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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Here's a question for us. Uh, listen to this. What
has your boss done to help you live your dream? What?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let me go and sit back.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
What listen, we're always helping our boss. Take it away, crew,
We're always helping our company.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
That ain't a question about no you helping me. The
question is what is your boss done to help you
live your dream?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Can I? Can I set it up? Please?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
We'll hear about all that old other self call we
do this and that. That ain't what the question is.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, but you know we got to set it up
all right? So you know we're always helping our bosses.
We help our companies. Often we do extra work then
get left in the dust when our companies have bigger opportunities.
But some of us have great bosses. Okay, trying to
get to this part, Steve, some of us have great bosses.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Time for us to share with Steve, our boss, what
he did for us to help us live our dream.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Wants.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I think Junior wants to do what they got to live.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Let me just say about my boss will leave my dream.
First thing my boss did will give me jobs? First
of all, let's just look at the jobs little big shots. Yeah, Apollo,
Steve TV, and this Hip morning.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Shoot.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Now what else do I have to thank him for?

Speaker 5 (01:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. You're good. Yeah, that's good, Junior.
That's the come up, right, yes? Yeah, all right? The
question is what is your boss done to help you
live your dreams? Go ahead, Carla? Are you still writing
your list down? Uh? Huh oh yeah, let me.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Can't even He don't even know what.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
No, Tommy's going last because you're preoccupied. He's your nephew.
He's going long.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
It's gonna take time.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Might just I can talk for No, he's gonna go
last because you're his uncle.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Sureleyn's going Yeah, okay, I'm going. So. The first thing
you've done is allow me to continue being an executive
manager in radio.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
For over twenty something.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
You yes, big, I am the only black African American
woman to be running a syndicated show in this country. Right,
that's thanks to you. Let's see what else? And you
encourage me to launch my own lip glass, my own

(02:35):
lip glass line. So thank you very much. Entrepreneurial ownership,
cosmetic or group, whatever you want to say.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
So thank you, Steve. That's awesome. All right, here's the
question what has your boss done to help you live
your dreams? All right, my turn?

Speaker 5 (02:53):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
First of all, First of all, Steve has made me
laugh more than I've ever laughed in my entire life,
which is a great thing. I mean it just yeah,
we're trying to give you love here. You've made me laugh,
really laugh. Okay, here's the other thing you've done for me.
You've taught me because I didn't know this before I

(03:15):
met you. You taught me about men and how men
think and all of this kind of thing. Okay, you
taught me about that. I didn't know that at first.
I didn't have a dad, I didn't really have you know,
like a lot of male role models in my life.
So you became that for me. So you became like
a father, brother uncle to me as well. All right.

(03:36):
And that, yeah, you made me. You allowed me to
help you write on your most successful book, your first
time out, you know, I mean really, you gave me
credit for that, you paid me for that. That was awesome,
and you keep me employed every day. So thank you
very much, sir. We are answering the question what has
your boss done to help you live your dreams? Nephew Tommy.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
You let me just tell tom to be proud of me. Man,
you just done a lot.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Uncle, don't have to leave.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
Now he has motivated me. And it's just certain lines
that he has said to me directly that has just
motivated me to follow my dread. Uh cussed me completely
high that that motivates me. Told me I was worldless.
Yeah I was, Okay, that's so motivational. Uh I would

(04:41):
be told me I would be nothing without him motivated.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Honey, just told.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
Me yesterday I was stupid and unintelligent, said stop him
when he let him motivated me, motivated me to all
of my dream Uh my raggedy career, Yeah yeah, yeah,
motivation Uh quit being a one job having sorry person. Yes,

(05:16):
motivated me to follow my old hug now. And then
he motivates me even more when he describes how I
look shout high uglass man right there, girls, and.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
It just motivates you. Ground. Don't forget turtle Tommy.

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Yeah, I left the turtle line I was like to watch,
But that motivated all of these motivational lines that I've
gotten you something to follow my dream?

Speaker 1 (05:46):
What this is your response to the question, what is
your boss done to help you live your dreams.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it right, there's that all right.
I have been cussed into my dream.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Let me see high you feel. How do you feel, Steve?

Speaker 2 (06:02):
You know some of the stuff I had forgotten. I
appreciate y'all remembering it. But you know, I do have
a strange way of motivating that time. But I am
in the uplift business. It just aggravates me when the
person I'm trying to uplift don't want to be lifted up.
Then I turned on it, you know. And but you

(06:23):
all have turned out to be wonderful people and wasn't
because of me. But if I could have been any
part of your success, I say, you're welcome, But it
wasn't cause of me.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Will be back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning
Show right after this. You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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Steve Harvey

Steve Harvey

Shirley Strawberry

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Thomas "Nephew Tommy" Miles

Thomas "Nephew Tommy" Miles

Carla Ferrell

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Kier "Junior" Spates

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