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My name is Ronnie Brown and I'm the author of Amazon's best selling book from Moppin Flores to Make

A Millions and was once a team mom-term

millionaire business mentor.

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And don't worry, sis, I got you.

Okay, so first question is Ronnie, I was asking, how are you able to not shrink yourself as a black woman and demand your respect and be confident?

That's a really good question.

I think that you often feel like you'll get further

in business, especially women, you you know and people overall you know you feel like

you will get further in business if you shrink yourself people tell you that

and the reason why they tell you that and the reason why they tell you that is because they want you to be mediocre.

All right.

Hold on girls, I want to make my bride me.

They tell you that because they want you to be mediocre, they want you to live a very mediocre life,

and it's this thing where if you are kind of out the way right you'll

be less of a threat to other people and I just feel like I just never cared about being accepted by everyone anyway.

I grew up in the hood. So where I grew up at it's just like people were going to tell you about yourself. Anyway, I was fighting a lot growing up. I was always on my fights and stuff.

I hung around a group of girls and it was off the chain.

So I never cared about being accepted

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