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All right. So so far A lot of people are showing up. They're registering everyone's excited

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 Sean. So what do people have been saying so far to

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 you all this morning?

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Just that they love the location. This is

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 not our first time in Miami Beach last year. We were in downtown Miami

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 on the border of Brickell. So for some people it feels

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 like it's a whole new world.

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We used to be doing these events in Miami Beach. So it's

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 kind of a return to what we used to do. But I'm

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 glad that people are finding it so fresh and brand new people are

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 super excited. We just had an event in New York wasn't even

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 three months ago. Yeah, but it felt like a year has gone by things have

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 changed in the economy and it is a good opportunity for everyone to

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 get back on the right foot and prepare themselves for what is going

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 to be an interesting 2023 people already talking about the

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 ER TC different programs that

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 they have, you know ready for the year. They can't wait to tell everybody

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 about that's what I'm hearing already and we literally checking just

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 started. Yeah, there's already a lot of a lot of stuff going on.

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 So the big panel I know this is something that a lot

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 of people have briefly mentioned is preparing for 2023. That's the

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 first panel that's going on. How important is

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 that panel specifically now the way the economy is going

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I think it's very important. I think historically we

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 used to have talks about what would happen

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 in a recession or is a recession right around

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 the corner and everything was always very theoretical and even

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 now it's some sort some what academic in terms

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 of what kind of situation are we in but

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 one thing that is for sure is that interest rates have gone up

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 that's a real measurable thing inflation has

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 gone up that's measurable too and it is having an

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 impact on these companies abilities to fun businesses. Now

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 some are prepared. Right or some

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 are making adjustments that are necessary but others may be

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 caught a little bit flat-footed and not really know what to do. They might

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 know what to do during covid in a lockdown and

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 as Government stimulus, but something like

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 a recession or high interest rates or high inflation, is it totally

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 different animal altogether and I think that particular

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 panel will be a good way to hear from other industry

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 veterans about what they're doing and what they think will happen.

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 So that others can kind of prepare the same way as well. So

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talk about two things the other Panos regarding making big

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 deals and working on big deals. How important is

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 that specifically for those that want to

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 make a lot of money and do those big deals.

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You know, it's an important panel. What's interesting about it is

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 that we've never had a panel that talked just about big deals and

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 there is sort of a reputation for

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 this particular industry to only fund up

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 to like maybe $300,000 right? That's

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 kind of like the upper and of The Sweet Spot for

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 a lot of these funders but there's definitely a

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 segment that does much bigger 500,000 million two million.

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 You do have those that say we do up to two million and you have to

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 ask yourself is that legitimate do they really fund up

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 to two million and many of them actually do right. Some

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 may do a couple large deals others have made a whole Cottage business

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 out of it that particular panel will really focus on

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 the larger and of the deal Spectrum in a

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 way that any other session or panel we've ever

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 done has not it's always we've always kind of focused on The Sweet Spot that

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 50k deal right and not the 500k deal

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 1 million dollar deal 1.5 million dollar deal. This will

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 be an opportunity for people to hear about those who are in the trenches doing

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 those type of deals. And what's cool that we have people from

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Backgrounds on it. We have a platform. We have

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 a funder. We have a broker.

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And the moderator actually works

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 for company that does small deals. So it's kind

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 of like you have the irony right there boiled in but

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 they have a big announcement today that might be relevant to the particular topic. So

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 if they're here today, they'll have to find out what

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 it is. And then the last thing is regarding the big networking reception

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 that's gonna happen at around six o'clock. How important

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 is that for those that have never been to this event?

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Well, the networking reception is very very

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 important. You want to enjoy the

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 cocktail hours. Not just because it's a nice way to relax right?

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 And because you're in Miami, it's because that's

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 where it's a nice additional way to network

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 outside of the confines of you know,

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 when you're all buttoned up and you're at someone's table in the sponsors showcase

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 room sure that can be effective. You

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 know, but sometimes it's very transactional. Yeah, right. Oh,

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 that sounds interesting. Give me a card. I'll take your swag blah,

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 but sometimes the Real Deals and the real the real

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 Network and gets done when you have a drink

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 in your hand and you're just kind of taking a breather and say, you know

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 tell me about what's going on and you're really taking the time to talk. Yeah without

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 having the pressure of like this table. Yeah that you're

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 trying to manage. You know what I mean? You get more real and so

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 if you come if you come all this way to ad banked

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 events, especially in Miami Beach you want to stick around for the networking

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 reception at six and it happens right here on the balcony outside.

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It's an exciting day. I mean obviously everyone's here

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 everyone from either South Florida those that want

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 to do business in South Florida. What are your expectations for today overall?

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I think

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My expectations for any event is for

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 people to meet valuable contacts that

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 they leave with that helps them grow their business and make

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 more money and to also learn I think

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 that that's what I want out of this particular event. I

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 also want people to become more informed about what you

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 know, what they should do in in the economy. But also this is

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 not a topic of discussion on a panel

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 but perhaps learn more about this ERC ER TC thing. It's

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 already come up here. I even mentioned it to you just like five minutes

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 ago. Yeah. It's already come up in come up here today. I hope that

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 people who attend learn more about it are able

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Include that in whatever their business model is become more

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 informed of it and you know, ultimately my goal

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 is for everyone to just walk away with something that is really

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 truly helpful to them. And then I mean obviously this

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 is a big space you have like the General Session

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 area. You have the sponsor showcase. So for someone that's

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 new for someone that has never been would be

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 your advice to make the most out of this specifically.

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Well, if you've never been oh, you're here alone or you're

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 here alone, you know, I love going to events alone

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 believe it or not before we started doing our own events all the

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 events. I would go to I would attend them alone.

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And it's great because you have no security blanket to

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 latch on to that becomes a distraction because

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 you leave and you have coffee together you leave and

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 you have side conversations with each other and you feed off each other and not

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 being productive when you're by yourself. You don't have

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 that. So all your time is spent actually

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 doing business and so I would say

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 spend as much time as possible in the sponsor showcase room.

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Make all those connections meet as many people

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 as possible.

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See at least one session you don't have to look at

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 all of them. You don't have to watch all of them. But if there's one

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 that is interesting to you make the effort to watch that

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 particular one. It's helpful to hear from Executives in

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 the industry and it makes a difference when you hear from them in person. Not

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 just sound like a YouTube channel or a zoom.

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So take the tasty opportunity to do that. Do not

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 waste any moment that you have here. The day is short

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 it started at 1pm people are checking in now. It's

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 a late check-in, but it also ends late it ends at

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 eight right? That's a seven hour day. Now granted

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 people will go out and continue to network into their own thing afterwards. But

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 when you have that short amount of time, you better

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 maximize it do not sit with the laptop, you

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 know hidden in the corner for an hour

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 and then later regret who you didn't meet while you were

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 here.

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So make every minute count love it. Thanks,

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 man. The man with the legend Sean Murray again

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 if you have any questions

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Call no don't call. No, but thank you

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 so much. Again, you're gonna be out here. You're gonna be you're the

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 man of the hour. So I Johnny no problem,

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 John. All right. Well, thanks so much. All right. We'll see.