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- 0:00Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
- 0:03Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
- 0:07Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
- 0:11Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
- 0:15Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
- 0:19Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States
- 0:23Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
- 0:28Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
- 0:31Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
- 0:35Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fined nearly
- 0:39Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will
- 0:43Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
- 0:46Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
- 0:55Speaker 1: border and families will.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Be protected sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
- 1:00Speaker 3: Now, I got a question of that for all three
- 1:02Speaker 3: of you, because this is you know, I have battles
- 1:04Speaker 3: with this sometimes where I had a teammate. His name
- 1:07Speaker 3: was Andrew Bogut, and he and I have gotten really close.
- 1:10Speaker 3: And I learned this from my mother. You know I
- 1:13Speaker 3: did it.
- 1:13Speaker 4: I wrote a book, The Six Man and go by
- 1:16Speaker 4: that if you haven't.
- 1:16Speaker 5: Read it on Amazon right now.
- 1:19Speaker 4: I wasn't.
- 1:20Speaker 3: I never planned on saying that, to be honest, but
- 1:23Speaker 3: my mother taught me at a young age. I had
- 1:24Speaker 3: a story in there where my mother had two voices
- 1:27Speaker 3: and I said this to it one time.
- 1:28Speaker 4: She looked at me crazy. I was like, Mom, when
- 1:30Speaker 4: you have on makeup, you're.
- 1:31Speaker 3: Nice, and when you don't have your makeup, I think
- 1:35Speaker 3: I'm gonna get a whooping at any given moment. My
- 1:37Speaker 3: mom is six foot tall, so I was scared of
- 1:39Speaker 3: her until I was like fifteen, like frightened. And she
- 1:43Speaker 3: had two voices though, you know, she had the voice
- 1:46Speaker 3: at home, and then we went out to work, she
- 1:48Speaker 3: had the other voice. And I think as African Americans,
- 1:51Speaker 3: we all have that. You got to switch it up
- 1:55Speaker 3: and the cold switch and thank you. And so Andrew
- 1:57Speaker 3: Boget was he said to me, He's like, Hundre, why
- 1:59Speaker 3: do you talk to like your black teammates and then
- 2:02Speaker 3: you talk different when you're talking to like, you know,
- 2:05Speaker 3: white people.
- 2:05Speaker 4: And I couldn't.
- 2:07Speaker 3: I couldn't quite explain it to him, but I was
- 2:11Speaker 3: trying to explain to him, like my mother when we
- 2:13Speaker 3: went to go she.
- 2:14Speaker 4: Was on the phone.
- 2:15Speaker 3: I remember the phone conversation talking to this guy about
- 2:17Speaker 3: a house rental.
- 2:18Speaker 4: We used to rent the small two bedroom apartment.
- 2:20Speaker 3: Like I went in there like maybe ten years ago,
- 2:24Speaker 3: and like I'm like in there like this and I'm
- 2:26Speaker 3: looking at I'm like, how did my brother and I
- 2:28Speaker 3: how do we live in this space together?
- 2:30Speaker 4: You know, he's the same height as me.
- 2:32Speaker 3: And the guys approved the rental, like, yes, it's available
- 2:36Speaker 3: to you. She took my brother and myself with her
- 2:40Speaker 3: to see this, to get the house, and so we
- 2:42Speaker 3: pulled up knocking on the door. He answered the door.
- 2:44Speaker 3: It's like, canna help you. She was like, yes, I'm
- 2:46Speaker 3: the lady you spoke to on the phone, but her
- 2:48Speaker 3: voice he couldn't he couldn't tell.
- 2:50Speaker 4: What it was.
- 2:52Speaker 3: The house is not available. So from that moment, like
- 2:56Speaker 3: I understood, like how the world works, Like whoa And
- 3:00Speaker 3: I'm like nine, nine years old? Like who understands that
- 3:04Speaker 3: at nine years old? And like it's just like what
- 3:05Speaker 3: you're saying is like how low can you go? When
- 3:07Speaker 3: you I mean, what can you lose when you don't
- 3:09Speaker 3: have anything to lose? And so that leads me to
- 3:12Speaker 3: now I still have to maneuver how I speak. I
- 3:15Speaker 3: have to be PC more PC in some places. You know,
- 3:18Speaker 3: I can turn it down to other places. Even when
- 3:20Speaker 3: we speak, you know, he's always saying, I want to
- 3:22Speaker 3: see that springfielder in you. But for three of you,
- 3:25Speaker 3: you know, this is my question. You know, the higher
- 3:27Speaker 3: you keep moving up, you're going to open doors that
- 3:30Speaker 3: you know you've never been in before, or doors we've
- 3:33Speaker 3: never been in before. Like I'm thinking, you know, we're
- 3:35Speaker 3: seeing entertainers into these billionaire realms and they have to
- 3:39Speaker 3: maneuver different.
- 3:40Speaker 4: You know, we're in this room.
- 3:41Speaker 3: We don't have a the black Elon Musk whatever you
- 3:44Speaker 3: want to call it, or the Zuckerberg Like when are
- 3:46Speaker 3: we going to have our own tech companies that are
- 3:48Speaker 3: you know, trillion dollar market caps?
- 3:51Speaker 4: But we're inching closer.
- 3:52Speaker 3: And so as you move up, you say you want
- 3:55Speaker 3: to stay yourself, like we always want to stay ourselves.
- 3:58Speaker 3: But are you thinking about how you plan on maneuvering
- 4:03Speaker 3: once you get into certain places, and like, what's your
- 4:05Speaker 3: thoughts on it?
- 4:06Speaker 4: I think the only thing I can change.
- 4:08Speaker 6: Is like I probably curse less in certain places, but
- 4:12Speaker 6: that's just the truth. But like anything else, because you know,
- 4:15Speaker 6: sometimes you might walk in the rooms and you might
- 4:17Speaker 6: be like, man, am I am I sure I'm supposed
- 4:18Speaker 6: to be here? And one thing always says, like I've
- 4:21Speaker 6: been told, it's look for the signs. And when you
- 4:23Speaker 6: talk to other people, shout out to everybody. You guys
- 4:27Speaker 6: are very talented, accomplished people, and so am I. And
- 4:30Speaker 6: like when you talk to other people, you see the
- 4:32Speaker 6: confidence the individuals have and sit in front of you
- 4:35Speaker 6: have and all the things they can do, and it's like, okay,
- 4:38Speaker 6: you guys are able to do that. You're able to
- 4:40Speaker 6: do Like you said, what I was able to do
- 4:42Speaker 6: is one in a million, and you know, you can
- 4:44Speaker 6: be a teacher and be a lot of different things.
- 4:46Speaker 6: And it's like I try to find, you know, the
- 4:48Speaker 6: one little you know, spec that I can take to
- 4:51Speaker 6: really build from. So when I sit there and I see,
- 4:53Speaker 6: you know, great people speak with confidence, I'm like, well,
- 4:56Speaker 6: I came from a situation of you know, poverty where
- 5:00Speaker 6: you know, single parent, wasn't supposed to make it out,
- 5:02Speaker 6: wasn't supposed to be in this situation, I was able
- 5:05Speaker 6: to do it with you know, a tenth of a chance.
- 5:07Speaker 6: So every time I look there, I'm like, all right,
- 5:09Speaker 6: if these people can do it, I can leave here
- 5:10Speaker 6: and do it. Because I've done some amazing stuff. Then
- 5:13Speaker 6: most people can't even fathom. We talked about a lot
- 5:17Speaker 6: of situations, even just for career or like mistakes. It's like,
- 5:21Speaker 6: you're worry about how people judge you. But a lot
- 5:22Speaker 6: of people stopped their mission a long long time ago
- 5:25Speaker 6: and just went to the sideline and started pointing like, yo,
- 5:27Speaker 6: that ain't him. And it's like, no, I'm your superior,
- 5:30Speaker 6: I'm him. Worry about yourself, you know what I mean.
- 5:33Speaker 6: And then from there I move on and just keep going.
- 5:36Speaker 4: But you know, I.
- 5:37Speaker 6: Gotta keep it. Dre does a great job of smoothing
- 5:40Speaker 6: it and out, but my mission, my delivery, can be
- 5:42Speaker 6: a little bit more aggressive. But I definitely earn earn
- 5:46Speaker 6: the right to know I'm in that room and gain
- 5:47Speaker 6: confidence from comprehending that if you can do great things,
- 5:50Speaker 6: I can do great things. And I take it from there.
- 5:53Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you spot on with the confidence and
- 5:55Speaker 7: Drake that story you told about your mother, it hit
- 5:58Speaker 7: me dead in the heart because I remember calling my dad.
- 6:03Speaker 4: I work. My parents are from Jamaica straw.
- 6:05Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, now then we said that, now that's not
- 6:15Speaker 7: the way. So I would call him, and you know
- 6:17Speaker 7: that he has a he has a heavy patois at dialect.
- 6:21Speaker 4: But that's changed over the years.
- 6:22Speaker 7: When I would call him, he worked in Manhattan at corporate,
- 6:24Speaker 7: and I told the story. I really never know what
- 6:26Speaker 7: he did, but I would call him and he would
- 6:28Speaker 7: answer it, and my brothers used to laugh, I'll do
- 6:30Speaker 7: it for y'all. He'd be like hello.
- 6:35Speaker 4: I'd be like that, it's me.
- 6:38Speaker 7: And then you know, he would talk to me in
- 6:40Speaker 7: his regular voice. And when I'll call my mom, she couldn't.
- 6:42Speaker 7: She never did it. But it used to irk me then,
- 6:45Speaker 7: but it irks me even more so now. It's like
- 6:47Speaker 7: somebody calls the house. He'll do that, And it's because
- 6:50Speaker 7: I'm fighting for him to never have.
- 6:52Speaker 2: To do it right.
- 6:54Speaker 7: And so when we show up in these rooms, I
- 6:56Speaker 7: show up exactly who I am right now, right that
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- 8:55Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
- 8:59Speaker 1: in Massachuset. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
- 9:03Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
- 9:07Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
- 9:11Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
- 9:15Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States
- 9:18Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
- 9:23Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
- 9:27Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
- 9:30Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fined nearly
- 9:34Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will
- 9:38Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
- 9:42Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
- 9:46Speaker 1: Do what's right, leave now. Under President Trump America's laws,
- 9:51Speaker 1: border and families will.
- 9:52Speaker 2: Be protected sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
- 9:55Speaker 7: Right as the same guy that's going to sit on
- 9:57Speaker 7: CNBC or Good Morning America Bloomberg, same guy that goes
- 10:01Speaker 7: through the breakfast club with Joe Budden, I'm able to.
- 10:04Speaker 4: Change the conversation.
- 10:05Speaker 7: The conversation has changed, the information changes, but the person
- 10:09Speaker 7: ever changes. And so we're comfortable in the barbershop, or
- 10:12Speaker 7: we're comfortable right here in a business school because we
- 10:15Speaker 7: trust and we're confident in what we know. And that's
- 10:18Speaker 7: the most important thing. I think a lot of times
- 10:20Speaker 7: people feel intimidated because they don't know what they're talking about, right,
- 10:25Speaker 7: And so that's our thing, is like I'm a constant learner.
- 10:27Speaker 7: So every day, like I told you, I just read
- 10:29Speaker 7: the Wall Street Journal before I got here. Let's have
- 10:31Speaker 7: a conversation, right, I'm gonna be part of the conversation
- 10:35Speaker 7: because it's my point. I make it my point to
- 10:37Speaker 7: I don't ever want to walk into a room where
- 10:39Speaker 7: I'm gonna feel like.
- 10:40Speaker 4: I don't feel confident. Right, We sat down.
- 10:43Speaker 7: In some procedures rooms over the past month and it
- 10:46Speaker 7: was like, I feel like, yeah, we supposed to. We've
- 10:49Speaker 7: earned every aspect of respect and determination and dedication to
- 10:54Speaker 7: be in these rooms. So it starts with the confidence,
- 10:57Speaker 7: but it also goes into that part of having an education,
- 11:00Speaker 7: the feeling like you know what I belong.
- 11:02Speaker 4: I want to answer this. I'll try to speed it up.
- 11:04Speaker 4: But two parts.
- 11:06Speaker 5: So I never really had to worry about coast. I
- 11:09Speaker 5: grew up radical so and I never had a job,
- 11:12Speaker 5: so I never really had to worry about code switching
- 11:18Speaker 5: because you only cod switch when you're not in a
- 11:20Speaker 5: position of power. Elon Muskin curse on TV and it's okay,
- 11:25Speaker 5: that's a fact.
- 11:26Speaker 7: So, but that they got fingersnaps on that joint, that
- 11:29Speaker 7: was crazyssance.
- 11:33Speaker 5: But what I did realize when so when I was
- 11:36Speaker 5: working as a financial advisor in my office, you know,
- 11:40Speaker 5: everybody in my office was pretty much older white man.
- 11:43Speaker 5: And in the beginning part of like the training, they
- 11:46Speaker 5: will make you watch videos of yourself like we have
- 11:48Speaker 5: like a practice sale, and and I never really realized
- 11:53Speaker 5: that I actually had a New York accent until I
- 11:56Speaker 5: actually watched myself speak, and then then I started to
- 12:00Speaker 5: realize it. And I kind of became a little self
- 12:04Speaker 5: conscious of how I spoke because I know that I
- 12:07Speaker 5: didn't have the best the best diction. I know that
- 12:10Speaker 5: you know, I had an accent, and I didn't sound
- 12:13Speaker 5: like anybody else in the office. But I realized that
- 12:17Speaker 5: what I thought might have been a disadvantage was actually
- 12:21Speaker 5: a superpower. And that's actually helped us is that there's
- 12:24Speaker 5: millions of people that actually talk like I talk and
- 12:27Speaker 5: relate to how I like communicate as opposed to how
- 12:30Speaker 5: somebody else communicates. Those people were left out of the
- 12:32Speaker 5: conversation for a long period of time. So never run
- 12:36Speaker 5: away from who you are. Embrace who you are, because
- 12:38Speaker 5: that's actually a superpower. Now, you do have to be intelligent,
- 12:43Speaker 5: and it is important to have a strong mastery of
- 12:47Speaker 5: the language that you speak. So you know, it's like
- 12:52Speaker 5: you don't wear a jumpsuit to a wedding. It's just
- 12:54Speaker 5: common sense. So how you communicate in a barbershop might
- 12:58Speaker 5: not be how you community said.
- 13:00Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 13:03Speaker 4: You're talking about the Batman too, that Jaden.
- 13:05Speaker 5: Will you know it's I think it's just a matter
- 13:09Speaker 5: of just knowing how to communicate properly, not necessarily cold switching.
- 13:12Speaker 5: I don't like cold switching. I'm not I'll never cod switch.
- 13:15Speaker 5: But Steve Stouts told us something that was extremely important.
- 13:18Speaker 5: I think that this has been the key to earn
- 13:20Speaker 5: your Leasha's success. It's the thinnest slice strategy. When you're black,
- 13:25Speaker 5: you have to deal with a variety of different things
- 13:26Speaker 5: that other people don't have to deal with it don't
- 13:28Speaker 5: worry about. So for us, we walk a very thin
- 13:32Speaker 5: line because most people that are on TV that are
- 13:36Speaker 5: communicating finances that are black are They're not relatable to
- 13:40Speaker 5: the majority of black people right, how they talk, how
- 13:43Speaker 5: they look, whatever. And then there's a variety of different
- 13:46Speaker 5: people in our culture of hip hop that aren't taken
- 13:50Speaker 5: serious in the business world. Right. So we have to
- 13:56Speaker 5: be articulate enough to be respected at the highest levels
- 13:59Speaker 5: of finance to be here, right, but we also have
- 14:03Speaker 5: to be edgy enough to still be likable, appealable and
- 14:07Speaker 5: relatable to the masses. That's extremely difficult. Very few people
- 14:10Speaker 5: have been able to pull that one off, and that's
- 14:13Speaker 5: something that we do. This is just a blessing that
- 14:17Speaker 5: we've been blessed with. But this is something that when
- 14:21Speaker 5: you're thinking about you know your pathway forward. It's important
- 14:25Speaker 5: because a lot of times when we get isolated in
- 14:28Speaker 5: circles that we're in, but we can never forget about
- 14:32Speaker 5: the overarching theme of black people. And no matter how
- 14:37Speaker 5: good we're doing individually, nobody is successful if the vast
- 14:41Speaker 5: majority people are unsuccessful and the vast majority of people
- 14:47Speaker 5: are struggling. So it's important to keep relatability. It's important
- 14:52Speaker 5: to be able to communicate to the masses while still
- 14:57Speaker 5: having your integrity and being able to up the ladder.
- 15:01Speaker 5: Like I said, Elon Muster doesn't have to worry about that.
- 15:04Speaker 5: Mark Zuckerberg doesn't have to worry about that. They can
- 15:06Speaker 5: just communicate and they just live freely. They don't have
- 15:09Speaker 5: to worry about street credibility. They don't have to.
- 15:12Speaker 4: But we do.
- 15:13Speaker 6: Right.
- 15:14Speaker 5: So this is a very interesting conversation that you just
- 15:17Speaker 5: brought up. But I just feel like, you know, in
- 15:20Speaker 5: the world of media and communications and just everything, it's
- 15:24Speaker 5: important that people have other people to look up to.
- 15:27Speaker 5: That's why every kid wants to be a rapper and entertainer,
- 15:29Speaker 5: because those are jobs that they see as attainable. Because
- 15:34Speaker 5: the architect, the doctor, they're not visible. They haven't made
- 15:38Speaker 5: themselves visible in a lot of times, and they're so
- 15:41Speaker 5: far unrelatable that nobody's even gonna try to be that, right.
- 15:45Speaker 5: So if we have to a make ourselves more visible,
- 15:49Speaker 5: and we have to make ourselves more relatable as well,
- 15:52Speaker 5: that way we can inspire more people, more kids to
- 15:56Speaker 5: want to be more than just what they see on television.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child in Massachusetts.
- 16:04Speaker 1: An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador accused of
- 16:08Speaker 1: murdering a Texas. Man of Venezuelan charged with filming and
- 16:12Speaker 1: selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just some of
- 16:16Speaker 1: the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President Donald J.
- 16:19Speaker 1: Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States Secretary of
- 16:23Speaker 1: Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border crossings are
- 16:28Speaker 1: at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over one hundred
- 16:31Speaker 1: thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you are here illegally,
- 16:36Speaker 1: your next you will be fined. Nearly one thousand dollars
- 16:39Speaker 1: a day. Imprisoned and deported, you will never return. But
- 16:43Speaker 1: if you register using our CBP home app and leave now,
- 16:47Speaker 1: you could be allowed to return legally. Do what's right.
- 16:51Speaker 1: Leave now. Under President Trump America's laws, border and families.
- 16:56Speaker 4: Will be protected.
- 16:57Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,