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Speaker 1 (00:08):
I mean really do this, Jay, You're really gonna work? Man?
All right, look you played too much time. It is
time time. You know what that down means kind of
getting work. You don't know what this down mean. It
means that the black market is open. Man. This bill
attracts money to the This is okay. I want dream Yeah,
I see man. Look at what does this suit you
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get on? Man? Man, I got this uh from a
stand up. This super looked real untrustworthy. I just want
to because my my audience like laughing. Ship like that.
You spend a lot of money on this ship to
the NA NA. No, I'm a smart shopper. This call
on board them back a little bit of sup and
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I wear your shoes bigger than your super. Y'all y'all
got chilled too. Somebody take the camera up and get
this because this ship ridiculous? Man like that the fund
did you come out of a tube? Money squeezed this
thing out of toothpaste? Are you just wearing a little
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soups and just go with it? You're getting money, bron
when you were suit back that you're getting about no job,
no more? But you are on American horror stories. What
happened something in a little green soup. I don't know
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what happened after that. No, man, I'm just messing with it.
You know, it's all good fun. I'm a comedian. Welcome
to the black market slash trap. It's black marketing the day,
jab then it's the trap at night. I heard you've
been very successful over there. I got one of the
number one electronics repair stores in Atlanta, Founder CEO Level
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ten Repairs. My man, A J. Do Bery, Welcome, Welcome,
How you've been been good? Man? Ben Good just been
grinding and been just continuously mentoring and trying to inspire
to do the same thing. Man, give him a brief rundown,
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and how you how you got here to this point?
It's crazy how I started so at first I was
a supervisor ups. I was a senior the supervisor, yes,
even do uh ups we. I was just watching other
people tell him them what to do because we used
to load trucks. So that wh I started out doing.
I was loading trucks, and then I got promoted from
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there to be a supervisor. I don't know, damn, A
J used a truck loadle mother, we got something else
for you. You're too good at Hey, I'd not get
employed like my third month. Yeah, and then like two
month happened. Certificate what they give you for that? Just
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I had like a twenty dollars so you can get
thoughts for a month for two soups? Yeah damn, you
know they probably got a locked though you only got two.
But now let me ask you this the answer business owner.
Do you see like how incentives like that can motivate
the people that work for you but don't ship? But
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I'm saying like people like to be rewarded. Yeah, so
they're hard work and that can go harder and then
you know it just feel like they're part of something
they build the trust to. Yeah, you know they like, well,
I know you're gonna look out for me, so you know,
I ain't got no reason to even think about going
to get you. Yeah, bring the best out of people. Okay,
So you do that, and then what what happens after
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after you the side, I ain't employed a month, especially
after that all of this talking to him, because I
had wanted to go corporate when I graduated because at
that time, by employed a month, it was like the
beginning of my seeing you at high school, no college Okay,
in the hell, I'm better let my supervisor be in
a twelve. By the way, I was the youngest supervisor
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at the forest part of Okay, so they'll do that.
So I say about your two months after the employed
a month, you know, he would just talk to me
about being supervised. I'm like, yeah, ill take test or whatever.
There I can move on up because you gotta be
a supervisor so you can get in the hook to
go corporate. So I took all the tests and everything
and it came out pretty good. So a month later
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that's when it started. But I'm thinking, I'm gonna have
less stuff to do, but that would really give me
more stuff to do. Like, yeah, I was watching everybody
else being interested in what they had to do too.
But then I have to go inside and I gotta
do computer work, and I gotta computer right now, so
I gotta you know, how to pick up my people
slack and stuff like that. But it really was a
learning lesson from me because it taught me everything that
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I used in my business now as far as my
employees saying hi, I moved do things for my staff.
When did you establish your business and what was the
driving force behind us. Oh so three months after I
was the supervisor Kane spring break. So they're like march
am I senor me and my cousin. We had when
l A being out there that made me dream like
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that I want to live like to these people, I said,
I don't want to get right in my car and
not you know, care or at the clock in and nobody.
I just want to be on my own terms. I
literally came back and I just say, I'm refund checked too.
That's how I ever got call and all that, so
that my Larry Fund check. So I'm like, I need
to do something with this money. So I just this
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short work that was calling me, blowing me up. You know. Ups,
they got like counseling, they got a whole bunch of
different stuff for you. They're like, do you mean you
can see one of our counselors nowaday. I'm like no,
I'm like I'm I'm all good. They're like, well, not
wrong with it, man, he the young supervisor, he about
to corporate. He just quick like wrong. So they really
thought something wrong. But I just had a vision that
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only I had at that time. When I thought to
my parents I quit, my dad told me I was stupid.
He was like, I got a good job, you know,
stuff like that, I should have stay with it. My mom,
she she always trusted me. She was I know you're
gonna do what you gotta do, because I've never been
a type to call home and need something. So that's
why she felt that. She was like, well you know
what about binding? Um. So that's when I just went
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home and I struggle on Instagram now like hmmm, I
want to do something an innovative, and I say, I
could either do a short print business of photography business,
or I can do sell phone repairic. I had someway
experience and all those things, something like I know, if
I know put my all in one of those, I
can get to work. When did you get your experience
(06:49):
and you know you experience any repairing for I had
tried to fix all My first phone was our phone folk.
This was my freshman a sophomore year of college. I
had what screened up Amazon, and I tried to fix
in and it didn't work. Yeah, it's just started smoking. Yeah,
and had started smoking. And then from then I just
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had order NUS grams. I gotta get their phone work,
so then it worked. So from Derek. That was like
my you know a little experience that I had, but
I was so I knew if I can get that
just went out. I fixed myself. Yeah, I quit my
job before I knew what I was gonna do. Like
it really was like it's a blessing for her. So yeah,
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So once I actually figured out what I was gonna do,
I just started doing like a lot of research on Instagram,
on YouTube and stuff. YouTube University taught me everything shout
YouTube universe, YouTube University everything and the crazy because I
graduated that saying semester back YouTube talking everything. So yeah,
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I literally was on YouTube for about uh four or
five hours a day and I'll get like everybody old
cell phones, all my friends old phones, I phone five
sixes and now I'll just be tecking them apart and
putting them back together. I didn't have my screens yet.
I had ordered screens off eBay. I went on doing
the come in. But in the meantime, you know, I
found I found like some glasses too kick. So I
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was just using that to open and just builds my
own experience until everything came I needed um with me
doing everything by myself without a mentor and up spending
too much of money of stuff I didn't need, so
I ain't know spending about for everything, but I only
need to spend like two thousand damn. But you know
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I still had everything I needed anyway, So I just
kept perfecting my crawd Kelped work and Kelped building. So
I would spending, like I said, four or five hours
a day on YouTube and just hands on learning. After that,
I would get on crazzlist in Instagram, post ads for
like an hour consistently. Um on Instagram, I was running
up my fotherers. I had got up the SENI five
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hundred that wouldn't let me all the more dred people
at the time, and I just had a picture that
I stole off Google or it's a whole bunch of
crapped screens on the floor. So I posted that picture
and I was just following people. So they get a screen,
well cracked screens and said come soon from my couch.
So you know, they saw some stuff by my bio,
but I didn't say it was me. I didn't pick
my name, and then then that I just said, I'm
thinking it was a Rundom person, because at first I
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was thinking like I just want to you know, build
my brand because that was my mainly focus on. So
I end up coming up with a brand called Level
ten and today, um Level teen exist of you know,
repairs Love of Teen Friends, which is my nonprofit Level
tem Music, which is a music group that I have.
So at that time, like I was like I wanted
to get start something because I was engineering at that
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time too. I had ours of engineering for so at
that time. So what Yeah, So at that time, I'm
thinking like I'm gonna have a phone shop and I'm
still going the bad drain on paper. I'm in my
apartment still um this before I even went out and
my front pone. I'm already just drawing everything. Got just
really envisioning what I want, what I wanted to be,
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and I'm sending deadlines to get stuff done so I
can get that too, because you gotta say it like
you already got it just even in the building. I
had watch Woolf Wall Street too. I saw that movie
literally like two weeks before I quit my job and
then help inspire to too. But so yeah, I'm just
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like I said, it's really what a time management for
me because I had the a doubt to being in
my own time too. You know, it's not like I
can just go in the building and I gotta be
here at this time, here, this time, here, this time.
I really had to sit down and set my own schedule,
like be like WHI I'm waking up at nine, like
I would go and work my job, and I need
to do this and this time, this and that time
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and the whole time I started my business, I'm still
in college. I'm still in school trying to do homework, um,
Ryan the campus, knocking our classes all that, um. And
then so summer that's when I finished school. UM, I
ended up grinding up enough to from my business to
pay my own Twitter. So it was just me like
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really just trying to just complete everything I was started, honestly.
So that's the inception of the beginning, Like we made you,
what was the next step taking it to the next level.
So at three weeks after I equip my job, I'm
just training, train and training. That's when I first launched
the business so Aprili team. That were the very first
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day I was mobile and I made a mistake and
it was a blissing at the same time couple of
learning experience. So I did fifty cent off everything my
first two days in business. But I was book open
and closed. But that's why I was doing fifthim cent off.
I ain't made no money, but I built word of mouth.
And because I was young and I was trying to
do something with myself, people they love to see it,
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so they just start spreading the word to other people.
And really, word of mouth help any more than anything.
What's your I G and all that? Now I'm going
to get in touch with you. You can follow the
business page at level teen Repairs. That's number teen L
E B L one zero R E p A I
rtist um or me at a J underscored duwberry. Okay,
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you have to tell me some more about your other
businesses that you got. Also, yo, yo, so you got
music group? What else? It's serial invested. Basically y'all do
a little real estate. Now, Like, what's your educational background?
You're well spoken man smart apparently you know what I mean,
not apparently ship we're seeing it in motion, so it's like,
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what's crazy? Is like, I come from a family. My
father then graduate high school. My mom she did it
was graduate. So I don't really confident you do. I'm
saying too much education. Like when I was in high
school getting to go to college, it would just me
and my counsels might have don't help. You know what
I'm saying. I really I just tried to really change
where I was that I wouldn't all being state first first.
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And then when I moved to Atlanta, I had finish
that clean state okay state, and I moved to Atlanta,
Car want to start a business. I didn't know where
I wanna start. I was thinking, probably do some real
estate or something like that. I mean, yeah, all do
do here. That's what I was about to tell you
that I was asking about your educational background. It's like
it's something about you. You gotta light man, don't stop
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like you're a young man, bro, trying to take over
as much as this ship as you can. Like the
way that yourself educated, self motivated driven, Bro, you got
unlimited potential, especially if you keep your same outlook and
don't get jaded. Batter were bro. You know how hard
it is to do anything, especially somebody yourself and from
the ground up, and you having to know how and
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you know, the intuition to put this with this and
to make that happen. Bro, I can't do number saluted
and yeah, man, So let them know what they can
get in touch with you, how they can come spend
some money with you signed to the music groups or
whatever it is that you might be doing at the moment.
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All right, we have three Stole locations. We have one
downtown Atlanta at two square Pride Street, right by the courthouse.
Everybody knows what the jail in the line we literally walking,
this is right across the street. We have location in
Tyre Boulevard and Johnsborough, Georgia right on south side, and
one dining Griffin George of my hometown. And we do
things like cell phones. It's the backglass sort the phones, cameras,
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batteries everything, cell phones, by phones, tablet computers. So if
you got to watch pads and and MacBooks sitting around
at the crib, you don't know what to do with them.
Holida digital man right here, he can put that back
together for you. I'm about to take in my own
I got the apple with the big back Oh to
see through joint now now, I mean we're gonna make
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sure that we that we blow your business up. And
we know people knew exactly how to get in touch
with you. My dog his phone broke right now, I'm
see what you give us an estimate. At least you
gotta come see him. I got you. I know everybody
want to aggrab to the iPhone four team too. So
right now, we're doing a hundred dollars to fix the
backglass or your current phone if it broke. You got
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a thirteen or twileter's broke, you wanna tray in. We're
doing special for a hundred dollars. My man, Hey J,
do lefton repairs. The black market is dope. Here you
talking about get you a suit like, Hey J