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🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | How is doing international business shifted like your perspective of like domestic business? |
0:10.0 | That's a great question. So I don't do as much domestic business as I used to and that's what made me feel like I need to come back home to domestic to try to bridge |
0:21.9 | it. |
0:22.2 | Right. |
0:22.7 | It has shifted my focus because my mind now thinks global economy. |
0:28.8 | My mind thinks GDP and our gross domestic product, right? |
0:32.4 | That's our global economy. |
0:34.1 | My mind now thinks free trade agreements with other countries. We're in the middle of a |
0:38.3 | Chinese trade war. I have to follow that, of course. So that started under the Trump administration, |
0:43.5 | which added an additional 25% of duty to goods originating in China. So I have to now figure out a way |
0:50.0 | to capitalize on that where I can get that money back for people. So it shifted my mind because I think global, I think international, I think about the |
1:01.1 | transportation of goods and what that means for our global economy. |
1:04.3 | But it's also shifted my mind in a good way because that's when I started to realize |
1:08.1 | that there was a huge gap culturally as well. |
1:11.6 | Because I'm never going to say that there's not a lot of minorities that don't know about this, |
1:17.6 | but that's been my experience that they don't know. |
1:19.6 | Right. |
1:20.6 | And I do business with people of all walks of life and culture, but I don't see any diversity. |
1:25.6 | People think international, they automatically think that means, oh, that has to be diverse. |
1:28.9 | It's not. |
1:29.9 | Right. |
1:30.9 | I also make the joke sometimes from the block to the boardroom because I'm the only one |
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