Latest / Earn Your Leisure / EYL #281 Billion Dollar Empire: Medical Equipment, Pharmacies, Entrepreneurship, & Oil with Dr. Trisha Bailey
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- 1:00Speaker 3: I started doing sabbaticals about eight years ago. My first
- 1:04Speaker 3: one was for a month and I said, let me
- 1:05Speaker 3: see how much they need me and they can do
- 1:08Speaker 3: on their own. That came back. They were good at
- 1:10Speaker 3: eighty five percent, so I see what they need to
- 1:12Speaker 3: be developed in. And then the next year I did
- 1:14Speaker 3: another one for two months and I'm like, all right,
- 1:17Speaker 3: ninety three ninety five percent okay, And so now they're
- 1:20Speaker 3: pretty much ninety eight percent in certain things I have
- 1:22Speaker 3: to do so without me being there impactful. I don't
- 1:27Speaker 3: have to be there every day. And because they know
- 1:30Speaker 3: exactly what to do when they need me, they call
- 1:32Speaker 3: me if I'm unplugged. They know there are a couple
- 1:35Speaker 3: of people that can call me, and only a couple
- 1:37Speaker 3: of people and that's it. And only if the place
- 1:39Speaker 3: is burning down you call me.
- 1:41Speaker 4: All right, gosh, welcome back. This is going to be
- 1:45Speaker 4: a super dope episode. You know, we have a lot
- 1:49Speaker 4: of ties with the great country of Jamaica. You don't say,
- 1:53Speaker 4: of course, Troy is Jamaican and we had great times
- 1:58Speaker 4: in the country of Jamaica. We went to Kingston and
- 2:01Speaker 4: we interviewed you saying boat Yes. We interviewed Bounty Killer,
- 2:06Speaker 4: We interviewed Shams, and.
- 2:08Speaker 5: We went to we went back to Sherlock Cresset Man
- 2:10Speaker 5: with Shams.
- 2:11Speaker 4: We went to Screechies shout to Screechyes, helpshire parish legendary
- 2:17Speaker 4: lobster amazing, and we've always done stuff like in London,
- 2:23Speaker 4: what is a large Jamaican population, and New York City
- 2:27Speaker 4: of course, Toronto, so we have heavy ties in with
- 2:31Speaker 4: the country of Jamaica.
- 2:33Speaker 6: Yeah, well you've got tis, I got bloodlines. It's different
- 2:40Speaker 6: food all the time, all the time. I don't really
- 2:45Speaker 6: eat the dumplings too much.
- 2:46Speaker 5: But are you? Are you a boiled or fried?
- 2:50Speaker 4: I'm bold me.
- 2:51Speaker 5: So that's why I know. I knew he was there.
- 2:53Speaker 5: I knew he was it.
- 2:54Speaker 4: So today we have the wealthiest woman from Jamaica. Is
- 2:59Speaker 4: that correct? Is that title correct? Yes? Doctor Tricia Bailey,
- 3:04Speaker 4: so University of Connecticut alumni.
- 3:07Speaker 3: Yes.
- 3:08Speaker 4: And in the medical field. So it has prominent business
- 3:11Speaker 4: over twenty years in the medical fail. She's the CEO
- 3:14Speaker 4: of Bailey's Pharmacy and Medical Equipment Supplies, overseeing a company
- 3:19Speaker 4: with a massive with massive revenues and employing over five
- 3:24Speaker 4: hundred people. That's a lot of employees. And I read
- 3:28Speaker 4: somewhere away you have she had like fifteen different companies. Yeah,
- 3:32Speaker 4: and just wrote a book.
- 3:34Speaker 3: I too.
- 3:36Speaker 4: You just talked about your son going to school. So
- 3:38Speaker 4: proud parent.
- 3:39Speaker 3: I am the five yet live.
- 3:44Speaker 6: Yes, when we missed the big part. It is Jamaica. Bro,
- 3:46Speaker 6: you forgot the track part. Yes, of course. I mean
- 3:50Speaker 6: the last athlete from the University of Yukon Husky.
- 3:55Speaker 5: He's a Husky. We had that. I applied there, I
- 3:57Speaker 5: didn't get in.
- 3:57Speaker 6: You did apply and became obviously a start and giving
- 4:00Speaker 6: a lot back to to the university.
- 4:02Speaker 5: So congrats on that.
- 4:03Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you very much.
- 4:05Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't get the track, Gene, so I am
- 4:08Speaker 5: a bit jealous.
- 4:10Speaker 3: Something else.
- 4:11Speaker 5: Yes, that's true. That's true. That's true.
- 4:13Speaker 4: So this is going to be a very high level conversation.
- 4:15Speaker 4: We get to talk about your journey from Jamaica to America,
- 4:19Speaker 4: athletics and getting in the medical field and growing rapidly,
- 4:24Speaker 4: balancing all of that with being a mother, your new book,
- 4:28Speaker 4: being an author. So yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
- 4:31Speaker 4: Thank you for joining us, appreciate it. Thank you so
- 4:32Speaker 4: much for having me. Yes, it's such a pleasure to
- 4:34Speaker 4: be here. Richard Million, nice watch you don't say watch Busters.
- 4:46Speaker 5: Straight? Write that from the record.
- 4:49Speaker 4: All right, So let's start at the beginning. So you're
- 4:51Speaker 4: from Jamaica originally before you come to America, right, like
- 4:54Speaker 4: you were born in Jamaica. I was because he's technically
- 4:56Speaker 4: a Yankee. He's not actually that word because he no,
- 5:04Speaker 4: it's the truth. He's not actually from Jamaica. His parents
- 5:07Speaker 4: were from Jamaica. But you're from Jamaica. From Jamaica, don't
- 5:11Speaker 4: do this. So you grew up in Saint Elizabeth Parishes.
- 5:17Speaker 4: That correct, That's correct, all right? So the parish from
- 5:20Speaker 4: my understanding, humble beginnings, right, how did that shape your perspective?
- 5:28Speaker 4: Growing up in an environment where most listeners that are
- 5:32Speaker 4: in America they don't really have the same appreciation. Like
- 5:35Speaker 4: I went to Jamaica and you see, and Sham took
- 5:37Speaker 4: us to his neighborhood and he got the kids computers
- 5:40Speaker 4: for the first time. A lot of luxuries that we
- 5:42Speaker 4: have in America a lot of people take for granted.
- 5:47Speaker 4: So how how was life growing up for you and
- 5:50Speaker 4: how did that shape your perspective?
- 5:52Speaker 3: Well, the way I grew up, we had no running water,
- 5:56Speaker 3: no electricity, so therefore there's no TV or or phones
- 6:00Speaker 3: or any of the above. We walked three and a
- 6:02Speaker 3: half miles of school each way. The way it built character.
- 6:06Speaker 3: It build a thing that I have to overcome obstacles.
- 6:11Speaker 3: It gives me the opportunity to build. So I started
- 6:14Speaker 3: running track when I was in tenth grade, and I
- 6:16Speaker 3: did not know I was good at running, but I
- 6:19Speaker 3: ran everywhere because it was faster to get there when
- 6:22Speaker 3: I was in Jamaica. So I was practicing what I
- 6:23Speaker 3: wanted to become. And when I was able to tap
- 6:27Speaker 3: into that, into that excellence was I was like, Wow,
- 6:31Speaker 3: I'm actually really good at this. And that's how pretty
- 6:34Speaker 3: much my humble beginning began.
- 6:38Speaker 6: So you leave Jamaica as a teenager at thirteen. At thirteen,
- 6:42Speaker 6: you come to America. And I asked this because I
- 6:47Speaker 6: worked in the Bronx huge population of Jamaican students, but
- 6:50Speaker 6: a lot of them would come into school for the
- 6:52Speaker 6: first time. And it's a transition, right. School is something
- 6:56Speaker 6: that's taken very serious A lot of times. You've studious
- 7:01Speaker 6: and then you come to America. What was that transition
- 7:03Speaker 6: like for you? Because when I saw it for my students,
- 7:05Speaker 6: I'm like, I watched over the course of the year
- 7:08Speaker 6: how their personality changed, how their outlook at school change,
- 7:12Speaker 6: how they interacted with adults change, or what was it
- 7:14Speaker 6: like for you?
- 7:15Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. So my mom put me in a
- 7:17Speaker 3: school with all Spanish kids.
- 7:18Speaker 4: Where'd you move to?
- 7:19Speaker 3: Hertford, Connecticut? And when first I came, I flew into
- 7:23Speaker 3: New York and in Jamaica, they tell you that the
- 7:25Speaker 3: rules are paid with gold, and all I saw was
- 7:28Speaker 3: dirt and homelessness, And I said, what happened to the gold?
- 7:33Speaker 4: Did they really tell you that?
- 7:33Speaker 3: They really tell us that? And I believed it, but
- 7:36Speaker 3: I know why now. So when I started out, when
- 7:40Speaker 3: I transitioned, I came to the US, she put me
- 7:43Speaker 3: to school. I was the only black kid in the school.
- 7:46Speaker 3: So I heard all the kids are talking English, and
- 7:49Speaker 3: then they switched somewhere else, and I thought I didn't
- 7:51Speaker 3: understand the language. I said, oh my god, I don't
- 7:53Speaker 3: understand English. And I became extremely quiet. I was painfully quiet.
- 7:59Speaker 3: I only talked to one person, which was my teacher,
- 8:01Speaker 3: my math teacher, and she kind of gave me hope
- 8:05Speaker 3: in progressing. I loved her so much that I wanted
- 8:08Speaker 3: to stay in eighth grade. I didn't want to go
- 8:09Speaker 3: anywhere else. So it was not an easy transition because
- 8:13Speaker 3: it's a place where coming from another country and in
- 8:18Speaker 3: gulfing into a new world is scary, and especially a
- 8:22Speaker 3: thirteen year old, your hormones and being a teenager and
- 8:27Speaker 3: exploration of self beginning to happen. Transitioning was definitely not
- 8:32Speaker 3: an easy road for me.
- 8:33Speaker 5: So did the athletics helping that? Right?
- 8:35Speaker 6: Because after your eighth grade, ninth grade, tenth grade, you
- 8:38Speaker 6: started running track. How did that help in dialogue between
- 8:43Speaker 6: other students teammates? I guess when you're traveling, you're competing
- 8:46Speaker 6: against other people. What role did the athletics play in
- 8:48Speaker 6: that transition?
- 8:49Speaker 3: Significantly? Because I started gaining confidence and I started finding myself.
- 8:54Speaker 3: So when I started, I started running track because I
- 8:56Speaker 3: wanted to get away from home. I started doing sports
- 9:00Speaker 3: because I wanted to get away from home. And then
- 9:01Speaker 3: I realized that, oh track, I'm actually really good at this.
- 9:04Speaker 3: And so my focus, the focus that I gained from
- 9:08Speaker 3: walking through and a half miles and taking care of
- 9:09Speaker 3: all the other kids, my cousins and everyone else and aunts,
- 9:13Speaker 3: and I used to be the fighter, So I fought
- 9:15Speaker 3: for everybody. Whatever something happened, they came and got me
- 9:19Speaker 3: because they never knew how to fight, so I knew
- 9:20Speaker 3: how to fight, so I fought for them. When I
- 9:23Speaker 3: came here and started doing track in tenth grade It
- 9:26Speaker 3: kind of brought brought out my personality. It brought the
- 9:29Speaker 3: confidence that I needed to be able to engage with people.
- 9:32Speaker 3: One of the other things I also did while in
- 9:34Speaker 3: high school because I was on a Junior Olympics team,
- 9:37Speaker 3: I had to raise money. So in raising my parents
- 9:40Speaker 3: and habit to send me to Junior Olympics. So I
- 9:42Speaker 3: went to every single door in every neighborhood and I
- 9:45Speaker 3: knocked on the door. They gave me quarters one dollar,
- 9:48Speaker 3: and it kind of started building a confidence level of like, Okay, now,
- 9:53Speaker 3: whatever it is I need, I can go get it.
- 9:56Speaker 3: And I continued practicing that.
- 9:59Speaker 4: So you get good enough where you get usually college,
- 10:04Speaker 4: you've got a scholarship to U come all right, So
- 10:06Speaker 4: I'm assuming you're like all American in high school. Yes, right,
- 10:11Speaker 4: So you catch on to things in America, you get
- 10:14Speaker 4: to college, you're running track in college. Right, at what
- 10:20Speaker 4: point do you start to think outside of sports and
- 10:23Speaker 4: you want to become an entrepreneur.
- 10:26Speaker 3: So initially I wanted to be a teacher, and I
- 10:30Speaker 3: was doing My undergrad was human development family relations in
- 10:33Speaker 3: concentration in early childhood. Because I love children. That's probably
- 10:36Speaker 3: why I have five of them, and I said, I
- 10:40Speaker 3: want to be a teacher because I want to touch
- 10:42Speaker 3: children's lives, and my mom said, Nope, you can't be
- 10:46Speaker 3: a teacher. You're not patient enough. So at this point
- 10:48Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, what am I going to do now?
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- 12:06Speaker 3: And I was working at the banks, so I was.
- 12:09Speaker 3: I really enjoy finance. I enjoyed investments, and I always
- 12:13Speaker 3: found ways to figure out how to save and how
- 12:15Speaker 3: to invest my money and all those things, even in
- 12:18Speaker 3: high school and as well as in college. So when
- 12:21Speaker 3: she told me I couldn't be a teacher, I had
- 12:22Speaker 3: this grand plan to get a doctorate degree in education,
- 12:26Speaker 3: teach for a while, become a superintendent. And then she said, Nope,
- 12:29Speaker 3: you can't do that. You're not patient enough. I'm patient
- 12:32Speaker 3: with children, you know, but I'm not really that patient.
- 12:36Speaker 3: So my mom is pretty wise. And after I decided that,
- 12:42Speaker 3: after she decided I going to be the thing that
- 12:44Speaker 3: I wanted to be was a teacher, I started thinking, Okay,
- 12:47Speaker 3: what am I going to do? And I found myself
- 12:50Speaker 3: saying eventually I want to own my own business, but
- 12:53Speaker 3: I didn't know what I wanted to own it in.
- 12:54Speaker 3: So I just I went towards finance. And when I
- 12:57Speaker 3: went towards finance, I realized I was where I love
- 13:00Speaker 3: what I love financial development, investing and changing my financial trajectory.
- 13:08Speaker 6: So you out right out of college, after your track career,
- 13:12Speaker 6: you become a stockbroker. Yes, talk about that because you know,
- 13:17Speaker 6: when we think of stockbrokers, usually we think white males. Yes,
- 13:21Speaker 6: we don't think women. We definitely don't think women of color,
- 13:23Speaker 6: and we definitely don't think women that come from Jamaica.
- 13:25Speaker 5: So what was that like getting into that?
- 13:28Speaker 3: So I started applying for jobs after I graduated. And
- 13:32Speaker 3: the one company that I said I would not apply
- 13:35Speaker 3: to because I'm like it is Solomon Smith. Barney's like
- 13:36Speaker 3: the largest broker's firm in the world, in the country,
- 13:39Speaker 3: so they're definitely not going to call me back for
- 13:42Speaker 3: an interview. And at the time, I was married and
- 13:44Speaker 3: my husband said just send the resume and them faxing
- 13:47Speaker 3: and faxing, and they were the only company that called
- 13:49Speaker 3: me back. And it was for a meeting planner in
- 13:51Speaker 3: the National Training Center. So I'm there I'm at work,
- 13:54Speaker 3: and every day I was early and I was always
- 13:56Speaker 3: late because I didn't know that you're supposed to go
- 13:58Speaker 3: home at five o'clock. I was like, there's a project
- 14:01Speaker 3: I have to do, so I'm going to finish it.
- 14:02Speaker 3: And so the national director said he would walk by
- 14:05Speaker 3: me and says, you're always here. Didn't think that anything
- 14:08Speaker 3: of it because I'm like, I have to finish my work.
- 14:11Speaker 3: Their lead, but I guess they finished their work, so
- 14:13Speaker 3: I have to finish mine. And about two months into it,
- 14:17Speaker 3: I realized that all the brokers were coming in for training.
- 14:19Speaker 3: I'm like, I could do what they do. I mean,
- 14:23Speaker 3: they're making a lot of money. And I decided to
- 14:25Speaker 3: apply for the stop broker job. Did not know there
- 14:29Speaker 3: was an interoffice protocol that you're supposed to go tell
- 14:33Speaker 3: your boss that you're applying for a job within the company.
- 14:36Speaker 3: So when I applied for the job, they called me
- 14:38Speaker 3: in the office. The national director called me the office
- 14:40Speaker 3: and he said, I didn't know that you wanted to
- 14:43Speaker 3: be a broker, and I said, yeah, I think that
- 14:46Speaker 3: I can definitely do it. And he said, if I
- 14:48Speaker 3: knew that, I would have been training along. And so when
- 14:50Speaker 3: he did and he said, you definitely have the potential
- 14:53Speaker 3: to do it, and he started training me and then
- 14:56Speaker 3: I had the interview, which was gruesome. It was grueling,
- 15:00Speaker 3: and that they hired me and I became the youngest
- 15:01Speaker 3: broker in the company and the only black woman in
- 15:05Speaker 3: New England for Settlement Smith Barney at the time.
- 15:07Speaker 5: At twenty two and twenty two.
- 15:09Speaker 4: So when did you start getting in the medical field?
- 15:12Speaker 3: Right? House? I wanted to have children because I've always
- 15:15Speaker 3: had the love for children, and I knew I wanted
- 15:18Speaker 3: to start having kids and working as a broker wasn't
- 15:21Speaker 3: conducive to that. I was in the office of six am,
- 15:23Speaker 3: leaving at sometimes one o'clock in the morning, and so
- 15:26Speaker 3: I decided to transition to the pharmaceutical industry because it
- 15:28Speaker 3: was easier. It was more nine to five, manage your
- 15:32Speaker 3: accounts and go home.
- 15:33Speaker 4: So you started as a sales rep. As a sales
- 15:36Speaker 4: rep for a pharmaceutical company, Yes, selling medical equipment.
- 15:39Speaker 3: Medical No, I was selling products like pharmaceutical products, medication
- 15:44Speaker 3: to doctors.
- 15:45Speaker 6: Yes, okay, you don't do you need to You don't
- 15:48Speaker 6: need a degree for that though, right, Yeah, you have
- 15:51Speaker 6: real license.
- 15:51Speaker 3: Hire you. They will only hire you if you have
- 15:53Speaker 3: a degree. Okay, Yeah, you don't need a degree for it,
- 15:55Speaker 3: but they will. You're not getting hired if you don't
- 15:57Speaker 3: have one.
- 15:57Speaker 4: Just a college degree though a college. There's no specific
- 16:00Speaker 4: degree for that.
- 16:00Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 16:01Speaker 4: So all right, so now you're selling Okay, so now
- 16:03Speaker 4: you go into selling stuff to doctors. You're going all
- 16:08Speaker 4: across two different doctors in your network and you're trying
- 16:10Speaker 4: to pitch them and you're like waiting for them to
- 16:14Speaker 4: get out of surgery stuff like that. Yes, yeah, I'm
- 16:17Speaker 4: familiar with the process. Yeah, I know a few people.
- 16:20Speaker 4: So you've become successful in that. Yes, you like rise
- 16:25Speaker 4: up the ranks. I did top sales person type person.
- 16:28Speaker 3: I was in number one and number two. I was
- 16:30Speaker 3: with the first company. I was number one, that was
- 16:32Speaker 3: there for three years, and then I went with the
- 16:34Speaker 3: second company. I was back and forth one and two
- 16:37Speaker 3: for the eight years that I was in the industry.
- 16:39Speaker 4: What made you how did what was your sales thing
- 16:43Speaker 4: that made you outstanding? Because sales is extremely difficult, Like
- 16:47Speaker 4: what did you do to make sure that you were successful?
- 16:50Speaker 3: I build relationships. So I got to the point where
- 16:53Speaker 3: I knew that the first the first six to eight months,
- 16:56Speaker 3: I gun it, gun it as as as you can imagine.
- 17:01Speaker 3: So I was there eight o'clock in the morning. I
- 17:03Speaker 3: sometimes I didn't leave until six pm, which is really
- 17:07Speaker 3: long hours for an apartment sual salesperson. Because I knew
- 17:11Speaker 3: once I build a relationship with the doctors, now I
- 17:13Speaker 3: didn't have to work so hard. Now I call them
- 17:16Speaker 3: on the cell phones, Hey, I'm coming by, and they say,
- 17:18Speaker 3: all come through the back door where most sales reps
- 17:20Speaker 3: they will they have they will have to wait for
- 17:23Speaker 3: hour and then it'll take you forever to see people,
- 17:25Speaker 3: where in my day I can see twenty thirty doctors
- 17:28Speaker 3: because I had relationships with these people, and that's just
- 17:32Speaker 3: building relationships, and sales is pretty much building relationships. How
- 17:35Speaker 3: do you build relationships my financial background, most doctors aren't
- 17:40Speaker 3: really business oriented people. They're not investors, so they always
- 17:44Speaker 3: wanted to have conversation with me about their portfolios, where
- 17:47Speaker 3: they're investing in how to invest. And I started, you know,
- 17:50Speaker 3: I was doing a lot of real estate flips at
- 17:52Speaker 3: the time, and they were always asking me, so what next,
- 17:55Speaker 3: what's next? And so that's how I build and we
- 17:57Speaker 3: end up becoming friends with most of my doctors. To
- 18:00Speaker 3: the point where my partner, she said to me one day,
- 18:03Speaker 3: she said, all the doctors love you. I have like
- 18:05Speaker 3: two and you have like all of them. And it's
- 18:09Speaker 3: simply because I knew how to maintain relationships, build them,
- 18:13Speaker 3: and be able to bring value. And I think bringing
- 18:16Speaker 3: value to every person's lives, whether it's your friends, your family,
- 18:19Speaker 3: whether it's someone you work with or someone you simply
- 18:21Speaker 3: engaging with, it makes a ginormous difference in the places
- 18:25Speaker 3: that you will go.
- 18:25Speaker 6: You sound like, I mean, obviously you've been successful at
- 18:28Speaker 6: each level, whether it's from athletics when you were a stockbroker,
- 18:34Speaker 6: to pharmaceuticals and into the medical equipment. What made you
- 18:38Speaker 6: transition from being in finance to being in pharmaceuticals?
- 18:42Speaker 5: Right?
- 18:43Speaker 6: Was it an issue of like, this isn't what I
- 18:45Speaker 6: want to do, this is not the path I want
- 18:46Speaker 6: to continue going. Was it a financial decision, like there's
- 18:49Speaker 6: more opportunity for me to make more money in this field.
- 18:51Speaker 6: Like what was the decided fact that to say I'm
- 18:54Speaker 6: leaving this behind, I'm going to start something different.
- 18:56Speaker 3: I wanted to start having children, okay, and I knew
- 18:59Speaker 3: that I didn't have time the time to give to
- 19:03Speaker 3: children because being a broker doesn't it is not conducive
- 19:06Speaker 3: to that. And then the other reason was as a broker,
- 19:09Speaker 3: you have to go find your clients. You got to
- 19:11Speaker 3: qualify them. You got to be able to determine within
- 19:13Speaker 3: thirty seconds or a minute if this person have money
- 19:15Speaker 3: or they going to waste your time. In the pharmaceutical sales,
- 19:18Speaker 3: they give you the clients, so I'm like, they give
- 19:20Speaker 3: you the clients, that's all. And that was like a
- 19:24Speaker 3: slam dunk because if I get the clients, I can
- 19:26Speaker 3: sell to the clients. And so those were my reasons
- 19:29Speaker 3: for transitioning.
- 19:30Speaker 4: Gotcha, oh you didn't have to, like Cole call, you
- 19:33Speaker 4: had a book of business I was given to you.
- 19:35Speaker 3: It wasn't. Well, it's not a book of business. Is
- 19:38Speaker 3: the clients there? So these are the doctors who prescribe
- 19:40Speaker 3: X y Z, and whether I'm launching a new drug
- 19:43Speaker 3: or they're specific to like I was a cardiopomoner specialist
- 19:46Speaker 3: when I finished, so cardiologists or pulmonary and they give
- 19:50Speaker 3: you those clients. So you go and see them and
- 19:52Speaker 3: you give them all the details. One of the methodology
- 19:55Speaker 3: in which I used is I always find studies that
- 19:58Speaker 3: were outside of the drugs that I was so that
- 20:01Speaker 3: they were value. I brought more value to just then
- 20:04Speaker 3: simply just talking about the drugs that I was selling,
- 20:06Speaker 3: and we end up having stimulating conversation and reference to
- 20:10Speaker 3: the disease state and how to benefit the patients and
- 20:13Speaker 3: why they should use it, and so those were the
- 20:15Speaker 3: difference between myself and I believe some of the other salespeople.
- 20:18Speaker 4: So all right, so after that then you get into
- 20:22Speaker 4: your own business. Yes, so welcomes through that.
- 20:26Speaker 3: So I got promoted every year, So every December seemed
- 20:29Speaker 3: like that was my month, and so December is my month.
- 20:32Speaker 3: I got promoted to verious things. And the last promotion
- 20:34Speaker 3: I had was in California. And so at the time
- 20:37Speaker 3: I had finished my master's in business administration and I
- 20:40Speaker 3: was in the process of finishing my doctorate. When the
- 20:44Speaker 3: usually when you're promoted, the interview they decided not to
- 20:47Speaker 3: interview it because of I was number one in the company.
- 20:50Speaker 3: I was rep of the year, I was Rookie of
- 20:51Speaker 3: the year oah blah blah blah, and the manager hired
- 20:55Speaker 3: me based on my accolades. I got to California. He
- 20:58Speaker 3: approved everything I got to California. He looked at me
- 21:02Speaker 3: and had lunch and he says, oh, I didn't know
- 21:04Speaker 3: you were black, and I said, oh, yeah, I am.
- 21:08Speaker 3: I didn't think anything of it because the company had
- 21:10Speaker 3: been amazing up on this point and I had not
- 21:12Speaker 3: experienced any level of racism at this point, so it
- 21:14Speaker 3: was I was like okay. Right after that, in less
- 21:18Speaker 3: than a day, he started disapproving all the things that
- 21:21Speaker 3: were approved for me to move and transition. And when
- 21:24Speaker 3: he did that, when he started doing that, I was like,
- 21:27Speaker 3: why am I working for someone when I have all
- 21:32Speaker 3: these degrees and I want to start my own business.
- 21:36Speaker 3: I didn't want to start it while I was doing
- 21:37Speaker 3: my doctorate because I knew even been more difficult, but
- 21:41Speaker 3: he forced me to get to the point where I
- 21:43Speaker 3: started it. So I started a medical recruiting company because
- 21:45Speaker 3: I said, I know doctors and I know how to
- 21:47Speaker 3: place them in different jobs. And so I started that
- 21:51Speaker 3: business when I transitioned. And so that was my first business.
- 21:54Speaker 4: And what was the first business? Medical recruited medical?
- 21:57Speaker 6: What is that entil for the audience who may not
- 21:59Speaker 6: understand what that actually means.
- 22:02Speaker 3: So basically I was a headhunter. So I would contract
- 22:05Speaker 3: with hospitals, medical practice across the country, and I would
- 22:09Speaker 3: find them doctors to fill the roles for the hospitals
- 22:13Speaker 3: or the medical practices, and I will negotiate their contracts
- 22:16Speaker 3: as schedule site visits toots there and negotiate the contract,
- 22:21Speaker 3: make sure that the employer and the employee are happy, and.
- 22:24Speaker 4: Then the transition, and then you get a piece of that.
- 22:26Speaker 3: And then I get a fee for it, like say,
- 22:30Speaker 3: sometimes this percentage, So sometimes it's range between twenty and
- 22:33Speaker 3: thirty percent, but most of medical recruiting is usually between
- 22:36Speaker 3: twenty thousand and fifty thousand per placement, depending on the specialty.
- 22:40Speaker 5: What age are we at this point?
- 22:42Speaker 3: At this point, we are at thirty at.
- 22:44Speaker 6: Thirty all right, so we're at twenty two with the
- 22:46Speaker 6: youngest stock broker at thirty, We started our own business,
- 22:50Speaker 6: starting to become lucrative.
- 22:52Speaker 4: Pretty lucrative, yes, yes, how yes, I.
- 22:54Speaker 5: Mean you've always been it seems pretty disciplined.
- 22:56Speaker 6: How are you now handling with the success of having
- 22:59Speaker 6: money and having it around? I guess people you know,
- 23:02Speaker 6: especially from our culture, who are not used to having
- 23:06Speaker 6: money and definitely having family members who.
- 23:08Speaker 5: Don't have it. How are you dealing with that.
- 23:11Speaker 3: Then or now?
- 23:12Speaker 5: Then? Now we're going to get to that.
- 23:15Speaker 3: Then there was I didn't if I have the ways
- 23:17Speaker 3: that and I am like this right now, I could
- 23:20Speaker 3: have two hundred accounts, there's one account that matters. If
- 23:23Speaker 3: that account is low, I don't have any money. I've
- 23:25Speaker 3: always been like that. So if something goes in an
- 23:28Speaker 3: investment account, it means that you can never be touched
- 23:31Speaker 3: it touched only to change the investment vehicles, but not
- 23:34Speaker 3: to be touched to spend. And so during that time,
- 23:36Speaker 3: I was broke. I was making eight hundred thousand dollars
- 23:41Speaker 3: a year plus, but I was still broke. That wasn't
- 23:43Speaker 3: enough money for me to spend. And I drove a
- 23:48Speaker 3: moderate car. Obviously I own a house because you have
- 23:51Speaker 3: to invest in making sure you own a home. And
- 23:54Speaker 3: I drove a camera and they were like, you should
- 23:56Speaker 3: buy a ben So I'm like, for what, I don't
- 23:59Speaker 3: want to buy a Bend. You buy Bends, which is
- 24:01Speaker 3: my dream car when I have my dream house, and
- 24:03Speaker 3: the dream house must come first and then dream car
- 24:05Speaker 3: comes second. And so I've always had that mindframe.
- 24:08Speaker 5: I like that I got eight hundred thousand and I'm broke.
- 24:11Speaker 5: It's a mentality.
- 24:12Speaker 6: It's like when we talk about people changing their zero, right,
- 24:15Speaker 6: A lot of people zero is like when they have
- 24:16Speaker 6: no money in they account. Some people will say like
- 24:18Speaker 6: if I have two thousand dollars, if I go anything
- 24:20Speaker 6: less than that, I'm broke. You started, Was it always
- 24:24Speaker 6: that goal, like if it's eight hundred dollars or there's
- 24:26Speaker 6: a million, like the goal was always to have that
- 24:29Speaker 6: level as the broke.
- 24:31Speaker 3: Not really, I mean right now, I still don't think
- 24:33Speaker 3: I have enough money. I've always got to have them mindframe.
- 24:38Speaker 3: There's like I feel like there's so much more that
- 24:41Speaker 3: I could always do the way that i've the way
- 24:44Speaker 3: that I have been with money, and just extremely disciplined
- 24:47Speaker 3: when it comes to and I knew that I knew investments,
- 24:50Speaker 3: so I knew how to invest it, what to invest in,
- 24:54Speaker 3: how to invest it. For example, when I was in
- 24:58Speaker 3: the pharmaceutical industry, they were paying for my degrees, So
- 25:01Speaker 3: what I did, I took my student loans and I
- 25:03Speaker 3: flip houses during the market when it was doing great.
- 25:05Speaker 3: So I made a lot of money during that time.
- 25:08Speaker 3: And every single time I make goes to my investment account,
- 25:13Speaker 3: nothing was ever spent. I've never spent When I was
- 25:16Speaker 3: a broker, a commission or bonus, which was most of all,
- 25:19Speaker 3: pretty much almost all what you make. When I was
- 25:21Speaker 3: in the pharmaceutical industry, it was never a bonus, was
- 25:23Speaker 3: ever spent because this bonus is supposed to be saved,
- 25:26Speaker 3: is supposed to be invested for later on. And so
- 25:30Speaker 3: I've always kind of held that, and I've been like
- 25:32Speaker 3: that from when I was little.
- 25:34Speaker 4: So, okay, so you're doing good with the recruiting business,
- 25:41Speaker 4: how long is that your main focus before you start
- 25:43Speaker 4: another business?
- 25:45Speaker 3: So the reason so I started the second business because
- 25:48Speaker 3: I wanted something tangible, something that if I'm not working,
- 25:52Speaker 3: like right now, I'm not working working per se, it
- 25:55Speaker 3: can still make money for me. And I was in
- 25:57Speaker 3: a com in two thousand and eight and during a
- 26:01Speaker 3: transition from I was in California at the time. During
- 26:03Speaker 3: a transition from California to Florida, I wanted to be
- 26:06Speaker 3: home with my family. And you have to read the
- 26:10Speaker 3: book for that's that's one they tell all in the book.
- 26:14Speaker 5: So yes, got it.
- 26:18Speaker 3: So when I was transitioning, I was wheelchair bound. My
- 26:21Speaker 3: larnx was clipped so you could not hear me speak,
- 26:24Speaker 3: and the flight attendant escorted me off the aircraft and
- 26:28Speaker 3: placed me in a corner and I waited there, and
- 26:31Speaker 3: I was there for three hours, trying to signal someone
- 26:34Speaker 3: because they can hear me talk. And I cried, and
- 26:37Speaker 3: I saw people just kept walking by me, and I
- 26:39Speaker 3: tried and tried, and you cannot hear me. And finally
- 26:42Speaker 3: a young girl came over and she helped me and
- 26:45Speaker 3: I when that happened, I realized that the disabled was
- 26:48Speaker 3: not cared for. They were invisible to the world. And
- 26:51Speaker 3: after I recovered from the coma, I decided to start
- 26:53Speaker 3: a medical equipment business because I never want anyone else
- 26:56Speaker 3: to feel the way that I did.
- 26:58Speaker 4: So what is medical with me? What does that actually entail?
- 27:03Speaker 3: Wheelchairs, hospital beds, respiratory seapap, oxygen diapers.
- 27:10Speaker 4: So you're buying these things and selling.
- 27:13Speaker 3: Them, Yes, so I buy them from the manufacturers.
- 27:17Speaker 4: So you buy them from like China.
- 27:19Speaker 3: No, I buy them for US based manufacturers.
- 27:21Speaker 4: All right, a US based manufacturer, and you selling them
- 27:24Speaker 4: to hospitals.
- 27:25Speaker 3: Hospitals, I also sell them to patients. So let's say,
- 27:28Speaker 3: for example, Mom is in the hospital and she cannot ambulate,
- 27:33Speaker 3: she cannot walk, so they will send us over a
- 27:35Speaker 3: prescription for wheelchair and a walker, and we'll qualify them
- 27:39Speaker 3: to their insurance through Medicare or whatever insurance they have.
- 27:42Speaker 3: We'll build the insurance. Now they qualify. They haven't received
- 27:45Speaker 3: one in five years, so they qualify, and then we
- 27:47Speaker 3: deliver it to the patient's home. We set it up,
- 27:50Speaker 3: we make sure that the wheelchair gets through the doorways,
- 27:53Speaker 3: we make sure that there aren't any obstruction so that
- 27:55Speaker 3: they won't fall, and we service the patient for a
- 27:58Speaker 3: year thereafter.
- 28:00Speaker 5: How cash intensive is that?
- 28:01Speaker 6: Because I'm thinking, if I'm trying to start this, how
- 28:06Speaker 6: much money would I need to start?
- 28:07Speaker 5: Like a home health care medical.
- 28:09Speaker 4: But that's not really home healthcare, well medical.
- 28:11Speaker 3: Equipment business, So you have to have seven hundred Well
- 28:15Speaker 3: when I started, the number may have changed now so
- 28:17Speaker 3: I haven't ventured back in that area recently. When I
- 28:22Speaker 3: just started, you have to have seven hundred thousand liquid
- 28:24Speaker 3: in order to start a medical equipment.
- 28:27Speaker 4: So the medical equipment you're are you ever physically holding
- 28:32Speaker 4: or you're just shipping it from the warehouse to the client.
- 28:35Speaker 3: So you have a physical So I personally have a
- 28:37Speaker 3: physical holding. So all my deliveries are done my drivers.
- 28:42Speaker 3: That's within my office that I hired and their employees
- 28:45Speaker 3: of Baileyes.
- 28:46Speaker 4: And you have a physical warehouse.
- 28:48Speaker 3: Yes, so every location. So right now I have sixteen
- 28:51Speaker 3: locations and every location has at least one or two
- 28:54Speaker 3: warehouses that stacked with items that patients would need. So
- 28:58Speaker 3: if the prescription comes in today and they need walker wheelchair,
- 29:02Speaker 3: I will, they will qualify patient, send it out for
- 29:04Speaker 3: tomorrow delivery.
- 29:05Speaker 4: But you're not making any of this stuff. No, I'm
- 29:08Speaker 4: not making so all right, that's interesting. I would have
- 29:12Speaker 4: thought that the people that make it are the people
- 29:15Speaker 4: that sell it. So if it's like X, Y and
- 29:19Speaker 4: Z wheelchair, right, like these are the manufacturers of it
- 29:23Speaker 4: and they're selling it like BMW sells cars that they make.
- 29:26Speaker 4: Why are they not doing that? And why would a
- 29:31Speaker 4: hospital just not buy directly from the people that's making
- 29:34Speaker 4: it as opposed to You're essentially like a mid middleman
- 29:36Speaker 4: in situation right right? Why would there be a need
- 29:38Speaker 4: for a middleman?
- 29:39Speaker 3: So because they because then they're the part of qualifying
- 29:42Speaker 3: the patient and servicing them for because disabled people, you
- 29:44Speaker 3: have to service them. You have to make sure that
- 29:46Speaker 3: they're set up properly, make sure that they're not going
- 29:48Speaker 3: to fall, make sure they're not returning to the hospitals.
- 29:50Speaker 3: So the manufacturers they would have to create a whole
- 29:53Speaker 3: nother division in order to service the patients. And so
- 29:56Speaker 3: that's why the middleman is necessary. There are most most
- 29:59Speaker 3: men in factors do not sell directly to a hospital,
- 30:02Speaker 3: some of which do sell to hospitals, however, okay, but
- 30:07Speaker 3: not to not to end stage patients.
- 30:08Speaker 4: So you like customize the situation, yes, to make sure
- 30:11Speaker 4: that they get in the right fit. They just may
- 30:14Speaker 4: make a million of them, but you have to make
- 30:17Speaker 4: sure that this one fits this person right. They might
- 30:20Speaker 4: need to tweak a little bit here and there, Yes,
- 30:22Speaker 4: situation exactly that.
- 30:23Speaker 3: So like a wheelchair, so you know, wheelchair people are
- 30:25Speaker 3: different sizes, so my staff have to qualify the patient
- 30:29Speaker 3: to make sure that, Okay, they might need a K one.
- 30:32Speaker 3: A K one is a standard wheelchair and they might
- 30:36Speaker 3: need it. They might be two hundred pounds five eight,
- 30:39Speaker 3: but they might be bottom heavy. So instead of instead
- 30:41Speaker 3: of them having a twenty inch they might have eight
- 30:44Speaker 3: or eighteen inches, they may have a twenty inch. So
- 30:46Speaker 3: that's what it is necessary for someone like myself in
- 30:49Speaker 3: the middle.
- 30:49Speaker 6: So, I mean because technology changes, so you have to
- 30:54Speaker 6: keep up with the technology, especially with wheelchairs like ten
- 30:56Speaker 6: years ago.
- 30:57Speaker 5: They don't look the same, they're not operating the same.
- 30:59Speaker 6: How do y'all handle compliance and regulatory issues when it
- 31:02Speaker 6: comes to the equipment.
- 31:04Speaker 3: So there are lots medical equipment, and this is actually
- 31:07Speaker 3: more regulated than in pharmacy, right you would think that
- 31:10Speaker 3: it would be the other way around. I read that,
- 31:12Speaker 3: But there are you have to be you have to
- 31:14Speaker 3: be licensed in each state. Then you have accreditation, then
- 31:17Speaker 3: you have Medicare, then you have all the other insurance plans,
- 31:21Speaker 3: and then you have oxygen is separated from the medical equipment,
- 31:24Speaker 3: you have oxygen license. So they are in each location.
- 31:27Speaker 3: There are at least six sometimes seven licenses that you
- 31:31Speaker 3: have to have.
- 31:31Speaker 4: Just to sell the equipment, just to sell medical equipment.
- 31:34Speaker 5: Which state did you Did you start in Florida?
- 31:36Speaker 3: Florida?
- 31:36Speaker 5: Yeah? So which states are more well less regulatory?
- 31:40Speaker 6: Right, so I'm summer Florida probably wouldn't have been easy
- 31:42Speaker 6: state to do it, and not easy, but the sense
- 31:44Speaker 6: of like not having to deal with as much as
- 31:46Speaker 6: you wouldn't other say, what states that come to mind
- 31:49Speaker 6: are like, all right, this is a good state to
- 31:51Speaker 6: create this business in.
- 31:52Speaker 3: So it's really governed by Medicare, which is national, and
- 31:56Speaker 3: you have to follow Medicare guidelines in all states. And
- 32:00Speaker 3: in order to build Medicare, which is all equipment patients,
- 32:04Speaker 3: disabled patients, you have to follow the guideline. So it's
- 32:06Speaker 3: really not easier in any state. Florida, I think, is
- 32:10Speaker 3: a little bit harder. They take longer for the license,
- 32:14Speaker 3: they're more, they cost more for the license. And it's
- 32:17Speaker 3: because the reason why accreditation came into play is because
- 32:21Speaker 3: what I've been told is Florida and South Florida was
- 32:24Speaker 3: one of the places that they had the most Medicare fraud.
- 32:28Speaker 3: There were places people that were just picking up buses
- 32:31Speaker 3: of people paying one hundred dollars and just bill the
- 32:34Speaker 3: insurances from what I from what I heard now that
- 32:37Speaker 3: may not be factual, but that's what.
- 32:38Speaker 4: I was told. So okay, So what's the profit margins.
- 32:45Speaker 3: The profit margins are good, They're good. It depends on
- 32:48Speaker 3: what the items are. Some of them sucks, some of
- 32:50Speaker 3: them are not that great. But most of the times
- 32:53Speaker 3: you'll get a patient who, let's say that they're bed bound.
- 32:56Speaker 3: They need a hospital bed, they need a lift, they
- 32:59Speaker 3: need to commode, they need a walker, they need a
- 33:01Speaker 3: wheelchair and so a lot sometimes they need oxygen. So
- 33:04Speaker 3: with a patient like that, which is a lot of
- 33:06Speaker 3: our patients, you'll find that there's a really good profit
- 33:09Speaker 3: margin because even if you don't make a lot on
- 33:11Speaker 3: the hospital bed, you might make a decent amount in
- 33:14Speaker 3: the wheelchair, and they'll kind of offsets each other.
- 33:16Speaker 4: So you're selling multiple things. Yes, and you said you
- 33:19Speaker 4: said medicaid, medicaire. So when you're selling this stuff, you're
- 33:24Speaker 4: like a doct like you're billing insurance for it. Yes,
- 33:27Speaker 4: people aren't paying out of pocket.
- 33:28Speaker 3: Well sometimes sometimes sometimes.
- 33:30Speaker 4: A lot of it's coming from insurance.
- 33:31Speaker 3: From insurance to yeah.
- 33:34Speaker 4: Yeah, how did that process work?
- 33:36Speaker 3: So when we qualify this, so you have to it
- 33:38Speaker 3: for wheelchair or any really any medical equipment. If you
- 33:41Speaker 3: have medicures or primary insurance, you cannot get one. You
- 33:45Speaker 3: could only have one per five years. So my staff
- 33:47Speaker 3: were running through the system. Okay, the s patient received
- 33:50Speaker 3: one last year from this this practice, and maybe they
- 33:54Speaker 3: got billed for the bill for two months. You can
- 33:56Speaker 3: take over the bill and for that patient and give
- 33:58Speaker 3: them another one because they returned it. Or if it's
- 34:00Speaker 3: a patient who actually do qualify you will you will
- 34:03Speaker 3: just build for the thirteen months, So it's a thirteen
- 34:06Speaker 3: month rental for most equipment. If the reason why it's
- 34:10Speaker 3: profitable is because if a patient passed away or goes
- 34:13Speaker 3: in the hospital or no longer need it, you pick
- 34:15Speaker 3: it up because they're rentals. Then you re rent the
- 34:17Speaker 3: same item to someone else.
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- 37:12Speaker 6: Because that you built when you were doing pharmaceuticals play
- 37:15Speaker 6: a key role in obviously creating for the medical health equipment.
- 37:18Speaker 5: Because I'm thinking to myself, how would I get the patients.
- 37:20Speaker 6: I'd have to have relationship with some of these hospitals,
- 37:23Speaker 6: So what role did that play?
- 37:25Speaker 3: Not much the relationship between my medical recruiting because of
- 37:29Speaker 3: my strong relationship with the practices that had somewhat of
- 37:33Speaker 3: a role in it. But my first hire was a salesperson,
- 37:35Speaker 3: which should be every business first hire should be a salesperson.
- 37:39Speaker 3: I was out selling and I was coming back processing
- 37:42Speaker 3: and order delivering the items. And I walked into a
- 37:45Speaker 3: facility and I said to I said to the director,
- 37:48Speaker 3: I said, I want a pretty white boy. And she said,
- 37:53Speaker 3: I don't know anyone. You know, hold on the director's son.
- 37:57Speaker 3: He just graduated, he's selling grass. Yes, maybe you can
- 38:02Speaker 3: talk to him. And my head, I said, director's son,
- 38:04Speaker 3: the director of rehab. That's over three three different rehab centers.
- 38:09Speaker 3: That's a lot of equipment that's coming my way. I'm like,
- 38:12Speaker 3: I'll interview him. And in my head I said, even
- 38:14Speaker 3: if he's semi decent, I'm hiring him because I'm getting
- 38:18Speaker 3: those sales. And I did. I hired him and he
- 38:21Speaker 3: was my first employee in my selma right hand today.
- 38:25Speaker 5: Interesting, you got eye for it.
- 38:27Speaker 6: So what because the equipment that takes to make these
- 38:31Speaker 6: Have you ever run into issues with supply chain?
- 38:34Speaker 3: I did not. I did not most people did. During COVID.
- 38:37Speaker 3: I did not have supply chain issues because God just
- 38:39Speaker 3: happened to give me this amazing brain as soon as
- 38:42Speaker 3: COVID hit. I have a warehouse on my ranch and
- 38:45Speaker 3: it's about seven thousand square feet. I ordered everything that
- 38:49Speaker 3: I could, stocked it from the roof and because of that,
- 38:54Speaker 3: I didn't have supply chain issues because I had all
- 38:56Speaker 3: the equipment and supplies that I needed.
- 39:00Speaker 4: You said that you have fifteen locations. Fifteen locations, Yeah,
- 39:04Speaker 4: fifteen warehouses.
- 39:06Speaker 3: I have probably twenty five twenty six warehouses.
- 39:12Speaker 4: So what's the location? What's the location?
- 39:16Speaker 3: Weird?
- 39:17Speaker 4: What is it? What is the location? Like what would
- 39:19Speaker 4: be a location because I'm thinking a location is the warehouse?
- 39:22Speaker 3: Oh no? Does the location have physical office that has
- 39:25Speaker 3: a display floor and it has the staff that stays
- 39:27Speaker 3: in that and the warehouses are where we just store
- 39:30Speaker 3: the supplies.
- 39:31Speaker 4: The location because people, it's not like a walking thing,
- 39:34Speaker 4: right it is?
- 39:35Speaker 3: It is we can yeah, walk in, Okay, most people
- 39:37Speaker 3: can't walk in, so we deliver it. But yes, you
- 39:40Speaker 3: can walk in.
- 39:40Speaker 4: So at a location, you have people calling people and
- 39:45Speaker 4: you have what's at a location.
- 39:48Speaker 3: So at the location, so when you walk in, first
- 39:50Speaker 3: you was going to see pharmacy because most of my
- 39:52Speaker 3: locations have pharmacy. You'll see a display of medical equipment
- 39:55Speaker 3: on the floor with a hospital bed where your lifts, commodes, wheelchairs.
- 40:00Speaker 3: Then you'll see staff that are their processing that orders,
- 40:02Speaker 3: answering phones, and scrubs because scrubs is also another part
- 40:06Speaker 3: of my brand of my line. So pretty much that's
- 40:10Speaker 3: and then you have sometimes my warehouse is on site,
- 40:14Speaker 3: sometimes they're off site. So that's what a location usually
- 40:17Speaker 3: looks like.
- 40:17Speaker 5: It's crazy that you're saying is because I'm just thinking.
- 40:20Speaker 6: I drive past a location not sure it's in my
- 40:23Speaker 6: like down the street from my house every day, and
- 40:26Speaker 6: I'm not going in because it's not.
- 40:28Speaker 5: But I'm like, oh, wait, that does exist. That's interesting.
- 40:32Speaker 6: I want to know how competitive this is because you're
- 40:35Speaker 6: doing it, but I'm sure there's other people that are
- 40:37Speaker 6: trying to compete and get these clients and have more customers.
- 40:41Speaker 6: How competitive is it in this space?
- 40:44Speaker 3: It's competitive. It's very competitive. However, like I don't look
- 40:47Speaker 3: at my competition. Why because I'm better than everybody else
- 40:51Speaker 3: in the industry. The reason why I'm better, the reason
- 40:53Speaker 3: why we're better is because we service. See in the
- 40:56Speaker 3: medical industry, service is usually not very great. And because
- 41:01Speaker 3: I had personal experience of not being cared for. I
- 41:04Speaker 3: require that from my staff. They know that the one
- 41:08Speaker 3: reason that they can get fired for without a question
- 41:12Speaker 3: is if they're nasty or unkind to one of my patients.
- 41:15Speaker 3: And because of that, I make sure that they have
- 41:17Speaker 3: honey cones on their lips. When you answer my phone,
- 41:21Speaker 3: I don't care what moves you're in, you must have
- 41:23Speaker 3: honeycones on your lips. And they know that. And because
- 41:26Speaker 3: I also treat them well, I treat them so well
- 41:29Speaker 3: so that matter of fact, on my birthday this past birthday,
- 41:33Speaker 3: thank you so much, I plug into the chat, this
- 41:36Speaker 3: company chat, and I said, okay, guys, it's my birthday
- 41:39Speaker 3: today and I have something for you. So I gave
- 41:42Speaker 3: for the last two years, I gave each all of them,
- 41:44Speaker 3: the entire company, one dollar per hour raise. And so
- 41:46Speaker 3: a lot of the employers are messaging like who gives
- 41:48Speaker 3: someone something for their birthday? I do because I believe
- 41:52Speaker 3: that you should be kind and loving to every person
- 41:55Speaker 3: who is taking care of you and every person who's
- 41:57Speaker 3: around you, and I treat them extremely well. So every
- 42:01Speaker 3: customer that engages with them, I get amazing reviews. And
- 42:07Speaker 3: I got the opportunity to experience it organically for myself.
- 42:10Speaker 3: The delivery drivers there in their processes, the managers don't
- 42:15Speaker 3: tell them they're coming to my house. So if I
- 42:17Speaker 3: have medication being delivered my mom get her medicine, they'll
- 42:20Speaker 3: call and they have no idea. They're talking to me.
- 42:22Speaker 3: And it felt so good. He was so polite and
- 42:26Speaker 3: so kind, and his voice, his tone was so loving,
- 42:29Speaker 3: and he had not a single clue that he's talking
- 42:32Speaker 3: to me. And I said, this is exactly why I
- 42:35Speaker 3: do what I do for my staff.
- 42:37Speaker 4: So how'd you get into the pharmacies high.
- 42:40Speaker 3: So the pharmacy side when I was so Initially, when
- 42:45Speaker 3: I started out, I was in the smaller space six
- 42:47Speaker 3: hundred square feet. Then I moved. I had to move
- 42:50Speaker 3: because we're growing and we're getting bigger. I move into
- 42:53Speaker 3: pretty much a rat trap. It was like rats and
- 42:56Speaker 3: roaches everwhere. But it was large and it was space
- 42:59Speaker 3: enough that I needed. I had three children at this time.
- 43:02Speaker 3: This is forty equipment still, this is wild the equipment. Yeah,
- 43:04Speaker 3: for the equipment. So I had three children at the time.
- 43:07Speaker 3: I'm at CBS and my son who seemed to predict
- 43:12Speaker 3: my future, the one I was talking about my freshman
- 43:15Speaker 3: in high school right now. He said, Mom, why don't you,
- 43:20Speaker 3: why don't you get one of these? And I looked
- 43:22Speaker 3: at him, I said, you always think so highly of
- 43:24Speaker 3: your poor old mama. And a year later he told
- 43:27Speaker 3: me I should do it, and I did it. A
- 43:29Speaker 3: year later I was opening on you my first pharmacy.
- 43:32Speaker 4: What was the thing that he said, you should get
- 43:33Speaker 4: one of these?
- 43:34Speaker 7: A pharmacy, pharmacy, I should get one of these, toss.
- 43:37Speaker 4: So what was the process of opening your pharmacy?
- 43:39Speaker 3: So the process was, first I had to hire a pharmacist,
- 43:44Speaker 3: which is you know, pharmacists make a lot of money
- 43:47Speaker 3: and that so I found the first black pharmacist that's
- 43:51Speaker 3: in the area. He was not working at the time.
- 43:54Speaker 3: He's older, and so I had to negotiate his salary
- 43:57Speaker 3: all the way down because I didn't want to spend
- 43:59Speaker 3: a whole bunch of money while I'm trying to get
- 44:01Speaker 3: to a space that I need to be in. And
- 44:04Speaker 3: so you got the buildings, build out, everything, all the
- 44:07Speaker 3: structure in place. Then you apply for a state license,
- 44:10Speaker 3: and then after state approves you, then you apply for DEA.
- 44:13Speaker 3: Then you go through an interview process and then at
- 44:16Speaker 3: this point then you can order the drugs that you need.
- 44:19Speaker 4: And that was in Florida.
- 44:20Speaker 3: That's in Florida, and.
- 44:21Speaker 4: The first pharmacy was in the equipment. Yes, same location,
- 44:25Speaker 4: same location. So you just thought that you could just
- 44:28Speaker 4: it would just make sense to open a pharmacy because
- 44:30Speaker 4: you're already doing medical equipment.
- 44:32Speaker 3: Yes, so my thought process with that medical equipment. My
- 44:35Speaker 3: patients are home bound, most of them, most of which
- 44:38Speaker 3: are on medication. So pharmacy the way that I do
- 44:42Speaker 3: all business, it has one has to feed the other.
- 44:44Speaker 3: I don't do anything independently as stay in my lane.
- 44:47Speaker 3: So medical equipment feeds pharmacy. Pharmacy feeds medical equipment. I
- 44:51Speaker 3: later added scrubs because the providers are the ones who
- 44:54Speaker 3: refer the business over to me. And then so when
- 44:57Speaker 3: they come in to look for the scrub, scrub really
- 44:59Speaker 3: don't make much money, but then they can see that
- 45:01Speaker 3: we have pharmacy, we group provide great service, we have
- 45:04Speaker 3: medical equipment, and those are the people who brings in.
- 45:06Speaker 3: So now I have three business that is in one
- 45:09Speaker 3: location with one overhead, not three separate overheads.
- 45:13Speaker 5: So you just like a one stop shop.
- 45:14Speaker 6: Yes, there's fifteen businesses though, yes, I'm thinking if there's
- 45:19Speaker 6: three and one.
- 45:19Speaker 5: Well, I got a couple of questions.
- 45:20Speaker 6: The first thing, are the medical equipment is it Are
- 45:24Speaker 6: they renting that equipment or are they owning that?
- 45:26Speaker 3: Most are rentals, so if they go through insurance. Most
- 45:30Speaker 3: are rentals. You build as rentals after thirteen months, then
- 45:33Speaker 3: they own it outright after thirteen months, yes, okay. And
- 45:37Speaker 3: the second part is fifteen businesses. How are you managing time?
- 45:44Speaker 5: Right?
- 45:44Speaker 6: Because you got your mother, you got these businesses, they're lucrative.
- 45:48Speaker 6: How are you managing time throughout this process?
- 45:51Speaker 5: Like?
- 45:52Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
- 45:52Speaker 6: Because I'm thinking to myself yet one business my son says, hey,
- 45:55Speaker 6: I should get a CVS. I'm wondering if I walk
- 45:57Speaker 6: into CVS the next time. My son will say that
- 45:59Speaker 6: I don't know right, and he's just like, I can
- 46:01Speaker 6: imagine you're seeing things and you're saying, all right, I
- 46:03Speaker 6: think I can do that.
- 46:04Speaker 5: How are you acquiring businesses? How you managine time?
- 46:07Speaker 3: You know? I don't know how managing time?
- 46:10Speaker 5: Really?
- 46:11Speaker 3: Just God, because that's the only thing I can think of.
- 46:14Speaker 3: I came home from Greece. Where was it Sunday? Sunday night?
- 46:20Speaker 3: And I managed I'm trying to manage spending time with
- 46:23Speaker 3: the kids. They got to have their tea time and
- 46:26Speaker 3: their story time every night and at seven o'clock and
- 46:29Speaker 3: I'm on the phone with such and such and I'm
- 46:31Speaker 3: doing this. It's I don't know how I do it,
- 46:33Speaker 3: to be honest, but I I only select things that
- 46:37Speaker 3: are important that can move my needle. If it doesn't
- 46:40Speaker 3: move the needle, there's no reason for me to be there.
- 46:43Speaker 3: I don't do a lot of networking now because there's
- 46:46Speaker 3: not really a lot of need for me to do
- 46:47Speaker 3: a lot of networking events. And if I'm not doing
- 46:50Speaker 3: it speaking engagement, I'm really not showing up at an
- 46:54Speaker 3: event because the time that I have is for the
- 46:56Speaker 3: children and I want. I love the time that I
- 47:00Speaker 3: have with them. So those are my personal time and
- 47:03Speaker 3: that's how I manage it. And I have an amazing staff.
- 47:06Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 47:06Speaker 4: So all right, So this pharmacy situation, what's the business
- 47:10Speaker 4: model behind this? So you buy the drugs right from
- 47:15Speaker 4: where you buy drugs.
- 47:16Speaker 3: From or wholesale, different wholesale, So you have Cardinal, you
- 47:19Speaker 3: have McKesson, my specific wholesalers, Keisson.
- 47:22Speaker 4: But these are like just labs that just make drugs.
- 47:25Speaker 3: They are wholesalers that buy it from the pharmaceutical company
- 47:29Speaker 3: and then they sell it to the distributors like like us,
- 47:33Speaker 3: like Bileys Pharmacy.
- 47:34Speaker 4: Pharmaceutical company makes drugs. Mark company make they make drugs.
- 47:39Speaker 4: They make drugs. The distribution company buys it from merc
- 47:46Speaker 4: and Pfizer. Yes, you on the retail side buy it
- 47:51Speaker 4: from the distribution company.
- 47:53Speaker 5: Yes.
- 47:55Speaker 4: Client, personal clients and doctors buy it from you.
- 47:58Speaker 3: Correct.
- 47:59Speaker 4: Correct, Correct, that's the chain of events. Yes, and everybody's
- 48:04Speaker 4: making money in between this whole situation. Yes, Okay, so
- 48:10Speaker 4: you get license, you have to get all certification on assumer.
- 48:13Speaker 4: Now you're buying these drugs right now, who's the main
- 48:18Speaker 4: source of revenue or is it walk up clients or
- 48:22Speaker 4: are you selling to doctors and hospitals.
- 48:25Speaker 3: I sell to both. So I have a government division
- 48:27Speaker 3: that sells to and the government division covers the hospitals,
- 48:32Speaker 3: skill nurse and facilities practices, and then I have the
- 48:36Speaker 3: pure retail customers. So the clients that come over from
- 48:39Speaker 3: doctor's office, that doctor sends over that patient needs prozac.
- 48:43Speaker 3: Then we process the order we delivered to the patient.
- 48:48Speaker 3: So that's pretty much the methodology in which we use.
- 48:54Speaker 5: So thirty.
- 48:56Speaker 6: I've stopped at the age right because I know at
- 48:58Speaker 6: thirty five is a big number. Thirty five is a
- 49:00Speaker 6: big number, and there's a big word that is attached
- 49:02Speaker 6: to that. I don't want to use the word put
- 49:04Speaker 6: on our phone call. You did say the word billionaire.
- 49:07Speaker 5: You did.
- 49:07Speaker 6: You did say that I did, and I thought it
- 49:09Speaker 6: was important that you said it because I want people
- 49:12Speaker 6: to feel inspired that it is something that's attainable. And
- 49:15Speaker 6: kind of the reason when we spoke, I said, your
- 49:18Speaker 6: story needs to be told.
- 49:19Speaker 5: Young ladies need to hear it.
- 49:20Speaker 6: Young men need to hear it, especially young women from
- 49:22Speaker 6: the Islands need to hear it that there's somebody that
- 49:25Speaker 6: is super successful at what they're doing and it has
- 49:28Speaker 6: nothing to do with athletics. Like growing up, you hear
- 49:31Speaker 6: Michael Lee Chin and you think that's it, and I'm like, no,
- 49:34Speaker 6: this is just somebody else. So as you're approaching this number,
- 49:39Speaker 6: I mean, what is that like, Right, You're seeing the
- 49:42Speaker 6: revenue come in, you're super disciplined when it comes to finance,
- 49:45Speaker 6: and you're approaching a milestone that very few reached, especially
- 49:49Speaker 6: that looked like us.
- 49:50Speaker 5: What's the mindset that as that's.
- 49:52Speaker 3: Approaching so money has never been my focus, believe it
- 49:55Speaker 3: or not, even though I'm super disciplined with it. It's
- 49:57Speaker 3: always been about the next thing. What is the next
- 50:01Speaker 3: thing that I could be great at. What is the
- 50:03Speaker 3: next thing that I can do to help someone or
- 50:08Speaker 3: to build my portfolio. So when I became when I
- 50:12Speaker 3: learned that I became a billionaire, I did not know.
- 50:15Speaker 3: I did not know. I knew I was getting close,
- 50:16Speaker 3: but I didn't know that I was there. And so
- 50:18Speaker 3: I was standing in my closet and my trust attorney
- 50:21Speaker 3: called and I said, you know, I need to get
- 50:24Speaker 3: you to do da da da da. And he says, honey,
- 50:26Speaker 3: I'm no longer able to service you. And I said why.
- 50:30Speaker 3: He says, well, your net worth is over a billion
- 50:32Speaker 3: dollars now and you need someone else that deals with
- 50:35Speaker 3: extreme high net worth individuals. And I was like, oh oh,
- 50:39Speaker 3: And that was my response. I didn't move me because
- 50:44Speaker 3: for me, there's greater cause. There is greater cause. My
- 50:47Speaker 3: job and my role and the reason why God has
- 50:48Speaker 3: shows me to be in this place is to help
- 50:51Speaker 3: other people. And it kind of comes right back to teaching.
- 50:56Speaker 3: So I'm in the role of teaching now, even though
- 50:58Speaker 3: my mom said I could not teach, but I teach
- 51:00Speaker 3: you a different capacity now. And my scholarship kids are
- 51:05Speaker 3: near and dear to my soul because they're all young girls,
- 51:08Speaker 3: young women, and they have some males as well that
- 51:10Speaker 3: look like me who are striving for greatness. And I
- 51:14Speaker 3: believe my role in their lives and in most women lives,
- 51:18Speaker 3: is to help them to elevate to the next level.
- 51:21Speaker 4: That's amazing. I want to talk about this quest that
- 51:25Speaker 4: you're on the flanethropy side, but I want to go
- 51:27Speaker 4: back to the business. If we can't for a minute, pharmacies.
- 51:30Speaker 4: How many pharmacies do you have at the moment?
- 51:34Speaker 3: I have seven and I'm in the process of opening six.
- 51:37Speaker 4: More So, what's more lucrative the pharmacies or the equipment?
- 51:41Speaker 4: The equipment, the equipment, Yes, that's the bread and butter. Yes,
- 51:45Speaker 4: pharmacies are like side dish. Yes, side dish. Appetisers like
- 51:51Speaker 4: big side dish.
- 51:52Speaker 3: It's big side this. Okay, scrubs is like asparagus.
- 51:58Speaker 5: We might touch that. Okay, gotcha.
- 52:00Speaker 4: So when you the plans of scaling, is it the
- 52:04Speaker 4: primary focus is scaling equipment business?
- 52:09Speaker 3: There's no, not necessarily, so I always whenever I am
- 52:12Speaker 3: scaling up, I always started with medical equipment first. And
- 52:16Speaker 3: initially what I did was I always made sure medical
- 52:19Speaker 3: equipment was making money that can afford pharmacy because someone
- 52:23Speaker 3: have to pay the bill and it wasn't going to
- 52:25Speaker 3: come from Florida store when New York is operating. So
- 52:29Speaker 3: I started medical equipment. It's making money. Now I open
- 52:32Speaker 3: pharmacy and add to it. Now I just open both
- 52:34Speaker 3: because the company is making so much money now. So
- 52:37Speaker 3: it's always medical equipment first, ad pharmacy and scrubs at
- 52:41Speaker 3: the same time. So that's pretty much what the methodology
- 52:45Speaker 3: in which I use.
- 52:45Speaker 6: Now, is there another I guess something in the supply train.
- 52:52Speaker 6: You got the pharmacies, you got the medical equipment, got scrubs.
- 52:55Speaker 6: Is there another piece that you're looking at like, oh,
- 52:58Speaker 6: we can add that to theform really just blowusting out
- 53:01Speaker 6: the water.
- 53:02Speaker 3: Yes, so there's another huge piece. Actually, the first big
- 53:06Speaker 3: piece is I actually own my pharmaceutical company which makes
- 53:11Speaker 3: the generics, So the generics are instead of buying these
- 53:16Speaker 3: generics from another wholesaler, I make them myself, so our
- 53:20Speaker 3: profit margin are significantly more. The other part that's huge
- 53:23Speaker 3: is my real estate side. So I buy the building.
- 53:26Speaker 3: Usually it's multi tenant, so the tenant would tenants would
- 53:30Speaker 3: pay the mortgage if there's one, and I rent the
- 53:33Speaker 3: space from my company to my other company. And so
- 53:37Speaker 3: that's one of the that's the biggest part. And my
- 53:40Speaker 3: real estate portfolio is the biggest part of my portfolio.
- 53:43Speaker 4: So all of the buildings that you have you own, yes,
- 53:48Speaker 4: And you said you have fifteen businesses, Yes, what's the
- 53:52Speaker 4: all the ones?
- 53:53Speaker 3: So? I have real estate development, I have two real
- 53:55Speaker 3: estate development, two real estate companies. I have the equipment, pharmacy, scrubs.
- 54:02Speaker 3: I have three different aviation business I own all wells.
- 54:05Speaker 3: I own a bunch of weal wells. Actually, and I'm
- 54:12Speaker 3: I don't. I don't own well I guess I do
- 54:14Speaker 3: own this, but I don't consider one of my business.
- 54:17Speaker 3: I'm a part owner in three different NBA teams. It's
- 54:20Speaker 3: just an investment thing.
- 54:21Speaker 5: Three. Yeah, which can you say the teams?
- 54:25Speaker 3: I can well? I mean I can't walk in and
- 54:27Speaker 3: be like I'm a part of so Atlanta and hang
- 54:34Speaker 3: on Atlanta, p Tan, where's she my assistance? I can't
- 54:39Speaker 3: remember what the other are too, Nate, two are.
- 54:44Speaker 5: Orlando Magic.
- 54:45Speaker 3: No, No, honey, I don't want the Magic. I want
- 54:48Speaker 3: to buy them though, but I don't own them. Uh
- 54:50Speaker 3: the Phoenix, Oh, yes, Phoenix and Charlotte.
- 54:54Speaker 4: So you say you're a part owning three teams.
- 54:57Speaker 3: How minority owners say there? So there is a way
- 55:02Speaker 3: that they have to invite you in to be an investor,
- 55:06Speaker 3: and you are a minority owner. So I was invited
- 55:08Speaker 3: in a few years ago to be an investor.
- 55:10Speaker 4: So you can be an investor in multiple teams at
- 55:12Speaker 4: one time.
- 55:13Speaker 3: Yeah, minority, that is min I'm sure you can probably
- 55:17Speaker 3: own multiple teams the one time too.
- 55:19Speaker 4: So what's what's the oil you said? Oil well ail Wells?
- 55:22Speaker 4: What's the oil well thing about?
- 55:23Speaker 3: So all Wells. When you invest in different will Wells
- 55:26Speaker 3: or buy will Wells, you it's a major tax benefit.
- 55:31Speaker 3: So if let's say that I spend two million dollars
- 55:34Speaker 3: in one all well I get seventy five percent tax
- 55:38Speaker 3: deduction from there. So that's how I started owning all Wells.
- 55:41Speaker 3: I also owned a building in Dallas that Well Fort
- 55:44Speaker 3: Worth that has all under the building, and I'm in
- 55:48Speaker 3: the process to closing another one.
- 55:49Speaker 4: That is, where do the oil wells locate?
- 55:52Speaker 3: The ones that I invest in the one that the
- 55:55Speaker 3: one I specifically owned directly, the other investment in the
- 55:58Speaker 3: other fifty, because there's fifty others all over the country
- 56:02Speaker 3: in various places.
- 56:03Speaker 7: I've never been in fort Worth said oil under the building,
- 56:09Speaker 7: and so so you own the building and then there's
- 56:12Speaker 7: oil under so you can write off the building because.
- 56:14Speaker 5: It's how's that work?
- 56:15Speaker 3: So I rented, I rent this out to like shell
- 56:18Speaker 3: and then they will drill well and then they pay
- 56:20Speaker 3: you for drilling it.
- 56:21Speaker 5: Okay, got that?
- 56:23Speaker 6: The pharmacy business, the medical equipment business, is that domestic
- 56:29Speaker 6: or does that expand outside of just the United States?
- 56:32Speaker 3: So the equipment is US and international. So I have
- 56:38Speaker 3: begun starting, you know, discussing o't fit in various hospitals
- 56:43Speaker 3: in different countries like well, US virginal is one of
- 56:46Speaker 3: the places. And I mean this is the US based Jamaica.
- 56:50Speaker 3: I've just had conversations and Bahamas. I haven't done any
- 56:52Speaker 3: business there yet.
- 56:55Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean global expansion is that that's on the horizon.
- 57:00Speaker 3: We'll see how tired I get.
- 57:02Speaker 4: So, who, So you're not running all of these companies?
- 57:05Speaker 4: I am you're running all these companies? So how you
- 57:08Speaker 4: managed to run all of those companies.
- 57:10Speaker 3: I have people like this beautiful young woman sitting over there.
- 57:13Speaker 3: I have an amazing staff, like when I say amazing, amazing,
- 57:17Speaker 3: my executive team. I started doing sabbaticals about eight years ago.
- 57:22Speaker 3: My first one was for a month and I said,
- 57:24Speaker 3: let me see how much they need me and they
- 57:26Speaker 3: can do on their own. That came back they were
- 57:28Speaker 3: good at eighty five percent, so I I see what
- 57:30Speaker 3: they need to be developed in. And then the next
- 57:33Speaker 3: year I did another one for two months and I'm like,
- 57:34Speaker 3: all right, ninety three ninety five percent okay, And so
- 57:38Speaker 3: now they're pretty much ninety eight percent in certain things
- 57:41Speaker 3: I have to do so without me being there impactful.
- 57:45Speaker 3: I don't have to be there every day. And because
- 57:48Speaker 3: they know exactly what to do when they need me,
- 57:50Speaker 3: they call me if I'm unplugged. They know there are
- 57:53Speaker 3: a couple of people that can call me, and only
- 57:55Speaker 3: a couple of people, and that's it. And only if
- 57:58Speaker 3: the place is burning down, you call me.
- 58:00Speaker 6: That's it. So Bailey's Pharmacies, it's Florida. I'm just going
- 58:04Speaker 6: to go out of states. Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas. What
- 58:09Speaker 6: are the other states.
- 58:11Speaker 3: We're currently looking to Chicago, so Illinois and New York
- 58:15Speaker 3: bringing it open to New York.
- 58:16Speaker 6: So I was wondering, like, why not you are you
- 58:18Speaker 6: what type of analytics are you looking for when choosing
- 58:21Speaker 6: the states? Is it population? Is it disabled population? Or
- 58:26Speaker 6: what are you looking at to to say all right,
- 58:28Speaker 6: we need to go here? Or maybe it might be
- 58:31Speaker 6: a financial thing. There's a tax incentive for being in Florida,
- 58:34Speaker 6: A right, there's no state tax, no state tax in Texas.
- 58:36Speaker 5: What types of things are you looking at?
- 58:37Speaker 3: So the main thing we look at is a number
- 58:39Speaker 3: of Medicare lives, okay, which is the volume how many people,
- 58:44Speaker 3: which basically telling me how many people I've used medical
- 58:46Speaker 3: equipment and build medicare in the last two, three, five years.
- 58:50Speaker 3: And based on those numbers, And then I also look
- 58:52Speaker 3: at Medicare, straight Medicare or MAP plans, which is Medicare
- 58:55Speaker 3: replacement plans. If it's a Medicare replacement plans, it means
- 58:59Speaker 3: that they are Blue Cross, Boushield United Humanity different insurance
- 59:03Speaker 3: plans if it's straight Medicare. Because the reason why I
- 59:07Speaker 3: separate those two is because you have to be network
- 59:09Speaker 3: with the other MAP plans in order to build them.
- 59:13Speaker 3: Medicare pretty much if you open a medical business and
- 59:16Speaker 3: you'll go through your license, your creditations, you can build Medicare.
- 59:20Speaker 3: So that's a major part of especially when I just
- 59:23Speaker 3: enter a new state, because if I go there, let's
- 59:25Speaker 3: say they have ninety percent of MAT plans, I only
- 59:28Speaker 3: have ten percent patients because I can't really build the
- 59:31Speaker 3: other private insurances because I'm not in network with them.
- 59:34Speaker 3: So I look at the volume in which Medicare lives
- 59:37Speaker 3: for the patients, and that's how I decide which area
- 59:39Speaker 3: I want to be in.
- 59:43Speaker 4: So what's your plans for the future. Is it more
- 59:46Speaker 4: businesses or just kind of focusing on what you have
- 59:49Speaker 4: and just expanding that.
- 59:51Speaker 3: I think focusing on what I have now. I think
- 59:55Speaker 3: my goal, my future goal is to be able to
- 59:58Speaker 3: touch young women across the globe, to be able to
- 1:00:02Speaker 3: help them, mentor them. Matter of fact, I was talking
- 1:00:04Speaker 3: a good friend last night and I we're talking about
- 1:00:06Speaker 3: me figuring out how to start a mentoring program, giving
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: my crazy schedules so that the women are impacted, and
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: not just women, men as well. They can learn the process,
- 1:00:16Speaker 3: to learn the discipline and the structure so that they
- 1:00:19Speaker 3: can take themselves from one stage of development to the next.
- 1:00:21Speaker 3: So that's that's my calling and that's my gift, and
- 1:00:27Speaker 3: that's where I'm kind of that's the direction which I'm going.
- 1:00:31Speaker 6: You, yeah, you alluded to that, but I think it's
- 1:00:35Speaker 6: important that you talk about the philanthroy But because what
- 1:00:38Speaker 6: you're doing we don't see done. And we've had this
- 1:00:40Speaker 6: conversation about when people leave a place, or they leave
- 1:00:43Speaker 6: a school, one of the best things you can do
- 1:00:45Speaker 6: is get back right, whether it's from a boosto or
- 1:00:47Speaker 6: donation to the school, and that's how we see endowments
- 1:00:50Speaker 6: go up.
- 1:00:50Speaker 5: Right.
- 1:00:51Speaker 6: So I know that you've donated a large I think
- 1:00:54Speaker 6: the largest sum in the history of the School of
- 1:00:56Speaker 6: u Kin.
- 1:00:57Speaker 5: Tell us why and what the purpose of the goalds?
- 1:01:01Speaker 3: So I donated the largest amount in athletic history across
- 1:01:06Speaker 3: all all universities, all universities. Okay, I did it to
- 1:01:10Speaker 3: Yukon because Yukon gave me my first chance. They took
- 1:01:13Speaker 3: a chance on me, a young girl from Hartford that
- 1:01:17Speaker 3: didn't really have much and it didn't really know where
- 1:01:20Speaker 3: I was going to go. But they took a chance
- 1:01:22Speaker 3: on me, and that's the reason why I went back.
- 1:01:23Speaker 3: But in conjunction to going back. I wanted did it
- 1:01:26Speaker 3: impact to be when they see a young black girl
- 1:01:29Speaker 3: or a black boy, they give them the same level
- 1:01:31Speaker 3: of grace that they do a white boy or white girl.
- 1:01:34Speaker 3: And for that being is maybe they'll be Trisha Bailey
- 1:01:38Speaker 3: and believe it or not. Even though I've shared this
- 1:01:42Speaker 3: with Yukon that these are the reason why I've talked
- 1:01:45Speaker 3: to all the athletic directors across all the universities across
- 1:01:50Speaker 3: the country and I've shared that this is why I've
- 1:01:53Speaker 3: done my donation. And this month, I can probably say
- 1:01:56Speaker 3: that my University of Connecticut I did not have a
- 1:01:59Speaker 3: conversation with me about this. I'm just noticing their social media.
- 1:02:02Speaker 3: They have chosen August to bleed Black Women Highlight Black
- 1:02:06Speaker 3: Women in Philanthropy Month, and that makes me feel good
- 1:02:10Speaker 3: because I believe the work that I'm doing and the
- 1:02:13Speaker 3: work that I would like to continue to do, they
- 1:02:16Speaker 3: have started and they're listening and it's starting to make
- 1:02:19Speaker 3: an impact, and I'm excited and happy for this future.
- 1:02:22Speaker 5: That's they name it? What did they build something named
- 1:02:25Speaker 5: something after you? Odad?
- 1:02:26Speaker 3: Yes, So the building is named Bailey Athletic Success Center,
- 1:02:30Speaker 3: Bailey's Student Athletic Success Center. What building is that, that's
- 1:02:35Speaker 3: the athletic building, So it includes seven or eight sports.
- 1:02:40Speaker 3: It stretches about two three blocks and it's it's beautiful.
- 1:02:46Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to the breaking ground. I think they're
- 1:02:49Speaker 3: breaking ground in the next few months.
- 1:02:51Speaker 5: Good year for YUCA National champs.
- 1:02:53Speaker 3: Yes, yes, And I told them we're going to be
- 1:02:55Speaker 3: national champs. But everyone said no. Man, I'm like, we're
- 1:02:58Speaker 3: going to be national champs because I said it.
- 1:03:01Speaker 5: Let's talk about unbroken.
- 1:03:03Speaker 6: It's a I mean, you've waited your whole life for
- 1:03:06Speaker 6: this moment to write this book, to tell you a
- 1:03:09Speaker 6: story and talk about the importance of it and why
- 1:03:11Speaker 6: you're doing it now.
- 1:03:13Speaker 3: So I'm broken. I'm broken is literally the name. I'm broken.
- 1:03:19Speaker 3: I've gone through hell and back. Even in this success,
- 1:03:23Speaker 3: I've gone through pain of being beaten at home, being abused,
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: poems not safe, the streets not safe, trying to figure
- 1:03:32Speaker 3: out how I'm going to survive, how I'm going to
- 1:03:35Speaker 3: get to the next step being a single mom, have
- 1:03:39Speaker 3: to be having how to manage that and how to
- 1:03:41Speaker 3: build my career while I'm going through all the difficulties
- 1:03:44Speaker 3: in which I am I'm broken is raw. From what
- 1:03:48Speaker 3: I've everyone else who have read it, it is inspiring.
- 1:03:51Speaker 3: It is I read one review today and the young
- 1:03:54Speaker 3: lady who wrote the review said, I was so inspired.
- 1:03:58Speaker 3: I was like, I'm gonna go find a building. I
- 1:04:00Speaker 3: don't know what I'm going to do with the building,
- 1:04:02Speaker 3: but I'm just gonna find one because i have to
- 1:04:03Speaker 3: do something. And I felt good reading that because that's
- 1:04:07Speaker 3: the impact that I wanted from people.
- 1:04:10Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:04:10Speaker 6: So, I mean, even there's a financial literacy journey inside that.
- 1:04:15Speaker 6: Obviously you've learned lessons through it, what's one of the
- 1:04:17Speaker 6: most important ones that you want, like especially young adults.
- 1:04:20Speaker 5: So I feel like if we teach.
- 1:04:21Speaker 6: Kids that are young at point in their lives, you know,
- 1:04:24Speaker 6: the future trajectory of film is going to be great.
- 1:04:26Speaker 6: It's like, what's one of those things inside the book?
- 1:04:28Speaker 6: I know you talk about the Junior Olympics being a
- 1:04:31Speaker 6: major part of your financial literacy journey, Like, what's one
- 1:04:33Speaker 6: lesson that you were embarked on young people.
- 1:04:37Speaker 3: I think there's a few, not just one to I
- 1:04:39Speaker 3: think do it. So the steps God first, being disciplined
- 1:04:45Speaker 3: financial literacy, and being kind, caring and loving to every
- 1:04:50Speaker 3: person that's around That's what I want young people to
- 1:04:54Speaker 3: know that these are the steps. As long as you
- 1:04:56Speaker 3: are direct with these steps, you can become success full
- 1:05:00Speaker 3: and the doors will open for you. Now, being kind,
- 1:05:06Speaker 3: loving and Karen, people just use that word as Okay,
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: I just say a nice word to you. Well, it's
- 1:05:10Speaker 3: not kind for me. Kin is a lot of things.
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: Kin is me giving your critique. Kin is me giving
- 1:05:15Speaker 3: your hand. Kin is me giving you a nice word,
- 1:05:19Speaker 3: and kind sometimes is me telling you no because not
- 1:05:22Speaker 3: know gives you freedom to be able to venture out
- 1:05:26Speaker 3: and do whatever whatever else this you need to do,
- 1:05:29Speaker 3: or don't do what I just told you no for
- 1:05:31Speaker 3: because that might not be the best direction.
- 1:05:33Speaker 5: For you to lot. Well, doctor Turnsa, you know I've
- 1:05:39Speaker 5: reminded you since our phone call. As I'm sitting there thinking.
- 1:05:43Speaker 6: A lot of the people who come from wealth in
- 1:05:45Speaker 6: our community, we know their names.
- 1:05:49Speaker 5: Does it? How do you feel about people not knowing
- 1:05:52Speaker 5: your name? Or does it?
- 1:05:54Speaker 6: I guess from a standpoint where we know Oprah, we
- 1:05:57Speaker 6: know Rihanna, right, we know these people from our culture
- 1:06:00Speaker 6: that have ascended to this level of billionaire status. Are
- 1:06:04Speaker 6: you okay with being kind of under the wraps and
- 1:06:09Speaker 6: people learning out your story on their own.
- 1:06:11Speaker 3: Yes, I actually am. So I never had the desire
- 1:06:13Speaker 3: of being in the public eye.
- 1:06:16Speaker 4: I was.
- 1:06:17Speaker 3: The reason why I'm here with you now is because
- 1:06:19Speaker 3: now the book, you know, the book is out And
- 1:06:22Speaker 3: the reason why I wrote the book is because I
- 1:06:25Speaker 3: wanted it to be helpful. I need to reach globally,
- 1:06:30Speaker 3: and in order to do so, people actually have to
- 1:06:32Speaker 3: know who I am. Because there is autobiography. He's read
- 1:06:35Speaker 3: like an actual fictional novel, but it's not an autobiography.
- 1:06:38Speaker 3: And I said to my part My partner says, so,
- 1:06:40Speaker 3: what do you want to do. I said, I just
- 1:06:41Speaker 3: want to sell books, and he says, okay, well you're
- 1:06:43Speaker 3: selling books, you're going to have some people gotta have
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: to know you to buy the books. So I was like, okay,
- 1:06:48Speaker 3: So that's the reason why now people know who I am,
- 1:06:50Speaker 3: and I'm allowing people to know who I am, and
- 1:06:54Speaker 3: because my journey is to help others.
- 1:06:56Speaker 5: Well, my mom knew who you were.
- 1:06:58Speaker 6: She did when I was I said, I'm going to
- 1:07:00Speaker 6: do an interview and I said, she's the wealthiest woman
- 1:07:03Speaker 6: in Jamaica. And she wrote it on her little notepad
- 1:07:06Speaker 6: because she watches like YouTube like this just making YouTube
- 1:07:09Speaker 6: and you were on there and she wrote it down
- 1:07:11Speaker 6: a couple of weeks ago and I'm like, yeah, yeah,
- 1:07:14Speaker 6: you don't know what She's like. No, so I went
- 1:07:16Speaker 6: downstairs and get my sneakers.
- 1:07:17Speaker 5: Come up. She's like, she ran track at Yukon. I said, oh, yeah,
- 1:07:21Speaker 5: that's her, that was me.
- 1:07:23Speaker 6: I'm happy that for us, our people, especially our people,
- 1:07:27Speaker 6: that you're telling your story and then we're getting to
- 1:07:29Speaker 6: know you and about a field that you know, we
- 1:07:32Speaker 6: haven't really covered before. But there's somebody who has expertise
- 1:07:35Speaker 6: and now they can aspire another person or another generation
- 1:07:37Speaker 6: of people to say, like, this is something that's obtainable.
- 1:07:40Speaker 6: This is you know, the blueprint. Here are some steps
- 1:07:42Speaker 6: I can take you to actually pursue this.
- 1:07:44Speaker 3: So thank you, thank you for having me.
- 1:07:47Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, and make sure you buy the
- 1:07:49Speaker 4: book out now on Amazon, Comazon, yeah, anywhere else they
- 1:07:55Speaker 4: can get it.
- 1:07:56Speaker 3: Just Amazon, well at my stores, so you can. Anyone
- 1:07:58Speaker 3: of Bailey's location have books, but those are doing two
- 1:08:01Speaker 3: places that have them.
- 1:08:02Speaker 4: There you have it. Thank you for joining us, thank
- 1:08:04Speaker 4: you for really appreciate it, and thank you guys for
- 1:08:07Speaker 4: rocking us. We see you next week.
- 1:08:08Speaker 5: I thought you was gonna give us some pata.
- 1:08:10Speaker 3: Oh you know, I'm talking, come on money. I have
- 1:08:19Speaker 3: to said something. Yeah, I'll tell you your money.
- 1:08:27Speaker 4: You're done.
- 1:08:31Speaker 5: We'll take it. We'll take it. We'll take it.
- 1:08:33Speaker 6: And shout out to Howie he's over here. Shout out
- 1:08:36Speaker 6: to him and the whole team. Man, it's been a pleasure,
- 1:08:37Speaker 6: and we all going. He's invited us to Jamaica. I
- 1:08:40Speaker 6: don't know where we're going, but the first thing how
- 1:08:42Speaker 6: He's he said, yah, yeah, you come from yard.
- 1:08:45Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, the family. He was like, we
- 1:08:47Speaker 5: gotta go back whenever you're ready. Yes, you have to.
- 1:08:50Speaker 3: My beach house is done next next summer. Right he's not.
- 1:08:56Speaker 3: Oh he's not in here. Yeah, next summer. So you
- 1:09:00Speaker 3: are definitely welcome. Is how many? How big is it now?
- 1:09:03Speaker 3: Forty two thousand? Scriffe keep increasing? Yeah, I think I
- 1:09:10Speaker 3: have a room for you.
- 1:09:11Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, zor Sure. Well there you have it,
- 1:09:16Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen. We'll see you next please.
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