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lie and incorporating diversity, equity

1:09

and inclusion as an integral component

1:12

of business strategy. She currently

1:14

serves on the board of Directors of the ant

1:16

Siphas Family Fund Corporation, whose

1:19

mission is to embrace, inspire,

1:21

and motivate young creatives to

1:24

propel them into successful

1:26

careers. Please welcome to the Money Making Conversations

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Masterclass, Doctor Glennis

1:31

Lee. How are you doing, Doctor Lee?

1:32

I'm great, Thank you, Thank you

1:35

so much for having me today.

1:37

I got a chance to meet you.

1:38

I was a named Man of the Year at

1:41

the by the Stemalanta Women

1:43

Program and I was.

1:46

Thank you.

1:46

And you know, you get these honors and

1:50

you don't.

1:50

Work for that.

1:51

You work to change the community,

1:53

change individuals, moving people

1:56

forward and forward. And I look at your background,

1:58

that is you, doctor Lee. Why

2:01

are you so engaged in

2:03

community uplift?

2:05

I just honestly believe in giving back.

2:08

I think one of the biggest lessons I've

2:10

learned in my corporate career that

2:13

it's not just what you know and what you can

2:15

do, but it's who

2:17

you know and who you can network and

2:19

how you learn from others. And

2:21

so that's just been one of my personal

2:24

passions throughout my career. How

2:26

can I help others. I do a lot of work in mentoring

2:28

young people and mentoring

2:31

and just supporting through various foundations

2:34

and most recently through the

2:36

Antsifhast Family Fund, which is as

2:39

a musician, I grew up playing the piano in

2:42

church and singing and

2:44

then got into the field of technology,

2:46

and all of these things are interrelated

2:49

and connect and help to build not

2:51

only individuals, but have a tremendous

2:54

impact on our society

2:56

and in our industries and

2:58

just in being successful in individuals. So it's

3:01

just something that's always been a part of me.

3:03

And so when you talk about the reason

3:05

I got you on the show, because you're on the board of directors

3:07

of the Anne Seifa's Family Fund Corporation,

3:10

give us a little background in history under

3:12

Anne Sifha's Family Fund Corporation,

3:14

which is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and

3:17

serves the Greater

3:19

Gwyne Gwinett County.

3:22

Yeset County students.

3:24

Yes, yes, ninth to the twelfth

3:26

grade.

3:26

Correct, yes, yes, you're

3:29

high school age students. So

3:31

the organization was founded back

3:33

in twenty twenty three. It

3:35

was founded by Miss Latavio Woodward,

3:38

who was also one of the stem Atlanta Whim honorees

3:41

and her family, her husband and her five children,

3:44

and the organization was founded in memory

3:46

and in honor of her mother, An Cephas,

3:49

for whom the organization is named. Miss

3:52

Cephus's journey, as many

3:54

in that generation, was

3:57

her dreams and aspirations were interrupt

4:00

it just by life's challenges, and she found

4:02

herself having to stop her

4:04

education at age sixteen. But

4:06

she had a tremendous passion

4:08

for technology. She wanted to work

4:11

with computers, and she did

4:13

not get that opportunity

4:15

at that time, but

4:17

she never lost that passion and that understanding

4:20

for how important education and having

4:22

an education was. And

4:24

you couple that with her watching her grandson,

4:27

one of Miss Woodward's children we

4:29

know as Offset, who's an accomplished

4:31

artist today, watching his

4:33

journey and the challenges and the opportunities

4:37

that he faced as he began to

4:39

build his musical career. And

4:41

so the family got together and they

4:43

thought, in honoring her, they would

4:45

establish an organization that brought

4:48

together the desire for

4:50

education and making sure that creatives

4:52

got educations, but embracing

4:54

those creatives, helping them embrace

4:56

their passion, but to do so in

4:59

a way that help them really

5:02

graduate, first of all from high

5:04

school, to train them and

5:06

help them build those skills, not only from

5:08

a creative perspective, but to build

5:10

those supportive skills that they needed to be successful

5:13

in industry, whether they selected

5:15

music as their final goal

5:17

or even in other industries. To build

5:19

those supportive skills, those soft skills

5:21

as well as our skills, and help them

5:23

to establish sustainable creative

5:26

careers.

5:26

Cool, and we're talking about the ant Sefhast

5:29

Family Fund Corporation. My

5:31

degree is in mathematics, which is directly

5:33

aligned with STEM, and this is what we're talking

5:35

about STEM. You know, we're talking about AI.

5:38

We're talking about the next level

5:39

of opportunities

5:41

that are being made available where you start

5:44

seeing electric cars, you start seeing

5:46

these commercials, people are actually having conversations

5:49

with their cell.

5:50

Phones and general conversations.

5:53

You going to see.

5:54

You go in stores and you see robots

5:57

making pies and service. I

5:59

made this restaurant our pastors

6:01

and the server was not a human

6:04

being. My food was brought out on the cart

6:06

by a robot. And so that's

6:09

the part of this conversation that we're talking

6:11

about. And that's why I was excited about

6:13

bringing you on the show, because

6:15

you are looking at from a visionary

6:18

perspective. You're not looking at what

6:20

has happened, but what will happen.

6:22

Continue the conversation, doctor Lee.

6:25

Yes, absolutely, we

6:28

find that this is the digital

6:30

age and technology is disrupting

6:33

every aspect of our lives.

6:36

I remember, and I'm up dating

6:38

myself, but when I went to college, debit

6:40

cards were just being introduced, and now

6:43

people really carry cash. Not

6:45

only did they not carry cash, they're using their phones

6:47

to pay for things. So we see

6:50

where technology is really

6:52

disrupting and taking over every aspect

6:55

of our society. And it's the

6:57

same within the music industry. Musicians

7:01

can use AI to help with their songwriting

7:03

process, to expedite it, to

7:05

provide more opportunities, more insights,

7:08

more perspectives. We use

7:10

project management tools and you'll find this

7:12

in our programs where we actually go

7:15

back we use We introduce our students

7:17

to Trello to help manage their

7:19

projects. So they're managing the

7:22

creative process, their production

7:25

processes, their marketing processes,

7:27

all using technologies. They use

7:29

chat, GPT, they use mid Journey,

7:32

we're using Adobe. We're using all

7:34

of these emerging tools to teach them how

7:36

to apply them in their

7:38

creative journeys. And I think that's

7:40

so important when we think

7:43

about technology and our youth, we

7:45

think of just social media, but that's only

7:47

one small portion of what

7:49

technology is and what technology can

7:52

be used for. So we want to make sure

7:54

that they're exposed to these tools so that they

7:56

can go into a production studio so

7:58

that they can apply these in order

8:00

to produce their music and to help refine

8:03

and expand and grow in

8:05

their creative side as well as as

8:07

well as embracing and cultivating

8:10

the natural talent that they have.

8:13

Okay, cool, now, it's great to hear this because

8:15

of the fact that as a minority,

8:17

as I am and as you are, you

8:19

know, we all all the last to the

8:22

table because no one wants

8:24

to give us the information and then all of a sudden,

8:26

when they provide us with the information, is like a handout,

8:28

like you know, you really don't deserve it. Here's

8:31

something and you get half of the information. That

8:33

is why I feel that diversity

8:36

equit inclusion, which

8:38

is about diversify and sharing opportunities,

8:41

has been beat up because it's been changed

8:45

in the way it's being presented.

8:47

It makes a handout and

8:49

it's never been a handout.

8:51

It's just cutting up the pie because you

8:53

still got to qualify, you still got to pull

8:55

out the PaperWorks. If you're not qualified, you

8:57

don't get to participate. But

9:00

politically it has been politicized. And

9:02

so how do you avoid a program

9:05

like this The an Cephuss Family

9:07

Fund Corporation, which is the

9:09

Dynamics of Educating ninth

9:11

through twelfth, a pilot program

9:14

that runs simultaneously with the school

9:16

period, from becoming politicized

9:19

The lead, You.

9:20

Know, that's an excellent

9:22

and excellent question. I

9:24

think that no one can dispute

9:27

the fact that technology is

9:30

disrupting our society, and therefore,

9:33

in order to

9:35

succeed in society, you have

9:38

to understand technology, and

9:40

especially technology and how it's used

9:42

in whatever industry you plan to pursue.

9:45

So what we aim to do is we're going

9:47

to give our kids what they need and

9:50

as well as make sure that they

9:52

also follow through with those

9:55

fundamental aspects. We're

9:57

not saying you don't have to go to high school.

10:00

You have to go to school. We want you to go to school.

10:02

This is an important piece of

10:04

your of your training, and of your

10:06

development. So we are

10:09

really looking to help incorporate

10:11

those things and as a as

10:13

an organization, we're providing what

10:15

they may not get in a mainstream environment.

10:18

Many of our schools don't have these

10:21

types of programs, but there are many of our high

10:23

schools that do. I

10:25

know Atlanta Public Schools they have a

10:27

full blown music production

10:29

studio in one of their high schools.

10:32

So, but again, all of

10:34

our students may not get the opportunity

10:36

to participate in those programs

10:39

because they have to have the grades. Yes, it's

10:41

all about inclusion. It's all about

10:43

providing them that opportunity, but

10:46

we also have to make sure that our youth

10:48

understand the importance of those

10:50

opportunities.

10:51

Before we go any further ins interview, how

10:53

do they get in touch with you? How is their website?

10:55

Because I want people to start, we're doing

10:57

their research, start in

11:00

this process of writing down the right contact

11:02

information, because that's what happens as well. It's

11:04

so many great programs of our programs out

11:06

there, but nobody knows how to participate because

11:09

guess what, they don't have the right contact information.

11:11

How does one if they're listening to

11:13

this interview, how does one participate

11:16

or get their child involved?

11:18

They can go directly to the ANCIPHAST website.

11:20

It's an a n n ceph

11:25

us ff dot

11:27

org.

11:28

Cool. Now that's great.

11:30

Now, what are the goals for

11:33

twenty twenty five with the foundation

11:36

and the kids nine through twelve, ninth

11:38

through twelfth grade.

11:39

So we ran a pilot program last school

11:42

year where we service nine students in

11:44

Gwinnett High School in the Gwenette County

11:46

High School System,

11:49

and we've refined the program a bit

11:51

so students can go on right now

11:54

register and even for the

11:56

remainder of the remaining months

11:58

of the school year, we provide

12:00

them with the exposure, with the

12:02

instruction to participate in

12:05

the program. So let

12:07

me step back and explain our flagship program.

12:10

It's called the three R

12:12

nine in program. It stands for three

12:15

roles in nine months. So

12:17

typically we expose our

12:19

students to the creative side

12:21

songwriting, composing, recording,

12:25

then the business side, the marketing, the

12:27

management, the operations, and

12:30

then the technology side how insect

12:32

the intersection of music and technology, so

12:34

they get they get an opportunity to

12:36

experience all of the aspects.

12:39

So if you're an artist, and yes you're creative,

12:41

you're going to focus on your craft, but you

12:43

need to know all of the pieces behind

12:46

the scenes that help you to

12:48

become that artist, that help you in a performance.

12:52

One of our students last year got an opportunity

12:54

to attend the Drake Concert and to see

12:56

the set production that has to go on, how

12:58

that has to online, the music. So

13:01

this program exposes our students

13:04

to all of that. So it's not that we're teaching

13:06

them their craft. They are incredibly

13:09

talented, incredibly

13:12

talented youth. We had one student

13:14

that actually played nine different instruments

13:17

and wrote songs. So you have these

13:19

children that have this natural talent

13:22

that we want to cultivate, that we want to expose.

13:25

So this program gives them an opportunity

13:27

to have hands on experience doing that. So

13:30

we have virtual classes, we introduce them

13:32

to experts in the industry, they

13:34

are able to ask questions, they were able

13:36

to learn, and then we have these

13:38

networking opportunities that they have. But

13:41

we also visit studios so they can

13:43

get some of that hands on experience and

13:45

then they are able to collaborate not only

13:47

with their peers that may have different skill sets,

13:50

they can showcase their skills with one another.

13:53

They are able to showcase at the end of

13:55

the school year those skills and

13:58

just getting them an opportunity unity to build their

14:00

technology skills, to refine

14:03

to accelerate and

14:06

just and to just improve

14:08

how they can deliver their talent.

14:11

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14:39

I'm talking to doctor Glennis Lee.

14:42

She is on the board of the Ann Sifas

14:44

Family Fund Corporation. We mentioned

14:46

Offset earlier, you know, just letting

14:48

everybody know it's not

14:50

about meeting Offset. She said three

14:53

things. There are three things you have to do.

14:55

Not meet him and get the linograph for herself.

14:58

You know you might you might not show

15:00

up to graduation. So just know this is a nine

15:02

month program, so you got a

15:05

period of time. You have to accomplish some tasks

15:07

before you even meet him. There's no guarantee.

15:09

The guarantee is this is a STEM

15:11

based organization. There's about

15:13

creative, technology and business those

15:16

three levels. Now, being my background,

15:18

you know I want in the stand up comic I managed

15:21

a superstar talent like Steve

15:23

Harvey, currently manages Steven A

15:25

Smith Sherry Shepard.

15:27

Talk show host. So I

15:29

know I met a lot of Beyonce.

15:31

I introduced her on stage back in Houston

15:34

a law Whence she was a member of the Destiny's Child

15:36

alow with Kelly Rowland Michelle Weavers.

15:38

So I can speak of

15:41

a lot of famous people that I've been involved

15:43

with. But in the process, that's

15:45

the creative side I'm introducing you.

15:47

You've seen them do stand up, You've seen

15:49

them sing, You've seen these people act, you

15:51

see them on TV. But it's the

15:53

business side that creates

15:55

the longevity of it. Having

15:57

the right lawyer, making sure that your

16:00

music is copyrting, making

16:02

sure that you're not playing

16:05

using music that needs to be licensed, and they

16:07

come back and say you owe it? Is this amount of money

16:09

that's the business now? Because you know in this

16:11

business, doctor Lee, is

16:13

that so many of these kids probably showed up with

16:16

tapes. You know, I got my mill,

16:18

They ready to go. They just want you to

16:21

here's my tape. Where can I get it played? Can

16:23

I get it in the radio?

16:24

And all that stuff?

16:25

How do you slow down those individuals

16:28

but still keep them focused

16:30

on doing it right.

16:34

It's funny you asked that question, But I think

16:36

a lot of the incentive is the money

16:38

that they can make and understanding, understanding

16:42

that. If you don't understand

16:44

these things, you sign away your rights

16:47

to your own creative license. So

16:50

you're signing your name away, you're signing

16:52

your ability to have sustainable,

16:55

recurring passive income because

16:57

you don't understand how royalties work

16:59

in the end history. You don't understand

17:01

that if you sign and that line

17:04

says you do X y Z. You mentioned having

17:06

a great lawyer, that this line

17:08

says I have this this

17:10

recording company or this agency now

17:13

owns your music. That means

17:15

that you don't own it anymore. So

17:18

how do you protect your

17:20

your your your intellectual property?

17:23

Yes, you are your asset

17:25

and how do you protect that? And I think when

17:27

you when you really get them, when they really understand

17:30

that piece, they become more

17:33

open to Yes, let me

17:35

understand how this business is operating.

17:37

And you will hear many say I just want to write

17:39

the music. Well, you also want to live. You

17:41

also want to make the money. You also want

17:43

to have income. You don't you want you don't

17:46

want to have to file bankruptcy three years after

17:48

you get your first big contract. You

17:50

want to be able. You want to learn how to

17:52

live and how to manage that money, even from a

17:54

personal aspect, as you, as

17:56

you, as you progress in the industry,

17:59

as you grow, and.

18:00

Doctor Lee, I want to share this story. I

18:03

want to share the story what you're about.

18:04

Why is important to have the

18:06

business side straight. I was interviewing Jermaine

18:09

Dupree and it was right around

18:11

the whole COVID side when the world

18:13

was shut down, and that's when he realized

18:17

the business side that he locked down. We

18:19

call it mailbox money. It means

18:21

that he didn't do anything. He didn't write

18:24

a song, he didn't perform, and

18:26

checks were coming in because he

18:28

did the business right. That

18:31

means songs were still being played, songs

18:33

will still being streaming, and he was

18:35

getting paid for that. And that's what

18:37

they need to understand. And that's what you're telling

18:39

these jungk people.

18:40

Yes, yes, if you do it.

18:41

Right, when you think the whole world

18:43

is you retired, you still

18:46

get these checks.

18:47

You can get these checks to you.

18:48

You can actually pass these checks

18:50

to your children if you do it right

18:53

business wise, correct.

18:55

Correct, correct, absolutely,

18:57

and then that big hit becomes

18:59

a hit for the rest of your life. Even you

19:02

know, you know, I often you

19:04

know, we often laugh about Frankly Frankie

19:06

Beverly amazed that they had that one or

19:09

two good albums and they.

19:11

Would before I let

19:13

go come on, like

19:17

they.

19:17

Never let go, They never let go

19:19

down.

19:23

So them boys is seventy seven girl nineteen

19:25

seventy seven,

19:29

since that doesn't happen music

19:32

and maybe millions of dollars,

19:34

you know, and these songs have been read song

19:36

and they owned the rights to them. Every time

19:38

somebody play that song, or somebody redoes

19:41

that song or puts a rap on the bites,

19:44

the.

19:44

Covers, the beats, everything.

19:47

We were talking that it's a legacy.

19:50

That's what it's really about.

19:51

It because what we discovered was

19:53

that, you know, especially a lot of songs

19:56

and artists who were just singers, you

19:58

know, from the sounds of music, the Philadelphia

20:00

sound, the Motown sounds, a lot of sounds

20:03

out of Memphis. They were

20:05

just artists. And so when the songs

20:07

were played, even though their voce was on.

20:09

It, they didn't get a check. They didn't

20:11

get a check.

20:12

They were just performing. They got paid and

20:14

guess what got paid for their services. But the

20:16

longevity of being able to own the rights

20:19

to that music they didn't get to participate

20:21

in and that as a publisher. And

20:23

that is what we're talking about. We're talking

20:26

about what the ant Sipho's Family

20:28

Fund Corporation does. They're engaging

20:31

kids ninth through twelfth

20:33

grade with a program.

20:34

This is the second year of the program. They're the pilot program

20:37

with nine young students. And these

20:39

nine young students are now aware

20:42

of the creative process.

20:43

That's what introduced them into the

20:45

program, the ant Siphas's Family Fund Corporation

20:47

program. But what they realized and

20:50

what doctor Lee realizes that if

20:52

we don't teach these kids about business,

20:54

then they will not be aware of all their technology

20:57

advantages that are out there, like you said, Chad

21:00

Ai using music,

21:02

to using AI to write music,

21:05

to be created with lyrics and all these

21:07

different things. Because that's where we are headed.

21:09

As we close this interview out and now I want

21:11

to thank you for taking time to do this. Let's

21:14

make sure people know how to get in touch with

21:16

you and the organization again, the

21:18

organization is and Cphless Family

21:20

Find Corporation.

21:23

Yes, you can go to our website.

21:25

It's and cphis FF dot

21:27

org. It's spelled A n n ce

21:31

p h U s f

21:33

F dot org. And of

21:35

course our call to action, we definitely

21:38

need your support. We are a nonprofit organization,

21:41

so there is a big pink donate

21:44

button right there on the website,

21:47

so please feel free.

21:48

Yes pink ka

21:51

pink is it aka pink?

21:53

Well, our founder is a Delta, so it's just sisterhood

21:55

it at this point.

21:58

Your father being the o't they got

22:00

a pink button? Ache? Kids?

22:02

See that's okay, We just that's that's

22:04

all right because she knows, she knows,

22:08

freaking the buddy.

22:09

Yes, you know that's beautiful because you

22:11

know, like I said, I just want to let you know that it

22:13

was the first time I heard of this program and that's not a bad

22:16

thing.

22:17

It's that. But you need volunteers.

22:18

You need people like me who are willing to

22:21

come in and speak, who have a

22:23

resume that will get these kids attention.

22:25

They'll make sure they understand. But I

22:27

guess I also want to.

22:28

Know is the type of students

22:30

that you are are you that

22:32

benefits of this type of program? Are they at

22:35

risk students? Are they students celebrated

22:37

students? How do these students find out

22:39

about the program and who are you

22:41

targeting, doctor Lee.

22:43

Yes, we are really targeting those at

22:45

risk creatives. Many times, are you feel

22:48

that if they want to pursue, particularly

22:50

your music career, and we often see this in the

22:52

sports arena too, that they let

22:54

their academics slide. So one

22:57

of our first goals is to help contribute

23:00

to increasing our graduation rate

23:02

in Gwinnett County among our young

23:04

among our at risk uths. So

23:07

we want to help motivate and inspire

23:09

them to continue their high school

23:11

education. But in doing so in

23:14

parallel and in conjunction with also

23:17

helping to refine and build and cultivate

23:19

their creative aspirations. So helping

23:22

them see that it's it's not it's

23:24

not a zerosome game. It's not that you either do

23:26

this or do that. You do them together

23:28

and if you do it together well, you

23:31

can propel your success even further.

23:33

So that's really that's really what we

23:35

aim for. So most of

23:37

our students are average students, they're students

23:40

that have lost interest

23:42

in school, So we really want to help inspire

23:44

them and motivate them to regain

23:47

that understanding. Like, hey, if

23:49

you want to make money and if you want to have money,

23:51

you need to know your math.

23:53

You know, you have to know math.

23:55

So it kind of inspires them

23:57

and gives them a different perspective on

24:00

how they view their high school education. So

24:02

that's who we're targeting now.

24:04

We work directly with our high school.

24:07

So we go and we talk to counselors, we talk

24:09

to principles. Sometimes they identify

24:11

students that say, hey, this may be a great

24:13

person for your program. But we also

24:15

communicated out to parents, We communicate

24:18

it out to the churches here in the

24:20

great and then when that county area.

24:23

We want everyone to know about the program,

24:26

and to be honest, we

24:28

haven't turned anyone away that has expressed

24:30

interest. We are willing as

24:33

well as much as our capacity allows us

24:35

to to work with whomever is interested

24:37

because we are so committed to

24:40

helping our youth and helping our young creatives

24:43

be successful and have and establish

24:46

sustainable creative careers.

24:48

Well, I'm gonna tell you that, doctor Lee, I'm a fan

24:51

of yours. Thank you for.

24:52

Coming over the show, you know, and spreading that denied

24:55

divine nine love.

25:02

But like I told you earlier, I'm gonna make a

25:04

man. So I've been good, I'd have been good.

25:06

And now come

25:11

on, now, come on, now you ski we a

25:13

can't.

25:14

We're gonna have a lot of thought in this life

25:16

AND's and this year is just the start of a long term

25:19

relationship. Anything I can bring to

25:21

the table Money Making Conversations master Class.

25:23

We're using the tool of my voice and

25:25

your interview of being able to

25:27

promote what you are doing in the community, because

25:30

as we go into this upcoming

25:32

administration, their number one goal

25:35

is to stop, as they

25:37

say, government participation.

25:39

And community oriented events.

25:41

And what we're talking about what she's

25:43

what they're doing over the Ant Siphast Family

25:45

Fund Corporation is a community

25:47

oriented event. What we're saying

25:50

public to everybody is that if

25:52

they're gonna stop helping us, that

25:54

we need to start helping ourselvesselves.

25:57

And that is the number one takeaway

25:59

that you're getting this interview, and

26:01

doctor Lee, thank you for taking the time to allow

26:03

me to have fun with you, but also

26:06

are powerful information that

26:09

you guys are doing in the community. And I

26:11

love the fact that when you see when

26:13

I grew up, rappers was just

26:15

rapping.

26:16

They're just in the industry. Now you see rappers

26:18

as business people. You know clothing

26:21

lines.

26:22

You know you saw Snoop Dogg. He sponsored

26:25

a bull game this last

26:28

year or this year. And then you see some

26:30

of the richest people, they are billionaires. So

26:32

now the conversation of these

26:35

wanted to be an entertainer, Now you

26:37

want to be a business person, Now you

26:40

want to own property. I feel

26:42

with telling a better story than when I

26:44

was growing.

26:45

Up because it was just music.

26:47

Now twenty years later, you see

26:49

the results of these young people that

26:52

I hope that you are building in

26:54

this organization will be twenty

26:57

years from that. Their names will be on

26:59

Bowl games, their names will be on

27:01

buildings, their names will be

27:03

changing lives of the next generation.

27:06

And I know the importance of what you guys are trying

27:08

to do. And again I want to thank you and commend

27:10

you for your efforts.

27:12

Thank you so much, Thank you for having us, and

27:14

thank you for giving us this opportunity to

27:16

talk about our organization and what

27:18

we're doing. So again, go to our

27:21

website. We will be thrilled

27:23

to have your support both financially

27:25

and if you know of a student in the Gwenett

27:28

County area that would love to participate,

27:30

we would love to have them.

27:32

I appreciate it.

27:33

Then, thank you for coming on money Making Conversation

27:35

Masterclass.

27:35

You are wonderful.

27:37

Thank you, Thank you so much.

27:39

This has been another edition of Money Making Conversation

27:41

Masterclass hosted by me Rashaun

27:43

McDonald. Thank you to our guests on the show

27:46

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27:48

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