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Study Hall: HOW BLACK BUSINESSES CAN BE SUCCESSFUL · Earn Your Leisure

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Speaker 3: We got to introduce Kezia just a Domino.
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Speaker 4: It's crazy because since the last time that we we spoke,
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Speaker 4: Since the last time that we spoke, you had so
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Speaker 4: much stuff going on. You had you had the campaign
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Speaker 4: where it was my black was my black receipt, my
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Speaker 4: black receipt, and and that was all over.
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Speaker 3: That was on CNBC, that was on We Saw You CNN.
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Speaker 3: That was everything.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so let's talk about that. I want that's the
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Speaker 4: first thing. I want to talk about that, because that
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Speaker 4: really took off. And I'm not sure how much money.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure you can. I got some SATs, I got
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Speaker 4: some SATs. Yeah, you did five hundred k in three days.
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Speaker 4: Let's not let's in three days.
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Speaker 5: We did five million in three weeks and three weeks.
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Speaker 2: Here go to economics.
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Speaker 3: So what what was that? What exactly was that?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was such an amazing experience.
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Speaker 7: I think, like a lot of people out there, especially
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Speaker 7: black people, we were watching the civil unrest unfold for
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Speaker 7: yet another time across America, and during that time, people
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Speaker 7: were really asking the question what can we do, like,
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Speaker 7: how can we affect change so that George Floyd can
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Speaker 7: be the last name that we ever have to say
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Speaker 7: in relation to justice. And so I remember people saying
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Speaker 7: that maybe it looks like buying black. And though I
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Speaker 7: think that buying black is important, I think that there
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Speaker 7: are a lot of people on social media that will
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Speaker 7: promulgate the narrative of buying black, but we don't actually
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Speaker 7: know if they're putting their dollars in black businesses.
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Speaker 6: So I thought about it.
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Speaker 7: I said, what if we were to actually quantify the
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Speaker 7: by black movement?
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Speaker 6: And I called up.
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Speaker 7: One of my friends who is a tech person, and
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Speaker 7: I said, do you think that you could build something
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Speaker 7: kind of like Color of Change where people would buy black,
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Speaker 7: save their receipts, and upload it into a tech platform
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Speaker 7: and we could count the impact collectively. And so he
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Speaker 7: was like, yeah, I can totally build it. What's the
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Speaker 7: timeline like years, six months? And I was like no,
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Speaker 7: we got like four or five days, child, And I
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Speaker 7: was like, but it's okay, we can do and remember
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Speaker 7: faith this and sustance of things pro for and the
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Speaker 7: evidence of things not yet seen.
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Speaker 6: We can do it.
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Speaker 7: So he started building a tech platform and I recruited
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Speaker 7: a couple of other people to join us, Talent.
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Speaker 6: Graves, Men's Daryl Perkins, nineteen kids, who's also been on
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Speaker 6: your show.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, we decided to just launch it on June teenth
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Speaker 7: to see if people would put their receipt where their
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Speaker 7: protest was. I mean, we were tired of black people,
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Speaker 7: black men going into coffee shops and being treated like criminals,
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Speaker 7: black boys being wearing Monkey in the Jungle t shirts,
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Speaker 7: and people just protesting for fifteen or sixteen days. The
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Speaker 7: Montgomery bus boycott was for three hundred and eighty plus
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Speaker 7: consecutive days until we were able to exact the type
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Speaker 7: of change that we could feel generations later.
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Speaker 6: And so my black receipt was just really a reflection back.
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Speaker 2: So where are we at now with the.
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Speaker 6: We're in faith two?
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Speaker 2: Okay, there we go.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, what happened.
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Speaker 7: People were saying, okay, but I'm black for one day
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Speaker 7: is just not enough, and we have to remind people
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Speaker 7: that we did this for seventeen consecutive days. But what
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Speaker 7: we realized to the technology is after the seventeenth day happened,
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Speaker 7: people were still uploading the receipt, and so we decided
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Speaker 7: to strengthen the technology so that now when you upload
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Speaker 7: your receipt, you can see all of the other transactions
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Speaker 7: that you've made over time since June nineteenth. And then
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Speaker 7: also we've partnered in the corporate space, so Kroger reached out.
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Speaker 7: Kroger is super excited to work with us to increase
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Speaker 7: their minority supplier pipeline, so there could be more black
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Speaker 7: skws on shelves. We've had conversations with other corporations like
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Speaker 7: YOP so that we can help strengthen their algorithm around
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Speaker 7: finding black owned businesses. And there are a lot of
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Speaker 7: other tech companies that are just like, hey, we're not
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Speaker 7: doing this hard black thing right, so like how can
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Speaker 7: we do that with my black receipt?
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Speaker 6: And we're like, cut a check in.
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Speaker 3: We're there, cut a check that simple check.
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Speaker 4: It's that simple. It's that simple. Now you know your
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Speaker 4: your inspiration for for many, for many, many people. And
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Speaker 4: it's just like anytime we speak to how the energy just.
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Speaker 2: It's never to say I was just gonna say that. Man.
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Speaker 5: The reason I love speaking and watching you is because
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Speaker 5: the energy is always consistent. It's always consistent. From the
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Speaker 5: second we met you. It was just like I sat
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Speaker 5: there and all I'm like, yo, I just learned a lot.
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Speaker 5: I was my brain was hurting. I was like, yo,
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Speaker 5: that was a lot. And so we were just so
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Speaker 5: happy to have you and your episode episode fifty fifty eight.
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Speaker 5: If you haven't checked that episode fifty eight, shoty what they.
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Speaker 4: Do doing themselves a tremendous the service, But I wanted
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Speaker 4: to ask you a question before we before we let
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Speaker 4: the public.
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Speaker 3: Act you questions.
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Speaker 4: It's like we're in the age, like you said, as
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Speaker 4: far as you know, put your money where your mouth is,
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Speaker 4: put your push, your money where your protest is. I
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Speaker 4: like that, But how do we sustain that? Like, how
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Speaker 4: do we sustain everybody's talking about buying black right, buying
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Speaker 4: black right now, and economic empowerment and support black businesses.
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Speaker 4: But how is that something that we can sustain and
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Speaker 4: not just make it a fad, but make it ten years,
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Speaker 4: twenty years, one hundred year thing.
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Speaker 6: No, that's an.
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Speaker 7: Excellent question, because buying black shouldn't just be in a
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Speaker 7: response to a protest. So yeah, we can tell you
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Speaker 7: put your receipt where your protest is, but that should
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Speaker 7: be a continuation of what you were already doing. Buying
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Speaker 7: black should be habitual, And so let me just say
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Speaker 7: that one more time, Buying black should be habitual. At
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Speaker 7: the end of COVID nineteen, forty percent of black enterprises
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Speaker 7: are expected to close. But Black people spend one point
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Speaker 7: three trillion dollars annually. That is money that we're spending
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Speaker 7: on our clothes, on our shoes, those are that's money
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Speaker 7: that we're spending in our brokerage accounts. You know, I
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Speaker 7: watched market Mondays from time to time. That's money that
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Speaker 7: we're spending on our hair, on our lashes. So every
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Speaker 7: single time you think about making a purchase, the mentality
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Speaker 7: should always be how not buy it black owned? And
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Speaker 7: for those people who have had the excuse to say
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Speaker 7: I don't have a black owned business in my neighborhood,
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Speaker 7: at least for COVID if you needed a reason, A
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Speaker 7: lot of people are buying online. So when you have
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Speaker 7: websites like we by Black, when you have other enterprises
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Speaker 7: like those that have whole list of businesses all across
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Speaker 7: the country that do business and physical spaces will also
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Speaker 7: do business online, there is no excuse.
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Speaker 6: But also I think in order for.
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Speaker 7: Us to sustain the bi black movement, we have to
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Speaker 7: afford black entrepreneurs a measure of grace. So I know,
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Speaker 7: we're used to the whole Amazon you order at five
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Speaker 7: point thirty four and your package shows up at four
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Speaker 7: five thirty five PM just a minute later, because they got.
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Speaker 6: Logitus like that.
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Speaker 7: So for most entrepreneurs, they are working nine to five
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Speaker 7: and then they're coming home and they're building their businesses
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Speaker 7: six pm to midnight. These are entrepreneurs that are bootstrapping
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Speaker 7: their way to financial success. So when it comes down
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Speaker 7: to doing business with a black entrepreneur, we have to
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Speaker 7: make sure to level.
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Speaker 6: Sent our expit.
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Speaker 7: The other thing is Black entrepreneurs need to charge what
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Speaker 7: it's worth, and black customers need to pay exactly what
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Speaker 7: it costs. A lot of people are out here running
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Speaker 7: around here asking for friends and family discount.
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Speaker 6: Y'all ain't even related.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, talk to them, talk to them.
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Speaker 6: Like, breathe it on. People.
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Speaker 7: Give you the CODs, all of that money that you're saving,
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Speaker 7: take that and put it into a black enterprise right now.
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Speaker 7: Perhaps black entrepreneurs won't feel like they have to beg
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Speaker 7: barl and steal just for a dollar. If we say first,
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Speaker 7: every single time we make a purchase, how can we
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Speaker 7: recycle our dollar and be black with our dollar in common.
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Speaker 6: With our sins.
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Speaker 2: I mean this is this is a powerhouse. This is
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Speaker 2: a powerhouse.
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Speaker 3: Asking for friends and family discount, man, I said plate.
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Speaker 5: Cousin, Nah, I can't give it to you. I can't
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Speaker 5: give it to you up at the barbecue. If it's real,
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Speaker 5: we go into the book, my guy, my guy, this
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Speaker 5: is my boy right here, darreus.
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Speaker 2: What's going on? I'm to sell you been, I'm muted?
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Speaker 2: Have you there be right there?
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Speaker 3: What's up, bro?
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Speaker 8: What's really going down?
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Speaker 9: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: What's good?
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Speaker 6: Uh?
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Speaker 8: Queen my black receipt that's historical right there, that's historically.
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Speaker 2: That's his story.
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Speaker 8: She really, she really with with that, with that, with that,
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Speaker 8: that idea out there really showed, you know, not only
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Speaker 8: entrepreneurs but also consumers that, hey, spending money with my people.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong with me spending money with my people.
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Speaker 6: M absolutely, yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 3: Real talk.
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Speaker 8: I don't have to be scared to spend money with
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Speaker 8: my people.
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Speaker 6: No, it should be a badge of honor.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, it should be second nature.
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Speaker 6: Come on now, come on now, let me get off
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Speaker 6: in plate. It should be saying nature straight up.
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Speaker 2: I guess, I guess.
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Speaker 10: Uh.
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Speaker 8: I don't really have no question. I don't really had
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Speaker 8: no question. I actually had a question from from my
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Speaker 8: BC brother. But me and me and me and me
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Speaker 8: and kazill With we're friends on Facebook. So I see
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Speaker 8: all of her posts.
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Speaker 2: Listen, you've been following Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I see
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Speaker 2: I see all her posts. I don't don't.
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Speaker 8: I don't, I don't miss nothing.
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Speaker 2: She drops. Thank you so.
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Speaker 6: Much for the love. I really appreciate it.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, what so what what are the plans? So is
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Speaker 8: there is there an idea or concept, uh to take
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Speaker 8: my Black receipt to a to another level?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, And I want to reiterate that we're partnering with corporations,
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Speaker 7: that we're strengthening our technology. Our goal is not to
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Speaker 7: make it so difficult to hold on to a receipt,
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Speaker 7: take a picture and uploaded. But how can we build
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Speaker 7: the type of software where when you buy Black, we
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Speaker 7: can automatically record the purchase. So we want to make
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Speaker 7: sure that at the end of the year, at the
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Speaker 7: end of the month, really at the end of the week,
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Speaker 2: What's up?
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Speaker 7: You can figure out what percentage of purchases we're actually
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Speaker 7: spent in black owne in a bread.
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Speaker 8: That makes sense. That well, that really shouldn't be too
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Speaker 8: easy because in my business I have I have an
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Speaker 8: app that I use to take pictures of my receipts
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Speaker 8: to keep track of my taxes.
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Speaker 6: So you know, kind of like a quick book. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: something something like that. So we're cooking up something, We're
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Speaker 6: not sitting on our hands.
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Speaker 2: The chef ag gonna give away the recipe.
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Speaker 5: Yeah around, yo, love bro, We're gonna see We're gonna
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Speaker 5: see you on breaking bread. We're gonna see you in
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Speaker 5: the book club. Obviously, always love bro, Appreciate you.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I love it, love it. Let's let's go,
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Speaker 11: let's go to I'm gonna say this, Lenia. Hopefully I
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Speaker 11: got that right, Lenia, what's going on? They told me
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Speaker 11: to trust my instinct when I'm saying these names. That's it, right, Damn,
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Speaker 11: It's okay.
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Speaker 6: It's okay. I love you guys too.
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Speaker 12: So first I want to say, I'm so thankful that
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Speaker 12: I found you guys, because this COVID put me through
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Speaker 12: a real bad depression and it.
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Speaker 6: Just helped me. It made me take faith I brought up.
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Speaker 6: I'm so nervous. I can't believe that I'm talking to
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Speaker 6: you guys. Sorry, what you guys, what you guys doing
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Speaker 6: is so helpful for me.
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Speaker 12: I'm a black entrepreneur, I'm a procrastinator. So this COVID
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Speaker 12: had made me open my eyes and stopped procrastinating and
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Speaker 12: realizing that I could have done so much. But then
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Speaker 12: the times, you know, fear as you guys have stayed
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Speaker 12: in earlier, stopped me. So I first time purchasing stops
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Speaker 12: just listening to the podcast when I feel like I'm
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Speaker 12: wasting time, when I'm on the bus or the train,
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Speaker 12: I'm on the podcast, listening to the podcast, taking down notes.
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Speaker 12: I just know the end of this year is something
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Speaker 12: great is going to happen because I have so much
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Speaker 12: information and knowledge due to you brothers and everybody else
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Speaker 12: that's on the podcast. So may God continue to protect
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Speaker 12: you and bless you and thank you. Uh you know,
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Speaker 12: I'm just having issues logging in, but I know that's
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Speaker 12: going to be fixed, and I'm just so excited to learn,
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Speaker 12: just to learn. I purchased so much information doing this COVID,
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Speaker 12: and thank God for the codes that you guys have
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Speaker 12: been giving out, like the BUDGETNISA. You guys so I
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Speaker 12: know I'm in great hands. So I just wanted to
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Speaker 12: say thank you.
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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, thank you man.
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Speaker 2: Ye shout the Tiffany man. She's amazing too.
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Speaker 4: Appreciate it, appreciate it. Thank you for your support. And
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Speaker 4: we have to talk about that too. Mental health is
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Speaker 4: a real situation in our community right now, so make
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Speaker 4: sure you check on your neighbors, check on your friends,
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Speaker 4: check with your family members, show some compassion because you
16:30
Speaker 4: never know what somebody's going through. It's difficult times right now,
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Speaker 4: being isolated, especially for children not going to school with
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Speaker 4: their counterparts, not being able to play sports a lot
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Speaker 4: of times, so you know that that that toll is
16:42
Speaker 4: is draining and you know, to be by yourself all day.
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Speaker 4: So in the midst of you know, this is an
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Speaker 4: entrepreneur show, but all of that goes in the part
16:50
Speaker 4: as far as you can't be you can't you can't
16:52
Speaker 4: be successful in business if you're not mentally sharp, if
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Speaker 4: you're not physically sharp. So we need to we need
16:57
Speaker 4: to eat good, we need to you know, we need
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Speaker 4: to work out, and we need to socialize, and we
17:03
Speaker 4: need to make sure that you know, these these are
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Speaker 4: trying times that we're in not just financially, but mentally,
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Speaker 4: and we have to, like I said, we have to
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Speaker 4: be compassionate with each other and we have to really
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Speaker 4: take that into consideration before you, before you snap on somebody,
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Speaker 4: or before you go off on somebody, just consider what
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Speaker 4: they might have went through.
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Speaker 13: You never know what's what somebody's going through. And no
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Speaker 13: one is exempt, and I want to make that very clear.
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Speaker 13: No one's exempt from going through these type of situations.
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Speaker 13: No one's exempt from depression, no one's exempt from anxiety.
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Speaker 13: That's what comes with being in the state that we're
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Speaker 13: in right now, especially as a country. So we always
17:35
Speaker 13: employ you to reach out, text someone, call someone, go
17:39
Speaker 13: through your contact list.
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Speaker 5: You never know what one conversation you can do. Man,
17:43
Speaker 5: I've seen it happen so many times. With just one
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Speaker 5: conversation letting somebody know that you're thinking about them, it
17:48
Speaker 5: could change everything, could change their life.
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Speaker 2: So we employ you to do that for sure.
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Speaker 3: Sure, So let's let's get let's get a few more questions.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Johnathan, were coming to you?
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Speaker 2: What's going on? Johnathan? Im mute yourself, you've been unmuted.
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Speaker 8: What's going on?
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Speaker 3: What's going on?
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Speaker 8: You guys can hear me here.
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Speaker 3: You guys can hear me.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, you clear, perfect, perfect, No, man, appreciate you guys
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Speaker 9: taking my questions today are but before I is a question,
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Speaker 9: I just want to say, you know, I appreciate you guys.
18:21
Speaker 9: You know you guys have I got my r A
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Speaker 9: A count, I got my independent of Broodge account. I'm
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Speaker 9: investing into options. I'm also investing into stocks long term. Also,
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Speaker 9: I'm a license in the show contract. I invested into
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Speaker 9: real estate.
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Speaker 4: So qu Queens of Brooklyn, Queens of Brooklyn, Huh you're
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Speaker 4: from Queens?
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Speaker 3: Are you from Brooklyn? Hollo o?
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Speaker 12: No.
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Speaker 9: So I really appreciate you guys. And it's crazy because
18:56
Speaker 9: I was procrastinated to get to join me. Why you
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Speaker 9: know that episode that you guys drive with D Dash.
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Speaker 9: Once you guys hit that fifty, I'm like, oh, man,
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Speaker 9: I gotta get Now is the time for me to
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Speaker 9: get it?
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Speaker 6: Like I've been procrastive.
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Speaker 9: I was procrassat it you guys one time back down
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Speaker 9: to thirty percent, I'm like, oh, once you got to
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Speaker 9: the back drop with D Dash, I was like, man, man,
19:20
Speaker 9: And That's.
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Speaker 8: How I'm feeling right now, you know, Like I'm.
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Speaker 9: Coming from Jersey. I just made over three thousand dollars
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Speaker 9: on a small job for somebody contracting.
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Speaker 4: So I'm doing the.
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Speaker 9: Backdrop while driving back to Harllan right now.
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Speaker 3: So call them get the money. What's your question, bro, Well,
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Speaker 3: the question for the queen is you know how?
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Speaker 9: You know how when you find yourself coming up with
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Speaker 9: this idea?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 9: And what precision were you at that moment when you
19:47
Speaker 9: came up with this idea?
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Speaker 12: And uh and.
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Speaker 9: What versity were you facing at the time before you
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Speaker 9: came up with this great idea?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I appreciate that. I just want to also send
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Speaker 7: my flowers to Leney. I think what she just did,
20:05
Speaker 7: what she just admitted, was so brave, right, And I
20:09
Speaker 7: think as as a Phillips said that we are going
20:12
Speaker 7: through a lot during this time, especially extroverts like like
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Speaker 7: me who were at hohone by themselves just trying to
20:19
Speaker 7: figure out not how to talk to the walls. But
20:21
Speaker 7: one of the things that I did pick out from
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Speaker 7: what Renee said is that she was scared. And what
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Speaker 7: I like to tell entrepreneurs innovators alike is that if
20:27
Speaker 7: you're scared to do it, do it scared. And that's
20:30
Speaker 7: exactly what you did when you joined eyl University, when
20:33
Speaker 7: you took a chance on Rashad and Troy, you invested
20:36
Speaker 7: in yourself and they maximize your return. So I definitely
20:39
Speaker 7: want to give you your flowers.
20:40
Speaker 6: There.
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Speaker 7: You asked what adversity was I going through during the time.
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Speaker 7: I had this long story, But guys, I promised, I'm
20:47
Speaker 7: gonna I'm gonna compartmentalize it, know, like.
20:50
Speaker 6: What drove me to black upstart.
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Speaker 7: But I was taught that the definition of success is
20:56
Speaker 7: you go to high school, you get a diploma, you
20:58
Speaker 7: go to college, you get a degree, and then you
20:59
Speaker 7: get a good government job with benefits. And I did
21:03
Speaker 7: exactly that. I followed the blueprint to a tee. But
21:06
Speaker 7: then I realized in the workplace that even though I
21:09
Speaker 7: was working twice as hard, even though I felt like
21:12
Speaker 7: I was twice as smart, I was still being paid
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Speaker 7: in separate but unequal paycheck. I was demoted three consecutive
21:19
Speaker 7: times by a white woman who could not believe that
21:21
Speaker 7: a woman without an advanced degree could get promoted five
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Speaker 7: times over six years. And so after the third demotion,
21:29
Speaker 7: I just made up my mind to say that I
21:33
Speaker 7: wanted to create my own economic opportunity in life, and
21:37
Speaker 7: so I quit without having another job lined up, and
21:41
Speaker 7: I promised myself that I would never let another hand
21:45
Speaker 7: feed me, that my nine to five would always be
21:48
Speaker 7: one of several streams of income. It was during that
21:51
Speaker 7: time that I read the troubling statistic that black women
21:54
Speaker 7: would lose eight hundred and forty thousand dollars over their career,
21:58
Speaker 7: not because they're not working twice as hard, not because
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Speaker 7: they're not twice as smart, not because they're not twice
22:02
Speaker 7: as good, but simply because they're black and because they're women.
22:05
Speaker 7: And so black women like me who are out here
22:07
Speaker 7: creating enterprises aren't trying to be the next Black Bill Gates,
22:11
Speaker 7: are not trying to be the next black Mark Zuckerberg.
22:13
Speaker 7: We're just trying to make sure that we pay ourselves
22:16
Speaker 7: exactly what we're worth. And so for black ups start,
22:20
Speaker 7: I started to train black entrepreneurs like me not just
22:23
Speaker 7: to start enterprises, but just start the type of enterprises
22:26
Speaker 7: that create jobs, so we wouldn't have to go begging
22:29
Speaker 7: other people for promotions, begging other people for opportunities, begging
22:32
Speaker 7: other people for paychecks that we could create and sign ourselves,
22:36
Speaker 7: so we were could be just like Troy and somebody
22:38
Speaker 7: tells us that we have to pull up on a Tuesday, and.
22:40
Speaker 6: We could be like, Nah, bro bros are set up.
22:46
Speaker 5: I want I want to I want to correct one
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Speaker 5: thing you said that you quit in the words of
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Speaker 5: nineteen Keys, you fired your job.
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Speaker 2: They can fire your job. They could, they could no
22:56
Speaker 2: longer afford you.
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Speaker 3: Speak heavy speak heavy. Now. It's been a pleasure. It's
22:59
Speaker 3: been a pleasure.
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Speaker 4: What what Episode fifty eight, fifty eight, Episode fifty eight.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna be doing a bunch of more stuff in
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Speaker 4: the future, So thank you for joining us. Thank you
23:12
Speaker 4: for being a part of our journey. Nah, we we
23:15
Speaker 4: greatly appreciate it. We look we look forward to doing
23:17
Speaker 4: a bunch of more stuff together in the future.
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Speaker 2: That's right, That's right, all right, Guy Williams. Always love,
23:29
Speaker 2: Thank you, peace.
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Speaker 8: My graduates from my school being force back and drop bags,
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Speaker 8: drop Mike, drop.
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Speaker 3: Back, drop b drop.
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