by myself surviving. Then you
1:00:26
Speaker 1: go to college and you become a n c A
1:00:29
Speaker 1: basketball champion in Kentucky. Then you go into the program
1:00:32
Speaker 1: with the skinny legs. I know, I knew you skinned
1:00:35
Speaker 1: skinny legs. Man Damn brought me. He said, hey, man,
1:00:39
Speaker 1: look at the let's get Derek answers skinny legs. I
1:00:43
Speaker 1: want to skin the legs, skinny legs on this show, man.
1:00:47
Speaker 1: And then you go to Miami year world champion. That
1:00:50
Speaker 1: is a blessing. Man. That meant your life had purpose
1:00:52
Speaker 1: even way back then. And I want to talk about
1:00:54
Speaker 1: that because a lot of people when they see, you know, adversity,
1:00:57
Speaker 1: they give up. And I want to I really want
1:01:00
Speaker 1: a little bit deeper about that. Will in form with
1:01:02
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1:01:04
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1:03:18
Speaker 1: I know I'll watched him play. But more importantly, he's
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1:03:23
Speaker 1: He's a champion in life and I really appreciate that
1:03:26
Speaker 1: respected about him. He's in uh Louisville, Kentucky right now.
1:03:28
Speaker 1: He's the CEO and president of the Stamina Foundation. Please
1:03:32
Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. Derrick Anderson. Hey there, gonna
1:03:36
Speaker 1: just tell you about this show man. This show is
1:03:38
Speaker 1: about about I come from the inner city, and uh
1:03:44
Speaker 1: there's no such thing as a silver spoon when you
1:03:46
Speaker 1: come from the inner city. But some stories are darker
1:03:49
Speaker 1: than other stories. I can say my story is really
1:03:51
Speaker 1: dark as your story. But I knew, I knew difficult times.
1:03:55
Speaker 1: I knew that people told me I wasn't qualified to
1:03:57
Speaker 1: be successful. You know that I didn't have the background,
1:04:01
Speaker 1: all the intellect. My teachers kept telling me I was special,
1:04:05
Speaker 1: but society told me I was a person you should
1:04:08
Speaker 1: be weary of. But everybody that I met, that met
1:04:11
Speaker 1: me told me I was special and told me that
1:04:15
Speaker 1: that life was gonna deal me a bigger hand if
1:04:17
Speaker 1: I took advantage of it. I get that same feeling
1:04:20
Speaker 1: with you, even though your life I didn't give you
1:04:23
Speaker 1: the hand that you felt everybody should experience. It wasn't
1:04:27
Speaker 1: that positive, but everybody who met you had to feel
1:04:30
Speaker 1: you with special. Yeah. I've heard that my entire life.
1:04:35
Speaker 1: And the reason I was special is because I did
1:04:38
Speaker 1: things the right way and most people weren't used to
1:04:40
Speaker 1: seeing that. Being respectful, you know, being being polite sir,
1:04:44
Speaker 1: you know, keeping a smile on my face when I
1:04:46
Speaker 1: didn't know, I didn't really feel like it. And the
1:04:48
Speaker 1: reason I did that, I recognized. You know, when people
1:04:50
Speaker 1: see that you got your head up, they don't mind
1:04:53
Speaker 1: helping you because you got an attitude in your head down.
1:04:55
Speaker 1: Don't nobody want to help you. That's a normal feeling,
1:04:58
Speaker 1: and for me, it was all I cared about was
1:05:01
Speaker 1: making me the next day, but enjoying the day I live.
1:05:03
Speaker 1: You know, all I could do is control that day.
1:05:05
Speaker 1: But if I got to see the next day, I
1:05:07
Speaker 1: knew I was how I was happy because I got
1:05:09
Speaker 1: another chance to do something different. That's how I lived today.
1:05:12
Speaker 1: Like every day you're thinking about, man, what can I
1:05:14
Speaker 1: do to have fun today? I'm not thinking about nobody's negativity.
1:05:18
Speaker 1: It isn't that. If I can do and having fun,
1:05:20
Speaker 1: it's maybe just being effecting somebody's life, then somebody else smiles.
1:05:23
Speaker 1: You can remember. You might not remember everybody who gave
1:05:26
Speaker 1: you some money, but I guarantee you remember every single
1:05:28
Speaker 1: time you gave somebody something because you you remember, like
1:05:31
Speaker 1: you know what I made that person smile, or I
1:05:33
Speaker 1: remember looking out for that person. That's gratitude. That's how
1:05:36
Speaker 1: you feel. That's how life supposed to be. You know,
1:05:38
Speaker 1: we needed, we need that. You know. Interesting about this
1:05:40
Speaker 1: show is that I've discovered how much I've given the
1:05:45
Speaker 1: people and didn't know, you know, and you know, I
1:05:48
Speaker 1: just you know people Right in the middle interview Roshan,
1:05:50
Speaker 1: I want to thank you because you said something and
1:05:54
Speaker 1: it's not all about physically giving something to somebody. It's
1:05:57
Speaker 1: just showing a positive attitude, tell them that they can in,
1:06:00
Speaker 1: telling them not to give up, and explaining to them
1:06:03
Speaker 1: why they should not give up. And I want to
1:06:04
Speaker 1: because I want to talk about the Stamina Foundation, which
1:06:07
Speaker 1: partners with company that helps young people get a college
1:06:10
Speaker 1: scholarship from doing acts of kindness in the community. That's powerful, friend,
1:06:15
Speaker 1: because you're talking about young people and shaping their lives
1:06:17
Speaker 1: to think a certain way for the future. M HM.
1:06:21
Speaker 1: Tell us about Well, what I do is when the
1:06:24
Speaker 1: kid comes in and they want to come to my program,
1:06:26
Speaker 1: you have to do an act of kindness. And they
1:06:28
Speaker 1: could be opening up a door, it could be helping
1:06:30
Speaker 1: your parents clean their room. It could be anything. It
1:06:33
Speaker 1: could be this going next door and sweeping, grab break
1:06:36
Speaker 1: and leave. Anything you get to come to my program.
1:06:39
Speaker 1: I get you free. You have food daily three times
1:06:42
Speaker 1: a day. You get free shirts, you get trips to
1:06:45
Speaker 1: take places. There's no fee involved. But every day you
1:06:49
Speaker 1: have to do something nice. So one person, we got
1:06:51
Speaker 1: people cooking, we got i mean learn how to people.
1:06:55
Speaker 1: We have people serving each other, Like if they got drinks,
1:06:57
Speaker 1: there's one person has to get drinks and saying here
1:07:00
Speaker 1: you go sir, and it's the same age. People imagine
1:07:03
Speaker 1: a fourteen year old kids saying to another kids and
1:07:05
Speaker 1: here you go, sir, saying Mr Mr Brown and they're
1:07:08
Speaker 1: fourteen years old? How you doing? Mr? Brown? Like that's cool?
1:07:11
Speaker 1: Like that all that old hip stuff like what there? Uh,
1:07:13
Speaker 1: you can't get a job saying what up keeping? But
1:07:19
Speaker 1: we don't. But our parents are so engulfed and being
1:07:22
Speaker 1: sold so called like hip and everything, they failed to
1:07:25
Speaker 1: realize their kids are following that. They don't know how
1:07:28
Speaker 1: to separate reality sometimes. So for us is we have
1:07:31
Speaker 1: to give them that platform. And what me is you
1:07:33
Speaker 1: make them earn it. And it's all about acts of kindness.
1:07:35
Speaker 1: You go out and do an active condness. And what
1:07:37
Speaker 1: that does is so when you're in the schools the program,
1:07:39
Speaker 1: you do acts of conness daily. So we'll give you.
1:07:42
Speaker 1: We have fake money with the stamina like one five,
1:07:45
Speaker 1: So if someone sees you do something nice, we might
1:07:47
Speaker 1: give you one dollar, we might give you five and
1:07:49
Speaker 1: by the end of the week we get that money
1:07:51
Speaker 1: and that that's the money you earn, and we'll give
1:07:53
Speaker 1: it to you and cash in a bank account for
1:07:55
Speaker 1: the bank and you'll get to use some of the
1:07:57
Speaker 1: half of it at the end of the uh, end
1:07:59
Speaker 1: of the months, and in the other half you you
1:08:02
Speaker 1: keep saved up. Teach them how to how to do
1:08:05
Speaker 1: real things with dere Come on, skinny legs, Come on,
1:08:09
Speaker 1: you come up with this idea? Man? Come on now,
1:08:14
Speaker 1: rim well, what what happened? But BA hit you on
1:08:17
Speaker 1: the head. This is too good man, this is now
1:08:21
Speaker 1: this cost survival? What happened? When I was eleven? I
1:08:23
Speaker 1: wanted to go to KFC and get that three dollar meter.
1:08:26
Speaker 1: But I spent the dollar. I spent the dollar fifty
1:08:28
Speaker 1: on bolognean bread, and I had changed left over. I
1:08:31
Speaker 1: was eleven. Ain't nobody teach me about no education or
1:08:34
Speaker 1: financial literacy. Once you learn how to do things through
1:08:37
Speaker 1: life trials and stuff you've got, you gotta get better.
1:08:39
Speaker 1: A lot of people will still do the same thing
1:08:41
Speaker 1: over and over and expect a different results. You can't.
1:08:44
Speaker 1: So for me, it was how can I get these
1:08:45
Speaker 1: kids actually earn something? And how can I get them
1:08:47
Speaker 1: to change your thought? Because if you don't change their character,
1:08:50
Speaker 1: you can't change the community. I don't care how much
1:08:52
Speaker 1: money you throw down that you can put a million
1:08:54
Speaker 1: dollars in any black community, any community in the world,
1:08:56
Speaker 1: not just black. But you're not gonna change them. You
1:08:58
Speaker 1: don't change the character. You're not gonna change that. Con
1:09:01
Speaker 1: So for me was how can I get their character
1:09:02
Speaker 1: and their thought process to change. You know, money is
1:09:05
Speaker 1: a route, is a way, a good fix. It's a
1:09:07
Speaker 1: good good brainwashing too, because the brainwashed all of us
1:09:10
Speaker 1: and think, hey, buy cards and jewelry before you buy
1:09:12
Speaker 1: your own, your own house, you know, stuff like that
1:09:14
Speaker 1: that we didn't. We had to learn on our own.
1:09:16
Speaker 1: And now that we have the opportunities, we gotta get
1:09:19
Speaker 1: these kids the thought process. Now they come, they come,
1:09:21
Speaker 1: say their money. They do it during the week after
1:09:24
Speaker 1: that you do, and every day now the kids are
1:09:26
Speaker 1: doing it and it becomes normal to them, you know
1:09:29
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like if they open the door up
1:09:31
Speaker 1: every single day with me when they go out of
1:09:32
Speaker 1: the neighborhood, they'll do it because they're used to doing
1:09:34
Speaker 1: it all day. Yes, yes, they don't even recognize the
1:09:37
Speaker 1: doing like it's normal to them now. Yeah. I from
1:09:44
Speaker 1: your website to say, youth today are greatly influenced by
1:09:46
Speaker 1: their peers and social media. With our proper guidance a
1:09:49
Speaker 1: positive infrastructure, they tend to go down a bad road,
1:09:53
Speaker 1: which results are negative long term life consequences. Stamina, which
1:09:58
Speaker 1: is your organization, will teach youth to identify and pursue
1:10:01
Speaker 1: their passions and to focus on being great instead of
1:10:04
Speaker 1: trying to fit in. Wow. Yeah, thinking how many kids
1:10:09
Speaker 1: who get who get upset and they run to a
1:10:10
Speaker 1: bottle or running smoking, as opposed to running to someone
1:10:14
Speaker 1: who can help them, not being afraid to talk to
1:10:17
Speaker 1: that person, not being afraid to feel like, you know
1:10:19
Speaker 1: what this person. Because one kid said, well, how can
1:10:21
Speaker 1: you know what I've been through? And you were in
1:10:23
Speaker 1: the suit? I said, what's the suit got to do
1:10:25
Speaker 1: with the person? I said you were in? You were
1:10:27
Speaker 1: in that you were in like not clean? Close? Should
1:10:29
Speaker 1: I judge you based upon that? Kids are kids got
1:10:32
Speaker 1: an excuse in their pocket for everything, and I tried
1:10:36
Speaker 1: to eliminate every excuse they had. Because the kid right now,
1:10:38
Speaker 1: I could be looking at saying your shirt is blue,
1:10:40
Speaker 1: he say, no, that's sky blue. Now that's royal blue.
1:10:43
Speaker 1: Just so you can complain that he's right or wrong.
1:10:45
Speaker 1: He wants that. He wants to make an excuse, and
1:10:47
Speaker 1: we have to alleviate that. No more excuses. All about
1:10:50
Speaker 1: results and the more we give them the change of
1:10:52
Speaker 1: the character, the better they'll start thinking a bit different
1:10:55
Speaker 1: and for themselves. We can't think for these kids all
1:10:57
Speaker 1: the time, so we gotta learn how to at least
1:10:58
Speaker 1: give them something to think about before they do something.
1:11:01
Speaker 1: Let me let me ask you this. Does the media
1:11:03
Speaker 1: know because you're getting enough media attention for this there?
1:11:06
Speaker 1: Because man, no, no, we're gonna stop that. We're sawing that,
1:11:12
Speaker 1: you know. Come on, I'm the crazy man of media
1:11:14
Speaker 1: marketing and Brandon, that's what I do now. Because I
1:11:17
Speaker 1: got some relationships in Louisville, Kentucky with our Heart Radio.
1:11:21
Speaker 1: I'm gonna we're gonna talk off the air, and I,
1:11:24
Speaker 1: like I said, I've scholed your website. I'm gonna let
1:11:27
Speaker 1: you know if you ever do a camp, you can
1:11:29
Speaker 1: contact me. You ain't gotta pay no money, you know,
1:11:31
Speaker 1: just tell me the date to Richard. Can you come speak?
1:11:34
Speaker 1: Can you come show these kids? Can you? Can you?
1:11:37
Speaker 1: I bring some desserts one of my world famous deserts
1:11:40
Speaker 1: to the kids. What I'm saying down there, Flyop put
1:11:42
Speaker 1: them on the plane with me in first class. Dude,
1:11:44
Speaker 1: bring me some bakeder now the putting some bread pudding,
1:11:47
Speaker 1: to Beach Gobblers all the way to Lloydville for the
1:11:50
Speaker 1: kids to let them know being a baker's cool. So
1:11:54
Speaker 1: I'm saying, you know, man, you cannot come on my
1:11:56
Speaker 1: show and tell me people don't know about this. We're
1:11:59
Speaker 1: gonna dream to the world, man, because you're just taking
1:12:02
Speaker 1: something very simple and change people's lives. I know there's
1:12:05
Speaker 1: an issue with cops out there and our black youth
1:12:09
Speaker 1: and the adult you being conflicted, but I'm tasting man,
1:12:12
Speaker 1: Cops stop me. I'm a pretty pretty polite dude. Whatever
1:12:17
Speaker 1: you want to do, you when we get out you okay, whatever, dude. So,
1:12:21
Speaker 1: because there are rules when somebody has a superior role
1:12:24
Speaker 1: in my life, I got out here too, and a
1:12:27
Speaker 1: gun has a role in my life. I have a
1:12:30
Speaker 1: I have a program that we do. It's called Program You.
1:12:33
Speaker 1: So we put those kids in that position. So right now,
1:12:35
Speaker 1: we act those things out and it's like an acting class.
1:12:38
Speaker 1: So we'll have one kid be the officer and two
1:12:40
Speaker 1: kids of fighting. I said, you're a cop, what would
1:12:42
Speaker 1: you do? He said, well, I gotta break it up.
1:12:44
Speaker 1: I said, if you're a company, pull a gun, what
1:12:45
Speaker 1: do you do? I pull a gun? I said, but
1:12:47
Speaker 1: you yet and still you get mad with someone else
1:12:48
Speaker 1: does that. I said, so we teach them that we can't.
1:12:51
Speaker 1: We we have the teaching them how to act. I'm
1:12:53
Speaker 1: a friend, brother. We're gonna talk more with Derrick Anderson.
1:12:57
Speaker 1: I'll get them back on the show. We'll be right
1:12:59
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1:14:06
Speaker 1: My next guest. She's on the phone. I wanted for
1:14:09
Speaker 1: two breaks. She's an old friend. When you see people
1:14:13
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1:14:16
Speaker 1: she's still fantastic, she's still beautiful. She's still a person
1:14:20
Speaker 1: who's changing lives. She's an Emmy Award winning television journalist.
1:14:24
Speaker 1: She is an author, a producer, speaker, actress, philanthropist, and
1:14:27
Speaker 1: the president and founder of the Sean Foundation for Girls,
1:14:30
Speaker 1: which is dedicated to the empowerment of girls and young
1:14:33
Speaker 1: women around the world. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations.
1:14:36
Speaker 1: Sean Robinson, Uh, did you call me old? I'm old.
1:14:42
Speaker 1: I'm almost back. We're way back now when I can say,
1:14:51
Speaker 1: my wife gonna kill me. She's gonna kill me because
1:14:53
Speaker 1: I say it old. But but I was just gonna
1:14:54
Speaker 1: let you know that I say we're way back friends,
1:14:58
Speaker 1: way back friend, and you know and just seeing what
1:15:01
Speaker 1: you're doing today. I'm gonna jump right into a couple
1:15:04
Speaker 1: of things that really, um, you know, because I see
1:15:07
Speaker 1: you post a lot on LinkedIn a lot about a
1:15:09
Speaker 1: lot of your causes and and this sex trafficking right,
1:15:13
Speaker 1: you know, And because I have a daughter and in
1:15:17
Speaker 1: Texas is one of the hot beds for sex trafficking,
1:15:21
Speaker 1: and so she goes to school in college down there,
1:15:23
Speaker 1: and and UM, I was just fearful. You know, I'm
1:15:27
Speaker 1: gonna as a parent, I was, I am still fearful,
1:15:30
Speaker 1: because you just never know when you wake up, you know,
1:15:33
Speaker 1: you you send your child off to college, you hope
1:15:35
Speaker 1: all of the right decisions are made around them, by
1:15:38
Speaker 1: them and by the people around them. But that'sn't that
1:15:40
Speaker 1: isn't always the case. What got you involved in this
1:15:43
Speaker 1: and I feel this important campaign to stop or halt
1:15:48
Speaker 1: or slow down sex trafficking. Well, thank you first of
1:15:51
Speaker 1: all for having me on. As you said, you and
1:15:54
Speaker 1: I go way back, and I've always admired you and
1:15:57
Speaker 1: your dedication to getting back and educating people about making
1:16:01
Speaker 1: their lives better. Uh. And so it's a real pleasure
1:16:04
Speaker 1: to be on your show, and I really appreciate you. Um,
1:16:10
Speaker 1: uh my foundation launched. I spent, as you know, sixteen
1:16:13
Speaker 1: years as a host of Access Hollyfood and after I
1:16:18
Speaker 1: after I left UM to do other projects to find
1:16:22
Speaker 1: my real passion, I launched my foundation, the Shawn Foundation
1:16:25
Speaker 1: for Girls, and we are a grant making foundation that
1:16:29
Speaker 1: supports small, grassroots nonprofits that are doing work in five
1:16:33
Speaker 1: key areas of girls issues. And those five key areas
1:16:36
Speaker 1: are represented by the acronym of my name, S H
1:16:38
Speaker 1: A U N SO A. S is for stem science, technology, engineering,
1:16:41
Speaker 1: A math, it just for health, A as arts, you
1:16:45
Speaker 1: as unity meaning bridge and girls here with girls across
1:16:47
Speaker 1: the world. And END is for neighborhoods, health and girls
1:16:50
Speaker 1: and young women in underserved neighborhoods. So if there is
1:16:52
Speaker 1: a nonprofit that is doing work in one of these
1:16:55
Speaker 1: five key areas UM, we would possibly be a resource
1:16:58
Speaker 1: for them. So a couple of years ago, about a
1:17:00
Speaker 1: year and a half ago, Ford Motor Company came to
1:17:03
Speaker 1: me and we talked about partnering on some initiatives and
1:17:07
Speaker 1: we did our first human trafficking event in Detroit, my hometown.
1:17:12
Speaker 1: And the reason that we did that is because a
1:17:15
Speaker 1: Ford Motor Company had their mission one of their initiatives
1:17:18
Speaker 1: with safety, and we wanted to educate UH the country
1:17:23
Speaker 1: about what is going on when it comes to women's
1:17:27
Speaker 1: safety and human trafficking is probably one of the top
1:17:32
Speaker 1: issues in our country when it faces when it comes
1:17:34
Speaker 1: to young girls and women. UM. And this is something
1:17:38
Speaker 1: rashan that is happening not overseas, not only overseas, because
1:17:41
Speaker 1: when people think about human trafficking and the sex trafficking
1:17:44
Speaker 1: of girls and young women, they think about something happening overseas,
1:17:48
Speaker 1: but this is actually happening right in our own backyards
1:17:50
Speaker 1: and every single city in America that there's not a
1:17:53
Speaker 1: city in America that has been untouched by sex trafficking,
1:17:59
Speaker 1: and we wanted to educate not only girls but parents
1:18:03
Speaker 1: about what are the dangers. UM. The fact of the
1:18:07
Speaker 1: matter is that drug traffickers are getting out of the
1:18:10
Speaker 1: drug business UH and getting into the sex trafficking by
1:18:15
Speaker 1: because because you can use drugs one time, you can
1:18:19
Speaker 1: sell drugs one time, you can sell a girl over
1:18:23
Speaker 1: and over and over again. And there are cases where
1:18:27
Speaker 1: these sex traffickers are making UM like over thirty dollars
1:18:32
Speaker 1: a week by having what they call a stable of girls.
1:18:37
Speaker 1: But not only that, it's it's not only the traffickers,
1:18:39
Speaker 1: but other girls luring girls into the sex trafficking business.
1:18:46
Speaker 1: And that's not going to say that because that was
1:18:47
Speaker 1: my fear of my daughter. You know, you go to
1:18:49
Speaker 1: school and you know some people are lottle. You come
1:18:52
Speaker 1: over here, we have this little church meeting and to
1:18:56
Speaker 1: my understanding, Sean, it's not something that happens overnight. It's
1:19:00
Speaker 1: like a it's like a they create a relationship with you. Correct,
1:19:03
Speaker 1: it's a grooming process. Thinks about um, the fact that
1:19:08
Speaker 1: you know a lot of times, uh, these girls are
1:19:12
Speaker 1: not coming from broken homes, because that's a that's a
1:19:14
Speaker 1: that's a myth that all of these girls are runaways
1:19:17
Speaker 1: where they're broken homes. We just the sex trafficking event
1:19:20
Speaker 1: that we just did um on the campus of Spellman College.
1:19:24
Speaker 1: This one young lady, her mother went to Yale, her
1:19:28
Speaker 1: sister went to Harvard, Okay, and she just felt neglected
1:19:34
Speaker 1: at home. She had, you know, the low self esteem.
1:19:38
Speaker 1: And then someone was able to kind of a woman
1:19:41
Speaker 1: was able to groom her. Hey, you know, uh, this
1:19:43
Speaker 1: is a way you know, you can you can make
1:19:45
Speaker 1: some extra money. And at first these men were paying
1:19:49
Speaker 1: her a lot of attention, telling her she was beautiful
1:19:51
Speaker 1: all that, and then she gets lured into this industry.
1:19:54
Speaker 1: And then we had a young woman who on the panel,
1:19:57
Speaker 1: who was part of a who Who's was a stripper
1:20:01
Speaker 1: at a popular strip club in Atlanta, and she talked
1:20:04
Speaker 1: about like making like a thousand dollars a night, and
1:20:07
Speaker 1: then things turned where she was asked to do other things,
1:20:11
Speaker 1: you know, you know, forgot about the lap dance. They
1:20:14
Speaker 1: didn't want that, they wanted more. And so there are
1:20:17
Speaker 1: a lot of different spaces of sex trafficking. Um. And
1:20:21
Speaker 1: you know when you see these when you see advertisements
1:20:25
Speaker 1: like in the back of on on certain classified websites
1:20:29
Speaker 1: classified ass and they're saying things like, oh, you know,
1:20:34
Speaker 1: have fun for a night, or we want somebody young
1:20:36
Speaker 1: or an escort, or if they don't say we want
1:20:39
Speaker 1: to traffick you, they they use other language to bring
1:20:44
Speaker 1: you in. And it also has to do rashan for
1:20:48
Speaker 1: you know, we talked to girls in college and um,
1:20:52
Speaker 1: who doesn't need a little few extra dollars, you know,
1:20:57
Speaker 1: And and that's the way these traffickers are coming onto
1:21:01
Speaker 1: college campuses, they're coming onto middle school campuses. These girls
1:21:06
Speaker 1: talked about being approached in the mall, in the restaurant, everywhere.
1:21:10
Speaker 1: But something that you have to watch out for. Well,
1:21:12
Speaker 1: you know the thing I try to do with my
1:21:14
Speaker 1: daughter and my wife as well. You know, we talked
1:21:16
Speaker 1: to our daughter calls or so, you know, I make
1:21:19
Speaker 1: sure she could she has a clear understand she can
1:21:21
Speaker 1: call me any time, anytime she's uncomfortable, any time that
1:21:25
Speaker 1: something bothers her or situation, and that call has not
1:21:29
Speaker 1: come to me, but she calls me about any little thing,
1:21:31
Speaker 1: and I make sure that I'm not one of these
1:21:34
Speaker 1: dads and go, I don't have time for that. You know.
1:21:36
Speaker 1: If I'm in a meeting, her phone that phone range,
1:21:38
Speaker 1: I tell everybody to me, look, we gotta stop right now.
1:21:41
Speaker 1: My daughter is calling me. And I think that's really
1:21:44
Speaker 1: is one of the issues too, is that you know,
1:21:47
Speaker 1: and the parents and I see it why it's this
1:21:49
Speaker 1: on money making conversation, because it's about parenting, it's about family,
1:21:54
Speaker 1: and all these things are part of the things that
1:21:55
Speaker 1: because I'm writing this book, call stop making these mistakes.
1:21:58
Speaker 1: And one of the things is not having time for
1:22:01
Speaker 1: your family, not being a good parent, not understand the
1:22:04
Speaker 1: value of communication. These mistakes. We have to stop making
1:22:08
Speaker 1: Otherwise the same situation's gonna keep popping up. Even though
1:22:12
Speaker 1: I feel I have a great relationship with my daughter,
1:22:14
Speaker 1: she talked, We talked last night. She went to a
1:22:16
Speaker 1: black panther and we talked about it. Did she laughed?
1:22:20
Speaker 1: We laughing a baby. I love you, love you. But
1:22:23
Speaker 1: still I worry because I know there are vultures out there,
1:22:26
Speaker 1: There are groomers out there to take an intelligent, naive
1:22:29
Speaker 1: young lady like her, because start out going you know, uh,
1:22:33
Speaker 1: here's the free snacks over here, or go let's all
1:22:37
Speaker 1: meet over here for this church meeting. Because some people
1:22:39
Speaker 1: have approached like that, and I go, don't go over there,
1:22:42
Speaker 1: don't go over there. And so so just that back
1:22:45
Speaker 1: of what you're saying is that my daughter is from
1:22:47
Speaker 1: a good location in life. But still I have to
1:22:51
Speaker 1: be worried because these guys are ladies, are professionals, no
1:22:56
Speaker 1: question about it. And if you don't have a couple
1:22:59
Speaker 1: hours or a few hours to sit down and talk
1:23:02
Speaker 1: to your daughter, you know who does. The trafficker will
1:23:06
Speaker 1: sit down and sit there and listen for hours and
1:23:10
Speaker 1: makes them believe that they've got a friend, that they've
1:23:13
Speaker 1: got somebody they can confide in. I mean that that
1:23:16
Speaker 1: these people are pros at doing this. And when you
1:23:20
Speaker 1: talk about money and you know, is this a money
1:23:23
Speaker 1: making conversation? Traffickers are making tens of thousands of dollars
1:23:30
Speaker 1: off of our girls and make a tender and that
1:23:34
Speaker 1: is you know, So when a girl is lured into
1:23:37
Speaker 1: this world, what she's not doing is educating herself. She's
1:23:42
Speaker 1: not going to college, she's not um, you know, making
1:23:46
Speaker 1: a future, creating a future for herself. She's becoming dependent
1:23:50
Speaker 1: on the system. This is a financial issue that affects everybody,
1:23:56
Speaker 1: all of us in the city, and and and and
1:23:58
Speaker 1: anybody that we are about. So this is um when
1:24:03
Speaker 1: we talk about how this ravages our communities something. Because
1:24:08
Speaker 1: here's the thing. A lot of parents will say, oh,
1:24:12
Speaker 1: I know all of my daughter's friends. Well, you know
1:24:17
Speaker 1: all of your daughters friends friends. Yes, do you know
1:24:22
Speaker 1: all of your daughters friends friends, relatives? Do you know
1:24:28
Speaker 1: what every any party that they're going to do? You
1:24:31
Speaker 1: know everybody who's going to be at the party and
1:24:34
Speaker 1: or in the guests of everyone who's going to come. No,
1:24:37
Speaker 1: it's impossible for a parent to know that. It's absolutely impossible.
1:24:41
Speaker 1: So what what what got you, you know, because I
1:24:42
Speaker 1: remember I ran it to you like a couple of
1:24:44
Speaker 1: years ago at the London Hotel in New York. He said,
1:24:47
Speaker 1: we got this great program at the start, and I
1:24:50
Speaker 1: wanted and we kind of like drifted apart, and now
1:24:53
Speaker 1: we're back together on his radio show. Because you know,
1:24:54
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of anything you get involved. What
1:24:57
Speaker 1: really did anything personally have be alife? To the point
1:25:01
Speaker 1: in the direction of this, because next week we want
1:25:03
Speaker 1: to talk about your foundation. What really got you roll
1:25:06
Speaker 1: in or what upsets you about this situation? Well, I
1:25:09
Speaker 1: was um about a year and a half ago, you know,
1:25:12
Speaker 1: go to church here in Los Angeles at faithal Central
1:25:15
Speaker 1: Bible Church and oh yeah, and my the first lady
1:25:18
Speaker 1: of our church, uh first lady took out to Homer.
1:25:22
Speaker 1: She was doing a human trafficking event at the church
1:25:24
Speaker 1: and she asked me to host it. And at that
1:25:27
Speaker 1: time I was like, you know, that's not really my space,
1:25:29
Speaker 1: Like I'm not really even involved and that's something that
1:25:31
Speaker 1: happens overseas. And then but you know, when the first
1:25:34
Speaker 1: lady of your church asked you to do something, right,
1:25:38
Speaker 1: and so I hosted it and I was shocked at
1:25:42
Speaker 1: the information I learned, just absolutely shocked, and I said,
1:25:46
Speaker 1: this is something I've got to do something about this.
1:25:49
Speaker 1: And UM, I I appreciate you talking about, um why
1:25:54
Speaker 1: I got involved and why I created the foundation because
1:25:58
Speaker 1: a lot of people asked me that and they know
1:26:01
Speaker 1: they've known for years. And just like you, I'm an author.
1:26:04
Speaker 1: I wrote a book in two thousand nine, although exactly
1:26:07
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1:26:24
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Speaker 1: I've gotten pretty good at this now, you know. Let
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Speaker 1: You gave out the each one of these symbol of
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Speaker 1: your first name, STEM, Health, Art, Unity and neighborhoods. Let's
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Speaker 1: talk about the STEM. Why. Why is that important for
1:29:40
Speaker 1: young ladies? You know, because we're in the hashtag me
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Speaker 1: you know really, when you know, we almost had the
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Speaker 1: first female president of this country. So it was like
1:29:53
Speaker 1: it was like a wave that's happening now. Even in
1:29:56
Speaker 1: the UH, the gun violence situation in Florida, Young lady,
1:30:00
Speaker 1: these young girls are like very vocal, very vocal about
1:30:03
Speaker 1: their thoughts and so so so that's why it's important
1:30:07
Speaker 1: that the STEM program. And I want to just swing
1:30:10
Speaker 1: back all the way back to UH the UH, the
1:30:13
Speaker 1: movie that about the female mathematicians and NASA that African
1:30:18
Speaker 1: Americans who were back there basically doing the STEM program,
1:30:22
Speaker 1: and it was they were compute, they were human computers.
1:30:26
Speaker 1: And you look at it. Now, that's what we were
1:30:28
Speaker 1: talking about. Now, even letting you know that you can't
1:30:31
Speaker 1: be a part of that club. So you're telling me
1:30:33
Speaker 1: it's feels steel feels like a club. Even though my
1:30:35
Speaker 1: degree is in mathematics. So I'm a standing what's going on?
1:30:39
Speaker 1: So the mathematics. My degrees in mathematics, so I am
1:30:44
Speaker 1: into the STEM program. Okay, I'm yeah, And I was horrible.
1:30:49
Speaker 1: I want to brag too much of physics. I would
1:30:53
Speaker 1: have been an engineer, but physics. Physics manned me up.
1:30:59
Speaker 1: Physics mand me up. Now, my daughter she's right now,
1:31:03
Speaker 1: she's major she's in the stand process because she's majoring
1:31:05
Speaker 1: in mechanical engineering. So I'm very happy. I gotta. I
1:31:09
Speaker 1: got a niece who's a mechanical engineers. So I'm a
1:31:12
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of what you're talking about. So
1:31:14
Speaker 1: let's educate people exactly. Because you get that word STEM,
1:31:17
Speaker 1: they gloss over it on the media because they think
1:31:19
Speaker 1: everybody knows what that means. Let's talk in detail what
1:31:21
Speaker 1: what that what that means to your program and why
1:31:24
Speaker 1: its so important. Okay, So STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering,
1:31:32
Speaker 1: and Math, and there has been a push in recent
1:31:35
Speaker 1: years to get more girls involved in the STEM because
1:31:39
Speaker 1: most of our engineers are architects. That you know, it's
1:31:42
Speaker 1: a it's a male domin our scientists. It's a male
1:31:45
Speaker 1: dominated field. So one of the grants that my foundation
1:31:49
Speaker 1: gave was to an organization in Oakland called tech Bridge Girls,
1:31:54
Speaker 1: and they go into low income, underserved neighborhoods and teach
1:32:00
Speaker 1: girls about the STEM fields. So they build robots, they
1:32:05
Speaker 1: make bass disease, they fixed circuits. Uh, they learn what
1:32:10
Speaker 1: it's like to be a chemical engineer or structural structural
1:32:13
Speaker 1: engineer and architect. They learn all these different professions to
1:32:17
Speaker 1: get them interested in these fields and help increase the
1:32:20
Speaker 1: number of women and women of color in these fields.
1:32:25
Speaker 1: Because the one of the things that you will hear
1:32:28
Speaker 1: when you research this is that it's a it's a
1:32:31
Speaker 1: field where um many young women. Young women may start
1:32:35
Speaker 1: in but they didn't get discouraged because they don't have
1:32:38
Speaker 1: them the support that they be continue. You have to
1:32:45
Speaker 1: have mentors, you know how important it is. It was
1:32:48
Speaker 1: important for me to have mentors in my field who
1:32:51
Speaker 1: looked like me, black women who said this can be
1:32:55
Speaker 1: done out there, get proud, very proud graduate at a
1:33:00
Speaker 1: Spellman college. And in the STEM field, there aren't many
1:33:03
Speaker 1: of those those mentors. So a lot of these women
1:33:07
Speaker 1: are creating a path that did not exist before. So
1:33:11
Speaker 1: one of the things that we have trying to do
1:33:13
Speaker 1: is encourage more girls to get involved in these fields
1:33:17
Speaker 1: that are not only the field of the future, the
1:33:19
Speaker 1: field of now. Okay, when you even rashan, I mean,
1:33:23
Speaker 1: look at look at the apps on your phone, like
1:33:26
Speaker 1: it's you know, probably nine point of the apps on
1:33:31
Speaker 1: your phone were created by men. Okay, you know so
1:33:34
Speaker 1: and a lot of different factors go into that, but um,
1:33:39
Speaker 1: you know, technology, we need to get more girls involved
1:33:43
Speaker 1: in technology and know that they have the support they
1:33:45
Speaker 1: need to not only thrive, but have you know, wonderful careers.
1:33:50
Speaker 1: So that's one of the fields that we're trying to
1:33:52
Speaker 1: make an impact in. Now you move into, now to
1:33:55
Speaker 1: your health, Yeah, well, obviously, you know, health is important
1:34:00
Speaker 1: for all of us. And you know, when you talk
1:34:02
Speaker 1: about girls in color, girls of color in underserved neighborhoods,
1:34:06
Speaker 1: we're talking about trying to change lifestyle habits. Uh. There
1:34:11
Speaker 1: was an organization in Raleigh that we gave a grant
1:34:15
Speaker 1: to Healthy Girls Save the World, and one of the
1:34:19
Speaker 1: things they do is go into once again those low income,
1:34:21
Speaker 1: underserved neighborhoods and teach girls about healthy lifestyle habits, not
1:34:26
Speaker 1: only eating right and exercising, but setting boundaries in relationships,
1:34:31
Speaker 1: having a good attitude, making sure that you have the
1:34:35
Speaker 1: right friends around you, and not abusing your body, and
1:34:39
Speaker 1: knowing what things, um, you know make you healthy or
1:34:43
Speaker 1: make you unhealthy. So those are the kinds of initiatives
1:34:46
Speaker 1: that we, you know, we're trying to make an impact
1:34:48
Speaker 1: in Okay, we got down down. I will go to
1:34:51
Speaker 1: eight right art, well art. You know, I'm a girl
1:34:53
Speaker 1: from the art. You know, I majored in, um, you know,
1:34:56
Speaker 1: the performing arts in my high school. I was uh,
1:34:59
Speaker 1: you know, I'm in the arts curriculum. And you know,
1:35:02
Speaker 1: having girls thank you very much, and you know, having
1:35:07
Speaker 1: positive role models on television, seeing ourselves in positive roles, um,
1:35:13
Speaker 1: you know, in the media. Also, UM, I'm looking, um,
1:35:17
Speaker 1: I'm looking for different organizations that help girls in and
1:35:21
Speaker 1: dance in theater, UM, in the visual arts, UM in
1:35:26
Speaker 1: the creative arts UM. You know always too because you know,
1:35:31
Speaker 1: we know about those our programs that have been disbanded
1:35:34
Speaker 1: now in schools right we've heard about along with exercise exactly.
1:35:39
Speaker 1: We know that the budget cuts have been had the
1:35:42
Speaker 1: art curriculum. So we're trying to make sure the girls
1:35:45
Speaker 1: have those UM, those needed resources UM. In our unity
1:35:50
Speaker 1: UM division, we talk about girls here reaching out to
1:35:54
Speaker 1: their sisters across the world. We gave a grant to
1:35:56
Speaker 1: an organization called Girl Up, which has as these rocks
1:35:59
Speaker 1: are rules here in the States, the fly to places
1:36:05
Speaker 1: like Ethiopia, Malawi, Guatemala, helped advocate on behalf of girls
1:36:11
Speaker 1: in these countries, whether it's you know, against genital mutilation,
1:36:15
Speaker 1: child marriage, UM, lack of access to education or clean
1:36:19
Speaker 1: drinking water. And once again in our neighborhood's division, what
1:36:22
Speaker 1: are those issues impacting our neighborhoods around the country. And
1:36:25
Speaker 1: sex trafficking is one of those big ones, but they're
1:36:28
Speaker 1: big ones, but there are also others that we will
1:36:31
Speaker 1: you know, seek out. So our job is to seek
1:36:33
Speaker 1: out and find those nonprofits that are in UM that
1:36:38
Speaker 1: are doing great work, those small nonprofits. What I hope
1:36:41
Speaker 1: that the Shawn Foundation for Girls becomes it's like the
1:36:45
Speaker 1: villain Melinda Gates Foundation for the go to foundations for
1:36:49
Speaker 1: those small nonprofits that are helping girls of color in
1:36:53
Speaker 1: our in our community. Do you do you host a
1:36:55
Speaker 1: gala or anything in the fundraise of galaun Well, you
1:36:58
Speaker 1: know what, when I do, You're going to be the
1:37:00
Speaker 1: first person that I reach out to because I know
1:37:03
Speaker 1: your money is straight. Come on, thank you, thank you,
1:37:05
Speaker 1: thank you. It ain't been. It ain't been, it has
1:37:08
Speaker 1: not been. You know, already got you on the time
1:37:10
Speaker 1: of your time. I might will give the money because
1:37:14
Speaker 1: we've been having like smaller fundraisers. Yeah, we're working on
1:37:17
Speaker 1: that big gala, that big fundraiser to bring everybody together
1:37:21
Speaker 1: and yeah, but you will definitely, my man. You know,
1:37:23
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna make some phone calls for you
1:37:26
Speaker 1: because I know how you make money. Get the house,
1:37:28
Speaker 1: some familiar faces. Oh hes gonna be there, Oh she
1:37:32
Speaker 1: gonna be there. Oh my, this is a good call
1:37:35
Speaker 1: because I cannot, you know, because you know, we were
1:37:38
Speaker 1: from the pimps on the streets and glorified that is
1:37:43
Speaker 1: the street hustlers and cool dudes and all this stuff,
1:37:46
Speaker 1: and now just this whole sex trafficking is amped up
1:37:50
Speaker 1: to another level. They're imprisoning, imprisoning women and kids and
1:37:55
Speaker 1: teenagers for life, for life, and sometimes a lot of
1:38:00
Speaker 1: situation making them drug users because some of these kids
1:38:04
Speaker 1: can't get through the process unless they are for the
1:38:07
Speaker 1: wired and so so you're just drawing lives. They're just
1:38:10
Speaker 1: drawing lives out there, and you're trying to change a
1:38:12
Speaker 1: different difference, right, destroying lives. And here's the thing when
1:38:15
Speaker 1: people ask me, Rashan, why did you start a foundation?
1:38:20
Speaker 1: And I say, because it's what we all have to do.
1:38:24
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that everybody has to start a
1:38:26
Speaker 1: foundation or their own charity, but we all this is
1:38:29
Speaker 1: this takes a village. Um, it takes a village to
1:38:32
Speaker 1: help all those people, all the people who are in
1:38:35
Speaker 1: need in our communities. So everybody has the ability to
1:38:40
Speaker 1: do something like for example, I this this one brother
1:38:43
Speaker 1: said to me. Um, he said, well, you know, Sean,
1:38:47
Speaker 1: I really love what you're doing for girls in sex trafficking,
1:38:50
Speaker 1: but how come you're not talking about the boys in
1:38:52
Speaker 1: sex traffic sex trafficks? And I said, sir, does your
1:38:56
Speaker 1: foundation help boys trafficking? And He's like okay, So then
1:39:02
Speaker 1: that was what I was hoping was the moment where
1:39:06
Speaker 1: we stopped saying how come you not talking about this?
1:39:09
Speaker 1: And we take you know, we take the rain and
1:39:12
Speaker 1: start talking about it. So if there is an area
1:39:15
Speaker 1: where you feel that there needs to be, you know,
1:39:18
Speaker 1: some more attention, then that's that's the area that you
1:39:20
Speaker 1: need to tackle, you know, because we can't keep saying
1:39:23
Speaker 1: how come, how come everybody else ain't doing something? Yeah?
1:39:26
Speaker 1: How can we reach how can we reach you? Sean?
1:39:28
Speaker 1: The website? Social media? Give me up? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
1:39:30
Speaker 1: you know. My website is Sean Robinson Sean Robinson dot com,
1:39:34
Speaker 1: My Twitter is Sean Robinson dot com. Um, my Instagram
1:39:39
Speaker 1: is ms ms Sean Robinson and Facebook is Shaan Robinson. Yea,
1:39:43
Speaker 1: thank you Robins, Thank you my dear again. Put me
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