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Career Change: Her partnership with Google is creating life-changing access to free tech field certifications. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My guess has been instrumental in providing resources that help
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  Speaker 1: individuals make inform financial decisions, optimize their resources, and develop
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  Speaker 1: healthy financial habits. Under her leadership, Grow Give Prosper has
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  Speaker 1: partnered with initiatives like Grow with Google to offer certification
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  Speaker 1: scholarships aiming to enhance career opportunities for underserved communities. Please
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  Speaker 1: work with the Money Making Conversation Masterclass, Cassandra Lester.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, Cassandra, I'm doing swell rashon. How are
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  Speaker 2: you pretty good?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Let's get this. Give us the name of your Is
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  Speaker 2: it a nonprofit?
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  Speaker 3: It is a nonprofit, Grow Gives.
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  Speaker 2: How did you come up with that name?
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  Speaker 3: You know what? Actually, because that's what I want to
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  Speaker 3: see my community do. I want us to grow together
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  Speaker 3: so that we can give to each other and then
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  Speaker 3: prosper as a collective. So that's how I came up
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  Speaker 3: with that name.
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  Speaker 2: How long you long have you had the foundation?
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  Speaker 3: I have been in the financial education since about twenty
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  Speaker 3: seventeen and I started the nonprofit in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, cool.
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  Speaker 1: So when you said financial education, can you give us
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  Speaker 1: a little of your background from a financial literacy standpoint
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  Speaker 1: before we get into the infield.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, sure. So it all started when I was a
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  Speaker 3: human resource an office manager at a very prominent medical
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  Speaker 3: facility here in the state of Georgia. And one thing
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  Speaker 3: I noticed, from the people who had the PhDs to
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  Speaker 3: the ones who had the GEDs, every time we sat
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  Speaker 3: down and do that tax paperwork, it leveled the playing field.
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  Speaker 3: So that's when I realized that financial education doesn't matter
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  Speaker 3: who you are, what you look like. It's a matter
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  Speaker 3: of accessibility.
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  Speaker 1: If you got halfway listening to the show, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to stop and focus on the show because this
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  Speaker 1: is the reason of one of the many reasons I
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  Speaker 1: brought her on the S Show for this interview her
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  Speaker 1: partnership with Grow with Google.
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  Speaker 2: That's the name of it. Grow with Google.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Google is what we're about to concentrate on and
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing with your foundation.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to us about what is Grow with Google.
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  Speaker 3: Grow with Google is a tremendous outreach initiative that Google
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  Speaker 3: has delivered to community partners like myself, where we are
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  Speaker 3: delivering career certifications, scholarships to any and everyone who wants it, specifically,
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  Speaker 3: justice impacted, specifically economically impacted communities that may not have
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  Speaker 3: access to that level of education due to financial restraints.
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  Speaker 3: So Google is now saying that, hey, we want to
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  Speaker 3: give you a chance to thrive to So we're going
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  Speaker 3: to give you a chance to get a career certification
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  Speaker 3: entry level into cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing, e commerce,
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  Speaker 3: IT support, project management, or UX design, which is user design,
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  Speaker 3: which is those apps and websites. So Google is now
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  Speaker 3: leveling the playing field. They're saying, you don't have to
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  Speaker 3: have an Ivy League education in order to make an
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  Speaker 3: earnable a livable.
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  Speaker 2: Wage, not just beyond livable wage. I'm just let everybody
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  Speaker 2: know that. Just go through, just go to the internet.
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  Speaker 1: Google indeed and Google salaries of all the job titles
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  Speaker 1: that she listed, you'll see that these are game changing
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  Speaker 1: opportunities that this foundation that Cassandra Lester created that is
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  Speaker 1: partnered with Google. And I want to hang on this
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  Speaker 1: for 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.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a website that they can visit?
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  Speaker 3: Certainly if they go to row with I'm sorry, grow
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  Speaker 3: gifprosper dot org and scroll to the bottom, you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: see the Google scholarship link, and the barrier to entry
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  Speaker 3: is very low. We don't want to make it difficult.
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  Speaker 3: If you have a commitment to yourself and if you
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  Speaker 3: want to increase your earning potential, all you have to
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  Speaker 3: do in the state of Georgia, no matter where you're located,
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  Speaker 3: is go to this website, grow give prosper dot org,
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  Speaker 3: scroll to the bottom Google Certifications, read the information. If
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  Speaker 3: it's what you want for yourself, then enroll and Coursera
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  Speaker 3: is going to send you the link and you can
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  Speaker 3: start learning today.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's go over those job opportunities that are available
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  Speaker 1: on your website.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing, and e commerce
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  Speaker 3: and this. I kind of want to just really touch
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  Speaker 3: on them really quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Slow it down because I want people to understand that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, let me also say.
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  Speaker 2: This, you say the worst scholarship is their fee.
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  Speaker 3: No fee, There's no fee. The only fee is that
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  Speaker 3: you have to commit to doing it because we have
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  Speaker 3: to give data at the end of the program right, which,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, was scheduled to end in December twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty five, and Google has extended it to December twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty six. So since These courses take three to six
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  Speaker 3: months to complete. You have a chance to go in
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  Speaker 3: and roll and get several certifications between now and December
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: This level is the plan field for anybody that these
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  Speaker 1: scholarships that's being offered through your foundation through Google. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure I have a college degree on my wall,
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  Speaker 1: a math degree, and I always tell people you can't
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  Speaker 1: repoll that degree, which means you can't take that. But
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  Speaker 1: once it's on that wall, you can't take it back.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not like a car, it's like a house.
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  Speaker 1: Once you've been certified or degree, that's yours for life.
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  Speaker 1: And it also gives you a sense of empowerment that
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  Speaker 1: you can change your life and the surroundings around you.
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  Speaker 1: So you're going to give us more detail on each
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  Speaker 1: one of these job titles that we're doing with I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking with Cassandra Lester. Give us your foundation one more
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  Speaker 1: time and your website.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, grow gift Prosper and the website is grow gifprosper
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  Speaker 3: dot org. And I'm going to dive into what Google
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  Speaker 3: certifications are currently available. We have cybersecurity. You know, if
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  Speaker 3: you're the kind of person who wants to be the savior.
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  Speaker 3: You want to be able to come in and you know,
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  Speaker 3: throw it all of these I think we just heard
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  Speaker 3: a couple of days ago about a cyber attack that happened,
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  Speaker 3: you know. I think it was in the city of Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: So if you want to be the kind of person
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  Speaker 3: who can recognize these attacks before they happen, cybersecurity is
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  Speaker 3: a great feel for you to get into data analytics.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to tell businesses what's trending, where they
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  Speaker 3: can find the money. Data analytics is for you. Digital
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  Speaker 3: marketing and e commerce. We're all over the website. We're
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  Speaker 3: all out here shopping online. Digital marketing and e commerce.
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  Speaker 3: That's going to tell you, you know previously where I said,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to show the businesses where the money where
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  Speaker 3: you are the one that's making the money. You are
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  Speaker 3: putting your product or products for other people online and
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  Speaker 3: making it avail and making it available for them to
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  Speaker 3: purchase it. Support so you can stack it support with cybersecurity.
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  Speaker 3: You are providing daily maintenance to laptops, phones, computers. It
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  Speaker 3: support project management. Now, when I mentioned that you can
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  Speaker 3: get several certifications, these are certifications that you can stack.
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  Speaker 3: So can you imagine stacking project management with a data
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  Speaker 3: analytics certification, and then finally UX design. So when I
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  Speaker 3: say that, it may sound Greek to a lot of people,
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  Speaker 3: but think about it. These apps, Instagram, all the websites
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  Speaker 3: that you go to. UX design means user experience design.
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  Speaker 3: You're designing the experience that the person who's on that
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  Speaker 3: app is using. So I remember one time with my
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  Speaker 3: banking app, I had an issue with getting my password.
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  Speaker 3: Every time I would log out to get the password
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  Speaker 3: and come back here and the app would close. Somebody
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  Speaker 3: saw that and they fixed it. So that's what that
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  Speaker 3: user experience design. Along that line, that's what you would
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  Speaker 3: be learning.
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  Speaker 2: How have you been this sounds.
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  Speaker 1: Like a program or your pro seems to be locked
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  Speaker 1: into Google and providing dream like opportunities for people who
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  Speaker 1: can get these scholarships by going onto your website.
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  Speaker 2: How you promoting this or how you spreading the word?
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  Speaker 3: Ah, mister Raushan, you know I'm country, mister Rashan, I
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  Speaker 3: am boots on the ground. We are out here, grassroots.
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  Speaker 3: We are going to every community center that's local. We
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  Speaker 3: are going to the adult education classes. I am on
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  Speaker 3: social media pushing this information out. I mean any and
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  Speaker 3: everybody that will hear me. I'm trying to shout it
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  Speaker 3: from the rooftops to let them know you don't want
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  Speaker 3: to miss this. You don't want to miss this opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to increase your earning potential. So I'm literally out here
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  Speaker 3: getting in my car I call a Pearl, Me and Pearl,
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  Speaker 3: driving up and down the highways, trying to get to
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  Speaker 3: every adult education class that we can get to to
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  Speaker 3: tell these folks you need to sign up.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, fure we talk about the classes you're seeing.
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  Speaker 1: So if someone in New y someone in Chicago, someone
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, someone in Houston or Dallas, they can register.
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  Speaker 3: They can. You have to be continental US. Wow. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, of course Google is gonna know if you're
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  Speaker 3: logging in from outside the US, but Continental US. And
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  Speaker 3: when I tell you, they were generous, Like I gave
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  Speaker 3: myself a pat on the back because I wrote that letter.
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  Speaker 3: Do you hear me? They gave me over three hundred scholarships.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm ready to deliver it to the comte.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, cool, listen, So you have three hundred scholarships available nationwide.
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  Speaker 2: All individuals can do that no charge.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus scholarships three to six months were for online training
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  Speaker 1: for an opportunity to change your life. Your life, and
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  Speaker 1: you're doing the boots on the ground. Now you're on
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  Speaker 1: Money Make Conversations masterclass. Now we're about to we're going
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  Speaker 1: worldwide with you. Domestic US, Continental USA opportunities to register. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about you, said Rashaw, You and Perl that's
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  Speaker 1: the name of her vehicle going up and down the road.
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  Speaker 1: When you go in these classes, what has been the
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  Speaker 1: reaction or have you been disappointed in the reaction?
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I am being well received. The program is being
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  Speaker 3: well received. The thing about it is that you are
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  Speaker 3: changing I'm changing minds. People are thinking that I'll never
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  Speaker 3: be able to get out of the situation. I'm robbing
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  Speaker 3: Peter to pay Paul. And when they realized that you
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  Speaker 3: have an opportunity, and what I wanted to do was
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  Speaker 3: be credible. So I did some vetting on the back end,
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  Speaker 3: and I asked people who are in hiring positions in it,
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  Speaker 3: would you hire somebody with a GED and a Google certification.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of people told me who graduated college with
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  Speaker 3: a master's degree said they lost out on their first
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  Speaker 3: job because they didn't have a certification to a person
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  Speaker 3: who did. So it's valid. It's legitimate, and the people
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  Speaker 3: that I meet, they are overjoyed. Some of them might
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  Speaker 3: be a little skeptical at first, but once they realized
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  Speaker 3: that it's legitimate. I initially had about five hundred scholarships,
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  Speaker 3: so we've had so many people to enroll that now
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  Speaker 3: that number has went down.
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  Speaker 2: To three hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, girds, give yourself around, employer, that's two hundred
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  Speaker 1: potential people. You've changed lives. Now, now let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more about you. Because I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: get that out at the top of the conversation, because
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  Speaker 1: I wanted people to hear exactly the opportunity that your
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  Speaker 1: foundation brings to the table and it is changing lives.
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  Speaker 1: The importance of financial literacy. That's a financial literacy is
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  Speaker 1: a huge buzzword in the community. What does financial literacy
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  Speaker 1: mean to you?
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  Speaker 3: Financial literacy means to me that you understand the words,
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  Speaker 3: You hear the conversation and it's not Greek to you.
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  Speaker 3: You have tools that you can use to manage your
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  Speaker 3: expenses on a daily basis, that you understand how this
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  Speaker 3: applies to you. I heard a song from one of
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  Speaker 3: our famous young female rappers who says that she doesn't
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  Speaker 3: give an f about a credit score. I'm sure she's
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  Speaker 3: changed her mind since it, because she's realized. She's realized
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  Speaker 3: that you better care about that credit score because that's
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  Speaker 3: going to make the difference in your borrowing potential and
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  Speaker 3: how much money you have to pay back. So financial
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  Speaker 3: literacy means that we understand the conversation and we know
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  Speaker 3: what it means and how it applies to our daily life.
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  Speaker 2: So what's a misconception.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, you have a rapper out there talking
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  Speaker 1: to the generation of people telling them don't care about
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  Speaker 1: the credit card. What you and I know that's a value.
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  Speaker 1: That's a value proposition to have your credit sCOD anywhere
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  Speaker 1: above seven hundred. You get in an eight hundred, you
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  Speaker 1: in as they say, platinum, platinum zone there. Now, talk
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  Speaker 1: to the audience a little bit about that credit score
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  Speaker 1: and how they can if you are aware of ways
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  Speaker 1: they can fix it, but why they should not ignore it.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned it a little bit about how it can
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  Speaker 1: impact your loan, But it is a long ways to
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  Speaker 1: employment opportunities too, because they check everything now, they do.
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  Speaker 3: And they're looking for reasons to disqualify certain people, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and sometimes they will use that as leverage to disqualify
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  Speaker 3: you know, the next person from getting the job. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, my financial literacy encompasses all earning, you know, saving, borrowing, investing, protecting,
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  Speaker 3: and so among all of those. Credit plays a very
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  Speaker 3: big part because it's about your borrowing potential. And sometimes
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  Speaker 3: the best time to get credit is when you don't
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  Speaker 3: need it. But if you just want some really quick hacks,
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  Speaker 3: if you're in debt, you know, and there is no
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  Speaker 3: magic bullet, it's always to try and truth the snowball method,
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  Speaker 3: you know, pay down your debt gradually over time, and
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  Speaker 3: then extra credit increases on the cards that you have
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  Speaker 3: don't close your oldest account. So there are so many
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  Speaker 3: strategies that we can use to improve our credit. But
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  Speaker 3: the thing about it is that you have to stay consistent.
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  Speaker 3: You need to go to the annualcreditreport dot com, pull
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  Speaker 3: your credit report, see where you stand, and then devise
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  Speaker 3: a plan from there and move forward consistently. There is
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  Speaker 3: no magic bullet, there's no overnight pill. Just like losing weight,
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  Speaker 3: just like managing your health, you have to be consistent.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking to Cassandra Lester.
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  Speaker 1: Her foundation Go Grow Excuse me, Grow Give prosper as
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  Speaker 1: partnered with initiatives like Grow with Google to offer certifications,
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  Speaker 1: scholarships aim to enhance career opportunities for underserved communities. So
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  Speaker 1: would you say that's your mission for your foundation?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, yes it is. That's my mission. And a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people know me. They kind of because I'll go
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  Speaker 3: off on a tangent. In a minute, you know, I'll
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  Speaker 3: start talking about you know, protection, I'll start talking about
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  Speaker 3: ways to increase your earning potential. I do workshops twice
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  Speaker 3: a month, and when I go into these workshops, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not just doing a lecture. I'm really connecting with my
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  Speaker 3: audience and I want them to feel why I'm so
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  Speaker 3: passionate behind it. So I'm not just sitting up there
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  Speaker 3: reading a paper. I'm really talking to my audience. I'm
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  Speaker 3: asking them questions, you know, and the green doesn't hurt,
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  Speaker 3: but definitely I left and I left out of one
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  Speaker 3: workshop and I was like, dang, I feel like I
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  Speaker 3: was in the pool pit because I really engage with
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  Speaker 3: my community partners when they invite me into these sessions.
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  Speaker 3: I talk to these people like their life depends on it.
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  Speaker 2: So your passion comes from somewhere now, I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 2: you have.
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  Speaker 1: Can you share with us the story because I gotta.
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  Speaker 1: I want to pull back the curtain to find out
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  Speaker 1: why did you start this foundation? You saying you're doing
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  Speaker 1: it for the community, but was it a personal drive
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  Speaker 1: that got you started.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you know, not getting too much into it, but
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  Speaker 3: I've had a situation where I'm at a very young age,
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  Speaker 3: my identity was compromised before I was even able to
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  Speaker 3: get out and get on my own. So aging out
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  Speaker 3: into life, I had the odds stacked against me because
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  Speaker 3: my credit had already been ruined. And then realizing that
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  Speaker 3: I'm paying more for the same services as the next
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  Speaker 3: person because through no fault of my own, my credit
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  Speaker 3: got messed up. And then realizing, you know, I had
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  Speaker 3: my children young, I took several non traditional routes to education,
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  Speaker 3: but realizing that education is key to bettering your situation.
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  Speaker 3: So just you know, in a nutshell, I've always been
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  Speaker 3: able to land in positions where I could see both
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  Speaker 3: sides of the coins. When I was working at this
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  Speaker 3: major medical facility, I saw CNA's coming in who I
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  Speaker 3: resonated with and just wanting to help, you know, housekeepers
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  Speaker 3: and janitors just kind of help them to get that
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  Speaker 3: mindset to you know, what you have options. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it all started from just my own personal experience and
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  Speaker 3: managing my bills and you know, trying to do what
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  Speaker 3: I can for my family and realizing that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't have to always be like this.
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  Speaker 1: So, Cassandra, you know, I've been frustrating in my life
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  Speaker 1: because I try to bring individuals like you on my show.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm pretty sure.
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  Speaker 1: You're cheerleader for change telling us some of the roadblocks
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  Speaker 1: that you've had to hop over, go around, in fact
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  Speaker 1: run over to have an interview like this on this show.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. Some of the roadblocks just encountering people who minimize
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  Speaker 3: the impact of obtaining financial literacy. And the very first
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  Speaker 3: workshop I held, I asked them, why don't you want
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  Speaker 3: to talk about this? And a couple of them, I
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  Speaker 3: don't want you in my pocket. This is my business.
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  Speaker 3: You know what you're talking about ain't gonna help me.
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  Speaker 3: And then also just you know, the community as a whole,
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  Speaker 3: certain demographics don't like to talk about money. They feel
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  Speaker 3: like it's intrusive. And then also because I am a
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  Speaker 3: small nonprofit, a lot of times I'm not taken seriously
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  Speaker 3: by some of the bigger ones. I remember one time
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: I went to apply for a grant and I saw
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  Speaker 3: one of my constituents apply for the same grant and
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: they got the grant, and they told me, oh, sorry,
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  Speaker 3: we don't do that. And I was like, but I
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  Speaker 3: just saying, you'll give her like ten thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Right right, right, right right right, So you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, but despite it all, and I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 3: you something. I quit every day and then I'll get
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: a phone calls like Ms. Cassandra, are you coming to
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  Speaker 3: the Senate this weekend? Are you coming on Saturday? Okay,
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I'll be back down there.
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  Speaker 1: So I know the frustration can lead that. That's why
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  Speaker 1: I'm offering you. I'm very serious about that. You let
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  Speaker 1: me know, and I'm gonna put into my calendar and
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna come down because you don't take me long
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  Speaker 1: to preach, and it will not take me long to
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  Speaker 1: be able to tell these people this side all these
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  Speaker 1: My degree in mathematage. My minder was in sociology and
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: computer science, so I'm a computer Sudus science nerd.
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  Speaker 2: I were in college.
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  Speaker 1: I almost went and got my degree in mis management
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  Speaker 1: information system. So I've always been a person that's aware
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: of data management and data security.
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  Speaker 2: Now, with that being said, let's tell everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Google didn't come to you with this idea. How did
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: this idea come about? Because I always tell people It's
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  Speaker 1: about the effort you put out that can generate the
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  Speaker 1: positive things you get back in return.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us how this relationship started.
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  Speaker 3: The relationship started because I'm out here for my people.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you have a person that understands how important
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  Speaker 3: this is. And even though some people may not quite
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: get it yet, that's not going to stop me from
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: trying to get stuff that's going to be good for them.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: So I actually was using Google for a different capacity,
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  Speaker 3: and then I was on a webinar and they were
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: just talking about some of the other products that were offered,
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: and they you know, it's certain requirements that had to
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  Speaker 3: be met, and they were like, if you want to
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  Speaker 3: offer these scholarships to your community to help your community
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  Speaker 3: increase their earning potential. And I'm going to repeat something
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  Speaker 3: that I said earlier, Justice impacted communities, low income communities.
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  Speaker 3: Google is intentionally looking to seek these communities to give
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  Speaker 3: them an opportunity to level up if you will. So
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  Speaker 3: once I heard that, I said, this is what we need.
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  Speaker 3: You know, because you can't talk about managing finances if
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  Speaker 3: you really don't have anything coming in. You know, it's possible,
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  Speaker 3: but ultimately being able to earn a living is the
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  Speaker 3: first pillar in financial literacy, increasing your earning potential. So
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  Speaker 3: when I heard that that was an opportunity, I jumped
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  Speaker 3: on it. I you know, like I was obsessed. I was.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I wrote three, four or five different you know pitches,
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: and finally I settled on one. I submitted it, and
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: it seemed like forever getting the word back. And then
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: when I got the word back, they were like, you're approved,
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  Speaker 3: and you know this is what this is how it
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  Speaker 3: goes and good luck. And I was like, wow, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You know well, thank you, thank you for coming on
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  Speaker 1: my show. Thank you for being honest about your journey
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that you are giving five hundred scholarships
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  Speaker 1: Google scholarships. Now you're down at three hundred. Our goal
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: is to get it down to zero. Our goal is
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  Speaker 1: to make your organization to be one of the top
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  Speaker 1: job finders, a career finders for Google.
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  Speaker 2: I want them.
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  Speaker 1: I want Praise only comes through effort, Praise only comes
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: through relationships and mentoring. And that's what I want to
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  Speaker 1: do and mentor you. That's why I want to give
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: you my time personally to try to get the word out.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: But again, as we close the show, tell everybody about
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  Speaker 1: your initiative that you grow with Google and the jobs
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  Speaker 1: and how they can go and get these free scholarships
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  Speaker 1: that are being offered three to six months depending on
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  Speaker 1: the certification to floorish.
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  Speaker 3: Yours all right? You know, community, come on out. If
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  Speaker 3: you go to grow give prosper dot org scroll to
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  Speaker 3: the bottom Google Scholarships just click on it. The barrier
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  Speaker 3: to entry is low. The only thing we require from
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  Speaker 3: you is a commitment and a desire to want to
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  Speaker 3: do better and to see the program through to the end.
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  Speaker 3: So grow Give prosper dot org click on the Google
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  Speaker 3: Career Scholarships. They have scholarships in cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing,
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  Speaker 3: and e commerce, IT support, project management, and UX design
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  Speaker 3: and these scholarships are self paced online typically take three
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  Speaker 3: to six months to complete. No experience is necessary. You
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  Speaker 3: don't have to have any experience just to get started.
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  Speaker 3: And one thing I didn't mention is that you will
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  Speaker 3: get a portfolio. At the end of your certification. You
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: will have created a portfolio that you can market to
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  Speaker 3: in demand businesses and you can go from having no
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: experience to have to have created a portfolio that's going
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: to make you viable in the market.
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  Speaker 1: Just go to your website grow gear prosper dot org
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  Speaker 1: and you can look for scroll down as you say,
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  Speaker 1: google scholarships. Go through the options, find out the one
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  Speaker 1: that fits you. If you want to find out the value,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: the career value of these jobs, just google salary and
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: they'll show you how in three to six months you
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: can start competing.
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  Speaker 2: That's all you want. That's all you want.
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  Speaker 1: It's competing in an industry that you once thought was
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  Speaker 1: impossible to crack a gig. Cassandra, thank you for coming
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: on Money Making Conversations Masterclass.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you mister Rashawn and bless your ministry.
• 25:59
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• 26:00
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• 26:07
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• 26:12
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