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Unlocking Business Insights with Africa's Oil and Gas Mogul, Kevin Okyere · 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 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 3: You smoke about the wealthiest men black men in the world.
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  Speaker 3: He comes from Africa, comes from Nigeria. I wonder at
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  Speaker 3: this level are there mentors? Are the people that inspire you?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Because what you're doing in oil and gas. I know
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  Speaker 3: in Nigeria that was a project that they were working
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  Speaker 3: on it rather than being one of the biggest imports
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  Speaker 3: of oil trying to now become one of the biggest
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  Speaker 3: exports of it. Are you guys leaning on each other
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  Speaker 3: or are we just watching success happen and saying that's
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  Speaker 3: inspiring or is there a connection here.
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  Speaker 4: I've never really had a mentor, but which is okay,
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  Speaker 4: It's fine. Some people you know have mentors, but I've
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  Speaker 4: never really have a mentor. However, I think, as I said,
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  Speaker 4: we are all put out of our surroundings. You lean,
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  Speaker 4: you know, subconsciously from people I've been blessed to have.
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  Speaker 4: You know, a mother and father who were entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs,
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  Speaker 4: I think, looking back now, I've learned a lot from
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  Speaker 4: them without even knowing I was learning from them. I
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  Speaker 4: have a sister who was an entrepreneur, and I feel
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  Speaker 4: I've learned from her without necessarily annoying. I think that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you see people do things, and it might
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  Speaker 4: be be in college, or it might be in high school.
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  Speaker 4: You might learn from some professors or you know, so
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  Speaker 4: that's what That's how it worked out for me, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't have the opportunity to sit down with anyone who
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  Speaker 4: had experience, because, first of all, most people didn't want
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  Speaker 4: you to get in the business. They saw me as
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  Speaker 4: a young guy who's a treat today. They didn't want
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  Speaker 4: me to get involved. So I didn't have the opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: If you have the opportunity to have a mentor, I
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  Speaker 4: think that's a very good thing. I just never had
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  Speaker 4: had that experience. And it's fine. It's okay because if
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  Speaker 4: you're serious and you are focused, you're running one hundred
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  Speaker 4: you know, one hundred meters race or a thousand million ras,
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  Speaker 4: you're serious about the finish line, it doesn't matter if
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  Speaker 4: someone is giving you a word of encouragemental stuff. However,
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  Speaker 4: like I said, at people who have given me advice
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  Speaker 4: on various things on personal life and other things which
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  Speaker 4: all play a role in your business life. But I've
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  Speaker 4: never had a mentor to steered me to avoid, you know,
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  Speaker 4: mistakes that have been made by them.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever it is.
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  Speaker 4: But it's fine. It's okay to have. It's great to have,
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  Speaker 4: and it's okay if you don't have as well.
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  Speaker 5: We talked about some opportunities. What are some challenges that
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  Speaker 5: you know, the continent faces. We were at Davos last
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  Speaker 5: year at the African House and they spoke about, you know,
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  Speaker 5: not being able to travel from a variety of different
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  Speaker 5: countries for African citizens and the trade process, and that
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  Speaker 5: was a major concern. And I see, you know, countries
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  Speaker 5: now starting to lift travel bands and make it easier
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  Speaker 5: and not have So from your perspective as an African
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  Speaker 5: on the continent, what is some challenges that you know
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  Speaker 5: you think could be improved across the continent as far
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  Speaker 5: as business is concerned.
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  Speaker 4: I think the biggest issue that we need to overcome
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  Speaker 4: is us ourselves and how we deal with each other.
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  Speaker 4: That's the most important thing. How we deal with each
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  Speaker 4: other is the most important thing, because see, divide and
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  Speaker 4: conquers really is ral.
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  Speaker 2: So think about it this way.
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  Speaker 4: If you are from let's say Kenya, and you have
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  Speaker 4: the capacity to operate a mining failed and you are
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  Speaker 4: a banking Kena and you can give him money to
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  Speaker 4: mine the gold or whatever mining field it is, you
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  Speaker 4: are cutting out the international banks. You are cutting out
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  Speaker 4: all those people. So the issue that we have here
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  Speaker 4: is this whole thing of we cannot do it by ourselves.
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  Speaker 4: We need aid, we need foreign assistance and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: So that is really ingrained in us and if we
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  Speaker 4: are able to figure it out that listen, let's give
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  Speaker 4: us people of color the opportunity to try certain things.
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  Speaker 4: You know, yes, we're going to make mistakes, but believing
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  Speaker 4: in ourselves and trying to you know, help each other,
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  Speaker 4: I think is the only way for it. Because by
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  Speaker 4: so doing all these visa restrictions all these other things.
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  Speaker 4: You know a lot of some countries give foreign like
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  Speaker 4: Europeans vison arrival permit, but an African need a visa.
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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 El Salvador
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next you will be fine nearly
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned and deported, you will
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump America's laws,
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: border and families will be protected.
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  Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security. How
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  Speaker 2: about that? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: So, but if we are really you know, waking together
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  Speaker 4: as for the sources of the continent, will we will
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  Speaker 4: let lose all those barriers that we put up. So
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  Speaker 4: I think it's more about as with ourselves. Very well,
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  Speaker 4: and you stop the hipocrasy.
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  Speaker 6: If you were starting a new business in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 6: what would be the five things you were focused on
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  Speaker 6: each day to grow that business like a thousand percent
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  Speaker 6: in one or two years?
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  Speaker 2: We need the real answer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean I leave, I breathe, I sleep.
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  Speaker 4: Oil and gas. I know it inside out. If someone
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  Speaker 4: to ask me, would you do it all over again?
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  Speaker 4: I'll do it all over again and again and again.
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  Speaker 4: So if I'm to start another business, it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be no oil and gas industry. Oil and gas industry
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  Speaker 4: is Look, nothing nothing comes easy, And of course you
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  Speaker 4: simply don't even know the answers. Sometimes you just figure.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, you just figured it out on the job,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like you study. You said you want to
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  Speaker 4: make a thousand percent returns? Yeah, sorry, Look I just
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  Speaker 4: lost them. I just lost a friend right before I
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  Speaker 4: got on stage, literally a few minutes ago. Very good,
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  Speaker 4: and my childhood friend. I'm sure she had plans. You know,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes you may have all these plans, but things don't
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  Speaker 4: work out the way it's supposed to work out, which
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  Speaker 4: is fine. So you may want to make a thousand percent.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe if you get into the business, you may make
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  Speaker 4: ten percent, you may make twenty percent.
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  Speaker 2: It is fine.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said earlier, you can start a water bottle business.
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  Speaker 4: It may last only two three years, but you may
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  Speaker 4: make some money out of that, and you may learn
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  Speaker 4: some experiences out of that. Out of that, you're going
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  Speaker 4: into making microphones, which work business I needed business, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: or you know, and so sometimes it's okay to start
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  Speaker 4: from somewhere. It may not turn out to be what
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  Speaker 4: you expected to be and he transition to something else,
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  Speaker 4: but all that is part of you know, you've been
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  Speaker 4: built to something greater, you know what I mean. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so sometimes, yeah, you may want two thousand percent. I
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  Speaker 4: mean I think everyone here wants ten thousand percent return.
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  Speaker 6: More importantly, what are the habits that you're doing every day?
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  Speaker 6: If you go only pick five things that I'm doing
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  Speaker 6: these tasks in my business, what are some of those
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  Speaker 6: to help them on the twenty four.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, so persistence, like you need to be persistant.
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  Speaker 4: You can't you know, you can't just give up because
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  Speaker 4: they said no, you can't just give up because you're
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  Speaker 4: started in the field. You need to be persistent very
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  Speaker 4: very important. You need you need to do your best
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  Speaker 4: to be very honest with yourself. If you know you
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  Speaker 4: don't have the ability to put together a team to
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  Speaker 4: help you build a rocket, and you don't have the
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  Speaker 4: ability to raise the funding to help you build a rocket, don't.
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  Speaker 2: Don't.
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  Speaker 4: Don't be going around saying you're going to go to
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  Speaker 4: the moon like no one's you're going to take it serious.
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  Speaker 4: You need to be honest with yourself if you really
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  Speaker 4: want to be successful. The other thing that I personally
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  Speaker 4: believe in this prayer. So I don't know about you.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone might have something different, but I believe in prayer.
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  Speaker 4: Prayer works for me, so you know, I go for
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  Speaker 4: the two piece. Prayer and persistence have always worked for me.
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  Speaker 4: You need to really you know, some people are very
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  Speaker 4: good with analyzing situations. You know, I have a friend
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  Speaker 4: and it's very smart. But he's not an entrepreneur, but
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  Speaker 4: he's a good manager. You know, if you want to
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  Speaker 4: jump into the pool, he will go and stand by
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  Speaker 4: the pool and the pistol, come back, analyze all these things.
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  Speaker 4: Two hours, he still hasn't jumped in the pool. As
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  Speaker 4: an entrepreneur, If you really believe in what you are doing.
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  Speaker 4: You just sometimes just gotta go. You gotta go for
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  Speaker 4: you just gotta go for it. Just do it. You know,
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  Speaker 4: don't be trying to overthink it. You overthinking it. Bro,
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna win, You're gonna lose.
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  Speaker 2: Two options.
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  Speaker 3: What else is there?
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  Speaker 6: So?
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  Speaker 4: You know, so a lot of times if we keep
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  Speaker 4: on hesitating, I think we just gotta go. Just just
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  Speaker 4: do it. So these are the things that I believe
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  Speaker 4: that should be the basics and the fundamental as to
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  Speaker 4: whatever it is that we are trying to achieve in business.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from El Salvador
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because the President
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy Noman, the United States
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: are here illegally, your next You will be fine nearly
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: one thousand dollars a day, imprisoned, and deported. You will
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: never return. But if you register using our CBP home
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: app and leave now, you could be allowed to return legally.
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: Do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump America's laws,
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: border and families will be protected.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,