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Building a Legacy with Wanda and Dennis Pearson on Faith, Family, and Legal Empowerment · Ready Set Collaborate with Wanda Pearson

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Ready Set Collaborate podcast with Rhonda Pearson, where we will dive deep into the world of networking, collaboration and partnership, unlocking the secrets to a successful team working within innovation.
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Whether you're an entrepreneur, a creative professional or just someone eager to understand the power of networking and collaboration, this podcast is your go-to resource.
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• 0:42
  Speaker 2: Tune in to Ready.
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  Speaker 1: Set Collaborate podcast on a journey towards achieving your goals with host Wanda Pearson.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Ready Set Collaborate with Wanda Pearson.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: We have a special edition today the Art of Relationship and we'll be celebrating 43 years of marriage with Wanda and Dennis Pearson.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: So you may be asking who am I?
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  Speaker 1: I am known as the operator connecting small business owners to the resources and relationships they need in order to propagate more revenue, which allows them to relax a little bit.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: I have the pleasure today of actually interviewing and talking to Wanda and dear Dennis Pearson to talk about business, marriage and all of the ooky stuff in between.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: So, first and foremost, wanda, if you'll go introduce yourself, tell us who you are, what you do and why do they care.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: Why should they care?
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  Speaker 3: Hi audience.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I'm on the other side of this now.
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  Speaker 3: Now I got Dr Stacey interviewing us here.
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  Speaker 3: So my name is Wanda Pearson.
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  Speaker 3: I retired after IBM after 36 years and I've always been an avid social worker.
• 2:04
  Speaker 3: So I got in the community to really help people.
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: So I wanted to make sure that I got out there and start engaging with other entrepreneurs and that's why I started doing networking after I retired.
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: After I retired, of course, our business was a legal shield.
• 2:19
  Speaker 3: I got into that.
• 2:20
  Speaker 3: I had something to get into.
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: But also I am a podcaster, which is why we're on this show, Ready Set, Collaborate, and I wanted to do this because I wanted to bring entrepreneurs together to actually educate, empower each of us on the different experts that I've been bringing on this show.
• 2:39
  Speaker 3: So I've been doing that.
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: And then I created my WD Pearson Associates, which is my brand, which is where my podcast is on, as well as my books that I've created that I'm actually two part collaboration books I'd ask you to shine and impact them voice and then my own book, God's Grace Through the Fire, from Struggle to Triumph.
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: So God has just been taking me on this journey and I'm just waiting for him to take me more to where I'm supposed to go to take me more to where I'm supposed to go, absolutely, absolutely.
• 3:06
  Speaker 1: And I can say I was graced to meet you through we Rock Nation and have worked with you, met you in person at networking and brunch, and you've been a supporter of mine ever since we've met, and so I really appreciate the support online as well as offline, and the opportunities that you've given me to be part of your brand, of course Of course You're my doctor you as offline and the opportunities that you've given me to be part of your brand.
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: Of course, of course You're my doctor girl.
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  Speaker 1: So, Dennis, who are you?
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: And I know that you recently retired, right when did you retire from?
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: And then you're doing business together as well and you're leading up that business.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us a little bit about that business and how that's feeling right now, after retirement.
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: All right, my name is Dennis Pearson.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Wanda's other half.
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: Basically, I started out as an entrepreneur early on.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: I had a printing business back in New Jersey for 25 years and when IBM gave the call to move to Georgia, I said, okay, I can always get a job with FedEx Office, being I had the printing background.
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what I did.
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: We came out and so I got a job with FedEx Office and just recently had the opportunity to retire from FedEx office about three years ago and wanted to go ahead and join forces with Wanda, being that she had taken over with the legal shield business.
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: We were doing it part-time all along until she retired after 36 years with IBM.
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: Here we are now.
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  Speaker 2: We're working together.
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  Speaker 2: She basically brings to the table the expertise of being in corporate for over 36 years and my background being an entrepreneur in terms of hands-on, so we bring in a combination of talent to the table.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: Fabulous, fabulous.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about this.
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  Speaker 1: So this business is LegalShield that you're working together.
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  Speaker 1: So, Wanda, tell me a little bit about LegalShield and why you chose that as an opportunity to move forward in when there were so many other avenues you could have taken.
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: Actually, when we joined the New Jersey, I told Dennis he was in this printing business, I was in IBM, I was with IBM and I just thought the guy who actually was our sponsor.
• 5:30
  Speaker 3: I said this is a good business to get into because it was something that we can help our families and friends.
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: Of course, some of those don't.
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: They don't believe you at that time until they get in trouble.
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: So yeah, so I thought it was a good opportunity to have that and then with my social work in me, I like to help people.
• 5:49
  Speaker 3: Legal Shield is something that it was great, because you know how we say I'm going to call my attorney on you and no one, we ain't got no attorney.
• 5:58
  Speaker 3: So I thought Legal Shield was affordable because it offers us to be able to pick up a phone and call the law office not just one attorney, the whole law office in all 50 states, no matter where you are to be able to talk and get that advice and consultation.
• 6:11
  Speaker 3: To be able to review documents, because when you're renting the house and you're owning the house or you're renting a landlord or whatever you need to make sure that that lawyer reviews that information.
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: But the biggest thing is making sure they get their wills done.
• 6:23
  Speaker 3: That's what gave me my passion to get out there in the community, because COVID happened later on and I said people I had this one lady say I'm not going to die soon.
• 6:32
  Speaker 3: Covid happened and it was a lot of people that died that did not have their I call it legal love letter and I should have really branded that they did not have me and Angie Sims.
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: They don't have their legal love letter, which means their wills, their estate planning.
• 6:46
  Speaker 3: So that was something that made me get out there more to start talking about that and helping people to get their legacy protected with the will, their estate planning, and it was just something that I thought that everybody needed.
• 6:58
  Speaker 3: So you may not be able to afford it, but with us, with the legal shield we say it's only a dollar a day.
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  Speaker 3: It protects you and your family, so it has so many more benefits that it actually has that can help.
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: And also, when you I don't know if you ever got a speeding ticket, but a speeding ticket they can go to court for you, so without charging that extra cost.
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: So that was something that brought me into doing getting full time with with LegalShield and letting people know about our services and it was just so much more not just a family, but also small businesses, also commercial drivers.
• 7:31
  Speaker 3: It's so many services that we have really seen blossom with LegalShield that they have actually brought out more benefits for everybody that actually can see the value of our services.
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I can say on both sides of that.
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: So I have also been a member and sharing LegalShield with others, and so that's another area where we crossed and have strong values behind together own and had an incident in Atlanta with their apartment complex and LegalShield was able to help me get them out of their lease so that they felt comfortable with that experience.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: So that was good as well, as LegalShield is who I use to start up my small business and get it all incorporated, and it was just a few simple questions that I had to answer and they were able to take care of the rest.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: I was grateful for that.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, so now, dennis, after retirement and after taking a small woosah, you decided to pick up with the LegalShield and really become more of the font face as she moves with her own business, and you've been doing the presentations and talking to the people.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: Tell me your feelings about LegalShield and why you said and decided now's the time for me to step up and to really show up and to get out here and educate these middle-income families.
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, what I really saw was the actual need for the service and the membership and it was a way that I could give back to the community to become more involved.
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: And then, after reviewing the benefits and everything, it seemed to be affordable, because in most cases, who has a savings account to be able to hire an attorney to pay $300 to $400 an hour?
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: With being able to hire an attorney to pay $300 to $400 an hour, so, being that legal shield is available for less than a dollar a day up to a family of I think we signed one up of 10.
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: So it was a great opportunity to get out and spread the word.
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: With that, and then having the background with working with small business, being an entrepreneur, we were able to connect and collaborate to that fashion.
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: So I've been able to establish things with a number of the organizations, like the Kennesaw Business Association, marietta Business Association, and so we're working, collaborating, networking to that facility.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, Absolutely Put her skills to the test right.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: You hold it down and then send her in with the network because she's absolutely fabulous at that.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: People love her, her energy enters into the room before she gets there and then that causes people to listen to what she has to say, which has been fabulous to say, which has been fabulous.
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, now let's take this back because, as you said, you were working corporate, wanda, and Dennis was already an entrepreneur during the times where it was not as customary to be in entrepreneurship.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: That was already something.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: So, wanda, what was it like for you to be in corporate and to have him in an industry that was not like?
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: You had to know what you were doing.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: You had to figure it out as you went along the way.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: There was no guidebook, there was no membership course to show you how to do it.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: So how was it for you to work in corporate and for him to work in entrepreneurship?
• 11:08
  Speaker 3: It was tough because he was a salesperson.
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: I was not the salesperson, so I used my personality with that and I was like, especially when I started getting more full-time with LegalShield, but the good thing about it, about me having that corporate background and me being a team leader, me being an educator, and it was something that brought it all in to be working in entrepreneurship.
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: But I tell you, stacey, I had to actually join BNI because I had to learn how to network.
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: How do you network?
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  Speaker 3: How do you get out here to talk to people, to be that entrepreneur.
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: And it was I'm going to say it's not hard, because I guess my personality really showed my passion of what I wanted to do out there.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: So it really was something that I had to learn the right way to be able to be that entrepreneur.
• 11:53
  Speaker 3: And then also creating my own brand, because Adeline, rerock and Angie they're good girlfriends.
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: They said, wanda, you got to get your own brand.
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  Speaker 3: I said, why don't I need my own brand?
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: I got LegalShield but I realized that I needed to get more of myself because they said LegalShield may not be around.
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  Speaker 3: So I said what needed to get more of myself?
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  Speaker 3: Because they said, niggas, you may not be around, so you need to.
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: I said what do you mean?
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: Niggas should not be.
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: So I had to learn and get over that and I'm so glad that I actually took that step to be that my own brand, wd Pearson Associates, but also to create other things, which is what I'm doing now the podcasting and my books, also coaching and consulting people, because during that time I had to help people to be able to people who wanted to get their businesses started.
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: I had to help them, consult them, to say what do you want to do with your life?
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  Speaker 3: There's so many people that were afraid Listen, I gave up a lot of money leaving corporate to leave and say I'm not getting that money anymore.
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  Speaker 3: But I had to help people who wanted to do that, especially with COVID.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people lost their jobs.
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  Speaker 3: So I was there to actually coach them and consult them and say what is your passion, what do you want to do?
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: And there were so many people that thought about it yeah, I don't want to go back to nine to five.
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: So that was something that made me happy to help them get their businesses established, to get it set up the right way with our services, with LegalShield and to get their LLCs.
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: I helped a lot of people get their LLCs, so that was something that was near and dear to my heart, that I wanted to continue to do, and WD Pearson Associates actually helped me do that and bring it in our services to help them get legally successfully set up and financially set up the right way.
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: Fabulous.
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  Speaker 1: And then, dennis, you were in entrepreneurship, so you understood the struggles.
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  Speaker 1: You've known that all the way through.
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  Speaker 1: You know what it's like to go month to month, week to week and even day to day, and on that side of it, not knowing whether there was going to be new business coming in right.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: This is not a consistent thing.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: Having to figure out contracts when you could so then shifting into corporate.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: You had that moment of corporate, corporate and then now back to entrepreneurship throughout these 40 years, speaking from a male perspective, because most of our audience is women.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: But we also know that what we're working with is that partner, is that husband that may or may not be supportive as we go through our journey.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: So if you could speak a little to the men out there or to women about the perspective of how do you nurture your marriage or relationship as you're going through these shifts, it's like a six-gear manual shift here corporate to entrepreneurship and then entrepreneurship to corporate to entrepreneurship.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: So talk a little bit from a male perspective what it's been like to go through the years and how you have come out strong and obviously you're the calm, cool, collective one that keeps things on the neutral path.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: So talk to us a little bit.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: Definitely, being and speaking from the male perspective, it's definitely a journey that's put out in front of you and I think the basis is your belief level in God.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: You've got to step out on faith and so that'll help you carry everything forward.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: You can say you want to do His will, and knowing that you can do all things through Christ Jesus, it makes a big difference.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: So with that background, growing up as a young gentleman was instilled in me at an early age made a world of a difference and then being blessed with a partner like Wanda, that makes things happen.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: So that's really the foundation.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: We've got a thing where we've been going on 43 years.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: It's been.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: We always say time flies when you're having fun and it doesn't seem like it's been 43, but it has, yeah.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: So we're basically keeping faith first and working together and striving to build a legacy for the grandchildren.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: We're up to six now, so we got to six grandkids four girls and two boys and so we're happy with a cool half dozen at this point.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's it.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: No more grandkids, because both of them do not have any more kids, so I'm glad they stopped at six and not have any more kids, so I'm glad they stopped at six.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: But let's talk briefly, wanda, about mothering, because some people would say, when you were in corporate, you were fine, you were doing good, and that's where they desire to be, and you opted to shift into entrepreneurship.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: How you find it more difficult because now you had to spend more time in creating your own foundation.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: It wasn't actually my daughters looked up to me because I was listen, I grew up abusive with my stepfather but thank God I had a good father and a good mother and stepmother.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: But I wanted my daughters to be able to be leaders, not followers.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: When I was with IBM, I used to travel a lot and the good thing about it when Dennis having his own business we had we worked together so we went to.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: If I couldn't go to the school for meetings for the school, dennis would go to the school or he would have our youngest daughter would go to office with him when he had his own business.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: So the good thing about it is that we have an entrepreneur family that we've created Our daughters both our youngest one she's the one that creates our she's my website designer, her and her husband, and she's our artist, so she creates all my flyers for my podcast.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: But our other daughter, she's actually interior design.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: So the young one would always go to office and I realized on and actually in our marketing series she said I used to go to office with daddy and he had me do publisher, so she was learning that from a little girl and learning the art from my father.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: So it was really great to see them.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: And what's really great Stacey is about is that when I get a mother's day card or a Christmas card, my youngest daughter and both, both our daughters what she says about me that she's really proud to have me as as a mom because she's learned a lot from me.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: So not only that, that, we were actually into our own businesses.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: One thing I did when I did come home I always did kids.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I always did things with our kids.
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  Speaker 3: Even now, our youngest daughter we actually have a monthly, a quarterly thing where we go to see plays and we go to the movie and my older daughter she actually comes and does.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: If I had, like my book launch, she came here and created a space as far as the decorations and stuff.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: That entrepreneurship in our family, including our 19-year-old grandson he's an entrepreneur.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: It's just a blessing to see how far we've come and what we've taught our kids and it's coming through them to say we're leaving a legacy and that legacy is actually to follow behind our steps as far as what we're doing.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Did I answer your question?
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Yes, you did.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Yes, you did.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: And that's great, in setting the example and you understood where you wanted them to go and then you were the example of that for them to follow.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: So that's fabulous.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: And so I'm going to ask this question, and I'll start with Dennis first.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Is so, out of the 43 years?
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: For again, we're trying to breathe into the women that are out there saying I don't know if I want to be in corporate or if I want to be in business for myself, I don't know if I want to support somebody else as the core at home while they go out and do.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Some may say their own thing, but really that thing is for the family thing, but really that thing is for the family.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: So, dennis, out of 43 years, what are some of the things that you can say or give as advice to either side about how to make it?
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: We know marriages, most marriages, don't last period past the seven mark.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: So you are really in rare air, and I know that your faith has carried you, but there have to be some other things that have come into play throughout 43 years for you all to be where you are now.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Dennis, Most definitely One.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I think we put together what we call the four Cs.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: See we think alike.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, mention the four Cs.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell them this yeah, you just made me forget it right here.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: First communication, I think definitely cooperation.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Then we want to have much consideration and we'll let Juan in and say what was the fourth key it was commitment, the commitment, commitment and compromise Compromise.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: So yeah, so that'll give you basically a foundation, because that's what you need in every relationship.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Just like when you start and you want to build a home, you got to build a foundation first, otherwise the home won't stand, and so I saw that as having a strong foundation that would last and that we had from our parents was handed down for us to establish a great relationship and build a foundation Makes a world of a distance I mean a difference.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: It'll make you go the distance without a doubt.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, our parents Stacey were married.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Dennis' parents were married what?
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: 50, 50, 50, over 50 years, and my parents were married over 50 years.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: My dad and my stepmom were married.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: I called my mom married over 50 years and the good thing about it is that we see our daughters doing the same thing where they're married now 11 years and 15 years kids to say this is what you want to do.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: But I always said with Dennis I wanted to be, I wanted to have a husband like my father, and my father was that salesperson.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: He was actually caring and considerate and when I did go out of town and you can say this he never got jealous of if I did better than him.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: As far as me, in corporate and he had his own business.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: He never had that when you're making more money, it was never that and that really makes a big difference in a marriage, because that happens.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: It does All right.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: So I'm going to shift back, dennis.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Where are you going from here?
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Legal Shield and you've stepped up, so what are your hopes and dreams?
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: That you know in talking to the audience about where you're moving forward, because I've been hearing about you making moves.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: So yeah, in the background.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: She's been bragging on you.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so basically, what we want to do is we're going to go forward and help build with LegalShield.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: There's had a lot of great opportunities to meet a lot of successful people in the industry.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Network marketing is a great opportunity to meet a lot of successful people in the industry.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Network marketing is a great opportunity to build your legacy.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: So we wanted to join forces and to make that happen, because there's a number of different areas within LegalShield that you can build a team.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: You can help families, you can go to corporations and provide it as an employee benefit.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: So there's a wheel of opportunity with LegalShield and I just want us to come together and we're going to focus on which would be our strong points and let's move on that.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: And we've been enjoying some of the benefits of working towards that, because we're just from Jamaica.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: We have the Andrew trip and we enjoy that, and we're in the Maui 2022, which is great, and I told one.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I said it's one of the best vacations we ever had.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: When it's all paid for, it makes a big difference.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: So we're gonna strive and try to make that happen yeah, yeah, he is a salesman on the side.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I'm over here educating, giving us the features and benefits and perks and everything.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I get it, I get it, I love it, I love it.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Knee smooth with it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Wanda on your side of your actual business.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: You established this podcast and you've been running and moving and blowing with it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Ready set, collaborate.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: You're in rooms online and offline.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: So with your business, wanda Pearson and Associates where are you moving from here?
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I'm moving to become more of a speaker out there, doing more speaking and letting people know, not just about coaching and consulting, but letting people know that they can do.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Letting people know that they can do.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Listen, I grew up in Chicago in the ghetto, and when you have somebody tell you you're not going to be nothing.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I wanted to let people know especially women.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: I just when people's self-esteem and confidence is taken away I want to speak more about that that you can do this.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: You don't let anybody take away your joy, and I always used to tell my mother when she was she was sick mom, don't let nobody take away your joy.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: And that's something that I want to do more of speaking, to get out there and let people know that you can do this.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: I never thought a little girl from Chicago would be what I'm doing now as far as writing a book, being an author, doing a podcast, doing Legal Shield, being out there in the community and just really showing that it is possible.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: So I want to build that up more and be more and get paid for it.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, god, I know you're going to work this out for me here, but no, whatever he wants me to do is where I've been.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Actually, his plans, I'm going to tell you, stacey, my favorite verse has been Jeremiah 29, 11.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: That's when I left IBM.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: I stood on that.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: He has plans for you.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: So I want people to know he has plans for everybody to be able to succeed and be something more than they don't think they are.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: So, speaking about that and helping to build my brand, my business, and also being out there and doing more of my podcast Because my podcast is actually it's great.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I had you on there because there's so many experts in different industries that can help you teach you.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: So I'm learning from you all.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: So it's just a great thing.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, it's just it's more to come.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: And then I'm wondering I said, okay, now he's a guy, just put something out.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: I'm writing another book.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Am I writing another book?
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I ain't put that in my plan, but you never know.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: You never know.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: That's right, and you have continuously poured into me and told me those same things that you want to get out to the rest of the world about being able to do it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: And there's more inside of me that is out there for people to experience, and so I appreciate your support.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: And so tell the people if they need LegalShield services or they're considering.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: They just need a consultation to talk to you about what all is available, because it's such a vast array of services, including identity theft, which has become a great factor as well.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Tell people where they can get more information about that or find you with that.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Yes, they can actually get in touch with us.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: I really, because that's where my consulting.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: I don't want them just to go on the website.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I want to talk to them and see exactly what they need.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Give me a, call me and Dennis will call.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: My number is 678-761-5781.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: And Dennis is 770-286-8779.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: But our website is Dennis Pearson.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: D-e-n-i-s-p-e-a-r-s-o-n.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Dot.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Legalshieldassociate, not with a S.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: They changed the website.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Now, stacey, I tell you so it's DennisPearsonLegalShieldAssociatescom.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Or send me an email at Wanda Pearson.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: My name W-A-N-D-A-P-E-A-R-S-O-N.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: At A-T-T dot net and also my, my brand, wanda.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: At WD Pearson Associates dot com.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: You can actually reach me on there.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: You can see exactly what I'm doing as far as with the WD Pearson Associates.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: It has everything on there with our books and also my podcast, and if you would like to be a guest on the podcast, let me know.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Dennis, you've trained her well.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Oh things have worked out beautifully.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: So it's definitely been my joy to be in position one to be interviewed by you no, let's back it up To be able to do your intro and outro and then to be interviewed by you and have a podcast episode and then to interview you.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: 43 years of marriage, the art of relationships, the art of marriage, it's all there.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: And if people, if you're out there and you've got more questions about the relationship component, of course we're not going to go through all of that on here.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: There's 43 years to walk and talk, but you've heard some of the nuts and bolts, with faith being the foundation, as well as those C's, and we'll make sure that those are included in the show notes so that you have them.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: But reach out to them.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: They've given you their telephone numbers and they are warm people, inviting people.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: They are ready, they are set to collaborate with you, whether it's on the personal side or the professional side, whether it is helping you to earn more money or whether it's helping you to earn that legacy.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: So we've been on here, wanda and Dennis Pearson.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I'd like to thank you and Wanda for being the host of this podcast and inviting me to be able to interview today.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I am Dr Stacy Moore, known as the Operator, connecting small business owners to the resources like this and relationships like the ones you're going to create within, so that you can earn more money.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: What does that allow you to do in your personal life?
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Relax just a little bit.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: We'll see you in the next episode of Wanda's Podcast Ready Set Collaborate.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you, stacey, great interviewing us.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: It was a pleasure.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Thank you for tuning into this episode of Ready Set Collaborate.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: For more information about the host head to WDPearsonAssociatescom and that's P-E-A-R-S-O-N.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Want to connect?
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Send an email to Wanda at WDPearsonAssociatescom and, as always, stay tuned for the next episode of ready set collaborating.