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Business Ideas · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We've got a question for American Mamas. Dear Mamas, do
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  Speaker 1: you think it's a bad idea to trust people with
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  Speaker 1: your business ideas? Let's ask our American Mamas. And joining
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  Speaker 1: us now are American Mamas Terry Nutterville and Kimberly Burleson.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, don't you got to share some ideas with somebody.
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  Speaker 2: At some point? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to, but you just don't know if you're
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  Speaker 3: ever sharing it with somebody that will take it or not.
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  Speaker 3: Think about Mark Zuckerberg with Facebook. The two Winkleman twins
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  Speaker 3: went to him because he was an IT guy. And
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  Speaker 3: they said, can you write the code? Because we had
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  Speaker 3: this idea. So he takes it and he's writing it
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  Speaker 3: every week. They're like, what's an update? What's an update?
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  Speaker 2: He steals it.
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  Speaker 3: He takes it. He makes it his own. And because
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  Speaker 3: they're not IT guys, they don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 3: So it's gone. They ended up winning money later, but
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  Speaker 3: nothing like Mark Zuckerberg. It's like wrong person. IT people
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  Speaker 3: are always, you know, something about them already.
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  Speaker 2: They know too much.
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  Speaker 3: They're way too smart. But I myself, I trust I
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  Speaker 3: used to frequently be on a show, The Big Idea
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  Speaker 3: with Donnie Deutsch. And there was, I became really good
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  Speaker 3: friends with the producer and I had different ideas. I
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  Speaker 3: had show ideas. And so I went to New York
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  Speaker 3: to pitch this show idea and I really trusted him.
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  Speaker 3: He was a really good guy and I shared it.
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  Speaker 3: And next thing I know, I don't hear from him.
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  Speaker 3: And Joan Rivers is starring in my show that they
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  Speaker 3: were ahead and created my whole idea. And not only
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  Speaker 3: did they take my idea, but everybody that was in
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  Speaker 3: our magazine, was in the show. And the level of betrayal,
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  Speaker 3: but not just betrayal, I felt like an idiot.
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  Speaker 2: An idiot. Because I shared it.
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  Speaker 3: But if you don't share it, how does it get
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  Speaker 3: to the next level?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you've got to have.
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  Speaker 3: Some help at some point. So it's like, can you
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  Speaker 3: really protect yourself? I think about President Trump. I think
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  Speaker 3: President Trump is so transparent. He's always telling you what
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  Speaker 3: he wants to do. He's talking about it. I think
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  Speaker 3: to the public, we're kept... in the dark.
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  Speaker 2: But I think he talks a lot. And I think.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes it has hurt him because of his transparency. But
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, I love that about him. So
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  Speaker 3: what do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm reminded of a thing my pastor at church
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  Speaker 1: has said is there's two types of goals. There's go-up
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  Speaker 1: goals and there's give-up goals. So give-up goal, I want
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  Speaker 1: to give up drinking sodas. I want to give up
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  Speaker 1: smoking cigarettes. I want to give up alcohol. I want
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  Speaker 1: to give up these things. You tell everybody you can
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  Speaker 1: your give-up goals. Because then if somebody sees you drinking
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  Speaker 1: a Coke and you've told everybody your give-up goal, they'll
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  Speaker 1: hold you accountable for it. Tell everybody your give-up goals.
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  Speaker 1: Don't tell much of anybody your go-up goals. My go-up
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  Speaker 1: goals is I want to get a promotion. I want
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  Speaker 1: to start a new business. You know what? I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to get married. We're going to have kids. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to hold those go-up goals to a very small group
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  Speaker 1: because there are a lot of people that will say
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  Speaker 1: they'll try and tear you down on the go-up goals.
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  Speaker 1: So tell everybody about your give-up goals. But don't tell
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people about your go-up goals because
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  Speaker 1: they'll try and talk you out of it.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder how many people, because I remember during that
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  Speaker 2: time when Kimberly was betrayed, I wanted people to know
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  Speaker 2: that that was her idea. I wanted to out this
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  Speaker 2: producer that completely just took her idea and got credit
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  Speaker 2: for it. And you think, How many people out there,
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  Speaker 2: like the twins, yes, like those people who had ideas
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  Speaker 2: for books or if they had an idea that might
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  Speaker 2: change people's perceptions about whatever or built something, the Elon
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  Speaker 2: Musks of the world that had these wonderful brainchild ideas
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  Speaker 2: that somebody else took and now we're giving that person
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  Speaker 2: credit for what someone else actually told them. How many?
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm sure you're not the first. You're not the last.
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  Speaker 2: How many sitcoms? This is one of those things that
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  Speaker 2: you think, okay, like Kimberly said, who do you trust?
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  Speaker 1: But the other part is you've got to trust somebody
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  Speaker 1: at some point to do something. So in 1995, my
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  Speaker 1: brother and I had a soccer store in Austin. And
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  Speaker 1: I had an idea just working on that. We were
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  Speaker 1: trying to do stuff digital. We were creating one of
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  Speaker 1: the first online stores and all this. And I had
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  Speaker 1: this idea, and I called it Digital You Store It.
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  Speaker 1: So like you had all your hard drive was run
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  Speaker 1: out of space. You would need someplace online to go
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  Speaker 1: store your stuff and you can encrypt it. And so
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  Speaker 1: I had this idea, which is now it's Dropbox. It's,
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  Speaker 1: it's Google storage. I had the idea. I didn't tell
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  Speaker 1: anybody about it and I didn't do anything with it.
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  Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden it is actually part
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  Speaker 1: of the industry, but I had the idea in 1995.
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  Speaker 1: I had the idea. So if you don't actually do
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  Speaker 1: anything with the idea, then so what? Right.
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  Speaker 2: Dad, you said the same thing. I remember mom, um,
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  Speaker 2: said there should be some sort of way, instead of
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  Speaker 2: buttering the skillet, there should be a way that we
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  Speaker 2: can spray or we can use this thing. Well, she
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  Speaker 2: never told anybody. Yeah. And here comes Pam, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And then Kevin said, you know, we were on the
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  Speaker 2: plane one time years, decades ago. And he's like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there should be like this, like a closet made out
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  Speaker 2: of like cedar that you store in the house. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's everywhere. Yeah. So dad would say... You have an idea.
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  Speaker 2: Just make sure you know there are 20,000 people out
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  Speaker 2: there with that same idea, but one of you is
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  Speaker 2: going to actually pursue it and do something about it.
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  Speaker 1: And you may need to tell somebody about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: You just got to be careful who you tell. If
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  Speaker 1: the Mamas button. Terry Nedeville, Kimberly Burleson, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.