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Integrity First: The Human Cost of Unethical Business. · Closing Sales in Nigeria - Sales For The Nigerian Business Person: The Sales and Marketing Blueprint

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  Hello and welcome to the show. I'm making today's recording
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  outside of the parking lot at Grand Square because I have some
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  runs to do here before I run off one or two things, so expect to
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  hear some interruptions in the background.
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  This is the first time of listening to the podcast.
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  Now today on the show, I want to look at the list of unethical.
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  I mean, should I say unethical? OK, Well, since I'm a sales
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  coach, business consultant, people reach out to me all the
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  time, whether on my radio show or over here on the podcast.
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  They want me to look at one or two businesses.
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  And there are some businesses that I cannot look at.
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  And then I can't help you with for ethical reasons.
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  So I mean, you might not agree with, you might not think that
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  I'll be ethical, you might not think that they're ethical or
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  unethical, but anyway, they're just some business problems that
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  I cannot help out with. And that's what we're going to
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  look at today. That's some of the reasons why
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  there's some businesses that I don't talk about.
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  I might joke about them from time to time, but I can't
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  seriously tackle that business. You know, if you're reaching out
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  to me and you want me to help you, whether it's a free session
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  or whether it's a paid session, they're just some things that I
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  can't do. So the reason why this has come
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  up again is because on the radio show on radio Maria, you know,
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  somebody called in some questions around IVF businesses
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  and, you know, it's a bit iffy because it's a Catholic radio
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  station. So even if I didn't believe in
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  teachings of the church, still will be somehow for me to tackle
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  those kinds of questions on air. And then somebody reached out to
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  me on LinkedIn. She's a bottom power
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  entrepreneur, you know, in quote, we can put it that way.
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  You know, there might be some young people listening to this
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  show. So I can't say exactly what line
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  of business it is that she's in. And to be honest, you know,
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  whether you're a bottom power entrepreneur or whether you're
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  in the IVF, you know, sure, all the principles that we're
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  talking about over here can improve your businesses.
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  But The thing is, I am Catholic. And apart from being Catholic,
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  there are actually some common sense reasons or natural law
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  reasons why it's unethical to be involved in certain kinds of
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  businesses. So I want to just make this
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  episode where I put it out there that yes, I'm taking questions
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  from everyone and yes, I'm trying to help as many people as
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  possible, whether for free or whether it's paid.
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  But there are some businesses that unfortunately I'm not going
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  to be able to help you guys with.
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  So the lady who called Bottom Power, well, the reason why I
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  can't do anything in Bottom Power Industries, I mean, those
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  of you who've been listening to the podcast from the get, you
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  know that the very first person who reached out to me for a
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  coaching opportunity was someone who had medicine for erectile
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  dysfunction. Yeah, yeah.
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  Medicine for erectile dysfunction And I could have
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  worked with the guy, but by the time I asked him a couple of
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  questions about his ICP, you know, he was straight up he's
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  like, Oh no, no, no, he's not married men like you that are my
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  customers. I'm like, oh really?
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  How come? And he said because you married
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  men have nothing to prove that I'm actually looking for young
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  and single guys. Those ones feel as if they have
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  something to prove. And those are the guys who drop
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  major money to pay for my products.
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  So. Yeah.
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  So because of that, it's one of those things that I just weaved,
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  you know, So if you're in the business of helping married men
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  and married women, you know, achieve, you know, happily ever
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  after, sure, no problem. I hope you flog your product.
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  But, you know, if your product is going to lead to some loose
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  living, you know, unfortunately, I I can help you there.
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  And the reason why is this is because there's certain things
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  that we do that impinge or contravene or lessen the dignity
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  of the human person. And The thing is, you know,
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  women are not supposed to be used as playthings.
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  I mean, just let's just remove Christianity from me here.
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  You know, everybody has worth as a human being by the very fact,
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  you know, that they are human beings.
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  Yeah, that's a philosophical proposition.
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  We can talk about that later on. But because everybody has
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  inherent rights and inherent dignity and things like that,
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  you know, women are not our playthings.
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  And so industries that kind of put women in that position, you
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  know, I'm at a loss. I can't get involved in those
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  sorts of things on ethical grounds.
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  So some of you say, why are you judging me?
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  No, it's not a judgement about you.
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  You might be a very fine person. You know, the bottom part
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  entrepreneur or the guy who is trying to sell, you know, trying
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  to flog Ed pills on guys so that they can prove a point, you
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  know, in quotes, you know, so I'm not making a judgement about
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  you. Let me not get to in the in the
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  weeds on these also things. So basically, if you're a bottom
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  pie entrepreneur, I can't help you.
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  But yes, I must admit, you know, this technique will work very
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  well in that line of business. And then if you're like the guy
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  who's trying to sell Ed pills, you know, I can help you as
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  well. Then for the fellow who called
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  and who wanted help on his IVF business, the reasons why I
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  can't get involved on that is because they violate Catholic
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  teaching. They also violate natural human
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  reasoning. It's, it's kind of complicated.
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  And if any of you reach out to me one-on-one, I would love to
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  discuss with you about it, you know, because the process
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  involved in doing. And let me just put it this way,
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  if you're curious and you want to know what the Catholic
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  teaching is on the matter. And apart from that, it's not
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  even Catholics. You know, there are some people
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  like Muslims who oppose it and then even secular humanists who
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  oppose it. So, but if you want to know the
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  philosophical reasons why some people oppose IVF, you know,
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  just hit me up and we can have a conversation about that.
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  So if you're in the IVF business, if you're a bottom
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  power individual entrepreneur can help you on that.
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  If you sell Ed pills, can I help you on that?
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  Then let's see what else. Of course, abortion, if that's
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  your business, can help you that apart from religious and
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  philosophical considerations, there are also legal
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  considerations here because abortion is still illegal in
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  Niger. So if I'm helping you to promote
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  any, you know, an abortion business, you know, I'm going to
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  be complicit in breaking some laws and I don't want to do that
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  here. I'm trying to make some serious
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  Mullah and I'm not trying to go to jail.
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  And of course, you know, violations of dignity of the
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  human person. Same thing with people who are
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  in business around contraceptives.
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  I can't help those of you who are in the adult entertainment
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  industry, you know, like I mentioned my uncle in law where
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  I can put it like that, you know, came to town and was
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  surprised that in Abuja we have one or two, you know, we have
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  these places here and there. You know, he thought was only in
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  America that they have those places.
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  But lo and behold, you know, they're here.
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  At least I can confirm that in Abuja, there are plenty in
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  Lagos, I forget Lagos all over the place.
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  I mean, even when I lived on Amina Crescent on Allen Ave.
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  I know at least two or three of those places, not I didn't go
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  there. I just know that they're around
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  the corner because at night the signboards, you know, come up.
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  So I didn't go there, but at least I I know where they are.
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  Funny enough, I ever heard that one of them was owned by
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  somebody in my church. Shocking.
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  Then joined gambling and addictive businesses can help
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  you with that. The reason why, from a
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  traditional Christian and a traditional Islamic point of
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  view, people stay away from those sorts of things is because
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  those are things that impair reason and also value the
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  dignity of the human person. So gambling and addictive stuff,
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  basically you just lose your mind over a whole bunch of
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  stuff. And then for men who have gotten
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  involved in this madness, you know, I've seen some of it in my
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  own family because you know, from Benway State, I spent some
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  time in Aberdeen, Scotland and in Aberdeen they have a serious
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  gambling problem and drinking problem.
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  And in Benway State this is serious drinking problem and
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  gambling problem. So there are lots of people's
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  families. I just get get messed up over
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  all these things. So it impairs reason.
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  So fathers were supposed to provide for their families, you
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  know, don't or cannot because they've gambled everything away,
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  because they've drunk and snuffed and sniffed and injected
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  the hell out of their lives. And, yeah, so you're involved in
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  those kinds of businesses. You know, unfortunately, I'm not
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  going to be able to help you with that.
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  Then let's see what else? Hey, human trafficking.
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  Now some of you say human trafficking care.
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  I'm not a human trafficker. Calm down.
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  There's no human trafficking in Nigeria.
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  And you know, it depends on how you define it.
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  So if you talk to people in the police, if you talk to people,
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  let's say, like in the British Council, if you talk the the
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  people in the modern coalition against slavery, if you talk to
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  some people in Christian and Muslim communities, they will
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  say these practices where you go to Benin Republic and then you
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  carry girls and then bring them to Nigeria and then you start
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  using them to do house boy and house girl.
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  You say you have agency. Well, you know, it's
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  questionable. Some people argue that those
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  sorts of businesses actually that is a human trafficking, you
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  know, and so for some of those reasons, you know, I stay away
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  from businesses like that. So if you have an agency in
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  court where you're carrying girls from court to know to come
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  and do house girl here can help you with that.
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  And then of course, businesses that are involved with, OK, I've
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  already mentioned the drugs, alcohol, OK, alcohol, alcohol,
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  no problem. I drinks of.
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  But drugs, yeah, because they impair human reason reasoning
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  then OK, that's also another, these are also reasons why I
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  stay away from the paraphernalia business.
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  So some of you call and you're not a bottom power entrepreneur,
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  but you say one or two things that help with bottom power.
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  You know, I hope you guys understand when I say bottom
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  power because, you know, I don't want the young people listening
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  to the podcast to understand what we're talking about.
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  But for those of us who are older, those of you who are old
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  and those of you who understand, you actually you need Jesus.
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  If you understand what I'm talking about, you need Jesus.
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  Go and repent. So yeah, that's those are some
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  of the reasons why I can't get involved in some of those
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  businesses. So remember, it's not a personal
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  judgement and I would love to have personal conversations with
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  anybody who reaches out just to explore some of the
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  philosophical reasons why someone, some people might
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  consider these businesses to be unethical.
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  Because at the end of the day, you will find that you find a
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  coalition around these things because, you know, Christians
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  see the world differently. Muslims see the world
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  differently. Secular humanists see the world
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  differently. Especially atheist secular
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  humanists, they don't even believe that there is a God.
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  So don't you guys think it's kind of interesting that
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  sometimes the Christian, the Muslim, the secular humanist and
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  the pantheist, all of them agree that something is wrong or
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  something is right. Should be interesting give you
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  some philosophical I'll put it ground some philosophical
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  rationale, some reason to believe that perhaps there are
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  some things that are just wrong and are wrong in every single
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  circumstance and there's some things that are right in some
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  circumstances and wrong in some circumstances.
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  But you know in this age where people just think look, I'm just
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  trying to make my own money I'm trying to sort myself out I'm
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  just trying to do me you do you you know perhaps we can make
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  that cheddar we can be millionaires we can be
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  billionaires. You know, we can be
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  trillionaires, we can make that cool money.
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  But what's the question that we we should have?
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  You know, is every single way of making money good?
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  Is every single way of making money productive?
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  Is every single way of doing money legal, illegal?
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  Because, you know, there's a time when in Niger people are
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  making mad money by this kidnapping thing, you know,
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  collaborate with someone, go and kidnap somebody, you know, shop,
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  shop before, you know, a million situ accounts, you know,
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  overnight. You don't blow.
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  You know, Bob, Anyway, I think I've spoken too much.
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  Let me just leave it there. Anyone wants to have a
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  conversation around these sorts of things?
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  Yeah, we can have a chat about it one-on-one.
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  But bottom line, I'm just trying to say that there are some
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  people who are going to call over the radio.
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  I can't help you. There are some people who are
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  going to send me DMS, like the bottom power individual and the
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  guy who says Ed drugs. You know, I can't help you.
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  So that's it. Those are some of the businesses
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  that I'm not going to get involved in.
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  So if you do anything else, get in touch.
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  If you have a plant nursery, you sell Arabic palm trees or you
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  sell Saint Augustine pine trees or stuff like that because I see
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  them all over Abuja. You know, reach out if you own a
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  shopping mall, you know, reach out.
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  If you sell pool tables, reach out.
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  If you own one of these football rinks, basketball courts, you
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  know, stuff like that, reach out.
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  You're into crypto or whatever, reach out and let's have that
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  conversation. So that's all for today pretty
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  much. So thank you very much for
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  listening. If you have sales and marketing
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  questions, bring them to me. Call SMS and WhatsApp me on
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  08064662140. Thank you very much for your
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  time and attention. I'll catch you, dear listener,
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  at the next episode.