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JJ & Trina Hairston, Nikki Chu, Dr. Holly Carter & Todd "The Donutologist" Jones · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she
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Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and
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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me
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Speaker 1: advice on many occasions. In the case you didn't notice,
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Speaker 1: I'm not broke, you know he'll be interview with celebrity CEOs,
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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. It's what he likes to do.
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Speaker 1: It's what he likes to share. Now it's time to
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Speaker 1: hear from my man, Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations. Here
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Speaker 1: we come. I love that intro. It's what he likes
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Speaker 1: to do. What he likes to say was he's like
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Speaker 1: the comment on That's true. I like to comment on
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Speaker 1: a lot of things in my life and the life
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Speaker 1: and things I see in your life, and things I CEO, television,
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Speaker 1: things I read, and as I travel, you get to
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Speaker 1: experience a lot of different situations that allows you either
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Speaker 1: to compromise what you want to do or confront the
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Speaker 1: issues at hand. We're gonna talk about a lot of
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Speaker 1: things with my next two guests. One is the CEO
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Speaker 1: and found of James Town Music. He is a Grammy
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Speaker 1: nominated Billboard Music Art Award artists two times Stellar Award
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Speaker 1: artists J. J. Harrison and Youthful Praise going to their
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Speaker 1: first ever number one Billboard Top Gospel Airplay chart hit
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Speaker 1: with their single you Deserve It In He's John on
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Speaker 1: the show today with his wife to discuss their book
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Speaker 1: A Miracle Marriage, I Forgive You, I Trust You, I
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Speaker 1: Believe You, Volume one. They state that marriage is sacred,
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Speaker 1: marriage is powerful, but marriage has also been under attack
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Speaker 1: for quite some time. So on Money Making Conversations today,
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Speaker 1: we would discuss these things I mentioned in many upmore things.
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Speaker 1: Please working the Money Making Conversations JJ and Trina Hashton.
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Speaker 1: How are you pretty good? My friend? Pretty good? Welcome
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Speaker 1: back to the show. Thank you for having me. I'm
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Speaker 1: always whether you are well, trainer, you're there, Yes, I'm here.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for having you. Absolutely as you saw, I
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Speaker 1: made some comments about myself, off and the family and
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Speaker 1: uh and a lot of people when uh you I'm
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Speaker 1: talking to two entrepreneurs here, small business owners. People are
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Speaker 1: living their dreams and their dreams are being put in
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Speaker 1: place through their goal setting, their consistency. Where is put
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Speaker 1: in perspective? Before we actually get into into the book,
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Speaker 1: the role of the family and uh, and it's in
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Speaker 1: your role of being successful as entrepreneurs. We we we
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Speaker 1: honestly believe that your family comes first. You believe families
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Speaker 1: is your first ministry. And now often say that God
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Speaker 1: does things in order. He's not gonna bless you with
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Speaker 1: this you know family, this wife, these children and then
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Speaker 1: expect you to put them to the side so that
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Speaker 1: you can build a career um outside of the home.
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Speaker 1: But we believe that God there's things in order, so
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Speaker 1: that if you build your home and you do it
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Speaker 1: in the correct way, honoring your wife and teaching your
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Speaker 1: children the principles of God, that He will set things
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Speaker 1: in life for you when it comes to your career
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Speaker 1: and the things that you the people that you need
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Speaker 1: to meet, the people that you need to connect with.
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Speaker 1: All of that for us come together when you put
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Speaker 1: your marriage and your family first. Because God is we
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Speaker 1: believe God is a god of order. So in doing so, UM,
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Speaker 1: if you if you've read our book, and I believe
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Speaker 1: you have, and maybe someone else out there has read it. Um,
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Speaker 1: when things were not in order in our household, uh,
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Speaker 1: things were not in order. For now that one of
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Speaker 1: our careers, we didn't know what we wanted to do,
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Speaker 1: and even the things that we did desire to do
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Speaker 1: just didn't seem to come together the way we needed
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Speaker 1: them to come together. UM. But it wasn't until we
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Speaker 1: decided that we were going to put our family first. UM.
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Speaker 1: J J had made a decision that he was going
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Speaker 1: to UM get his family back together at whatever cost
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Speaker 1: that meant, whether it meant UM having to start all
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Speaker 1: over coreer Wiz or whatever it meant. He was determined
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Speaker 1: to put his family back together. And once he did that,
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Speaker 1: believe it or not, UM, what he started hearing from
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Speaker 1: God started changing, the music that he started hearing in
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Speaker 1: his conversation and his relationship with God started to change.
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Speaker 1: And as a result of that, UM, you see the
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Speaker 1: j J that you have today. That is the Grammy
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Speaker 1: nominated and the stellar in UM, and that's traveling all
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Speaker 1: over the country. That did not happen until we got
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Speaker 1: our family together. JJ, your turn me. I mean all
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Speaker 1: life always said is so perfectly UM. You know we
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Speaker 1: we initially and this is probably UM you can attest
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Speaker 1: to this as well, Sean. UM, we we got married
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Speaker 1: before things really happened for us, and before we started
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Speaker 1: we weren't even think about starting businesses and all that.
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Speaker 1: We just got married and we were still making music
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Speaker 1: and everything while we were while we were married, and
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Speaker 1: like my wife said, you know, we've gotten some moderate success,
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Speaker 1: but things didn't changed for us until our our family
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Speaker 1: was in order, our home was in order, and then
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Speaker 1: we were actually clear in our minds, we were clear
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Speaker 1: in our horrors. There was nothing, there was no hinder
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Speaker 1: us between us and God, and he was able to
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Speaker 1: give us different visions, different dreams, different ideas that have
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Speaker 1: exploded on us and and really put put us another place. So, um,
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Speaker 1: we always say family first, home first. God is not
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Speaker 1: going to trust you to be a blessed to the
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Speaker 1: world if he can't even trust you with your house. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: It's really when I was reading the book, it was
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Speaker 1: you know, the book is about trainers, truth and j
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Speaker 1: J's journey. It's it's it's sectioned out throughout the book
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Speaker 1: like that. And one of the things that we're gonna
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Speaker 1: go through different sections of the book. And I'm not
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Speaker 1: gonna first of all, as a motivating book. Let me
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Speaker 1: just tell it, there's an uplifting book. This is not
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Speaker 1: a sad book. This is not this is not a
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Speaker 1: testimony about what we did wrong. It's about about information
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Speaker 1: about what you can do right, and using their life
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Speaker 1: is as an example, which is very powerful because a
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't want to reveal any um missteps
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Speaker 1: in their life because they're there there. That's the shallow
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Speaker 1: life that we live. You know. I want to be perfect.
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Speaker 1: I want to live in life that doesn't have any
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Speaker 1: negative moments. But that's not truth. Those are not truths.
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Speaker 1: And that's this book is about truths and what what
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Speaker 1: What continually came out of each chapter I read was
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Speaker 1: they set examples up. They go into the faith, to
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Speaker 1: go into the Bible and show examples why this happened,
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Speaker 1: why Jesus turned water into wine, which was at a
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Speaker 1: marriage ceremony that he was invited to and he didn't,
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Speaker 1: he didn't And so these are all important things. And
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Speaker 1: so I like it because of the fact that you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, when you walk away from something, you and
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Speaker 1: you learn something. I learned from this book, and so
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Speaker 1: I want to point this out so I might have
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Speaker 1: a good time with this book. I'm I'm up beat
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Speaker 1: with Sean McDonald's up beat. You know, I walked, Awa,
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Speaker 1: I walked. I can't wait for this interview. I got
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Speaker 1: all these postings we're gonna top and uh, because you know,
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Speaker 1: you know my natural background, I'm an uplifting guy. And
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Speaker 1: so it was one section of the book called cell
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Speaker 1: Phones and Passwords, where cell phones and password, if you like,
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Speaker 1: I can put my phone down anywhere in my house
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Speaker 1: and my wife can pick up my phone and shire
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Speaker 1: she asked me, what's your password, I'd give it to her.
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Speaker 1: So many people make mistakes with the two phones. I've
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Speaker 1: never had two phones in my life. First of all, okay,
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Speaker 1: I have one phone, one phone number. I never understand
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Speaker 1: the two phone system. Secondly, if if if you put
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Speaker 1: your phone down in anybody that you love or dating, fiance,
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Speaker 1: a wife goes towards your phone and you dive into
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Speaker 1: the phone, then you got a problem. You got a
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Speaker 1: problem because you got to be honest on all levels.
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Speaker 1: And that's all you're saying in this book, and using
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Speaker 1: the example of cell phones and password is a great
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Speaker 1: example from the common folks. We know how we're tied
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Speaker 1: to that technology, and this technology can be a barrier
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Speaker 1: to get in your family right, to get your relationship
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Speaker 1: on point correct right, that's so true. I know I
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Speaker 1: never understood why in Teak housand nineties we are still
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Speaker 1: using cell phones or any kind of electronic device to
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Speaker 1: hide stuff because as we know with computers, they can
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Speaker 1: be great, but they also can be a curse. They
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Speaker 1: can ruin your life. They will tell every piece about
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Speaker 1: you that you don't want. If you pick up someone's
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Speaker 1: cell phone these days, it's almost like a into their lives. Um.
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Speaker 1: So you gotta be an open book and you have
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Speaker 1: to be very transparent with your spouse about everything because,
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Speaker 1: as you say, it's only going to take a crack
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Speaker 1: of a cell phone um for them to open up
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Speaker 1: and see what you've been doing on your off time. Yes,
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Speaker 1: and for me that that that was part of our
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Speaker 1: rebuilding process, the fact that we were able to be
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Speaker 1: as transparent like there's nothing, there's no um, there's no sight,
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Speaker 1: there's no Paige, there's no code that my wife does
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Speaker 1: not have from me, because we need to be able
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Speaker 1: to be open with each other there. And the thing
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Speaker 1: is she doesn't even have to look, she doesn't even
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Speaker 1: care to look because she knows, she knows everything. But
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Speaker 1: if there was something that I kept the secret, then
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Speaker 1: she'd want to look. You're exactly right, and there's According
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Speaker 1: to book, marriage is all tied to the amount of work,
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Speaker 1: and if you're not willing to put in the work,
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Speaker 1: do not get married. If you're not willing to put
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Speaker 1: in the work into your business, do not start a business.
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Speaker 1: If you're not willing to put in work in the
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Speaker 1: job that you're doing four day hours a week, change jobs.
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Speaker 1: You have to be committed to be successful, and marriage
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Speaker 1: is a part of that process. Your family is part
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Speaker 1: of your process, and family tied to making it number one,
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Speaker 1: meaning that you're prioritized the set up because if you
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Speaker 1: if you got all the success in the world and
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Speaker 1: you go home to a dysfunctional family, guess what, you know,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna be this function. You're nice gonna be this function.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna wake up this function. So fix the family first,
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Speaker 1: and I promise you this shift to be right. That's
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Speaker 1: called a balanced life. That's what I preach on this show.
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Speaker 1: Another thing I wanted to talk about on the show
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Speaker 1: What You Guys, was talking on the phone having time
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Speaker 1: for each other. I know we've got like three minutes left,
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Speaker 1: but I wanted to bring that up because that's an
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Speaker 1: issue that people have. You know, they they talk when
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Speaker 1: they see each other, you know, because the telephone is
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Speaker 1: the new flowers to me, you know, send your wife
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Speaker 1: flowers and your girlfriend flowers, send your send your fiance flowers.
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Speaker 1: Because you can, you can communicate. Communications is so key
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Speaker 1: because it's no excuses. Back in the old days, you know,
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Speaker 1: you're you're roting. Without telephone, the regular telephone, you couldn't drive.
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Speaker 1: You go to work, then you talk. You could actually
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Speaker 1: drive home and have a conversation. Use that as valuable
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Speaker 1: communication time for your relationship. Correct, that's what That's exactly
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Speaker 1: what we do. And we encourage all couples to find
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Speaker 1: a way to um give each other quality time and
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Speaker 1: for us because they're both busy. What we what I
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Speaker 1: vowed is when I'm in my car and I'm driving,
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Speaker 1: and I could be driving our way, I could be
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Speaker 1: driving three hours away. I called her and we talked
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Speaker 1: the whole time I'm driving, because that's uninterrupted time between
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Speaker 1: you and your spouse. And and I don't I don't
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Speaker 1: even click over somebody calling me. They text me in whatever.
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Speaker 1: I answer those text when I get where I'm going.
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Speaker 1: But that's time I spend with my wife. And there's
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Speaker 1: been plenty times I drive I'm on my way home.
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Speaker 1: I talked to get in the garage because when you
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Speaker 1: see each other, you say, hey, how you doing, how
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Speaker 1: would you day? And that's it as opposed to giving
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Speaker 1: them time when you actually allow each other to talk
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Speaker 1: out your ideas, talk about your point and talk about
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Speaker 1: what your dreams are, talking about how you feel, you know,
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Speaker 1: the things you can really talk through when you're on
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Speaker 1: the phone in the car. This is amazing just hearing this,
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Speaker 1: having this conversation. You gotta got the album that came
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Speaker 1: out and get this always came out the Miracle Worker
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Speaker 1: when shout that out that that came last Mark, Uh,
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Speaker 1: how's it doing? Uh? What's the expectations of that one
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Speaker 1: after that tremendous success on the previous one? It's doing great.
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Speaker 1: You know what I found with this one, I wanted
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Speaker 1: to go a little bit of a different direction. You
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Speaker 1: deserve it a lot of us to really have a
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Speaker 1: great um reach into Africa. So we recorded a few
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Speaker 1: African songs and it's funny just one one of the
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Speaker 1: songs we just released a video for I'm Part of
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Speaker 1: You have like in four days and have like five
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Speaker 1: hundred of thousands of user someone four to something thousands
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Speaker 1: of ye because that's how they consume music. So we
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Speaker 1: wanted to release music in a way that will really
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Speaker 1: appeal to the African continent. And it's been really successful
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Speaker 1: so far. Awesome, my man. I want to thank both
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Speaker 1: of you guys for coming on my show. All right.
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Speaker 1: As you can see, I've fallen in love with the
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Speaker 1: the book, your brand, you are getting. Uh this is
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Speaker 1: your home, training us your home too. And I'm glad you.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you. I'm glad you realize that I'm with
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Speaker 1: your girl. I'm with you boy. We've ain't We appreciate
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Speaker 1: that people when I talk about success, when I talk
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Speaker 1: those goals into action items. Action items is how you're
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Speaker 1: able to deliver uh success. I'm not telling everything. I'm
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Speaker 1: not telling you that everybody should get up at four
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Speaker 1: fifteen in the morning. I'm just telling you set a
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Speaker 1: time of consistency in your life, because if I don't
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Speaker 1: get up at four fifteen, it throws my whole day
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Speaker 1: off and I'm in a rush. So my body clock
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Speaker 1: has been committed to that when I get up and leave.
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Speaker 1: One of getting a four fourteen is not an easy
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Speaker 1: telling you my role, my time for success. That's the
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Speaker 1: time I clocked. That's the time I clocked in. If
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Speaker 1: some people might clock in the eight o'clock, in them
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Speaker 1: more nine o'clock, the more Rashaun clocks in the four am.
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Speaker 1: That's how I do it at one level. But also
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Speaker 1: I'm committed to the relationships that I have around me,
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Speaker 1: the people who surround me that enable me to be successful.
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Speaker 1: You cannot be successful by yourself. Family has to be first.
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Speaker 1: You must leave a balanced life, and you have to
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Speaker 1: have a clear understanding that your future is only determined
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Speaker 1: by the people that you surround yourself with. If you
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Speaker 1: have nay sayers around you, they will wear you down.
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Speaker 1: Close the door on they sayers. Close the door on
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Speaker 1: people who say I know about that? Are you sure
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Speaker 1: nobody's ever done that before? Oh? I don't know. Really? Okay,
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Speaker 1: guest is the person I would never slammed the door on.
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Speaker 1: He's been in the donut making game for over forty
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Speaker 1: five years. He will gladly state if you cut him,
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Speaker 1: he will bleed glaze, as in glazed donuts. He started
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Speaker 1: Cousin Dozen, which is CD for short, during a twenty
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Speaker 1: four years ago and now has two locations in Brooklyn,
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Speaker 1: New York and Queens, New York. I've been to the Brooklyn,
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Speaker 1: New York location. I have pictures of me eating those doughnuts,
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Speaker 1: so I am a committed fan of what he does.
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Speaker 1: He'll be franchising in approximately a hundred and twenty days.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversation Again. I've made him
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Speaker 1: on like two years. Please welcome to money making conversation.
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Speaker 1: My man Todd Jones. Hey, Sean, how's it going pretty good? Uh?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, work where yet? Man? Because it's just just
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Speaker 1: by work time for you. Huh, it definitely is, man.
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Speaker 1: But I got a bunch of committed people, man that
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Speaker 1: can handle the range of the business. Why I kind
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Speaker 1: of relax a little bit because you know, like you said,
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Speaker 1: you gotta have that balance. Man, You definitely gotta have
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Speaker 1: that balance. Now when you say the word work, because
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Speaker 1: you relax because you're on the phone talking to me
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Speaker 1: promoting your brand. So that's not really technically relaxing, but
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Speaker 1: in your world of physically out there, because your brand
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Speaker 1: has changed, it allows you to be able to, as
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Speaker 1: I say, go out there and seek God opportunities to
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Speaker 1: grow your brand. Correct. That's that's definitely correct. That's definitely correct.
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Speaker 1: It's it's it's now. You know, for all those years
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Speaker 1: I've been working, you know, in the business, now I'm
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Speaker 1: working on the business. It's a whole different philosophy, whole
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Speaker 1: different perspectives. Um, that's how you really get both by
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Speaker 1: working on the business. Now, let's talk about the business.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about your experience first, okay, because you know
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Speaker 1: nobody wakes up just making donuts. I know I can't. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I would be honest with you. Is that I am?
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Speaker 1: You know I have Krispy Kreme app on my phone.
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Speaker 1: I will tell you that, you know, so I can
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Speaker 1: just clicking and find out when the lights on and
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Speaker 1: say the Atlanta or wherever I met, and I will
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Speaker 1: go there. Because I love Blade donors. I don't like
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Speaker 1: to do I'm going to be honest with you. I
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Speaker 1: don't like the donors with all those little food food
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Speaker 1: with a little chocolate covered in a little be done
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Speaker 1: in a little raising brands and no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: give me Glade donut. I love cake donors too, now,
18:23
Speaker 1: but those Blades donuts at the wall, I'm winning. I'm winning. Well, well,
18:33
Speaker 1: let me just shout out Kristy Cream Sublime Donuts out
18:36
Speaker 1: there in the land, and all those mom and top
18:38
Speaker 1: donor shops out there. I'm about donor kind of saw them.
18:41
Speaker 1: I'm the ambassador donuts. I love all donuts. You know,
18:45
Speaker 1: we all can win the thing as competition. Could you
18:48
Speaker 1: say competition? That means it's not enough. It's all about cooperation.
18:52
Speaker 1: I'm in the donut business with all these other big brands.
18:57
Speaker 1: So uh so, now with being said, how did it
19:01
Speaker 1: all start for you in the donut business? So years ago, Uh,
19:06
Speaker 1: my sister worked in the donut shop called a company Too,
19:10
Speaker 1: and it was owned by three African American men. First
19:15
Speaker 1: time I ever saw African men. First time I've ever
19:23
Speaker 1: seen three African American men owning something, and I think
19:27
Speaker 1: that was my inspiration. You know. From there, I saw
19:30
Speaker 1: them calling the shots, paying the bills, you know, just
19:33
Speaker 1: being in charge and charge of the destiny. So that shop,
19:37
Speaker 1: uh was in existence for about three or four years,
19:41
Speaker 1: then it closed, and then I started working for Mom
19:44
Speaker 1: Pop donor shops. And from working from Mom and Pop
19:47
Speaker 1: down the shops, I eventually landed a job with the
19:51
Speaker 1: big brand Dunkin Donuts. Worked for them for twenty years.
19:55
Speaker 1: It was the highest paid baker in Dunker Donuts history.
19:58
Speaker 1: I drove a BMW you that said by donors Rashan,
20:02
Speaker 1: I was making dump I was gitting it. So after
20:08
Speaker 1: about twenty years, I was working for one of the
20:11
Speaker 1: largest duck of Donor franchises and um, they decided to
20:15
Speaker 1: sell it to another owner and he decided I was
20:18
Speaker 1: making too much money. He fired me. Um, and UM
20:23
Speaker 1: give me one week seven stay and that was it.
20:27
Speaker 1: And I said, Rashan, this is never gonna happen again,
20:30
Speaker 1: never gonna happen. Agap. My daughter was supposed to be
20:32
Speaker 1: born three months before that, and here I has with
20:35
Speaker 1: no job because I like to read books. The spirit says,
20:40
Speaker 1: go to Barns and Nobles, relaxed, going to bars and nobles.
20:44
Speaker 1: Walk past magazine racks. I'm told me to stop. I stopped.
20:48
Speaker 1: I look up Entrepreneur magazine. Can't make this up for Shan.
20:52
Speaker 1: I opened up Entrepreneur magazine and right there was a
20:56
Speaker 1: donor machine. I said, God, say no more. And I
21:01
Speaker 1: never ever looked back. You open up the magazine. Yeah,
21:07
Speaker 1: the donor machine, the exact donate machine that I'm using
21:10
Speaker 1: state yep, wow wow yeah you know I when you
21:17
Speaker 1: look back on it, he just gave you the push.
21:20
Speaker 1: Oh yeah it was. It wasn't. It wasn't a nice push,
21:24
Speaker 1: but it was a gush. Yeah. Has had i've not
21:29
Speaker 1: been fired, I probably have been. I probably have been
21:34
Speaker 1: a dunk of Dona franchise v probably probably. But that
21:39
Speaker 1: wasn't what God has for me. He had for me
21:42
Speaker 1: to on my own franchise and be the franchise ar
21:45
Speaker 1: who sells franchises to other people. Right, so let's talk
21:50
Speaker 1: about let's talk about the name. How did you come
21:52
Speaker 1: up with the name, and then we're gonna talk about
21:54
Speaker 1: the product, and then we're gonna talk about the franchising.
21:57
Speaker 1: Let's talk about how how did you come up with
21:59
Speaker 1: the name? So all ideas come from God, Right, I
22:04
Speaker 1: just happened to be open enough to receive that. That
22:09
Speaker 1: was my gift from God. The name Cousin doesn't anything
22:11
Speaker 1: I've ever come up with, any idea of it ever
22:13
Speaker 1: come up with. I give all glory to God because
22:16
Speaker 1: that's where it comes from. So you know how it happens.
22:20
Speaker 1: You know, I go to sleep, I wake up and
22:23
Speaker 1: it's like, because it doesn't wow, thank you God. That's
22:28
Speaker 1: how guess what? And you're accepting of it. That's that's
22:32
Speaker 1: that's the beauty. You know a lot of people, you know,
22:34
Speaker 1: a good thought to him, come to him and they're
22:36
Speaker 1: on their third thought. You know, well, it's not like
22:39
Speaker 1: that's really you know, I always tell people ride that
22:42
Speaker 1: first thought. That's the thought. You ride that third thought
22:45
Speaker 1: of the first thought really is wasting of your thoughts. Okay,
22:50
Speaker 1: so go back to the first thought. So Cousin doesn't
22:52
Speaker 1: came to you said, that's the name of my business exactly.
22:57
Speaker 1: And it fits perfectly because of the fact that when
23:00
Speaker 1: you have a cousin's other experience, it's like family you know,
23:05
Speaker 1: when you come to the shop, Hey, cousin, how are
23:07
Speaker 1: you doing right? And what this experience to be family oriented? Yes, sir,
23:11
Speaker 1: yes you know, because a donut is a donut is
23:14
Speaker 1: a donut. Were an experience. We do what we call
23:18
Speaker 1: either tainment, which means you can see that don'tor being made.
23:23
Speaker 1: You could smell a donor being made, you could taste
23:26
Speaker 1: it made. We had all these senses. It's an experience.
23:31
Speaker 1: I love this guy. I love it because he got
23:33
Speaker 1: me hungry. I'm hungry, I'm waiting on a donor and
23:36
Speaker 1: you're in New York City. Now here's the thing about it.
23:39
Speaker 1: This day you said, you create an interactive experience. Like
23:41
Speaker 1: you said, Peter t you can smell it and taste
23:45
Speaker 1: it and see it, and you create and you also
23:49
Speaker 1: have a signature. Donna is the final cake, which is
23:51
Speaker 1: another one of my favorite the carnival is desserts is
23:56
Speaker 1: the final cake. So tell me exactly what is the
23:59
Speaker 1: final dawn? Because I'm gonna feels like it's a ben
24:02
Speaker 1: kind of like Okay. So my partner Eric Santiago, who's
24:07
Speaker 1: affectively known as easy Glaze, we are always brain stone
24:11
Speaker 1: and stuff, and we said we need to have a
24:14
Speaker 1: unique donut that can like signify who we are. So
24:18
Speaker 1: I started thinking Brooklyn. I'm like, wait a minute, Cody Allen.
24:23
Speaker 1: So he looks at me and he goes, yeah, Cody
24:25
Speaker 1: Allen And at the same moment we go, oh, no, Kate,
24:29
Speaker 1: I could put it together. We go funnel cake donut bingo.
24:33
Speaker 1: That was it. So it's a combination, just like a
24:36
Speaker 1: cronut as a crossan don it together with a funnel
24:40
Speaker 1: cake donut as a funnel cake and a donut together,
24:44
Speaker 1: you look your sinister with your food dome a donut.
24:58
Speaker 1: I love it. I'm just if if you're ever in Brooklyn,
25:01
Speaker 1: you gotta go buy and Steve because you you are,
25:04
Speaker 1: you are, You're both locations now. You spend most of
25:05
Speaker 1: your time at the Brooklyn location. The way actually because
25:10
Speaker 1: we're building this franchise. Um, I'm you know, sometimes that's broken.
25:14
Speaker 1: Sometimes the Queen's you know, it depends on you know,
25:16
Speaker 1: what I'm doing for the day. But um, usually you
25:20
Speaker 1: can find me in Brooklyn. Uh. He's the man. Like
25:23
Speaker 1: he said, if you cut him, he will bleed glaze.
25:25
Speaker 1: He's the owner of co owner of Cousin doesn't they're
25:29
Speaker 1: franchising out there. How can they reach out to you?
25:32
Speaker 1: Uh learn more about the franchising process, taught, Well, you
25:37
Speaker 1: can reach out at fo at Cousins doesn't uh dot com.
25:41
Speaker 1: But like I said, after a hundred twenty days, you know,
25:44
Speaker 1: we'll have perspectives and you know, people could um see
25:47
Speaker 1: what it is that we got. And we're actually, especially
25:51
Speaker 1: the beginning stage, we're looking for individuals with high net
25:55
Speaker 1: worth because what we want to do is sell them territories, sir,
26:00
Speaker 1: you know, like buying minimumal ten franchises. Were also throwing
26:03
Speaker 1: a mobile unit with that. That's how we've become the
26:06
Speaker 1: fast going franchise and franchise history, not by doing addition,
26:09
Speaker 1: by selling one here and one day and one dare.
26:12
Speaker 1: By doing multiplication, that's how you become the fastest going
26:16
Speaker 1: franchise franchise history. But Man Todd, thank you for coming
26:19
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26:22
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26:24
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26:27
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Speaker 1: auntieing up. Okay, Now, first of all, Rashawn does not
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28:50
Speaker 1: Please welcome, good friend. Long time been so long since
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Speaker 1: Extraordinary Holly Carter. Hi, hey, big timer, how are you
29:08
Speaker 1: doing time? Okay, let's put the blast with the faith
29:15
Speaker 1: and all this. But I'm mentioning all this stuff. This
29:18
Speaker 1: has to be uh, you know, here's I was. I
29:21
Speaker 1: was at NBC UNI and and I mentioned your name
29:28
Speaker 1: and they just gushed with compliments about how professional you are,
29:34
Speaker 1: that you are a creative genius, that you are a
29:39
Speaker 1: producer extraordinaire, and it's just it's just watching you grow
29:46
Speaker 1: your brand. Tell us about what is your brand? Ms Carter? Um,
29:53
Speaker 1: you know what, First of all, that's so awesome. It's
29:56
Speaker 1: awesome to know that you know, your reputation is speaking
30:01
Speaker 1: for you and that means a lot to me. Um.
30:05
Speaker 1: But um, you know, my brand is redemptive, provocative, informative, entertaining,
30:14
Speaker 1: and aspirational content. That's that's what I'm up. That's what
30:18
Speaker 1: represents my faith, you know, my way of life. Um,
30:22
Speaker 1: what I believe is? Now? What ask this question then,
30:27
Speaker 1: because you're ended with it, What do you believe in
30:32
Speaker 1: in terms of my faith? Well? You say, you say
30:35
Speaker 1: your aspiration, your faith and what you believe in that
30:38
Speaker 1: that was a lead off into something else. Besides that,
30:41
Speaker 1: is it all tied to faith? Is it believed in
30:43
Speaker 1: the storytelling that you want to tell or that the
30:45
Speaker 1: people you want to have a relationship with when you're
30:48
Speaker 1: producing these type of shows. What is that all tied to?
30:51
Speaker 1: I guess I apologize for that confusing question, but that's
30:54
Speaker 1: what I'm extending it beyond where you ended it, because
30:57
Speaker 1: it's all about relationships, correct, got it? Yeah? I believe
31:01
Speaker 1: in relationships that you know that God allows us to create, cultivate,
31:06
Speaker 1: maintain um because you know, relationships are key and um.
31:13
Speaker 1: You know, some relationships are seasonal reasonabal and then there's
31:18
Speaker 1: some for a lifetime. And you know, I thank God
31:22
Speaker 1: for the wisdom to know the difference in in the
31:24
Speaker 1: three seasonal reasonable and and for a lifetime. There you
31:28
Speaker 1: go on point, just trying to educate my audience to
31:31
Speaker 1: understand how you are driving your concept because people approach
31:35
Speaker 1: me all the time with creative ideas. I can make
31:38
Speaker 1: a lot of money with this ra Sean, Okay, I
31:40
Speaker 1: got it. But what's the basis of it? What's what's
31:43
Speaker 1: the plan? Uh? What talent has attached to this and
31:47
Speaker 1: so one of the things that I always enjoyed doing
31:49
Speaker 1: was Emerged Summit. Are you still doing Emerge summits? Oh? Yes,
31:53
Speaker 1: we're going into year eleven next year. Um that you know,
31:57
Speaker 1: that is an extension of my purpose in Hollywood to
32:02
Speaker 1: merge the sacred and the secular, bring opportunity and platforms
32:06
Speaker 1: to other believers who are creative and you know, and
32:09
Speaker 1: want to impact culture through entertainment. And so Merge is
32:13
Speaker 1: a very very big part of what I do and
32:16
Speaker 1: what I represent, and it will be a part of
32:17
Speaker 1: my legacy. Now if it started traveling now, member, I
32:21
Speaker 1: used to always go to l A. And then I
32:23
Speaker 1: saw it on the East coast. Is it still based
32:25
Speaker 1: on the in l A. Or is it traveling from
32:27
Speaker 1: different to different cities. Well, we are one year on
32:32
Speaker 1: in l A for the three day event, and then
32:34
Speaker 1: the next year we travel um, you know, so we
32:38
Speaker 1: are you know, it's a national event now, but each
32:40
Speaker 1: every other year we're in a different market. Okay, So
32:45
Speaker 1: what market was it in? This is the Merge Summer
32:47
Speaker 1: we're talking about? Is Angeley for the complete weekend of education,
32:51
Speaker 1: empowerment and entertainment. I used to always attended in Los
32:54
Speaker 1: Angeles names on the road. So what what market was
32:57
Speaker 1: it in the summit? Well, this was the year that
33:03
Speaker 1: it toured and so we were at essens in July.
33:06
Speaker 1: So we curated UM three major conversations UM in July
33:12
Speaker 1: at Essence Festival, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Okay cool? So
33:16
Speaker 1: now will it be back in l A, back in
33:20
Speaker 1: l A? Okay cool? Three days? Three days? Uh? And
33:24
Speaker 1: so with that being said, when does it? When do
33:26
Speaker 1: you start promoting that? Is it promoting at the top
33:28
Speaker 1: of the year. How do you do that? We will
33:31
Speaker 1: send out kind of a save the Day by October
33:35
Speaker 1: uh this year for next year, and it's the last
33:38
Speaker 1: week in August next year. Okay cool? Let me know
33:42
Speaker 1: so I can support you through my social media fan
33:45
Speaker 1: club members. I'd love to put that in my monthly
33:48
Speaker 1: newsletter and promote your brand from the merged Summit. Okay,
33:53
Speaker 1: I will certainly let you know. Thank you so much
33:55
Speaker 1: for Sean. I appreciate that. Okay, Cool. Let's talk about
33:57
Speaker 1: what Let's talk about how did you come up with
34:00
Speaker 1: creative ideas? Let's talk about let me dive into your
34:02
Speaker 1: head of ms carter because your your platforms are our
34:07
Speaker 1: faith based. Uh, how do you how do you how
34:10
Speaker 1: do you sit around and just think of an idea?
34:12
Speaker 1: Do you make a phone call? Do you do you
34:15
Speaker 1: have a staff that you pitch to? How does the
34:18
Speaker 1: evolution of creativity happen in your world? Um? You know,
34:24
Speaker 1: it's a mixture of several things. Sometimes people bring me ideas,
34:29
Speaker 1: other times I curate them based on something that I
34:33
Speaker 1: want to do. Um and then and then there are
34:37
Speaker 1: times when the team will generate an idea. So it
34:41
Speaker 1: definitely varied, Like to show that's on NBC, I'm sorry
34:46
Speaker 1: to show that's on d et calor Next six Things. Um,
34:50
Speaker 1: that idea was brought to me and I developed it.
34:53
Speaker 1: I brought in the team, we developed it, I sold it,
34:56
Speaker 1: and that's how it got on the air. It was
34:59
Speaker 1: kind of a germ of the idea, and we ended
35:01
Speaker 1: up kind of refurbishing, kind of repackaging and redeveloping it
35:06
Speaker 1: to what it is now. The idea that's on v
35:10
Speaker 1: H one. It was just literally based on my relationship
35:14
Speaker 1: with one of the stars of the show. It was
35:16
Speaker 1: his continent, it was his business, and I thought this
35:19
Speaker 1: would really make a good television show. Let's let's do
35:22
Speaker 1: this and that's how that happens. That's love and listings, right, Yeah,
35:28
Speaker 1: that's motherless thing. That's on one, and then we're talking
35:31
Speaker 1: about the next big thing. This is only there's on
35:33
Speaker 1: BT and that the judges Damon dash On their Tina Davis,
35:38
Speaker 1: and there's twelve up and coming R and B and
35:40
Speaker 1: hip hop artists through this. Basically, you say it's grueling development.
35:44
Speaker 1: So I'm assuming that you start with twelve and you
35:47
Speaker 1: end with one. That's how it works. On the next
35:48
Speaker 1: big things. Yeah, there's there's one winner that's crowned the
35:52
Speaker 1: next big things, and then after that, then after that
35:56
Speaker 1: you move on. So I'm assuming that in your office
35:59
Speaker 1: some where in Hollywood there's just a there's just just
36:03
Speaker 1: giant pitch room, correct, mm hmmm. Yes. We have what's
36:07
Speaker 1: called of development development time, and during that development time
36:12
Speaker 1: we talked about new ideas, things that have been tip
36:15
Speaker 1: people bring up um ideas, and and then we also,
36:20
Speaker 1: you know, continue the development of current projects that are
36:23
Speaker 1: on our slates. The thing about it that you know,
36:25
Speaker 1: I asked you that question, Rachean, what what are you
36:28
Speaker 1: most proud of? And when I think of Holly, I
36:31
Speaker 1: think of the years I've known you. The thing that
36:33
Speaker 1: I always loved about you was the Merged Summit. I'm
36:37
Speaker 1: just gonna be honest with you. When I did those
36:40
Speaker 1: I it was so many people who were there just
36:42
Speaker 1: wanted information on how to win, how to learn, how
36:46
Speaker 1: to how can I not make the same mistake over
36:48
Speaker 1: and over again? And it was and it was, you know,
36:51
Speaker 1: because she get mad at me because you know, you
36:54
Speaker 1: you come there, you're not supposed to use any you know,
36:56
Speaker 1: salty words, and I would use them periodically. There's just
36:59
Speaker 1: like my mom on the side, Rashan, you know where
37:02
Speaker 1: you at, Rashwan, you can't say that. And it was,
37:06
Speaker 1: it was, it was, it was always. It was always
37:08
Speaker 1: fun for me to participate because of the fact that
37:11
Speaker 1: it was about paying it forward. And that really is
37:14
Speaker 1: something I feel from a from a a person who
37:17
Speaker 1: looked so far. You are changing the game, You're you're
37:22
Speaker 1: blessing people, you're opening doors, and do you see it
37:26
Speaker 1: there the same way I'm seeing it because of the
37:27
Speaker 1: fact that I know you started and sometimes you can
37:30
Speaker 1: be so deep in it and just producing it every year.
37:32
Speaker 1: Now you put it on the road, which means there's
37:34
Speaker 1: even more complexities to that being produced you took it
37:37
Speaker 1: the essence this year. I've seen it in Baltimore, you
37:40
Speaker 1: know every other years back in Los Angeles. Were originated
37:44
Speaker 1: from am I am I saying too much? Or you
37:47
Speaker 1: saying rash You're dead on with what what what? What
37:50
Speaker 1: you're trying to achieve with the Merged Summit. No, you're dead.
37:54
Speaker 1: I mean that's when you go back and you ask
37:57
Speaker 1: what are your most proud of? You know, from a
38:00
Speaker 1: project standpoint, I'm proud of all my projects. What makes
38:04
Speaker 1: the clocks of suspecsional with what I said when you
38:06
Speaker 1: talk about um my endeavors or my ventures or those
38:11
Speaker 1: legacy moments, I think I'm really proud at the Merge
38:14
Speaker 1: because that to your point, what it represents, what it
38:19
Speaker 1: does for other believers, what it does for other creative people.
38:23
Speaker 1: UM the fact that next year will be launching uh Inset,
38:26
Speaker 1: which is Merge Extension Program, which will be a accredited
38:30
Speaker 1: um UH Extensions College program for those who want to
38:37
Speaker 1: take the Merge further. If it's a nine month program,
38:40
Speaker 1: so that's an extension of Merge and it's a it's
38:43
Speaker 1: another opportunity to give access, give platform, give opportunity. So
38:49
Speaker 1: I am super proud of what Merge has accomplished, and
38:53
Speaker 1: I'm looking for twenty to be even bigger. I want
38:57
Speaker 1: to continue to provide opportunity, to continue to connect the
39:01
Speaker 1: dots for people that really have a heart for entertainment. Well,
39:06
Speaker 1: when you say bigger, just being nosy, what do you
39:09
Speaker 1: say when you say you want to be bigger? Was
39:11
Speaker 1: it a bigger facility, bigger more attendance, bigger talent to participate?
39:16
Speaker 1: What do you mean when you say bigger? Bigger everything
39:20
Speaker 1: I want? I need bigger. I need bigger partners to
39:24
Speaker 1: make it bigger. I want more people to experience the opportunity,
39:31
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Speaker 1: Let's let's let's tell everybody that I was executive boost
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Speaker 1: show for the WB I created co created with Steve Harvey. Uh.
46:10
Speaker 1: It was called Mobile Home Disasters where we will go
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Speaker 1: in and to mobile homes and make over, make them over.
46:17
Speaker 1: And she was one of the designers that was higher
46:20
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46:24
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46:44
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46:50
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46:53
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46:55
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47:14
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47:17
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47:20
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Speaker 1: stage before we started moving forward to what you've accomplished
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Speaker 1: that you're gonna make over mobile homes, you know, as
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Speaker 1: a designer, that is on the list of what you'd
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47:40
Speaker 1: So there was a lot of things that ran through
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47:53
Speaker 1: that was actually a really exciting time because, first of all,
47:57
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48:24
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Speaker 1: But what you don't know is that you're about to
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Speaker 1: to take that traditional four year course at school and
51:23
Speaker 1: pay all those tuition fees if you have a talent.
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Speaker 1: I didn't go to school to be an interior designer.
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Speaker 1: I went to school to be a graphic designer. Yes,
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Speaker 1: that the users didn't teach because they're teaching you the groundwork, right. So,
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Speaker 1: All of these things that you need to learn to
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52:33
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53:33
Speaker 1: this season is so exciting. I have celebrity guests on
53:36
Speaker 1: and to see their reaction, to see their spaces. These
53:40
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Speaker 1: so I I am really excited, and we air tonight,
53:49
Speaker 1: so I can't wait to see that. I'm watching for sure. Well,
53:51
Speaker 1: first of all, amazing growth. I want to be a
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54:10
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