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How Invest Fest Grew from 4,000 to 14,000 People in One Year · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
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  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
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  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
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  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
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  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
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  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
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  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
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  Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fined nearly
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  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will
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  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
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  Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
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  Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
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  Speaker 1: border and families will.
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  Speaker 2: Be protected sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 3: So this is not natural. Year one, four thousand, Year two, fourteen.
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  Speaker 4: Thousand, Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Something happened.
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  Speaker 5: Steve Harvey. Definitely.
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  Speaker 3: We can't can't remember the guy we recerenced before we.
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  Speaker 6: Can't take full credit for this because it's all about partnerships.
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  Speaker 6: And when we met Steve Harvey, he said he wanted
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  Speaker 6: to do business with us. So proposed like, well, this
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  Speaker 6: is an opportunity that you know, maybe you can become
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  Speaker 6: a partner with us, and he became a partner. So
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  Speaker 6: he did a few very pivotal things. A he came right,
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  Speaker 6: so he's one of the biggest stars in the world,
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  Speaker 6: so putting his name on the bill was extremely helpful.
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  Speaker 6: He also got us Tyler Perry epic.
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  Speaker 3: Now we don't come outside.
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  Speaker 4: That changes the word.
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  Speaker 5: Right, that changes That changes things.
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  Speaker 6: And we went on his show and I never forget,
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  Speaker 6: like us, the impact of that. And I don't never
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  Speaker 6: really listen to his morning show, so I didn't really know.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't know how impactful his reach was. But it's
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  Speaker 6: the number one syndicated morning show in America and it's
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  Speaker 6: over I think they have like between six to ten
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  Speaker 6: million weekly listeners. So he put us on this show.
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  Speaker 6: He came on Market Monday's also, which was beneficial. But
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  Speaker 6: we went on his show, and after we went on
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  Speaker 6: his show, it just never it took off and it
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  Speaker 6: never came down.
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  Speaker 4: No serious It was that level of impact because you
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  Speaker 4: got to remember, there's an audience that he's talking to, right,
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  Speaker 4: Like we might not be listening, but my mom's listening
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  Speaker 4: to that every day. Sure, and he has a certain
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  Speaker 4: region of the country that if he does something, they're
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  Speaker 4: supporting it. And so the fact that he was not
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  Speaker 4: only our partner, but he was speaking at the event,
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  Speaker 4: it just added to it. Plus it just from an
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  Speaker 4: other standpoint, it was like who else does he have
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  Speaker 4: reach to? And so like that's how you get a
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  Speaker 4: Dan Cathy and that's how Dave Shan's has an efic
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  Speaker 4: conversation with him. You see what I'm saying. So like
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  Speaker 4: all these people, like his network is a lot larger
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  Speaker 4: than ours, but now that he's our partner, we have
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  Speaker 4: access to his network.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, back up a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know if it was Okay, we have
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  Speaker 7: four thousand people at one and now Steve was like, hey,
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  Speaker 7: I want to be your partner, Like how did that
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  Speaker 7: come about?
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  Speaker 6: But when we met him, So we met him, we
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  Speaker 6: did an interview with him, which Dad came a classic conversation.
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  Speaker 4: Get that. So we were real close with the talent
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  Speaker 4: agent at Black Effect. The Cold span shot out to
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  Speaker 4: her and she's Jamaican. So we just had this thing,
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  Speaker 4: like I call it once a week. We just talked,
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  Speaker 4: just regular things every now and then. She was like, Yo,
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  Speaker 4: I have this person that's interested there on the press round.
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  Speaker 4: They want to do it. And she called me one
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  Speaker 4: day in the summer and she was like, Hey, I
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  Speaker 4: got this golf tournament I want you to go to,
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  Speaker 4: but I can't tell anybody at Black Effect yet. I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: who is it? She was like, Seve Harvey. I want
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  Speaker 4: you to go there and I want you to do
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  Speaker 4: an interview with him, but you can't let anybody know yet.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like whatever, cold, like whatever. She's like, no, serious,
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  Speaker 4: I'm serious about this. We're getting closer to it. It's
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  Speaker 4: in Abu Dhabi, right, And I'm like, y'all all right, whatever,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't We didn't go to that golf tournament. She
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  Speaker 4: calls me later, She's like, listen.
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  Speaker 3: Why not.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it didn't.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't pan out. The schedules didn't pan out because
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  Speaker 4: he wanted His schedule was kind of crazy, like he
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  Speaker 4: spends like two months out the year out there, and
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  Speaker 4: we just it didn't work. But she was like, look
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  Speaker 4: next year, y'all definitely don't, but I'm gonna put you
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  Speaker 4: in contact with his uh somebody from his team. His
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  Speaker 4: name is Tabtie Stevens.
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  Speaker 3: All right cool.
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  Speaker 4: Supposed to Tabdi. He was like, listen, we love y'all.
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  Speaker 4: It's the first time I'm speaking to him. He's like,
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  Speaker 4: we love y'all.
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  Speaker 5: We love y'all.
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  Speaker 4: I'm from Atlanta. Everybody in Atlanta rocks with y'all. We
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  Speaker 4: know what y'all doing. I'd say, she's definitely doing the interview.
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  Speaker 5: My bad.
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  Speaker 4: I was supposed to set it up for y'all to
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  Speaker 4: come to Abu Dhabi and just didn't work. Y'all come
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  Speaker 4: in next year for sure, but before that we got
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  Speaker 4: to do this interview. I'm like, I bet this is
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  Speaker 4: like November. He's like I'm like, I'm like, yeh shay.
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  Speaker 4: They said we gonna interview see Harvard. He was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I see what it happens.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't believe.
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  Speaker 4: It's not even when it happens, it happens.
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  Speaker 5: I always I always like the current, my enthusiastic.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm like, this is no Vemba.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Top of the year. I revisited. They're like, Yo, you know,
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  Speaker 4: first quarter, we're getting this done. January's his birthday month.
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  Speaker 4: He travels a whole month of January. We can't do it.
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  Speaker 4: Hit me at the top of February. I'm like, I
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  Speaker 4: bet him at the top of February. Yo, we're good.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, February seventeenth, part so remember the date.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, that works, let's do it. He's like, all right,
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  Speaker 4: I'll send you that all the information you need to know,
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  Speaker 4: cameras and everything. I'm like, now we're good. He's like, seventeenth.
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  Speaker 4: Make sure y'all come came seventeen.
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  Speaker 7: He snapped on that interview too, and y'all asked all
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  Speaker 7: the right questions.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all dropped forty. It was no stop, bro stop, like
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  Speaker 3: the setups and like the.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you know what you you interestew people, so
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  Speaker 6: you know it's it takes to to dance. You gotta
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  Speaker 6: have a dancing partner. A lot of some people they
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  Speaker 6: you know, they you could be the greatest interviewer in
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  Speaker 6: the world, but if the person that you're interviewing isn't
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  Speaker 6: into it, it's not going to translate.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 6: So it's like, I think we did a great job.
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  Speaker 6: Of asking questions. But he did a triment. He was
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  Speaker 6: fully engaged, he wanted to do it. He was you know,
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  Speaker 6: just everything about it, from telling jokes to being vulnerable
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  Speaker 6: to giving his life like he's yes, it's humbling that
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  Speaker 6: you say that we did a great job, but it's
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  Speaker 6: extremely We have to give him credit because it was like,
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  Speaker 6: you know, he it was masterful. How he was answering
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  Speaker 6: the questions, how he was you know, going in and
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  Speaker 6: out of the topics, how he was ready, he had
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  Speaker 6: the bullet points, even like the first question was like
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  Speaker 6: your five pillars of success, and that took like fifteen
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  Speaker 6: minutes because like he was literally went off every five pillar.
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  Speaker 6: Like it was so many viral moments in that in
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  Speaker 6: that episode. But he was in the right frame of
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  Speaker 6: mind and he was willing to share information that he
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  Speaker 6: never shared before. Very vulnerable in a lot of different spaces.
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  Speaker 6: So he did a great job of relaying the information.
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  Speaker 3: It was take these flowers, I'm gonna tell you is not.
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  Speaker 4: Like without putting it takes to to dance, not like
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  Speaker 4: you gonna have you have a dancing partner.
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  Speaker 5: So we did all part, but he did his part
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  Speaker 5: as well.
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  Speaker 4: When we left that interview, and I'm sure you probably
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  Speaker 4: experience it. Sometimes you leave an interview and you're like,
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  Speaker 4: we got one. Like we looked at each other right
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  Speaker 4: after the interview and we were like, our lives are
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  Speaker 4: never gonna be the same. Really, Yeah, as soon as
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  Speaker 4: we walked out dragging the equipment, we're like, Yo, our
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  Speaker 4: lives never gonna be the same.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you basing that off of the information?
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  Speaker 4: Or we had a conversation prior, so before the interview,
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  Speaker 4: we spoke for about maybe an hour and a half,
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  Speaker 4: and then we did the interview, which is almost like
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  Speaker 4: two hours, and then after the interview, we spoke for
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  Speaker 4: another two hours, and based on the conversations we have
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  Speaker 4: in the room, it was like, Yo, this is the one,
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  Speaker 4: but our lives are never going to be the same.
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  Speaker 4: Because he's like, Yo, we're getting this done. I'm now
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  Speaker 4: going to be partner in this investment festival and invest festival.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see how we can scale this thing. We need
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  Speaker 4: to have as many people there as possible. I want
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  Speaker 4: to have the most impact as possible. So we knew
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  Speaker 4: that our lives wanted me the same. But then when
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  Speaker 4: we saw when the episode came out and him telling
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  Speaker 4: us like after you know, you know, a couple of
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  Speaker 4: weeks a few months after, he was like, this was
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  Speaker 4: the most impactful interview that I've ever had in my
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  Speaker 4: career in thirty five years. So here's the interesting part,
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  Speaker 4: because what you said is right, Like when he goes
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  Speaker 4: to do an interview, and he had his own talk show,
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  Speaker 4: but when he goes to do other people's interviews, it's
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  Speaker 4: the same thing. They want to know what he's promoting,
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  Speaker 4: how his family's doing, and can't tell a joke really quick.
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  Speaker 4: You never get to hear anything else about the business.
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  Speaker 4: Right he's building a business empire in front of our faces.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody's asking the questions. We see him on our television
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  Speaker 4: every night in syndicational family. Nobody's asking the questions. And
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  Speaker 4: so we were able to do that. Yeah, definitely. He
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  Speaker 4: was willing to dance with us, and he enjoyed having
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  Speaker 4: us there, which made it a lot easier. But it
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  Speaker 4: was like both sides like we knew it was to
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  Speaker 4: change our lives, and for him it was like, thank
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  Speaker 4: you for this opportunity, but I mean, we were gracious
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  Speaker 4: to have it.
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  Speaker 7: Give me your give me your perspective from the our
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  Speaker 7: lives will never be the same.
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  Speaker 6: No, So he didn't commit to invest Fest at that time.
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  Speaker 6: He just said that he wanted to work with us.
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  Speaker 6: We proposed to invest Fest. I did it to beat
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  Speaker 6: a little bit after that. But you know, just when
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  Speaker 6: you when you go to his house, it's not a
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  Speaker 6: regular house, so it's a it's a a state like
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  Speaker 6: they actually they take your I D you like you
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  Speaker 6: gotta sign an NDA. Really like there's security on the grounds,
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  Speaker 6: like you know, it's like you're going somewhere, and that's
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  Speaker 6: a that's the first his home. Yeah, yeah, take that
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  Speaker 6: was the first time that I ever went to a
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  Speaker 6: house like that. I never I personally, I never went
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  Speaker 6: to a house where I had to sign an NDA
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  Speaker 6: and there was a guard at the gate with a
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  Speaker 6: dog and all of that, and walkie talkies and all
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  Speaker 6: that and tennis courts and all of that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 6: So he really, you know, that was an experience within
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  Speaker 6: himself just to actually go there. And like you said,
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  Speaker 6: the conversation that we had was almost five hours when
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  Speaker 6: you add up before the interview in the after and
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  Speaker 6: you know, obviously you know he's a kingmaker.
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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
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  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 12:15
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
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  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: are here illegally. Your next you will be fined nearly
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
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  Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,
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  Speaker 3: Will be protected.
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  Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 6: He has a lot of influence. So when he took
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  Speaker 6: a liking to us and he was saying like he
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  Speaker 6: wanted to do stuff with us, like he wants to
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  Speaker 6: do this, he wants to do that. So I was like,
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  Speaker 6: all right, this is going to put us in a
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  Speaker 6: in a different stratosphere.
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  Speaker 5: And that's what he did.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you look at it and from investment standpoint,
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  Speaker 6: but even told my this years invest fest with Robert Smith,
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  Speaker 6: like that comes to him. He's the first person to
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  Speaker 6: introduced us to Robert Smith in person. So that was
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  Speaker 6: you know, he's he made the introduction for Tyler Perry,
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  Speaker 6: like you know, it took us. We was in Dubai
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  Speaker 6: and Abu Dhabi for his golf tournament, you know, Formula
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  Speaker 6: one race in Abu Dhabi. Different things of that nature.
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  Speaker 6: So he's been he's been a good dude. But just
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  Speaker 6: you know, you kind of have it. If you meet
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  Speaker 6: jay Z and you know, you just have a handshake,
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  Speaker 6: it's like, all that's cool. But then if you meet
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  Speaker 6: Jay and he tells you I want to do business
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  Speaker 6: with you, it's different. You know what I'm saying, like
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  Speaker 6: your life is going to change?
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  Speaker 7: Did How did you pick in as fast as the
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  Speaker 7: thing we partner on. I mean, it's a bunch of
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  Speaker 7: y'all could have created.
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  Speaker 6: So it was coming up and we just felt like
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  Speaker 6: that would be a perfect situation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, Okay, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: So you planned, you had a year two invest fast
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  Speaker 7: planned already, were you promoting and marketing already?
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  Speaker 5: We're putting it together.
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  Speaker 7: You're putting it together. So when y'all putting it together,
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  Speaker 7: you weren't thinking fourteen thousand. Not additionally, I think it
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  Speaker 7: might have been ten thousand.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 4: One of the things like and to Be was saying
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  Speaker 4: is because you know at Stage had award show that
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  Speaker 4: he used to do at State Farm, ask.
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  Speaker 3: Him if I can call him Estage want to see
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  Speaker 3: him too. That's why y'all got.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Harvey preferably mister Harvey. He was like we were
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  Speaker 4: telling him like what we were kind of thinking. He
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  Speaker 4: was like, man, ya should do twenty thousand, I should
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  Speaker 4: do stay Farm. I'm like, we got to grow to that,
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  Speaker 4: Like we got to figure out how we're going to
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  Speaker 4: do It's like, now, y'all definitely could do it. We
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  Speaker 4: already have connections, we have all the relationships. We used
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  Speaker 4: to do our own awards show for entrepreneurs and it
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  Speaker 4: was like a comedy thing. They would tell us the
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  Speaker 4: blooprint on how they were doing it. They're like, Yo, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: y'all can get this done. Y'all definitely can get this done.
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  Speaker 4: It was like, all right, well, let's figure out how
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  Speaker 4: we can get it done. So it wasn't like a number,
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  Speaker 4: but it was like kind of idea, like all right, well,
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  Speaker 4: they got a firm belief and they have relationships, how
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  Speaker 4: do we make this work.
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  Speaker 3: I think something lends to that too, somebody who just has.
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  Speaker 7: A bigger view, like they're just bigger thinkers, right Like
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  Speaker 7: I mean I watched you all and like, you guys
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  Speaker 7: give me the belief that could do something that I
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  Speaker 7: wouldn't even thought of, right Like, so I always ask like, yo,
• 15:36
  Speaker 7: what's your downloads?
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: And I think one time he us like two million.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh my gosh, two million, A mom,
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: I can do it, you know what I mean.
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: And then like as you as you start connecting with
• 15:47
  Speaker 7: people who have a bigger vision, You're like, oh, no doubt,
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: I can do that. So now I'm starting to understand
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: this whole twenty twenty three, twenty thousand number.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: It just makes sense at this point, see see it.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: But then like even for that, like we've had those conversations,
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: was like how many downloads with the analytics? But then
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna show you how you get to that. That's
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: the biggest difference because I can just tell you we're
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: doing ten million. Wow, how's he doing that? Not like Yo,
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: here's how you do it. How many episodes you have?
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: You got a back catalog? You know what I mean. Like,
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: we just have these conversations like, oh, when I look
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: at it like that, that seems very attainable. So like
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: when they start breaking down like how you can get
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: it done and who you can get and who's what
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: corporate relationships you can have that can be involved, and
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: like Yo, my publicist works with that person and we
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: can get hit. It's like, oh, yep, give me that number.
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: And I think, okay, we got mister Harvey on a
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: lot of it, almost lip almost Wes Harvey on. But
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: even still to get that many people, there's still some
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: work to be done. So I want to know, like
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: all the work that goes into providing this experience for people.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Well, it's a lot of work.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: And the key I think in any type of especially
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: when you work with somebody like that, you don't want
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: to abuse it because it's like people is busy. So
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: for us, it's like, all right, it's like riding a bike, right,
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: if you have a kid like you, you push, you
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: push somebody on the bike and it's up to you
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: the pedal, you know what I'm saying.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: So he gave us a push, but it's up to
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: us to pedal.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: We can't, you know, expect him to do all of
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: the leg work. So the leg work part of it
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: is what all of us had to do, from Mike, myself, Troy,
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: Matt Abdullah, Ashley, our event planner, his wife, Danielle, every
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: you know, everybody on our team, Burke making the flyers
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: for us UH North thirteenth and create making the videos
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: for us, Well, what is.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: The way it looks like for you?
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: You know, you're gearing up for for something massive.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: It's like a fight, like you gotta you know what
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: I'm like, you know, getting fight more like a fighter.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: You know, range for six weeks before you go into
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: day in camp, so it's like all right, you know, lockdown.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: So for I was like, you know, press, doing press.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: That's that's a big part of it, you know, flying
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: all over, doing different interviews, like having this conversation, like
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: that's part of it, doing zoom calls. The good thing
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: is that we have a lot of great relationships. So
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: booking the talent. Here's the blueprint of how you do
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: these type of events, right, So a you have to
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: find a venue. Right, You find a venue and then
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: you put the deposit down. You secured the venue, right,
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: you have to work with an event planner that actually
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: can make this come to fruition as well.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Hold that point real quick. What did y'all spend last year?
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I've been dying to ask you what did it costs
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: you to put.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: On It probably costs like a million. Probably these guys.
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: Are putting a million dollars down to make sure you
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: have a great, great experience.
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: One point three but who's counting actually three hundred thousand,
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: one point three million to provide an experience this and
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  Speaker 8: and I think it's important that people come to see
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: what excellence looks like.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Okay, so fine, event planner.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: But let me give you some game on that too,
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: because I don't want to discourage people. It did cost
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: discourage it did cost over a million dollars. But that's
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: why it's important to get your payment processing platform. That's
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: important whoever you pick, because it was like, you know,
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: the payment processing platform that we used at that time,
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: we're not using them now, but they paid us daily,
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: so as we get paid, then now we can pay
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: for stuff as well.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: So you have working capital.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: So it's like if you don't have a million dollars
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: in a bank, or if you don't have a loan,
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: then you know, to be able to receive funds on
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: a daily basis is beneficial because as you as the
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: money comes in, now you can write checks and the
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: money's going out at the same time. So that's important
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: to know from a financial aspect if you're thinking about
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: doing these type of events. But from the venue, the
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: event planner, you have to curate the event. You have
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: to get the people. So that, like I said, luckily
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: for us, we don't we even now to this day,
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: we don't go through like talent agencies and it's not
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: corporate like this personal people that we know, even Diddy.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: I can tell that story if you're interested.
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: But that's a personal relationship that we developed, and I
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: hit them personally. I didn't go through you know uta
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: and shout out to them, But we didn't go through
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: those channels like every single person, like we have personal relationships.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: Then the people change every year as well, so people
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: that was on last year is not on this year,
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: people that's on the first year, like so it's different people.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: So we constantly meet new people, we constantly develop new relationships.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: So first it's like.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: That's something really quickly that's important, you know, the best
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: way to build a relationship interview on right, because now
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: you've given them a platform, their audience has seen it,
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: and it's exposed them to a new audience. And so
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: a lot of times if you look at the people
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: that's on our list, they've had some full of contact
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: with the network, either on our show, they came on Market,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Mondays or Ranch and gyms or they on high level
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: at some point they had a relationship with the network
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: where they would be an interview and so now you
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: have a relationship, and so now that ask is a
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: lot easier, right because yeah, we have this platform and
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: we shared you with the world, right, your greatness, But like, hey,
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: are you interested in in talking to the ents again?
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Makes it an easy ask.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, So you put together the blueprint of what you want.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: We want a real estate panel, we want a stock panel,
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: we want a keynote speaker, we want to panel on
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: you know, content creation, and then you just fill it
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: in like.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Who do I know?
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: And teaching on podcasting for sure, that's a fact you guys, Dave.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: With the three in August.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: So yeah, so you just just feeling filling the pieces.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: It's like, okay, this this person would be good for
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: real estate, this person would be good for content creation.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: And like I said, fortunately for us, we know a
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: lot of people, so it's just personal phone calls, text messages,
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: and most people, like people don't really say you know
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: to us. For the most part. They might have a
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: scheduling conflict or they might not be able to make it,
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: but for the most part that's the easy part. Hard
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: part is like getting like the big names, like you know,
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: but that wasn't really difficult this year. We was able. Fortunately,
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: we was able to get some big names early and
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: like that in early music is the hard part.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: We can talk about that. I get interested.
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