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Good morning, everyone. Thursday, September 15, welcome to 30 minutes with Spyglass lending. Brian Murdock, founder and CEO of all world communication, excuse me, all world communications is here today. He has joined us. We appreciate him being here. Brian, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me, man. And again, thank you for coming on.

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I like to dive right into it. It's important to hear your story. It's important we understand who you are. So if you don't mind, if you don't mind talking about yourself a little bit. Tell us where you're from originally. Where are you landed at now and tell us a little bit about your life. Yeah. So again, you already introduced me Brian Murdoch. I'm born and raised in South Bend Indiana.

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Home of the fighting Irish, even though I am not a Notre Dame fan.

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Grow up and go to school. A couple blocks away from Notre Dame so very very good friends were Notre Dame people and obviously a fan of course

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you're talking about Indiana who's you're married you know, Notre Dame Irie into the Notre Dame Irish family. But I'm certainly not a fan myself. So we'll get along very well. Yes.

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So yeah, man, I I'm from South Bend. Went to school there went to Ball State for a a couple years. I tell people I played playing football.

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And I'm from a very strict and rigorous Christian family.

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I had never endeavored into anything like drinking,

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ever dated a girl. Anything had never been to a dance. So my first semester in college was pretty interesting to say the least my first year. Did you just completely go the other way? Were you one of those? It was like oh, the fruit the taste of free over the edge. 100% Yeah. It was all it was all in like what is this beautiful, bright new world? Of course

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that my father did a great thing of taking me out of school for a couple of years to assess my life. My father owned Murdoch and Sons construction growing up people in South Bend know that is

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it a lot of work at Notre Dame to do a lot of street work and government work. So after those two years of me, working with my hands and knowing that that is not a choice that I wanted to be my career. If I may ask what what were you doing from exactly I mean, were you I wasn't your labor? Yeah. Oh, so what we were building so my my father at the time built churches.

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He did a lot of roadwork, he did a lot of work at high end tech I encode I don't believe them anymore. But so a lot of engineers

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just do a regular general contractor make it happen. Yep. Very good.

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So transferred out. I said, I would never do construction, and we'll talk about that later on.

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Transferred to Purdue. I wanted my sister who was just to go to school.

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I said, we were gonna get along. And now you had to bring up Purdue and you know, come on.

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Are you gonna tell her Hoosier you ended up in Purdue?

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Yeah, I mean, you we all make choices. I just happen to make

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your right by the way, I take it all back. But it was a phenomenal school. I mean, obviously well known with an engineering program, like like no other. But a great school all around. Certainly. Yes. And we have family a family member who went to IU and has done extremely well. She's now a doctor. So I can say nothing negative about IU. Two great institutions will agree on that. Agree agree. So is that Purdue was enjoying it. They're learning a lot. What my focus really was what my passion I should say, was even when I was at Ball State was music. I wanted to sing. So when I transferred to Purdue actually met a couple people. Like, oh, you really should do this singing.

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So I decided I was gonna go for it. So I was at Purdue for a couple years. I almost done school and just left. I left I'm going to be a saner. What type of thing. I was a solo singer. Oh, wow. Okay. Yes, yes. You got that deep voice man. I bet that that resonated for a while. Yeah, it was it was great. It was great. But the biggest thing was

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With me as a young man

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was understanding the completion of tasks. And so starting starting a task and completing a task that was that was never,

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it wasn't a focus. I thought, okay, cool. I'm gonna do this and then someone's gonna scrap me and I'm going to be a star. No, I can say, that's not the way it is, you still have to put in the work no matter what it is, you've got to put in the work. So I did that in Chicago moved to fast forward. I'm now in LA,

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LA, and I'm singing. I'm working with some really cool people singing It's a really cool shows.

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But things aren't happening for me because I am under the impression that me being a good singer is all I need to do.

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So I gave myself a couple years, my buddies are in real estate here in LA.

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Families are doing really well in real estate.

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And we'd go out and they buy Oh, Brian's got no money. So we'll take care of Brian's got no money, we'll take care of

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this. Well, Brian's got no money, things aren't working for me. Right? So I was like, Okay, I blamed it on the music.

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This is why I'm broke. So I was like, let me go get a job. And that's the beginning really, of

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my career in Los Angeles. I started working for an Avaya business partner out of Ventura. So I would drive to Ventura a couple of days a week, and then work from home and then go see clients. Wait, if I may, I want to kind of paint a picture here for a second because anybody who doesn't live in Los Angeles understands this right? Does LA County, there's Ventura County, so we're in LA County, where are you? Living?

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Okay, so you're in Brentwood, and you're driving to Ventura County. So you're popping on to the 405. And

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we get on on a one on one and getting up there. And what I mean that, you know, wrong time a day, you know, that could be well over an hour each way, right? Yes,

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sir, it was. But hey, these are the things that we do as salespeople as Americans, you, you take the opportunity, you run with it, that was just one side. And once I got up and running, they put us in office in an office in Orange County. So I tried an hour the other way, the other way, right.

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Sure.

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Exactly.

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But I started to really, really love it.

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Meeting different clients from

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very different kinds of businesses, business structures, and solving problems. That's something I have a spirit of wanting to help.

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And so I saw that using technology to help people. So it was pretty cool. What year was this? By the way, if I may ask, were you this was 2004 2004. You Yes. Yeah. So I mean,

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such a great timeframe to think about right in terms of how you're talking about leveraging technology know that here we are almost 20 years later, but it was we're we're 10 years into the internet at that point, right 93 Come on for the most part and those first few years are just barren wasteland. So you know, we're pre

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the cell phone taking off certainly pre social media popping off but you're you're thinking about it and you already know that there's there's a future there leveraging technology to help people. It's common. So the cell phone the cell phones were out in oh four, but what wasn't out was the smartphone. Right? So we all we all had the razor we all had the cool Pocket PC, we all have those phones. Sure. I remember back in the day. I tell people now because it's very different, obviously. Older book going out when people actually went out to go out as opposed to going out to take pictures to post.

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So that's the biggest difference. The biggest difference, but I'm like BlackBerry Palm Pilot. I mean, that was that was the huge thing at that time. Right? Kind of 2002 2001 2005 those that

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transition to the T Mobile sidekick Sure. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so was there and the biggest thing is seeing what you brought up the internet. Seeing the changes of dial up to T ones in the business and the businesses to a T one which is 1.5 download speeds. And then going to find the T one two people WHAT IS THAT SO going on to T one dot you can add for 1.5 T wants together. And so people thinking that having six makes down they

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We're like really killing it. Where we are right now. We are now. And we were streaming right now we're streaming across three platforms here, got LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook all at once. Yeah, yeah, you definitely can't do that in six minutes.

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Different time, but different time. So I work for that company GE solutions.

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As I told you, I'm from a very

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kind of conservative, strict family. And one thing that my family has always

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priced upon us was respect of our elders. So with that company that I was with,

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I did a meeting with Musicians Institute, I will never forget it, I'll give them a shout out. I did a meeting with them with my at that time, vice president of the company that I was working for.

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And this is a life lesson. If you have brokers, dealers, and salespeople, this guy was pushing so hard, the solution that was the wrong solution on the client.

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And I knew that it was the wrong solution.

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But I'm supposed to be respectful. So I'm quiet. But I'm seeing the nonverbal cues of my client, who's loved me for the past year and a half that I've nurtured this relationship, but I'm ready. I'm like, Oh, wow, love to have 12 buildings.

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And

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radio silence. So I transition for one year into entertainment, and work with one of my buddies there. Helping him set up events here in LA, it was amazing.

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Man, the most fun that you could ever imagine. Yeah. Got to hang out with so many celebrities, musicians, athletes, I was like, This is how they get these kids to work for $15,000. Right? That was like, I'm not a kid, I cannot do this.

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Like, that is really fun, guys, I'm gonna go back to technology, because I know that that makes me.

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So did that went to a different company, based out of Florida.

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And I was just an independent contractor guy, kind of making things happen.

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out in the field.

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Their model was to just call people call people call people were my model has always been really solution selling, getting out seeing what the problem is.

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Understanding from a first principle, what's going on with that client.

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And so from there, it kind of took off my business as to 99. Within really took off I did really well. Then as clients, we all we did was phone systems at the time. And so clients would be like, hey, well, I want someone to do these security cameras. I want someone to do this network cabling. I want someone to do these other things. Like go to my company. Hey, can we do this? They're like, No, I need you to focus on phones right now. Yep. But it's done. Like there. I am the guy. They're like, No, Brian, we can focus on the phones. Okay, cool. Well, I'm gonna figure this out.

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Phones, and I'm gonna figure this out. Even the client, everything they need, I'm gonna exactly I'm gonna give the client exactly what they're asking me said solution selling. So there we go, Man solution selling baby. I found out to find other contractors that were in the business, who could actually provide the services that the client was requesting.

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So I did that.

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And did that very successfully for a while.

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My buddy worked for at the time Arden. And then Arden sold their portfolio to Brookfield properties. So he's working for Brookfield property. So I've been working with them for years and years now.

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So at some point, he called me up and Ryan was like, Hey, I've got a big deal in San Francisco, I think they're gonna want to use you. Let me go call my company. This was like, literally my last swing with the company I was with in Florida. It's like, Hey, this is gonna be a big deal. They want us to do the cabling for this entire floor.

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And they're like, Brian, we've told you this.

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How many times can we have this conversation?

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And I was like, no problem. I'm gonna go figure it out again. So I called one of my buddies because, you know, producing amazing school. And so we have so many resources of just exceptional people. I call her buddies. Like, I was a little dig at me, but yeah, we'll take it. Oh,

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great producers.

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And I was like, Hey, do you know anyone that can actually run the cable at this job, by the way, he's like, absolutely. I got you. He's like, you get that deal done, and I'm gonna send you a lot

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are some money.

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And I was like, it's gonna be done tomorrow. I did the deal. He said the money. And I was like, okay, he said that really fast, I think I really need to assess if I should just be a 1099 for this company, or if I should start my own company. There you go. So 2000 Real make or break moment in your life, right?

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So 2012 all world communications was born

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out of the fact that I believe that I can solve problems. Yeah, that's a great name. By the way, I just want to say that I'm throwing that out there just to pay a little, little lip service UBI. You know, as a great in all world communications is a great name. Thank you very much. And our, our goal for the company is to bring people together and connect the world. That is it.

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It's not a not a lot, but it is a lot. But I believe that it is possible. It's a great pillar to have. And essentially, you started doing everything right. I mean, I did, I did.

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So we do security, access control, which people who are using key fobs, proxy readers, things like that. We install that we work with companies like latch,

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who went public last year, we worked with very large companies, Brookfield uncommon developers, which is an up and coming large developer here in Los Angeles.

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Just doing a doing the work, like I say, any technology needs that our client has.

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We feel like we can figure out what that problem is and really present a solution to that problem for the client.

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What's the largest company you work with?

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The largest company we work with is Brookfield, Brookfield. How many employees are they at now?

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are like a $500 500 billion. Yeah, so it's hard to say exactly.

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How many employees specifically, but there you go. We'll talk Gross, gross revenue.

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Numbers, certainly so so

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we're blessed to be able to work with them to work with Levi's, like I said, uncommon

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toy company that everyone knows it's a privately owned toy company. But I don't know if I'm allowed to say their name. Just we'll just keep it at that. And those listening can use their imagination. Yeah, there you go.

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So yeah, then that's it. The the next steps or the next evolution of all world communications is, is our process of creating change in America by solving our socio economic problems by going out and going into communities of underserved and teaching them skills of technology, teaching them how to manage a network, how to pull network cable, how to terminate cable, how to install, and all the things that people talk about STEM.

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And it's just because of seeing over the years,

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most people see the news, I think it's ITT, all the kids that had

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their loans, relieved because the company made promises of jobs and things like that.

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I am a huge America fan.

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I'm a huge capitalism fan.

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But I believe that capitalism has to be for the good. And if we are being honest with ourselves,

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a diverse America is the best America. And to have a diverse America, we have to share opportunities and opportunities, means not money, but sharing access to information.

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And it makes America amazing.

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I couldn't agree more. I mean, you know, there's a term I like to use that I've never really heard before. But it's this notion of healthy capitalism, you know, because capitalism has been just dragged through the mud more and more and more, right. I mean, you talk and we're going to talk about this for a second, because you mentioned

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what the next evolution of of oral communications is, and certainly a lofty goal and reaching out to the communities and obviously, that's about reaching the youth, but the youth I mean, the percentage of those who will tell you that they would happily run towards socialism or happily even run towards communism, if they could, is astounding, you know, if the numbers would be to be believed, it's it's scary out there, certainly. Because you're also talking to a very big capitalist and a number of reasons. And I'm with you and a lover of this country as well. But what do we think the issue is you

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And how are you going to solve it?

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I think the largest underlying issue is, like I said, the access to information.

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A lot of people

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just go, we'll just go to a simple thing.

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If I had never met Aaron Pfeffer, or never met anyone that look like Aaron Pfeffer, and someone who I grew up said, hey, everyone that looks like Aaron Pfeffer has an A and a p in their name. They're terrible people. This is a person that I trust in. Anytime that I come in contact with that person, I'm going to just assume that that is true. And a lot of people, they just have these, these these notions of what I call nonsense. And so you start from that level, if you have a notion of nonsense, programmed into your mind that this person is bad that if this person has made this amount of money, then they are bad. Yeah. If this person is just foolishness, and we just have to, at some point, again, be honest with ourselves and say, We all see the world

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with different lenses. Let's start there. We see the world with different lenses. And that's okay. So we're all going to have different opinions about things. But this nonsense, this foolishness

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stems from this disinformation you're talking about, I mean, specific, like targeted disinformation, misinformation campaigns, especially through social media. And that's hard. That's now hard to counteract when the nonsense seeps through to the youth, you know, because they're targeted purposefully. Yeah.

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But it's people like you. And I, before to say people like me, getting out speaking your mind and being honest and open and having what I call civil discourse, like, it's okay, we don't the two of us, we don't have to agree. But we can still be friends. It's better if we don't agree. Right? If we're just sitting on the same side of the of the aisle, you know, preaching to each other ourselves. I mean, what good is that? Right? How are we supposed to have the discourse if we just agreed on everything? That's, that wouldn't help. That's exactly right. How are things actually done? If every time someone says, Yep, I agree, I agree. And we are in a place right now, where if there is a disagreement, and that makes you a bad person, and that's a big problem. That's a huge problem. So how's all world communications? What what are you doing specifically to help counter this? And what is your focus? Now, the focus with all world communications is, as I spoke to you earlier, off camera

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working with soon, hopefully, at the beginning of next month,

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with the city of LA with workforce development, and getting kids and training them, training them on the things that we were talking about, training them on low voltage, training them on networking, getting them out into the workforce, and showing them a path to career creation, not a path to a dead end job. And working at a McDonald's, Burger King, those are cool, as a good start for people.

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But it's not a path, in my opinion,

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in my opinion, to career creation, whereas I've had, in the short time that I've owned my company, I've had guys start from $20 an hour, grow to six figures. Yeah. And so those things, I've had people work from the beginning of my company to get to a point where they can buy a home.

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And that's the end of the day. That's where wealth is created in America. You either not just buy a home, but maintain it, right rewards net, just because it's you know, and we were talking about that a little bit too. It's like this, this achievement of, oh, I got money, or oh, I've achieved some sort of status. I have this car now I have this home now, whatever it may be. I mean, that's just really the starting block. Right? I mean, then the gardening begins to I mean,

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actually gardening, perhaps in the backyard, but more Metaphorically speaking, I mean, just looking and saying how do I do this year after year, decade after decade and turn it into something real? Right. A life?

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That's correct. That's correct.

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That is one piece of it.

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I believe that some of the children that have the youth that we're talking about, have not had to experience or have not had the ability to really learn how to

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to handle their emotions, how to, to modulate their emotions and become resilient. And so I sit on the board, have a cup of a nonprofit equip our kids that's really just focused on social emotional learning, and hopefully getting that into the schools. Because the more that children's, if I may interject for a second, I want to, I want to ask a question you say, hopefully get that into the schools do we feel or you feel like that's not in the schools now at all.

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It's not very, very, very low penetration schools.

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I spoke with my stepmother about it. And she's with a large charter school. And she said, it's a very important thing in which we need to be pushing to get out. Because what it is, is you teach kids resilience, but you're also teaching them it's okay to be emotional, it's okay to be empathetic to others, and their opinions and their thoughts. And again, it gets back to our point of, they may see things differently than you. But that doesn't make them wrong. It just makes them different.

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Empathy has obviously become such a big buzzword these last few years, and rightfully so. But I take it even a step further, take it a step further and say about more specifically, compassion, which is a little a little different than than empathy. I mean, yes, you know, empathize with those. But if you have the compassion for others, what their plight may be what they're going through, that's a huge difference. And that seems to all all too often to get lost in the mix.

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I agree.

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Compassion is great. It isn't, it isn't necessity, as being, you would think, to being a human being. Because being human being, that you're being human, and I'm caring about your end, because we are believed that we were built to be to work together to grow communities.

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That's how all of that's how all of this came to be. We're not stronger than lions, bears and tigers. But if we work together, we have the ability to do things. And I think

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once the

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whatever is going on in America once we kind of stop and pause for a second. And really just think about all of our differences. Because those are those are out there all the time. This is different. He she they are black or white, or he's rich, he's one percenter, he's 99. If we just stop and pause for a second, we'll understand that everything that makes us different, is really what makes us the same, because we're all on the same journey. Love that. And if I may circle back for a moment, you know, you talked about workforce development in Los Angeles, what is that specifically, by the way that you're working so closely within, it seems it seems important to you is it's very important. So what workforce development is, is going into the communities that underserved communities where there are youth of certain ages, I believe, right now we're looking at 18 to 24,

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that are looking at are actively looking for careers. Everyone's like, oh, man, there are no skilled workers, there are none of this, but

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you just have to be able to look because a lot of times these kids that are in these areas that are in these depressed areas, they think that their only option is to work at a fast food or work at a factory, or work at on one of these places where you're not going to have the ability to ascend.

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And so and again, there is nothing wrong with people who work in those places. So I don't want it to sound like I'm denigrating anyone, but for those who are growth minded and they want the ability

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to level up, they want the ability to grow, both financially and mentally. That's That's what our hope is, as we've worked with,

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you say it is.

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Yeah. I mean, it sounds so important to you. And and it's it's important, everybody, and it's great that you're doing that and great that the company is doing that.

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I hate to say it, but we we've run into 30 minutes already. I have like 95 more questions, this conversation in a million different directions, but unfortunately, it's a 30 minute show.

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Brian Murdock, founder and CEO of all world communications, you are out there doing it. It sounds like you've created this incredible business already and you've had this awesome decade. Long Run obviously and now your

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Dare I say paying it forward. That's way to put it. Yeah.

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So I'm looking forward to the next 10 years and seeing what we can do and and how many lives we can change that'd be great I'm looking forward to seeing that as well well I appreciate you joining us today thank you very much for this this is great thank you well

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thank you Brian