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Shaq, thanks for joining us today. My man, good to see you. Thanks for having me.

Hey, man. It's my pleasure. So how would you get it started by telling us a little bit about

yourself and what you do? Got you my name is shekeel Alexander for those

wondering yes I was named after Shaquille O'Neill most people do call me Shaq I really don't have a

preference but a born and raised on the east side of Columbus of Ohio a small city called whitehall

grew up here went to high school here graduated 2014 I went on to graduate from out of my

university in 2018,

where I studied finance, became a licensed CPA, three years at a big firm. And now I'm doing

a lot of different things, some consultancies, working at the public housing authority here in

Columbus, and also I serve a city treasurer in Whitehall. I'm currently in the middle of a campaign.

I think we'll talk a little bit about that today. Yeah, man, absolutely. And like I was saying at the beginning, when we're getting started, we were almost at a thousand episodes right now. But we've never had somebody. I'm not going to say a politician. We're not going to say that. We are a public servant in the middle of a campaign.

And there are some persuasive tools and techniques that you're using that are very powerful.

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