# Brand Building: One-person vehicle wrap business turned into a commercial solar contractor and workforce development platform.

An episode of [Money Making Conversations Master Class](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1264705641), 8 May 2026, 26 min.

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Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Abioduni Martin. 🔎 Interview Summary The interview highlights Abioduni Martin, founder of Do Everything Wonderful (D.E.W.), a minority-owned solar company in Georgia that has grown from a one-person vehicle wrap business into a commercial solar contractor and workforce development platform. Martin discusses: • His entrepreneurial journey and turning point • Scaling a solar installation business • Creating a Department of Labor–approved apprenticeship program • His mission to empower underserved communities through skilled trades The conversation blends business growth, clean energy education, and social impact. 🎯 Purpose of the Interview The episode serves multiple purposes: 1. Inspire Entrepreneurship • Encourage listeners to turn small beginnings into scalable businesses • Show how persistence, partnerships, and mentorship can unlock growth 2. Educate on Solar Energy • Break down solar installation, benefits, and financial upside • Position solar as a practical and profitable future industry 3. Promote Workforce Development • Highlight opportunities in skilled trades, especially for: • Black and brown communities • Youth and individuals aging out of foster care 4. Showcase a Scalable Impact Model • Demonstrate how a business can integrate: • Profit • Training • Community uplift 💡 Key Takeaways 1. Start Small, Scale Strategically • Martin began with vehicle wrapping and pivoted into solar by identifying future demand and market gaps • Growth accelerated through a key partnership with Cherry Street Energy 👉 Lesson: Vision + relationships = scalable opportunity 2. Mentorship and Partnerships Are Critical • Cherry Street Energy provided: • Project opportunities • Learning space to grow (including mistakes) • Business development support 👉 Lesson: Strategic partnerships can substitute for capital in early growth stages 3. Innovation Through Workforce Development • Martin created a new Department of Labor–approved solar apprenticeship program—the first of its kind in his region • Focus: training workers for jobs that companies need but won’t train for 👉 Lesson: Owning the talent pipeline is a competitive advantage 4. Solar Energy Is a Major Economic Opportunity • Benefits discussed: • Reduced energy costs (up to ~75%) • Long-term savings • Increased property value • 👉 Lesson: Solar isn’t just environmental—it’s financial 5. Community Impact Is a Core Business Strategy • Martin’s mission: • Bring trade skills to underserved communities • Create pathways to careers, not just jobs 👉 Lesson: Purpose-driven entrepreneurship can scale while solving social issues 6. Workforce Barriers Are Practical (Not Motivational) Martin emphasizes that people don’t lack work ethic—they lack support systems: • Transportation • Housing • Mentorship 👉 Lesson: Fix structural barriers to unlock human potential 7. Leadership Evolution Matters • The host notes Martin’s growth from “hustling” to thinking about scaling and systems 👉 Lesson: Entrepreneurs must evolve from doers to builders 🧠 Notable Quotes Here are powerful, representative quotes from the interview: On opportunity and growth • “They just let me and allow my organization to grow and prosper… with mistakes… they just encouraged that.” • “I’m still in that growth phase… trying to replicate and scale the business.” \[ On innovation and leadership • “I…

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Welcome to my show. I'm Rashon McDonald, a host of
[0:02] Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass, where we encourage people to stop
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[0:29] Speaker 1: provide tips on how you can uplift your community, improve
[0:32] Speaker 1: your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be
[0:36] Speaker 1: a successful entrepreneur. Now, let's get this podcast started. My
[0:40] Speaker 1: guest found Do Everything Wonderfully. That's DW. They deliver a
[0:45] Speaker 1: commercial and utility scale solar installation Do Everything Wonderfully. It's
[0:50] Speaker 1: grown from a single person vehicle RAP business a single
[0:53] Speaker 1: person vehicle RAP business into one of Georgia's most credited
[0:59] Speaker 1: minority owns solar contractors. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations
[1:03] Speaker 1: Massa class Abaduni Martin. How you doing, sir?
[1:07] Speaker 2: Hey, how you doing?
[1:08] Speaker 3: Rashan how you doing.
[1:09] Speaker 2: First, before we get into your still and everything and
[1:11] Speaker 2: ask the questions, I want to thank you for having
[1:15] Speaker 2: me back. Just the last the last time we talked
[1:17] Speaker 2: to we told the story of Duke. Everything want today
[1:21] Speaker 2: was a federal credential. Since we last folk, we crossed
[1:25] Speaker 2: over three Bagel Watcher commercial Solar installed. We became a
[1:29] Speaker 2: US departner of Laty Register Apprenticeship Sponsors Program credential, and
[1:34] Speaker 2: we installed the Landmark fire station, the Landmark fire Station
[1:39] Speaker 2: forty at the Jacksonville Jackson excuse me a Hartsfield Jackson Airport, Okay,
[1:47] Speaker 2: And the mayor was there and we did a river
[1:50] Speaker 2: cutting and everything like that. That was a great All
[1:53] Speaker 2: the TV people were there, you know, that was a
[1:55] Speaker 2: great experience as well. Became a Georgia Bright Solar for
[2:00] Speaker 2: uh A subcontract as well the big shift this year.
[2:06] Speaker 1: Hold holdo, come on that, come on you, I got
[2:10] Speaker 1: I gotta let everybody know yourself. Something to breathe because
[2:12] Speaker 1: guess well, I got time to talk to you, Okay.
[2:15] Speaker 3: Because I'm so excited.
[2:18] Speaker 1: I know I know you are. Because see it's a
[2:20] Speaker 1: journey on everything. Because I remember when we first talked,
[2:22] Speaker 1: it's used out there. Look, it's proper to say this hustling, hustling,
[2:27] Speaker 1: trying to make connections, trying to Reshaana. You know you
[2:30] Speaker 1: had more hype than you had action going on in
[2:32] Speaker 1: your life. When did it really turn for you? Will
[2:37] Speaker 1: you realize? You know, you know I can, I can
[2:40] Speaker 1: do this. We all wanted to be a dream. We
[2:43] Speaker 1: want that dream to become a reality. What was the
[2:46] Speaker 1: first opportunity you went, Thank you God, I needed that.
[2:50] Speaker 2: The first opportunity was I think on our last conversation
[2:56] Speaker 2: was with Cherry Street Energy. Most I work with them
[3:01] Speaker 2: and they just let me and allowed my organization to
[3:05] Speaker 2: grow and prosper with them with with mistakes, with anything
[3:10] Speaker 2: that I wanted to learn. They just encouraged that.
[3:13] Speaker 3: Man.
[3:13] Speaker 2: I can't say enough good things about them because they
[3:17] Speaker 2: They've been the mentor for Duke, you know. And so
[3:23] Speaker 2: that kind of ported me to be in a position
[3:26] Speaker 2: where now I'm still in that growth phase and I'm
[3:30] Speaker 2: trying to replicate and scale the business and focus on
[3:36] Speaker 2: the workforce development side as well as the installation side.
[3:41] Speaker 2: So I'm a sponsor employer. Uh, to be exactly, I
[3:45] Speaker 2: love it.
[3:47] Speaker 1: There's abdu. You wouldn't using word like scale. And I
[3:50] Speaker 1: talked to you the first time that work for you
[3:53] Speaker 1: added to the cavalry, yong Man, You've added to the cavalry.
[3:57] Speaker 3: I love it, but.
[3:57] Speaker 1: I love it. Let's talk about Le's talk about it
[4:00] Speaker 1: because it's all about who. You know, an apprenticeship and
[4:03] Speaker 1: a meeting. Let's talk about the UH. You know, the
[4:05] Speaker 1: apprenticeship program that you became a US Department of Labor
[4:09] Speaker 1: registered apprenticeship sponsor and solar installation and construction craft what
[4:14] Speaker 1: exactly is that?
[4:16] Speaker 2: So actually, in this particular, with the with the undersigned
[4:22] Speaker 2: undersigned UH definition of the solar installation portion, I went,
[4:26] Speaker 2: I was, I had to build that from scratch with
[4:31] Speaker 2: the with the help of Iraq they deal with the
[4:34] Speaker 2: solar industry as a whole, and I was, I had
[4:41] Speaker 2: to develop this program. And it took me about a
[4:43] Speaker 2: year for the Department of Labor to approve my particular
[4:49] Speaker 2: program because there is no solar installation program under the
[4:56] Speaker 2: Department of Labor. So this is brand new. It's a
[4:59] Speaker 2: hybrid of a credential and I'm the only one in
[5:05] Speaker 2: Georgia and maybe the only one throughout the Southeast that
[5:09] Speaker 2: have this particular program as an apprenticeship under the Department
[5:14] Speaker 2: of Labor.
[5:15] Speaker 1: You know, early on in my interview, I was just
[5:19] Speaker 1: talking about Atlanta, and I remember I was talking to
[5:23] Speaker 1: Leonda bar Davin Ford over the Atlanta Business League, and
[5:26] Speaker 1: I always said that during business in Atlanta from a
[5:30] Speaker 1: black perspective, always felt different here. It always felt like, yes,
[5:34] Speaker 1: I've really had an opportunity to win. I just had
[5:37] Speaker 1: to figure out the right relationships. And one of the
[5:40] Speaker 1: big wins in your story is the Hartsville Jackson the
[5:44] Speaker 1: business airport in the world. Talk about that experience that
[5:48] Speaker 1: came into your hands and how you had to understand
[5:52] Speaker 1: the responsibility of completing the task correctly because you are
[5:56] Speaker 1: a black person.
[5:57] Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
[5:59] Speaker 2: That particular flagship of an installation again one of Cherry
[6:05] Speaker 2: Cherry Street Energy's portfolio on the Mike, Michael Shanning, and.
[6:10] Speaker 3: He gave it. He gave it to us.
[6:12] Speaker 2: Man. He said, rock on, shine on, do your thing.
[6:16] Speaker 2: And my goal is always to do everything once you know,
[6:21] Speaker 2: I make sure that hey, I'm gonna put my best
[6:23] Speaker 2: before it, and my team is going to be put
[6:26] Speaker 2: their best bet forward and we're not going to accept
[6:28] Speaker 2: anything less. And we did an excellent job. Like I said,
[6:32] Speaker 2: last year, we had a full ribbon cutting. There's an
[6:36] Speaker 2: article n PR about us. I've been on several UH
[6:41] Speaker 2: news articles regarding the UH yes, and you know, it's
[6:49] Speaker 2: been it's been granted. Man. I've just been getting so
[6:52] Speaker 2: many uh just you know, falls and the praise for
[6:56] Speaker 2: what I do. And like I said, I'm still in
[6:58] Speaker 2: that process. I'm still growing. So this is a journey.
[7:01] Speaker 2: This is a journey, and I'm just glad for Sean
[7:03] Speaker 2: that you have been a supporter uh and and helping me,
[7:08] Speaker 2: you know, progress in this and everything.
[7:10] Speaker 1: You know, It's so funny because he just he just
[7:13] Speaker 1: emailed me, you know, he just emailed me. I go, man,
[7:15] Speaker 1: what you being? Come on, I got come on, I
[7:18] Speaker 1: gotta tell you a story. I'll tell you was caught
[7:19] Speaker 1: off guard because of my enthusiasm from me to him, because,
[7:24] Speaker 1: like you know, it's that classic line, out of sight,
[7:27] Speaker 1: out of mind, you know, always make a conduct, always
[7:31] Speaker 1: in a Christmas card, always in a thank you card,
[7:34] Speaker 1: Always drop a text to somebody because you don't know
[7:36] Speaker 1: how they're going to react. And my reaction was, I
[7:39] Speaker 1: want to hear from you, brother, I'm proud of you,
[7:41] Speaker 1: and and you're doing something I basically will tell you
[7:46] Speaker 1: an dony, I don't know what you do because it's
[7:49] Speaker 1: such a technically uh different thing that I've ever experienced.
[7:53] Speaker 1: I know and know the words solar. When you hear
[7:57] Speaker 1: a solar installation, I hear the on tell us exactly
[8:03] Speaker 1: what you do. Well.
[8:06] Speaker 2: So my company, I liken to say that we're not
[8:12] Speaker 2: just a solar installation company, right, we are an emergence
[8:17] Speaker 2: trade company, a platform, so workforce development, finance, solar installation.
[8:24] Speaker 2: These are the core systems that are industries that we
[8:30] Speaker 2: perform under where we're given opportunity to people that comes
[8:36] Speaker 2: from undeserved communities, foster care that those individuals that's aging,
[8:41] Speaker 2: not a falster care.
[8:43] Speaker 3: These are the.
[8:45] Speaker 2: Industries that I come in under because we are marginalized
[8:50] Speaker 2: in these industries. And my goal has always been to
[8:53] Speaker 2: infiltrate these industries, learn about it, teach it to the
[8:58] Speaker 2: communities that don't know anything thing about it, want to
[9:01] Speaker 2: try to learn and basically, you know, make a living,
[9:04] Speaker 2: a good living, not something to where it's just hey,
[9:07] Speaker 2: I'm just doing something just for.
[9:08] Speaker 3: A paycheck, but actually a career.
[9:10] Speaker 2: And that's the thing that I'm trying to develop, and
[9:13] Speaker 2: I'm looking for anybody who wants to help, wants to
[9:16] Speaker 2: donate mission all of these things that I would need
[9:19] Speaker 2: to help scale and grow what I do because this
[9:23] Speaker 2: is essentially what I do, workforce development by pride and joy,
[9:26] Speaker 2: helping to underserve and black individuals black and brown that
[9:31] Speaker 2: want to get into the industry just don't know how
[9:33] Speaker 2: to go about it. I'm here just do everything. Well,
[9:36] Speaker 2: this is what I do right now.
[9:38] Speaker 1: Now, I want to go back to the solar power,
[9:41] Speaker 1: you know, because like you install solar panels, I'm assuming
[9:45] Speaker 1: at the fire station at Hartfield's Jackson Airport. Now, maybe
[9:50] Speaker 1: I'm asking too many technical quurts, but okay, is that
[9:55] Speaker 1: something that once you consider for their homes or this
[9:58] Speaker 1: just a business a bit? Is this installation where it's
[10:02] Speaker 1: most effective, because I'm assuming you got to have a
[10:04] Speaker 1: big enough roof so you can get enough panels up
[10:07] Speaker 1: there that will get you the right amount of energy
[10:09] Speaker 1: that will have value to bring to your to the
[10:13] Speaker 1: business that you're bringing it to your home. What are
[10:16] Speaker 1: your thoughts on how does that work for you when
[10:18] Speaker 1: you're talking to people about solar power.
[10:21] Speaker 3: So that's a good question and mainly.
[10:24] Speaker 2: It's one of the reasons why I joined the solar
[10:27] Speaker 2: for our program that was on the residential side, where
[10:30] Speaker 2: the government gave so much money throughout the United States,
[10:34] Speaker 2: two individual programs. One was Capital Good Funds received all
[10:42] Speaker 2: this money is thinking roughly one hundred and fifty six
[10:45] Speaker 2: million to twenty and fifty six million dollars to you know,
[10:51] Speaker 2: present this program throughout Georgia. However, the government took that
[10:54] Speaker 2: money back, so they only gave Capital Good Funds a
[10:59] Speaker 2: portion of that those funds for residential to basically help
[11:04] Speaker 2: individuals get free solar. And what we basically what that
[11:08] Speaker 2: process would have been is we go into these individual homes.
[11:12] Speaker 2: We talked to the approved individuals that are looking to
[11:16] Speaker 2: get this free solar and basically say, hey, we need
[11:20] Speaker 2: your power bills. We need to see how much you
[11:23] Speaker 2: paying your power bills. We give you, we have to
[11:27] Speaker 2: buy the government standards you have to have being able
[11:31] Speaker 2: to save twenty percent of what you would pay on
[11:37] Speaker 2: this your regular power bills, so we save you once
[11:39] Speaker 2: we deport this solar on your home twenty percent, so
[11:44] Speaker 2: that offset and that's over the course of the year.
[11:47] Speaker 2: And so that's an ongoing process. As we speak with
[11:53] Speaker 2: residential solar Now, this is a pilot that's going now
[11:57] Speaker 2: and we're still fighting. I don't know the details of legality,
[12:00] Speaker 2: so I don't want to speak too much on you know,
[12:02] Speaker 2: the process of getting that money back. But they are
[12:05] Speaker 2: in the process of fighting for that money back from
[12:07] Speaker 2: the government to full full fledged the residential side of that.
[12:12] Speaker 1: I know, three hundred and fifty million dollars and somebody
[12:15] Speaker 1: taking it away from me, I'd be unhappy a long time.
[12:21] Speaker 1: That's not what I want to hear you whoo. But
[12:23] Speaker 1: you know, you know, the world we live in is
[12:25] Speaker 1: changing so much. You know, electric vehicles, solar power. So
[12:31] Speaker 1: in my mind it's almost like it's solar power is
[12:34] Speaker 1: so strong that you can have a solar power set
[12:38] Speaker 1: up and it can charge your electric vehicle. I'm just
[12:41] Speaker 1: asking that's a general question. I'll just understand how you
[12:44] Speaker 1: can use nature set this up and it can it
[12:47] Speaker 1: can power your car. You don't burn anything on gas.
[12:51] Speaker 1: How does is that amount of power being generated from
[12:55] Speaker 1: these sun panels?
[12:57] Speaker 2: Listen, this is the greatest invention to man. Do you
[13:03] Speaker 2: use free resources that comes from the Earth, comes from space,
[13:09] Speaker 2: the sun? Right, the sun powers these solar uh, solar panels, right,
[13:16] Speaker 2: which which powers your home, which powers your your vehicles
[13:23] Speaker 2: and anything else that you want to adapt to these systems.
[13:28] Speaker 2: And that's the great thing with you know, human innovation.
[13:31] Speaker 2: You know, we are able to create these things that
[13:35] Speaker 2: really take not a lot of effort once you know,
[13:39] Speaker 2: you see the system and how it works to you know,
[13:42] Speaker 2: embed it into your everyday life. And so this is
[13:46] Speaker 2: a worldwide thing. You know, solar power powers communities, power cities,
[13:53] Speaker 2: and it combines networks with these data centers and all
[13:57] Speaker 2: that they need to consume lots and lots of energy.
[14:00] Speaker 2: And how do you get so much energy? You can
[14:03] Speaker 2: get it free from the sun.
[14:07] Speaker 1: And we got understanding the value of it. Because interesting
[14:11] Speaker 1: thing about you, you're a black man, you know, I
[14:13] Speaker 1: don't you know, I'm not saying I'm not being stereotypical,
[14:16] Speaker 1: but you're doing vehicle wraps and so vehicle wraps to
[14:21] Speaker 1: solar power installation. Help me understand. How were you able
[14:25] Speaker 1: to connect the dots and make that transition?
[14:29] Speaker 2: Man, listen, awesome question in Rashana, How I was able
[14:33] Speaker 2: to make the connection. I'm a visionary. I like to
[14:35] Speaker 2: consider myself a visionary. The future before trades was popular.
[14:43] Speaker 3: You know, I was.
[14:44] Speaker 2: I was in the trade. Right, signage is a trade vehicle.
[14:47] Speaker 2: Wrapping is a trade less a known trade, but it's
[14:51] Speaker 2: a trade nonetheless. And you know, the main thing is
[14:55] Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, there's a need for
[14:58] Speaker 2: what I do, and and I need to present it
[15:01] Speaker 2: to the youth. I need to present it to the future.
[15:04] Speaker 2: That's going to basically power America, that's going to basically
[15:08] Speaker 2: wrap America. It's basically going to put all these new
[15:10] Speaker 2: signs on these new buildings and companies that's bringing up.
[15:14] Speaker 2: I need to be able to learn what these industries
[15:17] Speaker 2: do and how I can apply it and present it
[15:20] Speaker 2: to my community. And so that's basically that's basically how I,
[15:26] Speaker 2: you know, put two and two together. I just look
[15:29] Speaker 2: see where the need is. I see there's a need.
[15:31] Speaker 2: There's a need for working capital. Working capital meaning the workforce,
[15:36] Speaker 2: meaning the people that's going to do the work. Because
[15:38] Speaker 2: you know what, anybody can go out here and get
[15:41] Speaker 2: the jobs, but who's going to do the work. And
[15:43] Speaker 2: these biggest organizations don't want to do the training, they
[15:46] Speaker 2: don't want to put forth the money to train these individuals.
[15:50] Speaker 2: Come to me, I would do it and this is
[15:52] Speaker 2: how I connected. Hey, you got a need I can provide. Wow,
[15:57] Speaker 2: let's come together. Let's have a strategic partner.
[15:59] Speaker 1: I love it. Man. Please don't go anywhere. We'll be
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[16:41] Speaker 1: and Instagram. Here's a couple of things that when you
[16:45] Speaker 1: was talking about sole installation, I was just looking up
[16:48] Speaker 1: things and I was going because you said, Rashan, you
[16:50] Speaker 1: know this is free elements that can power you that
[16:55] Speaker 1: you eventually can benefit you. So they said some of
[16:58] Speaker 1: the financial benefits, they said savings on electricity bill. Homeowners
[17:03] Speaker 1: can expect to lower their electricity bill by seventy five
[17:07] Speaker 1: percent or more. Here that depending on your solar panel installation,
[17:13] Speaker 1: over twenty five years, the average homeowner can save between
[17:17] Speaker 1: forty one thousands and sixty two thousand in utility costs
[17:22] Speaker 1: now the payback period. The average payback period for solar
[17:27] Speaker 1: panels that you install is between five and fifteen years,
[17:33] Speaker 1: depending on the system size and local electricity rates. After
[17:38] Speaker 1: this period, homeowners can enjoy free electricity from their solar panels.
[17:47] Speaker 1: You are aligning, You're gonna get a discount by using
[17:54] Speaker 1: the solar panel, and then after.
[17:56] Speaker 3: That it's free, come on benefits.
[18:02] Speaker 1: I didn't know anything. You didn't tell me this thirteen
[18:04] Speaker 1: months ago. Man, I'm ashaming of our relationship. Man, you
[18:08] Speaker 1: just being a nice guy. Now I understand that you can.
[18:11] Speaker 1: You could have saved me thousands of dollars, because that's
[18:14] Speaker 1: that's a program that you really that's why you're on
[18:15] Speaker 1: the show to educate people like me, to let people
[18:19] Speaker 1: know it's not a kind of like a cute thing
[18:23] Speaker 1: or a fat thing. This really in the world and
[18:26] Speaker 1: where we're headed and high gas prices and power grids
[18:31] Speaker 1: that go out, okay, that if you turn to solar panels,
[18:36] Speaker 1: that becomes an asset that you can control not only
[18:40] Speaker 1: in the short term, but in the long term when
[18:43] Speaker 1: especially as you get older bills and expenses, it can
[18:47] Speaker 1: it can help you with inflation. There's a lot of
[18:50] Speaker 1: positives in this. How do you make the big pitch
[18:53] Speaker 1: when you're going out there apportunity.
[18:55] Speaker 2: Well, for me on the residential side, I haven't went
[19:00] Speaker 2: four flares on that side of it, right right. They'll
[19:04] Speaker 2: focus on the commercial side, and I strategically work with
[19:09] Speaker 2: partners on that end, so they do all the legwork
[19:12] Speaker 2: as far as going out and pulling permits and talking
[19:16] Speaker 2: to the clients and so on and so forth. I
[19:19] Speaker 2: haven't reached that age of becoming yet. But my focal
[19:26] Speaker 2: point is really training the individuals on the trade themselves.
[19:31] Speaker 1: Right right, right, right right, expanding the workforce, like you
[19:36] Speaker 1: were saying, increasing opportunities through the apprentice program and all
[19:40] Speaker 1: these things that have been made available through you. That's awesome,
[19:44] Speaker 1: And I want to just put out one last thing.
[19:45] Speaker 1: I don't know how I missed this. They said it
[19:49] Speaker 1: will increase your property value. Homes with solo panel often
[19:53] Speaker 1: seeing increasing property value as buyers are attracted to the
[19:57] Speaker 1: prospect of lower energy costs and so sustainable living. Then
[20:01] Speaker 1: they added this low maintenance costs. Solar panels are generally
[20:06] Speaker 1: low maintenance, with average annual maintenance costs ranging from one
[20:11] Speaker 1: hundred and forty to one hundred and eighty dollars annually.
[20:15] Speaker 1: That's pretty impressive, man, even for your business side, that's
[20:17] Speaker 1: pretty impressive.
[20:19] Speaker 3: Yes, sir, yes, sir, Wow, yes sir.
[20:22] Speaker 2: Now you you mentioned have a sofa. Huh. There's a
[20:26] Speaker 2: lot of benefits to have a soga.
[20:27] Speaker 1: Now you mentioned something a couple of times during the
[20:30] Speaker 1: interview here about the Cherry Street Energy Partnership. Explain it
[20:36] Speaker 1: to me a little bit and high. You know, you
[20:38] Speaker 1: always said that's how you got the Heartsfield through the
[20:41] Speaker 1: through the Cherry Street Energy Partnership. Tell us exactly what
[20:45] Speaker 1: that is.
[20:47] Speaker 2: So, so think of Cherry Street as what's that Georgia Power,
[20:54] Speaker 2: right but for the Green Energy force, right, So their
[20:59] Speaker 2: utility company on the green spote. So what they do
[21:05] Speaker 2: they procure and manage the systems that they own and
[21:11] Speaker 2: provide to their clients. Right, So engineering procurement, and we
[21:17] Speaker 2: are construction. So we build the systems. They engineer, procure,
[21:23] Speaker 2: own and maintain those systems. So Cherry Street owns all
[21:26] Speaker 2: the systems that they install, or they have their subcontractors
[21:30] Speaker 2: like myself who partner with them to install these systems
[21:36] Speaker 2: on different municipalities and government buildings and so on and
[21:40] Speaker 2: so forth. So that's pretty much our relationship, that's what
[21:45] Speaker 2: we have. And also they have an armed where they
[21:48] Speaker 2: take companies, minority companies like myself and help build them
[21:52] Speaker 2: up right do what I'm talking to you about now,
[21:55] Speaker 2: starting apprenticeship programs and so on and so forth. So
[21:58] Speaker 2: they also invest in us by providing the resources to
[22:03] Speaker 2: help us learn and gain the knowledge to now present
[22:06] Speaker 2: and scale out to our constituents and our communities and
[22:12] Speaker 2: so on and so forth. This is field net, a
[22:14] Speaker 2: symbiotic relationship.
[22:17] Speaker 1: You know, This is why I really enjoy about our
[22:20] Speaker 1: conversation and watching your personal growth, because, like anything, we're
[22:24] Speaker 1: all about trying to survive. We're all about trying to
[22:27] Speaker 1: get to the next step. And you blossomed not only
[22:30] Speaker 1: as a human being, not saying that you aren't a
[22:33] Speaker 1: great person when I met you, but you seem much
[22:36] Speaker 1: more global in your thought process, much more community driven.
[22:41] Speaker 1: You've almost found the magic genie bottle for opportunity and
[22:46] Speaker 1: you're sharing it why are you feeling so good about that?
[22:48] Speaker 1: And we're not going to understand you a good person,
[22:50] Speaker 1: but a lot of people get that bottle and just
[22:52] Speaker 1: hold on to it for themselves.
[22:54] Speaker 3: Man.
[22:55] Speaker 2: You know what, No, man, I want to share with it.
[22:57] Speaker 2: I want people to come in and help build this thing. Man,
[23:00] Speaker 2: I'm on the precipice of a breakthrough. You know, I'm
[23:03] Speaker 2: right there. I'm and I'm on that. I'm on the
[23:06] Speaker 2: top tier of the mountain top you know where it's like,
[23:11] Speaker 2: you know, I'm on over the cliff. I'm over the cliff.
[23:15] Speaker 2: I'm just ready to jump and sore, you know, and
[23:20] Speaker 2: I just need that extra uh. You know. It's all
[23:23] Speaker 2: about building a team, building that synergy, and that's the
[23:26] Speaker 2: process I'm in. I'm and I'm building with others. So
[23:30] Speaker 2: I'm bringing others in because I can't do this by myself.
[23:33] Speaker 2: I don't want to be a one man army. I
[23:35] Speaker 2: don't want to be that person that does everything and
[23:37] Speaker 2: wear all the hat.
[23:38] Speaker 3: I want to share.
[23:39] Speaker 2: I want to share the wealth. I want to share
[23:41] Speaker 2: because it's a lot to do and I'm creating a
[23:45] Speaker 2: bottleneck of different molts that's going to help people in
[23:51] Speaker 2: my community and people in all the communities, if they
[23:53] Speaker 2: just see the vision that I'm building. I've been building
[23:57] Speaker 2: this for over ten years. You know I have the
[23:59] Speaker 2: blue I know how to tap into our youth. I
[24:03] Speaker 2: know what our youth need to be successful in these trades.
[24:06] Speaker 2: Everybody say, are you throwing the work? Are you throwing
[24:08] Speaker 2: the work? No, you just got to tap into what
[24:11] Speaker 2: they need. They need transportation, they need housing, they need
[24:15] Speaker 2: people that support them, they need mentorship. I can do it.
[24:20] Speaker 2: I need your help. I need your sponsorship, I need
[24:23] Speaker 2: your donations, I need your I need your help. I
[24:26] Speaker 2: need your help to get this information out to those
[24:29] Speaker 2: people that want to be able to donate into a
[24:32] Speaker 2: company like myself.
[24:33] Speaker 1: Give us a contact information in the website.
[24:37] Speaker 2: All right, contact do dot com dot do slash apprenticeship.
[24:44] Speaker 2: Do dot com dot doo slash apprenticeship and if you
[24:49] Speaker 2: want to be a part of the mission, if you
[24:53] Speaker 2: want to be a part of the apprenticeship program, or
[24:55] Speaker 2: if you want to be a partner employer, come a
[25:00] Speaker 2: forum on there you can fill out. I would get
[25:03] Speaker 2: back to you within forty eight hours. I promise you. You
[25:07] Speaker 2: just go on that site and I would be there
[25:11] Speaker 2: to help in any type of way and if you're
[25:13] Speaker 2: trying to help, please let's partner's let's figure it out.
[25:17] Speaker 1: Love it brother, Let's figure it out. Thanks for coming
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