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Charles Davis: Networking, Juneteenth, and Building Business Success with CD Broadcasting · The Scene Projects

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  Welcome in to a very exciting episode of the scene.
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  I'm your host, Bubba Starts.
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  And with me today is executive producer of CD broadcasting, Heard on bumping ninety six point
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  three FM in Memphis, Tennessee, and all around the world at 96.3.com.
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  Charles Davis.
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  Charles, welcome to the show.
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  Such a pleasure to be here.
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  Thank you for inviting me on.
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  Well, the pleasure's all mine.
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  We we're new friends.
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  We just spoke for the first time, just a few days ago, but, you got some really awesome
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  stuff going on down there in the Memphis area, and I can't wait to be a part of it.
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  So I wanted to get you on here as soon as possible, let you introduce yourself to our
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  people, and and tell them in your own words what you're doing.
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  So, you don't have to go all the way back to the very beginning, but, give us a little
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  rundown of what, you know, CD broadcasting has been up to.
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  I know you're hitting some anniversaries this month.
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  So, give us a little rundown here, and then we'll talk about what we're, getting together
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  for on Juneteenth.
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  Well, I've been supporting and getting businesses known all over the world since
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  02/2017, this year being my anniversary.
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  Also, with Barbara ninety six point three, this is my one year anniversary.
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  I put it on the radio.
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  It started off with just social media management and marketing.
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  Became part of the broadcast association in 2020, and I've been just working on getting as
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  many business, more business as I can.
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  I believe in that theory that we help enough other people get what they want, you'll get
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  what you want.
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  So I've been working on getting what I want by helping other people get what they want.
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  I love it.
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  So you really come from the kind of business consulting world?
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  Yeah.
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  I've been I've been running businesses for I hate to say my age when I tell you how long,
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  but I've opened my first business over twenty years ago.
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  And when I did that, I had to go through learning the hard way.
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  I climbed the regional sales manager chart here with another corporation that did all of my
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  sales training, my corporate sales training.
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  I'm a graduate of Strayer University with my degree in business.
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  That is a bachelor's in business management with a minor in recruiting Mhmm.
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  Human resources, I call it.
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  But with that, I've run into a lot of people.
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  I've helped a lot of people.
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  I've run into a lot of business owners, and we did do one year of Africans Networking
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  Worldwide that became Networking Worldwide where we did four hours of doing different
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  business on on social media.
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  We did that every month for a whole year.
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  We did a anniversary show where we did birthday awards dinner.
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  We gave out awards to all these other businesses.
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  This year, for Juneteenth, we're bringing those hundred businesses locally all out on June 19
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  from 11AM to 5PM, where they're able to come out, eat that day, and be able to eat from now
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  on by using the network to make our network.
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  From now on, have choice, all business owners, entrepreneurs.
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  I can reach out, and my phones are busy.
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  I've been visiting people, rebuilding people, contacting me contacting people.
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  So, you know, I just contacted.
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  I'm like, man, I have so many people.
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  I'm still getting a call.
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  I promise you.
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  Think a hundred business owners.
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  I've contacted, and I still got that.
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  And so we gotta say, we're contacting over a hundred business owners to look at and make
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  sure we have a hundred people out there at this event.
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  So we're going over the top.
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  Glad to have you involved as well as Pablo on time.
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  I think he's one of the great assets to have around.
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  He did my birthday awards dinner, and I was glad to have that.
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  So if his connection's working in my network, I call him a sheep team because he's got ears to
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  the scene.
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  I forget the he has the mind.
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  But believe me, he's got his ears to the scene.
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  So with that, I was like, yeah, man.
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  That's where your network is.
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  He's a, oh, man.
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  I got plenty for a guy to wait for me to do another one.
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  I said, let's do it.
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  And here we are moving right along for.
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  And I hope that everyone in the Memphis area, even if you're not, want to even travel, fly,
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  and fly out.
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  Do what you have to do.
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  Something to get those jets.
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  Get over to Memphis.
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  Because I'm gimping.
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  We wanna see you in the house.
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  If you ain't got those jackets, you can fly here.
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  You can You can bus here.
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  If you're already here, it's real easy.
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  1069 MLK Boulevard.
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  We don't have boots on the ground where you come in that day, and you'll be able eat from
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  now on.
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  We're gonna make our network work for our network.
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  Yes, sir.
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  Oh my goodness.
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  I can't believe you just said that.
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  A good friend of mine, his name is Marvellis.
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  He has that in a lyric of one of his songs.
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  My network is my net worth, and it's something that I have, carried with me for a long time in
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  business in any business, I think.
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  It's not always what you know.
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  It's who you know, and that's why events like, you know, boots on the ground here is so
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  important.
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  Right?
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  And these these style of of things that we're doing, you know, you more in the business world
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  locally in the Memphis scene doing that is in part, it's the same thing that we're doing out
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  here in a digital artist space as well, making connections so that, you know, when you wanna
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  go on tour, all you gotta do is to access that network to get where you want to go.
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  Right?
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  And I was thrilled.
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  I was thrilled to see your event crop up.
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  I'm absolutely just really excited to get down.
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  I've never been to Memphis, so this will be a great introduction for me to to land there.
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  And this is how I like to do it, sir.
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  I like to land in a town.
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  I wanna meet everybody all at once.
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  Right?
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  I don't wanna have to come back 50 times to try and meet everybody.
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  So I would much rather dial in to someone as yourself who's already got the event going and
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  be able to come in and just add our value to that.
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  Right?
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  Getting these business owners on camera at the event for five minutes to introduce themselves
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  so we can air that on our network as well.
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  And we can do do these, the things that are necessary for growth, for businesses to grow.
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  And and it doesn't necessarily have to be, you know, just in your local market.
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  Having some brand awareness out on the national level, even if you are a small mom and pop
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  shop, just in Memphis, it's still good to have that global recognition.
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  And it's it's it's important to get out, and you gotta meet these people.
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  You gotta shake some hands.
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  You you you gotta kiss some babies occasionally.
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  Right?
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  And, make sure you don't do it in reverse and kiss some hands and shake some babies.
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  People don't like that.
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  You know, you said it like a good one to say, you know, just you're networking even for it is
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  not only these tools, know, also when you know them.
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  Because different times, you're in different places, different things, things, different
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  places.
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  And so you've been in my background, I've been all over the country.
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  I haven't left The United States.
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  I've been from top to bottom back to the top to bottom again.
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  I'm from Chicago, originally.
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  I moved to the state of Minnesota State, the East Saint Paul for two years.
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  And I went back to Chicago.
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  Then I moved to Tennessee in February.
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  I've been to the state of Washington for two years, started in 02/2018, and I've been here
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  again since 2020.
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  I'm a regional sales manager type in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi with my reason, and I've
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  been all over.
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  I've got promotions in Ohio, Florida, you name it.
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  And with that, I've been all over the country, seeing all different places, and I've had a lot
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  of different business owners.
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  And why I say, you know, one thing that every business wants is worth by it, and I'm the guy
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  to help them get there one way or another.
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  I we've touched on a lot of the same areas.
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  So I was actually born, in Suwanee, Tennessee, and, I've been spending a lot of time up in
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  that Minneapolis Saint Paul area in the last twelve months or so building up the network
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  there.
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  So I I bet when we, get down to brass tacks that we got a lot of mutual friends or at least
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  a lot of overlap in the areas that that we've been to.
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  And, it helps.
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  Right?
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  And it helps to have some, some seasoning maybe.
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  Right?
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  You've been around cultures and different, you know, different areas of the country.
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  Obviously, it's all different.
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  South Dakota a lot different than Memphis is in every single way.
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  Probably most likely right now, it's just the weather where it's still 70 and fairly decent
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  here.
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  You probably pushing nineties and 95 humidity in Memphis.
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  And
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  91 degrees right down here in Memphis.
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  So Oh, baby.
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  I better
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  my wardrobe's all shorts and tank tops, Charles.
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  There you go.
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  There you go.
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  Well, I cannot wait to get down.
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  Give us a little bit more.
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  I know you kinda ran over it a little bit, but I know it's more than just connection at, the
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  Juneteenth event.
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  You also got some education.
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  You got a couple of keynote speakers that are gonna be sharing some wisdom.
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  Tell us a little bit more about the event coming up here in a few short weeks.
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  We're doing everything.
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  It's just gonna have the food trucks coming out, so we can definitely still eat like
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  everyone likes to do on Juneteenth.
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  We also are gonna have artists coming to perform from the beginning till the end, but we
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  have phenomenal speakers.
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  These speakers are gonna be speaking on how to start a business, how to get bills and credit,
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  personal credit.
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  We also have life insurance and real estate, keynote speakers.
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  We also have Tina Silton, our program director from Legacy six point three, seeing how get on
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  the radio.
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  We also have field director, Kristen Taylor, plenty of coffee from Memphis' home.
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  Memphis' coffee.
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  We're giving out samples of this coffee, and you can definitely the first today.
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  That's Memphis' home.
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  Memphis' Coffee will be in the house.
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  A lot of the other gems will be there.
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  I can go down the list.
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  I think your open show.
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  Right?
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  Start talking about all those.
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  But I'm just talking to keep the old people.
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  I wanted to say, shout out.
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  It was sweet secret, who was one of our trucks to get on board.
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  I was thinking about Minnesota.
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  I love it.
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  I I feel like we were destined to run into each other at some point, Charles.
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  Everything in due time everything in due time, when it's time we're set to do this, we have
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  ready.
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  And so you're like, hey.
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  Can we get it drawn up?
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  Like, let's do it.
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  Let's look at I'm glad we can log in there with some with some of our we getting closest to the
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  event.
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  I've been in Midland on the food hubs as well as speaking to a couple other speakers.
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  I do wanna try to fill them throughout the whole event and make sure we have good food and
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  good music.
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  All of us have a great time and lose on the ground.
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  It's gonna be an awesome time.
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  I'm really looking forward to some Memphis barbecue.
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  I am looking forward to some hot, sweaty weather.
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  I am looking I am looking forward to performing, you know, with my brother, El
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  Pablo, one time.
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  We've already spoken to a few great artists down there in that Memphis area.
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  I mean, no lack of talent in Memphis when it comes to music, a city known for its deep roots
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  in music.
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  And and now we get to really start to launch some businesses from that.
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  And one thing we talk a lot about on our program here is that if you are an artist of
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  any kind, really, right, not just music, but you could be a filmmaker or any kind of
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  creative, right, that you are a business.
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  And whether you have a a business license yet, you should.
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  A tax ID, you should.
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  Whether you have the the the physical business yet, you are a business, and you need to treat
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  your art and your brand accordingly.
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  And that's a lot of what we're trying to do is trying to educate, especially this younger
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  generation coming up.
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  The world's a lot different.
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  Right?
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  When when I came up, you know, early two thousands, graduating high school and having
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  dreams of getting out there and being a musician, it was, well, you gotta go to
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  Nashville or you gotta go to Los Angeles or you gotta go to New York.
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  And now I've done more for my career in the last year sitting in my damn garage in the
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  middle of nowhere in South Dakota than I ever did when I lived in Los Angeles.
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  So, be that what it is, I think what you're doing is so important to the world and
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  especially to, you know, in the culture, in the black culture, you know, obviously, having it
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  on June 19, Juneteenth, is a big deal.
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  It's, it's important.
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  It's important that everyone, you know, not just people that look like me or people that
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  look like you, everyone start treating their lives and their brand a lot differently.
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  And they're gonna do so much more for themselves than what any company, any
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  corporation is ever gonna do for them.
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  You gotta get out there and you gotta advocate for yourself.
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  And it sounds like Charles Davis as well as the scene projects, you know, bumping 96.3.
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  We all have a shared mission in educating those folks into how to do that.
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  Here here is the the, you know, the the playbook, if you will.
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  The workbook is more like it probably because none of this happens without you, getting your
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  own boots on the ground and doing the thing yourself.
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  Well, that's been our motto.
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  That's when I started the business as Steve broadcast and started off with W.
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  Floyd.
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  But because we play all day, we talk about the things we need to know.
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  Steve broadcast is now Charles Davis, as well as my.
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  Some of the things we need to know.
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  I'm on 96.3 every Saturday, 3PM to 4PM.
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  They can offer a list worldwide at 963.com.
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  That's bewmtin963.com.
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  With that, it's about making sure we solve the things we need to know.
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  I'm speaking about entrepreneurship, but also, I'll tell people that need to have multiple
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  streams of income.
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  Now I definitely have to do that.
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  It's not just because, you know, I like money.
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  It's because I have a lot of children.
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  You know what saying?
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  And then I like to be able to eat too.
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  So you know, you gotta have three income.
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  I mentioned the kids are eating.
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  It makes you got a family up to make the bills today.
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  And then the people that have because I'm 92.
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  So with all that, I worked several different positions.
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  I am CEO of CBD broadcast, executive producer for the channel on ninety six point three, but
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  I also do other jobs.
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  I'm a real estate investor.
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  I've been doing that since 2020.
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  I'll be working on my fourth deal coming up here in Memphis.
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  I've helped a lot of people get their bag, and this year is about seeking for our chance to
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  get the bag.
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  The only way it's gonna work is to get to their bag.
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  So that's what I've been working hard for 2025, going through the year and coming for our
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  anniversary.
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  We're like, cranking up for our anniversary.
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  That's where everybody get in the bag, and then I'll get my bag.
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  CD broadcasting.
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  Everybody gets a bag.
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  That's it.
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  Well, you said it all, sir.
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  I appreciate your time today.
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  I can't wait to shake your hand in person and to take part in this beautiful event.
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  That is Juneteenth.
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  That is coming up quick, folks.
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  Make sure you're there.
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  If you're not there in the Memphis local area, Charles Davis says fly your ass in.
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  You gotta be here.
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  Believe it.
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  Let's go.
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  You can network too.
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  If you're not able to, you can go the same as out of it.
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  I'll pay, but we can get.
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  But being there, nothing like being in person and be able act with fear of all these
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  entrepreneurs.
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  Because the business owner, they're just entrepreneur.
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  Just move a little forward in thinking about it.
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  They started in their boots, and got to do it.
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  So those people are being what you might want to sponsor to do.
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  What is the next indicator there?
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  There's somebody in we're in all kinds of industries in this event.
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  You better believe whatever you're doing, there's someone who's already done it.
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  So you wanna follow those footprints so you know how to do what you gotta do.
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  But something from my dad, my dad said, when you find something you wanna do, just find
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  someone who's successful with it and just follow the blueprint.
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  So those blueprints will be walking around in the event, boots on the ground, chance for you
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  to come eat that today, and you're eat from now on, Juneteenth.
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  I just hope you stay tuned because I've been on the fence all the time, but this is the big
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  one, Juneteenth, was on the ground, big one right here in Memphis, Tennessee, come out.
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  He was there.
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  He can be able eat now on.
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  Mr.
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  Charles Davis, for being part of the scene.
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  My pleasure, man.
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  My pleasure.