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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Everybody. We got our special guests this morning. That's promised.
They are the hosts of the now extremely popular, culturally
innovative earn your Leisure invest Fest. What are an iconic
brand this has become Troy Millons and Rashad Balaud. They're
(00:22):
the creators of invest Fest and this year is atl
invest Fest. It kicks off August twenty second at the
Georgia World Congress Center. I'll be there again this year,
and we bring some friends with us. We're gonna talk
about invest Fest this year. Why it's important for you
to attend. Listen to me. Everybody that goes to invest
(00:43):
Fest gains so much in terms of self development, learning,
business networking. Is just a plethora of information.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
God, I can't believe I used that word.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's such a plethora of information and just really really
rewarding for everybody to team. So please welcome to the
show the creators of invest Fest, Troy Millers and Rashad Belave.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Hey brothers. How y'all doing today?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Good? Good good, Thank you for having us appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I mean as usual, man, I just think it's such
a valuable tool for people. Man, to put in their arsenal.
I think that if you haven't been, you have to go.
You have to go. It is worth it is worth
investing in yourself. This year is invest Fast. Kicks off Friday,
August twenty second, and it runs the entire weekend in
(01:41):
Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center. Give us an
overview of the investmentest this year, guys.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, Well, we have a great line up as always.
We have yourself, you have Magic Johnson. We have Jack Dorsey,
who's the founder of Twitter cast app block, so one
of the billionaires that's really been on the forefront of
crypto and bitcoin for a long time. We have John O'Briant,
we have Gisa Ray, Charlemagne Faugh and Weaver. But even
(02:11):
outside of the great lineup that we put together, we
have workshops on artificial intelligence, real estate stops, and especially
the AI conversation for our community. This is very, very
very important. Everybody's talking about how AI is going to
take over one hundred million jobs in the next ten years.
So if you're not educated on artificial intelligence, you're definitely
(02:32):
going to miss the boat. So that's the main focus
this year. We have a pitch competition. We're gonna give
away one hundred and twenty five thousand miles with an
entrepreneurs So we're very, very, very excited about this year.
But this is probably the most important year based on
everything that's been going on, but especially when it comes
to technology.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Thanks Ales. Let's back up a little bit. Let's talk
about this pitch contest exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, so last year we had the opportunity to give
one hundred thousand dollars away to entrepreneur, which is incredible
when you talk about capital, especially in our community, it's
the toughest thing to come from, right to raise funds
or actually.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Get loans for it.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
So we said, you know, rather than be a problem,
let's be a solution. So they here, we're coming back
with our partner, Paul Judge, the head of Opportunity Fund,
and we're giving one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
away to a tech startup. You know that when we
talk about growth in the economy and usually cover some
companies that have technology, and so we have brilliant minds
in that space, and we wanted to help stimulate and
(03:29):
kick off somebody's venture into the world of tech. And
what better place to do with that investments on the
stage lot in front of twenty thousand people. So people
are going to get to hear this business pitch and
nobody really loses right when you're talking about fishing in
front of that many people. They're gonna be people in
the audience. They're gonna be people that will be watching
this thing. Somebody's gonna see this idea and realize that
(03:50):
this is something that I make want to invest in.
So it's a win win for everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So is this the pitch contest? Is this something people
can apply for on online?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, at investments dot com and the submissions. I think
the submissions might be coming to it and very soon.
So it's very important if you have it. But it's
for tech companies, to any company that has some level
of tech builtents out of this.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Okay, good, hey man, Listen. We got some panel discussions
going on this year. We got the big vendor marketplace,
which I walked through every year. We got podcasts, stage interviews.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Man, who are you.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
All looking forward to this year? I mean you got
Jack Dorsey, how'd you manage that?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Jack?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You know, a big, big shout out to Square what
are now known as block they're one of our sponsors
this year, and the people at block which is very
enthusiastic and what we were doing as far as spreading
financial literacy and information to the community, and they told
Jack about everything that he was going on. I guess
he looked into it and he was just thoroughly impressed. So,
(05:00):
you know, bigcoin right now over one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars per point, like, that's crazy. I remember what
bigcoin was, one thousand dollars. So I'm personally very interested
to hear what he has to say because he's one
of these people that probably invested in bitcoin when it
was one hundred dollars, So you know, when you have
something like that that has gone up so much and
(05:21):
in such a short period of time, right like, just
to hit his insight on not only bigcoin, but artificial
intelligence technology the future of banking. I mean, it's one
of the richest people in the world and one of
the smartest people in the world as well, So you know,
very rare that you get that kind of a conversation,
very candid, and he's going to be open to answering
(05:42):
all questions. So I'm definitely looking forward to him. But
of course Magic Johnson as well. You know, Magic is
somebody our community we've seen, you know, built movie theaters
and Starbucks and built a billion dollar empires. So those
are just a few people don't know Troy has others.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, man, I'm definitely looking forward to that. Like you said,
we've seen him become an icon in the world of sports,
but what he's done in the business side is if
it's not as great, even greater, he's talking about somebody
who's just now cross to that billion dollar threshold. So
we're keeping that street going and having billion this that's
that stage and all in every privilege to see this
happen and we see him speak loud and you know,
it's going to be entertaining, man. So I'm excited to
(06:20):
be on stays here and the fourth we have you
there exciting Fani for the weekend and every every year,
whether it's Tyler Perry or Atuonation or this year, I
don't know if we're going to give it away, just yeah,
he's gonna be with it's going to be excited. It's
going to be entertaining, man.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
So we're going to be in for a treat and
y'all stick around.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We'll be right back with a little bit more from
Investment right after this.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
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Speaker 1 (07:18):
All right, everybody, we're back on our special guest this
morning are the creators of invest Fest, Troy Millins and
Rashard Blaud, and we're here.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
We've been talking about invest Fest.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
We're letting everybody know that it's August twenty second Friday.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
It starts the whole weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You can get tickets at Investfest dot com. But we
have a special offer for you that the guys have
came up with from one of their sponsors, Fellas.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Why don't you tell us about that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So one of our great spons is a company.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Named Gusts that one of the.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Biggest payment processing companies in the world, and it's big
fans of your program. So what they're doing, you know,
is a tough economy on. So they want to make
sure that everybody has the opportunity to participate from learning
and also from a vending standpoint as far as small businesses.
So they're offering a fifty percent discount for the first
hundred people that take advantage that buy tickets, that general
(08:13):
admission tickets, and the first ten people that take advantage
that by vendor booths. So if you go to investvest
dot com and into promo code Gusto Gusto at checkout,
the first hundred people will get fifty percent off of
tickets and the first ten vendors will get fifty percent
off of their vendor booths.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
All right, Hi, Steve harveulation listen to this. Go to
invest fest dot com. The first one hundred of you
that do it, the first one hundred by putting in
a promo code Gusto, you get fifty percent off of
a general admission ticket.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
The first ten vendors that go and apply you get
how much fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
That's all zero.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
It's really good.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Now let's have damn yeah, all right, Jenny, So go.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
To invest Fest dot com. Hit the promo code Gusto.
The first one hundred of you do it, you get
fifty percent off of your general admission ticket. The first
ten vendors that do it you get fifty percent off
of your vendor feed for the booth. That's an amazing
promo only off it too the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
(09:37):
So let's go, y'all, let's get it. Were about to
close out here because it will sell out. I'm just
telling you flat out, it will sell out. So hurry, hurry, hurry.
In the words of Blue Magic, step right up, hurry hurry,
let the side show be give It's invest fast everybody, Friday,
(10:00):
August twenty second. It's a must win, Magic Johnson, Jack Dorsey,
so many others.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Your boy will be there.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Such great information, man, Please don't miss it, and don't forget.
We got a special promo code going on right now today.
If you go to Investfest dot com, hit the code
promo code gusto, first one hundred people get fifty percent
off price of general admission ticket and the first ten
vendors get fifty percent off.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You can't beat that. Hey, fellas, I think we got it.
Vacation man.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
As always, thank you for those Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Appreciate y'all. Man, We'll see y'all that invest Fest. Everybody.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
We'll be right back with more of Steve Harvey Morning
the Show right after this.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
You're listening Steve Harvey Morning Show
Everybody. We got our special guests this morning. That's promised.
They are the hosts of the now extremely popular, culturally
innovative earn your Leisure invest Fest. What are an iconic
brand this has become Troy Millons and Rashad Balaud. They're
(00:22):
the creators of invest Fest and this year is atl
invest Fest. It kicks off August twenty second at the
Georgia World Congress Center. I'll be there again this year,
and we bring some friends with us. We're gonna talk
about invest Fest this year. Why it's important for you
to attend. Listen to me. Everybody that goes to invest
(00:43):
Fest gains so much in terms of self development, learning,
business networking. Is just a plethora of information.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
God, I can't believe I used that word.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's such a plethora of information and just really really
rewarding for everybody to team. So please welcome to the
show the creators of invest Fest, Troy Millers and Rashad Belave.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Hey brothers. How y'all doing today?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Good? Good good, Thank you for having us appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I mean as usual, man, I just think it's such
a valuable tool for people. Man, to put in their arsenal.
I think that if you haven't been, you have to go.
You have to go. It is worth it is worth
investing in yourself. This year is invest Fast. Kicks off Friday,
August twenty second, and it runs the entire weekend in
(01:41):
Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center. Give us an
overview of the investmentest this year, guys.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, Well, we have a great line up as always.
We have yourself, you have Magic Johnson. We have Jack Dorsey,
who's the founder of Twitter cast app block, so one
of the billionaires that's really been on the forefront of
crypto and bitcoin for a long time. We have John O'Briant,
we have Gisa Ray, Charlemagne Faugh and Weaver. But even
(02:11):
outside of the great lineup that we put together, we
have workshops on artificial intelligence, real estate stops, and especially
the AI conversation for our community. This is very, very
very important. Everybody's talking about how AI is going to
take over one hundred million jobs in the next ten years.
So if you're not educated on artificial intelligence, you're definitely
(02:32):
going to miss the boat. So that's the main focus
this year. We have a pitch competition. We're gonna give
away one hundred and twenty five thousand miles with an
entrepreneurs So we're very, very, very excited about this year.
But this is probably the most important year based on
everything that's been going on, but especially when it comes
to technology.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Thanks Ales. Let's back up a little bit. Let's talk
about this pitch contest exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, so last year we had the opportunity to give
one hundred thousand dollars away to entrepreneur, which is incredible
when you talk about capital, especially in our community, it's
the toughest thing to come from, right to raise funds
or actually.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Get loans for it.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
So we said, you know, rather than be a problem,
let's be a solution. So they here, we're coming back
with our partner, Paul Judge, the head of Opportunity Fund,
and we're giving one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
away to a tech startup. You know that when we
talk about growth in the economy and usually cover some
companies that have technology, and so we have brilliant minds
in that space, and we wanted to help stimulate and
(03:29):
kick off somebody's venture into the world of tech. And
what better place to do with that investments on the
stage lot in front of twenty thousand people. So people
are going to get to hear this business pitch and
nobody really loses right when you're talking about fishing in
front of that many people. They're gonna be people in
the audience. They're gonna be people that will be watching
this thing. Somebody's gonna see this idea and realize that
(03:50):
this is something that I make want to invest in.
So it's a win win for everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So is this the pitch contest? Is this something people
can apply for on online?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, at investments dot com and the submissions. I think
the submissions might be coming to it and very soon.
So it's very important if you have it. But it's
for tech companies, to any company that has some level
of tech builtents out of this.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Okay, good, hey man, Listen. We got some panel discussions
going on this year. We got the big vendor marketplace,
which I walked through every year. We got podcasts, stage interviews.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Man, who are you.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
All looking forward to this year? I mean you got
Jack Dorsey, how'd you manage that?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Jack?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You know, a big, big shout out to Square what
are now known as block they're one of our sponsors
this year, and the people at block which is very
enthusiastic and what we were doing as far as spreading
financial literacy and information to the community, and they told
Jack about everything that he was going on. I guess
he looked into it and he was just thoroughly impressed. So,
(05:00):
you know, bigcoin right now over one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars per point, like, that's crazy. I remember what
bigcoin was, one thousand dollars. So I'm personally very interested
to hear what he has to say because he's one
of these people that probably invested in bitcoin when it
was one hundred dollars, So you know, when you have
something like that that has gone up so much and
(05:21):
in such a short period of time, right like, just
to hit his insight on not only bigcoin, but artificial
intelligence technology the future of banking. I mean, it's one
of the richest people in the world and one of
the smartest people in the world as well, So you know,
very rare that you get that kind of a conversation,
very candid, and he's going to be open to answering
(05:42):
all questions. So I'm definitely looking forward to him. But
of course Magic Johnson as well. You know, Magic is
somebody our community we've seen, you know, built movie theaters
and Starbucks and built a billion dollar empires. So those
are just a few people don't know Troy has others.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah, man, I'm definitely looking forward to that. Like you said,
we've seen him become an icon in the world of sports,
but what he's done in the business side is if
it's not as great, even greater, he's talking about somebody
who's just now cross to that billion dollar threshold. So
we're keeping that street going and having billion this that's
that stage and all in every privilege to see this
happen and we see him speak loud and you know,
it's going to be entertaining, man. So I'm excited to
(06:20):
be on stays here and the fourth we have you
there exciting Fani for the weekend and every every year,
whether it's Tyler Perry or Atuonation or this year, I
don't know if we're going to give it away, just yeah,
he's gonna be with it's going to be excited. It's
going to be entertaining, man.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
So we're going to be in for a treat and
y'all stick around.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
We'll be right back with a little bit more from
Investment right after this.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
You're listening the Hardy Morning Show. You've heard us talk
about the benefits of Globe Life insurance. Globe Life has
been protecting families for generations. Globe Life is easy to buy,
with rates starting as low as three dollars and forty
nine cents a month. There is no medical exam, just
(07:04):
a simple application called Globelife today at one eight hundred
two five one fifty four hundred, or visit globelife radio
dot com again, that's one eight hundred two five, one
fifty four hundred or Globelife radio dot com.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
All right, everybody, we're back on our special guest this
morning are the creators of invest Fest, Troy Millins and
Rashard Blaud, and we're here.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
We've been talking about invest Fest.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
We're letting everybody know that it's August twenty second Friday.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
It starts the whole weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You can get tickets at Investfest dot com. But we
have a special offer for you that the guys have
came up with from one of their sponsors, Fellas.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Why don't you tell us about that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
So one of our great spons is a company.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Named Gusts that one of the.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Biggest payment processing companies in the world, and it's big
fans of your program. So what they're doing, you know,
is a tough economy on. So they want to make
sure that everybody has the opportunity to participate from learning
and also from a vending standpoint as far as small businesses.
So they're offering a fifty percent discount for the first
hundred people that take advantage that buy tickets, that general
(08:13):
admission tickets, and the first ten people that take advantage
that by vendor booths. So if you go to investvest
dot com and into promo code Gusto Gusto at checkout,
the first hundred people will get fifty percent off of
tickets and the first ten vendors will get fifty percent
off of their vendor booths.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
All right, Hi, Steve harveulation listen to this. Go to
invest fest dot com. The first one hundred of you
that do it, the first one hundred by putting in
a promo code Gusto, you get fifty percent off of
a general admission ticket.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
The first ten vendors that go and apply you get
how much fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
That's all zero.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
It's really good.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Now let's have damn yeah, all right, Jenny, So go.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
To invest Fest dot com. Hit the promo code Gusto.
The first one hundred of you do it, you get
fifty percent off of your general admission ticket. The first
ten vendors that do it you get fifty percent off
of your vendor feed for the booth. That's an amazing
promo only off it too the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
(09:37):
So let's go, y'all, let's get it. Were about to
close out here because it will sell out. I'm just
telling you flat out, it will sell out. So hurry, hurry, hurry.
In the words of Blue Magic, step right up, hurry hurry,
let the side show be give It's invest fast everybody, Friday,
(10:00):
August twenty second. It's a must win, Magic Johnson, Jack Dorsey,
so many others.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Your boy will be there.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Such great information, man, Please don't miss it, and don't forget.
We got a special promo code going on right now today.
If you go to Investfest dot com, hit the code
promo code gusto, first one hundred people get fifty percent
off price of general admission ticket and the first ten
vendors get fifty percent off.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
You can't beat that. Hey, fellas, I think we got it.
Vacation man.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
As always, thank you for those Appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Appreciate y'all. Man, We'll see y'all that invest Fest. Everybody.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
We'll be right back with more of Steve Harvey Morning
the Show right after this.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
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