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Uplift: She provides free Google certification scholarships in cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing, IT support, project management, and UX design. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. I'm Rashaan MacDonald, the host of
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  Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass, where we encourage people to stop
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  Speaker 1: reading other people's success stories and start planning their own.
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  Speaker 1: Listen up as I interview entrepreneurs from around the country,
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  Speaker 1: talk to celebrities and ask them how they are running
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  Speaker 1: their companies, and speak with nonprofits who are making a
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  Speaker 1: difference in their local communities. Now, sit back and listen
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  Speaker 1: as we unlock the secrets to their success on Money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversations Masterclass. My guest has been instrumental and providing
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  Speaker 1: resources that help individuals make inform financial decisions, optimize their resources,
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  Speaker 1: and develop healthy financial habits. Under her leadership, Grow Give
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  Speaker 1: Prosper as partnered with in partnered with initiatives like grow
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  Speaker 1: with Google to offer certification scholarships aiming to enhance career
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  Speaker 1: opportunities for under serve communities. Please work with the Money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversation massaclat Cassandra Lester. How you doing, Cassandra, I'm doing.
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  Speaker 2: Swell, Rashaan, how are you pretty good?
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  Speaker 1: Now? Let's get this. Give us the name of your
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  Speaker 1: is it a nonprofit?
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  Speaker 2: It is a nonprofit, Grow Give prosper.
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  Speaker 1: How did you come up with that name, you know.
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  Speaker 2: What, actually, because that's what I want to see my
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  Speaker 2: community do. I want us to grow together so that
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  Speaker 2: we can give to each other and then prosper as
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  Speaker 2: a collective. So that's how I came up with that name.
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  Speaker 1: Of how long you long have you had the foundation?
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  Speaker 2: I have been in the financial education since about twenty
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  Speaker 2: seventeen and I started the nonprofit of twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, cool, so you said financial education. Can you give
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  Speaker 1: us a little of your background from a financial literacy
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  Speaker 1: standpoint before we get into the interview.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, sure. So it all started when I was a
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  Speaker 2: human resource and off manager at a very prominent medical
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  Speaker 2: facility here in the state of Georgia. And one thing
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  Speaker 2: I noticed, from the people who had the PhDs to
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  Speaker 2: the ones who had the GEDs, every time we sat
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  Speaker 2: down to do that tax paperwork, it leveled the playing field.
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  Speaker 2: So that's when I realized that financial education doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: who you are, what you look like. It's a matter
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  Speaker 2: of accessibility.
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell you, so, I have a math degree, Cassandra,
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  Speaker 1: I am scared to death to do my taxes. I
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  Speaker 1: have never in my life the easy form nothing I've
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  Speaker 1: always paid somebody to do my taxes. So when you
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  Speaker 1: say level the playfield you're talking about Rishan McDonald, I
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  Speaker 1: am a person. Go can you do my taxes please?
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm confused. So let's talk about you and what
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to do. When you say the word community,
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  Speaker 1: what do you mean when you are whole you or
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  Speaker 1: referencing When you say the word community.
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  Speaker 2: A community, I'm talking about the people that I encounter
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  Speaker 2: in my daily life walking outside, going to the grocery store,
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  Speaker 2: going to the restaurant, going to the library. You know,
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  Speaker 2: in my traditional nine to five. These are people who
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  Speaker 2: I consider a part of my community. And what I
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  Speaker 2: realized is that, like I mentioned before, it didn't matter
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  Speaker 2: what their background was. We all had the same struggle
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  Speaker 2: and the difference was that nobody was talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: So to me, community is just everybody who has the
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  Speaker 2: same need that needs to get that outreach and to
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  Speaker 2: get that education.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if you're not, if you got like halfway listening
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  Speaker 1: to the show, I want you to stop and focus
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  Speaker 1: on the show because this is the reason, one of
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  Speaker 1: the many reasons I brought her on the show for
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  Speaker 1: this interview. Her partnership with Grow with Google. That's the
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  Speaker 1: name of it. Grow with Google. Now, Google is what
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  Speaker 1: we're about to concentrate on and what they're doing with
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  Speaker 1: your foundation. Talk to us about what is Grow with Google.
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  Speaker 2: Grow with Google is a tremendous outreach initiative that Google
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  Speaker 2: has delivered to community partners like myself, where we are
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  Speaker 2: delivering career certification scholarships to any and everyone who wants it,
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  Speaker 2: specifically justice impacted, specifically economically impacted communities that may not
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  Speaker 2: have access to that level of education due to financial restraints.
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  Speaker 2: So Google is now saying that, hey, we want to
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  Speaker 2: give you a chance to thrive to So we're going
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  Speaker 2: to give you a chance to get a career certification
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  Speaker 2: entry level into cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing, e commerce,
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  Speaker 2: IT support, project management, UX design, which is user design,
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  Speaker 2: which is those apps and websites. So Google is now
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  Speaker 2: leveling the playing field. They're saying, you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: have an IVY League education in order to make an
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  Speaker 2: earnable a livable wage.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's be on livable wage. I'm gonna just let
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  Speaker 1: everybody know that. Just go to the Internet, Google or
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  Speaker 1: indeed and Google salaries of all the job titles that
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  Speaker 1: she listed. You'll see that these are game changing opportunities
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  Speaker 1: that this foundation that Cassandra Lester created, that it's partner
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  Speaker 1: with Google. And I want to hang on this for
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  Speaker 1: a minute because I don't want to blow past it,
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  Speaker 1: because I want people to be able to reach out
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  Speaker 1: to you. Do you have a website that they can visit?
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  Speaker 2: Certainly if they go to grow with I'm sorry, Grow
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  Speaker 2: give prosper dot org and scroll to the bottom. You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna see the Google scholarship link and the barrier to
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  Speaker 2: entry is very low. We don't want to make a different.
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  Speaker 2: If you have a commitment to yourself and if you
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  Speaker 2: want to increase your earning potential, all you have to
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  Speaker 2: do in the state of Georgia, no matter where you're located,
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  Speaker 2: is go to this website, Grow Give prosper dot org,
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  Speaker 2: scroll to the bottom Google Certifications, read the information. If
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  Speaker 2: it's what you want for yourself, then enroll and Coursera
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  Speaker 2: is going to send you the link and you can
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  Speaker 2: start learning today.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's do go over those job opportunities that are
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  Speaker 1: available on your website.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing, and e commerce
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  Speaker 2: and this I kind of want to just really touch
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  Speaker 2: on them really quickly. Digital markets.
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  Speaker 1: Please do slow it down because I want people to
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  Speaker 1: understand that, you know. And let me also say this.
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  Speaker 1: You say the word scholarship. Oh yeah. Is there a fee?
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  Speaker 2: No fee, There's no fee. The only fee is that
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  Speaker 2: you have to commit to doing it because we have
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  Speaker 2: to give a you know, data at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the program, which, by the way, was scheduled to end
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  Speaker 2: in December twenty twenty five, and Google has extended it
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  Speaker 2: to December twenty twenty six. So since these courses take
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  Speaker 2: three to six months to complete, you have a chance
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  Speaker 2: to go in and roll and get several certifications between
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  Speaker 2: now and December twenty twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 1: Would you give you several or job opportunities to go
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  Speaker 1: out there and get in the game, as we say,
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  Speaker 1: get the game and not get left out. And this
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  Speaker 1: is somebody who may be working a blue college, blue
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  Speaker 1: collar job, somebody who may be just have a ged
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  Speaker 1: somebody who may have a two year degree. This level
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  Speaker 1: is the plan field for anybody that these scholarships that's
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  Speaker 1: being offered through your foundation through Google. And you're saying, Richard,
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  Speaker 1: there's no charge. It's based on if you sign up,
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  Speaker 1: please compete it. Please don't just sign up to be
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  Speaker 1: signed up for the first time in your life. Make
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  Speaker 1: an effort to complete something that can change your life both.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm sure I have a college degree on
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  Speaker 1: my wall, or math degree, and I always tell people
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  Speaker 1: you can't repoll that degree, which means you can't take that.
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  Speaker 1: But well, once it's on that wall, you can't take
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  Speaker 1: it back. And it's not like a car, it's like
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  Speaker 1: a house. Once you've been certified a degree, that's yours
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  Speaker 1: for life, and it also gives you a sense of
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  Speaker 1: empowerment that you can change your life and the surroundings
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  Speaker 1: around you. So you going to give us more detail
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  Speaker 1: on each one of these job titles that we're doing
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  Speaker 1: with I'm talking with Cassandra Lester. Give us your foundation
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  Speaker 1: one more time and your website.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Growth Gift Prosper and the website is growthgiftprosper dot org.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to dive into what Google certifications are
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  Speaker 2: currently available. We have cybersecurity. You know, if you're the
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  Speaker 2: kind of person who wants to be the you know, savior,
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  Speaker 2: you want to be able to come in and you know,
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  Speaker 2: throward all of these. I think we just heard a
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  Speaker 2: couple of days ago about a cyber attack that happened,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think it was in the city of Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: So if you want to be the kind of person
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  Speaker 2: who can recognize these attacks before they happen, cybersecurity is
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  Speaker 2: a great field for you to get into data analytics.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to tell businesses what's trending, where they
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  Speaker 2: can find the money. Data analytics is for you. Digital
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  Speaker 2: marketing and e commerce. We're all over the website. We're
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  Speaker 2: all out here shopping online. Digital marketing and e commerce.
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  Speaker 2: That's gonna tell you. You know previously where I said
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  Speaker 2: you're going to show the businesses where the money where
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  Speaker 2: you are the one that's making the money. You are
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  Speaker 2: putting your product or products for other people online and
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  Speaker 2: making it avail and making it available for them to
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  Speaker 2: purchase it. Support so you can stack it support with cybersecurity.
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  Speaker 2: You are providing daily maintenance to laptops, phones, computers. It
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  Speaker 2: support project management. Now, when I mentioned that you can
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  Speaker 2: get several certifications, these are certifications that you can stack.
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  Speaker 2: So can you imagine stacking project management with a data
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  Speaker 2: analytics certification? And then finally ux design. So when I
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  Speaker 2: say that it may sound Greek to a lot of people,
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  Speaker 2: but think about it. These apps, Instagram, all the websites
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  Speaker 2: that you go to. UX design means user experience design.
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  Speaker 2: You're designing the experience that the person who's on that
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  Speaker 2: app is using. So I remember one time with my
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  Speaker 2: baking app, I had an issue with getting my password.
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  Speaker 2: Every time I would log out to get the password
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  Speaker 2: and come back in, the app would close. Somebody saw
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  Speaker 2: that and they fixed it. So that's what that user
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  Speaker 2: experience design. Along that line, that's what you would be learning.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's ask you this, Sandra Cassandra. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation Masterclass. How
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  Speaker 1: have you been This sounds like a program or your
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  Speaker 1: proumdation seems to be locked into Google and provide dream
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  Speaker 1: like opportunities for people who can get these scholarships by
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  Speaker 1: going onto your website. How are you promoting this or
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  Speaker 1: how are you spreading the word?
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  Speaker 2: Mister rashand you know I'm country, mister rashand I am
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  Speaker 2: boats on the ground. We are out here, grassroots. We
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  Speaker 2: are going to every community center that's local. We are
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  Speaker 2: going to the adult education classes. I am on social
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  Speaker 2: media pushing this information out. I mean any and everybody
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  Speaker 2: that will hear me. I'm trying to shout it from
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  Speaker 2: the grooftops to let them know you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: miss this.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to.
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  Speaker 2: Miss this opportunity to increase your earning potential. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: literally out here getting in my car I call a Pearl,
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  Speaker 2: Me and Pearl driving up and down these highways, trying
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  Speaker 2: to get to every adult education class that we can
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  Speaker 2: get to to tell these folks you need to sign.
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  Speaker 1: Up, okay before we talking about the classes you're seeing.
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  Speaker 1: So if someone in New York, someone in Chicago, someone
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, someone in use to their dollars, they
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  Speaker 1: can register.
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  Speaker 2: They can. You have to be Continental US. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: of course Google is gonna know if you're logging in
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  Speaker 2: from outside the US. But Continental US and what I
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  Speaker 2: tell you, they were generous, Like I gave myself a
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  Speaker 2: pat on the back because I wrote that letter. Do
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  Speaker 2: you hear me? They gave me over three hundred scholarships,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm ready to deliver it to the community.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, cool, listen, So you have three other scholarships available, yes, nationwide, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: all individuals can do that. No, charge Jesus scholarships correct
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  Speaker 1: three to six months worth for online training, but opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to change your life. Your life and you're doing the
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  Speaker 1: boots on the ground. Now you don't money, make conversations
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  Speaker 1: master class. Now we're about to We're going worldwide with you,
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  Speaker 1: domestic US, Continental, USA, opportunities to register. Now, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about you, said Rashelle, You and Perl that's the name
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  Speaker 1: of her vehicle going up and down road. When you
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  Speaker 1: go in these classes, what has been the reaction or
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  Speaker 1: have you been disappointed in the reaction.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I am being well received. The program is being
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  Speaker 2: well received. The thing about it is that you are
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  Speaker 2: changing I'm changing minds. People are, you know, thinking that
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  Speaker 2: I'll never be able to get out of the situation.
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  Speaker 2: I'm robbing Peter to pay Paul And when they realized
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  Speaker 2: that you have an opportunity, and what I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: do was be credible. So I did some vetting on
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  Speaker 2: the back end and I asked people who are in
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  Speaker 2: hiring positions in it. Would you hire somebody with a
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  Speaker 2: GED and a Google certification. A couple of people told
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  Speaker 2: me who graduated college with a master's degree, He said
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  Speaker 2: they lost out on their first job because they didn't
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  Speaker 2: have a certification to a person who did. So it's valid.
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  Speaker 2: It's legitimate, and the people that I meet, they are overjoyed.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them might be a little skeptical at first,
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  Speaker 2: but once they realized that it's legitimate. I initially had
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  Speaker 2: about five hundred scholarships, so we've had so many people
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  Speaker 2: to enroll that now that number has went down.
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  Speaker 1: To three hundred. Come on, girl, gid you said a
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Bloyd. That's two hundred potential people. You've changed lives.
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  Speaker 2: Please don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Money Making Conversations Masterclass hosted by
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  Speaker 3: Rashan McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: But their opportunities like you are being able to mind,
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  Speaker 1: you are being able to create that have been brought
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  Speaker 1: into our community that is leveling the playing field, and
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  Speaker 1: by earning this opportunity to get certified, that they can
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  Speaker 1: get a job, a career, a career. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me for saying that. Now, let's talk about a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more about you, because I wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: that out at the top of the conversation because I
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  Speaker 1: want the people to hear exactly the opportunity that your
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  Speaker 1: foundation brings to the table and is changing lives. The
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  Speaker 1: importance of financial literacy, that's a financial literacy is a
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  Speaker 1: huge buzzword in the community. What does financial literacy mean
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  Speaker 1: to you?
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  Speaker 2: Financial literacy means to me that you understand the words,
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  Speaker 2: You hear the conversation and it's not Greek to you.
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  Speaker 2: You have tools that you can use to manage your
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  Speaker 2: expenses on a daily basis, that you understand how this
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  Speaker 2: applies to you. I heard a song from one of
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  Speaker 2: our famous young female rappers who says that she doesn't
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  Speaker 2: give an f about a credit score. I'm sure she's
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  Speaker 2: changed her mind since then because she's realized. She's realized
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  Speaker 2: that you better care about that credit score. That's going
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  Speaker 2: to make the difference in your borrowing potential and how
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  Speaker 2: much money you have to pay back. So financial literacy
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  Speaker 2: means that we understand the conversation and we know what
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  Speaker 2: it means and how it applies to our daily life.
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  Speaker 1: So what's a misconception, Like you said, you have a
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  Speaker 1: rapper out there talking to the generation of people telling
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  Speaker 1: them don't care about the credits cade what you and
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  Speaker 1: I know that's a value. That's a value proposition. To
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  Speaker 1: have your credits code anywhere above seven hundred, you get
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  Speaker 1: in an eight hundred you and as they say, platinum,
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  Speaker 1: platinum zone. There. Absolutely I'm talking to Cassandra Lester her
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  Speaker 1: foundation Grow excuse me, Grow Give prosper as partner with
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  Speaker 1: initiatives like Grow with Google to offer certifications, scholarships aim
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  Speaker 1: to enhance career opportunities for underserved communities. So would you
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  Speaker 1: say that's your that's your mission.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yes, it is. That's my mission. And a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people know me. They kind of because I'll go
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  Speaker 2: off on a tangent in a minute, you know, I'll
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  Speaker 2: start talking about you know, protection, I'll start talking about
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  Speaker 2: ways to increase your earning potential. Well, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: I'm passionate. I don't go I do workshops twice a month,
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  Speaker 2: and when I go into these workshops, I'm not just
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  Speaker 2: doing a lecture. I'm really connecting with my audience and
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  Speaker 2: I want them to feel why I'm so passionate behind it.
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  Speaker 2: I do workshops twice a month, and when I go
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  Speaker 2: into these workshops, I'm not just doing a lecture. I'm
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  Speaker 2: really connecting with my audience and I want them to
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  Speaker 2: feel why I'm so passionate behind it. So I'm not
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  Speaker 2: just sitting up there reading a paper. I'm really talking
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  Speaker 2: to my audience. I'm asking them questions, you know. And
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  Speaker 2: the green doesn't hurt, but definitely left. And I left
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  Speaker 2: out of one workshop and I was like, dang, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like I was in the poolpit because I really
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  Speaker 2: engage with my community partners when they invite me into
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  Speaker 2: these sessions. I talk to these people like their life
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  Speaker 2: depends on it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm going to tell you something. I
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  Speaker 1: want to come to one of your sessions. I want
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  Speaker 1: to be with you one time because I am all
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  Speaker 1: about changing people's lives. And this is not I'm not
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  Speaker 1: charging you anything. This is money making Conversations masterclass. All
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  Speaker 1: it's all about if I can use my brand like
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  Speaker 1: I'm using my brand of this show to let everybody
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  Speaker 1: know about these career changing opportunities with these Google scholarships,
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  Speaker 1: and all they have to do is visit your website
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  Speaker 1: to register. They have a time commitment three to six months,
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  Speaker 1: because each certification or scholarship has a time period of
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  Speaker 1: commitment you have to do to become qualified and earn
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  Speaker 1: the scholarships that's what we're talking about, and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: talking to everybody in general. This is not tied to
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  Speaker 1: a degree person. This is not tied to a person
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  Speaker 1: who feels there they can't qualify. If you have a ged,
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  Speaker 1: if you ever, if you didn't finish draw college, drop out,
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  Speaker 1: the high school graduate, anybody who's doing a job that
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  Speaker 1: you're not happy with this interview is something. Or you
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  Speaker 1: have a relative, it's your husband, your wife, your partner,
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  Speaker 1: your son, your daughter, your cousin, your nephew. Tell them, look,
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  Speaker 1: don't give up. If you want to change your life,
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  Speaker 1: that's what your foundation is all about, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing. You're trying to really get them into the
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  Speaker 1: financial literacy conversation, correct, Cassandra, I am.
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  Speaker 2: I am, Because we lose so much money doing you know,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: going to predatory lending options. So it's a vicious cycle
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  Speaker 2: once you get in. But once you understand where you
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  Speaker 2: went wrong or where you have been misled, then you
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  Speaker 2: can understand where you need to make those corrections and
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  Speaker 2: move forward toward a more positive outcome.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know the thing about it is that just
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  Speaker 1: because you want to do good does not mean everybody
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  Speaker 1: want you to do good a position you to do good.
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  Speaker 1: It's Andrew. You know, I've been frustrated in my life
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  Speaker 1: because I try to bring individuals like you on on
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  Speaker 1: my show. I'm pretty sure you're cheerleader for change. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us some of the roadblocks that you've had to hop over,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: going around, or in fact run over to have an
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  Speaker 1: interview like this on this show. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the roadblocks just encountering people who minimize the
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: impact of obtaining financial literacy. And the very first workshop
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  Speaker 2: I held, I asked them, why don't you want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about this? And a couple of them, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want you in my pocket. This is my business. You
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: know what you're talking about ain't gonna help me. And
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: then also just you know, the community as a whole,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: certain demographics don't like to talk about money. They feel
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: like it's intrusive. And then also because I am a
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  Speaker 2: small nonprofit, a lot of times I'm not taking seriously
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  Speaker 2: by some of the bigger ones. I remember one time
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  Speaker 2: I went to apply for a grant and I saw
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  Speaker 2: one of my constituents apply for the same grant and
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: they got the grant and they told me, oh, sorry,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: we don't do that. And I was like, but I
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: just saying you'll give her like ten thousand dollars, so
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: you know, but despite it all, and I'm gonna tell
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  Speaker 2: you something. I quit every day and then I'll get
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: a phone calls like, mister Sandra, are you coming to
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  Speaker 2: the center this weekend?
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  Speaker 1: Are you coming on Saturday?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll be back down there.
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  Speaker 1: I know the frustration, gleader. That's why I'm offering you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very serious about that. You you let me know,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna put it into my accounts and I'm
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: gonna come down because it don't take me long to preach,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and then it will will not take me long to
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  Speaker 1: be able to tell these people this side all things.
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  Speaker 1: In my degree in math manager, my minder was in
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: sociology and computer science, so I'm a computer juesusiene nerd
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  Speaker 1: I were in college. I almost went and got my
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  Speaker 1: degree in mis management information system. So I've always been
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: a person that's aware of data management and data security. Now,
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  Speaker 1: with that being said, let's tell everybody. Google didn't come
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: The relationship started because I'm out here for my people.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you have a person that understands how important
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  Speaker 2: this is. And even though some people may not quite
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  Speaker 2: get it yet, that's not going to stop me from
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  Speaker 2: trying to get stuff that's going to be good for them.
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  Speaker 2: So I actually was using Google for a different capacity,
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  Speaker 2: and then I was on a webinar and they were
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: just talking about some of the other products that were
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  Speaker 2: offered and they, you know, it's certain requirements that had
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  Speaker 2: to be met, and they were like, if you want
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  Speaker 2: to offer these scholarships to your community to help your
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  Speaker 2: community increase their earning potential. And I'm going to repeat
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: something that I said earlier, Justice impacted communities, low income communities.
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  Speaker 2: Google is intentionally looking to see these communities to give
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  Speaker 2: them an opportunity to level up if you will. So
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  Speaker 2: once I heard that, I said, this is what we need,
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  Speaker 2: you know, because you can't talk about managing finances if
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  Speaker 2: you really don't have anything coming in. You know, it's possible,
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  Speaker 2: but ultimately being able to earn a living is the
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  Speaker 2: first pillar in financial literacy increasing your earning potential. So
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  Speaker 2: when I heard that that wasn't an opportunity, I jumped
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  Speaker 2: on it. I you know, like I was obsessed.
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  Speaker 1: I was.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I wrote three, four or five different you know pitches,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: and finally I settled on one. I submitted it and
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: it seemed like forever getting a word back. And then
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: when I got the word back, they were like, you're
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: approved and you know, this is what and this is
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: how it goes and good luck. And I was like, wow,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: thank you, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know well, thank you, thank you for coming on my show.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being honest about your journey and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you are giving five hundred scholarships Google scholarships.
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  Speaker 1: Now you down at three hundred. Our goal is to
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  Speaker 1: get it down to zero. Our goal is to make
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  Speaker 1: your organization to be one of the top job finders
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  Speaker 1: or career finders for Google. Want. I want that praise
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: only comes to effort. Praise only comes through relationships and mentoring.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I want to do to mentor you.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I want to give you my time personally
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: to try to get the word out. But again, as
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  Speaker 1: we close the show, tell everybody about your initiative that
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: you grow with Google and the jobs and how they
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  Speaker 1: can go and get these free scholarships that are being
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: offered three to six months depending on the certification. The
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  Speaker 1: floor ish yours all right?
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  Speaker 2: You know, community, come on out if you go to
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  Speaker 2: grow give prosper dot org. Scroll to the bottom Google Scholarships.
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  Speaker 2: Just click on. The barrier to entry is low. The
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  Speaker 2: only thing we require from you is a commitment and
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  Speaker 2: a desire to want to do better and to see
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  Speaker 2: the program through to the end. So grow giveprosper dot
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  Speaker 2: org click on the Google Career scholarships. They have scholarships
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  Speaker 2: in cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing, and e commerce, IT support,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: project management, and UX design and these scholarships are self
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  Speaker 2: paced online typically take three to six months to complete.
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  Speaker 2: No experience is necessary. You don't have to have any
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: experience just to get started. And one thing I didn't
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  Speaker 2: mention is that you will get a portfolio. At the
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: end of your certification. You will have created a portfolio
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: that you can market to end demand businesses and you
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: can go from having no experience to have to have
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  Speaker 2: created a portfolio that's gonna make you viable in the market.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, I tell you again. Any future goals
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  Speaker 1: and community engagements you want to mention before we wrap
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  Speaker 1: up the interview.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, really quickly, As I mentioned, I'm always in Rothdale County,
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  Speaker 2: Clayton County. I'm gonna be heading down to Jasper, I'm
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: really going to one of the housing authorities down there
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  Speaker 2: to talk to those single parents. You know, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: where I need to meet my community where they are.
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  Speaker 2: So me and Pearl gonna hit the road and we're
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: gonna be heading down south to these communities that are
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  Speaker 2: often untouched.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's put this way, you and Pearl, they can
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: reach you in Parol online through the internet. Just go
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  Speaker 1: to your website grow give prosper dot org and you
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  Speaker 1: can look for scroll down, as you say, google scholarships.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Go through the options, find out the one that fits you.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: If you want to find out the value, the career
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  Speaker 1: value of these jobs, just google salary and they'll show
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  Speaker 1: you how in three to six months you can start competing.
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  Speaker 1: That's all you want. That's all you want. It's competing
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  Speaker 1: in an industry that you once thought was impossible to
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  Speaker 1: crack because you didn't know how. You thought you had
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  Speaker 1: to go to our four year institution and had to
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: go to an Ivy League type school to get career
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  Speaker 1: changing opportunities. And then guess what financial literacy will mean
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  Speaker 1: something to your dead again. Cats, thank you for coming
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  Speaker 2: Thank you mister Rishawd and bless your ministry.
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