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Entrepreneur: Created mobile App that brings together Divine 9 members, HBCU students, alumni, faculty, and supporters in a meaningful way. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 3: with my first instructor of the of this hour. My
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Speaker 3: guess is a passion It's very passionate about bringing people together.
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Speaker 3: Kimberly's dedication to fostering community led her to create the
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Speaker 3: HBCU Social mobile app. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation
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Speaker 3: master Class, Kimberler Kissinger. How are you doing, Kimberly?
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Speaker 4: I am great, I am fantastic. How are you pretty good?
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Speaker 1: HBCU we talk about HBU.
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Speaker 3: Giv me your HBCU background so we can get all
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Speaker 3: this all this out with hbc you one hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's go on.
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Speaker 4: I am the proud graduate of the illustrious Clark and
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Speaker 4: Lanta University Class of nineteen ninety five Bachelors of Mass
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Speaker 4: Media Arts, Radio, TV Films. So that is my HBCU history.
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Speaker 3: Well, why did you go to an hbc what did
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Speaker 3: you have other options? And you just said this the school.
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Speaker 4: I wanted to attend YEP, great question. So throughout my
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Speaker 4: entire elementary school, middle school, and high school, I went
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Speaker 4: to predominantly white colleges and high school and school, and
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Speaker 4: so I wanted to go to a college where everybody
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Speaker 4: looked like me. So I can't completely give that complete credit.
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Speaker 4: I also have to give credit to school days as
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Speaker 4: well as different world. And then my sister she went
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Speaker 4: to Hampton University, so I was able to go visit
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Speaker 4: her at Hampton. So from there I was like, oh,
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Speaker 4: I have to go to the hbc.
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Speaker 3: Well know when we're talking about social but before we
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Speaker 3: get there, when you think about HBCUs, of course, you
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Speaker 3: always think about halftime, the bands, the marching bands, and
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Speaker 3: we think about sports, especially football and right and then,
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Speaker 3: but we tend to forget about the academics. I think
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Speaker 3: when you're talking about what is an HBCU, we go
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Speaker 3: to the marching bands, to the halftime show. Some type
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Speaker 3: of people call it the fifth quarter of a football game.
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Speaker 3: It's called a halftime show. I remember when ESPN when
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Speaker 3: they started airing the HBCU games on ESPN platform, they
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Speaker 3: weren't showing the halftime. They would go to halftime highlights
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Speaker 3: and it was such a complaint that they now have
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Speaker 3: to show the halftime on another channel because there's so
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Speaker 3: many complaints for not seeing the halftime show at HBCU games,
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Speaker 3: And that's how powerful these halftime show performances are with
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Speaker 3: these marching bands. Do you feel we do enough job
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Speaker 3: promoting the academics of HBCUs.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 4: I think there's always room for improvement. I think yeah.
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Speaker 4: I mean that's part of the mystique of going to
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Speaker 4: an HBC school. It's the homecoming games, the halftime shows,
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Speaker 4: and that's always the entertainment portion of it all. But
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Speaker 4: I think yes, I think we can do a better
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Speaker 4: job of letting the world know that we're not just
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Speaker 4: a party school. It's not party time. We're also about
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Speaker 4: our books. We have to remember that HBCUs have the
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Speaker 4: historically played a crucial role in providing access to higher
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Speaker 4: education for African American students. I mean, particularly during the
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Speaker 4: time when you have segregation and discrimination barred us from
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Speaker 4: attending the predominant white institution. So today attending the HBC
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Speaker 4: is very vital and crucial to our students because they're
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Speaker 4: on these underrepresented backgrounds to pursue higher education. I mean,
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Speaker 4: you have some great programs and social work, STEM programs,
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Speaker 4: you know, even in entertainment, mathematics, history, math, media, arts
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Speaker 4: to radio, TV, film, and so there's a lot of
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Speaker 4: great opportunities at HBC schools. And then in some of
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Speaker 4: these institutions you have graduate programs, and so we can't
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Speaker 4: we can't forget about that. So I think, yeah, I
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Speaker 4: think we could do a better job of making sure
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Speaker 4: that we talk about those areas as well.
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Speaker 5: Well.
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Speaker 3: Kivira Leman heavy out with numbers, some facts. Okay, you know,
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Speaker 3: the black teachers come from Hbcusvent Dennis and medical doctors
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Speaker 3: come from HBCUs who are black. Forty percent of the
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Speaker 3: members of Congress who are black come from HBCUs. The
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Speaker 3: STEM graduates who are black come from HBCUs. These are
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Speaker 3: numbers that you know, the legal profession, same thing, dominant
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Speaker 3: amount of blacks who in that area come from HBCUs.
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Speaker 3: And so but if you don't tell that story, then
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Speaker 3: the predominant white institution, I guess, can take credit because
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Speaker 3: nobody knows right.
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Speaker 4: Exactly exactly, You're absolutely right, and those numbers like, yeah,
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Speaker 4: that's that's great data, but who else knows about that?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the reason I bringing that up because recently the
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Speaker 3: richest man in the world, Elon Musk, you know, was
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Speaker 3: talking about co signing a claim that black students who
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Speaker 3: attend HBCUs have low IQs, and I was all started
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Speaker 3: about that. Not United Airlines started this pilot program and
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Speaker 3: they had chose three HBCUs and they start looking at
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Speaker 3: SAT scores and they started people tend.
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Speaker 1: To tie hbc used to IQ's.
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Speaker 3: It's just a test because I my SAT score was
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Speaker 3: so bad it was ridiculous. I only got into college
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Speaker 3: because I had good academic training. I won't even reveal
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Speaker 3: that score on this radio show. That's how bad it was. Okay,
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Speaker 3: so please don't tell me that you know sad scores
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Speaker 3: mean you're really smart and that I'm living proof the
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Speaker 3: smartness drifted past that test score when it came to
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Speaker 3: ra Sean mcnonal. Okay, now, But but people use these
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Speaker 3: test scores and use this propaganda, especial in social media,
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Speaker 3: to bar opportunities of people who may be considering hbc US.
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Speaker 1: That's all.
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Speaker 3: I'm just talking about fighting that negative, that the mantra
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Speaker 3: that can be out there that's being politicized, and that's
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Speaker 3: really the backbone of what you're doing with this app?
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Speaker 1: Correct?
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Speaker 4: Yes, exactly correct?
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Speaker 1: Background and inspiration why.
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Speaker 4: So it really all came from having a conversation. That's
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Speaker 4: why you don't underestimate the power for conversation, right, and
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Speaker 4: ouration with a college one of my best friends from
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Speaker 4: college and her daughter was attending an hbc school and
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Speaker 4: she was complaining about the lack of dating options at
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Speaker 4: her school. And you know, she and I were talking.
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Speaker 4: We're like, you know, what wouldn't it be? I was like,
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Speaker 4: wouldn't it be amazing if we had like some type
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Speaker 4: of an app where students can connect with other students
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Speaker 4: at other university HBCU colleges and universities, not just for
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Speaker 4: dating purposes, but also for networking, for sharing their work
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Speaker 4: if they're working on a project, but not just for students,
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Speaker 4: but also for alums. And there's nothing out there like that.
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Speaker 4: But more important, we also hear that from some of
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Speaker 4: these corporations, Oh, we can't seem to find a talent
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Speaker 4: or we don't know where to look for them. You know.
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Speaker 4: So now it's like, okay, this could also be a
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Speaker 4: conduit for job listings, internships, and events, so we can
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Speaker 4: tackle behole HBCU community so that's where the idea came from,
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Speaker 4: is that you know, there isn't out anything out there
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Speaker 4: like that. Yeah, how we have Facebook, Yeah we have Instagram,
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Speaker 4: we have Twitter. So essentially those could be my competitors.
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Speaker 4: But at the same time, it's not really tailored to
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Speaker 4: just the HBCU community. This is for us by us
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Speaker 4: stealing Fulu's line. But that's basically what it is now, Kener, this.
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Speaker 3: Is money making conversations that you called inn on. Okay, Now,
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Speaker 3: HBCUs that's a community. Then you have predominant white institutions.
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Speaker 3: Now it seems to me in a money making conversation
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Speaker 3: that it can be expansive if you decided to just
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Speaker 3: go universal. So why did you strictly focus on the
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Speaker 3: HBCU conversation. I'm talking from a money making conversation.
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Speaker 4: Money making standpoint. Listen, I hear you. I think that. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I when I pitched this idea to certain investors and
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Speaker 4: different people, it was brought to my tension, even from
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Speaker 4: a black person, right right, right, great idea. I think
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Speaker 4: it can make a lot of money, but I feel
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Speaker 4: like you can make more money if you expand it
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Speaker 4: to the white community. And my question was which is
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Speaker 4: why I tell people, you know, don't give up on
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Speaker 4: your passion and your dream and what you know within
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Speaker 4: your heart to do. And yeah, I could have done that,
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Speaker 4: but I'm not just in this for the money. But
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Speaker 4: just like I can make money opening up to predominant whites,
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Speaker 4: I can also make money within our own community. We
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Speaker 4: keep forgetting we can tap into our own community. But again,
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Speaker 4: what is your motivation. My motivation was not necessarily to
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Speaker 4: just make money. My motivation was to bring the community
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Speaker 4: together to give opportunity for networking experiences across all the
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Speaker 4: ABCU schools as well as all the different alum as
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Speaker 4: well as corporations. Now won't have excuses they can't tap
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Speaker 4: into our network because now there's going to be a
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Speaker 4: conduit for them to tap into. And yeah, if I
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Speaker 4: can make some money off of that, at the same time,
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Speaker 4: of course I want to do that, but that's not
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Speaker 4: my sole motivation. So no, I don't want to open
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Speaker 4: up to them because they already have it. Facebook, Instagram,
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Speaker 4: all of those were made by white men. This is
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Speaker 4: something that was designed by an African American woman who
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Speaker 4: attended an AHBCU school, and this is for us by us,
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Speaker 4: as I said earlier.
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Speaker 3: Cool, I'm talking to Kimberly Kissinger. She's built out and
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Speaker 3: HBCU's social mobile app. Let me ask you this. So
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Speaker 3: this is technology. You know, apps are huge. I noticed
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Speaker 3: that my podcast, ninety five percent of the people use
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Speaker 3: them cell phone. Nobody goes to the desktop to listen
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Speaker 3: to my podcast. That's generally that's why such a younger
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Speaker 3: group of people use the mobile apps, because everybody's really
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Speaker 3: living their lives through their cell phones. So are you
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Speaker 3: talking in the parents? Are you trying to reach the parents?
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Speaker 3: Are usually trying to reach the young people. What's your audience?
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Speaker 4: So the audience is the entire ahpC community. So that's
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Speaker 4: the lums, that's that's undergrads, that's Divine nine members, that's
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Speaker 4: ABCU supporters like yourself. It's basically our entire community. When
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Speaker 4: you get down into internships or events or jobs listings
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Speaker 4: and things of that nature, they may be specific to
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Speaker 4: like internships are for the undergrads. You want to go ahead,
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Speaker 4: and there could be different types of events that are
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Speaker 4: gonna be tailored to the collegiate community. So anything that
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Speaker 4: affects us, that's what's gonna be in the app. So
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Speaker 4: it's for everyone. We didn't just want to just make
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Speaker 4: it to the for the young folks. Because here's the
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Speaker 4: thing now again, we also this is money making conversation.
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Speaker 4: So of course I designed the app, so total motivation
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Speaker 4: was not money, but I do want to make some
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Speaker 4: money off of it. Young people they're gonna pay, but
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Speaker 4: maybe they won't. But we know that older people are
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Speaker 4: gonna have no problem paying. Right. Usually young folks may
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Speaker 4: have the ass commission, Hey can I pay a dollar?
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Speaker 4: So you know, I'm not saying they won't do it
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Speaker 4: because they pay for everything else. But you got to
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Speaker 4: open it up a little bit wider within that, within
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Speaker 4: that field of people so that you can make money,
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Speaker 4: so that you continue building out the app and making
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Speaker 4: it better.
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Speaker 3: Really, it's really about can we break down because when
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Speaker 3: you sit around thinking about the things that you're trying
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Speaker 3: to do with the app, because, like you said, originally
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Speaker 3: thought the dating side, no parents gonna pay for a
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Speaker 3: dating app for their Well, now you know the academic opportunities,
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Speaker 3: the job opportunities, then turn opportunities, internship opportunities. Parents will
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Speaker 3: look at that because that's all we're trying to do,
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Speaker 3: you know, all I try to do for my daughter
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Speaker 3: was giving her a leg up. And I feel when
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Speaker 3: you when the whole creation of this is that there
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Speaker 3: are bills to be paid. Let's got nobody can just
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Speaker 3: dumb an app. Okay, you can say what you want.
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Speaker 3: You know, they say social media is free, you know,
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Speaker 3: but then they still want you to boost ads and
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Speaker 3: boost posts, you know, to you know, to further your
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Speaker 3: reach within our world, you know. So they are They're
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Speaker 3: always gimmicks, and I shouldn't call them gimmicks. Is marketing strategy.
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Speaker 3: You can either come online here and I'm gonna let
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Speaker 3: you sign up for free, but if you really want
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Speaker 3: to reach people, go cost five dollars, maybe fifty dollars
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Speaker 3: and one hundred dollars if depends on how many people
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Speaker 3: you're trying to reach.
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Speaker 1: So everybody has a strategy.
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Speaker 3: Your strategy up front is that it allows you to
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Speaker 3: come on and and and meet these these relationships, whether
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Speaker 3: there are job opportunities or to internship opportunities. How did
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Speaker 3: you how did you find the internship or the job
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Speaker 3: opportunity that you are making available on your app?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, good question. So right now, everyone, it's a one
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Speaker 4: woman show over here at HBC Social.
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Speaker 1: You need Miam. You need myam Kimber, I am you.
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Speaker 4: I care And so the app just got dropped in October. Okay,
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Speaker 4: this is the labor of love for two years. And
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Speaker 4: as you mentioned earlier, you know after expensive and basically
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Speaker 4: I put in a lot of my sweat and tears
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Speaker 4: and my own money equity equity, and also had the
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Speaker 4: benefit and just the blessing of having someone who really
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Speaker 4: believed in me and gave me a lot of the
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Speaker 4: money to actually fund the app, might you know, get
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Speaker 4: the app done myself because I'm not a techie, so
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Speaker 4: I had to hire app development company to help build.
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Speaker 4: I came up with the concept and the idea, but
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Speaker 4: I don't know how to code and so, and I
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Speaker 4: wanted the app done to be the right way. So
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Speaker 4: going back to your question about where do I find
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Speaker 4: the job listens and internships and events. One, I'm very
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Speaker 4: well connected with different people in various industries. I also
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Speaker 4: get I have friends who helped me out send me
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Speaker 4: information from LinkedIn. I'm very active on social media, so
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Speaker 4: some of the different sites I see on Instagram and Facebook,
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Speaker 4: you know that I go get it. I'm also connected
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Speaker 4: with other partnerships with other organizations and I pull from
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Speaker 4: there or whatever. So I just try to find it
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Speaker 4: wherever I can until I'm in a position where I
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Speaker 4: can get some additional help. And so that's that's what
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Speaker 4: I do. I try to make sure I'm in tuned
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Speaker 4: to what is going on, the pulse of what's going
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Speaker 4: on and what internships are out there.
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Speaker 1: Cool.
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Speaker 3: When we come back, we're going to listen to how
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Speaker 3: we can help out Kimberly because she's raising our head
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Speaker 3: on Monday and Conversation master Class. It's about the community
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Speaker 3: and also people outside of HBC community community can also
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Speaker 3: help build out this app. You know, basically an HBCU
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Speaker 3: indeed basically what she's trying to offer from an employment standpoint,
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Speaker 3: be right back for more Money Making Conversation master Class.
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Speaker 5: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
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Speaker 5: with rough Shan McDonald.
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Speaker 1: Kimberly.
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Speaker 3: As we just letting everybody know the app really connects students, alumni, faculty,
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Speaker 3: Divine nine members, which I'm I'm a member of Megasi
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Speaker 3: five fraternity, so you connected me and supporters do a purpose,
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Speaker 3: purposeful and engaging mobile app. When you say engaging, what
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Speaker 3: does that mean when you said, I got purpose full,
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Speaker 3: But what does engaging mean?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So engaging is you have to keep it relevant
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Speaker 4: and interesting for people who want to stay in the app,
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Speaker 4: to share the apps who want to use it, and
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Speaker 4: right now, you have to do it in phases, right
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Speaker 4: because as we said earlier, you know it costs money
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Speaker 4: to build it on an app. So the first phase
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Speaker 4: was to get people in there to create their profile.
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Speaker 4: They create their profile, they can choose how what kind
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Speaker 4: of connection they want to have, if they want to friendship,
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Speaker 4: social networking, they want to professional engagement, they can put
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Speaker 4: that there as well. You put where you live. You know,
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Speaker 4: there's even a place for you to say if you're
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Speaker 4: just an HPC supporter, HBC supporter. So everybody can put
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Speaker 4: in what they're looking for and what basically describes them.
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Speaker 4: And in addition to that, you have a chat feature,
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Speaker 4: so you can chat with the people that you make
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Speaker 4: connections with. Even with the chat feature, you can filter,
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Speaker 4: Like let's say you have fifty friends and you're like, no, what,
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Speaker 4: I just want to know who all is going to
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Speaker 4: be in Indianapolis this weekend? Who's from Indianapolis? So I'll
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Speaker 4: filter everybody that's from Indianapolis. You can filter people that
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Speaker 4: you know and then so right now, that's the most
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Speaker 4: engaging part. People can engage with each other. And then
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Speaker 4: through having the different events and job listings and job postings,
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Speaker 4: you know, that's keeping it fresh for them. So I
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Speaker 4: try to make sure it's fresh. We are going to
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Speaker 4: be adding two different phases to that. So the next
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Speaker 4: phase is going to be very similar to what you
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Speaker 4: can do on Facebook. You're gonna be able to say,
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Speaker 4: you know, basically, what is how's your day or what
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Speaker 4: are you thinking. You're gonna be able to actually post something.
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Speaker 4: You're gonna be able to if you want to post
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Speaker 4: your own events or what's happening, so it's not just
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Speaker 4: me or my future staff. You can post an event
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Speaker 4: or something that you have going on as well, and
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Speaker 4: I'll prove it. You can post it inside the app,
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Speaker 4: you can add video and all of that. Additionally, we're
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Speaker 4: gonna be adding forms, so there might be some some
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Speaker 4: forms that are questions on our mind, like hey, what
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Speaker 4: did you guys think of the Super Bowl? Do you
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Speaker 4: like Usher's performance? You know, you can actually add forms,
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Speaker 4: So we're gonna make it to the point where it
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Speaker 4: is very I would say, similar to Facebook in terms
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Speaker 4: of being able to interact a lot more. But right
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Speaker 4: now it's just the first stage of getting a profile created.
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Speaker 4: You're gonna be able to look at all the different
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Speaker 4: people that are in there. You can request to be
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Speaker 4: friends and connect with them, you can filter, and you
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Speaker 4: can chat with them. And so that's how we got it.
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Speaker 4: We got to keep it first. That's why I'm continuously
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Speaker 4: trying to add different functionality quicker quickly so that it
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Speaker 4: can be exactly where I wanted to be.
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Speaker 3: Wow, I guess I got a quick text, you know,
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Speaker 3: or someone asked me, what is Divine nine. I'm a
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Speaker 3: member of megasci Fhi fraternity, and so are you a
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Speaker 3: remember ariority Kimberly.
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Speaker 4: Uh No, but my parents are okay cool.
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Speaker 3: Delta Sigma, Theta Alpha, Kappa Alpha, Omega Sci Fi CAPA Alpha, PSI,
18:20
Speaker 3: Alphai Alpha. Those are organizations black organizations that are a
18:24
Speaker 3: member of the Divine Divine nine. So I wanted to
18:27
Speaker 3: make sure. Sometimes we get to talking and just looped
18:30
Speaker 3: into our own conversation, and a lot of people enjoying
18:32
Speaker 3: the show don't know what we're talking about. So I
18:34
Speaker 3: wanted to take time to really you know, put the
18:36
Speaker 3: word out about you know, it's an organization. Omega sci
18:40
Speaker 3: Fi changed my life, you know, because of the fact
18:43
Speaker 3: it put me in a position. It gave me a
18:45
Speaker 3: group of young men that had the same similar thought
18:49
Speaker 3: and focused me. And I was wandering around in college
18:52
Speaker 3: and I four and a half years I didn't. I
18:55
Speaker 3: graduated in seventy years. So four and a half years
18:58
Speaker 3: I was wandering around. I pledged in two and a
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Speaker 3: half years. I graduated because I got focused. So I
19:03
Speaker 3: look at these things that you're bringing people in that
19:05
Speaker 3: can help people become focused and help people see the
19:08
Speaker 3: light in this case socially, academically and professionally. That's important.
19:15
Speaker 3: But what I noted the most is this is a
19:17
Speaker 3: pretty complicated app that you are developing. How did you
19:21
Speaker 3: start with the idea? And a lot of people had
19:24
Speaker 3: to tell you, girl, you've lost your mind.
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Speaker 4: Oh man, listen. A lot of people were like, well,
19:30
Speaker 4: first I thought I lost my mind. I was like,
19:33
Speaker 4: first of all, how much is it going to cost?
19:35
Speaker 4: I don't have fifty thousand dollars to start a to
19:38
Speaker 4: have Where am I get that from? But it was
19:42
Speaker 4: for me. I am very spiritual and I have a
19:46
Speaker 4: very great relationship with God, and God gave me that
19:49
Speaker 4: idea and he was like, girl, you have been wanting
19:51
Speaker 4: to I'm very entrepreneurial spirit. I've had a podcast, a
19:55
Speaker 4: video podcast, I have my own show, I've written two books.
19:58
Speaker 4: Like so, I'm always trying to up with something and
20:01
Speaker 4: so I wanted to come up with something that really
20:03
Speaker 4: tackled an issue that can make money in my sleep.
20:06
Speaker 4: And so when this idea came about through the conversation,
20:09
Speaker 4: I was like, forget it. I can't do this, and
20:12
Speaker 4: God was like, what are you talking about, Yes you can,
20:15
Speaker 4: And so immediately I did benchmarking. I did research. So
20:18
Speaker 4: I looked at Facebook, I looked at dating apps because
20:20
Speaker 4: I kind of wanted that swipe feature, but not really
20:23
Speaker 4: a swhite feature. We had like a skipped feature, a
20:26
Speaker 4: slight feature. So I looked at the different apps that
20:28
Speaker 4: were very similar to what I wanted to do and
20:30
Speaker 4: kind of said, okay, if LinkedIn Facebook, Instagram, Twitter all
20:36
Speaker 4: came together, what would it look like? And so that's
20:39
Speaker 4: what I came up with. So I came up with
20:41
Speaker 4: a pitch to the app development team and they really
20:45
Speaker 4: loved it. One of the reasons why they loved the
20:47
Speaker 4: idea because they said, it's not just like a dating app,
20:49
Speaker 4: it's more to it than that. And so from there,
20:52
Speaker 4: I just kept kept coming up with ideas and how
20:54
Speaker 4: I wanted it to be designed, and they made it happen.
20:58
Speaker 4: And yeah, it took it took some money, but I'm
21:02
Speaker 4: very glad that I took the risk. And the other
21:05
Speaker 4: thing is, you know, this is money making conversations. You
21:08
Speaker 4: got to give yourself time and give yourself grace. It's
21:11
Speaker 4: not going to happen overnight. The other thing is the
21:13
Speaker 4: adoption rate might be slow at first because people aren't sure,
21:16
Speaker 4: like I don't know. And when it first launched, Oh,
21:19
Speaker 4: we had some glitches, which is technology, right, and you
21:23
Speaker 4: have to work through the glitches. I mean, because I
21:25
Speaker 4: didn't have a support team, I have to handle like, hey,
21:27
Speaker 4: well let me call you, let me show you how
21:28
Speaker 4: to work this. Okay, you know, I'm handling all of that.
21:32
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, we got all
21:34
Speaker 4: the glitches done and so now we're on the next
21:36
Speaker 4: level and we just want to keep making it better
21:38
Speaker 4: because again there's somebody else out there that's probably on
21:42
Speaker 4: my tail, like, okay, I can do it, and I
21:44
Speaker 4: can do it even better, and that's time because there's
21:46
Speaker 4: enough out there for everyone. You have McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger Kam,
21:49
Speaker 4: they all got hamburgers, but everybody's different, so there's enough
21:52
Speaker 4: out there. So that's why you have to stay on
21:54
Speaker 4: top of things, and you have to be fresh, and
21:56
Speaker 4: you have to ask them, Okay, what else do you
21:58
Speaker 4: want to see in this app? And that's why I
22:01
Speaker 4: asked those questions, and that's why I'm making some additional
22:03
Speaker 4: functionality improvements.
22:05
Speaker 1: Cool, you know?
22:05
Speaker 3: Okay, Now you have Android that's the number one platform
22:08
Speaker 3: out there, and then you have an Apple or is
22:10
Speaker 3: the Apple available on those platforms?
22:14
Speaker 4: Yes? It is.
22:16
Speaker 3: Now what did it get? Did you put it on
22:18
Speaker 3: Apple first or Android first? Or you launched them simultaneously?
22:21
Speaker 4: They did it simultaneously.
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Speaker 1: Awesome?
22:24
Speaker 3: Now now, and the whole process of that, what was
22:27
Speaker 3: the one glitch that really made you mad that you said,
22:30
Speaker 3: why does this keep messing up? That you eventually got fixed,
22:34
Speaker 3: of course, but you didn't see it happening because when
22:37
Speaker 3: you lay out these great plans, you know, you think
22:39
Speaker 3: they're just going to happen correctly, but you overcame. Because
22:42
Speaker 3: I want people to hear these things. Not not be
22:44
Speaker 3: frustrated by the process. Not let a glitch or something
22:48
Speaker 3: that didn't go according to plan to run you down
22:51
Speaker 3: the lane.
22:51
Speaker 1: I quit.
22:52
Speaker 3: This is not ever going to work because I know
22:54
Speaker 3: you had those moments, you know, and who do you
22:56
Speaker 3: turn to when you have those moments?
22:58
Speaker 4: Kimberly, So I would say, there are a couple of
23:02
Speaker 4: glitches that were frustrating. The biggest one was the filtering option,
23:05
Speaker 4: because that was one of the main things with it
23:08
Speaker 4: was filtering. Like I would filter and I wouldn't get
23:10
Speaker 4: back what I filtered. I didn't understand it. And so
23:13
Speaker 4: luckily the app company actually is in Atlanta, So like
23:17
Speaker 4: I would write down all of the different glitches that
23:20
Speaker 4: I would found, I would do research, I would try
23:22
Speaker 4: to figure out, and then I would go into the
23:24
Speaker 4: office and sit down with the actual developers and we
23:27
Speaker 4: would go through step by step and we'd work it out.
23:30
Speaker 4: And so yeah, as there were times where I'm like
23:32
Speaker 4: I paid this amount of money, like this should be working,
23:34
Speaker 4: Like I don't understand, like you've had you know, but
23:37
Speaker 4: you can't get mad because it's technology, and it's new
23:40
Speaker 4: technology and so meaning new technology to the system. So
23:44
Speaker 4: you have to give it time, but you got to
23:46
Speaker 4: stay on it. They there really were, you know, really
23:49
Speaker 4: kind of like impressed with me, because they're like, do
23:50
Speaker 4: you know how mean people like that we've built apps
23:52
Speaker 4: for that don't come in and sit down with us,
23:55
Speaker 4: or either they just let like a whole year go
23:57
Speaker 4: by and they don't make any updates. They don't even
24:00
Speaker 4: think about it. And I'm like, well, that's not gonna
24:02
Speaker 4: be me because I put my blood, sweat and tears
24:04
Speaker 4: in this and money, and so I'm gonna see it through.
24:07
Speaker 4: And so when I would get frustrated, I remember calling
24:11
Speaker 4: my mom like I just don't understand what's happening, you know,
24:14
Speaker 4: and she was like, tell me about different inventors and
24:17
Speaker 4: people that it didn't take. You know, it took more
24:19
Speaker 4: than one time for things to happen. You have to
24:21
Speaker 4: give it time. And really this just helps me tell
24:24
Speaker 4: the story. It's part of my testimony. And so you know,
24:27
Speaker 4: I know that God gave me this, and I know
24:29
Speaker 4: he didn't say, Okay, I'm gonna give you this and
24:32
Speaker 4: it's gonna be smooth sailing. He gave it to me.
24:35
Speaker 4: But everything's worked the way it's supposed to work, but
24:37
Speaker 4: it hasn't always been smooth, but it doesn't mean it's
24:39
Speaker 4: not gonna work. Like right now, I think my first
24:42
Speaker 4: payment because when you go into the app, it's only
24:45
Speaker 4: it's free for thirty days, and then it's a dollar
24:47
Speaker 4: ninety nine every month, and then of course when you
24:50
Speaker 4: get paid, it's like a month behind. So I here,
24:53
Speaker 4: I got my first payment of like ten dollars the
24:56
Speaker 4: other day, and I started laughing, but I also was like,
24:59
Speaker 4: you know what, that's okay because today it's ten dollars.
25:02
Speaker 4: Tomorrow it's gonna be you know, one hundred, and it's
25:04
Speaker 4: gonna be one thousand, it's gonna be ten thousand, and
25:07
Speaker 4: so you just have to laugh at that, but also
25:09
Speaker 4: understand that it's coming right, and if it wasn't supposed
25:12
Speaker 4: to happen, it wouldn't happen.
25:13
Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate the honesty because a lot of people
25:16
Speaker 3: don't understand that. You know, people start businesses and they
25:18
Speaker 3: think that I'm opening this doughnut shop and they think
25:21
Speaker 3: there's going to be a line of people out the door,
25:23
Speaker 3: and it's not always the case. I remember when I
25:25
Speaker 3: opened my comedy club. I opened it and it was
25:27
Speaker 3: like fifteen people in the audience.
25:29
Speaker 1: And I had to.
25:30
Speaker 3: I had to, and I rank commercials on the radio.
25:33
Speaker 3: I put out flyers, drop all the local barbershops, fifteen
25:36
Speaker 3: people on opening night. And then I realized that this
25:39
Speaker 3: is a process, a marketing process. I gotta stay at it,
25:42
Speaker 3: I gotta believe it. And I started creating different plans
25:46
Speaker 3: of action, and I started creating specialty nights.
25:49
Speaker 1: I'm just talking about. That's what I had to do.
25:51
Speaker 1: You know.
25:51
Speaker 3: I started creating an amateur night on Thursday, which became
25:53
Speaker 3: the most popular night in my comedy club. And so
25:56
Speaker 3: when I let when I allow individuals like you, Kimber
26:00
Speaker 3: to come on my show and honestly talk to people.
26:02
Speaker 3: You know, we all want to be millionaires, we all
26:05
Speaker 3: want to be Elon Musk. But Elon Musk had some
26:08
Speaker 3: rough times getting started too. That electric car didn't just
26:11
Speaker 3: jump off the page. There was States didn't want his
26:13
Speaker 3: electric cars. They want Texas name one of them. See,
26:16
Speaker 3: they're never have an electric car in the state of Texas.
26:19
Speaker 3: Now they got more electric cars than anybody. Because of
26:22
Speaker 3: the fact that times change, and so times changing people
26:26
Speaker 3: people will have to deal with the changes, and so
26:29
Speaker 3: you're dealing with a community now, and we're talking about
26:31
Speaker 3: HPCU community and tapping into the mobility the apps that
26:37
Speaker 3: are popular and people could click of a button.
26:40
Speaker 1: You can just tap into the HPCU community. That's awesome.
26:43
Speaker 4: Yes, thank you, thank you.
26:47
Speaker 1: Cool kimber Las. We to wrap up the call.
26:49
Speaker 3: Anyway we can reach you or any other than going
26:53
Speaker 3: to the Android and the Apple formats.
26:55
Speaker 1: We're good.
26:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can go to I have a website, it's
26:59
Speaker 4: hpcsocial dot Next. You can also follow me on Instagram,
27:04
Speaker 4: the real HBC Social and then you can also follow
27:07
Speaker 4: me on Instagram. I think Kim Kimberly Kiss or Kim
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Speaker 4: kim be Kiss, but really go to the real.
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Speaker 3: You're about to confuse me. You're about to confuse me
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Speaker 3: HPCU Social mobile app Kimberly Kissinger. Hey, thank you for
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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me.
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