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Omar McGee, Stephanie Sprow-Owens, Frank Sanchez & More · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: guest serves as an advisor to Farmer First Lady Michelle
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  Speaker 1: Obama regarding high school and post secondary completion and leads
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  Speaker 1: campaigns to support students effort to go to and complete college.
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  Speaker 1: She's Deputy Director Reached Higher at Civic Nation. Please welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations. Stephanie sprout owars, I are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: What are you calling me from? Stephanie d the hub
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  Speaker 1: of it all? I guess you could say that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I got my brother. He lives in washing
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  Speaker 1: d C. He has like a full beauty and barber's alone.
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  Speaker 1: So I get down there a lot. So I'm fair
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  Speaker 1: d C. Last week dyinging in Legal Legal Seafood, which
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  Speaker 1: I talked to a sponsor and trying to get them
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  Speaker 1: engaged and giving money for youth programs, a young program
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  Speaker 1: I always talking about, this is a future customer, This
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  Speaker 1: is a future taxpaying person. This is a person that
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  Speaker 1: really is our future. You know, they are They're They're
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  Speaker 1: the reason we should we strive. I would tell I'm
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  Speaker 1: an older person, so anybody younger like you, I reach
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  Speaker 1: out to. I reach I if I feel compelled. That
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  Speaker 1: is my mission to give you a better opportunity to are,
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to spread your words. So when I heard
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  Speaker 1: about what you were doing, you know, and then your
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  Speaker 1: work history, why are you doing all this? Why? Sure?
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  Speaker 1: So thank you very much. I'm really honored to be
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  Speaker 1: on your show today to talk to your listeners. UM.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually in Houston last week. We have a
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  Speaker 1: partner in Houston, and it really resonated with me that
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  Speaker 1: I'd be talking to some folks in a town as
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  Speaker 1: big as that city, where where there's so much potential.
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  Speaker 1: We were on the campuses the University of Houston, UM
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  Speaker 1: and it's just it's greatly on college campuses. Whenever we
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  Speaker 1: can get there, we we do so thank you first
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  Speaker 1: and foremost. So UM, I do what I do honestly
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  Speaker 1: because I absolutely love it and I know that it
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  Speaker 1: is important for our community to be involved in college.
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  Speaker 1: So Retire was started by a former First Lady, Michelle Obama,
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  Speaker 1: during her time at the White House, and it was
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  Speaker 1: really inspired by her own experience as a first generation
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  Speaker 1: college student. She she wanted to help more young people
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  Speaker 1: just like her and her brother to go to and
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  Speaker 1: to graduate from college. And she knows without a shadow
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  Speaker 1: of a doubt that she would not be where she
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  Speaker 1: was if she had not had her college experience. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And and most importantly, she wants people to know that
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  Speaker 1: she was really just like them. Uh. You know. She
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  Speaker 1: was from the South Side of Chicago. Her parents didn't
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  Speaker 1: go to college, but they went to work every day,
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  Speaker 1: and they instilled in her brother and her that they
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  Speaker 1: could do anything, but they had to have their education
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  Speaker 1: to back it. Uh And it has never is never
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  Speaker 1: faltered her and frankly, it's never faltered me either. So
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  Speaker 1: in we worked with her to start Retire to inspire
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  Speaker 1: every student in America to take charge of their future
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  Speaker 1: year by completing their education past high school. And that's
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  Speaker 1: at a four year traditional university what we usually think
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  Speaker 1: of as college, but that also includes community college programs um.
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  Speaker 1: And it also includes professional training programs and may not
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  Speaker 1: we may not think of necessarily as college, but that's
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  Speaker 1: really higher education. Uh. And the point is that the
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  Speaker 1: twenty one century economy, uh, you know, money making moves
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  Speaker 1: and high school diploma is not enough. You cannot have
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  Speaker 1: a real career for at least for most of us.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot have a real career without doing something past
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  Speaker 1: high school. UM. And so we really wanted to help
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  Speaker 1: students and their families to know all of the tools
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  Speaker 1: that they needed to be able to do that after
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  Speaker 1: high school. And then after the Obama administration ended in January,
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  Speaker 1: the work is not over. It's not finished. We still
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  Speaker 1: have a lot left to do. And so we joined
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  Speaker 1: an organization called Civic Nation, which is a nonpartisan, nonprofit
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  Speaker 1: organization here in d C that's designed to house public
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  Speaker 1: awareness and organizing campaigns to reach audiences mostly young people. Now,
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  Speaker 1: now you said you mentioned I'm a graduate of University
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  Speaker 1: of Houston and Mathew mathematics in my mane and socialist.
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  Speaker 1: You said you did something at the University of Houston.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to break you up on your role. Well,
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  Speaker 1: well you no, no problem. When we were we were
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  Speaker 1: there last week UM to do a conversation with school counselors.
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  Speaker 1: And school counselors are the person in your students middle
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  Speaker 1: or high school that can help them to be college
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  Speaker 1: and career ready in a way that is just totally
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  Speaker 1: specialized in different from anyone else in your in your school.
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  Speaker 1: So we had a conversation with school counselors from across
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  Speaker 1: the state of Texas UM about how they can do
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  Speaker 1: some more of their work and target their work in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: And we've had a few of these conversations, as we
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  Speaker 1: call them our school Counseling convenient convenings. We've had them
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  Speaker 1: all across the country. Texas was with this time. UM.
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  Speaker 1: We've been in San Diego, We've been in Boston, We've
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  Speaker 1: been here in d C. We've been in Denver. UM,
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  Speaker 1: we've been all across the across the country. Where we're
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  Speaker 1: doing one in Chicago coming up early next year. Just
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  Speaker 1: trying to really uplift one recognizing that school counselors are
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  Speaker 1: the ones in your schools and your children's schools who
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  Speaker 1: have all of the tools and resources needed to help
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  Speaker 1: your kids get to college. And unfortunately, we have a
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  Speaker 1: school councilor deficits UM in many schools, in many communities,
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  Speaker 1: In many places, especially the ones that look like us
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  Speaker 1: and your listeners, there are more school resource officers, which
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  Speaker 1: are essentially police officers security officers in those campuses than
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  Speaker 1: there are school counselors. And we're working to change that.
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  Speaker 1: We're working to really empower school counselors UM, working with
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  Speaker 1: some wonderful programs like the Association and American Association as
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  Speaker 1: School Counselors UM to really get this message out there.
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  Speaker 1: Your school counsels are important and those are the people
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  Speaker 1: who can unlock these tools that your students need to
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  Speaker 1: go to college. So if you don't know where to
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  Speaker 1: start your school counselor done, well, here's an interesting thing
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  Speaker 1: about it, because you know this. The role of the
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  Speaker 1: school council has not changed from when I was in
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  Speaker 1: high school and middle school to now. But they are
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  Speaker 1: like the school nurse. You know, you only go there
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  Speaker 1: when you need them, you know, when they play such
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  Speaker 1: an important role in everyday life, your life moving forward
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  Speaker 1: and moving forward. And I think it's more like and
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  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, you know, it's been a long times
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  Speaker 1: has been in high school, but you know, the councils
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  Speaker 1: of the same people in college, and these people are
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  Speaker 1: kind of like put on the back burner. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: saying I'm not saying anything negative. I'm just saying that
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  Speaker 1: how do we bring this significance or how do we
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  Speaker 1: create that bars of importance that these counselors play in
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  Speaker 1: developing our young people today? You know, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we put their ports of football in high school, we
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  Speaker 1: put their porting of basketball coaches and all that, but
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  Speaker 1: the counselors should be just equally as important in the
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  Speaker 1: world of academics. Right, You're absolutely right, And truth be told,
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  Speaker 1: one of the reasons why we even began to put
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  Speaker 1: this emphasis on school counselors was because Mrs Obama asked
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  Speaker 1: us to. Uh, it became so clear to her that
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  Speaker 1: those were the ones, those were the people in your
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  Speaker 1: students live would make a big difference. Um. And I
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  Speaker 1: think really it's just gonna be a matter of parents
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  Speaker 1: demanding it, of students demanding it. Um. So often school
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  Speaker 1: counselors have lots of hats to wear in their schools.
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  Speaker 1: They have one stuty, they're on pickup duty. They maybe
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  Speaker 1: pop in exam across the street with the little stop
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  Speaker 1: side right exactly exactly, And and much of our work
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  Speaker 1: has been trying to really shine a spotlight on what
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  Speaker 1: their role should be in the school, in the classrooms
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  Speaker 1: so that they can for college and career readiness. You
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  Speaker 1: made the you made the point that the that the
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  Speaker 1: profession haven't changed a lot. I'll challenge you that it
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  Speaker 1: really has. I think, um, okay, So often you have
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  Speaker 1: this sort of misnumber of this of the guidance counselor. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we're not calling the guidance counselors anymore. There's their school counselors.
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  Speaker 1: Because that's just that's that's real old school. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: old what they what they used to be doing, and
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  Speaker 1: what many people think of as their counselor. Lots of
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  Speaker 1: people unfortunately had negative opportunities with their counselors, may where
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  Speaker 1: councilor didn't really guide them as well as they could. Well,
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  Speaker 1: now we have programs on college campuses where school counselors
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  Speaker 1: are getting the training that they need to be able
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  Speaker 1: to support our students to be college and career ready.
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  Speaker 1: You're in busted me twice now, you said, Sean, look
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  Speaker 1: a here, you know your old school. Now, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: just tell you this now. So that means that I
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  Speaker 1: only know what I remember. Now, Okay, give me that,
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  Speaker 1: give me my little moment here now if I remember,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna guide my my, my nephew. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna guide my my, my daughter's kids, or my brother's
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  Speaker 1: kids or my daughter to a counsel because I only
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  Speaker 1: go to there. How could I help you? Because this
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  Speaker 1: is really interesting now because I see the core of problem.
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  Speaker 1: It's about It's about changing the narrative correct, because the
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  Speaker 1: narrative is previously over here where I experienced a rashane.
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  Speaker 1: They're called school counselors. Now, see when you just go
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  Speaker 1: there were God is counselor Okay, guess what, they're still
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  Speaker 1: counselors to me. And but I want to I want
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  Speaker 1: to help you. How can somebody like Rushan McDonald help you?
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  Speaker 1: Because I got a big mouth, I got social media.
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of people. You're just on my
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  Speaker 1: campus last week, so I should have been engaged with
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  Speaker 1: that because guess what, I'm a mouthpiece and I understand
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  Speaker 1: what you're trying to do. When you talk about Strail Institute,
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  Speaker 1: you talk to Ride, you're talking about university stud youre
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  Speaker 1: talking about Sam Jack Junior College, you talk about community college.
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  Speaker 1: That's my whole mantra. It is about college changed my life.
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  Speaker 1: I change it, maybe on the reasons on this on
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  Speaker 1: this radio show right now, it's because it changed my life,
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  Speaker 1: and so I know the importance. I would tell people
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  Speaker 1: I went to school, and I tell people I went
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  Speaker 1: what got me there. But when I got there, it
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  Speaker 1: changed my life. And that's why I always tell people,
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  Speaker 1: just go to college. Just show up forever. We just
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  Speaker 1: get on Kevin. Go there on Wednesday when it's packed
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  Speaker 1: in lunchtime and look at all those people and go
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  Speaker 1: I want to be a part of that. And so
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  Speaker 1: I won't to come back in the break because you
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  Speaker 1: got me fired up, not missing. You got me fired
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  Speaker 1: up because you called me old school. You told me
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  Speaker 1: that the school counselor there. I know their school counsels now,
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  Speaker 1: but guess what I'm reacting to my past experiences. How
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  Speaker 1: can I how can you tap into rich Sean McDonald
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  Speaker 1: around the world, it's telling people I want to be
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  Speaker 1: a boss of what you guys are doing. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: right back with more. It's definitely sproud Owens. Whoa girl.
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  Speaker 1: You gott be fired up? Now We're gonna change the
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  Speaker 1: world to day y'all hanging out, We'll be right back. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back. This is Rashan McDonald, your host the Money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversations on the phone. I have my guests up.
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  Speaker 1: She's the deputy director reached higher at Civic Nations. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: please welcome back on the phone. Stephanie s proud Owens.
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  Speaker 1: How you know Stephanie great? Stephanie ever tell you something?
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  Speaker 1: When I left I was hyped now because you know,
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  Speaker 1: how do we flip the script? How do we start
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  Speaker 1: promoting and moving to the fore front. You know, when
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  Speaker 1: the cheerleaders go on the court, they'll give me a seed,
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  Speaker 1: me k spell? You know, so we can get them
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  Speaker 1: excited about counselor. So we gotta unders and that the
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  Speaker 1: key roles that these counsels are playing, these school counsels
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  Speaker 1: are planning and guiding our young Americans to greater heights
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  Speaker 1: in the academic world or the professional world or trade world.
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  Speaker 1: But the main goal and reach in your program is
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  Speaker 1: to get people to continue education past high school. Correct correct, correct,
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  Speaker 1: So really the biggest thing we can do is they
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  Speaker 1: go to your go to your counselor. UM. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: earlier that that we tend to only go to our
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  Speaker 1: school counsels when we need them and like like the
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  Speaker 1: school nurse, and that shouldn't be the case. Go talk
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  Speaker 1: to your counselor if for all of your listeners, now
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  Speaker 1: find out what the name is of your school counselor
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  Speaker 1: at your child school. Hopefully there's more than one at
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  Speaker 1: that school, but know that person's name, be in touch
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  Speaker 1: with them, Be in contact with them just like you
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  Speaker 1: would any of their teachers, UM and and make sure
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  Speaker 1: that they know you, and make sure that they know
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  Speaker 1: your child, because they really are the people who will know, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know Tommy's to go to this college or Tommy
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  Speaker 1: should consider maybe this program, UM and they'll know also
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  Speaker 1: how to get the money to go to college, how
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  Speaker 1: to get the other tools, how to help you to
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  Speaker 1: fill out the faster, which I definitely want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about today. It is incredibly important to you talk to
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  Speaker 1: the floors yours. I brought you on this show because
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  Speaker 1: there's significance, and I want to bring you back on
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  Speaker 1: the show because I know it's not enough time to
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  Speaker 1: really explore what we're trying to do, because I know
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  Speaker 1: have a friend, you have a fan, and in this
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  Speaker 1: post high school world, because it changed my life and
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  Speaker 1: I constantly promoted to everyone give it a shot, you know,
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  Speaker 1: give it a shot for you jump on that forklift,
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  Speaker 1: or for you just do some blue collar work because
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  Speaker 1: you think that's the only goal, to drive that truck.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with that. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about in the early stages of your life. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if it is student loan or for many many scholarships,
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  Speaker 1: and the students who leave that money on the table
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  Speaker 1: that's when you also go to your school counselor, because
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  Speaker 1: what documents you need, they know what tools you need,
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  Speaker 1: and they can really help you do that. But our
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  Speaker 1: tool will help get you there. You may need to
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  Speaker 1: find someone in your school to help you finish it,
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  Speaker 1: but we're gonna get you there, and as much as possible,
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  Speaker 1: so I can help you get there. We have counsels
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  Speaker 1: students to take the S A T or the A
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  Speaker 1: you can sit back and wait and see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: And there is a college for everyone. I fully believe
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  Speaker 1: that with everything in my heart, that there is a
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  Speaker 1: college out there for every single person in this country. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it was the college out there for me, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, and I'm just gonna let you know, um
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  Speaker 1: my counselor, Uh, when I was still you know, wondering
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  Speaker 1: at bottom tea whatever. When I left high school, I
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  Speaker 1: drove a fork forklift, uh until I broke a guy's
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  Speaker 1: head because I didn't know what I was doing. I
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  Speaker 1: worked at the post office, so I was out there
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  Speaker 1: just trying to find myself. For one thing, I remember,
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  Speaker 1: my counselor made me fill out the application for the
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  Speaker 1: will qualify. So that step I know the importance of that.
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  Speaker 1: If I don't feel that application out, then guess what.
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  Speaker 1: Because I was still like there, I was driving forklift.
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  Speaker 1: I just looked I just gotta I was just happy
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  Speaker 1: to be out of high school. So I know what
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the importance of your conversation and what you're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm always just money making conversation is about providing
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  Speaker 1: it and for nation. So if you don't mind, if
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  Speaker 1: what we're trying to do. We're trying to reach not
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  Speaker 1: only the students but their parents who wonder and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they can't push their kids to that next level because
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: they feel they can't afford it themselves, so they won't
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: out of embarrassment. They just allow their child to just
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: take the secondary opportunity instead of fulfilling the dreams that
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  Speaker 1: they want their kids to say, this phone call is
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: telling me and telling everybody there's options out there. Fill
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  Speaker 1: out the paperwork, get your name in the lottery so
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  Speaker 1: you can get a shot at the next level, just
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  Speaker 1: like everybody else. That's all this abs absolutely right, because
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  Speaker 1: you know other other kids aren't being told that they
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  Speaker 1: can't go. They're being told to go, and it makes
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  Speaker 1: all the difference in the world. It makes all the
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  Speaker 1: difference in the world. Um, I am passionate about this
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  Speaker 1: work here. All has changed my life. It changed my
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  Speaker 1: parents life, it changed my grandparents life. And I know
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  Speaker 1: it's out a shadow of a dept. But I would
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  Speaker 1: not be where I am because of college. I got
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  Speaker 1: to work with Michelle Obama. I mean, how many people
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: get to say that, But I know that from my
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  Speaker 1: path that I would not have been able to follow
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  Speaker 1: that dream had it not been for my college education.
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  Speaker 1: And I recognize that not everybody wants to do what
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  Speaker 1: I did. Not everybody wants to work in Washington, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to, but like you said before, it
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  Speaker 1: gives you the options you lift yourself and your family
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  Speaker 1: to the next level. Changed my life. Where are my friend, Stephanie,
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  Speaker 1: I have to go. I hope you come back if
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  Speaker 1: we can schedule loose in because you know, I know
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  Speaker 1: your brand now I'm focused, I know what to dive
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  Speaker 1: in on and we get this word out and but
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to me, get those social media band to me so
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  Speaker 1: I can start putting it on my social media and
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  Speaker 1: get the word because it's about consistent marketing, consistent brandy
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: that people started understanding exactly the message you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: put out. Again, thank you for taking the time to
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: be on my show and we'll be back soon. This
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald, host of Money Becking Conversation, Bars and Girls
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Club of America. Frank Sanchez will be coming up next.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Thank you ready. Hi, This Rashan McDonald, the host of
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations. My guest is on the line. It's
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: time to bring him on the show. My next guest
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: is the National vice President of Sports Entertainment and Alumni
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Alumni Development for the Bars and Girls Club of America.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: In the Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked the Bars and Girls
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Club as the number one youth organization for the twenty
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: three straight year. Please work on the Money Making Conversation,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Frank Sanchez, Thank you, Frank. What are you calling from? Frank,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I'm calling from our headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Oh my,
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  Speaker 1: you know something. I just knew you're gonna say something
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  Speaker 1: like l A or New York. But you in my hometown,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: which is Atlanta and also Houston, Texas. Were about in
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta, Georgia? Are you set up at UM on
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  Speaker 1: fifteenth in Peach Street, right in the heart of Midtown.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Um been here for our national headquarters. Moved here about
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: twenty five years ago. We were in New York, United Nations.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Because we wanted a location where we can find the
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  Speaker 1: best employees in the country. We moved here to Atlanta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: But my friend, I'm I'm not mad at you move
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: or enjoy Atlanta is the atmosphere is great, and you
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  Speaker 1: do have a straw and you know that in the
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  Speaker 1: economic lifestyle is lower and much more affordable, which is
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: also great to finding the right people and also for
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: your own personal well being. That is true. Well, tell
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: me about the mission. And first of all, I'm a
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Boars and Girls Club. I
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: got all this information I want to I don't want
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: to jump in front of and tell the story that
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: you should be telling. So I'm gonna throw out some
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  Speaker 1: coutions initially so we can build a relationship or what
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  Speaker 1: exactly Boars and Club, Because, man, you have been there forever.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I used the word forever in a very very proud
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  Speaker 1: manner because it means that over that time you've affected
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  Speaker 1: and changed a lot of lives. And I know in
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  Speaker 1: the short period of time that I've been into the world.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: You know, because my life has been about I went
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: to college and I got I started doing stand up
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  Speaker 1: comments on a right television show. You know, I've been
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: donating here and there. But your whole focus has been
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: about changing young people's lives. What just the mission of
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the Boys and Girls Club of America. Our mission, it's
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: pretty simple. We want to enable all young people, especially
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: those who meet us most, to reach their full potential
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: as successful citizens of America. And we do that through
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: our four thousand, three hundred US nationwide are sixty one
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  Speaker 1: paid professionals. Uh. And every day some five hundred thousand
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: kids in America walking to a Boys and Girls Club
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  Speaker 1: and have an experience around education, leadership and um you know,
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  Speaker 1: good um education, character and leadership and healthy lifestyles. And
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  Speaker 1: we want to create We are the gatekeepers of the
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  Speaker 1: after school time where you know, as you and uh,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: you know, in my lifetime going up in New York,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: after school was the most dangerous time for young people
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and boys and girls to have filled that void every day, uh,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: for hundreds of thousands of kids. Well, well, lis'sen not
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: just say hundreds of thousands. GOT Bars and Girls Club
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: annually served four million young people through membership and community
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: outreach and forty three hundred clubs facility that you mentioned earlier.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: The thing that kind of when I was, when I
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: was going through breaking dollars, all this information that was
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: sitting and sent to me. Now I wanted to explain
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: exactly what they information that I'm about to put out
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: to you. It says one thousand five name for school
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: based clubs. What is that? When you say that five
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: and one tho, what is a school based club? That's
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: a great question, great question, and you know there are
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: UM traditional boys and Girls clubs are building based operations.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: They are boys and girls to facilities that stands alone.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: So a kid typically leaves school and goes to a
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: facility called boys and Girls clubs. A UM school based
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: site is after school boys and girls stuff has their
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: location on the school campus and we serve kids in
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: that school and other kids in the community on the
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: school site. So the allow has allowed us to expand
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: our reach with a partner that is a natural partner
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: for us. Kids go from school and they have a
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: place to go after school, and our school based sites
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: are a large segment of our population, as well as
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: our military site and I was about to go to
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: that because that I didn't know about the military sites.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: You know, when you say that that that that was
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: new information to me. You know, you have four and
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: eight and one Bars and Girl Close affiliated youth centers
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: on US military installations worldwide. How does that how does
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: that relationship work? Well, it goes back in twenty five years.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: It started with our Desert Storm program, and uh, it
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: just makes natural sense when parents, uh and our military
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: men and women are deployed, there's a gap with who's
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: serving their kids with quality programs. And we had we
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: started a partnership with the military some twenty five years
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: ago and uh it is extended now to reach a
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: significant number of young people. Um. But again, as parents
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: are the boys, who's working with those young people. So
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: it's the natural fit for Boys and Girls Clubs of
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: America to fill that board to work with young people
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: during that time when their parents are serving our country.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: And that's what Boys and Girls Club is about. It's
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: doing anything we can to serve communities, kids and families.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting that when I when I hear
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: all this information come to me because you know, and
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna bring out these organizations because their youth
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: or organizations. You know, you know the Girls College, the
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: bos Boys College of the y m c A, you know,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: and then you have the Bars and Girls Club of America. Now,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I think strategy wise, you guys using celebrities spokespeople are
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: are celebrity mentors. They publicly communicate it's really really done.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Wonders for your branding and marketing of what you're doing
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: at the Bars and Girls Club? Am I correct? It
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: has um. There's two real signature moments in our history
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: that probably started around the same time. The first is
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: our partnership with Major League Baseball, and if you're watching
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: any of the World Series, you'll see behind home plate
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Major League Baseball has
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: been a supporter of us. We've been the official charity
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: for close to twenty years twenty years plus. The second
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: thing that happened was about twenty five years ago. This
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: young man came up to Enzel Washington and said, I'm
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: gonna say his name. I was gonna say his day, Frankfurt.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: He's the man. Though he is the man, Denzel is
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the man, and he's been our national spokesperson along with
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez, But Denzel has been our national spokesperson for
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: almost twenty five years, and there is a direct line
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: between us being a charity that most people knew the
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: good work, but didn't We didn't have that that face,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and when Denzel came in, he has been the face
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: of our charity with Jennifer Lopez for the past two decades.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: And we also have about a hundred ambassadors. You do.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: I saw that picture, man, that picture. I don't know
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: how you got out all together. Maybe that was photoshop.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: How you got all in that picture together, from Terence
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Howard to Jennifer Lopez to dead Sel, just name a few,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: because it's it's I It's just important that people understand
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: that was key man because you know, having a Denzel
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: come on the commercial, having Lopez, that's millions of dollars
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: in marketing that you you connect the dots all immediately,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: especially social world and the digital world. Just a smart
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: way of staying topical and staying relevant. Correct. That is correct,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: And as a nonprofit, you know, we have to be
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: sensitive to how we utilize the utilize our dollars, and
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: advertising is a space that we don't spend a lot
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: of money on. You know, we have to rely on uh,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: these types of partnerships, these types of relationships to get
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: our name out there. UH and UH it's a critical
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: way for us to stay relevant. It's also a critical
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: way for us to stay relevant with our teams and
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: our kids in the community. They want to be they
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: want to be in a place where they know their influencers,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: want to be involved with. You know, we currently have
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: a partnership with Katie Perry are and you know, Katy
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Perry is um It's amazing what she's doing for every
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: every ticket sold will receive some money for that. But
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: more importantly, she has her dancers and musicians visiting clubs.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: He is visiting clubs country again. It just gives us
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: a way to be relevant and to inspire our young
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: people that they can be great, just like the people
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: that we are surround ourselves with. Now you create these
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: strategic allowances. That's that's just your one of your one
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: of your primary roles. Correct, that is one of my
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: primary roles. I've been blessed to have some strong relationships
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: over the years, and those relationships, UM, as long as
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: they live in the spirit of children, usually manifest into
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: good things. Cool. I've got to go take a break.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: We're gonna be right back and want to come back,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Mr Sanchez, I want to talk about the clubs that
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: are in public housing and the clubs that are on
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Native lands. Like I said, all this information has just
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: been sent to me. I went online and saw it.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I brought you on the show just to educate me,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: and I feel if you educate me, you're gonna tell
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the world more about the great program that you guys
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: are doing every day, affecting four million annually. This is
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: money making conversation. We'll be right back. Hi. This re
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: shot mcgull I'm back with money making conversations. On the
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: phone is my guests. The national vice president of Sports
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Entertaining and Alumni Development for the Bars and Clubs Bars
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: and Girls Club of America, Mr Frank Sanchez. How you're
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: doing Frank, Hey, I'm great. Thank you very much for
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: having me on your show. Thank you, thank you for
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: helping me spread the word of positivity because my show
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: to day is really about successful people who are making
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: a difference by uplifting the community. Because a lot of
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: people don't realize that if the youth of America can
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: become customers, they will become taxpayers, they will become voters,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: and so how you shape them young, it's how they
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: will impact our country as they become adults. And that's
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: why programs like this. What is the age age range
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: for the Bars Girls Club of America? Young people usually
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: arrive at about six years old and uh stay through
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: their teen years. We kind of peak six to five
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: thirteen and then you know, we grapple. We we we
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: keep our teams around. We have a new digital strategy
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: that will allow our teams not only to advance their
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: skills digitally with school, with jobs and careers, but we'll
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: keep our teams aligned with Boys and Girls Clubs through
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: their seventeen and eighteen years. Now. Myself, myself started at
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: six years old and have never left. It's been a
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: part of my life. That's awesome. That's awesome to hear.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Now my mar Show producer r J. He's from Alabama,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: and he was talking about his experience. He's a fan
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: of the Bars and Girls Club of America and he
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: was telling me like he goes back every year just
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: to volunteer and participate. But he also says that it's
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: not packed like it was when he was a young man.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Coming up. Is there a reason for that, as is
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: funding issues now or or my thing? It's something that
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: only he's experiencing in all about well, Um, you know
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: it's interesting. I just left Alabama. I was in Opahaika, Alabama,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: just a few short days ago, uh, and I was
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: at a at a club out there, and it was
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: packed to the brim. I think what happens now is
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: that there's so many uh options for young people. Right.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: This device that's in our hand every day comes an
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: option for young people. And so Boys and Girls clubs
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: we strive. We strive to be contemporary tech centers in
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: our clubs. We have computers in our clubs, but we
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: still focus on relationships with young people that can transform
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: their lives. So I think, um, uh that as we compete,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: you know, our competition has always been technology in the streets,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and we're trying our best to make sure that we
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: stay relevant uh and and in time with what kids need. Um. So,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: as you talked about funding, there's always funding is always
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: a opportunity for our clubs. They need the dollars to survive.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: They're they're funded by uh those dollars to continue to
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: support these kids in their communities. So UH, it is
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: a critical part of our movement that we rely on America.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: We rely on corporate we rely on individual donations to
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: support our local clubs nation one cool. Let me read
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: a statement from your from the from the website. UH.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Clubs play an important role in providing a safe space
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: to exercise, competing team sports, and established lifelong friendships. Teams
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: who stay involved in the club are more likely than
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: their peers to have to have healthy habits, including being
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: physically active and abstaining from abstaining from risk of behaviors
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: like drinking alcohol, smoking, and using marijuana. Eight four of
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Boars and Girls Club twelfth grade report abstaining from alcohol,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: compared with fifty percent sent of twelfth graders nationally. That's powerful.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: It is a powerful statement, and it's really based on
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: the great programs we have on clubs, the relationships that
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: are club staff develop with young people and raising the standards,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: raising the goals for our young people. You know all
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: of us, UM, you said this earlier, you talked, We
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: talked about Denzel Washington, and in two thousand and six
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: he wrote a book called The Hand to Guide Me,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: And Denzel said, listen, everybody knows I'm successful, right, they
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: look at me now, but they don't know who helped
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: me become successful. Who was the hand that guided me.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: And we had the privilege of interviewing about seventy people,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: and every one of them, from presidents to generals to
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: leaders and industries, all said that it was a person
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: who helped guide them to success. And that person, when
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: they do it right, can help them navigate through the
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: tough times and tough decisions like alcohol, like drugs, like
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: inappropriate relationships. And that's what our youth development professionals do
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: every day at clubs. So um, that data is a
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: direct reflection of the great work our team do at
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: local clubs and the programs that supported them. And that
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: that's why I wanted to read that, because a lot
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: of programs can't say that, and and sometimes you have
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: to let somebody else tut your horn, and that right now,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: I'm tuting your horn, my friend, because it's important that
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: programs like this give kids options. I always tell me
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: that's so, that's true. Idle mind do do idol craziness.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: And so when you talk about these people who guided you,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: like I had a number of people who kept me
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: aligned like I was. I was one of those students gifted,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: but boy, I was all over the place. I had
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of people to keep pushing me back on
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: the road to successful. Brother I I wrote on that
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: gravel and be about to head it for that ditch,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: and they go, no, no, no, no, no, come bring up,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: come back here. And I remember Ms. Trailer, you know,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: she's my biology dude. I remember Mrs Nelson, you know
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: she was my math dude. And all these people in
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: high school and in college, I can remember not only
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: you know, my fraternity brothers kept me focused. You know, college,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: when I worked at part time jobs, they kept me focused.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm parents of students that were my roommates.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: They saw things in me. And when you're special, you
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: know you're different, you you can you can make a difference.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: And I always say that saying positive things to young
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: people really is the key. And secondly, it's keeping young
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: people in a positive environment is the biggest key. Because
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: if you're going around, if you tell if all your
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: kids here, they can't make it, they're stupid, they are criminal.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: You know you're gonna get arrested. You're going to jail
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: before you hear thirty. If you if that's if that's
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: what you're here, it's going to happen. It's going to happen.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: But if you around, people are telling you you can
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: be successful. And that's what the Boys and Girls Club
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: or America's telling people, young people especially, you can make
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: it happen. You can be Come to us. We have
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: nothing but positive things to say about you. We won't
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: tell you you're special, and that's really the core of
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: your success. Correct Uh, that is the core of our success.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: A positive affirmation is a big part of our tool
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: kit to help young people. But it's also setting expectations.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Having young people understand that there are expectations and when
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: you exceed those expectations, we're gonna recognize you, We're gonna
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: guide you, we're gonna allow you to explore new opportunities.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: There's there's secret source to our work recognition, strong positive relationships. Uh.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: The more time we spend with kids, the more opportunity
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: for them to be successful. So there's there's a secret
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: source to the success of these local clubs. But positive
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: affirmation and setting goals and aspirations is part of that.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: And um, we are we have a hundred and fifty
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: seven years of experience doing that. You may not know this, sir,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: but you know you talk to about some fine other
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: youth organizations out Great YMC a great organization. Boys and
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Girls Club is an American made organization. It was made here,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: it was developed here, and it's a hundred and fifty
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: seven years old. Uh And we've been working with kids
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: and communities for for that long. Well, here's what's important
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: to me is that you don't run you know, certain organizations,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: you know they basically talking to a certain group of
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: people all the time. It was two things that stood
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: out for me when I did my research and my
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: staff gave me information was the two hundred and nineties
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: six clubs in public housing and a hundred and seventy
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: five clubs on Native lands. Those can be those public
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: housing and Native Americans can oftentimes be of a gidden
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: group of people. But you guys have chosen to go
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: in and go Look, you're important to us, you have
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: a voice. We want to give you the same opportunity
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: to experience with every other kid is experienced it in America.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: That to me is way powerful, Frank, that is a
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: powerful statement. But it is part of our mission. You know,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: we want to enable all young people, especially those who
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: need us most. That's the corvis, especially those who need
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: us most. And when you talk about kids in public housing,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: they need us most. There are food deserts. They live
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: in food deserts where um, you know, the closest healthy
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: choice maybe two three, four miles away. And you talked
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: about Native Americans and their food deserts. Somebody may have
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: to drive an hour an hour and a half to
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: get a healthy choice for food. That's where boys and girls,
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: that's why they need us most. That's where we go.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: We've been involved with Native Americans for some twenty five years.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: We have been really the only youth service agency that
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: has been there more than two decades servicing young people.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Uh and it is critical work. Juvenile diabetes rates on
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: Native American lands is tragic, tragic. When you think about
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: alcohol abuse on Native American lands, it's tragic and boys
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: and girls stuff goes in there. And our goal is
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: again to help these young people during critical hours to
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: make good decisions, make good choices. And we've got great
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: alumni that have come out of that young actor named
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: Martin Sessamia, who you'll be hearing a lot of in
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: the next year, golfer, notable gay just great people that
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: have experienced the Boys and Girls Club and UH have
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: overcome great obstacles to become successful. My friend, I want
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: to call you my friend. Like I said, I have
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: a home in Atlanta, George of view on mine. I'm
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: gonna drop by, shake your hands and if you can
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: use any of my skill set, whether it's social brandy know,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: come back on my show and take you have a
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: special event, feel free to use Rashan McDonald. Okay, Frank,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold you to that. Next year, we'll have
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: some two thousand kids here in Atlanta, Georgia, two thousand
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: teams celebrating our leadership program, and I look to you
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: to help inspire some two thousand kids next year. I'm
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: gonna tell you, Frank, You're not You're throwing no fear
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: in me, my friend. I will be there. I'm telling
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: everybody you send me a flyer and I will conferring
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: on my Facebook page today because what you're doing, but
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Mr Washington has been doing and I just want to
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: outline the people. That's what this show is about today.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Letting people know about successful people because you can be
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: successful in the corporate world. You got that skill set,
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: but every day you change in lives and reshaping America
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: in the direction that can only make it better. My friend,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: stay strong and you will be seeing me in your
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: office one day talking about what do I need to
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: do to help the balls in Girls Club of America.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much and thank you for this opportunity.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you and your fan shaning my friends. We talked soon.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, got some more happening Money Make conversation.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: Don't you go nowhere. People on this show are changing
• 51:06
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• 51:09
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• 51:19
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• 51:22
  Speaker 1: this money Making Conversation. I'm your host. A three two
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  Speaker 1: A three two two three zero five five nine two.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: My show to day has been about successful people were
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: out there uplifting the community. They could be out there
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: a corporate job during their thing that IBM Google, but
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: they've chosen a path in life of changing the young
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: people in America are making this country greater, making this
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: country better because guess what, we all need to look
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: in at direction. And it's really important that when we
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: see these things happen, that we need to applaud them
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: because guess what, they're doing things to the average person
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: will not do because they're in their own right, a
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: very special My next guest, interesting guy, talented guy, was
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: exposed early to the harsh realities of divorce, drugs, violence,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: and alcoholism. They plagued not only his family, but they Flint,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Michigan community at large. Rising above his circumstances, Omar went
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: on to attend Howard University and now is the creator
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: and founder of Executive Preparatory Academy of Finance. Please welcome
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversation, Omar McGee. How you doing sir?
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you? I'm doing great. You can't complain huh doing
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: that good? But if nobody would listen in anyway? Right? No, no,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: because you're good looking dude, you know you're successful. So
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: who you complaining too? Because there's a lot of people
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: out they're doing way words, but what you're doing is
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: way bigger because you you're helping out our youth. You
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: redirected Pepe Kid to maybe fall in a different direction
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: and keeping them straight in the right direction. That's amazing, dude,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you brother, I appreciate it. Now I read that
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: poor information from your bio about you growing up? How
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: did you get out? When I when I read that,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: let me read that again? How did you get out
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: early years exposed to harsh realities of divorce, drugs, violence,
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: and alcoholism? How do you get out? What finger or
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: what prayer or what person got you out? Well, it's
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: a complicated story. I'm I'm the baby of eight. You know.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: My mom she was you know, she was addicted to alcohol.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: My dad he took over, you know, the other seven
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: and moved him into a dollar house, which is a
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: house that the city was given people in the community to.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: You know, once GM started closing down, the community was
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: falling so fast. Absolutely, they started selling houses for like
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: a dollar. But the thing was, you couldn't set that.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: You had to rebuild it and living it. And that
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: house was actually like worth a dollar, like truly. And
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: you're talking about a place that you know, wintertime is
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: practically hellless, you know, zero below zero practically half of
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: the winter, and this place you know I didn't have
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: you know, secure windows, no heat, no running water, and
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: you know he moved my sisters over there because the
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: environment from my mom and my mom's my mom's environment
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: was so bad. But I stayed with my mom because
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: you know, she was unwelfare so she you know, bills
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: were paid. The only thing I had to do was
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: fight drums and pimps and do those things. So um.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: To make a long story short, you know, I got
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: into a lot of bad things as a kid. I
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: taught myself how to read through memorizations. Um. After my
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: mom died. You know, I was so far behind in school.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Um My, when they removed my mom mouth, they were
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: finding papers, you know, like the steak was about to
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: take um take me, were about to take me. So um.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: When that happened, they realized that they had to get
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: me out of here. So my brother got the first
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: job at home depot in Atlanta. When you know they
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: sounds crazy, right, they shipped me out there and lie,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: they said. I was in the eighth grade. So um,
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: and I'll discovered basketball and that's how I started, you know,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: changing my life. My brother introduced me to a lot
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: of things from I was back to Martin Luther King
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: to very con because I was never that bad kid.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: I just you know, I just didn't know because I
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: want I want to pull that comment back, that bad kid. Yeah,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: And I don't think no kid. I when I see things,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: when I see physical abuse or children, because the most
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: the greatest love in life is a child's love because
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: that was all they know. You know, they're born with
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: a blank slate, and as they grow up, they learned
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: what they experienced. You know, this is who they are
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: and when. And I don't think there ever are bad kids.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: It's environment. You know, A kid learns racism through their parents,
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: through their environment, you know what I'm saying. You know,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: kids learned violence through their environment, you know, selling drugs.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: That's why I was asking you because you know I
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: came from Fifth War. You know, it's one of the
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: more empower communities, very similar background. Like I saw violence
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: when I was coming up, you know, violence, and my
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: parents may not be aware. I know they're not aware
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: of what I saw because that they ride my bike
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: playing basketball. I saw a lot of stuff going down
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: and go whoa, you know, and they probablyn't let me
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: go out there play basketball if they know what I saw,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: and so I know that. You know, I got fights
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: in the street. Remember I got in one fight on
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: More that dude hit me in my eye. I realized,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: you know something, I am not a fighter. Okay, Well,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: ever ran in my mind, whatever thought jumped in my
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: head will never jump in there again. If anybody ever
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: wants to fight me, I'm gonna tell her right now.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: I lost. I'm just I'm gonna just admit right now,
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: I lost. Before you start hurting me physically, I lost.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: So I give and so. But but but when I started,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: when I look at your journey, you know, in the community,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: that's why this show is being done today because if
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: we just get it through our heads, if we just
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: get these young people early, yeah, they don't become bad kids.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: I'm starving, white, black, Hispanic, any of them. Yea, that's
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: what you're doing now, man, with your program. You're trying
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: to capture them early and give them directions, tell us
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: about your program. And then I'm gonna die back in
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: because I don't wanna get too deep. And people forget.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: I don't understand why I have you on the show.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: I have you on the show about this, this this
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: preparatory program that you created and the amazing graduation. Right,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: tell us about that. Then we're gonna drop back and
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: get more d your history. Okay, Yeah, I started to
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: the prep um four years ago to start fifth year,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: and um, I wanted to get you know, what society
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: considered the worst is in l A. And that's exactly
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: what I got. I mean, our kids were the kids
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: that Dorsey Crunshaw. You know, a lot of schools are
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: tougher schools didn't want and a lot of people told
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: me I would fail. A lot of people told me
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: I'm wasting my money. But that was the challenge and
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: I was cool with that challenge because that's what I wanted. So, um,
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: within that, I mean, you would have you have to understand,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: I had to separate the kids not by their academics,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: but by their gang affiliation. If you roll the sixties,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: you gotta go over here. Blood you got you have
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: to go over there and in the same classroom. Yeah yeah,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: I can't sit in the same classroom. So that's why
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: I was dealing with. But again, that's the challenge I
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: wanted because I know if we can change those kids,
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: we can change the academic success across the nation. For
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: our kids. We can practically save our culture. You know,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: ninth grade is you you know, that's when that's when
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: all your kids drop out of high school. So, so
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: what's your minority breakdown? What is Hispanic African American temperac
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: in Hispanic? Because I know the whole neighborhood over there
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: is changing if they're coming more and more Hispanic. Correct, Yes, yes,
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: it's it's not a lot of schools for African Americans
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: to go to in l A right now. The black
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: and brown thing is very heavy out here. It's really
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: really a big problem in the school system in l A. Yeah.
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: So you know, anyway, so I I created my mission
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: um financial Literacy. I believe in instant gratification. You know,
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: it's a big gray area from ninth grade to being
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: a doctor. It's a lot of stuff goals on that time.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: So you gotta give them small championships in the middle.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: And you know, I created Executive Prep Academy of Finance.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Our kids have their own businesses. Some kids have their
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: parents working for them. Some kids even make more money
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: than their parents. And um, not only are they learning
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: about finance, they're teaching their parents and their sisters and brothers,
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: and how to create a bank of town, how to
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: prepare yourself for loans, interest rates, how to buy a car,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: how to fix your credits, So it's not only executive
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: precfice going throughout the community, and um, you know it
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: makes sense to him because now what we're doing is
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: answering the question of why you know, why you need
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: an education and how it's going to benefit. When you
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: answer that question for a kid, they make perfect sense
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: because they have no examples in the community of successful
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: people coming from education, and if they do, they leave,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: so they don't have a one on one contact with them,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: no one on one contact with them, so they have
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: not a lot of confidence. And and then your your goal.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Now that's really interesting. You say, I noticed that. You know,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: you said athletics played a major role in your life
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: at my wrong because I hear that term. I hear
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: that terminology a lot. You know, reward uh put forth,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: how do you how do you marry it to how
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: do you how do you make sure you know that
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: that that path is similar because that's a natural lead
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: for you, but it also lays a great framework for motivation. Yes,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: are you talking about with the students or myself personally,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: students with the students. Okay, well you know the true
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: concept of that is I just didn't have any other option.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: I just wasn't exposed to anything. But the truth of
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: the matter is our students are kids from the community.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: They know they're not gonna be Lebron James. They know
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: they can't. They're not jay Z. If you ask, I
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: want to be a rapper, and they never wrapped a day.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: They like, they don't practice, they don't do anything. They
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: just don't have anything else to say. So what I
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: do and the things I've done so like our Career
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: Day is sponsored by Ernst and Young, right, so I
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: have every contact everybody from Ernston Young that's participating in
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: the Career Day, and I tell them to drive their
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: best car. Do not guess what happens? We have a
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: three million dollars on campus that day. Very unapologetic about this.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: I don't do the fireman, I don't do the policeman.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Is nothing wrong with those jobs, but my competition is
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: jay Z, Puff Daddy Lebron. What happens is when they
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: see that doctor jump out of that rolls Royce, that
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: maserati that I can't be Lebron. I can be that.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: I can't be Lebrons, but I can be that I'm
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: figuring this thing out. So and then you know, we're
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: hugg them with that information and that exposure, and and
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: and the concept change and the culture of exacutive prep
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: starts to change because now they believe. And once you
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: get a kid dreaming, the dysfunction is small in comparison
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: to their life. And there, lie, I'm mad at you.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: That is so smart what you're doing, man, you know,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: because because that's what the big complaint about, you know,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: you idlies and these athletes and these rappers and all that.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: You said, Okay, I got that, but the but the
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: the way you win is thinking out of the box.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: You say, who else drives has matches? Who else got
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: bad cause you know, tall in the suits? Okay, corporate exacts. Okay, Now,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: come on down here with that push that Mercedes, that Jaguar.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: We're gonna parker out here and let these kids see.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: You don't have to dunk, you don't have to wrap,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: just use your brain. The one thing that God gave us.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: All that, my friend, it's brilliant. That's brilliant. So we
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: were just exposed them to everything. I mean, they just
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: went to see Hamilton's. I rented them a Mercedes benz Una.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: Love it. I love it. You're my world, brother, You're
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: my world. If you go through our Instagram, you see
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: him on the Lakers, on the on the on the
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: on the floor with Snoop Dog like. We do amazing
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: things with our kids. We let them know what the
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: other side looks like. And you can do that. Not
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: only that you can do that, you're about to experience that.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: I don't give you a taste. That's what you can
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: get thirsty. And that's what we're about. We're just giving
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: them the world and showing them and then and and
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: and the sad part about it, I get a lot
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: of slack for that because people tell me I'm giving
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: them unrealistic goals and I'm living, you're not, You're not,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: And I get mad. I get okay, now, okay, Now,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: they can't be a stopbroker. That's what you're saying that.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Oh now they can't work in an executive position. That's
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: what you're saying. Now, So what what do you want
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: them to do? What do you want them do? You
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: said it can't wrap. You say they can't act. You
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: say they can't see you said they came dunk. They
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: can't throw our football, they can't hear the baseball. Now
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: they can't think that's you're saying. Stop with the madness, man,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: Stop with the man. You got me fired up, you
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: got me filed up on mare. We're gonna take a break.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: We're gonna come right back because you're about to make
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: me fly to l A and come to your school
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: and start talking because you're talking my kind of language
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: to my friend. We've been back with more, my man
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: on more doing this thing in l Acau. Guess what
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: I spent fifteen years out in l A. I know
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: exactly what he's dealing with. We'll be back right back
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: with more money making conversations. Hi, just for Sean McDonald.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: I'm back with money making conversations. I'm your host on
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: the phone. My friend. He's out of Flint, Michigan. Overcame
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: the odds with the Howard University. Now he's in Los Angeles.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: He's the creative and founder of Executive Preparatory Academy of Finance.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: Back on the line, my man, Omar McGee, how you
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: do on? Omar good? Good? Now you now you you
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: left me hype. Now you left me hype up there. Okay, cool? Cool,
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: So so I'm gonna be quiet. Hype me some more. Man,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: give me because I'm being in l A on Saturday morning.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: I'm laying on Saturday morning because I'm being recognized for
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: my community work by an amazing Grace Conservatory that's founded
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: by rent the actress Windy with Carol Robinson. So I
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: come out of l A all the time, so I
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: didn't know. I know, you know, that's why I have
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: to bring it out. I didn't bring it out. So
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: so tell us some more about your program, and then
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get a living in detail. And when we
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: hang up the phone, we're gonna have a relationship. My friend,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: we're gonna be friends, and when you need something, you're
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: gonna call me because I'm that type of dude. Thank you, brother,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: I appreciate the support. Well, basically, we just hear a
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: safe kids. Man. We just believe and everything that we're doing.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: And now they believe in everything that we're doing. You know,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: the culture is set. You know, every kid goes to
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: a four year college, no exceptions, no options, no trade schools,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: no junior colleges, they're not even allowed to talk about
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: it and believe it or not. I got a lot
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: of slack about that. That was another unrealistic goal. Um,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: they said I was given the kids because you know,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: they said, you know, every kid I made for college.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: I said, well, that person that never met that kid
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: can never tell me that kid is not made for
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: college until the only way we know that kid is
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: not made for college is when he go to college
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: and come back and say I'm not made for college.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: Until then, none of us can give me her shot. Yeah,
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: give her a shot. You know I was not made
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: for college. If you would have told me, I would
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: have graduated from Howard University and doing all these things
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: in high school. All to look at you and laugh.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: I said, college wasn't for me. But basketball took me
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: to college and that's the only way I could play.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: But once I got to college, I found the confidence
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: to oh, I can do this. It just made perfect sense.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: So I know that you know these kids can do it,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: and they believe they can do it. It's obvious. I mean,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: I got I got your college. A lot of people
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: always approached me about you know, when I was when
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: when I helped Steve build out his uh his foundation.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: You know he was famous. Okay, so easy for me
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: to go to. Well I shouldn't say they were easy,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: because you two have had a media kid and a
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: reason for asking forward or stay farm or home deep
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: or for money or the US Army for money and
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: so so how does an individual, you just a regular
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: guy with a dream with a vision, how do you
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: launch your foundation because it's your second foundation that you
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: that you really got engaged with. How do you get
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: the money? How? How does what makes you a superstar? This?
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: What made you make it happen? Because a lot of
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: people still out there stumbling. They got these visions of goodness,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: but how did they get started? Well, just belief. You know.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: I took my own money and put my money. See
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of people the problem is this. People have
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: a dream, but they want to use other people's money.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: They want to use other people's money, not their own.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: You know, you come to it, You come to someone
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: and say can you invest in this? And then when
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: the person asked how much you invest in it? That's good?
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: I did invest anything. Okay, you have no stake in
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: the game, so you know I put up a lot
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: to make this happen. You know, I told my house,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: you know, I did a lot to make this happen.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: So I put my money where my mouth is. So
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: when I went to somebody or um solicit other people
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: and investors or donors, you know, it perfectly made sense
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: if they know if I put my money into it,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: you know, I really believe in it. And then it's
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: just my energy, Like it was nothing that was gonna
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: stop me. Um, even when everybody told me I would
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: fell Um, I kept pushing and I made it. You know,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: it's interesting you say that because whenever I talked to
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: someone about trying to start their program or whether it's
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: senior citizens or mail programs or students, you gotta have
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: a record. You gotta have a footprint of what you've
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: done to convince people that they should come on board.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: So if you don't invest in yourself, if you don't
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: get the word out or start creating a media kid,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: and that's what you basically did by investing yourself. I
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: remember the first camp that Steve harm and I did
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: at his his Dallas ranch. I personally came out of
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: my pocket, personally came out of our pocket forty dollars
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: to help launch that because we were doing the Disney
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: Dreamers Academy, and I was going where they're supporting the
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Disney Dreamers Academy, we should also support something that Steve
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: believes in. That was single single moms and single boys
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: in the household, and and and and there was no
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: male leadership in that household. And so we had to
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: come out of our pockets. Same thing you just said,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: we invested in ourselves, and I'm just saying my name
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: wasn't nowhere on this program. It was Steve Harvey. But
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: I felt that I had to invest to get it
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: going as well, to show him I'm invested to Steve.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: I believe in your dreams to Steve, and we took
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: that first year program and that became the model that
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: we took to other sponsors and say, look, this is
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: what we did last year. Just think what we could
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: do if you came on board. Give us a hundred
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars or two thousand dollars or fifty
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. We can do more, way more and hip
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: hop more students. So I truly understand your philosophy and
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: it burns me up when people coming through you they
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: got all these great ideas, but they don't want to
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: invest in themselves, want you to invest your money. Yeah,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: and then also the belief as well, you know, like
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: I wasn't afraid to tell people that I was going
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: to graduate a hundred percent of our kids and was
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: going to go to four year college. I said that
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: from the beginning kids would come in on the fifth
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: grade level. I'm not afraid to say those things and
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  Speaker 1: actually one of those kids is nothing they can tell
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  Speaker 1: on even the way you carry yourself or you know,
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  Speaker 1: want to let those kids down because you're that consistent
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  Speaker 1: male figure that they've never had. Yeah, and that's really important. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And when I was going there, I remember I came
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  Speaker 1: in there and these kids had their arms folded. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: I have a suit on. I was looking good and
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  Speaker 1: everything successful. And I looked at his kid. He was
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: about six five. You know, really a kid you know,
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• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: a naturally athletic kid. But guess what he's been steered wrong,
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  Speaker 1: you ain't gonna come back next week. That's why we're
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  Speaker 1: all you'd hear first, sir, is to make yourself feel good.
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  Speaker 1: I started my career very early in journalism. I have
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I haven't spent fifteen years there. Of course.
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  Speaker 1: You you hone your your your craft, you become you know,
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  Speaker 1: miss the importance of the emotion of their passion. Why
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  Speaker 1: is diversity so important? Well, diversity and inclusion is important.
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  Speaker 1: say diversity and inclusion? Am I missing something because I
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  Speaker 1: community in your business practices. Um. If you think about
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  Speaker 1: spending money and contracting with the same business owners that
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  Speaker 1: you know, claim that you're a diverse corporate culture. And
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  Speaker 1: you look at TV. You see a whole lot of
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  Speaker 1: you on TV. Okay, you know you there's a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of the look like you. I grew up butn't
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  Speaker 1: like that. Wasn't like that I grew up. I grew
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  Speaker 1: up in fifth War. I got on the bus. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't of the black people on that bus. When I
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: got on that city bus, when they dropped me off,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: they dropped me off on the black side of downtown.
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  Speaker 1: I shopped. I wanted the stores, and I'm I'm saying that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's where, that's the whey. It was
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: just just for the last week. Nobody told me where
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't go. But when you when you when people
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: put a mindset in you, then you stay in your lane.
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  Speaker 1: And that's all you're talking about diversity. If you allot
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: of people to communicate to you a certain way, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna keep walking on that side of the street because
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: you've been told that's the side of the street you
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: walk on. And so when I that's why there's no
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  Speaker 1: leadership in the millennial community because guess what, they not
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: had drama until recently. You know, Colin Kaepernack just just
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: just need last week, you know, But guess what we've
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  Speaker 1: been dealing with fear police stopping us all my life,
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  Speaker 1: all my life, and so and so the drawing of
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: all these different situations to keep popping up the trade
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  Speaker 1: of our marks and all these things. You know, I'm
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: not I'm not veering away from what you're saying. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just telling you the key termin knowledge is that the
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  Speaker 1: way you win is to be diverse, but also include
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: all voices in the lanes of communication. And then when
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: it all wraps up, we all understand why we're trying
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: to get along because it benefits the country, it benefits
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood, and increased taxes, crime rate goes down. You
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: don't look at me like I'm a criminal. You don't
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: look at me like I shouldn't be dating your daughter.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: You look at me like I'm proud that you're in
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: my neighborhood. You're I'm proud that you in my community.
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  Speaker 1: When I drive down your street, you don't look at
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: me like I just told your call. That's what diversity
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: and inclusion because it's thoughts. You know, you got me
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: fired up right now, I've been fired up this whole show.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: When I come back mcwack and I want to share
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  Speaker 1: you an example of why what you're doing is so
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: important because it changed my life, and it just changed
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: my life, and it changes everybody's life, because that's what
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: this shows about, being able to tell people why you
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: should win this way and why you should be successful
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: this way because it's the only one. Diversity and be included. Okay,
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: be right back with more to make conversation. Thank you,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. I can hear myself. That means that America
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: can hear me. Um, I'm on the phone with Ingrid Watkins. Um, Ingred,
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  Speaker 1: you had a very interesting article that you emailed to
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: me through LinkedIn, and it's about Diversity Professional is in
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: the online, very well done online digital magazine called Diversity
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: Professional Magazine. They recently purpose published a very compelling article
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  Speaker 1: that you wrote on corporate recruiting disparity for African American
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: millennials and their Caucasian peers. Tell us about that. Yes,
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: thank you. I'd like to thank Diversity Professional Magazine for
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: giving me that platform. M Um, I am a freelance
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: writer and I do it on on the side and
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: I enjoy it. Yes, the article. You know, when you
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: set out as a writer to research an issue a topic,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: you just never know what you're gonna find. And we
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  Speaker 1: overturned some things that even surprised me in terms of
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: the data and how many African American millennials were having
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: these experiences connecting to job opportunities within corporate environment specifically UM.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: These were well educated UM African American millennials, some with
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: master's degrees, who were trying to get entry level jobs,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: co op opportunities, internship opportunities, and the doors weren't weren't
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: opening for them UM. So some of these millennials actually
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: reached out back to LinkedIn. I know you're an advocate
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: of the tool, and so AM I reached out to
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  Speaker 1: me and say, you know, I know you do diversity.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: Can someone look to this, you know the problem that
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: we're having. So I put my team to work and
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: we creator survey and sent it to college students in
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: recent grads in several major cities UH in Chicago, Atlanta,
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: and Charlotte, New York. And the results they were studying
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: UM pretty much one of those surveys felt that they
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: were being, you know, disenfranchised in terms of UM engagement
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: with corporate opportunities. So yes, the article lays all that
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: out in very compelling UM data actually data data, let's
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: put the word data. It's not like you're just not
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: just writing your opinion. You have facts involved there, and
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: it was a student that you had involved at a
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: pretty uh kind of like the model of your conversation
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: was a graduate of Georgia State University, and that's in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: And look, let me share some ideas about me, Rashan
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: McDonald and uh, the experience that I had, because I
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: know exactly what they're talking about. Uh, And that's why
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: I brought up the conversation about me having experienced the
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  Speaker 1: corporate environment at IBM and and you having experienced the
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: corporate environment at Coca Cola and use a journalist prior
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: to that. One of the things I always felt that
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: when I was in college, you know, I did cooperate
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: intern work. And one thing, when you're trying to seek opportunities,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: you have to be willing to be inconvenient key term
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: right there. Inconvenience. In other words, even though I lived
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: in Houston, my my summer intern jobs were in Louisiana, Okay,
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: and we're in Mississippi, so I had to travel and
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: be inconvenient. So so so I just want everybody to
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: know that when sometimes when you're pursuing your dreams, you
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: have to be willing to be inconvenient to get your
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: ultimate goal. Do you agree with that? Yeah? I do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean some of these kids. I mean, if you
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: live in a major metropolitan city like Chicago, New York, um, Atlanta,
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: you think those opportunities would be pretty you know, close by.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: I lived in Houston, Texas. Let's let you know. You know. Yeah,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: but I'm not saying nothing negative on your article. I'm
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: just letting everybody know that, you know, I was inspired
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: by your article. Inspiring brought you on the show because
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: of the fact that there is a problem. There's a
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: problem when when you when you walk in the room
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: and then you were when inviting it to that room,
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: you kind of like stumbling that room, go whoa, Okay,
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 1: what's going on here? You know? And then when you
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 1: know the majority amount of minorities, you find them at
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: the in the break room, you know, because all y'all huddling,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: they're talking, you know, you know, little side jokes, filing
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: all together and play basketball now, you know, little jokes
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: like that the coffee pot. Because you feel that there
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: isn't a conference zone where you know, you're not included.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: And I think that's a term that you educated me
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: on the show to day. I've always said diversity, you said, Richard,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: there's another important where you could to be diverse. But
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: are you included in the process? Are you being included
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: in the decision making? And that's what you really that's
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: that's the burden of proof that you're trying to get
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: accomplished out there every day in the corporate space. Correct
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: absolutely about inclusion UM. If you think about even in
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: UM in marketing terms, you have these companies, these brands
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: creating products to sell to you know, the African American
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: and multicultural UM consumer. But when it comes to you know,
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: add agencies to promote these products, they are generally not
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: multicultural ad agencies or when it comes to multicultural staff
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: making the decisions for finding up and re viewing these as,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: they're generally not. This is how you come up with
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: these mistakes that some of these we've seen some recent
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: advertisers make in terms of know racious adds being released
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: because there are no multicultural decision makers at the table.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: And can we just bring up one recent ad was
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: was that the doll ad where the black lady pulls
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: up her clothes and she's yeah. There was a soap
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: do that was dog, And that's what you're saying. That
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: was that That's what you're That's what you're saying, is
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: that somebody thought that you can actually have a black lady.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: She pulled a top off, and when she pulls a
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: top off, she's white underneath. So somebody thought that was
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: a good idea. Somebody thought that was a good idea
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: in advertising world because they did not have a diverse
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: thought process. And that's what I'm just saying. You keep
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: letting people tell your story, then that's what they're telling
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: your story any kind of way because it guess what,
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: they think it's a cool idea and they think it's entertaining,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: or they think it's cute. And that's all you're just
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: saying in your role. So how can we get in
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: touch with you? Miss watching? Because you know you're out
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: there making a difference. I'm just talking on the mic,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: but you out there making a difference, girl, And I'm
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: so proud you got on my show. Thank you, Oh
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: thank you for having us. Um If any company you know,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: we do diversity and inclusion consulting. If the company wants
• 1:36:06
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• 1:36:26
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• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: up their diversity game within their corporate environment and more
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: importantly including everybody in the process of awareness and an
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: opportunity in that corporate ladder that's supposed to be available
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: to everybody, but it's really not. And it's all about networking,
• 1:36:46
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  Speaker 1: And that's what your company is all by i W
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  Speaker 1: you what's encouraging. It's seeing how the consumers will become
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: I'm outraged when um these companies release these offensive ads.
• 1:37:04
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• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: that are successful, but they changing the way people think
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: about everybody, not just about you, because everybody's mindset has
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• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: try to point out one group and try to change
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: their mind then you fail. It's about talking to everybody
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: in such a way that they all feel positive and
• 1:37:54
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• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: driving down the street with you, sharing a meal is
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