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Daymond John on Black Entrepreneurs Day: Empowering and Celebrating Black Business | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Oct 30, 2023
Daymond John, the founder and CEO of FUBU and Co-Star of ABC’s Shark Tank, has always been a champion of Black entrepreneurship. In 2020, he created Black Entrepreneurs Day, an event that celebrates and empowers Black business owners. With an impressive roster of talent and a $25,000 grant awarded during the live taping, the event has quickly become one of the most impactful purpose-driven events in the world. Let's dive into what makes this event so special.
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Daymond John on Black Entrepreneurs Day: Empowering and Celebrating Black Business | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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I've never seen a bad outfit oh really
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oh no I got some bad got some I'm sure
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but I haven't seen it all right not in
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public not in public um how's your
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health I man I am great man uh listen
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technology is changing so quickly that
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man I think I'm going to live for 100
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and not have a diaper on okay you know
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yeah I'm feeling good about what's the
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technology that you're really rocking
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with that's contributing to your health
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uh I found out that just you know it's
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just inflammation you just got to get
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you got to reduce as much inflammation
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as you can and and I I learn every day
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what causes it or what reduces not
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getting sleep actually increases
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inflammation all right um so and you
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know listen I have the resources to go
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and get certain things done but you know
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somebody say oh well you can do the cold
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plunge you got a cold plunge but you
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know you go on Amazon there's these big
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buckets for $200 you can put a bunch of
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icing in cold plunge right so it's all
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it all can be done in one way it's just
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you got to do it within your means yes
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does a cold plung act I know you
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probably researched it what does it
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actually do cold plunge well it reduces
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inflammation you know and a lot of
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people thought that you should do it
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right after you work out what the
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athletes do you should not do it right
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after you work out your body needs to be
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able to to produce what it does you know
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after the workout that's what the
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muscles naturally do right so it should
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really be done and then you know don't
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do it too much A lot of people like oh
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I'm in it for 32° for 6 hour you know
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whatever 30 minutes be like 40 I think
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43° only for a certain amount of time so
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it's always about doing things the right
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way and you just got to constantly learn
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about your body and and you know I don't
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there's plenty of people listening right
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now who who have a PhD on this stuff I'm
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a novice well I I like hearing from the
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novice because you've done quite a
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transformation of your body and at this
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stage I think it's quite remarkable and
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then I also think that we should start
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making the correlation between health
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and business yeah you know uh the way
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you take care of yourself and your
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health I think can be reflective on how
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you do your business would you agree
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constantly learning okay yeah 100% you
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you know what what you could do in
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business 20 years ago you can't do today
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yeah Damon John 20 years ago I I can eat
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pizza and sleep for three hours I can't
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do that today right um and it's
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constantly educating yourself what you
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thought worked you're going to make
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mistakes right you're going to you know
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uh you know so like so like the other
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day I was saying you know my doctor you
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know if that doctor didn't grow with me
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and and he still tells me to go Jazz aze
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I got a problem now the Jazz aze
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Community came after me hard don't get
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K Jaz got Jazz Community the jazzes got
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at you yo they DM me and I said yo why
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don't we go why don't we go on the
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regular when we go on the regular IG
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about that you know you know but I'm
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joking about it but you know what jazz
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aze work for you do your Jazz aze right
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because I remember before Richard
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Simmons died um they said a couple
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people tried his workout they was like
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yo it's gangster Rich hell yeah they
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said the Richard Sim like you ever
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remember when he went on let himman and
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letman used to be like yo
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Richard why you ain't losing no weight
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son you know but they said that that I
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don't care as long as you I don't care
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what you do get active get active okay
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man Damon John is here we're talking
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about bed the black entrepreneurs day
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that's right it's an annual celebration
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of black businesses aiming to empower
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and celebrate entrepreneurs everywhere
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and it's one of the largest and most
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awarded diversity and inclusion events
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in America this was started in the wake
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of George Floyd correct it was it was I
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was home like everybody else I was
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frustrated I was looking at uh kids
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burning businesses instead of building
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them um you know I was hoping the
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government would step up I thought the
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government actually made it worse um and
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I realized I started FUBU uh right after
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Rodney King cuz I realized that I can go
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out there and burn businesses but maybe
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I should start a business and it brought
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me you know to who I am today and people
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need hope you know and people need to
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see this information so I just did what
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normal entrepreneurs did I I called I
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use what my resources were I knew great
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people like obviously everybody here in
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the room to help promote it I called up
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Chase and a bunch of Chase uh Chase JP
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Morgan Chase T-Mobile uh Shopify said I
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want to give money to businesses to help
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them stay open black businesses because
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what's happening as the coid money is
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coming out the black businesses are not
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getting the money but I want them to
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feel like they can get these grants and
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they can equally compete against people
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that look just like them so it ain't
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going to be no other issues it's going
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to be how good is your game right uhhuh
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and then I called up people like
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Shaquille O'Neal and Bob Johnson LL
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Goldberg oh this this season will be
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Goldberg the first one all those guys
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because what I wanted to do is I wanted
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people to talk about why they were
4:49
successful but the lowest moment of
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their life so Shaq talked about I didn't
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know what FICO was when I first got my
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first check for a million dollars I
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spent it all and I didn't realize how
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much money I owed right um and LL and
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Bob Johnson talked about where their
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shortcomings were in life and so now
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this year fourth year Apollo Theater um
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I stood outside Apollo selling hats 20
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years ago now I can book the whole
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Apollo Theater out give away quar
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million dollar yeah um it was winners
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from season from season one winners from
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year one who who got the grants for
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$25,000 one of them young lady Harlem
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Chocolate Factory business State open
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she's opening in JFK now International
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Airport okay um many of the businesses
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stayed open and now this year uh whoopy
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Goldberg Anthony Anderson edric
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Entertainer Cedric Entertainer Stevens
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who else Sloan Stevens Sloan Stevens is
5:44
on there performance by Rick Ross oh IC
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te oh oh man yo when ice ice ice te show
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up he's the only one who gets a full
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pass I mean him no no him and snoop
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snoop yeah dude created a song called
5:58
cop killer now he's the longest running
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actor and cop in television history but
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you know he drops game and he he was
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he's like listen I was a gangster in the
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street and I just play another gangster
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now why well let me tell you the tell
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you this gangsters talk down to you
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gangsters always pressure you cops talk
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down to you cops always pressure you you
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know gangsters got a crew behind them I
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got another crew behind me when I'm on
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uh you know when I'm on the show is that
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cop you know who I got I got all the
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women behind me who were abused who was
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never who who who would who were never
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represented and they're like yo smack
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that dude right there you know what I
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mean like do it for us right but you
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know he he'll always drop some knowledge
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he was like listen
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man don't ever test an OG in a business
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that people die young you know what I
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mean when he's he'll he'll hit you with
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some stuff ice cold facts doing those
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ice cold facts ice don't test an IG an
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OG in a business where and he Ain say
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people or cats I don't want to say this
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word that he said cuz I'm on
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ABC
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nibbles when nibbles Die
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Young nibbles that's going to be my new
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one nibl okay so we're talking about
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black entrepreneurs day if you have a
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business your black entrepreneur that's
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right they're giving away 200k in Grants
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in partnership with the
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NAACP how can I be a part of this so you
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you you log on with we air uh November
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1st uh 700 p.m. on black entrepreneurs
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day.com
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we we air there also on all my channels
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you know I'm at the shark Damon um Damon
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with in instead of Raymond with a d
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Damon but even if you're not part of
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this and you should be part of this
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whether you're viewing because listen I
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can't get JP Morgan Chase and Shopify
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and Hill uh you know Hilton and
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McDonald's to keep giving more money to
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our community if we don't hit that
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button and say we're viewing it but in
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there for Shopify Teo they all have
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resources is where you can get all the
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in free you can get the information on
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loans and other grants and how to
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operate your business and software and
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various other things like that tret so
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the information is there as an
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entrepreneur is really hard to listen
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you want to open up a shop and you want
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to sell lotion or candles well now you
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got to be somebody who understands
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social media accounting shipping uh
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warehousing distribution it's hard to
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find these places so that's why I put
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Shopify online store T-Mobile communic
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jpan Chase for banking you know tret for
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software and HR uh Hilton who has a
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brand new program coming out for
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business uh Travelers that's the only
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group that did not stop entrepreneurs
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did not stop during coid they all travel
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the same amount so I put all these
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Collective groups around so you can go
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one place and go this is what I need
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this is my education you know One-Stop
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shop I like that Damon John is here
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we're talking about black entrepreneurs
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entrepreneur y's
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day the date once again is November 1st
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and by the way I I do have to say we
9:05
recorded a little bit of it and out of
9:08
nowhere I mean um you know uh our mayor
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Eric Adam popped up and gave me a
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proclamation from the city and the state
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for this to be officially black
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entrepreneurs week now okay oh
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black
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congratulations deal so so you know four
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years in we we you know we got something
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to really look forward to and hopefully
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I get a whole bunch of new companies to
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come in and say yo are you a minority
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vent or here you're going to get the
9:35
you're going to get the awarded for you
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know contracts and various other things
9:39
and give away more money I'm giving away
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money Damon John is giving away money
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I'm not leaving him letting them leave
9:45
the building without getting cash in my
9:47
hand all right so who's on the line
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who's trying to get to this money
9:50
Bashana is on the line from Williamsburg
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what's up v v what up hey y'all good
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morning blessings and it's us habach
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budha again good food from a good dude
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that's
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us you like that I like that she got to
10:05
get it get it in okay you hear that he
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likes your
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slogan Damon Mr John we We Salute You
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King you've been somebody we've watched
10:15
since Fu and we just continue to watch
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you um my husband and I started this
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business my husband and Chef Arnell um
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Arnell Moore but they call him Habachi
10:24
Buddha we started this business from our
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garage during Co and he wanted to know
10:29
what I wanted for mother's day he cooked
10:30
me a meal on live on Facebook next thing
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I know we had customers at our door and
10:35
it turned into a a um storefront right
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now in Williamsburg Virginia he's the
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only black man cooking Habachi food and
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what we want to know is how do we take
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this to the next level because we don't
10:47
have credit you know we're building our
10:48
credit we're trying to get ourselves
10:50
together but we can't get any type of
10:51
funding and that's what we need we have
10:55
the business model we just don't have
10:56
the we've been doing this for three
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years from our garage and now we have
10:59
the restaurant so we need to take it to
11:02
the next level how do we do that brother
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well you know OPM is always uh you know
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uh it's not other people's uh money it's
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other people's mind power manufacturing
11:11
marketing mentorship first of all well
11:14
first of all there's a franchise show
11:16
that happens every year I think it's in
11:17
Vegas you go walk the show and see who
11:19
has uh what we call additional space
11:22
right that's how you have ghost kitens
11:23
and various other things like that but I
11:25
would go to some place right now who uh
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is probably has more space than needed
11:31
commercial real estate is dying uh they
11:33
could have a bakery or various other
11:35
things and you can ask can you split it
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um and maybe you can do one night there
11:40
two nights there four nights there and
11:42
grow it into uh something so you always
11:45
have to look at where people have what
11:47
we call Remnant time right if you were
11:50
going to a hotel that's why you go on
11:51
hotels.com because if they have 200
11:54
rooms and it's 1:00 in the afternoon and
11:57
they only have 100 rooms F we what do
11:59
you think they're going to do with the
11:59
other 100 they're going to lose that you
12:01
can get those room 25 cents on the
12:02
dollar you got to try to find places
12:05
that have these uh extra space and they
12:08
can't use it and unfortunately you go
12:10
down Main Street these days in every
12:12
single City these people are suffering
12:14
they're out of business because a lot of
12:16
the people don't know social media and
12:17
they're and and they're not being
12:19
they're not selling anything because
12:20
people aren't walking outside anymore so
12:21
you can find these spaces and kind of do
12:24
a co-share and then give them a portion
12:27
no money up front I'll give you a
12:28
portion when I sell and I would I would
12:30
highly suggest doing that and probably
12:31
go to someplace to sell something else
12:32
like desserts liquor or varis or the
12:35
things that you can't sell and now you
12:36
have you have both wow Vash hey Vash
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that was Damon John yeah yeah you make
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sure you play this back play this back
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collaboration basically with KS call a
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collabo coll he did that in 45 seconds
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with no inv and it make sure November
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the 1 I know you gonna be watching bed
12:57
Black entrepreneur day right yeah we
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drop knowledge like that all day long
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all day all day okay look on Damon
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John's platforms you're very
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welcome hey tell that good dude we said
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Peace all right that's right all
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right thank you family peace all right
13:15
we actually have some Hospitality
13:17
experts on there African-Americans
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because McDonald's has something called
13:20
a mambo sauce coming out that's really
13:22
been known in DC area and they're
13:25
highlighting Africa well I know he woo
13:27
talking about somebody with cup
13:29
talk about you know and they're
13:31
highlighting African-Americans on there
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with their Mambo sauce so you know I
13:35
want people to understand one thing that
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the bartering and trading have been done
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since the beginning of time ever since
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the the uh gangas Kong and them had
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created the monetary aspect of money
13:45
that's when we started becoming
13:46
equivalent but you can barter and trade
13:49
right now I mean bartering and trading
13:50
is only done on two different levels
13:52
right now uh somebody the Preppers who
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are giving you a rusty knife or a leg of
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lamb or a government who's going to give
13:58
you all these resources for 10,000
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barrels of oil but if you're a teacher
14:03
and you know whatever the case is right
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you say hey hey Mr car dealership you're
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number one in our community here's what
14:10
I'm going to do every single Saturday
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I'm going to come over there and I'm
14:13
going to teach math or reading or
14:14
whatever the cases to the people who are
14:16
your top customers now they got
14:18
babysitters for the week what weekend
14:20
whatever the case is I'm going to teach
14:21
them Spanish whatever the case is do me
14:23
a favor you got 20 cars that are C
14:25
dealer cars right you got dealer plates
14:27
on them can I just have a car and you
14:30
know ride around on the weekend in
14:32
exchange or the week in exchange for me
14:34
coming in and doing that every single
14:36
weekend don't you think they'll trade
14:38
that out you didn't take the car in
14:39
right they already got insurance right
14:41
your your teaching skills are getting
14:42
out there and you got more people
14:44
probably going to come to you as a
14:45
customer later on you can barter and
14:47
trade at any given time for anything um
14:49
that's the power of broke we always are
14:51
thinking just like you know the way we
14:53
think now but if you're an accountant
14:55
you know how many people need
14:56
accountants and services because they
14:59
may be social media experts but they're
15:00
not an accountant a lot of things out
15:02
there that you can barter and trade for
15:04
absolutely Damon John is here I love it
15:06
he said a power broke another book we go
15:10
he found he found a way in he said the
15:12
power BR his way in streaming on all
15:16
platforms right now get the audio book
15:18
if you don't want to read it get the
15:20
audio book absolutely I had a big
15:22
compliment by a man who goes by the name
15:25
of Herm Lewis out of Northern California
15:28
stapl The Hip Hop scene from San
15:30
Francisco came from the streets put
15:33
together a lot of PL a lot of projects
15:36
to help dudes from the streets Elevate
15:38
nice in the '90s I saw him the week ago
15:40
we did our anniversary party for the bay
15:43
and the thing I haven't seen this man in
15:45
years D this dude came up to me I
15:47
haven't seen him in years bro I'm like
15:49
her what up her you look good yo the
15:53
Damon John Books
15:55
bro the first thing he said to me that's
15:59
though I listen all the time sway yo the
16:02
Damon John Books it's a ritual for folks
16:04
now it's not a one time read you know
16:06
somebody somebody somebody told me
16:08
something yester they said the first
16:09
half of your life you do it for ego the
16:11
second half you do it for your soul and
16:14
and when people come up to you and say
16:16
that to you about a book or even when
16:18
they're driving you know there are
16:19
people right now in these trucks that
16:21
listen to you and you you hear it all
16:23
the time yeah yo you made my morning man
16:26
you know this I know why I'm doing it I
16:28
know doing it man that is so fulfilling
16:31
man you know
16:33
that money can't buy that money words
16:35
can't explain it there young brother in
16:37
here who heard me speak the other day in
16:39
Pennsylvania um yeah and he uh you know
16:42
he he was excited about it and um I I I
16:45
I I I didn't know maybe he didn't know
16:47
that I think that I look up to you
16:49
Heather and I you know and your husband
16:51
and maybe he didn't know that I get
16:52
inspired by as we came up but he came up
16:55
and gave me love money can't buy that no
16:58
money can't buy it and what's meant to
17:00
be is meant to be if you would have told
17:01
me 20 years ago I would have a nephew in
17:05
college you know seeking
17:07
entrepreneurialship you know and he
17:09
meets Damon John we were wearing his
17:11
clothes you know at this time we're
17:14
wearing his clothes and my nephew posted
17:16
on Instagram I'm like yo D was at your
17:20
where were you he's like yo we did
17:21
something with the business program in
17:22
school I was like why didn't you tell
17:24
him I'm your aunt he knows Uncle horse
17:26
he knows s he's like next time I'm like
17:30
oh these kids be blowing it and then
17:32
sure enough I look at the calendar and
17:33
you were coming up and I was like you
17:35
can't make this up you he's going to be
17:37
at the show on Tuesday you never know
17:39
who he know like you know I got never
17:41
know you never know say go ahead this is
17:43
your chance the setup was
17:45
crazy
17:47
got yeah man get his face too Ty if you
17:50
can a little bit of his face and Y young
17:52
young young young brothers and sisters
17:54
didn't ask me many questions in there
17:55
though everybody quiet as a mouse you as
17:59
you asked something right yeah I was I
18:00
asked so the question I had asked you
18:02
was you know I have a lot of ideas but
18:05
um I'm not sure how to do them and I
18:07
wanted to know if is there value and
18:09
finding other people trying to help you
18:11
and you basically said like education is
18:13
power like putting that knowledge of
18:14
power that's what I took from what you
18:16
said so kind of like building off of
18:18
that question uh you know I have a lot
18:20
of ideas um but right now sometimes I
18:24
feel you know I try to say positive and
18:25
say like just keep doing like a brick a
18:27
day a brick a day right MH but I'm not
18:29
going to lie sometimes you know I say I
18:31
sit down and I say like dang like like
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am I doing the right thing am I working
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smarter and not being like being harder
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you know in times where you felt like
18:39
this what were some things that you told
18:41
yourself to keep keep going well and and
18:43
I thank you with that so you know how
18:46
old you 20 22 okay that's a great that's
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a great age to be right cuz you can do
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anything
18:52
you for 22y old beautiful right and you
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know listen I told my daughter said
18:58
listen between 20 to 30 I don't want you
19:00
to marry anybody I rather you can have a
19:02
boyfriend whatever the case is but I
19:04
want you to travel the world do whatever
19:05
you want to do why because up to 20
19:07
you're going to be somebody's kid uh and
19:09
once you get married to something you're
19:10
going to be somebody's mother father
19:12
grandfather grandmother Uncle do you and
19:15
find you and make those mistakes but you
19:17
make these affordable mistakes right
19:19
today you may like Bitcoin tomorrow you
19:21
may like serving for a charity or or
19:24
your faith or whatever the case is but
19:27
then you got to take action in it you
19:28
see to get a job you can get a job for
19:31
two reasons to find out what you never
19:33
want to do or what you want to do to
19:35
find out how people should run people or
19:36
find out how people should not run
19:38
people you have to get into it and
19:41
that's the biggest aspect um don't
19:43
overcommit you know what I mean and find
19:45
what you really love listen uh I was I
19:48
was you know we we're in New York I was
19:49
a dollar van driver I drove these Vans
19:52
and these Gypsy cabs yeah I I drove gu
19:54
brw all the I went down to beach 116 on
19:56
Rockaway nobody want to go down that oh
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dud was like yo I don't care if
20:00
they giving out gold bars down there I
20:01
ain't going down there but I had that
20:03
big old ass old ass machete right next
20:05
to me and I was like and my man had a
20:07
ratet so we would make sure we go on
20:09
there everybody had to pay me my money
20:11
cuz the first time you know what
20:11
happened uh I I had 13 people in the van
20:14
this the first time I got caught out
20:15
there and and I was like yo give him my
20:17
money they were exiting it was cat he
20:18
was like yo crime got it crime got it
20:20
crime got it last person I was like you
20:21
crime he's like yeah and crime don't pay
20:23
and then he ran out and I realized after
20:26
that I realized I needed my man with the
20:29
hammer next to me you know what I'm
20:31
saying but wow where was I going with
20:33
this so I realized after that yeah I was
20:37
making a lot of money but I was working
20:39
18 hours I was overweight and by the
20:41
time I got my tickets from the
20:43
Department of Transportation and I had
20:45
to hook up my band I was netting $200 a
20:49
week I realized I didn't like it I go to
20:52
Red Lobster start working Red Lobster I
20:54
saw FUBU open up fubo I closed FUBU down
20:57
CU I kept R out of money but that
20:59
business kept calling me back I loved I
21:01
love when people walked up to me like
21:02
like your man with the book and it I
21:04
start to find my love for something just
21:08
like everybody here in this studio
21:10
anybody can think they can talk and
21:13
entertain people there's a difference of
21:16
understanding how to project your voice
21:18
and all these doors that were slamming
21:19
their face they were like yo I think I
21:20
have something to Value you just got to
21:22
just start dipping into it you know what
21:24
I mean you'll you'll you'll get the
21:26
Rhythm I promise you you will but but
21:28
you got to be open to and not look at it
21:30
as a failure because a failure like uh
21:33
one of the people on black H news they
21:34
said it's not a failure it's kind of
21:36
it's like Annoying It's like a pebble in
21:39
your shoe that's all it really is if you
21:41
if you make affordable take affordable
21:43
steps wow damn man you a even got to go
21:46
to school no more you can drop out all
21:48
right Tracy you ready yeah absolutely um
21:52
you know damn you really remind me of
21:56
why I believe that that businessmen
21:59
business women are creatives often times
22:02
I feel like there's a divide it's like
22:03
you're either someone who's really good
22:05
at business or you're a Creator but
22:08
problem solving is inherently a creative
22:11
exercise it is because you have to just
22:13
you know use your imagination to see
22:15
what's not there to get a solution um
22:19
you have been giving out so many advice
22:21
whether it's with callers whether it's
22:23
with us um what is a recent business con
22:28
syr that really just s your mind into a
22:31
tizzy that you had to figure out a
22:33
solution to I'm right in the middle of
22:34
it downstairs I told the president of my
22:36
company who happens to be in this room I
22:37
always say you have to have two to five
22:39
words right to represent you I told them
22:41
my two to five words are that's why we
22:44
need an office again because this whole
22:46
work in Virtual crap is not working I've
22:48
been trying to solve it we are human
22:52
human natur is were people were pack
22:54
animals right I believe that I am
22:57
getting very little lot of my staff and
22:59
not because they're not a good staff
23:00
because I'm seeing the same issues with
23:02
everybody but when you and I and and I
23:04
have a thing called a mastermind where
23:06
um a lot of companies come in and and
23:10
let me do a little plug here you got to
23:12
be doing over $5 million but um you go
23:14
to rise Nation
23:16
Mastermind we meet three times a year
23:18
right and I realized that most most
23:21
people in that company said listen ever
23:23
since the pandemic I've had to let the
23:25
go 95% of my staff they weren't able to
23:27
trans transition over because what
23:29
happens you know if we're all in this
23:31
room right now we're having a
23:32
conversation and we're having a meeting
23:35
U after the meeting somebody may go he
23:36
you know sway hey you know what you
23:38
remember what we talking about just now
23:39
yo I got another idea I'll come with s
23:41
tomorrow after lunch I'm going to talk
23:42
to you about it or Heather rolling her
23:44
eyes and then I'm like man Heather
23:47
really don't want that job right and and
23:49
so I need to but if you're in Zoom you
23:51
don't find that out until two months
23:52
later that she's not really passionate
23:53
about it instead you hit at the water C
23:55
yo he what's up you know what I don't
23:57
really like working with s on that
23:58
project you know I like working with him
24:00
on this on that and that those
24:02
conversations happen 50 times a day with
24:05
each person in the office you're not
24:07
getting out why everybody's Zoom is cut
24:09
off or they're on here they they out
24:11
there you know they got a beef they they
24:13
want to tell you but they got to walk
24:14
the dog in 10 more minutes yeah right so
24:17
I'm my conundrum is people as pack
24:20
animals we got to get together and
24:22
that's why we Vibe whether it's in a
24:23
cipher whether it's in the room and
24:26
that's my biggest conundrum right now
24:28
you working it out Damon John is here
24:29
man I want to thank you D thank you bro
24:33
black entrepreneurs day is November the
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50th anniversary of Hip Hop Rick Ross
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Ricky Rose will be there I got a special
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special guest out coming up there
24:56
tomorrow o I got a special guest I got
24:59
special guest one of the key one of the
25:00
key figures in Hip Hop who play people
25:03
don't know Savant plays 15 instruments
25:05
and uh W started off in a in a group
25:08
that uh became the first uh uh uh
25:11
multiplatinum group uh that uh that very
25:14
very powerful guest who's going to pop
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out M first multiplatinum hip-hop group
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oh yeah I know it is yeah back in the
25:23
days I can only listen to Mr Magic or
25:25
listen to this other group somewhere
25:27
inong Island
25:29
playing
25:30
radio at midnight people don't realize
25:33
this person may have created also uh
25:37
reality shows a lot of people don't
25:39
realize this person uh uh really really
25:42
really really people you sleep on
25:44
believe it or
25:46
not I sleep on a damn it ain't
25:48
Public
25:50
Enemy he said a surprise though right
25:54
not a guessing
25:55
game you never know you never know give
25:58
it up for Damon Dr we love you brother
26:01
thank you all reach out to him at the
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shark Damon ballist and citizens Ben
26:05
rich in North Carolina Eddie in Detroit
26:07
Starla has her a question about
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Outsourcing Arman in Ohio Ian in Ohio Ed
26:12
in Austin I need all of you to hit up
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Damon John directly yes and follow
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