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MMC LIVE: Dana Brown of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Sunni Hickman of The Harlem Globetrotters · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: because I interview celebrity CEOs, entrepreneurs and people I like
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  Speaker 1: to call interested decision makers. My next guest is Dana Brown.
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  Speaker 1: She currently serves us this assistant vice president of Marketing
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  Speaker 1: for third Grade Marshall College Fund. She plays a critical
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  Speaker 1: role in driving brand marketing, positioning, and strategic partnership activations.
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  Speaker 1: Prior to that, she was the program director of the
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  Speaker 1: newly launched Thurgood Marshall College Fund Hennessey Fellows Program, something
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  Speaker 1: that Stephen Avans Smith got involved with last year last
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  Speaker 1: August during the COVID. Prior to that, she was the
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  Speaker 1: commercial Planning and Activation director for the Whiskey category at
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  Speaker 1: the Agio North America, and prior to that, she created
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  Speaker 1: record growth and profit highs across the U s cogate
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  Speaker 1: Pamela the company portfolio. Prior to that, she graduated right
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  Speaker 1: here NBA from Clark Atlanta University. Listen to parents. This
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  Speaker 1: is why I brought on the show because you heard
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  Speaker 1: me mention the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. That's why I'm
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  Speaker 1: asking everybody to call because we want to get your
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  Speaker 1: kids scholarship dollars. That's why she's on the show today.
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  Speaker 1: We want to change lives today. That's what we do
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  Speaker 1: on Money Making Conversation for zero four eight eight zero nine.
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  Speaker 1: But always annoys me, Dana is that when you leave,
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  Speaker 1: then they called. They called when I can't answer these questions.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's right. She's listening to parents, teachers, coaches, and influences.
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  Speaker 1: She's on the show to talk about scholarships that are
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  Speaker 1: available to high school students and the third grade Marshall
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  Speaker 1: College Front. If you're interested in trade schools, party schools,
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  Speaker 1: or Barbara College. She can also help peop with financial assistance.
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  Speaker 1: Dana's on the show to talk about all scholarship for
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  Speaker 1: high school students and young adults just because building her
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  Speaker 1: dream as well. Please working to Money Making Conversations. Dania Brown,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for having me, I'm so happy to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Well great, you know, because I put the show together
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  Speaker 1: with all my friends and David Letting my staff trying
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  Speaker 1: to give information because they don't do shows like this
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  Speaker 1: on radio anymore. When I grew up, there was always
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  Speaker 1: community based shows where they shove them on Sunday. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you get up early before church you can hear them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then you don't know what you listening too,
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  Speaker 1: as you either stay do too late. They even want
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  Speaker 1: to listen that earlier in the morning where it's late
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  Speaker 1: in the afternoon when you're driving home. This is what
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  Speaker 1: money making conversation is. I mentioned earlier, graduate of Clark
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta University talking about your experience at Clark, My friend,
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  Speaker 1: Clark Atlanta was a wonderful experience for me. I received
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  Speaker 1: my NBA here. Um. I also had a scholarship, so
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  Speaker 1: I know the importance of scholarships. I know the importance
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  Speaker 1: of helping to pay for your education. But most importantly,
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  Speaker 1: it was a community. It was family. Um. You walk
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  Speaker 1: in the door and there was a sense of family,
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  Speaker 1: people who cared about your success and they invested in you. Well.
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  Speaker 1: The beauty of that is that the third and Marshall
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  Speaker 1: College Fund. And you know we we we hear about opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Were here about scholarship. You gotta apply for everything. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I got a big event coming up this Saturday that
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be called the HBCU College Day, HBCU
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  Speaker 1: College Day, bringing in military recruiters, corporate recruiters, and and
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  Speaker 1: HBCU recruiters. And I'm also bringing you in. Why was
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  Speaker 1: it important? Because I'm bringing in high school seniors and
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  Speaker 1: juniors and young adults. Why isn't is it important that
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  Speaker 1: you be at that event for the type of students
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  Speaker 1: are crowded. I'm bringing to HBCU College which is on
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  Speaker 1: the camp the campus of Clark Atlanta University this Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: ten am to six pm. It's important because HBCUs are
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  Speaker 1: important to us. We champion the ambitions of these students.
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  Speaker 1: We see ourselves in a lot of these students. Um
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  Speaker 1: and so the importance is to know that there are
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  Speaker 1: dollars available. Often you don't know where you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get the funding for college. You don't know where to start.
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  Speaker 1: So we're here to help you get the start, get
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  Speaker 1: the dollars, get to college. Well, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: that when I hear the word dollars that has start. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I know college changed my life. I know that it
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  Speaker 1: took me seven years to graduate. I'm just telling you.
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  Speaker 1: You got an NBA by time I got the undergraduate.
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  Speaker 1: But but that's what college allowed me to do. It
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  Speaker 1: allowed me to found myself mathematics degree by minds and sociology.
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  Speaker 1: And if I had to do it all over again,
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  Speaker 1: I probably would have major in sociology because it really
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  Speaker 1: opened my mind about life from a black perspective. You know,
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  Speaker 1: African American study, Black African American studies and sociology is
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  Speaker 1: an eye opening for anybody if you want to learn
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  Speaker 1: about how history kind of denies you information. Sure, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what you know we're dealing with. Now, what information
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  Speaker 1: you have is the truth? What is not the truth?
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is you have opportunities. Let's let's break
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  Speaker 1: down the whole program, the whole process of getting a
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  Speaker 1: student from point A to point B being a participant
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  Speaker 1: at Third and Marshall College fund Absolutely. So if you
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  Speaker 1: think about the process, Um, it starts with high school
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  Speaker 1: students getting the information and going after the information. Because
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  Speaker 1: you're right, it doesn't often it's not often dropped in
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  Speaker 1: your lap. So there has to be an interest. UM.
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  Speaker 1: You have to understand the process. You have to understand
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  Speaker 1: how the best position yourself for the process because they're competitive. UM.
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  Speaker 1: We have fifteen thousand students to apply. We gave scholarship
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  Speaker 1: to two thousand students last year over five million UM.
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  Speaker 1: So the money is there, the opportunity is there if
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  Speaker 1: you set yourself apart. So as a high school senior
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  Speaker 1: or junior, you should be thinking about not only where
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  Speaker 1: you want to go, but how are you going to
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  Speaker 1: pay for it, how are you going to get there?
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  Speaker 1: And so working through third of Marshall College Fund, we
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  Speaker 1: have we realize Black excellence comes in all forms, whether
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  Speaker 1: you're going to college or four year college. We have
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  Speaker 1: programs for that. UM. We have vocational trade school students.
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  Speaker 1: If you decide college is not for you, but you
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  Speaker 1: want to be excellent at uh being being a barber
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  Speaker 1: or a beautician or some sort of electrical engineer where
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  Speaker 1: you are sorry electrician, to get a certificate. We have
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  Speaker 1: funding right now. Scholarship program open sally May. Up to
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  Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars available for first
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  Speaker 1: year students as well, So you know, maybe you gotta
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  Speaker 1: get on there with me. You got you know that
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  Speaker 1: that trade school, because like I said, everybody is in
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  Speaker 1: my My younger brother he has four barbers barbershops in
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  Speaker 1: the D C. Area. So I know because he joined
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  Speaker 1: the military and then he came out and it became
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  Speaker 1: an entreprenuri X ray technician and then he became an
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  Speaker 1: entrepreneur in the in the in the barbershop field. So
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  Speaker 1: I know that he he wasn't cut out to do college.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't want to go to college, but that didn't
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  Speaker 1: stop him from being a successful entrepreneur. And when you
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  Speaker 1: told me that, I never like to pigeonhole people to
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  Speaker 1: say that if you don't go to college your failure.
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  Speaker 1: That's not true. You go where your dream or your
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  Speaker 1: passion takes you, or your gifts allow you to blossom.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you have to do. And so when you
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  Speaker 1: told me about the barber, the beauty, the trades coupe,
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  Speaker 1: why haven't I heard about that before? Well? Two things.
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  Speaker 1: I think in our community we measure success through degrees
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  Speaker 1: and stature, um, but we are just starting to have
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  Speaker 1: the partnerships where we know there's more to black excellence
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  Speaker 1: than the traditional path that we've been sold before. UM,
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  Speaker 1: we understand, just as you said, you can be successful
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  Speaker 1: through trade, through entrepreneurship, and so we are tapping partners
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  Speaker 1: that believe as we do to invest in these students.
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  Speaker 1: Close the gap. If you're close to getting that certificate, UM,
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  Speaker 1: but you don't have the dollars for that last semester,
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  Speaker 1: we have them um again up to six hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty five thousand, up to two hundred and fifty scholarships.
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  Speaker 1: We just need the bodies to apply. Wow, did you
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  Speaker 1: hear that? Called? Four zero four eight zero nine to
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  Speaker 1: five five four zero four eight eight zero nine to
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  Speaker 1: five five is the number to call when you and
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  Speaker 1: also go to t MCF dot org completing TMCF dot
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  Speaker 1: org for completing the dream the Sally May Fund Scholarship.
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  Speaker 1: You know, sometimes I get mad, you know, because I
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  Speaker 1: see these kids, especially in the Atlanta the water boards
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  Speaker 1: out there. They you're almost like they don't know, they
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  Speaker 1: don't know that. And I could have been a water boar.
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  Speaker 1: I was out there. I remember when I was in
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  Speaker 1: their age. Know, if I saw a newspaper, I picked
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  Speaker 1: it up and went and sold it downtown to make
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  Speaker 1: my little extra money. But but there are options, and
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  Speaker 1: so to have you on this show and we're not
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  Speaker 1: she's gonna be here for a minute now. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: just bring on and say hi and bye, because we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about her life as well. But I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make sure people understand. I'm shocked when I hear
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  Speaker 1: things like this, you know, and and I'm one of
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  Speaker 1: the people who are supposed to know. So that means
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  Speaker 1: that the people who don't know really have no clue,
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  Speaker 1: and they're sitting around there not allowing their kid or
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  Speaker 1: their child to see an opportunity to be different or
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  Speaker 1: live a different life. And when tell me about the
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  Speaker 1: Sally May I got that, and now that's totally different
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  Speaker 1: or is it under the same umbrella of the third
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  Speaker 1: grad Marshall Cornordge Fund. Are they two different? Because once
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  Speaker 1: for a four year institution, right and then once for
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  Speaker 1: a trade school? Is am I correct? So we have
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  Speaker 1: so many different programs. And the interesting thing is the
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  Speaker 1: paper on you know, I didn't want to pull out
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  Speaker 1: the paper on your day Brown. You know, she gonna
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  Speaker 1: she's gonna act like, you know, she's like, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: do my homework. I pulled out paper when there come
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  Speaker 1: on keep talking. We have quite a few different scholarships.
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  Speaker 1: One money only and that's what this is, Sally made fun.
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  Speaker 1: We give you the money right. Um. We have opportunities
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  Speaker 1: where we build skills. There's a City Foundation Career Incubator
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  Speaker 1: that helps you figure out what you want to do
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  Speaker 1: and helps you to build the skill level so that
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  Speaker 1: you can compete in that area. Just skill building and
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  Speaker 1: then we have the word that you like, the wraparound
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  Speaker 1: services that bats I was seeing. Her CMO ms Horton
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  Speaker 1: was at the HBCU College Day in Winston Salem which
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  Speaker 1: is Winston sale State University last week last Saturday, and
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  Speaker 1: that was the first time I heard about it. It
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  Speaker 1: was like it was so eloquent and she spent all day.
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  Speaker 1: They're passing the information because so many people are table
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  Speaker 1: head the lines. She was just busy all day because
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  Speaker 1: people were just so you know, it's beautiful when you
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  Speaker 1: come to HBCU College Day because you do see the
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  Speaker 1: parents with their children, you see influence, you see coaches,
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  Speaker 1: you see what you don't see on TV. As African American,
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  Speaker 1: we are so stereotyped by the media. Sometimes they only
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  Speaker 1: show the negative aspect of our of our success story
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  Speaker 1: and our success story is just like I've told everybody,
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  Speaker 1: I want to say a thing and the white people want.
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  Speaker 1: I want a nice house, you know, I want security.
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  Speaker 1: I get afraid with somebody breaking my house. Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want people living across street and I think gonna
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  Speaker 1: steer my car. Same values, I got, same values now.
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  Speaker 1: But then somebody they think black people want to want
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  Speaker 1: to live like that. That's or they like they like
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  Speaker 1: the hood, they like they like they like worrying about it.
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  Speaker 1: They want people to steer. They stuff, they thieves, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And that gets me so mad because that's why it's
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  Speaker 1: important that we understand the options that are available to us,
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  Speaker 1: because we don't know because of the fact that we're
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  Speaker 1: not serviced that way with information. And that's what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing right now. You're serving us information. We go to church,
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  Speaker 1: but church doesn't always give us this information. Sure, and
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of it too, is there are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of students at our first generation and so
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  Speaker 1: they are figuring it out and mom Um, dad, auntie, grandma.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know where to start, they don't know how
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  Speaker 1: to help. So you're right, that's why we're here. We're
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  Speaker 1: having this conversation. They're listening. They're gonna show up on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: eager to get the information and eager to figure out
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  Speaker 1: how do they get their son, grandson, nephew into college. UM.
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  Speaker 1: But again, what we love about what we do is
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  Speaker 1: it's not just getting you to college. It's getting you
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  Speaker 1: through college and then creating an economic mobility program or
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for you so that you're successful, that you can
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  Speaker 1: have those big houses like Mr McDonald's, what you're going
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  Speaker 1: let me know. I'm like, I'm a brag about my success.
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  Speaker 1: You know. So even don't die soon, you better have
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  Speaker 1: somebody letting you know you did something for your diet. Now,
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  Speaker 1: tell us about your at your high school student because
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  Speaker 1: you know you you came on a scholarship. Okay, you
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  Speaker 1: got your NBA from here. Okay, why Clark Atlanta University?
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow? So I went to University of Georgia undergrad. UM,
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  Speaker 1: had a great experience, transferred It's exactly, then transferred to
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  Speaker 1: Georgia State. UM, but I missed that HBCU experience. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to have it. UM. I also saw that my
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  Speaker 1: friends who were in the classes before me had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of opportunities with big companies because this is where
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  Speaker 1: companies were coming for African American talent. And I remember
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  Speaker 1: being at Georgia State graduating and nobody was really checking
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  Speaker 1: for me. I was an average student, um, so I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the grades that blew them away. And so
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  Speaker 1: I did end up with a job, but nothing like
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  Speaker 1: the opportunities that I received what I left Clark. People
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  Speaker 1: came to Clark Atlanta looking for diverse talent um and
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  Speaker 1: I had several opportunities when I left here, And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned some of them right there the cod Gate
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  Speaker 1: because that's because we kind of like cross lines with
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  Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. And I was up in New York doing
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  Speaker 1: w L. As you walked the halls when I was there,
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  Speaker 1: teeth were that's great. Well, I'm on, I'm on this call.
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  Speaker 1: The day is with she's in studio in fact, Dana Brown.
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  Speaker 1: She is the assistant vice president of Marketing for the
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  Speaker 1: third Grade Marshall College Fund. And we're on the show
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  Speaker 1: to day to talk about She's on the show the
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  Speaker 1: day talking about scholarship opportunities not only if you go
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  Speaker 1: to school and hbc U school, but also if you
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  Speaker 1: want to go to a trade school to salary made
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  Speaker 1: fund that's available with six hundred thousand dollars. So act
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  Speaker 1: you said it's available right now to be distributed. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta apply for these things. It just don't knock on
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  Speaker 1: your doors. It's just not the publishing clearinghouse. They're not
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  Speaker 1: stated earlier that one of the reasons Jane Dana is
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  Speaker 1: to the HBCU College Day event that is on the
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  Speaker 1: campus of Clark Atlanta University this Saturday, And let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about that a little bit because it's important to weave
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  Speaker 1: everything together. I'm gonna have military recruiters from the Air Force,
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  Speaker 1: their National Guard, Air Force Reserve, r OTC, and Space Force.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna have corporate recruiters from Morgan Stanley, Coca Cola Bottling Company,
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  Speaker 1: United Eups, and the Aspired Group. And then the big
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  Speaker 1: one hbc US on campus of Clark Atlanta University will
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  Speaker 1: be Alabama State University, Bishop State Community College, Shelton State. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna have as well as St. Augustine. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a We're gonna have Clark will be here. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: Morris Brown would be here. Morris will be here. Being
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  Speaker 1: paying college will be here. So with that being said,
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  Speaker 1: that's a reason for Thurgood Marshall College fun to be
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  Speaker 1: here because your scholarships are only for HBCUs AM correct
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  Speaker 1: some but even when we talk about wrap around services
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  Speaker 1: are visa program um. You don't have to go to
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  Speaker 1: an hbc U or a PBI predominantly black institution. UM.
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  Speaker 1: We offer four years of scholarship funding up to twenty
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  Speaker 1: dollars a year UM to internships and a potential job
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  Speaker 1: offer UM. That's what Wrap around Services looks like, what
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like, UM. And that's an opportunity for incomings
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  Speaker 1: the first years or if you're already in a program,
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  Speaker 1: I want your website and it's just a sponsors sponse
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  Speaker 1: after sponsor sponsor. There's a lot of corporate five hundred
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  Speaker 1: companies that believe in this program. But again it's all
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  Speaker 1: about getting the word out. You know, my friend brother
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  Speaker 1: Terrence J. He's the brand ambassador. What role is Terrence J?
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  Speaker 1: Who came from up your graduate from North Carolina. South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: which is the largest black HC also graduates more black
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  Speaker 1: engineers than any HBCU or any predominant white institution is
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina ANTI. So if you're interested in engineering, consider
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: that cool interested in nursing, considering which the Stem State
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  Speaker 1: University I got, I got, I got, I got. But
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: then it's about education. So you get these people like me,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: my pieces out there to tell your brand. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about you, a little history about you,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: because like you said, it gave you the tools. Then
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  Speaker 1: you went into the corporate world. Right, Okay, talk about
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: that journey because New York City too, But you were
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  Speaker 1: born in New York City, but you were raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: look at you. You did do your homework to become
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  Speaker 1: in this room. I gotta act like I know something.
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  Speaker 1: But you went back to the Big Apple did, which
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  Speaker 1: is a very busy, very crowded, very pushy environment if
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  Speaker 1: you're not ready for it. What made you excel in
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: that environment? I did have family there, so I had
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: a support system. UM. But I think what you learned
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  Speaker 1: at an HBCU, specifically what I learned at Clark Atlanta University.
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  Speaker 1: You have hustle, grind and grit. UM. You know how
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  Speaker 1: to make things happen. You know how to make away
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  Speaker 1: when there isn't a way, when normal people don't see it.
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  Speaker 1: Way you put things together. You know how to make
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  Speaker 1: the connections. UM. You build a community where you are
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  Speaker 1: UM and you find mentors. UM. That's what you learned
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  Speaker 1: at an HBCU is specifically what I learned at Clark
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta University, and it's what helped me be successful in
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  Speaker 1: New York. You know when I am, and you know,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: we had their racial awakening, especially with the George Floyd's tragedy, tragedy, tragedy,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, HBCUs started receiving these
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  Speaker 1: corporate donations led by Mackenzie Scott, we believe delivered like
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: four point one billion dollars and donations to various hbc
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  Speaker 1: s across this country. But you know what annoyed me,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Nobody did a story as to why these HBCUs will
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: get these donations. And when I say that, it's about
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the academics that HBCUs keeps pushing out to. You know,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: percent of the Black teachers in public schools are from HBCUs.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: You know seven percent of the lawyers are for black
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: from hbc US. These are numbers, are just a fact,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of these numbers can be found on
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  Speaker 1: the website if you want to back them up, you
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: want to learn more about the value hbc US. I
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  Speaker 1: guess I talked about it a lot, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: graduate from one. I enrolled as my freshman year in
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Southern University and baton Rouge and uh and and just
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: got homesick and went back. It was got a job
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: as a forklift driver. My aspirations weren't very high by
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  Speaker 1: myself within college. Then when you got a job as
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  Speaker 1: a forklift driver, Okay, where was this going for you?
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  Speaker 1: It was about leadership, is about mentorship. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that that's what I hear the most when I talk
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  Speaker 1: to people who graduate or go to HBCUs is the
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  Speaker 1: family environment, the mentorship. Talk about that absolutely. Um. I
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  Speaker 1: think when you're at an HBCU, it's not just reaching up,
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  Speaker 1: you're reaching back, um. So each one pulls one up. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And you also have your class that you come in
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  Speaker 1: with and you're supporting one another, so that once you
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  Speaker 1: start to go out into the workforce globally and compete,
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  Speaker 1: you have a sisterhood or a brotherhood from that hbc U.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, of course we're both in Greek organizations, so
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  Speaker 1: naturally we have that bond. But it goes even beyond that.
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  Speaker 1: And you think about bringing don't do me like that.
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  Speaker 1: One of join us on this conversation is four zero
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  Speaker 1: A zero five, Um, when you had to make a
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  Speaker 1: college decision, Like I told you, I went to Southern
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  Speaker 1: and enrolled, was in freshman orientation, and then I bailed out,
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  Speaker 1: went back to my hometown in Houston, Texas. Got me
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  Speaker 1: a job as a you know, a forklif driver, and
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I probably was a state of forklif driver, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't really I really wasn't that talented because I dropped
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  Speaker 1: a box on the guy's hand and broke his hand,
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  Speaker 1: and guy called me and said this is not for you.
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  Speaker 1: He fired me. So that ended my career as a
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  Speaker 1: forklif driver. So I stumbled around and eventually made it
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  Speaker 1: back into college that fall, and then like seven years later,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: eventually graduated with a degree in mathematics and minded sociology.
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  Speaker 1: As I stated earlier, but you you seem like you
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  Speaker 1: knew what you wanted to do. Is that true? I'm
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  Speaker 1: just looking at a person who was just I'm just
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  Speaker 1: looking you use confidence, you know, you success, you a
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  Speaker 1: sense of balance. What were you like as a as
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  Speaker 1: a seventeen eight year old person trying to make a
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  Speaker 1: decision about her life. Oh great question, um, seventeen eighteen
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  Speaker 1: high school senior. Um, I knew I was going to college.
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  Speaker 1: It was just embedded in me. My family said, you
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  Speaker 1: are going what I wanted to do. I didn't know necessarily,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: but I knew what I liked and I liked math.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I like numbers, So finance was that UM very limited.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't do a lot of reading in high school,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't have exposure to a lot of different careers. UM.
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  Speaker 1: Finished my undergraduate experience at Georgia State University. Worked all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. I was at an insurance company and
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to your point, just a bank and just trying to
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  Speaker 1: find my way. And I had a friend that was
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: in business school and she introduced me to brand marketing
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  Speaker 1: right and I'm a natural storyteller. That's one of my passions,
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  Speaker 1: writing telling stories. So then I started writing brand stories UM.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where I was really passionate UM getting consumers
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  Speaker 1: to fall in love with my brands, the brands that
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  Speaker 1: I was managing, the brands that I was promoting, all
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the brands that I was developing. UM. So once I
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  Speaker 1: got to business school, I found my niche. I was
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  Speaker 1: extremely excited and you know, thrilled to wake up and
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  Speaker 1: do what I was doing. Where I didn't have that
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  Speaker 1: feeling in undergrad, I was like partying. I had a
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  Speaker 1: really good time in the undergrad but I wasn't focused.
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  Speaker 1: Um So I needed that time to find myself in
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: to experience the things that I didn't want to do,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: so that when I landed where I was supposed to be,
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  Speaker 1: it felt natural and was very organic. Why did the
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: sorority play a role in your life? Oh? Wow? I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: had so many wonderful big sisters through the process, not
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  Speaker 1: just pledging when you say big sisters, but people who
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: became family and guided me, exposed, um mentored me to
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: your point and then that give back. You're doing the
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: community service and you're learning more about yourself, how much
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you have to give, and learning to stretch yourself. Um. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a parent or influence or a coach or a teacher.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: How do we go through the process? Can you walking
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  Speaker 1: through some very simple states, because we talk about is
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: available on the website TMCF dot org, right, and that's
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: TMCF dot org. But you go there, it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on there about you got the home, you got
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  Speaker 1: the scholarships, you've got the students. I can see it
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  Speaker 1: my of my somebody mentoring in this direction of being
• 28:59
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  Speaker 1: be a super student. That's a very good question. So
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  Speaker 1: on average your g p A should be a three
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  Speaker 1: compete on paper. You know, have an essay that you've
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  Speaker 1: it was it was a funny part about miss Horton,
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  Speaker 1: who to c She was saying that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: applications people kind of like duct tape your copy the
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  Speaker 1: need to make sure that you're positioning yourself for the
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  Speaker 1: up there trying to determine your life and you just
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  Speaker 1: duct taping the essay on top of something else, thinking
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• 30:19
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  Speaker 1: Or another common mistake you wait until the night before
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• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and you need to references, and it's the night before, right.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: The application isn't complete without those references. So let's back up.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: So we're going to the website. What do I click? First? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I phone and said, Hey, don't worry, I'm going buy
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  Speaker 1: over here just trying to make it happen for myself.
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  Speaker 1: So you said on a lot of councils, you know
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  Speaker 1: And that's what you represent. You represent the growth of
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  Speaker 1: a person who can win big at another level because
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  Speaker 1: you've shown that education not on education at an HBCU,
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  Speaker 1: Talk about that. Thank you. I love it because a
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  Speaker 1: creating points of disruption and innovative solutions that surpassed customer
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and consumer expectation. Well, she's on the show to take
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: a question from Josie in Atlanta. From Atlanta, how are
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: you doing, Josie, I'm doing fine, I'm blessing. Well, thank you.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: What was your question? Dana's on a call here, h okay, Hi,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: how are you doing? Um I'd like to say with Sean,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: I really enjoy your show, listen to it every week,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: but listen Dana. What I wanted to ask you my
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: granddaughter and went to HBC School UM part of her
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: scholarship the COVID they decreased her money. But anyway, she's
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: lead out because of COVID, But right now she knows
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: how to make week she does I ask this, she
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: does teeth whitening, I mean, and she's really Now you
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: say your daughter knows how to do teeth whitening and
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: her she went to UM an HBCU for a year
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: and a half Kobe she had to drop out, right,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: And so what I wanted to know is that with
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: this the program Saturday, I would really like to bring
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: her down there to talk with someone to see if
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: she can get another scholarship that she could finish doing
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: her passion. She got a music scholarship. She has a
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: beautiful voice, but she wants to do more than that, right, Yeah,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: so absolutely bring her down. We'll be we have a
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: tent and we'll be looking for you. Okay, lot going
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: on here. Now she can white and teeth, she can
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: do half, she can sing. I want to meet you.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I would to meet you. I want to meet her.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: You know, I managed, I managed people for a living.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Now I might need to meet up. She might be
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: the second big one for me. I got Steve Harvey
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: first mate. I got Steve Smith. Very utality. What does
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: she want to Yeah, I'm just as dang about tagom
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: shall see that's what you can. Let a ks come
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: in and her mother has her own business, and she
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: goes and uses her mother's shop and mom has her
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: own business and buckets. Well, I'll tell you what that
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: is why HBCU College Day was put together. Come down
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: at ten o'clock. Not only will Dana Brown be there
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: with the third grade Marshall College Front, but like I said,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: there'd be other uh HBC used there. Of course Clark
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Atlanta University, who I think and really feel blessed that
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: they allowed us to come on this campus and bring
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: twelve eleven other HBCUs on campus, but also ups be
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: there Morgan Morgan Stanley and be there. Coca Coo Bao
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: is united to be there. We'll have I'll be giving
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  Speaker 1: out free to start the water and all that good
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: stuff because it would be warm out there. If it's warm,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: you have free water to drink. But more potly were
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: your mask, we have hand sanitizers. It'd be social distancing.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you this. And so we've been
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: in what's the Salem this past weekend, we was in Montgomery, Alabama,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Alabama State University, and it was just blessing to see
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: everybody wearing their masks. It was no it was nobody
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: challenging the format. Everybody knows there's a core for Everybody
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: knows that they're there to be safe, recognized, the ability
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: to move forward with no with no disruption. Okay, so
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a safe environment to come in. And
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: you know we're gonna have their The marching Band's gonna
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: be a doing audition. The Harll and Globe trivealers are
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: gonna be there during a demonstration. That's guys, I'll be hosting.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be on stage and now I'll be
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: hosting that. I don't know if that's good news for
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: some people. Appreciate you calling the show again. Okay, anybody
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: else want to call, please call four zero four eight
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  Speaker 1: zero nine five four zero four eight eight zero. Ni,
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  Speaker 1: let's get back to you, miss dB Let's do it.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Let's do it. What do you recommend for people to
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: do when you when you, when you look at the
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: world that you control, you know you you you are,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: like said, I first met you when the Hennessee Fellows
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: with Steve kind of met you indvertently, Like I said,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: our lives have been really interesting because I kind of
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: passed you in the hallway at Colgate with Steve Harvey,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: and then I represented Steven A. Smith. I kind of
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: talked to you when he was doing a speaking engagement,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: and now I'm interviewing the interviewing you're on the show
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: about the third and Marshall College. So but the thing
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: I love about when I was listening to Miss Horton talking,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: went to say them the wrap around services when you
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: go scholarship, internship job, how talk to me? That sounds
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: so simple, but I know it took a lot of
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: work to be able to put a program like that
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: in place and also create the business relationships to be
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: able to have it as as as a campaign, as
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: a system in place that you can trust and you
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: can say it in public because it's true. Absolutely. The
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: interesting thing is we have a lot of those programs
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: um Apple. You have Apple scholars Um where our students
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: are getting scholarship dollars, internship opportunities, and full placement opportunities. UM.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: As you mentioned, I managed the Hennessey Fellows program and
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: that was for graduate students. So we're looking at targeting
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: high school students, junior seniors to help you get into college,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: while you're in college, to help you get through college,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: for undergrad students, and then even in graduate school. We
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: have programs where there was an opportunity that the Hennessee
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: team saw to unlock the C suite. There wasn't a
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: lot of diversity at the C suite level. So let's
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: train ten gifted talented students c suite. What is that CEO,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: c m O, CFO see because you know you hear
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: that long now, I could have said what was trying?
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: I do know that, but they just thrown out an interview.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: It just thrown out in print, but it never My
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: whole thing is that there's so much information as being,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: especially within the technology that we have digital apps and everything,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: and that sweets you know, first of all, the glass ceiling. Okay,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: that's that was the original term, you know, breaking the
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: glass ceiling. Now the term is c suite, unlocking the
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: c And so in order to do that, you have
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: to have relationships. That is what a lot of people
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: don't understand. I am only on this radio show because
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: of relationships that I've met and having and created over
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: the years. In other words, let's let's put to this perspective. Okay,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: you didn't know me at Cold Gate. What if I
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: went there and you heard that Steve Harvey was a
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: jerk and a guy with him was a double jerk,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: you know, then that would that would that would permeate
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: to across the hallways of Cold Gate. Was working with
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: a black agency at agency called Uni World. It had
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: permeated back to them and that relationship would have been destroyed.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: But because we didn't do that, we were positive, were
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: proactive and understand the value relationship. It allows us to
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: carry a stronger reputation and a lot of people to
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: understand Our reputation can be made and broken by what
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: you say and do around people talk about that you
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: were building your brand. You established a value for who
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: you are, what you had to contribute, and then it
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: became legacy. People knew the value attached to the name.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: They knew what they were getting, the type of product,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: the type of service. Um, you built a brand for yourself. Now,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: when you talk about brands, I remember because because you're
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: kind of coming into my little world here, because I
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: didn't go into marketing. I studied that IBM. I did
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: my undergraduate two an a half years. Would I be
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: m two an alf years as a full time employee?
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: There isn't math, but I always understood. But I saw
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Steve Harvy when I started managing him in two thousand,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: there was a philosophy in my head. Why can't I
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: treat him like a business? Why can I treat him
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: like the company? Why can I have the same standards
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: for him that I be in would have? Right? And
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: so that's when the whole process of being a brand
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: kind of kind of transferred for me from a corporate
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: structure to an individual. I remember when I was I
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: got honored as a like a manager of the Hall
• 43:11
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• 43:15
  Speaker 1: met his manager was being honored at the same time.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: He said, he said, he said, they got Rushan McDonald
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: changed the game, you know, because he said he figured
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: it out. He he kind of figured it out for
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: us all that that an individual can actually have the
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: same values that a company. And that's where the word
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: brand comes into play now because of the fact that
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: you should have the same standards of excellence that the
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: corporation has, which means that you should have to be
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: responsible for your product and guess what your product is
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: you And that's why it's really really important that we
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: hear all these things and we went in a big way.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: It isn't that correct, It is And it's positioning yourself.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest thing. How do you position yourself?
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: What do you want people to think about? Associated? Associate
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: with few because that's what's going to allow you to
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: extend your brand. That's what's going to take Steve Harvey
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: from stand up to sitcom to radio show to family
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: feud host. Right, yes, yes, and I know that for
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: a fact. And then closing, my friend Dana Brown, we're
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: gonna be there Saturday. We're gonna see you at the
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: HBCU College Day on Clark Atlanta, Clark Atlanta University campus
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  Speaker 1: from tending. Would you be there on time because because
• 44:28
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• 44:31
  Speaker 1: he was waiting on her signage and uh packaging. So
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give a hard time for that because you
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: will be on the show next month because she's sent fantastic.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: She's the CMO of the third of Marshall College. Fright,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: But again, thank you for coming on my show. Thank
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: you for every part of something I feel it's very
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: special and building a brand that I think will make
• 44:48
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• 44:52
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• 44:54
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• 44:56
  Speaker 1: You I'm gonna see you on Saturday. I know. Actually
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: gonna bring that multi talent with the daughter over there
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• 45:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm gonna meet or she gonna
• 45:07
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• 45:10
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me. I look forward
• 45:12
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• 45:21
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• 45:24
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• 47:40
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• 47:47
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• 48:01
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  Speaker 1: She's on the show to discuss her career, these successful
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• 48:10
  Speaker 1: about building her dream. Please work with the money making
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  Speaker 1: conversations again, Miss Sunny Hickman, how are you doing? Sunny good? Now?
• 48:20
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• 48:28
  Speaker 1: What's happening there? Because I did? I need that energy back.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: You can't do me like this. I can't pull up
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• 48:49
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• 48:52
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• 48:54
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• 48:56
  Speaker 1: the sweet Yorgia Brown, talk to me about being the
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: brand of the Hall and Glow Trotters, which is iconic
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: first of all, and the fact that you are a
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: woman of color leading this organization, you know, through a
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: transition because you always you know, you know, everything can
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: become stale and not sending the brand is stale, but
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: you always have motivational techniques and brands. You change and
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: you shift. Because Hall and glowtros are known for trick shots,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: they're known for they have introduced women onto the team.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: They've done so many, I guess, groundbreaking things for the
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: game of basketball in general. What did you see that
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: excited you by coming on board to work with the
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Hall and Glowtrotters. Oh wows? Is the dream come true?
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you? So I've been with Harlem Glowtratters for a year.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: So I just finished my rookie season and I remember,
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: so I've been with our parent company, Person Enterprises. So
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: I've worked with the Dollar with Company and several others
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: um theme parks and aquariums that are part of the company.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: And I remember coming to our office in Atlanta and
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: seeing the Harlem glow Tootter's office beautiful, and I said,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: it would be so dope work for the glow Totters
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: one day. I'm just letting everybody know the opportunity. It's beautiful,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: the office of the Hall of Glowtrotters. You walk in
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: there and you want to take photos. It's like a museum.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: It's really, it's really, it's really one of the I
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: had a meeting over there. That's how I knew about it,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: and want nobody hired me. You know that I went
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: over there, and you know then I'm gonna get nosy, sonny.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna look around, you know, I want the old
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: black people, you know, just walk in the building, started
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: looking around and touching stuff. That's why they put ropes
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: up around people for people like me. I touched up
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: and so. But you walk in there, you see the
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: rich history and the incredible players who are who been
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: a part of this and like I said, I went
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: to one of you. One of your famous players went
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: to the same college that I graduated from, University Houston,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Lewis Dunbar, and he became an iconic, uh not only athlete,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: but then you guys were making transitions to these guys.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: They come to the game over the Harlem Globetrotters. And
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: I like to make that statement because these are highly skilled,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: professional people who have just turning their game into an
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: entertainment factor. Correct, absolutely, absolutely, Now wait a minute, resign.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: You just told me you went to the same high
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: school as lou Dumbar. No college, college, so don't me
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: in high school? Ain't that over college? University of Houston,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: University College. I went to see you. I watched Louis Dumbar.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: He was playing in college when I was watching him.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Is a legend six knight and a half. He was
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Magic Johnson before Magic Johnson. See that's right, that's how
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: that's how cold he was. Now he's what does he
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: eats the coach now? Right? Absolutely so Again, there's just
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: so much like in the office, you can go through
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: that history and meeting and working with Coach Low and
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: hearing his story. The thing that makes a glowtalter. So
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: special is they bring this incredible skill and style of basketball,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: but they want you to laugh and have a good time.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: But they've been doing it for decades. But you know something,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: you're you're representing something that's even special. The reason I
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: say that is that, uh, you know your your graduate
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: of Clark Atlanta University. That had Dana Brown on earlier
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: the first half of the show. She's a graduate of
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Clark Atlanta University's HPCU is a very powerful academic institution.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: And when I had you on my show earlier, we
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: talked about that, and I like to work before were
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: going to further interview, I want you to share your
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: experience and why hbc has played such an important role
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: in your success as a as a person who who's
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: rising into the c C suite territory. Yes, forever, I
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: love Clark Atlanta University from some of my very best
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: days were on that campus. And I can't wait to
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: get back there Saturday for the CCU tour. Um. Well,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: you know the thing about it is talk about what
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: you were saying, sunny, Um, I can't wait to get
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: back there for the HBCU College Day on Saturday. But
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: my time at Clark Atlanta. I was challenged, I was inspired,
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: I was um really truly lived out sort of the
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: motto of find a way of make one that just
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: really became ingrained in me. In terms of business professionally, Um,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I've met so many people of color from so many
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: different walks of life and built so many relationships that
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: continue to drive me both professionally and personally today. Now
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: we're not talking about being a female in a black
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: woman in this position. I is it too much being
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: made of that? Or it still is a path that
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: needs to be recognized as being unique. And the more
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: doors need to be open, Absolutely, more doors need to
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: be open. I hear more now, um than ever, people
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: saying to me that they're inspired because they see people
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: that look like them, they see women that look like them.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: And leadership and now that now there are a couple
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: of things that are happening with you in the In
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: the Globetrotters, you know, it talks about black excellence on
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: off the court, black excellence in the boardroom. And then
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: it turns out to be what the success? Because I
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: was asking Dana the same question about success. What is success?
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Because you not only this is not your first stop
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: as a person who's done marketing and Brandon, You've done
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: theme parks, You've done other levels of Like I said,
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: transitioning to this role of an iconic brand because it
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: us come with a little fear, doesn't it? Sunday? Because
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: of the fact that it is laid out there. You've
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: seen it. You people can tell you the thing something
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: like I tried to sing it. You know those red strips,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: those pants that balld is read, you know you the
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: currly nails sliding up the for the metal loock linnen
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: hook shot. You know all that's coming in there to you?
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: How do you not stay? How do you not how
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: do you stay calm? Because you're in a calm on
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: this call now and you're the you. You made decision,
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: you shifted, you rebranded it. What what what made you
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: so bold? What made you the confidence to say this
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: is fantastic, but it needs a little push? Mm hmm.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: I've been blessed with a gift, and I think in
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: my career I've had opportunities and I believe that that
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: door is crash, you gotta bust it open. And I
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: think fear um can be powerful um and motivating just
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: if you kind of trust and belief and one who
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: you are. So I was kind of thinking about like
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: what might I share, you know, if whoever is listening.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: And for me, that fear is motivating because I want
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: to make an imprint. I want to make a difference.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: I'm only as good as the people around me. For
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: my team, I want to see people would develop and
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: grow to the things that they're passionate about being able
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: to do it. I want to see families be able
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: to spend special time together and be able to have
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: memories that will we had a pass on and remember
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: for generations and where people can just take a break
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: from all of the stresses and the things that you
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: deal with on a day to day basis and just laugh.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: That's an honor and a privilege. And I recognize that
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: and try to make the most of every moment. But
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: I'd be scared Rushan. You know something I tell people
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: that I laugh because fear I wake up. You know,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: I never know what happens when I walk out of
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: the door. I'm confident. And then when you're confident, hopefully
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: that pushes you past the fear. And then I always
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: talk about people allow fear to stop them from making
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: job changes, stand in relationships too long, or and that's
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: that's a big deal because of the fact that the
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: unknown is tied to fear, and if you don't walk
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: through the unknown. That's why when I read your bio
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: and even when I talk to you now, I so
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: admire you because of the fact that when people don't
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: understand when you can take on iconic brands like the
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: Hall and Global Trotters where you know, it's it's it's
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: like it's like it's like it's like going in there
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: in Kentucky Fried Chicken trying to change your chicken recipe.
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: You know, people, she's talking about messing with the chickens.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with the chicken recipe? Well, we have to
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: change the chicken recie. We won't mess with the fries. Okay,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: that's all she's doing. The Hall of Girl, she's just
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: messing with the fries, the fries of the Hall of Globe,
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: trying to brain And so when she messing with the
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: fried that means she has to she's marketing and Brandon
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: and and she's reimaging the tours and things like that.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: And let's talk about that whole reimaging because people while
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: and there they are. They are jumped in conclusions like
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: you know the ball is gonna be white, you know,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: and then you know all those different things. But you're
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: not changing anything. We'll know you have changing the thing.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: You just reimaged some things and then looked at it
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: from a different perspective coming out of the COVID situation
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: and going back into live audiences. Correct. That is absolutely right.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: And something that you said, really, um, reminded me of
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: something brushining one of my kind of hashtags. I talked
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: in hashtags often, and one of them is being trusting
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: it open and for the globe totters, I've kind of
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: stepped in this role of being trusting to the path
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: that's being set before me and being open to um
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: what is intended for this brand. So these players, Um,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: you're right, they're trusting me two provide them with a
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: pathway to touch and reach people. Right, they give so
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: much of themselves. I mean they're touring and they're playing games,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: two hundred plus games a year and then they sign
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: every autograph. Now, they spend the box, they work on
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: their skills. So I'm being trusted to allow them to
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: touch lives and that's really what this reimagination is about,
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: of ensuring that they continue to shape youth and young
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: people and inspire others for generations to come. Now this Saturday,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: the Hall and Globe Trotters will be that while the
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: interview to be on stage doing some small demonstrations. When
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: I asked, you know, just the email to come to,
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: I know what you're gonna say, and then they still know, Yeah,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: we'll be there, We'll be there. Why was it important
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: for you to commit to being a part of the
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: HBCU College Day that's on Clark Atlanta University campus this
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Saturday at ten am two six pm. When I asked,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: all that was I asked, it was no offer free money.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: I was just saying all of these old drawers to
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: come down and hang out. And you said yes, why,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: oh man, those are my young brothers and sisters there
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: on that campus. And I wentn't here. I wouldn't be
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: doing what I'm doing. I wouldn't be the person that
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: I am today doing what I love and everyone doesn't
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: have a chance to do that had it not been
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: for Clark Atlanta University. Well, my friends, well, my friend,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad you said yes because it means a
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: lot to me because of the fact that you know
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: we were gonna be there. You know, we're gonna have
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: corporate recruiters there, Like I said, We're gonna have military
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: recruiters there, and most important, we're gonna have HBCU recruiters.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: And most important, we're gonna have the Hall of Global
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: Drawers there, you know. And I'm not gonna I'm gonna
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: tell yourself, I'm staying in my lane because I'm one
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: of them old hoopers, you know, the thing I can
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: rotate the ball on my finger and go between my leg.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit my old behind right there and let
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: the talented people gifted do their thing and I'm an
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: interview and just have a good time. But again, if
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: you want to change your life, you want your child
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: to have an opportunity to be special, please come down
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: there this Saturday. Will be there on the campus of
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: Clark Atlanta University h b c U College Day Tour.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: Holl And Clothe Childers will be there Sunday. Thank you
• 1:01:26
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• 1:01:29
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• 1:01:31
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