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Entrepreneur: She has created over 325 women entrepreneurs in Ghana, West Africa, Rev Dr. Adrienne Johnson · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: If you're about to make a change in your life
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  Speaker 1: and you feel uncomfortable, that's the best feeling you can
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  Speaker 1: have because for the first time in your life, you'll
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  Speaker 1: make under decision that's going to be best.
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  Speaker 2: For you and not what somebody told you to do.
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  Speaker 1: And that's when all bets are off. Welcome to Money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversation Master Class. I'm your host, Rashaan McDonald. Our
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  Speaker 1: theme is there's no perfect time to start following your dreams.
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  Speaker 1: I recognize that we all have different definitions of success.
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  Speaker 1: For you and maybe decide to your Aham, it's time
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  Speaker 1: to stop reading other people's success stories to start living
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  Speaker 1: your own cape winning. My next guest is in studio.
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  Speaker 1: She's Reverend doctor Adrian Booth Johnson. And the one of
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  Speaker 1: the things we don't talk about a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that you're doing that's really noteworth
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  Speaker 1: is that you've created over three hundred and twenty five
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  Speaker 1: That's right, women entrepreneurs in Ghana, West Africa as please,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation Master Class. Reverend Doctor Adrian
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  Speaker 1: Booth Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm blessed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed in hoighly favored should I should I do
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  Speaker 1: doctor Johnson of Reverend Johnson?
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  Speaker 3: How about Reverend John's.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we're gonna ride off that Reverend John's, which I'm
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  Speaker 1: comfortable with saying because of the fact that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a friend of mine at the studio brought some information
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  Speaker 1: about you to me and said, Raean, she'll be a
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  Speaker 1: great guest.
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  Speaker 2: Good And.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you doing something? And God, where are you from?
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  Speaker 4: I was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. My daddy was in
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  Speaker 4: the Navy for twenty five years whatever, and he graduated
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  Speaker 4: from Norfolk State University, and my mama went to Saint
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  Speaker 4: Paul's College hbc US and we moved to Louisville, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 3: Daddy became an internal revenue agent.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what was he was there people like you.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no. If you're doing right, he did. But
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  Speaker 4: if you're doing wrong, no, well great. So I'm from
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  Speaker 4: Harris Creek, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: Harris Creek here, little Kentucky.
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  Speaker 3: I tried to drop it out something.
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  Speaker 1: And then so so so you you was in Kentucky? Ye,
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  Speaker 1: what type of life did they leave for you? Did
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  Speaker 1: you do education there or what happened?
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  Speaker 4: So you know, if you want to make God laugh.
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  Speaker 4: Tell them what your plans are. So my plans I
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  Speaker 4: was running track for Mayl High School. I thought I
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  Speaker 4: was gonna go to Tennessee and I run for the
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  Speaker 4: Tiger bells. But instead I got pregnant, seventeen pregnant. So
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  Speaker 4: my daddy was into education. He said, well, they put
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  Speaker 4: you out of day school back in the day, in
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  Speaker 4: nineteen sixty nine, they put you out of day school.
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  Speaker 4: So I went to night school, parent's trade school, got
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  Speaker 4: a GED. But I always dreamed of going to Africa,
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  Speaker 4: and so I said, God, I don't know how you're
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  Speaker 4: going to do this with a ged, but okay, but.
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  Speaker 2: You always dream of going to Africa.
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  Speaker 3: I always dreamed of going to Africa.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: I for some reason, I always dreamed of working offshore,
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  Speaker 1: and that came true. I did work off shore eighty
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  Speaker 1: five miles out in the Gulf. And because I was
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  Speaker 1: a Jaques Cousteau fan, so I got that Jaques Cousta
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  Speaker 1: got me off eighty five miles out in the golf.
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  Speaker 2: What got you to Africa?
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  Speaker 4: I can't tell you that it was a TV show
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  Speaker 4: or anything. Maybe it was daddy being in navy traveling
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  Speaker 4: coming home with all these great and wonderful gifts from
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  Speaker 4: going these far away places. I just always wanted to
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  Speaker 4: go to Africa. But I also I know the three p's.
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  Speaker 4: You got to know what your passion is so you'll
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  Speaker 4: know what your purpose is and then persevere. My passion
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  Speaker 4: is helping women, helping women in Africa, and so that's
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  Speaker 4: what I do. That that was my passion and that
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  Speaker 4: is my purpose in life. So I said, God, what
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  Speaker 4: do you need to do? So God said, with that
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  Speaker 4: GED and I'm married seventeen divorced at twenty two. Well
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  Speaker 4: that okay, So it's just billing out son, I'm a
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  Speaker 4: single mom. I'm a single mom, and I'm just grinding
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  Speaker 4: and GED with a GED divorce and divorce.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So I started as a secretary and I saw where
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  Speaker 4: my boss was always going to lunch, and I said,
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  Speaker 4: wait a minute, you going to lunch. And the only
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  Speaker 4: reason why you going to lunch and I'm sitting there
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  Speaker 4: typing up your papers is because you got a college degree.
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  Speaker 4: And I got a GED. I grabbed my purse. He said,
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  Speaker 4: where you going, Adrian? I said, I'm going to college.
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  Speaker 4: And so that's when I went to I went to
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  Speaker 4: community college first because I didn't have the confidence in myself.
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  Speaker 4: So I went to Jefferson Community College got my socials degree,
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  Speaker 4: and then I went to University of Louis who graduated
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  Speaker 4: for the School of Business. And I said, Bill, you
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  Speaker 4: stick with me. We're gonna go to the moon. We
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  Speaker 4: just might land on a star.
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  Speaker 2: Now. So wow, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: There is inspiring, Okay, because we've got to build a story. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: seventeen seventeen, Mom got married, got married. You know, back
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  Speaker 1: then people get married just just a reputation. It's a
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  Speaker 1: clean up of reputation. Yeah, it's a pregnancy. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a wedding, right, marriage over with ged ged And
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  Speaker 1: then you sitting there her being a secretary secretary and
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  Speaker 1: then you typist, and you said, look, I'm I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: carve out some time to change my life.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going for it.
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  Speaker 4: I said, for me to do what God wants me
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  Speaker 4: to do, and I for me to get to Africa,
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  Speaker 4: for me to have my son go to college and
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  Speaker 4: be somebody. I got to set the tone. I got
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  Speaker 4: to pave the way, and other women have gone and
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  Speaker 4: pay the way ahead of me. I got to go
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  Speaker 4: because I got to go help the women in Africa.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So so now we we got our degree. Business got So
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're not a clerk typist anymore. No, I
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  Speaker 1: got clerk type is working for me. So where were
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  Speaker 1: you working at that time?
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  Speaker 4: I went to work for Westinghouse Newklean Energy in Pittsburgh. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: so Bill and I went to Pittsburgh. We left Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 4: a friend of mine, Darnell Johnson, told me about a
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  Speaker 4: job with US Department of Energy. They were looking for
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  Speaker 4: black women in energy. I was like, that's me, right.
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  Speaker 4: I was at Western House. I was a project matter.
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  Speaker 4: I said, that's me. I went to Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 4: US Department of Energy. I was in solar energy. I said,
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  Speaker 4: come on, Bill, We're going to Washington DC. Bill said, Mama, great,
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  Speaker 4: because you know what we got to Washington. It was
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  Speaker 4: all single women. I found a village of professional women
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  Speaker 4: and we all had children, and so we just helped
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  Speaker 4: each other. We helped raise our sons.
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  Speaker 2: That this is a beautiful story.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm smiled because you you exude that that love
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  Speaker 1: that I can do it, and then your story is
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  Speaker 1: so simple, but it's so honest.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying that's that's the see.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people tell their story and I go, now, no,
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  Speaker 1: you missed something, but I want to get to the
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  Speaker 1: next story with you. Okay, So so when did you
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  Speaker 1: your resumes said Coca Cola.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So when did you get to Coca Cola?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I was working for the by then I left
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  Speaker 4: the Department of Energy federal government, went to local government.
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  Speaker 4: I was at DC Public Schools. But I always wanted to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, work in corporate America. So one of my
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  Speaker 4: girlfriends told me about that Ed Washington was hiring somebody.
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  Speaker 4: There was a group out of Boston called New Audition
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  Speaker 4: was just starting and they were coming from Boston, and
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  Speaker 4: she said they look for somebody to hire them.
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  Speaker 3: I said, I'm the woman for the job. So by
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  Speaker 3: the daytime I.
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  Speaker 4: Was working at DC Public Schools and in the evening
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  Speaker 4: I was Adrian.
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  Speaker 3: I was a public relations firm.
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  Speaker 4: Ed Washington call said I need somebody to do a
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  Speaker 4: promotion for this group New Addition. I said, okay, great,
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  Speaker 4: I'm a woman for the job.
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  Speaker 3: He hired me. I did the promotion.
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  Speaker 4: A year later, he called me, he said, Adrian, he said,
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  Speaker 4: would you like to go to work at cocoa cola.
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  Speaker 4: I said, if you're not joking, listen to take me
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  Speaker 4: about ten minutes to find my boss here the school system,
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  Speaker 4: about five minutes to tell me where you out in
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  Speaker 4: Silver Spring, Maryland? What about fifteen? What about twenty minute drive?
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  Speaker 4: What is it one o'clock? I can start at three
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  Speaker 4: this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: You are so engaging, so's you're the job for me.
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  Speaker 2: That's when you look in the mirror and you.
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  Speaker 1: What I I always talk about people who are fear change. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they fear, they are known, right, that is not part
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  Speaker 1: of your.
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  Speaker 4: Mom because I have God in my life. So when
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  Speaker 4: you have fear, then you don't have faith. And if
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  Speaker 4: you got faith, then you don't have fear. So I
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  Speaker 4: call it a dark room religion. When I walk into
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  Speaker 4: a dark room, I don't look for a light because
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  Speaker 4: I know God is there. So when God tells me
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  Speaker 4: to go preach in Kenya, he said, I got a
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  Speaker 4: message for the women people in Kenya. I tell my husband.
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  Speaker 4: I said, look, I got to run to Kenya this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: He said, well, we don't know anybody in Nairobia. I said,
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  Speaker 4: I know. But then me called Delta. I'm getting ready
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  Speaker 4: to go to Nayloba this weekend. God gave me a
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  Speaker 4: message to give and I go. I traveled Africa by myself.
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  Speaker 1: Now, now when you when you went to the whole process,
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  Speaker 1: because we I wanted to see when you were because
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  Speaker 1: you said early on Africa was the.
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  Speaker 2: Vision for Africa? Okay, Now when did then in.
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  Speaker 1: The steps because of your life? When did you first
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  Speaker 1: go to Africa?
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  Speaker 4: I went to Africa in two thousand and one. My
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  Speaker 4: niece Adria Green was twenty two years ago. Three years ago,
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  Speaker 4: Adria was doing some type of study of broad program
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  Speaker 4: something and she was at Wellesley College and Pearline. My
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  Speaker 4: sister call and said, let's go to South Africa. Adriana
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  Speaker 4: is there. I was like, Adria is named after me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm out going.
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  Speaker 3: We went to South Africa, fell in love with it.
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  Speaker 2: From too far to South Africa.
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  Speaker 3: We went to a durban South Africa.
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  Speaker 1: Been there. Now, I'm gonna tell you something. You know,
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  Speaker 1: because you have to go through Johannesburg and then connecting
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  Speaker 1: you drive down and so uh and uh. When I
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  Speaker 1: was doing Steve hard Morning Show, they asked us to
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  Speaker 1: broadcasting Durban and for the life of me, and we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about two thousand and eight something like that. For
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  Speaker 1: the life of me, I could not wrap my head
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  Speaker 1: around that there was the technology there in durbing to broadcasts.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: That's how simple My mind had been dumbed down to
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  Speaker 1: the stereotypes of technology and Africa period, let alone South
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  Speaker 1: Africa and also South Africa apartheid. So I was dealing
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of confusion and so and finally when
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  Speaker 1: I went over there, I was ashamed because it was
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  Speaker 1: like I landed into Atlanta. Yes road, smooth car, new
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  Speaker 1: car dealerships, everything was beautiful, black people running things. I
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  Speaker 1: was really taken aback. But of course you've been to Africa,
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  Speaker 1: You've dealt with these stereo types that I'm supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be a person, a learned person, educated person, a liberal person.
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  Speaker 1: But still I was saddled with the stereotypes. That's a problem, correct.
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  Speaker 3: It's a problem for people that don't go.
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  Speaker 4: See I started in two thousand one and I've been
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  Speaker 4: going to Africa every year since two thousand and one.
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  Speaker 3: I go.
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  Speaker 4: So I've created women empowerment programs in Durban and South Africa,
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  Speaker 4: Liberia and Monrovia, Liberia, and now I'm in Ghana and
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  Speaker 4: Sarah Leone and I'm on my way to Mozambique in Tanzania. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you can't watch what TV says. See, you got to
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  Speaker 4: go for yourself. So you have to. I say, you
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  Speaker 4: have to inspect what you expect, right.
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  Speaker 1: And so but you but you can. I say, you're unique,
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  Speaker 1: You're an inspiration. You you because that's you're You're not afraid. Now, know,
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  Speaker 1: if an opportunity to comes your way, you're gonna raise
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  Speaker 1: your hand.
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  Speaker 2: You told your son, Bill, let's go.
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  Speaker 1: And your son had to be one of the most
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  Speaker 1: motivated individuals because he's seen motivation. Motivation is his mama.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, his mama, you know, you know, walk through
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  Speaker 1: a brick wall is his mama.
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  Speaker 4: That's Bill Green knows that Bill went Howard University's Alpha.
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  Speaker 4: So I had my SNI I'm an Aka. Bill was seventeen,
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  Speaker 4: and then I prayed to God. I said, God, look
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  Speaker 4: I'm getting old. I want to get married again. I
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  Speaker 4: want to have another baby twenty five years later to
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  Speaker 4: see because God does answer your prayer.
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  Speaker 3: I met him in the airport.
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  Speaker 4: Joe Johnson attorney Joe Johnson out of Detroit, Michigan and
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  Speaker 4: at forty three I had another baby, Jala Johnson. So
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  Speaker 4: now I have a fifty five year old and I
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  Speaker 4: got a thirty year old. I love man in Africa.
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  Speaker 4: When I go, they say, here comes Granny, Reverend Granny.
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  Speaker 1: Now with that being said, Reverend Granny, okay, we go
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  Speaker 1: stick with now you have this time in front of
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  Speaker 1: Reverend Reverend doctor Granny.
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  Speaker 2: Adrian Booth Jones.
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  Speaker 1: The whole program that I talked about earlier and I
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  Speaker 1: want to get into it before the break of Women
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  Speaker 1: Entrepreneurs that's right in Ghana, West Africa.
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  Speaker 2: What is that all about?
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  Speaker 4: So it's start of Joe and I bought a thousand
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  Speaker 4: reusable sanitary paths because we know the period poverty is
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  Speaker 4: an issue. So we bought a thousand reusable sanitary pads.
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  Speaker 4: We took them to London to give them a jalo
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  Speaker 4: while she was at the London School of Economics, said,
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  Speaker 4: jaale go do a feasibilities to study in Ghana. See
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  Speaker 4: if that really is a need. Jala's my daughter.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So Jala's came back. She said, Mama, they really need
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  Speaker 4: the pads. So we decided instead of giving them fish,
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  Speaker 4: let's teach them how to fish. So instead of giving
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  Speaker 4: a fish, we created women entrepreneurs who make and sell
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  Speaker 4: reusable sanitary pads. Because what we found is that ninety
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  Speaker 4: five percent of the girls and living in villages in
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  Speaker 4: Ghana miss twenty percent of the of the school of
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  Speaker 4: being out of school due to lack of access to
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  Speaker 4: sanitary pads. So now they don't have to because now
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  Speaker 4: my three hundred and twenty five women are making paths
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  Speaker 4: so girls can go to school.
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  Speaker 1: So now to get to that point, you had to
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  Speaker 1: create structure. Yes, okay, and you in the country. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: how did that get set up?
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  Speaker 4: So I set it up by creator. You know, God
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  Speaker 4: sends people. Now he gives you the vision. He will
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  Speaker 4: give you the provision. So I have a team over there,
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  Speaker 4: Ellen Aduba and Jennifer Moffatt. So I have a team
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  Speaker 4: on the ground, team who does things, and I do
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  Speaker 4: the fundraising. So I'm gonna raise the funds here in
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  Speaker 4: America and Ellen and Jennifer we go through the churches.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll go to They'll go to a village and say,
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  Speaker 4: pick ten women who've done one of two things. Either
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  Speaker 4: they're asking God for a miracle or they're asking God
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  Speaker 4: for a second chance. If they're doing one of those,
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  Speaker 4: they can be in my Woey bra program and Woey
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  Speaker 4: bra in America. When you say I'm on my period,
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  Speaker 4: in Africa, they say I'm on my woey bra h.
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  Speaker 4: So that's how we started.
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  Speaker 2: The name of the business.
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  Speaker 1: That's the name of the WOA nonprofit woe Ye Bra
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  Speaker 1: Wye BRR.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, by now you're not from the country, so I
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  Speaker 4: probably ain't staying it, but.
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  Speaker 1: I want everybody to hear because of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you're doing something, and you're doing something you know you
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  Speaker 1: know what. Let's say you know walk, you talk, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you walk, your fly because you're flying over there and
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  Speaker 1: making it every year. When we come back, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: continue this conversation with Granny, Reverend doctor Granny who Adrian
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  Speaker 1: Booth justin making a difference, roll your broad Foundation, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of Reverend doctor Adrian Booth Johnson aka Granny, where
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  Speaker 1: she goes over to Africa. Over here, she's just my
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  Speaker 1: friend because she's making a difference. And when you make
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  Speaker 1: a difference some place else, that means you're making a
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  Speaker 1: difference where you are. That's on a regular basis. In
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  Speaker 1: this case, three hundred and twenty five women have become
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  Speaker 1: entrepreneurs in Ghana, West Africa. Now, when you was at
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  Speaker 1: Coca Cola, that's right, with any programs, any relationships you created,
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  Speaker 1: and when you exited that you took back over to Africa.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about your exit plan.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Coca Cola was a great company to work for,
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  Speaker 4: and a lot of the marketing skills I learned, I
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  Speaker 4: now teach them to my three hundred and twenty five women.
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  Speaker 4: So I teach them marketing sales, customer service. I teach
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  Speaker 4: them financial literacy because most of my women are uneducated,
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  Speaker 4: and so I teach them. And that's why I go
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  Speaker 4: twice a year. I go once just to teach them.
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  Speaker 4: I go the next time to go and train more women.
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  Speaker 4: So I gather more money, collect more money, and I
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  Speaker 4: go back and forth. Because like I said, if you
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  Speaker 4: want to do you don't ever want to send money
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  Speaker 4: to a country that you have gone. You have to
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  Speaker 4: inspect what you expect, right, and that's what I do.
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  Speaker 1: And so by going there, there's a physical presence, which
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  Speaker 1: means creates accountability. That's right, that's accountability. And so when
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  Speaker 1: you go there, so have you taken people or taking
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  Speaker 1: students or taking individuals from HBCUs over there with you
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  Speaker 1: just to see this experience.
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  Speaker 2: Or its culture.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the last promotion I was able to help execute
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  Speaker 4: for the Coco Cola company was called the Open Happiness
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  Speaker 4: Store and we took twenty one HBCUs students to South
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  Speaker 4: Africa for the World Cup in twenty ten.
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  Speaker 3: And we took but also it just.
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  Speaker 1: Went you can say, mcdot, anybody gonna blink it out.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta slow down.
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  Speaker 3: It was a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: And so when you went over there with him being
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  Speaker 1: over there, right, and I'm mistaken he has African roots.
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  Speaker 3: Right, he does.
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  Speaker 4: So he went and a lot of the twenty one
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  Speaker 4: students I still stay in touch with him now because
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  Speaker 4: I teach them business etiquette, right, because it was it's
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  Speaker 4: one thing like when you go for a job and
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  Speaker 4: if you're there now, doctors lawyers. But when you go
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  Speaker 4: for a job interview, when you go and try to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, work in corporate America, there's certain things you
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  Speaker 4: discussions you shouldn't have knowing about dining, how to order,
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  Speaker 4: what to eat, where to sit at a corporate table.
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  Speaker 4: So I do that now in Detroit, because I live
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  Speaker 4: in Detroit, and so I do that now and I
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  Speaker 4: teach that now like a cast Tech high school. I'm
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  Speaker 4: working with girls there, teaching them about Woa Yebra. They
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  Speaker 4: cut out the sanitary paths and when I go back,
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  Speaker 4: I take them to Africa, so they have a connection.
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  Speaker 4: And I did a zoom call thanks to the Detroit
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  Speaker 4: Rotary Club. They sponsored it, and I did a zoom
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  Speaker 4: call so that the girls that cut out the paths
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  Speaker 4: get to see the girls in Ghana. So they are
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  Speaker 4: now friends.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, maybe they will make that journey, that travel and
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  Speaker 1: that cultural connections. Now, you know, let everybody know cast Tech,
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  Speaker 1: I'm very familiar. Well, when I did the Hoodie Awards,
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  Speaker 1: they won best high school every year in the country
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  Speaker 1: and for sixteen years, I believe they won fourteen times.
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  Speaker 1: And so casts take very prominent high school in the
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  Speaker 1: city of Detroit. And now when you talk about what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing entrepreneurship, leadership. Let's go back to you, because
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: when I'm fascinated by your energy, I'm fascinated by people
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  Speaker 1: hearing this, this motivational voice and you go.
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  Speaker 2: We shout. I go twice a year, I go tright
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  Speaker 2: to ye.
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  Speaker 1: So you say that like you're going, like if we're
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, you going from another neighborhood. But how many
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  Speaker 1: what's that flight journey? What's the flight journey.
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  Speaker 4: From Atlanta to uh Let's say a craw you sometimes
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  Speaker 4: you have to fly through Amsterdam and stop switch planes,
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  Speaker 4: or you go through New York. It's about ten hours,
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  Speaker 4: twelve hour or something like that, fourteen hours. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know something, and just do it.
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  Speaker 3: You just do it.
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  Speaker 4: You just see when God gives you something to do,
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  Speaker 4: you have to do it. See people sometimes they hesitate
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  Speaker 4: and they pull back. But if he gives you something
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  Speaker 4: to do, so it's just like an Isaiah six eight
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  Speaker 4: when he says, I heard the voice of the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: I said, who will go for us? Whom shall I send?
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  Speaker 4: And who will go for us? I raised my head,
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  Speaker 4: I said send me, send me Lord. I go by myself.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care well you raise your hand enough for
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  Speaker 2: these jobs. Okay, you need a nuclear woman that you've.
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  Speaker 4: Got me, I've got and so, and you know the
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  Speaker 4: blessing is like people like the Zeta Phi Beta sorority.
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  Speaker 4: One hundred and seventy of them went and I was
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  Speaker 4: able to bring one hundred and twenty of my women,
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  Speaker 4: and they trained them right, They taught them. One hundred
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  Speaker 4: and seventy zadas. The aka's alpha capital Alphas. They help
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  Speaker 4: sponsor me. I mean, it's just the Lynx. Oh my god,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: the Lynks Incorporated. They help. So there are a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people here. But what I need everybody now to
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  Speaker 4: do is go right. You gotta go. You got to
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  Speaker 4: step out of the boat, just like when Peter when
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  Speaker 4: the disciples within the water and Jesus told him go
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  Speaker 4: way out, and they saw Jesus coming out of water,
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  Speaker 4: and only Peter said, Jesus, that's you. Let me come
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  Speaker 4: out of the boat. I'm Peter led me out of
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  Speaker 4: the boat. I'm going to be with him right now.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I'm ready to walk. I'm ready to walk. We
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  Speaker 1: got two minutes? Is the fingure of two minutes?
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  Speaker 2: Figure? And is there woe e bra Yes, what's the foundation.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Is there a foundation website?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Well, our nonprofit is Infinity Global Empowerment. Well, Yeebra is
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: just one of our programs. So Wollyebra. Our website is www.
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  Speaker 4: Dot Woe Yeebra w o y e b r a
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  Speaker 4: dot org because it's the organizations, that's our website.
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  Speaker 3: So you can go make donations there.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and so the and so as we as we
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  Speaker 1: leave one note of inspiration. You know, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: we're trying to kill stereotypes. Yes, we're letting people know
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  Speaker 1: that by effort and passion, yes, and love, Yes, that
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  Speaker 1: you can take people quote unquote uneducated and turn them
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  Speaker 1: into entrepreneurs. That's correct, and you use your lessons to
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  Speaker 1: do that correct.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I want people, especially single moms, I want them
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  Speaker 4: to know that sometimes you go to run and stuff,
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: it's just the bend on the road.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the end of the road. You gotta stay positive.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: And I want you to know this too, that the
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: question is not who is going to let you be successful,
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: but who is going to stop you?
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  Speaker 2: M m mmmmmm. And you're a reverend the right red.
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  Speaker 1: Because I say that because of the fact that I've
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  Speaker 1: just been inspired with that because y'all didn't know what
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: she pointed the finger at me.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I would you know, I mean pulling out my pocket.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I could be to open the Bible because you're preaching
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: to me.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Because because you know, when I do this show, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: money making Conversations master class. Right, you know, I'll tell
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: you I get it before thirty in the morning. This
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: is the last thing I do on Tuesday. And I
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: am exhausted. But and I'm exhausted when I say goodbye
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: because then when I'm talking to individuals like it, lets
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  Speaker 1: me know you can.
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  Speaker 4: See the God in me. And that's what you have
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  Speaker 4: to understand. Sometimes when I'm in the village and villages
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  Speaker 4: in Africa, the only God they see is the God
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  Speaker 4: in me.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Now this is what you got to do, my
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: favorite's career. When the next time you go to.
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  Speaker 3: Africa, I'm going in May and September.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, September, before you go back on the show, I'm coming, Okay, cool.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: I know if you always look at me off, I
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: ask you, we're sure you coming with me one time,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: which means I gotta come. Okay, just person right here, Granny.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: You don't tell her no, you know, it's not a negative. No,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: she is telling you come see the right thing done
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and you will help do it too. Thank you for
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: coming on Money Making Conversations master Class.
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  Speaker 3: Bless you, Thank you for allowing me to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: And next week we're going to continue this journey. And
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I thank everybody for listening because every time I bring
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  Speaker 1: a guest, they changed my life. I got my gut
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  Speaker 1: health right, I got my religious right because the reverendend
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