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Thank you. Black Entrepreneur Blueprint. Welcome to the Black Entrepreneur Blueprint, episode number 190.

I'm your host Jay Jones, and today we have a dynamic and informative show for you, as always.

Now, today's show topic is actually not the show that

was supposed to be played today. I had a very high profile guest that had to reschedule our

interview. So today I'm actually doing the show that was scheduled for the following week.

But actually things kind of worked out anyway. Today's show topic is

control is the key to your success. Control is the key to your success. And actually,

in the last two days, two instances actually bought this topic up. And I said, you know what,

that must be a sign. So let me do this show this week and one of the

first instances was one of our B eB family members and also he was a guest on the show Mr. Nick

Eaton sent out a tweet about a company that was called Little Things and how because they didn't control the platform that they built

their company on, which was Facebook, that they lost 75% of their actual Facebook followers

based on a change by Facebook to their algorithm. So they didn't control their platform.

Now, the other conversational

incident that I had was I just talked to my oldest daughter who's a senior in college,

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