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Uplift: Recognizing Dr. Gladys West's significant contribtions to GPS technology and importance of June 19th. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next two guests are on the show discussing the
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  Speaker 1: significance of June team. If you don't know about juneteen,
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  Speaker 1: the day commemorates the ending of slavery in the United.
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  Speaker 2: States, and why.
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  Speaker 1: It is important to highlight pioneers like doctor Gladys West
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  Speaker 1: in that same context. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Two of my favorite people, doctor Jackie Russian and Robin Donaldson.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, ladies now? I got both of you
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  Speaker 2: guys on the screen here.
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  Speaker 1: People are listening to this in audio. Jackie, word you
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  Speaker 1: reside at right now.
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  Speaker 3: Atlanta and Robert Word Petersburg, Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Saint Petersburg, Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Good, now we're going now when I look at you'all bios.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Jackie, I've interviewed you a couple of times.
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  Speaker 1: You're an award winning business executive, author, mental health professional,
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  Speaker 1: and humanitarian educator.
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  Speaker 2: Robin.
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  Speaker 1: You received a twenty twenty five President Lifetime Achieving Award
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  Speaker 1: for contributions to STEM education globally. Now the word education
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  Speaker 1: is in both of you guys titled and then I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking to about a book I read.
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  Speaker 2: It Began with a Dream by doctor Gladys B.
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  Speaker 1: West, and her contribution is something we use every day GPS, GPS,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that when you start talking about a
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  Speaker 1: black invention, black creation, that's important. So I'm gonna start
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  Speaker 1: with you, Robin, because the words them. Then the word
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  Speaker 1: globally popped up in your intro. Talked about the importance
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  Speaker 1: of an individual life.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Gladys West, Well, first, thank you for allowing me
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  Speaker 3: to be on the show. This is this is this
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  Speaker 3: is very important. And I feel that doctor West is well,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, she's a living hidden figure and what
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  Speaker 3: her accomplishments have how her accomplishments have actually changed our
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  Speaker 3: way of living and every discipline of life that GPS
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  Speaker 3: or her technology, her accomplishments made these things possible. And
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  Speaker 3: then to know that she's the last living Hidden Figure
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  Speaker 3: who was not mentioned in the movie Hidden Figures. I
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  Speaker 3: felt that her story needed to be told, the un
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  Speaker 3: told truth about doctor Gladys West. And then from reading
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  Speaker 3: the book, it just made sense to collaborate Juneteenth, what
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  Speaker 3: it means, and then also the celebration of doctor West,
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  Speaker 3: her book, her accomplishments on Juneteenth.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let's talk about a little history on Dr West.
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  Speaker 1: Born in nineteen thirty, still alive today, living in Frederickburg, Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: My mistaking correct, You guys just recently visited that young lady.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna call her a young lady because I'm want
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  Speaker 1: to be that old one day, okay and go past
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  Speaker 1: her okay, and she's alive and kick it.
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  Speaker 2: Now. She was a person, you know. I read the book.
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  Speaker 1: Words like negro colored were used throughout the book. That
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  Speaker 1: was the era she grew up in, but that didn't
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  Speaker 1: stop her. She went to Virginia State, which is an HBCU,
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  Speaker 1: which is now Norfolk State, she wasn't satisfied. She went
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  Speaker 1: and got a master. She wasn't satisfied after thirty nine
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  Speaker 1: years of teaching math. And by the way, my degree
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  Speaker 1: isn't math. So I really related to her and felt
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  Speaker 1: a kind of kinship with my girl, doctor West.
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  Speaker 2: But I didn't go.
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  Speaker 1: As far as her, as far as academia. She went
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  Speaker 1: and got her pha and it didn't just stop there.
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  Speaker 1: But before we I just wanted let everybody know who
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I want to slide over to Jackie and tell us
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  Speaker 1: about June t you're a humanitarian, talk to us about juet.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's like you said in the introduction,
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  Speaker 4: Juneteenth is about the delayed freedom of African Americans, and
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  Speaker 4: that in a nutshell, just speaks loudly in terms of
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  Speaker 4: why it needs to be celebrated, why people like doctor
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  Speaker 4: West needs to be included in that, because it's like
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  Speaker 4: a delayed recognition delayed freedom. And what doctor West represents
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  Speaker 4: is the quiet, often overlooked brilliance that changes the world.
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  Speaker 4: And when you think about June teenth and all of
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  Speaker 4: that hidden talent, all of that hidden opportunity, all of
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  Speaker 4: that suppressed talent, you can't help but to revere June
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  Speaker 4: teenth and think about all of the talent, all of
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  Speaker 4: the hidden figures, all of the various careers and the
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  Speaker 4: inventions that were suppressed that we now have an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to speak to. And when we think about doctor West
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  Speaker 4: in this meeting her, she represents the fact that you
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  Speaker 4: don't have to be loud to be a legacy. And
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  Speaker 4: that's what I actually got from her, is that she
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  Speaker 4: is just so humble, but she's just brilliant. She's like
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  Speaker 4: a mathematical genius.
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  Speaker 2: No no, no, don't use the word light is yes yes, yes, yes, yes, math.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's certain limits to Rasha McDonald when he
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  Speaker 1: comes to math. I may have a degree, but was
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  Speaker 1: happy to want with that degree. Yes, she undergraduate degree.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't talking about getting the masters. I wasn't talking
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  Speaker 1: about getting a PhD. Because she talked about that when
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  Speaker 1: she went back and got our PhD. And she was
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  Speaker 1: in the class. Of course, she was in the class
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  Speaker 1: and basically the only person of color in the class,
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  Speaker 1: and she was competing with a lot of pwi's, which
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  Speaker 1: is predominant white institution graduates. And she herself was surprised
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  Speaker 1: as how things that they were having difficulty with she
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  Speaker 1: fould rather easy, she Folt rather normal. But that goes
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  Speaker 1: back to her training, and that goes back to how
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  Speaker 1: people raise you. I want to go back to you, Robert,
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  Speaker 1: because you've had a lot of conflicts in your personal
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  Speaker 1: life to be the person that you are today. But
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  Speaker 1: it all goes back to that village and how people
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  Speaker 1: come into your life at certain points and then inspire
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  Speaker 1: you to be the great person you are today. That's
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  Speaker 1: what you got the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Awards.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to a Robert.
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  Speaker 3: Story I resonated with immediately because again thinking about it,
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  Speaker 3: she went from a sharecropper to a GPS premier and
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  Speaker 3: all of the struggle, all of the setbacks, disappointments, all
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  Speaker 3: of those things that she had to go through. So
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  Speaker 3: again her story resonated with me. And to know that
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  Speaker 3: you can be someone from humble beginnings and change the world,
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  Speaker 3: that is my mission. That's also the mission now, yes.
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  Speaker 1: And your mission is also tied to STEM. Why is
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  Speaker 1: that so important?
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  Speaker 3: If our kids are not pursuing STEM careers now, they
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  Speaker 3: will be lost. And I'm a firm believer that our
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  Speaker 3: kids they're not pursuing high paying STEM careers, not because
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  Speaker 3: of their aptitude, it's simply because they have not been exposed.
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  Speaker 3: So this is my mission in life to expose these kids.
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  Speaker 3: Whether they articulate toward a STEM career or not, they
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  Speaker 3: will have been exposed and so therefore now they have
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  Speaker 3: a choice. But STEM education is so very important. And
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  Speaker 3: then also looking at the trend where everything is going
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  Speaker 3: everything is robotics. It used to be a time when
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  Speaker 3: I was growing up that I had only to compete
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  Speaker 3: with the kids that rode my school bus or that
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  Speaker 3: attended my high school. But now you have to compete
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  Speaker 3: with anyone who can apply for that job online.
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  Speaker 1: Also robots, right, you know, it's kind of it's really
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  Speaker 1: I should say, funny, but life does allow you to
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  Speaker 1: We're living my life. Born in the fifties, lived in
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  Speaker 1: the sixties, you know, went to high school, graduated in
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  Speaker 1: the seventies, went to college and graduated in the eighties,
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  Speaker 1: and lived my life. To see but one time where
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  Speaker 1: a watch was the cartoon version of Dick Tracy is
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  Speaker 1: now something we well, people were talking via video now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Jackie, you know you wrote a book about
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  Speaker 1: AI technology consuming people's lives that really has had a
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  Speaker 1: major impact over the world. Tell everybody about that book.
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  Speaker 1: But also GPS, which is doctor West had a major
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  Speaker 1: say in the development of the GPS, which we use
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  Speaker 1: every day. But sometimes technology is good if we use
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  Speaker 1: it right, but could also be overwhelming. Let's talk about that, Jack,
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  Speaker 1: because that's your expertise, young lady, mental health.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting. When I was listening to you,
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  Speaker 4: listen to you speak, doctor West said that she rarely
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  Speaker 4: used her GPS system to get around. She liked to
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  Speaker 4: use maps in those types of things because she didn't
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  Speaker 4: want to use She didn't want to lose that critical
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  Speaker 4: thinking and those her cognitive abilities by depending on a
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  Speaker 4: tool set. And so when you think about the question
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  Speaker 4: that you just asked about AI and mental health and
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  Speaker 4: all of that, that's exactly what she's saying. Is you
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  Speaker 4: put it in context when Robin was saying that our
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  Speaker 4: kids today are not embracing and understanding technology in a
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  Speaker 4: way that compliments them. They are really being left behind.
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  Speaker 4: And so when being left behind and using it inaccurately,
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  Speaker 4: it is causing a mental health crisis. It's causing us
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  Speaker 4: to lose that. And what doctor West is teaching us
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  Speaker 4: with her inventions is you can have brilliants, but everything
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  Speaker 4: has a place, and it's meant to compliment you and
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  Speaker 4: not to take over everything that you do.
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  Speaker 3: You still need to.
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  Speaker 4: Have a hand in building your house.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know it's important that you say that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about GPS, you know, because I tell you
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  Speaker 1: sometimes the other day I just had to stop.
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  Speaker 2: I just stop, as Richard stopped.
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  Speaker 1: When you to depend then on GPS, I will tell you,
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  Speaker 1: Robert and Jackie, I will go and I would use
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  Speaker 1: GPS and would not know how to get back because
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  Speaker 1: I was laugh right, you know, drive this point, go
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  Speaker 1: to this point where when I grew up. If you
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  Speaker 1: just told me, Rashan, you know, I ten. I was
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  Speaker 1: born in Houston, Texas, so I it was a major freeway.
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  Speaker 1: Go down to this street, make a left at the kmart,
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  Speaker 1: and then going down to make a left at the
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  Speaker 1: gas station. I'll be the third house on the right
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  Speaker 1: with the address. That's how I grew up. That was
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  Speaker 1: my GPS, with words that were even written on the
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  Speaker 1: paper or somebody told me on telephone. Today, Rushan McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: been so captivated by technology that if I go somewhere
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  Speaker 1: via GPS, I can't even get back home.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and that's what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Jackie.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Okay. So GPS stands for Global Positioning System and
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  Speaker 4: so it's comprised of satellites that speak to stations here
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  Speaker 4: on Earth. And so when when Robin was speaking to
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  Speaker 4: me about doctor West, because she introduced doctor West to
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  Speaker 4: me because I was not familiar with her, and when
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  Speaker 4: she told me about it, I had to go and
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  Speaker 4: look it up. And when I did, she said, I
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  Speaker 4: would really like to help elevate this technology in doctor West.
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  Speaker 4: And so when I read about her, I was like absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: So we came together and collaborated and developed a program
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  Speaker 4: for young kids based upon the principles that doctor West
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  Speaker 4: used and developing the GPS, and we called it westward
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  Speaker 4: Bound and using the principles from her her last name,
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  Speaker 4: her acronym, which which focuses more on like wisdom and
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  Speaker 4: execution and accuracy. It's about having a vision about where
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  Speaker 4: you're going, a position of starting point, which a lot
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  Speaker 4: of our young kids they don't have. And so that's
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  Speaker 4: where Robin and now we collaborated a lot in terms
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  Speaker 4: of being able to pull this program together based upon
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  Speaker 4: the work that she did with GPS.
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  Speaker 1: Now let me tell you the Robert You're always getting
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  Speaker 1: your hands into something. Miss Stem, miss nationally recognized as
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  Speaker 1: a presidential Lifetime Achieving Wards.
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  Speaker 2: You know I got my way back twenty three, twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: You know it's twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty five talking to day Jack five. You know she's
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  Speaker 1: very current in her celebrations. Now, how did you how
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  Speaker 1: did you find out about doctor West?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was three years ago during our summer camps,
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  Speaker 3: our architectural camps. Her and her husband were the.
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  Speaker 1: Slow down one minute tell us about the architectural camps.
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  Speaker 1: Because I love talking to Robin. She had blow past
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  Speaker 1: the value points because people need to know how great
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  Speaker 1: you are. What are the architectural camps?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So my background, I'm an architectural designer and builder,
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  Speaker 3: and with me, I find the Stem and everything. So
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  Speaker 3: this particular summer we were a whole seen a global
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  Speaker 3: camp at that time. We were in several different countries
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  Speaker 3: and a couple of time zones, and her and her
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  Speaker 3: husband were guest speakers. And when she saw all of
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  Speaker 3: those beautiful black boys and girls on the zoom, call Robin,
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  Speaker 3: I have to get the book into their hands. I said, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I can help you.
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  Speaker 5: Do that.
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  Speaker 3: She says, I want to get it into libraries and
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  Speaker 3: every place else. I said, well, doctor West, you asking
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  Speaker 3: me you doctor West right, and said, God asks Moses
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  Speaker 3: to build the arc. And so from that that has
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  Speaker 3: been my quest to put doctor West on the map
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  Speaker 3: in honor and just educate, educate, educate on who she is,
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  Speaker 3: what she has done, and then see yourself within her
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  Speaker 3: story because it's so so relatable. And from that, from
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  Speaker 3: meeting her, I just took on that mission. And again
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  Speaker 3: when I met Jackie, I understand that she's an amazing
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  Speaker 3: curriculum content writer and when I talked to her about
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  Speaker 3: what we wanted to do, and she just took a
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  Speaker 3: whole holistic approach to it. And as a result, we
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  Speaker 3: have an amazing West Profound program that not only is
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  Speaker 3: useful for the youth, but even adults, or even adults
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  Speaker 3: that are entrepreneurs or anyone that is wanting to change
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  Speaker 3: their lot in life. The book is going to give
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  Speaker 3: you a step by step on how to do it.
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  Speaker 5: Please don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more
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  Speaker 5: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Welcome back to the Money Making
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  Speaker 2: The books we're talking too, I want to give people
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  Speaker 2: a computer.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about two books, the Westwood Bound Book and
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  Speaker 1: then we also have it Began with a Dream. Is
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  Speaker 1: the book that doctor West asked you to put into
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  Speaker 1: these students' hands.
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  Speaker 2: It was doctor Gladys B. West.
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  Speaker 1: It's a memoir about her life how they all started.
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  Speaker 1: But like I said, she was born in nineteen thirty,
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  Speaker 1: so she walked through a lot of territories that today
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  Speaker 1: we would stay. That's unfortunately I couldn't exist. I wouldell people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I could survived some of the
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  Speaker 1: environments that these young people lived in and thrived in.
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  Speaker 2: And she went to an HPCU. She pledged.
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  Speaker 1: Aka she is a foundation was built through relationships, through mentory.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you two ladies do.
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  Speaker 1: Mentorship, like I said, didn't start last week with social media.
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  Speaker 1: Mentionship has been important because she talks about the power
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  Speaker 1: couple that was at Virginia State that enables her to
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  Speaker 1: be the person she is today. So when you when
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  Speaker 1: you talk about relationships, Jackie, this westward Bound program, how
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  Speaker 1: does one register for I said, westbound apologize?
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  Speaker 4: So the west Redbound, of course, is an educational program.
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  Speaker 4: It's a life skills program. And let me just tell
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  Speaker 4: you that the the the West Rebound component of it
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  Speaker 4: is it complements like the STEM programs that people teach.
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  Speaker 4: So we don't just teach history or SKIM or STEM
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  Speaker 4: skills or soft skills. We really teach soul's skills, which
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  Speaker 4: is what doctor West talked to us about. It's about
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  Speaker 4: being able to reach these kids in a different way.
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  Speaker 4: And so the way to actually get the program is
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  Speaker 4: just to reach out to UH through Robin's program, the
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  Speaker 4: STEM Exposure and sign up for it, and well we
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  Speaker 4: can work it from there. We're are working with a
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  Speaker 4: couple of universities. We're from the NDA, so we can't
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  Speaker 4: really speak about that. Who are interested in being able
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  Speaker 4: to bring these programs to their outreach programs as well.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Robert, what's the website?
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  Speaker 3: W w dot s t E m x p O
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  Speaker 3: s u r E dot org.
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  Speaker 2: One more time, w dot.
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  Speaker 3: S t E m x p O s u r
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  Speaker 3: E dot org.
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  Speaker 1: A great, Robert, what that being said, how does the
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  Speaker 1: program intentionally support underserved communities and address equity and STEM
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  Speaker 1: and life skills When you bring the removal d I
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to access program.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm, can you accept one more time? You have a
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  Speaker 3: couple you have had a little add on to that
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  Speaker 3: hold on.
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  Speaker 1: Because I added on j I or added that on
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  Speaker 1: because of the fact that there's so many programs have
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  Speaker 1: been taken away by this current administration. And I've always
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  Speaker 1: told people, if you teach and you give people access,
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  Speaker 1: then they don't need the because they can compete properly.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm asking you, you guys have established this program
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  Speaker 1: in relationship I'm talking of westwood Bound in relationship with Jackie,
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  Speaker 1: is that how does this program intentionally support underserved communities?
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  Speaker 3: That's our target market, That's who we are looking to
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  Speaker 3: help with this book. And I feel that by studying
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  Speaker 3: the Westwardbound Principles, going through each one of the modules,
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  Speaker 3: as Jackie mentioned earlier, it is helping you step by
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  Speaker 3: step position yourself. So again, whether you're trying to economically
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  Speaker 3: or educationally, this book is your step by step guide
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  Speaker 3: on how to do so.
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  Speaker 1: I have to ask this question, and either want Jackie
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  Speaker 1: or Robie could answer this question. How long has the
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  Speaker 1: program been in existence?
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  Speaker 4: We began collaborating and developing the program earlier this last
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  Speaker 4: year and so I would say about I would say
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  Speaker 4: about six months.
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  Speaker 2: Six months.
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  Speaker 1: So Robert, within that period, have you been able to
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  Speaker 1: see any transformations. Have you been able to witness the
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  Speaker 1: students and how they've responded to the program?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we have not actually had a class. However, throughout
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  Speaker 3: the camp we exercised those same principles and actually I
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  Speaker 3: speak of it every day and for the students and
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  Speaker 3: I'll say six students that I have exposed it to.
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  Speaker 3: It's really a relief because not only the Westward bounce.
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  Speaker 3: But let me first go there, but we first talked
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  Speaker 3: about doctor West and her concerns, her resilience that she
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  Speaker 3: had to overcome, and who she is today. And then
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  Speaker 3: from that westbrook Bound Now they understand who they are,
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  Speaker 3: what they can do, and they actually have their i'll
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  Speaker 3: say their map planned out. So for example, yesterday we
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  Speaker 3: were talking about we're in an architectural camp and we
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  Speaker 3: were talking about all of the different disciplines that you
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  Speaker 3: can pursue, and there was one wanted to pursue engineering.
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  Speaker 3: So again using the westbrook Bound principles, we identified what
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  Speaker 3: classes you're taking next year once you go back to school,
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  Speaker 3: what other classes you need to sign up for in
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: order to go to the junior college and get your
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  Speaker 3: AA and then go off to a major university pursuing
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  Speaker 3: the engineering path. So that's where that book is going
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  Speaker 3: to be very, very helpful for the students that are
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  Speaker 3: in my class, for any of the students that are
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  Speaker 3: reading the books.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell it, my guests, let me bring you
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  Speaker 1: everybody up to speed. As doctor Jackie Rushan, She's an
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  Speaker 1: award winning business executive, author, mental health professional, and humanitarian educator.
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  Speaker 1: The voice you just heard was Robin Donaldson. She received
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  Speaker 1: a twenty twenty five President Lifetime Achieving Award for contributions
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  Speaker 1: to STEM education globally. Jackie is based in Atlanta and
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  Speaker 1: Robin is based out in Deep Florida. Down that in Florida,
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  Speaker 1: not in the Tip area. Now, when as we talk
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  Speaker 1: about what we're trying to achieve here, you know, June teenth.
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  Speaker 2: That's a day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm from Houston, Texas, so that was the first day
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  Speaker 1: they acknowledged June Team. So I'm very a champion of that.
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  Speaker 1: When it went national, at the time President Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: signed off over, it was like an extended celebration for me.
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  Speaker 2: But that commemorates you know the end.
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  Speaker 1: Of slavery right now, we are celebrating academic success in
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  Speaker 1: the African American community, now, Jackie as a humanitarian, as
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  Speaker 1: an educator, because you on this call, I can assure
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  Speaker 1: you got more degrees in both me and rob Okay,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: What does that mean when we talk about a liberation,
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  Speaker 1: well emancipation where slavery was happening in the eighteen sixty
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  Speaker 1: five and we're talking about a person like doctor Gladys
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  Speaker 1: West and somebody who contributed to something GPS that is
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  Speaker 1: not going away. It's been used by the military for
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: years prior to becoming used by everyday people. How can
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: we continue to train moving forward in a positive direction
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  Speaker 1: so it benefits everybody, not just black.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the program really is it is transcendent. In other words,
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  Speaker 4: it really is not just for black people. It's just
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  Speaker 4: that we happen to be talking about underserved communities. Those principles,
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  Speaker 4: the West principles, if you think about them, W is
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  Speaker 4: for wisdom. We're talking about wisdom endurance strategy tracking. Everybody
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  Speaker 4: needs that and it really is for every person. As
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  Speaker 4: a matter of fact, with that program, I use it
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  Speaker 4: during my addictions counseling because it's all about endurance. When
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  Speaker 4: you talk about liberation and emancipation, all of that to
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  Speaker 4: me is spiritual work. It's about the thing that you
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  Speaker 4: need to anchor you. It's the difference between climbing and ascension.
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  Speaker 4: So basically, if you think about our STEM programs from
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: a career perspective, which is what we typically focus a
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  Speaker 4: lot when we deal with children, which everybody focuses on,
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  Speaker 4: we're talking about climbing, and there are different behaviors that
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  Speaker 4: you have when you're climbing if it's not anchored in ascension,
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  Speaker 4: which is what the west Were Bound program is about,
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  Speaker 4: because that's what anchors you in terms of endurance, in
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  Speaker 4: terms of revealed of resilience. Because the world is not
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  Speaker 4: designed to make it easy for us. Doctor West said
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  Speaker 4: told us when we were talking with her that when
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  Speaker 4: she was a young girl, she stood in the field
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  Speaker 4: working and she just knew that she did not want
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  Speaker 4: to be in that field work. And this is a
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  Speaker 4: girl about eight or nine years old. She knew that
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  Speaker 4: there was something that was greater than this. And so
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  Speaker 4: what the Westward Bound program says is you have to
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  Speaker 4: think greater. You have to believe that there is something
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  Speaker 4: greater than what you're standing and when we're talking about
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  Speaker 4: liberation emancipation in juneteenth, that is how all that that
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  Speaker 4: came together because people believe that there was so much
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  Speaker 4: more to what they can achieve than where they were.
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  Speaker 4: And so to me, that's key in terms of connecting
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  Speaker 4: all of this together. All of these degrees mean nothing
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  Speaker 4: if you're not grounded from a spiritual perspective in terms
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  Speaker 4: of the things that are going to keep you going.
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  Speaker 4: When you fall from the clime, you need something to
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  Speaker 4: anchor and balance you.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Robert, you got us all involved. Now, it was
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  Speaker 2: kind of like a three sixty. You know, you took
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  Speaker 2: the idea of the Jackie.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jackie knew me, then you became Now we're on
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  Speaker 1: this call promoting it now because you mentioned due to
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  Speaker 1: the NDA, you could not tell me about the opportunities
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: that you're working with a couple of universities. Now, Robert,
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  Speaker 1: you brought the idea to Jackie the Westwood Bound program.
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  Speaker 1: Can other communities contact you or Jackie and try to
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  Speaker 1: get more information on how they can bring this. Because
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I was growing up they had an upward bound program.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a stimulated program, but it was a game
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  Speaker 1: motivational getting kids, exposure them to college life, letting them
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  Speaker 1: know there was more than what they had in their
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  Speaker 1: community out there. There's a bigger world out there. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm very familiar with motivational camps. But again, this is
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  Speaker 1: the Westwood Bound camp. How can other communities contact you
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  Speaker 1: to find out more about this as well as getting
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: doctor Gladys westbook.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad that you asked that question. So I can
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  Speaker 3: be contacted at area code eight one three nine nine
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  Speaker 3: zero seven seven zero zero, and I can be emailed
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  Speaker 3: at executive at stem exposure dot org. And also there
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: is I can share of Saint Pete College is a
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  Speaker 3: local community college here. There are seven locations and I
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  Speaker 3: asked the provost if he would assist in helping put
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: doctor Wes on the map, and he said, well sure.
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  Speaker 3: So what happened was he had all seven of his
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  Speaker 3: campuses in their auditorium and they viewed. They had the
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: opportunity to watch the movie Hidden Figures. Each one of
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  Speaker 3: the students were gifted a book and then we had
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  Speaker 3: a guest speaker, which was doctor wes daughter who was
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: also a mathematician, so she was able to speak to
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: you know, the life of growing up with doctor Gladys
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: West and then also you know what made her become
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: a mathematician and also speak to the book. And so
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: that was one way that we were able to put
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: doctor Wes on the map. And we are also asking
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: anyone that is hosting a Juneteenth event, whatever you're doing,
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  Speaker 3: make sure that doctor West is the focus.
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  Speaker 2: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I want to thank you both ladies for coming
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: on my show discussing this incredible story.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I read the book and actually read the book this
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: morning prior to the interview.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great read. Is a memoir.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I guess when you're reading about the history and you're
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: reading about the incredible heights, you know it will it
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: will keep your attention because again I did not know this,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and there's always information that makes you shine a bit
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: brighter when you are educated beyond your own natural thought process. Again, Jackie,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: dear friend, thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: master Class. And my new dear friend Robin, thank you
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: for you know, bringing this attention to it because Jackie
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  Speaker 1: didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: But what we do know it began with a dream
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: doctor Gladys by West. That's a memoir and I recommend
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: people to pick it up so their children and they
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: can know that the history has been made every day
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: and people of color are making a difference in this world.
• 29:59
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