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Ryan Clark Bets on Himself + Is It Time for Lionel Richie to Slow Down? · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: So let's get it! Back on the grind!
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  Speaker 2: On the last episode of The Latest with Lauren LaRosa,
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  Speaker 2: the podcast, I was talking to you guys a lot
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  Speaker 2: about Our Experience in Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: I say our, I mean The Breakfast Club Experience in Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: During the iHeartRadio Music Festival 2026, where the likes of
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  Speaker 2: Snoop Dogg, Cardi B, oh, Ciara, duh, Ciara, BTS, Zara Larsson,
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  Speaker 2: all these major names performed. And some of the realizations
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  Speaker 2: that I came to just within that weekend, just about
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  Speaker 2: work and work life and growth and where things are
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  Speaker 2: currently and where they're headed, but most importantly, where they
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  Speaker 2: are currently, which is always a big thing for me
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  Speaker 2: and something that I've been trying to master is understanding
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  Speaker 2: and being in and really appreciating the current moment and
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  Speaker 2: using it to motivate myself as I move forward. Now,
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  Speaker 2: checking in behind the scenes of the grind today. I
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  Speaker 2: was editing a, um, behind the scenes video that I
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  Speaker 2: shot from, um, a behind the scenes video that I
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  Speaker 2: shot from the I Heart Music Radio, I Heart Radio
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  Speaker 2: Music Festival in Vegas. And in the video, I was,
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  Speaker 2: I was watching the video and I was like, man,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what's so dope about this is every new
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  Speaker 2: experience is literally a new experience. And Each new experience
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  Speaker 2: has no tie to the experiences that like accumulated before it.
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  Speaker 2: So in that moment, as I'm watching this video and
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  Speaker 2: I'll play you guys some of the audio from that
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  Speaker 2: video is such a powerful video to watch because I
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  Speaker 2: think you really get to see the important things that
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  Speaker 2: surround a lot of the recent successes that I've had.
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  Speaker 2: But also the reason why I say I was watching
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  Speaker 2: it and thinking like, yo, It's almost like a show
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  Speaker 2: must go on feeling like nobody knows the things that
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  Speaker 2: happened up until that moment. Every single time an opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: a moment is presented to you. You have such a
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  Speaker 2: fresh start and a fresh slate to introduce yourself, your talent,
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  Speaker 2: your gift, your voice to the world all over again, period.
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  Speaker 2: Like I was literally watching that video. Like there were
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  Speaker 2: over 20,000 people in that arena.
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  Speaker 1: They make sure that's true. Hold on. Let me see.
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  Speaker 1: How many people?
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  Speaker 2: The T-Mobile Arena holds up to 20,000 people depending on
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  Speaker 2: the type of event and the setup. Nah, it was
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  Speaker 2: all seated. Mad people in there. There was up to
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  Speaker 2: 20,000 people in that arena. And over 70% of them
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  Speaker 2: probably met me for the first time the minute I
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  Speaker 2: walked out on that stage and introduced Ciara, which you
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  Speaker 2: guys heard in the last Latest with Lauren La Rosa episode.
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  Speaker 2: And that is such a beautiful thing. And not just
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  Speaker 2: because it's like, oh, my God, I got this opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I got this.
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  Speaker 2: But like, you know, one of the things that I'm
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  Speaker 2: always saying to myself is what I've had to learn
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  Speaker 2: if I'm being real with y'all. And something that stuck
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  Speaker 2: out prominently to me today is no matter what happens
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  Speaker 2: prior to the show must go on.
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  Speaker 1: I was rushing into work this morning. I freaking did.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all this morning getting dressed, I misplaced my phone under
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  Speaker 2: clothes while getting dressed. So that held me up for
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  Speaker 2: about a good 10 minutes. When you are leaving the
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  Speaker 2: house around 5 a.m. to get to work by 5.30,
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  Speaker 2: you have no room for error.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So that hold up kind of cost me some minutes.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember I was walking out of the house.
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  Speaker 2: I got in my car and I'm all frantic and
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  Speaker 2: I'm you know, trying to figure things out because now
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  Speaker 2: my segment, um, you know, I'm not here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not there. I'm not in the studio for the segment.
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  Speaker 2: Right. And I'm freaking out and I'm speeding. I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to get the work, trying to get the work.
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  Speaker 1: And I just stopped. And I was like, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm going to do? I'm a reclaim my day.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm a reclaim this morning because what is happening
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  Speaker 2: right now is what happened to me trying to get
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  Speaker 2: up out of my house and Before I got on
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  Speaker 2: the highway, the people that are on the highway with
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  Speaker 2: me have no idea about. The people that I will
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  Speaker 2: pass by riding through a tunnel to come into New
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  Speaker 2: York will have no idea about. The people that I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to run past when I rush into the building
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  Speaker 2: once I get to the iHeart Studio in New York
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  Speaker 2: will have no idea about. And it is up to
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  Speaker 2: me whether I live in that moment and live in
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  Speaker 2: that rushed panic, oh my God, oh my God, oh
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  Speaker 2: my God state, or I don't. I gather myself, I
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  Speaker 2: gather my morning, I gather my day and say, hey, look, This, this, this,
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  Speaker 2: and this happened. Here's how we make sure it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: happen again. But you are here. The show must go on. Y'all,
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  Speaker 2: I am completely like, I've never been a person who
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  Speaker 2: has had to be honest about the fact that I've
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  Speaker 2: always learned to live and operate in panic and chaos
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  Speaker 2: and in the moment prior to the next moment. I've
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  Speaker 2: always been that person, literally always. And up until, you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting in this real adult age that I'm in, it's
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  Speaker 2: literally been up until this moment that I've always thought
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  Speaker 2: that that was the most productive me. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: mean productive like, okay, yes, being late to work ain't productive.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean that in a literal. I mean it
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  Speaker 2: in a sense of the way that your mind tricks
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  Speaker 2: itself into thinking that, everything else has to go wrong
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  Speaker 2: because a few things went wrong or everything else has
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  Speaker 2: to be predicated on this one feeling from the day
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  Speaker 2: before thought, but from a day before, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: thing that missed that from a day before that is
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  Speaker 2: so not true.
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  Speaker 1: And it is the easiest thing to like, just switch
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  Speaker 1: your thinking.
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  Speaker 2: But even knowing that to me, I've never been a
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  Speaker 2: person that like has been that way. I've always been
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  Speaker 2: able to switch my thinking about like career and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: where I'm going and goals and really train myself to
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  Speaker 2: have no like I'm jumping out this window and I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to fly. That is literally my motto, period. And
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  Speaker 2: I know that I will fly. But I've never been
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  Speaker 2: able to train my thinking when it comes to the like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, once you jump out that window, you fly.
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  Speaker 2: There are things that are going to happen as you
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  Speaker 2: figure out to fly and you can't hold on to them.
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  Speaker 1: You got to learn from it. You got to move on.
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  Speaker 2: And you got to be okay about that because every
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  Speaker 2: single moment, every single step in the journey, every single
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  Speaker 2: time I'm trying to flap a wing and it ain't working,
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  Speaker 2: the minute that it starts working, if I hold on
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  Speaker 2: to what did not work, if I hold on to
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  Speaker 2: what my story was prior to that, it's changing my
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  Speaker 2: mental and weighing me down for what I'm walking into.
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  Speaker 2: And I have been so blessed. I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: where that that feeling came from to be honest with
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  Speaker 2: y'all like I really don't I don't know where that
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  Speaker 2: that realization came from because I think for me I've
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  Speaker 2: always been like okay if I can't solve every single
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  Speaker 2: problem that problem is going to come back so I'm
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  Speaker 2: holding on to things I'm overworking myself I'm burying myself
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  Speaker 2: in things that I literally have no control over had
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  Speaker 2: to let that go And something as simple as running
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  Speaker 2: late to work this morning reminded me of why staying
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  Speaker 2: in that mindset. Because sometimes you can lose it. Why
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  Speaker 2: staying in that mindset is so important. Because rushing in
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  Speaker 2: here today, feeling and looking. I literally came in and
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  Speaker 2: just did the segment. The latest with Lauren La Rosa today.
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  Speaker 2: And when she does it, she'll flop it to... flip
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  Speaker 2: flop it back over to just with the mess or
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is, but it gets done regardless is my point. Um,
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  Speaker 2: but when I came in, they're like, Oh, you should
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  Speaker 2: just go in and jump in. And I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I need a second. Let me take a second, sit
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  Speaker 2: my stuff down.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Lord, I'm here. Thank you for getting me
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  Speaker 1: here on, you know, boom. Now I'm here and I'm
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  Speaker 1: on air and we're picking up where I left off.
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  Speaker 1: Hey y'all, I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: Something as small as that literally changed my day. It
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  Speaker 2: has been changing how I think about, you know, how
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  Speaker 2: I approach career. It's also been helping me change that
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  Speaker 2: mindset of that.
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  Speaker 1: And I talk to y'all about it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Like, you know, I don't know if it's like the
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  Speaker 2: oldest daughter in me, if it is the newsroom in me,
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  Speaker 2: but like you're only as good as your last story.
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  Speaker 1: You're only as good as what you're able to do
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  Speaker 1: for somebody. That is not true.
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  Speaker 2: What I am not able to do for you has
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  Speaker 2: nothing to talk, literally has nothing to do with the
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  Speaker 2: value that I am in the world to other people,
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  Speaker 2: but also to God, period. So that's where I'm at
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes. I got that little reminder today and
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  Speaker 2: just wanted to share it with y'all. It's been something
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  Speaker 2: I've been practicing and honestly had to practice for a
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  Speaker 2: long time when I was jobless and things weren't going well.
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  Speaker 2: And I, you know, had to still keep a smile
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  Speaker 2: on my face, you know, lip gloss pop and smile
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  Speaker 2: on my face. So yeah, hope, hope you guys can
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  Speaker 2: take that and do what you need to do with
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  Speaker 2: it today. Cause God put it on my heart this morning.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm giving it to y'all, passing it off to
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  Speaker 2: you guys. Now let's get on into the latest. So
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  Speaker 2: there's news that broke today. I'm actually, you know, taking
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  Speaker 2: my notes from Yahoo Entertainment about Ryan Clark's media company
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  Speaker 2: announcing today that the former Starbucks chairman and CEO Howard
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  Speaker 2: Schultz joined Pivot 25 Productions, which is the media company,
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  Speaker 2: as a strategic partner and investor. So Ryan Clark, he
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  Speaker 2: co-founded this company back in 2025 with producer Alicia.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. And Alicia is my girl. I love Alicia.
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  Speaker 1: She's like Ryan's like go-to.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime I have anything Ryan Clark that I'm trying to verify,
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  Speaker 2: have conversation about or whatever, I hit Alicia.
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  Speaker 1: But Alicia, girl, I'm going to mess up your last name.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. Zubowatsky.
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  Speaker 2: And it sits behind The Pivot, the show that Ryan
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  Speaker 2: Clark hosts with Shannon Crowder and And Fred Taylor. So
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Clark in this announcement explained that the partnership started
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  Speaker 2: on the latest episode of Craig Melvin's Glass Half Full.
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  Speaker 2: So he says Schultz first reached out after ESPN let
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  Speaker 2: Clark go back in July.
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  Speaker 1: And that was after an 11 year run at the network.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the crazy thing about when Ryan Clark decided to
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  Speaker 2: step away from the pivot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. When Ryan Clark decided to.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say step away, but when Ron
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  Speaker 2: Clark got fired from ESPN, the crazy thing about it
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  Speaker 2: was my first, and I said this to people were like, what.
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  Speaker 1: Do you mean it's ESPN?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, why does he like, I know it's ESPN
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  Speaker 2: and I get having the job, but like you've been
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  Speaker 2: the guy and have built the network prestige and people
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  Speaker 2: have watched you and your voice is big enough and
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  Speaker 2: you have the relationships.
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  Speaker 1: All right. They let you go now. It's time.
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  Speaker 2: Now you got more time to do something else really,
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  Speaker 2: really well. And you already have the pivot. And I
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  Speaker 2: said it because of reasons like this, like you're able
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  Speaker 2: to sit down on a podcast and have these high
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  Speaker 2: level discussions and people see it.
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  Speaker 1: And it turns into something like this.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Clark says that the first thing that Schultz did,
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  Speaker 2: he sends me this long text message and he talks
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  Speaker 2: about what, what happened to me. I told him that
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to do a show. And from there he
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  Speaker 2: was like, wait, why would we just talk about doing
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  Speaker 2: one show? Like, yes, we're going to do this show,
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  Speaker 2: but I believe in who you are. I believe in
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  Speaker 2: your capabilities, but I believe that in you being a brand,
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  Speaker 2: we can build the entire network.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So last night. So football happens on Sundays. I'm very
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  Speaker 2: honest about the fact that I'm not like one of
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  Speaker 2: those girls who like follow sports. But my man loves, loves, loves,
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  Speaker 2: loves the Eagles, loves football, super sports guy. Right. But.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm watching a lot of like football and things
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  Speaker 2: because of him. You know, I'm researching Ryan Clark a
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  Speaker 2: lot because of all the new news with the pivot.
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  Speaker 2: So Ryan Clark's content has been generated on my feed.
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  Speaker 2: I also recently made sure that I was not only
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  Speaker 2: subscribed to all of their YouTube channels over there with
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  Speaker 2: the pivot, but that I was also receiving alerts for
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  Speaker 2: them once I saw the new show.
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  Speaker 1: That they had built out.
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  Speaker 2: So Monday's episode of his new sports show that he
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  Speaker 2: does on YouTube, because the podcast is on Netflix and
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  Speaker 2: they have some clips on YouTube, but then the sports show,
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  Speaker 2: it's like the standup ESPN feel of the sports show
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  Speaker 2: is on YouTube. And it came up and I was
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  Speaker 2: literally telling my boyfriend last night, I swear, I was like,
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  Speaker 2: This show looks amazing. And I've been saying that from
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  Speaker 2: the beginning when the show first dropped on YouTube. And
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  Speaker 2: he was like, well, yeah, I mean, it's like ESPN.
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  Speaker 2: I said, no, you don't understand. Like, y'all know, like
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  Speaker 2: I am producer. I love storytelling. I love being able
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  Speaker 2: to like to look at something and make it like
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  Speaker 2: bigger and amplify it and like all the stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at that and I'm like, no, you don't
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  Speaker 2: understand ESPN. that is a fully produced shelf from the
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  Speaker 2: cameras that they're shooting with the angles to all of the,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they got the screens and the branding like
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  Speaker 2: this is clean. I was like, there has to be
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  Speaker 2: investment in here somewhere. Of course, Ryan Clark is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: putting his own into it as well. But I was like,
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  Speaker 2: this feels like bigger. Like there's like investors somewhere. Cause
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  Speaker 2: this like network TV looks like this to pull this
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  Speaker 2: off on YouTube.
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  Speaker 1: You got to really build out your own foundation.
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  Speaker 2: That's like being an independent artist and having the number
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  Speaker 2: one song in the world. And all of the marketing
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  Speaker 2: and everything that's around it. Like, I mean, people don't
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  Speaker 2: think about it like this, but Jay-Z is an independent artist.
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  Speaker 2: But Jay-Z operates at a level and a space where
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  Speaker 2: it's like, well, duh, it's Jay-Z. But Ryan Clark is
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  Speaker 2: just stepping out the gate as an independent media person.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm looking at, not to compare Ryan Clark to
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  Speaker 2: Jay-Z either, I'm talking about the quality of work. You
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  Speaker 2: get to a certain point in your career and people
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  Speaker 2: expect a certain quality from you, but you don't just
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  Speaker 2: go do that by yourself. Jay-Z has Roc Nation now.
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  Speaker 2: Jay-Z had Rockefeller behind him. Jay-Z always built the foundation.
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  Speaker 2: And I know Ryan Clark has had, they've had this
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  Speaker 2: production company and media company, but Even watching their interviews
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  Speaker 2: on The Pivot, they looked amazing. But I've been watching
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  Speaker 2: this show, and I don't know nothing that they be
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  Speaker 2: talking about. I'm watching for the production quality, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: this is how I'm trying to come. When we drop
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  Speaker 2: video for the latest one on the Rose of the Podcast,
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  Speaker 2: this is how I'm trying to come. Last night, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: there's an investment in there somewhere, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: get all up in his business and find out because
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  Speaker 2: I love to hear stories about those type of things
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  Speaker 2: because I'm watching as I figure out how to build
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  Speaker 2: out He literally, my boyfriend sent me this story this
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  Speaker 2: morning when they announced, you know, the investor conversation was like, see,
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  Speaker 2: here you go.
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  Speaker 1: You were right.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, so he says that, you know, Pivot 25's
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  Speaker 2: announcement that they dropped says that Schultz, who, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is one of the former investors in Starbucks, will bring
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  Speaker 2: strategic counsel, commercial relationships, networking expertise, and access to capital
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  Speaker 2: resources with the goal of turning the company into a
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  Speaker 2: lasting media business. We are living through a profound transformation
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  Speaker 2: in media, Schultz said in a statement. Audiences are increasingly
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  Speaker 2: choosing people and platforms they trust over traditional institutions. And
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  Speaker 2: the barriers between sports, business, culture, and entertainment are disappearing. Ryan, Alicia,
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  Speaker 2: and the team have built something special within the new landscape.
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  Speaker 2: They have earned an audience not simply because of who
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  Speaker 2: they are or what they accomplish, but because of the honesty, curiosity,
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  Speaker 2: and humanity they bring to their conversation. So I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: that the Pivot, like the podcast, the sit-down podcast that
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  Speaker 2: they do where they discuss, you know, trending topics and
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  Speaker 2: sports too and do interviews is on Netflix. But they
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  Speaker 2: have their sports show, which is called The Pivot Sports.
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  Speaker 1: It's on YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: And that actually premiered September 14th. Now, the difference between
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  Speaker 2: the two is, so the football.
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  Speaker 1: Show is weekly.
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  Speaker 2: It's called The Pivot Sports with Ryan Clark. And it's
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  Speaker 2: in partnership with NFL Films. So those agreements cover what
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  Speaker 2: Pivot 25 produces, while Schultz's partnership is with Pivot 25 itself.
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  Speaker 2: So they're directly tied into Pivot 25 itself. So that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's so fire about that. And even that, like,
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  Speaker 2: even them being in partnership or relationship with the NFL
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: makes so much sense.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: It's like you cut out the middleman. You're still doing
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: things in.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: in tandem with NFL, you cut out the middleman and
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: you have the support directly. Your support is not coming
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: from the NFL, who, again, can pull the rug up
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: under you.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: It is now directly with you and whoever your partner is.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: And if Ryan Clark and the team are smart, they've
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: negotiated this because of the things that they went through
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: in recent and, you know, probably prior to as well,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: behind the scenes, to make it where that, you know,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: if anybody were to walk away from this, everybody's all good.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Everybody's all good. Man, this is fire. Shout out to
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Ryan Clark.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: The whole Pivot 25 team.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Alicia, girl, thank you for answering all my calls.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: You know I'm going to call you because I love
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: getting in the business of business. And it excites me
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: so much to see people building out business in a
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: way that is aligned and makes so much sense. This
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: show is going to do well because it's what Ryan
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Clark already naturally does and is good at. It's what
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: they were hiring him for. And now he's hired himself.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Love to see it. Love to see it. Now, speaking
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: of investing, building our career, and doing it the right way,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: one of our greats, our icons, who is definitely somebody
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: who did it the right way, Lionel Richie, I'm so
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: sad to have to report that he had another heart
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: scare and is halting the current tour that he is on.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: When I got this alert, because I subscribed to Mad
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: News Outlet, y'all, when I got this alert, my heart
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: dropped because you hear three, this is like the third
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: hospital visit in like the last, what, month and a half?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: At Lionel Richie's age that.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Is scary and I've mentioned you know somebody that has
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: done it the right way and this is a great
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: story to tie into not a great story so it's
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: not great that he is going through the heart scare
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: but it's a story that can definitely relate to and
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: tie into Ryan Clark because you know when you're in
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: this business and you're in entertainment one of the things
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: that I'm learning the most about and asking a lot
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: of questions about along the way as I'm you know,
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: meet people who have so many different things going on.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: It's how are they building out their business in a
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: way that is going to sustain them and outlive them?
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Because I'm going to get to a point, you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: when I'm old and all that, whatever, and great grandmom
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: and all that, where I don't want to have to
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: like work the way I did in the beginning of
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: all of this. And Lionel Richie is well past that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Like Lionel Richie, you know, In his older age, he's
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: very successful for himself.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: You know, he is Lionel Richie.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: But there are reports now, TMZ did an exclusive report
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: that Lionel Richie is back in the hospital. He suffered
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: another heart issue, forcing him and Earth, Wind & Fire
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: to cancel their next three shows. Now, sources are also
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: saying that he is currently hospitalized and receiving treatment for
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: a trial fibrillation in a regular heartbeat. The report continues
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: that the source tells TMZ that doctors are treating Lionel
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: with a AFib ablation, which is not considered a major procedure.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: The minimally invasive procedure creates tiny scars in the heart
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: to block faulty electrical signals and help restore normal rhythm.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: As a result of the latest health scare, TMZ has
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: been told that the next three dates on the tour—
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: It's the Lionel Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire tour
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: that is titled Sing a Song All Night Long. Those
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: shows are going to be rescheduled, but they were originally
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: scheduled for... They were going to be in San Francisco
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: on Saturday, Chicago, and then they were going to head
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: on over to Columbus, Ohio.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, man.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Lionel Richie, he just checked himself into the hospital in St.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Louis because he was feeling a bit dizzy and just
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: not his best at a show. And then that's when
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: we found out that it was heart issues.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: That was... that was literally like the beginning of September.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: That was August. Yeah.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: August 31st. My grandmother deals with heart issues. And the
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: craziest thing about the heart issues is that you could
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: be like feeling perfectly fine one day. And then the
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: next day you're in the hospital and dealing with things
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: that are like so time sensitive and can grow to
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: be so serious if they're not checked out. But one
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: misignored step, like, you know, respiratory issues and, and, and
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: things of that nature, um, It's like you can't miss
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: a step. One misstep can turn into something so major
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: that you don't even know is about to hit you.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: And when it hits you, it literally is like it
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: could take you out of here. And I'm always getting
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: on my grandma. I'm like, my mom, at your age,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: my grandma's 88 years old. I'm always getting on her
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: like at your age. Why don't you just relax now? Like,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: why don't you just let me put things into place now?
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: And you just sit back and enjoy the life that
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: you've built. And I will say after her last, you know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: few little heart scares that she had, not little because
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: they were not little at all.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: At her age.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: After those, the last few heart scares that she had,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: she has kind of taken a step back a bit. Like,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I don't even like to call her. to have to
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: do anything. Like we pay, we do bills for her. We,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I order her groceries now, even though she argues and
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: pushes back against that. She likes to go to the
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: grocery store. Her whole thing is, is that the movement
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: and her doing things that she loves to do keeps
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: her young and keeps her alive. And she literally tells
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: me that. And my whole thing is, I understand that,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: but I think that there are times where older people
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: kind of put strain on themselves because they want to,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, they want to feel alive, get it? Like,
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: and I get it, but It's just I can't understand it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: At 34 years old, I cannot understand my grandmother telling
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: me she wants to walk around a grocery store and
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: have to pick up things, sometimes heavy, off of the
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: shelf because it makes her feel alive and needed. When
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I'm like, but I can Instacart for you. And I
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: have people set up at your house. If even a
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: few days out of the week helping you bring them
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: groceries in the house because you're older and you deserve that.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: And with Lionel Richie, I don't know. You know, I
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: don't know if this is him fighting through the tour
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: because it's what he loves.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: It has to be. He's not hurting for no money.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Lionel Richie is millions and millions and millions of dollars
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: in per episode on The Voice.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Lionel Richie, 77 years old. And I mean, just a
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: few weeks ago, about a week ago, actually, he was
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: spotted out. And it was like such a big deal
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: because it was the first time people were seeing him out.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: since his last hospital scare and he looked good and
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: he was smiling he always looks good though he looked
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: good and he was smiling and giving thumbs up and
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: out the dinner and doing all the things and then
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: now this I'm trying to tell y'all that stuff with
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: your heart health stuff in general medical stuff in general
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: man things happen so freaking fast I just pray that
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Lionel Richie is going to continue to take care of
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: himself in a way that he really, really needs it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: I'm so glad to hear that, like, when he knows
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: he needs it, he's going to the hospital, he's getting
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: his checkups, he's doing those things.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: But I don't know.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's time for him to just take a step
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: back and just kind of enjoy everything he's worked for.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I know it's easier said than done.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I opened up this episode talking to you guys about
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: just having to teach myself to take control of my
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: day as things are running rampant and going crazy. And
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: at one point in my life, loving to operate out
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: of a point of chaos because it made me feel alive.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: It made me feel present.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: It made me feel like I was achieving something, like
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I was doing something, you know, being busy. But then
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: as I'm getting older now, I'm like, OK, I don't
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: want to just be busy. I want to be in
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: a flow state. And I think when you get to
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: an age like a Lionel Richie or, you know, if you're,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: when you experience things in your work career that, you know,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: make you reevaluate your thinking like a Ryan Clark, that
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: flow state looks different for everybody, but you gotta be
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: here to actually get it done is my point to
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Lionel Richie, you know? So I don't know what the
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: resolve is, but this is a lot of hospital visits
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: in a little bit of time. I think I think
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: it might be time for him to take a step back.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: With love, Mr. Richie.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he, look, if he listened to
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: this podcast, y'all, we getting our video investment soon.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: No, for real though. It's about that time.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: It gets to that time in everybody's life and career
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: where you just got to look at things a bit
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: differently in order to be your best as you showing
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: up or to not show up. And that'd be the
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: best decision you could have made for yourself too. I'm
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Lauren LaRosa, and this has been another episode of The
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Latest with Lauren LaRosa. I tell you guys, every single episode,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: y'all could be anywhere with any old body talking about
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: all of the things, but you guys choose to be
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: right here with me, my lowriders.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys, and I'll catch you in my
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: next one.