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Your mother, Paulette, was just voted in as a civil court judge in New Orleans. Will you be able to go to her swearing-in?
It's going to be on a Monday. I'll have to talk to the coaches.
She was a mother at 17 who was able to go to college, law school, become a state representative and senator and now judge. What has her amazing story meant to you?
She's always pushed me to think big. When I was a kid, she used to tell me stuff like, "You ought to open up a bank one day and call it Irons Trust." When I was a kid, I was like, "Where's she coming from with this stuff? I'm not trying to open a bank." It was just for me to think big.
What words of wisdom from your father, Alvin, do you think about the most?
Whenever I got in trouble like clowning around in school, wanting to be the class clown, ... he'd be like, "Son, don't be a clown. Be a leader, don't be a follower."