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EYL #239 Mary J. Blige on Tax Issues, Strength of a Woman, Divorce, Paying Alimony, Acting, Music & Business · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 6: block anybody's you. I would just ask everybody one one thing. Obviously,
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  Speaker 6: this is one of the greatest entertainer, is one of
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  Speaker 6: the icons of our generation, of any generation.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Let's get into it, Mary, I want to talk about
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  Speaker 6: selling out shows and eighteen thousand people and you got
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  Speaker 6: was the thought process and putting together this festival and
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  Speaker 6: what was the commitment on the time, financial relationships that
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  Speaker 7: What a thought.
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  Speaker 8: Process came from just performing and just watching the women
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  Speaker 8: in the audience, how they just you know, love and
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  Speaker 8: respect me and love how my music has done so
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  Speaker 8: much for them, and just watching them just sometimes it
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  Speaker 8: just was mind blowing how they just people are crying
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  Speaker 8: and passing out and it just touched my heart. And
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  Speaker 8: so to see us all in one room loving on
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  Speaker 8: each other because of you know, you know me, because
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  Speaker 8: of this performance, or because of all the trials and
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  Speaker 8: tribulations and things that I've come through. My music is
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  Speaker 8: a movement that has touched so many women and saved
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  Speaker 8: so many lives.
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  Speaker 7: And so the Summit is about that.
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  Speaker 8: The Summit is about what the music has done, you know,
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  Speaker 8: uplifting and encouraging and inspiring and bringing us all together
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  Speaker 8: to love on each other and to learn self love
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  Speaker 8: and self awareness and entrepreneurship. And you know, just so
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  Speaker 8: that was the idea. It came from the concert, and
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  Speaker 8: so here we are. It started as a meeting on
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  Speaker 8: the roof of the Waldorf, a story in la between
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  Speaker 8: me and my team, and within the next year it
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  Speaker 8: our partners in this, and.
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  Speaker 7: They came through.
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  Speaker 8: And you know, I really don't have too much more
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  Speaker 8: to say except for here we are right now because
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  Speaker 8: of the Mary J.
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  Speaker 7: Blige movement. This is all because of.
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  Speaker 8: The thirty something years that I've been in the music business.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, the Queen, the Queen, the Queen.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we've sold it to you before, but being
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  Speaker 4: kids from west Chester County.
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  Speaker 5: Nine one four, I forgot to mention that, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, watching your thirty year career, we've watched you
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  Speaker 4: as a singer, as an entertainer, as an actress. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I wonder when it's switched to your a click to
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  Speaker 4: you to say, you know what, I'm a talent in
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  Speaker 4: front of the camera, but I want to be known
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  Speaker 4: as a talent behind the camera.
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  Speaker 5: Creating your own record label, having your own production.
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  Speaker 4: We sort of preview for the movies that are coming
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  Speaker 4: out in a few weeks. When did that go off?
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  Speaker 4: And you know what, I want to do something bigger.
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  Speaker 4: I want to be more than just a talent in front.
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  Speaker 4: I want to be the one behind as well.
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  Speaker 8: Well for me, it's never like always I want to
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  Speaker 8: do something bigger.
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  Speaker 7: It's just observing.
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  Speaker 8: How you know, I wanted to have I wanted to
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  Speaker 8: be in production, to be a producer, to create more
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  Speaker 8: content for our culture because we never get a chance to,
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  Speaker 8: you know, control the narrative of how we're looked at,
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  Speaker 8: you know, And so that's what being a producer, you know,
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  Speaker 8: is about. That's why I wanted to be a producer.
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  Speaker 8: That's why I create a Blue Butterfly. And so we
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  Speaker 8: can tell stories like the clock Sisters, you know, have
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  Speaker 8: them tell their story, have women tell their stories, have
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  Speaker 8: us as black people uplifted in a better light other
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  Speaker 8: than just being you know, rug dealers and whatever.
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  Speaker 7: The case may be.
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  Speaker 8: You have, you know, the these two Lifetime movies that
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  Speaker 8: I'm doing right now, and these This woman is you know,
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  Speaker 8: Real Love that is one of the movies. And she's
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  Speaker 8: in college, you know, and and she beats her boyfriend
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  Speaker 8: in college.
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  Speaker 7: And so I never went to college.
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  Speaker 8: So I wanted people to see that that's that's possible,
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  Speaker 8: and that's why I'm creating that. That's why I wanted
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  Speaker 8: to be a producer, to just create more better content
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  Speaker 8: for our culture.
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  Speaker 6: So you're obviously extremely talented on the music side, but
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  Speaker 6: when you're acting, right, anybody a fan of the Power series?
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  Speaker 5: A few people watch.
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  Speaker 6: It, I see, So how is that different for you
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  Speaker 6: acting as opposed to singing? And which one do you
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  Speaker 6: like or what's the differences that you like about you?
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  Speaker 8: You can't compare them because singing is something I've been
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  Speaker 8: doing all my life. It's easy, that's that's that's that's
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  Speaker 8: who I am, That's what I do. But acting is
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  Speaker 8: hard because you have to take something that's on a
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  Speaker 8: piece of paper, that are words and turn them into
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  Speaker 8: a character. So and what's really hard about it for
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  Speaker 8: me is I have to for this character. I have
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  Speaker 8: to dig in some really dark places to go murder
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  Speaker 8: these people and you know, choke my kids and all
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  Speaker 8: that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, we saw, we saw yeah about that.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so yeah. I mean it's it's a challenge.
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  Speaker 8: It's a challenge, but I love a challenge and I
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  Speaker 8: want to perfect the craft even more because I haven't
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  Speaker 8: reached the point in my acting career where I'm like, gosh,
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  Speaker 8: I love when I did that. You know, I'm still like, gosh,
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  Speaker 8: I could have.
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  Speaker 7: Did that better. Oh that feels funny, you know.
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  Speaker 8: So I want to perfect the craft even more, you know,
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  Speaker 8: to when I look at it Angela Bassett, you know
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  Speaker 8: I feel like that, like, oh like, look like how.
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  Speaker 5: She did that?
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  Speaker 7: You know, I see what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: When you walk in these rooms, how is it? Do
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  Speaker 4: you want to be respected as married Jay the actor
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  Speaker 4: or the talent that we know, the queen of RB?
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  Speaker 5: How does that? How do you approach it? Well?
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  Speaker 7: I approach it like this.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 8: Immediately they're like, oh, let's let's let's let's let us sing.
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  Speaker 7: No, I'm acting. I don't want to sing.
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  Speaker 8: If I'm singing, I'm singing if I'm acting and acting,
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  Speaker 8: I want people to respect me as an actress. You know,
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  Speaker 8: It's it's two different things you're gonna you know.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, have you talked about Angela Bassett and have you
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  Speaker 6: had any mentors in Hollywood that have helped you?
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  Speaker 5: And if so, what are some people?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean I have friends that are super amazing actresses, Taraji,
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  Speaker 8: Queen Latifa, Angela Bassett, Tasha Smith. They they are so
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  Speaker 8: confident in what they do.
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  Speaker 7: They call.
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  Speaker 8: When I called them, I say, yo, I need help.
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  Speaker 8: They give me all the tools. I learned so much
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  Speaker 8: from Taraji. I learned so much from Queen Latifa and
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  Speaker 8: Angela Bassett. Tasha Smith was my acting coach for it
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  Speaker 8: still is and one of my really good friends. So yeah,
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  Speaker 8: you know, I have even even on Biola. You know,
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  Speaker 8: when I see her, she's like, keep going, You're doing great.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, you talking about mentorship and acting. But I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the last time we spoke, you were telling us about
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  Speaker 4: mentorship and business and so a lot of times you
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  Speaker 4: get invited to rooms and if you don't know the person,
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  Speaker 4: I got to figure out who these people are because
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  Speaker 4: there's a reason they're in the room and the reason.
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  Speaker 4: There's a reason I'm in the room. So let's talk
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  Speaker 4: about the spirits industry, right, because you have some goddess
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  Speaker 4: and you have sister love jewelry. Where did that spark
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  Speaker 4: in the interest in the spirits world come from?
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  Speaker 7: What a spark came from? I was on tour with Maxwell.
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  Speaker 8: Maxwell is a really good friend of mine, and Maxwell
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  Speaker 8: was about to put his own line out, and he
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  Speaker 8: took me to dinner with him and some Italian people.
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  Speaker 5: Oh there they they we call him they.
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  Speaker 8: And I was guzzling Santa Margherita Piina Gricio, like you know,
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  Speaker 8: and they were like, Maddy wants you to know, do
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  Speaker 8: your own wine. And I didn't blink, got in study.
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  Speaker 8: I said absolutely, one hundred percent. And right after that,
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  Speaker 8: maybe like three weeks later, while I was on tour
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  Speaker 8: with Maxwell, I found myself on a plane too freely
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  Speaker 8: Italy to meet Marco Fantineo and we touched down to
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  Speaker 8: his place and his whole place was the winery and
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  Speaker 8: the rest is history.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 8: We we put the wine out during the first quarantine
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  Speaker 8: of COVID when everybody was drinking, and we.
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  Speaker 5: They remember then, remember very well.
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  Speaker 8: We sold it. We sold it on wine dot com.
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  Speaker 8: It was sold out. Every single it was just sold out,
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  Speaker 8: you know, and so we knew. You know what, my
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  Speaker 8: people what I love about them. They're honest and if
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  Speaker 8: it's whack as whack, if it's nasty, it's nasty. They
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  Speaker 8: took they were going crazy over it. So they gave me,
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  Speaker 8: you know, people that bought the wine gave me the
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  Speaker 8: court the confidence to keep going. And it just keeps
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  Speaker 8: growing and growing and growing and growing. So yeah, that's
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  Speaker 8: that's where that came from.
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  Speaker 6: We actually tasted the wine. Our friend and your good friend,
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  Speaker 6: Angie Martinez. Yeah, invite us to forty forty and we
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  Speaker 6: had to sample it, of course, and it's actually extremely good.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not even a wine connoisseur. I don't like wine,
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  Speaker 6: but thank you. I stamp your wine.
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  Speaker 8: Well, now we have a we have a prosecco, we
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  Speaker 8: have a prosecco rose, we have them are Low and
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  Speaker 8: we have a Solve Young Blanc and of course you
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  Speaker 8: know the Pinagregient over model Rose the wine actual wine.
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  Speaker 8: So it's just growing and growing and growing in the middle.
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  Speaker 8: We're gonna have it in little bottles with little straws.
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  Speaker 5: In the suns. So let me ask you this.
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  Speaker 6: For people in the audience that are in entertainment or entrepreneurs,
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  Speaker 6: the hardest thing to do is to know when it's
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  Speaker 6: time to do something else, right, because you don't want
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  Speaker 6: to just run into things. So how do you know
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  Speaker 6: when it's time to start a new business in a
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  Speaker 6: new industry.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think you never really know when it's time
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  Speaker 8: because ideas something could come right now, you know, and
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  Speaker 8: I do one thing at a time, and then as
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  Speaker 8: I keep going, every you know, it grows. So I
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  Speaker 8: don't think, well, for me, it's not like, oh, it's
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  Speaker 8: time to do something. When it comes, it comes. You know,
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  Speaker 8: it's never really a plan. It's just organic. And then
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  Speaker 8: when it comes, then you start planning and you start strategizing.
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  Speaker 7: So it's always creative for me.
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  Speaker 8: When it flows, it flows, when it comes, it comes,
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  Speaker 8: and then I bring it, you know, to the team,
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  Speaker 8: and then you know, like that, I mean for me,
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  Speaker 8: that's that's how it goes.
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  Speaker 5: For me.
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  Speaker 4: It's interesting because as you get more creative and more
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  Speaker 4: business opportunities come to you. And it's something that we've
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  Speaker 4: kind of experienced is a lot of business opportunities will come,
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  Speaker 4: but we just don't have the bandwidth ourselves to do it.
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  Speaker 4: And so do you look at each opportunity as a
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  Speaker 4: way to now build another team and employ more people?
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  Speaker 5: How do you look at the opportunities from this landscape
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  Speaker 5: up that's.
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  Speaker 8: Going to help to build more team definitely, to employ
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  Speaker 8: employ more people, to keep people employed, and to just
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  Speaker 8: keep make it where. You know, I have revenue stream
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  Speaker 8: while I'm sleeping, you know what I'm saying, And the
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  Speaker 8: money is not just not working work and working so hard,
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  Speaker 8: and you know, one day I'll just be you know, sleeping,
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  Speaker 8: a billion dollar check would come, you know, because I
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  Speaker 8: have businesses out there, they're going. So everything is a
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  Speaker 8: plan for the future, the plans to just not have
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  Speaker 8: to work so hard.
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  Speaker 7: I hope I answered the question.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, So let me ask you this you've talked
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  Speaker 6: about in the past where you had to go on
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  Speaker 6: tour to pay alimony, yeah, to your ex husband. I
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  Speaker 6: don't know if the numbers correct at Google. I saw
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  Speaker 6: it was like thirty thousand a month or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, correct us if we're wrong.
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  Speaker 6: So, looking back on it in hindsight, what would you
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  Speaker 6: have done differently when you first got married in terms
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  Speaker 6: of shielding your assets.
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  Speaker 8: I would have never let a person have that much
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  Speaker 8: power over my money, my life, over anything ever again,
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  Speaker 8: So I would.
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  Speaker 5: I would.
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  Speaker 8: Now I'm learning, I'm in control of my business, I'm
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  Speaker 8: in control of my life, and it's mandatory that I
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  Speaker 8: learned more about finance business, you know, so I don't
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  Speaker 8: ever have to be robbed again by you know, maybe
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  Speaker 8: somebody you think you can trust, you.
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  Speaker 7: Know what I mean.
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  Speaker 6: So do you think that it was more so just
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  Speaker 6: a lack of education, somebody.
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  Speaker 5: Playing on you not knowing things, and then purposely.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, it was a lack of education, and it also
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  Speaker 8: was just trusting people to help you when you don't know,
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  Speaker 8: and you hope that they're going to help you and
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  Speaker 8: not steal from you and lie to you, and and
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  Speaker 8: and and and.
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  Speaker 7: Just trying to take control over your life.
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  Speaker 8: So yeah, exactly, you hope that people would help you
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  Speaker 8: when you don't know, and a lot of times what
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  Speaker 8: happened to me, they.
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  Speaker 7: Rob you, you know.
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  Speaker 8: So it's best to get education so you don't have
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  Speaker 8: to depend on anybody to control your money or to
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  Speaker 8: help you, you know, you know, to to help you
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  Speaker 8: keep your money in a safe place.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Keeping you.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we spoke about this a little bit earlier
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  Speaker 4: before you came on. It's important and to make money,
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  Speaker 4: but it's more important to keep the money.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And so we've had plenty of conversations and people in
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  Speaker 4: entertainment and the one thing that they always talk about
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  Speaker 4: in Fat Joe spoke about it, Steve Harvey spoken candly
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  Speaker 4: about it.
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  Speaker 5: It's paying taxes.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, so shut it out speaking of taxes. I owe
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  Speaker 8: so much money. I never thought I was ever going
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  Speaker 8: to get out of debt. I'm out of debt now.
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  Speaker 10: But I mean I owed millions, millions, like hundreds of
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  Speaker 5: So I was right, we were gonna get to that.
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  Speaker 4: So the lack of education around that, right, as you're
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  Speaker 4: getting this large sum of money and you accumulating give right,
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  Speaker 4: how are we even getting educated who are we surrounding
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  Speaker 5: Tax Is it a financially somebody in our team.
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  Speaker 8: A great business management team, and you have to have
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  Speaker 8: Now I have the wisdom. Now I look at my payroll.
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  Speaker 8: That's not my money. My taxes are not my money.
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  Speaker 8: My times are not my money. So I'm like, pay
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  Speaker 8: pay my times, any all of that money. I don't
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  Speaker 8: even want to see it because it doesn't belong to me.
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  Speaker 8: And that's how I was moving period. I was moving
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  Speaker 8: all of that, but you know, that's that's how I do.
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  Speaker 8: Those things are important to me. Payroll, taxes, times, anything that.
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  Speaker 8: Nump because I didn't have one.
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  Speaker 7: And that's why I was.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm telling you men, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: May my wife is here, so baby, I love you.
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  Speaker 4: But uh so you said you're debt free, and we
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  Speaker 4: see the success of strength of a woman. We're talking
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: about the spirits industry. But something monumental is happening in
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  Speaker 4: your music career. You're now an independent artist. So let's
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  Speaker 4: talk congratulations. I mean, let's talk about that. Let's talk
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  Speaker 4: about the feeling the prompt to you know, how you
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  Speaker 4: feeling about this.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like like I'm flying sometimes because I was
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  Speaker 8: so low. I felt like I had anchors, and you know,
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  Speaker 8: I just was low and I felt like I owed
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  Speaker 8: everybody everything. And now I don't owe a label nothing.
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  Speaker 8: I just put music out. I could just do whatever
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  Speaker 8: I want. It's liberating.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, DJ, you're supposed to drop just fine. When I
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  Speaker 5: asked how some feeling.
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  Speaker 6: So as far as a lot of artists these days
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  Speaker 6: are selling their catalogs, that's like very popular, right, how
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  Speaker 6: do you feel about that?
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  Speaker 5: And would you sell your catalog?
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely not, No, it's too valuable.
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  Speaker 6: So when you say it's too valuable, too valuable from
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: just you personally, or too valuable as far as there's
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: not money this, you got to come with.
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  Speaker 5: Billions of dollars for your catalog.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think the catalog.
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  Speaker 8: Once you sell it, you're going to spend that billion
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  Speaker 8: dollars and you'll never be able to get those babies back.
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  Speaker 8: Like those are my babies. They literally came out of
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  Speaker 8: my womb. I'm not gonna you know, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 8: later when I get older, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 8: But you know right now I wouldn't do that.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 4: So I see there's a lot of brands that are
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  Speaker 4: here Pepsi being one of them.
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  Speaker 5: We talked about Live Nation Urban.
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  Speaker 4: When you're looking for a strategic business partner, what are
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  Speaker 4: you looking for in a brand that is a qualified
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  Speaker 4: and to work with somebody of your caliber?
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  Speaker 8: The first thing is do you know me? Because you
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: can't help me sell me if you don't know me.
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  Speaker 8: You can't sell anything from my brand if you don't
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  Speaker 8: know me. So the first thing is, do you know
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  Speaker 8: Mary J.
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  Speaker 7: Blige? What is she about?
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  Speaker 8: Because then you're gonna you're gonna be full, You're gonna
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  Speaker 8: be all the way in with me, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 8: go hard with me to get to get things sold,
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  Speaker 8: you know, or to market me the right way, or
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  Speaker 8: to market whatever we're marketing for Mary J.
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  Speaker 7: Bligerberg. So the first thing is.
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  Speaker 8: Do you You gotta know you gotta you gotta have history.
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  Speaker 7: You gotta know the history of me so we can
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  Speaker 7: do the business.
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  Speaker 6: So we was with the good Brother Swiss a couple
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: of weeks ago and we had a conversation about you
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: versus would you do it? Versus No? Why not? Why
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: would you not want to do that?
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  Speaker 8: I just want let me just say I love Swiss
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  Speaker 8: that I mean, I love Swiss that's my friend, that's
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  Speaker 8: up my brother, that's up my people. I just don't
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  Speaker 8: care about my verses. I don't want to be up
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  Speaker 8: there who got the film? And it's no disrespect. I
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  Speaker 8: just don't care. Like I don't need to say I
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  Speaker 8: had to. I know I have some of the hottest records.
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  Speaker 8: I know I got a crazy catalog. I don't need
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  Speaker 8: to be like your record my record sension.
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  Speaker 5: Well, let me ask you.
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: Let me ask you this just from an admiration standpoint,
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  Speaker 6: if you ever had to dance with somebody, who do
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: you have anybody that you would say this is a
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  Speaker 6: counterpart that I really appreciate their music and I would
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: love to have some level of it.
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  Speaker 8: And it's so many people that have great music out there.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, it's so many women that have just catalogs.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 7: So I mean, I don't have to.
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  Speaker 8: I don't like the putting everybody up against each other
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  Speaker 8: the right like, I don't like it. I mean, and
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  Speaker 8: I could just put my shirt on and just walk away.
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  Speaker 8: I could put take that, I could put the onst
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  Speaker 8: the full on one album on and just walk away.
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  Speaker 4: It made me think about this guy who was intricral
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  Speaker 4: in that process. Buff and outside of the music, he's
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  Speaker 4: been a major figure in life, especially in the world
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  Speaker 4: of business. Can you talk about some of the mentorship
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  Speaker 4: he's given you outside of music.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, let me just start from the beginning. When
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  Speaker 8: I met Puff, he was ambitious, a go get it
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  Speaker 8: and I was just a little girl from Slovan that
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  Speaker 8: was scared of success. But this man wasn't scared of
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  Speaker 8: no success. He wasn't scared to be fly, he wasn't
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  Speaker 8: scared to be seen, and he was the opposite of
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  Speaker 8: everything that I was. So just watching him was encouraging
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  Speaker 8: to me and taught me a lot. And he was
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  Speaker 8: always about he wanted the success more than we wanted it.
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  Speaker 8: He wanted our success for us more than we wanted it. So,
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  Speaker 8: I mean, he just gave me a lot of confidence.
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: And you know, and and and and at.
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: That time, you know, he gave me a lot of
• 31:39
  Speaker 8: confidence in my music.
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  Speaker 7: And you know, he was like a, Yo, you're gonna
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: get out there and bust a ass. You're gonna get
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: out there. Yo, you wanna do And it was just
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: like okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 5: So he made me.
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  Speaker 8: But my personality was very like like this. But he
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  Speaker 8: really helped me a lot. He really, you know, picked
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  Speaker 8: a lot of the right, you know, samples for together.
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  Speaker 7: We did a lot. I mean, it wasn't no, you know,
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  Speaker 7: just organic.
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  Speaker 8: And he was just puff daddy, like the same puff
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  Speaker 8: daddy you see today. He's the same puff daddy he
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: was then, and he was so he wanted it for Mary,
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  Speaker 8: for Joe to see, for all of us, more than
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: we even wanted it. So man, you know that's that's
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: you know, yeah, he helped me sustain.
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: So your music has become the soundtrack to millions of
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: people's lives, millions of women's lives from the downs from
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: ninety two to twenty twenty three. When you go to
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: all around the world, how does that feel when they
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: connect with you on a different level. It's like a
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: spiritual level, like you've helped guide them through you know,
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: heartbreak and breakups. And divorce. How does that feel for
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: you to play that role?
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: It feels good and it's a responsibility because I'm not
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: doing anything special.
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: I'm just falling and getting back up. That's it.
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  Speaker 8: I'm just falling. I'm getting back up, and am I
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  Speaker 8: getting back up? Sometimes I'm laying down longer than what
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: I'm supposed to, But I get up and I come
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  Speaker 8: out on the other side.
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  Speaker 7: And so that's really all I've done, you know.
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  Speaker 8: So I say, when people like you saved my life,
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  Speaker 8: I'll be like, well, you really need to give that
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: credit to God for giving me the strength to get
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  Speaker 8: back up.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: So we talked about the spirits, we talked about the production,
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: we talked about the acting. Obviously, the talent in the
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: field of singing. I'm looking that down food to your right,
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: and I'm thinking to myself, if Don's in the room,
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: there's more business to come. And so I'm wondering one
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: hundred all right, we know, So what else is on
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: the vision board for the Mary J.
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  Speaker 5: Blige Empire? What else is on the vision board? Like?
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: What else do you see?
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Like that's something I want to tackle that I want
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: to get involved in that business, or that's something that
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: I can see I can add to the portfolio.
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: The boots are coming.
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: Everybody's like, what's up with the book? Hey, hey, that's
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: the next thing. I said, the boots, Yes, the book line.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: The dancing is so separately, though, I said, the dancing
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: is so separately.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: Everybody can't dance like you in the boots.
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: We're not talking about the dancing. Were talking about the
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: boot line right now.
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: I just want to get that going because everybody you
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: know really want it.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: So what are some of the biggest lessons in business
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: and just in general that you've learned over your thirty
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: year career.
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: Take care of yourself, do I mean, go behind everybody,
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: check in on your business, check in on yourself. Just
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: make sure you are in on every single thing. And
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: if they don't know you, then they can identify you.
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: If they can't, if they don't have no history on
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: you and what you're doing, they can't help you.
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: So that's really it. Just take care of you.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: Now, and I'm sure there's plenty of women in here,
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: and we saw a lot of artists at the show
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: last night. Now that you have a label, are you
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: currently looking for talent to put on the label?
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: How does would somebody go about that?
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: Well, right, So let me give you the backstory on
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: why I'm just getting the label.
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: I tried to do it a long time ago.
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: And what I don't like doing is promising people things,
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: and I don't have the money to back it up.
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: So this is my first one more is my first
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: artists that I've signed, because now I have the money
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: to make their dreams come true. So I don't want
• 35:47
  Speaker 8: to have people come and be on my label and
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: I'm selling you a dream because I don't want nobody
• 35:53
  Speaker 8: to sell me a dream. So right now, I'm just
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: on one more. I'm on more right now.
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  Speaker 7: And that's it.
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  Speaker 8: If you have talent, you know, if you got some patience,
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  Speaker 8: you know, I'll you know, I'll sign you. But you
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  Speaker 8: got to have patience because you know, the stuff don't
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  Speaker 8: happen open. It took me so long to get my
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: advents when I was on you know, signed to Uptown Records.
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  Speaker 7: But you got to have patience.
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  Speaker 8: And I don't like making people wait and selling people dreams,
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  Speaker 8: and people have bills and lives and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 8: I want to be able to help you pay your bills,
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: you know. So that's why I only have one one
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  Speaker 8: artist right now.
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  Speaker 6: Before we leave. This is just the second year of
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  Speaker 6: your festival. What is your vision for this festival in
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  Speaker 6: ten years? Like, what do you like to see this
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  Speaker 6: grow into?
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  Speaker 8: Man that we we go to We have seventy thousand
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  Speaker 8: people in the area, and it's like it.
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  Speaker 7: Just gets bigger and bigger. But I just wanted to
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: get bigger and bigger.
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  Speaker 8: And I want women to walk away and having their
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  Speaker 8: own businesses when they walk away from this, having more
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  Speaker 8: ideas and learning how to love ourselves and self awareness
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  Speaker 8: and just all kind of beautiful. I just want everybody.
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  Speaker 8: I just want to be bigger and big in all
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  Speaker 8: those things.
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  Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, wait, we need everybody stand to your feet please, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Please.
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  Speaker 9: My graduates from my school being forced backdrop bag drop,
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  Speaker 9: Mike drop backdrop.
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  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant crimeinals caught because of President
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