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Rushion Interviews Cassandra Cummings Stock & Stilettos Society Founder | Senior Pastor Dr. Jamal Bryant! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: says it has always prevailed against the odds. Rising from
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Speaker 1: g E. D the PhD. He's a community organizer. Dr
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Speaker 1: Jamal Harrison Bryant. He combines sound biblical teaching, business acumen,
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Speaker 1: and political insight to propel the Body of Christ to
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Speaker 1: action and graded levels of faith. He's the senior pastor
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Speaker 1: of New Birth Missionary Baptis Church. A graduate of Morehouse
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Speaker 1: College and of Duke University, his leadership efforts have always
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Speaker 1: begun to strengthen the multigeneration of bond among members, expand
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Speaker 1: community outreach, cultivate families, and expand the church's cultural significance.
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Speaker 1: the very first time and hopefully not the last. Dr
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Speaker 1: Jamal Harrison Bryan, how are you doing, sir? Doing wonderfully well? Brother,
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Speaker 1: good to hear your voice and to see your face
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Speaker 1: well great, the same thing there, you know, when I
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Speaker 1: see your face board and you see my that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: On TV, I'd say, uh, you know it. There was
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Speaker 1: a time when they when they when they when your
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Speaker 1: church reopened and members were allowed back into the church.
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Speaker 1: I saw you on every channel and that was in
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Speaker 1: this and there was a blessing because of the fact
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Speaker 1: that you know the journey it started in talk about
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Speaker 1: and some of the trials and you have to say
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Speaker 1: that you went through to overcome and question your faith people.
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Speaker 1: You have to deal with the health. The black community
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Speaker 1: was affected the worst or people a brown skin tone.
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Speaker 1: So talk about that now and the reopening the church.
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Speaker 1: It was COVID was the best thing I think that
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Speaker 1: ever happened to the church because it made us move
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Speaker 1: outside of the four walls. Have you studied the life
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Speaker 1: of Jesus, of what he did was outside of the church,
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Speaker 1: but the contemporary model nine percent of what churches do
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Speaker 1: is inside. Uh. And so we had to reexamine what
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Speaker 1: does church means the four walls? Is it a steeples,
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Speaker 1: the state glass windows, is it a ham in organ
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Speaker 1: or is its service to the community. And so as
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Speaker 1: a consequence, the church never closed the building dead. And
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Speaker 1: so since today, Rashan, you ought to know that we
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Speaker 1: fed over eight hundred thousand people confronting food insecurity. UH,
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Speaker 1: in the midst of the pandemic. We were able to
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Speaker 1: give disaster relief to people in Mississippi, Louisiana and to
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Speaker 1: Texas in the midst of the pandemic. Since two thousand
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Speaker 1: and twenty, over three thousand people joined our church online,
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Speaker 1: never getting the right hand of fellowship. What's interesting to
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Speaker 1: know is that culture changes every four years, but Black
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Speaker 1: church culture changes every twenty. So the average church is
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Speaker 1: fifteen years behind schedule. So a lot of churches didn't
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Speaker 1: make it. Why because they were not technologically savvy. They
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Speaker 1: didn't know how to do online giving, and they didn't
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Speaker 1: know how to have a hybrid approach of being high
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Speaker 1: tech and high touch. We mastered all of those to
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Speaker 1: the grace of God and was able to excel. When
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Speaker 1: that's it's really good that you're saying that, because as
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Speaker 1: an African American community, we always you know, we got
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Speaker 1: we got the cell phone? Or do we understand the technology?
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Speaker 1: You know, as a person who has been in radio
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Speaker 1: and TV and you know all the big giants or
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Speaker 1: whether it's uh, Apple, Google, they never look at the
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Speaker 1: African American community for technical forward thoughts, for for academic
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Speaker 1: excellence or for employment. What role is the church playing
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Speaker 1: in that? As for under your leadership, I'm not trying
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Speaker 1: to expect you to speak for every church, but I
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Speaker 1: know your leadership. What role are you planning to advance
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Speaker 1: the narrative of African Americans with technology. So we started
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Speaker 1: last summer doing something a little bit cutting edge. We
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Speaker 1: canceled vacation babble school and started doing code in class. Uh,
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Speaker 1: so that our young people will be able to have
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Speaker 1: us some competitive foot in a global market and trade,
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Speaker 1: because you very well know most about inner city public
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Speaker 1: schools don't offer such And I think that part of
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Speaker 1: the responsibility of the church is to not just advanced
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Speaker 1: consumer reism, but to make sure that we are producers
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Speaker 1: as well, which is really really important now. You know,
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Speaker 1: when they set this question over to me, and I
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Speaker 1: want to ask you said when you arrived at new Birth,
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Speaker 1: you walked into a massive death if something I didn't
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Speaker 1: knowing it about. You know, because we look at the church.
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Speaker 1: You know, you know people you have, you have you
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Speaker 1: people who join the church, they donate and then then
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Speaker 1: you but you walk into a debt situation. How did
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Speaker 1: you manage to reduce the debt so quickly? Because was
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Speaker 1: it through corporate donations, with it through the members of
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Speaker 1: the church? And what plan did you put in place
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Speaker 1: so it won't happen again? We have to understand. I
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Speaker 1: came a little after two and a half years after
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Speaker 1: Bishop wrong, Yes, sir uh. And so they went through
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Speaker 1: a deep membership in a ten dense in participation and
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Speaker 1: in leadership UH. And so as a consequence, I one
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Speaker 1: let me say we got no corporate donations, is that
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Speaker 1: our modeled stewardship UH and increased the volume of trust
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Speaker 1: that they are to have in the church and made
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Speaker 1: sure that church was not just a Sunday morning experience
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Speaker 1: but a Monday through Saturday Saturday interaction. And so it's
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Speaker 1: a consequence begin to do aggressive saving UH, investing UH
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Speaker 1: and aggressive in UH. A debt reduction almost doubling up
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Speaker 1: with our mortgage payment was in order to get that
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Speaker 1: done and then refinanced to take it out of the
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Speaker 1: hands of an evangelical bank UH and do business with
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Speaker 1: a black bank right here in Atlanta. Citizens. Trust what
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Speaker 1: that we learned over the last I would tell you
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Speaker 1: I've been an entrepreneur and publicly, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: I was always comfortable with letting people know I was
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Speaker 1: a black owner. Since George Floyd, you know, Google has
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Speaker 1: even made a request if you're black owners so they
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Speaker 1: can put that in their directory. So with that transition
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Speaker 1: and then they opening up new Black Wall Street. It's
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Speaker 1: really is you know you're you're at the forefront of it.
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Speaker 1: You know you're you're you're talking to people with their
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Speaker 1: struggles they uplift. How do you look at the new
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Speaker 1: Black Wall Street and how does the church play that role?
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Speaker 1: And beyond the church the success stories that you're trying
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Speaker 1: to put out there, I think the deficit of the
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Speaker 1: Black Church in large measure it's when the Black Church,
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Speaker 1: and I'm speaking in generality speaking speaks about economics. We
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Speaker 1: only do it in terms of asking people for their time, right,
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Speaker 1: asking for ten percent, but never show people how to
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Speaker 1: multiply the nightey and I think part of the councel
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Speaker 1: of my responsibility is pastor UH is to talk about
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Speaker 1: how do we manage our revenue. Dr King said before
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Speaker 1: his demise that African Americans spend the powers made us
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Speaker 1: the fourteenth wealthiest nation in the world at this point,
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Speaker 1: where the eleventh wealthiest nation in the world, but we're
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Speaker 1: not doing anything about it. In the Asian community here
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Speaker 1: in America, UH, their dollars circulates twenty three times before
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Speaker 1: it leaves their hands. In the Jewish community, seventeen times
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Speaker 1: before it leaves their hands in the Caucasian community twelve
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Speaker 1: times before it leaves their hands. In the Black community,
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Speaker 1: our check is cash just thirty minutes before we hand
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Speaker 1: it over to somebody else. And so when we talk
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Speaker 1: about economic development, it's got to be not just a campaign,
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Speaker 1: but a mind fright. And so to celebrate June tenth,
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Speaker 1: I am challenging the community to open up one thousand
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Speaker 1: accounts as Citizens Trust Bank. Eight six percent of people
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Speaker 1: in our community don't own a diamond stock. So on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: I'm challenging our community and bringing in black brokerage firms
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Speaker 1: for African Americans to alieve in inheritance and to know
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Speaker 1: how to do investment. If we just have checking accounts,
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Speaker 1: the banks don't look at us. To your original question
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Speaker 1: about Black Wall Street, it was the brainchild of Mr
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Speaker 1: Bill Allen, and he told me about it, and I
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Speaker 1: told him there's no way it will succeed if the
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Speaker 1: Black church is not interloped in the idea. So I
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Speaker 1: came and walked alongside him, made an agreement with them
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Speaker 1: that of the one hundred businesses that are in Black
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Speaker 1: Wall Street, ten percent of them have got to be
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Speaker 1: business owners that come out of new birth. To make
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Speaker 1: sure that we are really championing the call my conviction,
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Speaker 1: brother McDonald's. If I have ten thousand members, why are
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Speaker 1: you struggling to sell your book? How come you don't
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Speaker 1: have any clients because they're right there in the church.
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Speaker 1: We've got to develop our the ecosystem in order to
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Speaker 1: thrust us to that model. Well, you know, but that's
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Speaker 1: first one of the main reasons why I'm unfortunate on
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Speaker 1: w c OK to do money Making Conversation master Class.
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Speaker 1: It's boy promoting dreamers, especially in the entrepreneurship and small
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Speaker 1: business of the lane. Now when I look at you,
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Speaker 1: your more house grad. HBCUs have been at the forefront
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Speaker 1: of academic excellence forever, but only recently because of massive
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Speaker 1: donations by individuals in the corporate world. Lead. Uh, how
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Speaker 1: is that? Does that make you feel good? Dr Bryant?
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Speaker 1: Or it makes you disappoint you that there's nothing there's
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Speaker 1: ever been wrong with HBCUs. We just hadn't been recognized
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Speaker 1: and given our due. I think um that we in
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Speaker 1: the HBC all but have understood our value without mainline accepted. Right,
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Speaker 1: HBC US graduate more black doctor, more lawyers, more doctor degrees. Uh,
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Speaker 1: they're no predominantly white institutions with minimal support and financial backing.
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Speaker 1: Is all inspiring. Now that we have it, the sky
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Speaker 1: is the limit and people now walk on the motor
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Speaker 1: And so I think that this is really just putting
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Speaker 1: us in a greater place where I help y'all out
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Speaker 1: with those status that here is the top of my mind.
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Speaker 1: Fit percent of the black school teachers come from HBCUs,
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Speaker 1: A percent of the medical doctors and dentists come from HBCUs.
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Speaker 1: S of the judges and lawyers comes from HBCUs. Of
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Speaker 1: the Black members of conference comes from HBCUs. Of the
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Speaker 1: STEM graduates come from HBCUs. North Carolina A and T
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Speaker 1: graduates more Black engineers than any engineering program in the country. Also,
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Speaker 1: there are more generals in the army outside of West
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Speaker 1: Point who are black, from Carming, from South Carolina State.
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Speaker 1: Those are the stat that I that need to be
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Speaker 1: out there, that I that I I need all of
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Speaker 1: that all we'll see, We'll see. That's what that's that's
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Speaker 1: why we do this show, Dr Brian, because it's about information.
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Speaker 1: It's about information from a lack of knowledge. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: and that and that that you know and the knowledge
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Speaker 1: is you know, it is preaching. Now I can do
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Speaker 1: this show. I could do a pre recorded show and
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Speaker 1: and just go all by my business. But I've turned
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Speaker 1: this show into a show where people can call in
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Speaker 1: and then get somebody and your local giant to have
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Speaker 1: you come on my show. It's part of the building
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Speaker 1: of the brand, you know, to have the new Black
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Speaker 1: Wall Street, those archreneers need to know they have a
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Speaker 1: vocal home right here where they can come and share
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Speaker 1: their dreams and expand their brands. So, general relationship, what
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Speaker 1: do you feel a black community that needs to understand
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Speaker 1: about money? You talked about the stock market, because now
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Speaker 1: I would tell anybody who's listening, when the stock market
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Speaker 1: is down, that's when you want to buy. You want
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Speaker 1: to buy when it's a bear. You don't want to
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Speaker 1: buy when it's a bull. And so if you you're
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Speaker 1: talking about bringing in that type of money, but that's
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Speaker 1: a different type of money. But you had an incredible
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Speaker 1: stat about how money doesn't stand the black community's hands.
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Speaker 1: So what do we really need to understand Because if
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Speaker 1: you're gonna talk about money, you got to talk about credit,
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Speaker 1: and credit and money tends to be a separate conversation
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Speaker 1: in the black household. I often uh use this example
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Speaker 1: uh that I know by mcdowald, you can run across
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Speaker 1: the fifty yard line with that is. Black people are
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Speaker 1: the only people in the world who have a house.
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Speaker 1: Want a party for an apartment? Right, we don't really
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Speaker 1: talk about homeownership. My father put to my sister and
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Speaker 1: I want a plan when we got out of college,
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Speaker 1: which was the ten ten eighty which I still modeled
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Speaker 1: to this day, which is saved temper cent tive temper
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Speaker 1: cent live off for eight uh. And it has really
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Speaker 1: helped us when you realize that the average African American
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Speaker 1: lives at a hundred and ten percent of that income
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Speaker 1: that were in debt trying to keep up with the
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Speaker 1: jokes is the credit card that is through the roof.
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Speaker 1: We can have a whole different show about the swamp
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Speaker 1: known as student loans. Uh. And so there's a whole
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Speaker 1: lot of financial literacy that is so needed and necessary
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Speaker 1: for us to be able to throve and get our footing.
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Speaker 1: It sounds good at this level, but there are those
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Speaker 1: who have the trenches who really don't have a basic
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Speaker 1: understanding what you're talking about. A bull in the bay,
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Speaker 1: they got no idea that we are not in the
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Speaker 1: conversation about inflation and about how that's going to impact
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Speaker 1: every area of our lives. But now it's a part
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Speaker 1: apostle responsibility of the church to impart that knowledge and
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Speaker 1: to share their wisdom. You know, it's really interesting when
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Speaker 1: I hear you talk from here that financial literature. That's
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Speaker 1: such a big words. It means so much. And sometimes
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Speaker 1: you can lets people they walk in the room and
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Speaker 1: they walk out really didn't gain anything from the conversation.
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Speaker 1: How can I help you know what the mission that
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Speaker 1: you're putting in place in this city this is. You know,
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Speaker 1: I have a certain skill set. I have a have
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Speaker 1: a show to be able to move forward the narrative.
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Speaker 1: But it's about job. It's about economic development, It's about
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Speaker 1: money and getting the right jobs in place. How can
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Speaker 1: a person like ru Shan McDonald my show can help
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Speaker 1: the cause and move the needle? Cry loud and spare
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Speaker 1: not you you're doing the dog on thing. We're so
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Speaker 1: much about focus is on the entertainment and not on enlightenment. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And so what you're doing just in this conversation is
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Speaker 1: a revolutionary act inne to itself. We like to think,
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Speaker 1: we like to dance we'd like to drive the ball.
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Speaker 1: We don't like to sit down. The average African American
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Speaker 1: post high school does not read nonfiction book from cover
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Speaker 1: to cover. Uh. And so you are doing through this podcast,
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Speaker 1: this is an audio book. You are giving information that
16:11
Speaker 1: they are not getting out of closed libraries or Google. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And so I'm just appreciative how you staying on the
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Speaker 1: back card. We'll be right back with more Money Making
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Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return to Money
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Speaker 1: Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. You said some great
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Speaker 1: things are still I'm telling anybody my numbers available, my
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Speaker 1: email address is available, this show is available. They got
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Speaker 1: the people are young entrepreneurs down at New Black Wall Street.
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Speaker 1: Let them know they can contact w C. Okay reach
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Speaker 1: out to me. Because of the fact if if you,
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Speaker 1: if your business don't have an avenue for people to
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Speaker 1: know about it, then it leads to frustration, It leads
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Speaker 1: to you, It leads you becoming the victim of saying
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Speaker 1: your dream is an impossible ask. And my whole thing
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Speaker 1: in my whole life, like I said, I'm one of
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Speaker 1: those guys too, from the from nothing to something. You know,
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Speaker 1: you know the two bedrooms, shotgun house, six sisters, two brothers.
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Speaker 1: My father had the third grade education, truck driver. My
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Speaker 1: mama graduated my high school. And so I know what
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Speaker 1: you have to do, and you have to follow dreams,
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Speaker 1: but also you have to have mentors and people believe
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Speaker 1: in you that role. I think that's what you're planning
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Speaker 1: as a church leader, correct, I'm endeavoring to do that.
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Speaker 1: I think that we've got to one dissolved the old
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Speaker 1: school notion that the pastor knows everything. Is that we've
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Speaker 1: got to have circular leadership and not singular leadership. And
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Speaker 1: you need people who can educate us not just on finances,
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Speaker 1: who can educate us on the law, who can help
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Speaker 1: us in Civics class, who can help us in this
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Speaker 1: whole right to vote quest. Where is the black community's
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Speaker 1: voice on road versus way? Where are we in terms
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Speaker 1: of gentrification, where are we with the underfunding of public education?
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Speaker 1: All of those things. We've got to bring all the
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Speaker 1: different seats to de table. And when you bring that
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Speaker 1: to the table, that's all about the horizons and the
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Speaker 1: new direct direction of new birth that you brought. Now,
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Speaker 1: what is the future of new birth and what is
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Speaker 1: what's the ultimate goals. If you advanced me that two
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Speaker 1: years ago, I rattled it off with a boozy and
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Speaker 1: a silence. But I think that the church, quite frankically,
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Speaker 1: is in pubic our voices, changing our skin has uh
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Speaker 1: actnate uh in the words of the old people, we
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Speaker 1: started to smell like outside. You're gonna have to ask
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Speaker 1: me that probably in another nine months, when the dust
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Speaker 1: settles and we're able to see what does church look like.
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Speaker 1: I'm doing something my grandparents would have died over July
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Speaker 1: in August. I'm only doing in person church on first
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Speaker 1: and third Sunday and completely virtual second in the forth
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Speaker 1: right because our numbers really shot up in the pandemic.
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Speaker 1: So I gotta see is it really worth it to
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Speaker 1: turn the lights on us the impacted different So I'm
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Speaker 1: trying out a model that I've not seen in a
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Speaker 1: black or white church. Uh So, pray for a brother?
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Speaker 1: Uh so? And nine months asked me again, And I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you, dr a lot of people praying for you,
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Speaker 1: a lot of people praying for you. But I will
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Speaker 1: get in live to help pray for you. Uh. You know.
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Speaker 1: The thing about it is that it's about charisma, is
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Speaker 1: about having a direction, being focused because the church is
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Speaker 1: always the basis. You know, you know, black people got faith,
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Speaker 1: black people believe. Black people also can be misled. When
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Speaker 1: I say that, not a negative way, because it's about
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Speaker 1: the information. If you know the right information, you misled.
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Speaker 1: And that's what we talk about economics, we talk about literacy.
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Speaker 1: You know, you know it's a joke in the black
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Speaker 1: community about putting their child's name on the light bill,
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Speaker 1: and that's not a joke. That's real, and then their
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Speaker 1: child's life is ruined and so. But but talk about
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Speaker 1: your journey and not in much detail or small detail
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Speaker 1: about you know where you come from to this point.
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Speaker 1: And also the fact that you know your your your
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Speaker 1: history in the church is not something you started as
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Speaker 1: part of a family's journey, if you can. I am
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Speaker 1: originally from Boston, Massachusetts. I was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. UM.
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Speaker 1: I failed the eleventh grade. After I failed the eleventh grade, McDonald,
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Speaker 1: my parents sent me to live in Monrovia, Liberia, West
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Speaker 1: Africa for a year. UH for listeners who do not know,
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Speaker 1: Liberria is the only country in Africa that was formed
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Speaker 1: by former slaves UH. And so I lived there for
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Speaker 1: a year I came back got a G E d
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Speaker 1: UH and I'm the first person to go to more
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Speaker 1: House with a G E D. I graduated from more
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Speaker 1: House Political Science and International Studies and UH in tradition
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Speaker 1: of HBCUs. A month before graduation, I was alerted that
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Speaker 1: I didn't have enough classes. As an International Studies major,
21:14
Speaker 1: I needed to be proficient in the language. I wasn't
21:17
Speaker 1: proficient in a language. The only option was to do
21:21
Speaker 1: study abroad. I went through the list I saw to
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Speaker 1: do study abroad. The only country I could go to
21:27
Speaker 1: with no language requirement for South Africa. I go to
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Speaker 1: South Africa. By the luck of the draw, God's grace. UH.
21:35
Speaker 1: It is the year of the elections and I become
21:38
Speaker 1: Nelson Mandel as youth intern while living there in South Africa.
21:43
Speaker 1: Come back, I go to Duke University. And Duke University
21:49
Speaker 1: significant for me. I went there for a master's degree,
21:53
Speaker 1: but many years before I went to do my grandfather
21:56
Speaker 1: was a chef at Duke University when they didn't let
21:59
Speaker 1: black students there. While a student at Duke University, Q
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Speaker 1: C and full may tamped me to be National Youth
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Speaker 1: in college directed to nup A CP and I boast
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Speaker 1: the record of being the youngest youth directed the nuble
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Speaker 1: a CP I've had at that time. I came out
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Speaker 1: of the N double a CP. Uh Rashana, you're not
22:21
Speaker 1: gonna leave my story. We had our national convention in Charlotte,
22:29
Speaker 1: North Carolina, and uh quite see in full May has
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Speaker 1: laryngitis and asked me to give the national address to
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Speaker 1: the nuble a CP twenty eight years old. The next day,
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Speaker 1: I'm on the cover of USA today. I get off
22:44
Speaker 1: of the stage from giving that address and I met
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Speaker 1: at the bottom of the stage, out of one and
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Speaker 1: only did Gregory. Gregory grabs me by my collar, throws
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Speaker 1: me up against wall. It says to me, young man,
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Speaker 1: you're out of order. That ain't word he used. He
23:04
Speaker 1: used another word. Uh know what he's said. Word. You
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Speaker 1: are out of order, he said. When I was growing
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Speaker 1: up black people, when they were in trouble, We'll call
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Speaker 1: on Jesus and the N double a CP. He said.
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Speaker 1: You're a part of a generation that doesn't believe in either.
23:25
Speaker 1: You're supposed to be a pastor by the McDonald Long
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Speaker 1: story short. I walked out of there and six months
23:31
Speaker 1: later I started my church in Baltimore, forty three members
23:37
Speaker 1: to ten fouls, and three years ago God redirected my
23:43
Speaker 1: path to leave the church started to come here to
23:47
Speaker 1: Atlanta the pastor the Great New Birth Missionary Baptist Church.
23:51
Speaker 1: That's my story and Ant you we know that the
23:54
Speaker 1: beauty of that story, and I want Black people to
23:56
Speaker 1: hear it. I want people to hear this in general,
23:59
Speaker 1: is that you can't you can't achieve success by yourself.
24:02
Speaker 1: That's the number one thing you get away from this store.
24:05
Speaker 1: And then people have to see something in you and
24:07
Speaker 1: I give up on you. That's also in this store.
24:09
Speaker 1: And when when? And so that's that's started with the parents.
24:12
Speaker 1: Parents didn't give up on him. He failed, but they
24:15
Speaker 1: didn't see failure. And then he accepted the challenge and
24:18
Speaker 1: rolls beyond it and and everywhere he went, somebody stepped
24:22
Speaker 1: in and moved him forward. Now, when those happens, when
24:26
Speaker 1: those moments happen, and you can correct me, Dr Bryant,
24:28
Speaker 1: and I think I'm on the same page with you.
24:31
Speaker 1: They pushed him to be unknown, and that's where a
24:34
Speaker 1: lot of people stop when they don't know what's happening.
24:37
Speaker 1: Fear drops in and they stopped moving forward. And that
24:41
Speaker 1: is what's holding back our community because we want to
24:44
Speaker 1: know what's happening, and you don't always know what's happening
24:47
Speaker 1: when you're trying to achieve success. The success is tied
24:50
Speaker 1: to overcome the unknown and overcoming fear at my correct Sir,
24:55
Speaker 1: I don't know you more than correct and UH, everybody
24:59
Speaker 1: has a test of on me. Uh. Let's Brown often says, UH,
25:03
Speaker 1: your revenue is in your reflection. What is that you're
25:08
Speaker 1: able excuse me, what you're able to share, what you're
25:11
Speaker 1: able to disclose? I'm so sorry, and what it is
25:16
Speaker 1: that you have learned from? Uh? And so I'm grateful,
25:19
Speaker 1: So I UH as a consequence of my own journey.
25:23
Speaker 1: Like many churches, we give our scholarships, but I am
25:27
Speaker 1: intentional not just give scholarships to those who graduate topic
25:30
Speaker 1: to class, but those also who graduated bottom of the barrel. UH,
25:35
Speaker 1: that they also need an opportunity and need a chance.
25:38
Speaker 1: And that's beauty in the progress of HBCUs again, who
25:42
Speaker 1: gave students who were not outstand that UH an opportunity
25:47
Speaker 1: to thrive and shine uh in so young brath, Well,
25:50
Speaker 1: here's the interesting thing about to wrap up here is
25:52
Speaker 1: that I'm from Houston, Texas, so I've been celebrating June Team.
25:56
Speaker 1: You know the state in the State of Texas holiday
25:59
Speaker 1: Forever Nows and Day, and now it also lands on
26:02
Speaker 1: Father's Day, okay. And black fathers have always been pushed
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Speaker 1: aside or said we are we don't understand the value,
26:10
Speaker 1: or we're not responsible for you're a black man. I'm
26:13
Speaker 1: a black man. I know I can get I get
26:15
Speaker 1: hard when I hear I get upset when I hear that. Uh.
26:18
Speaker 1: And and knowing that Father's Day is coming up, what
26:21
Speaker 1: role or responsibility are you taking upon yourself to make
26:25
Speaker 1: sure that black men are being recognized for being strong father,
26:30
Speaker 1: strong parents, strong leaders in the community moving forward? Yeah?
26:37
Speaker 1: Is that your health is your wealth U. And so
26:39
Speaker 1: on Father's Day, we are doing free prostate cancer screenings
26:45
Speaker 1: for all of our brothers because so many black men
26:48
Speaker 1: have been impacted by it and the saying as our
26:52
Speaker 1: early prevention least to secure and most black men don't
26:56
Speaker 1: go to the hospital till they come through the emergency role.
26:59
Speaker 1: It is all so June Team that we're setting up
27:01
Speaker 1: these economic portfolios for investment for our people to be
27:05
Speaker 1: able to have some greater sense of what the strength
27:09
Speaker 1: of their dollar is. So in those ways we're gonna
27:13
Speaker 1: affirm as well as trying to help fathers who want
27:17
Speaker 1: visitation who have been robbed of it to be able
27:21
Speaker 1: to get that through our partner with the courts is
27:24
Speaker 1: you know, as we as we as the pandemic, as
27:26
Speaker 1: you said earlier, has been a health and economic crisis,
27:29
Speaker 1: and that's always been a blessing for the church. You know,
27:31
Speaker 1: as one was to say, I'm talking to one of
27:33
Speaker 1: the most influential religious leaders in the country, and you
27:37
Speaker 1: Dr Bryant, as we as you call someone to the
27:39
Speaker 1: altar and someone's listening to this show, what is the
27:43
Speaker 1: final message you wanted to receive? So they can walk
27:46
Speaker 1: away with a clear understanding that they can be successful.
27:49
Speaker 1: They are walking and blessed shoes. They just need to
27:52
Speaker 1: acknowledge it and accept the responsibility of hard work. That
27:58
Speaker 1: the church to not over spiritual lines. It is nothing
28:00
Speaker 1: more than a recycling center. We take that which has
28:04
Speaker 1: been discarded, that which has been thrown away, that which
28:07
Speaker 1: has imperfections, and helped turn it into something else. The
28:12
Speaker 1: essence of who they are remains the same, but the
28:15
Speaker 1: shape and the spirit of it is what it is
28:18
Speaker 1: that we change. So every Sunday I tell people you
28:21
Speaker 1: can come as you are, just be clear you won't
28:24
Speaker 1: stay as you are. My guests rose from leventh grade
28:28
Speaker 1: dropout to receive a g D, enrolled in Morehouse, first
28:33
Speaker 1: time pH d graduate of Duke, and now he is
28:37
Speaker 1: the senior pastor of Newberg Mission there Baptist Church. He's
28:40
Speaker 1: a leader and also an inspiration and I'm so fortunate
28:43
Speaker 1: to have him show to share these words. Know this,
28:46
Speaker 1: whenever you have something, please come to Money Making Converses
28:48
Speaker 1: Master Class. I'm a friend, advocate and a believer in
28:51
Speaker 1: what you're trying to do to the community. Thank you
28:53
Speaker 1: for coming on. I'm appreciative. Thank you so much, and
28:56
Speaker 1: don't forget I'm coming back to tell you about the
28:58
Speaker 1: future of the church once I figure out what it is. Well,
29:02
Speaker 1: I guess what you know something? It would be quick
29:03
Speaker 1: then because you've got technology on your side. Okay, I
29:06
Speaker 1: appreciate you, Dr Bryan, thank you for coming on that show.
29:09
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
29:12
Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. You are now tuned into the Money
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Speaker 1: Making Conversations Minute of Inspiration with Rashan McDonald Hire with
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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald for Money Making Conversation with your Daily Minute
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Speaker 1: of Inspiration Recally I said Down with Minister Arthur speaker
29:28
Speaker 1: and founder of the God Shift movement. Say Rattler talks
29:32
Speaker 1: about the embracing disruption because it allows you to experience
29:35
Speaker 1: the shift. Shy talks about embracing disruption because it allows
29:40
Speaker 1: you to experience a shift. You're empowering people to do
29:43
Speaker 1: what now? I'm empowering people to embrace disruption, collide with
29:48
Speaker 1: God's purpose and chase their destiny. People's lives are experiencing disappointments,
29:52
Speaker 1: but I believe that God is using those things to
29:54
Speaker 1: get our attention. The question is are we going to
29:57
Speaker 1: learn what it is that He wants us to learn?
29:59
Speaker 1: And disruption doesn't all us have to be negative. I
30:01
Speaker 1: think that the negative things are what get people's attention
30:03
Speaker 1: the most. But I believe that it's an opportunity for
30:06
Speaker 1: us to say, Lord, where is it that you need
30:08
Speaker 1: me next? If you were to listen to this full
30:10
Speaker 1: interview with Nai Ratler, it's available on money Making Conversation
30:13
Speaker 1: dot com. Now let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass
30:18
Speaker 1: with Rashan McDonald Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I
30:22
Speaker 1: am your host, Rashan McDonald. I recognize that we all
30:25
Speaker 1: have different definitions of success. For you and may be
30:28
Speaker 1: the size of your paycheck. Mine is inspiring people to
30:30
Speaker 1: accomplish their goals and live their very best life. It
30:33
Speaker 1: is time to stop reading other people's success stores to
30:36
Speaker 1: start writing your own. People always talk about their purpose
30:39
Speaker 1: or gifts. If you have a gift, leave with your
30:41
Speaker 1: gifts and don't let your friends, family, or coworkers stop
30:44
Speaker 1: you from planning or living your dreams. My next guest
30:47
Speaker 1: is Cassandra Cummings. She's a leading wealth and investment strategist
30:51
Speaker 1: and founder of the Stocks and Stilettos Society, is the
30:54
Speaker 1: fastest growing online community and more than one hundred thousand
30:58
Speaker 1: women investors who are leveraging the power of investing to
31:01
Speaker 1: achieve their wealth building goals. She's a licensed financial advisor, investor,
31:06
Speaker 1: and speaker. Cassandra provides her knowledge and guidance to empower
31:10
Speaker 1: others on financial literacy. People everywhere should recognize her talent
31:15
Speaker 1: as we will at this point. Please work with the
31:17
Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Cassandra Commons, thanks so much for
31:22
Speaker 1: having me, Thanks for having me. Well, first of all,
31:25
Speaker 1: thank you you on the West Coast. You're based in Oakland, California. Yes,
31:30
Speaker 1: I'm here, um right across from San Francisco and go Warriors.
31:36
Speaker 1: That's true, that's true in the playoffs. Good thing, But
31:40
Speaker 1: I don't think the Warriors are keeping you in Oakland, California.
31:43
Speaker 1: In California, why Oakland California? Will you're well, you're just
31:48
Speaker 1: like using social media, using the internet to build your brand.
31:51
Speaker 1: But while Oakland, California, why are you? Why are you there? Um? Well,
31:56
Speaker 1: I'm here because this is home for me and there's
31:58
Speaker 1: no place like home. So you know, Um, I came
32:02
Speaker 1: back because there's a certain type of energy, there's a
32:05
Speaker 1: certain type of grit that I learned while being here,
32:08
Speaker 1: and I felt like I needed that energy once again
32:12
Speaker 1: in my life. So I circled back after making a
32:14
Speaker 1: few pitch stops, and I'm back home now. Those pitch stops.
32:18
Speaker 1: I always tell people, like I've lived in New York,
32:20
Speaker 1: I've lived in Chicago, I mean really lived, I mean years,
32:23
Speaker 1: lived in Los Angeles, the longest fifteen years, and presently
32:27
Speaker 1: i've been in Atlantis is two thousand seven, So it's
32:30
Speaker 1: about fifteen years here, but I'm originally from Houston, Texas.
32:34
Speaker 1: Each stop maybe a better person, maybe understand that different
32:38
Speaker 1: people are different parts of this country, think differently, have
32:41
Speaker 1: a different set of cultural rules, and also have different dreams.
32:45
Speaker 1: In your travels and the places that you said you
32:47
Speaker 1: had these pitch stops, how did they impact you and
32:50
Speaker 1: made you the person that you are today? Well, I
32:53
Speaker 1: had a couple of pitch stops. I too, lived in
32:56
Speaker 1: l a form quite a long time. I think it
32:59
Speaker 1: was about ten years years. I finished school down there
33:01
Speaker 1: at USC and then from USC, I wasn't quite ready
33:05
Speaker 1: to go home yet, and so I ventured out to Houston, Texas.
33:09
Speaker 1: I actually was pursuing a career as a broadcast journalist,
33:14
Speaker 1: and so I had some opportunities to go out there
33:17
Speaker 1: and really work on the craft of becoming a news
33:21
Speaker 1: reporter and had dreams of becoming a news anchor. And
33:26
Speaker 1: then I had to grow up. I had to actually
33:28
Speaker 1: go back to what I knew best, and that was,
33:30
Speaker 1: you know, the money industry, and ended up coming back
33:35
Speaker 1: to the West Coast, where um I started my career
33:38
Speaker 1: in financial services with a I g Well, you know,
33:41
Speaker 1: I don't really use the world. Grow up, you know,
33:44
Speaker 1: because a lot of people if I was a kids,
33:46
Speaker 1: a lot of people out there mature. I think that
33:49
Speaker 1: the realization of what your true gifts or your challenge.
33:51
Speaker 1: That's why I talk about your gifts or your purpose.
33:53
Speaker 1: You know, lea with it. You know that's what you're
33:56
Speaker 1: doing now. You're leading with your true gifts just because
33:58
Speaker 1: you want to do something like I wanted to lay basketball,
34:01
Speaker 1: but I just knew that that wasn't my gift, nor
34:03
Speaker 1: was that my purpose. And so what you just realized
34:06
Speaker 1: is that this is my true gift take advantage of
34:08
Speaker 1: I remember, I would tell I wrote on I was
34:11
Speaker 1: living in l A October nine nine one, and I
34:15
Speaker 1: had a guard. If you allow me to maximize all
34:18
Speaker 1: of my talents, and I will follow the talent that
34:21
Speaker 1: will lead me to my where I was supposed to go.
34:24
Speaker 1: Because we all if we if when we were young,
34:27
Speaker 1: we have so many visions of grandeur about what we
34:30
Speaker 1: can do, but no goal are tied. It's tied to it.
34:33
Speaker 1: That's what I felt that you're back in the financial
34:36
Speaker 1: world because you put goals to it and the goals
34:39
Speaker 1: come to expectations. And when we reached out the expectation,
34:42
Speaker 1: you start reaping results. Whereas I was one time in
34:46
Speaker 1: the entertainment business, I was a very successful stand up comic.
34:49
Speaker 1: I just didn't I couldn't become goal order with that.
34:52
Speaker 1: You're going for audition, then he tell you some people
34:54
Speaker 1: said they like it, and they don't call you back.
34:57
Speaker 1: They call you back, then somebody else gets it. So
34:59
Speaker 1: I can't tie goes to that. I'm just a logical
35:02
Speaker 1: thinking person. So I just think you're just a logical
35:04
Speaker 1: thinking person. Am I correct to Cassandral, Absolutely, But you know,
35:08
Speaker 1: make no mistake about it. I've definitely endured a lot
35:11
Speaker 1: of rejection, UM. That was really filled in the news
35:16
Speaker 1: broadcasting world, got a lot of nose sent out, a
35:18
Speaker 1: lot of demo tapes, UM. And I would have, you know,
35:22
Speaker 1: have to say that's been the case. Even in financial services.
35:25
Speaker 1: You have a lot of clients that don't necessarily established
35:29
Speaker 1: rapport with you, they don't necessarily want to work to you.
35:32
Speaker 1: That's just you know, a sotal form of rejection as well.
35:35
Speaker 1: And I mean I too have fire clients because it
35:38
Speaker 1: just wasn't a good personality fit or you know, they
35:41
Speaker 1: were looking for something that I may not be able
35:43
Speaker 1: to successfully deliver on So I mean, I think it's
35:47
Speaker 1: just everyday part of life dealing with those nose, and
35:50
Speaker 1: those nose they make you pivot, so you end up
35:55
Speaker 1: having to change course. And that's okay because sometimes when
35:58
Speaker 1: one door closes, right as they say, another door opens
36:02
Speaker 1: and sometimes it could be the grand prize in that
36:05
Speaker 1: new door. I agree, I agree, And I think that
36:08
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't realize that, you know, they
36:10
Speaker 1: feel they'd be They allow themselves to be blindsided by
36:14
Speaker 1: what their own goals, and their goals might not be
36:17
Speaker 1: the right goals from them. I know that, and that's
36:20
Speaker 1: why I wanted to bring you on the show because
36:21
Speaker 1: just looking at your your body of work, it has
36:25
Speaker 1: it has tied to Journey's, it is tied to decision
36:27
Speaker 1: making and oftentimes when you are and I just say,
36:30
Speaker 1: when you're an attractive woman, then a lot of people
36:33
Speaker 1: will not give you the credit do credit because of
36:35
Speaker 1: your attractiveness. Am I wrong and making those statements like that? Absolutely? Um.
36:42
Speaker 1: I've always sort of played my beauty down a little
36:45
Speaker 1: bit um for the most part, and I would say
36:49
Speaker 1: in recent years, I told myself, I'm not playing small.
36:51
Speaker 1: This is who I am right. I just so happens
36:54
Speaker 1: that I have the brains that comes with a pretty face,
36:58
Speaker 1: and I need to act. He used that as an asset.
37:02
Speaker 1: You are trying to ugly yourself up now because well,
37:06
Speaker 1: you know, I just you know, just learn how to
37:09
Speaker 1: put on some eyelash, some lip laws. But before then,
37:15
Speaker 1: you know, it was just really like, you know, this
37:17
Speaker 1: is who I am, and coming from Oakland, you know,
37:20
Speaker 1: we don't do a lot of beautification here. I would say,
37:24
Speaker 1: you know, we grew up, wasn't a lot of you know,
37:27
Speaker 1: provocative clothing and things like that. We were really from
37:31
Speaker 1: the town and we had a different way of maneuvering
37:34
Speaker 1: here that didn't really require you to flex your beauty.
37:38
Speaker 1: You really had to show improve in different ways and
37:41
Speaker 1: not leave with your face. So I learned that. But
37:44
Speaker 1: as I started to make those pit stops, I saw
37:47
Speaker 1: really how advantageous. You know, pretty has privileges, and I
37:52
Speaker 1: really needed to use that to my advantage. Absolutely. You know,
37:55
Speaker 1: look at me, I got my suit on. You know
37:56
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You'll say, I'm talking look at pretty
38:00
Speaker 1: as I can. So you're talking to you looking a
38:06
Speaker 1: think I like that. I like that because you know,
38:08
Speaker 1: as we go through life, you know, you have to
38:11
Speaker 1: like put all of your all your bullets in the gun.
38:14
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, It's just starts shooting and
38:16
Speaker 1: you want you shooting your best shot and so and so.
38:20
Speaker 1: That's but the one thing that we know that that
38:22
Speaker 1: you leave with is your intellect. When you leave with
38:25
Speaker 1: your brand, you leave with the fact that you have
38:27
Speaker 1: you can provide a strategy or f natural goals that
38:31
Speaker 1: can change people's lives. TEP a little bit of how
38:33
Speaker 1: you came to be a wealth and investment strategist. It
38:37
Speaker 1: was really from my college mentor of Her name is Angela,
38:41
Speaker 1: and I mean this woman is was a powerhouse, and
38:48
Speaker 1: you know, I wanted to emulate her. And I saw
38:52
Speaker 1: her moving and shaking. She was a bond trader here
38:55
Speaker 1: um a sitting stock exchange. She worked in finance, and
39:00
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to be like her when
39:02
Speaker 1: I grow up because I came from you know, very
39:05
Speaker 1: humble beginnings for on welfare and I had an opportunity
39:09
Speaker 1: to now have a mentor have someone that could you know,
39:14
Speaker 1: get my foot in the door and really show me
39:16
Speaker 1: the ropes um. And so that was really my introduction
39:20
Speaker 1: to financial services. It was my introduction to really putting
39:24
Speaker 1: myself out there to help others. She is so generous
39:29
Speaker 1: with her time, with her knowledge, and that's something that
39:32
Speaker 1: I just wanted to emulate. And it just really became
39:35
Speaker 1: a part of who I am now now and you
39:38
Speaker 1: say who you are? So now you are a mentor. Yes,
39:42
Speaker 1: now you are a leader. Now responsibility comes with that.
39:47
Speaker 1: Yes times. I mean I never imagined the impact that
39:54
Speaker 1: I would have, like I saw the impact she had,
39:58
Speaker 1: but I think I have definitely ten x that in it.
40:01
Speaker 1: I definitely did. She had an impact on you before
40:04
Speaker 1: you know, social media got out there, you know, and
40:07
Speaker 1: before the end ofnet became the craze. So you know,
40:09
Speaker 1: she she hut. She's a lot more intimate, a lot
40:13
Speaker 1: more personal. But now you know, you post up on lengthdin,
40:16
Speaker 1: you post up on social media, people a d M
40:19
Speaker 1: you and all these things and what you will respond
40:21
Speaker 1: to them or not. Sometimes you don't want to, and
40:23
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to something. Yes, people to follow you
40:26
Speaker 1: to build your brand and your relationships. That's the world
40:29
Speaker 1: you live into. Now you're you're the founder of the
40:32
Speaker 1: Stocks and Stilato Society. What exactly is that? So it's
40:37
Speaker 1: an online community of women investors. And I mean we've
40:41
Speaker 1: got women in there who are at the very beginning
40:44
Speaker 1: of their investing journey, haven't even bought their first stock.
40:48
Speaker 1: We've got women who are in there with you know,
40:50
Speaker 1: multimillion dollar portfolios. So there are black women in there
40:53
Speaker 1: that run the gamut. And we really wanted to create
40:56
Speaker 1: this space where women could really feel comfortable of out
41:00
Speaker 1: talking about money, whether it would be questions like you know,
41:03
Speaker 1: how do you even buy a stop too? You know,
41:06
Speaker 1: I need to do tax loss harvesting, And so we
41:09
Speaker 1: wanted to create that space where women who were well
41:13
Speaker 1: seasoned and investing could also help and embrace the ones
41:17
Speaker 1: who were coming up in this investing game. And I
41:20
Speaker 1: think this community has done a great job of making
41:24
Speaker 1: sure that we leave no system behind. Now when you
41:28
Speaker 1: say one women investors, is that a is that a newsletter?
41:34
Speaker 1: Is there a Facebook club? Where? Where are these? Where
41:38
Speaker 1: are these? One hundred thousand women apologizes? So we have
41:42
Speaker 1: currently we have about nineties six thousand in a Facebook
41:45
Speaker 1: group that's yeah yeah, and then we have about eighteen
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Speaker 1: thousand on our Facebook page, and we have about forty
41:53
Speaker 1: thousand on Instagram. And so collectively. When we look across
41:58
Speaker 1: all of our social media of platforms are some huge numbers.
42:03
Speaker 1: Now I'm just gonna let you know that you know,
42:05
Speaker 1: this is this is this is uh six thousand in
42:09
Speaker 1: your Facebook group, which is you know, if you watch Facebook,
42:12
Speaker 1: there were a lot of commercials encouraging people to join groups,
42:15
Speaker 1: you know, and then you also on your Facebook page
42:19
Speaker 1: you have eighteen thousand. And then on Instagram you got
42:23
Speaker 1: another forty thousand. Yeah. Now do y'all do uh retreats?
42:31
Speaker 1: We do? We um what we do a signature event
42:34
Speaker 1: called the Stocks to Star some in in Vegas every
42:38
Speaker 1: year October six through the AID or the first weekend
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Speaker 1: in October, and it is a party unlike any other.
42:45
Speaker 1: I mean, I've never seen a group of women come
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Speaker 1: together around the idea of investing and have so much fun.
42:52
Speaker 1: And we learn from some of the top people in
42:55
Speaker 1: the industry. So it's spokes and you know, I call
42:58
Speaker 1: it entertainment. We come out, we have a good time,
43:01
Speaker 1: we learned how to grow our money, and then we
43:03
Speaker 1: get to business. We get down to business after we
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Speaker 1: leave there. Okay, now October six through the Okay, in
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Speaker 1: our in Vegas, what hotel y'all at we at the
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Speaker 1: Rin got one of the best buffets in Vegas. I'm
43:23
Speaker 1: a buffet. I love buffaith I love Buffet's already hotel,
43:26
Speaker 1: I got one of the best buffeties. I mean, you
43:28
Speaker 1: go in there. They got it all up in there. Now,
43:33
Speaker 1: I just wanted to test the tea. You're my only
43:35
Speaker 1: thing with Cassandra comference. You know, I'm testing her. You know.
43:38
Speaker 1: You know the people come on this show, you know
43:39
Speaker 1: they throw our numbers all the time and act you know, well,
43:43
Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying. Let'm trying. But she had just
43:45
Speaker 1: she has just set me back. You know where were
43:47
Speaker 1: showing six thousand. You can round up if you want to.
43:50
Speaker 1: You you you got you know, mad that's apt either way.
43:53
Speaker 1: You see anything above point five, you round up anyway.
43:56
Speaker 1: That's okay, Na, Na that if you really if you
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Speaker 1: really think I'm front eighteen thousand sitting over there, okay,
44:04
Speaker 1: if you really think in front of forty thousand sitting
44:06
Speaker 1: over there, now, if you really think I'm front Vegas?
44:09
Speaker 1: You know as a multi day event, you know Octolder
44:12
Speaker 1: six through the Egg, you know at the Aria. You
44:15
Speaker 1: know we're not off the beaten track with the Aria
44:19
Speaker 1: you know when you going there, every everything is controlling
44:22
Speaker 1: that hotel room by the phone, the phone controlled everything,
44:25
Speaker 1: turn back through lives, every lives open, the front door,
44:29
Speaker 1: back door, back and then lord of shade, everything in
44:31
Speaker 1: the Aria. I know exactly when you're at Whoa, we
44:36
Speaker 1: all on the strip, on the strip. I love it.
44:41
Speaker 1: So how long have you have this? Uh? Does Stocks
44:44
Speaker 1: and Stiletto Society been around? And when did this start? Uh? Well,
44:49
Speaker 1: we've been around since two thousand and sixteen, so six years.
44:54
Speaker 1: And it started after I left Morrow Lynch. Um. I
44:58
Speaker 1: was talking with a friend and I was just dropping
45:01
Speaker 1: names again, dropped her name again, she dropped the again.
45:04
Speaker 1: Just see, I just love talking. She just drops his name.
45:07
Speaker 1: I left Mary Lynch, you know, just left. I just
45:10
Speaker 1: I had something to do. Oakland girl here. I just
45:12
Speaker 1: started winning Live Floss and Eland a couple of weeks ago.
45:16
Speaker 1: You know, I've been winning naturally I've been winning naturalizes,
45:25
Speaker 1: so so I'm making money. Was over here absolutely so
45:29
Speaker 1: so Meryl Lynch. And the reason the reason I bring
45:32
Speaker 1: that up because of the fact that in order to
45:34
Speaker 1: get respect, you have to be respectable brands. And when
45:38
Speaker 1: you with respectable brands and you made the decision to
45:42
Speaker 1: lead a respectable You have to have a goal. Now
45:45
Speaker 1: that goal might not happen immediately, but you know that, Okay,
45:49
Speaker 1: what they're doing doesn't fulfill me. There's a lot of
45:52
Speaker 1: people watch my show, listen to my show, the trapped
45:56
Speaker 1: in jobs because they're afraid to change, They're afraid of
46:00
Speaker 1: the unknown. I'm pretty sure there was some fear tied
46:03
Speaker 1: to this. How did you overcome that fear of the unknown? Concentral?
46:08
Speaker 1: You know, I would have to say it had to
46:10
Speaker 1: be my circle. You know. It was my circle that
46:13
Speaker 1: was rooting for me. They were my cheerleaders. They were like,
46:16
Speaker 1: you got this, sis, You're gonna do this. And I
46:19
Speaker 1: had a very difficult time really finding my lane afterwards
46:23
Speaker 1: because I had been trained to do things a certain way,
46:27
Speaker 1: and so I had to unlearn those things and reprogram
46:30
Speaker 1: myself to to really go out here and serve in
46:34
Speaker 1: a different capacity. And so it took me about a
46:37
Speaker 1: year to kind of catch my footing. But I did
46:40
Speaker 1: have a conversation with one friend and she was like,
46:42
Speaker 1: you need to start a Facebook group And I'm like,
46:44
Speaker 1: what is that? You know, because we couldn't really be
46:46
Speaker 1: on social media like that with the firm. And once
46:51
Speaker 1: I opened up the Facebook group, I had about fifty
46:54
Speaker 1: people and before I knew it, I had like five
46:57
Speaker 1: thousand people and it just took off from there. That
47:00
Speaker 1: is awesome. That's awesome. Now let's go back to the
47:03
Speaker 1: Las Vegas event. Yeah, what what we're prompted that type
47:07
Speaker 1: of retreat and you know we talked, we really didn't
47:11
Speaker 1: go take Can you break down what happens on each
47:13
Speaker 1: day or they're like seminars and speakers because I know
47:18
Speaker 1: there's entertainment in Vegas. There's entertainment. What what is the
47:21
Speaker 1: what is the takeaway from that type of event from
47:24
Speaker 1: a standpoint of education? Yeah, so, um, we make sure
47:30
Speaker 1: you get ex municated. Sure in a different realms of investing.
47:33
Speaker 1: So Day one is our v I P Day. They
47:36
Speaker 1: come out and they actually have two master classes. So
47:39
Speaker 1: we have two amazing speakers come out and they both
47:43
Speaker 1: teach our V I P ladies something. Um that's gonna
47:47
Speaker 1: help propel them, right. And then when we get today too,
47:50
Speaker 1: which is the general sessions, we basically have morning breakout
47:55
Speaker 1: sessions and that's gonna be either between options or day trading,
48:00
Speaker 1: and then we have afternoon breakout sessions, and that's gonna
48:03
Speaker 1: be really centered around UM. Let me remember, UM, I
48:09
Speaker 1: can't remember off the top of my head, but we
48:10
Speaker 1: have to probably like crypto and something else right that
48:15
Speaker 1: aside hustles, So crypto inside hustles. So morning we do
48:19
Speaker 1: options and day trading. In the afternoon we do crypto
48:23
Speaker 1: and UM side hustles. Then on the third day is
48:29
Speaker 1: when we have our panels. So we have a real
48:31
Speaker 1: estate panel, we have an angel investing panel, UM, we
48:35
Speaker 1: have a entrepreneurship panel this year. UM, we talk about
48:39
Speaker 1: a lot of things that help women take have some
48:43
Speaker 1: takeaways that they can actually go and act on right away.
48:47
Speaker 1: So we give them actionable gems. And it's not a
48:50
Speaker 1: bunch of fluff. You know. I'm really big on, you know,
48:54
Speaker 1: getting away from the ro ra rod and stuff like.
48:57
Speaker 1: I want people to have things that they can't go
48:59
Speaker 1: and put in the place when they leave this event.
49:02
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass
49:06
Speaker 1: with Rushan McDonald. Now let's return to Money Making Conversations
49:14
Speaker 1: Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Let me tell you something, you know,
49:18
Speaker 1: because I'm really impressed with you and not saying that
49:21
Speaker 1: it wasn't impressed with you before you came on the show.
49:24
Speaker 1: But you have a certain style. I think it's very um,
49:27
Speaker 1: very comfortable. I think that's important, especially dealing with with
49:30
Speaker 1: your money people money. You want to be comfortable on
49:32
Speaker 1: somebody you're giving your money to. Don't any won't be
49:35
Speaker 1: nervous across the table with anybody. Now Big coin and cryptocurrent,
49:44
Speaker 1: Lord knows, the Black community keeps getting left behind because
49:47
Speaker 1: we don't know, we don't trust you know, Lord, you
49:50
Speaker 1: know we we just took our money out of the mattress,
49:53
Speaker 1: you know, thirty years ago, Okay, and we're still in
49:57
Speaker 1: black communities dealing with these check cash in places is
50:00
Speaker 1: and don't know anything about apps, don't even know anything
50:03
Speaker 1: about zel anything. Okay, this is true talk. Okay, I
50:08
Speaker 1: want to I want to turn into a couple of
50:09
Speaker 1: a couple of things into little snippets for you. Can
50:13
Speaker 1: you talk to the black community by why they should
50:16
Speaker 1: be involved with the bigcoin and then separately talk to
50:18
Speaker 1: him about cryptocurrency. Well, bitcoin is definitely the granddaddy of cryptocurrency. Um,
50:25
Speaker 1: it's been around, I believe about twenty years now. It's
50:29
Speaker 1: been around for a long time. Twelve maybe twelve years,
50:33
Speaker 1: and so you know, like I say, with bitcoin, it
50:37
Speaker 1: takes time to get to a certain level of you know,
50:41
Speaker 1: investment success with anything, right, you've got to have sort
50:44
Speaker 1: of like this long term view, even with crypto. So
50:49
Speaker 1: bitcoin has definitely gotten a lot of buzz, a lot
50:52
Speaker 1: of media attention and things like that because it has
50:55
Speaker 1: definitely come into its time, right, it's a forty something
50:59
Speaker 1: that thousand. Now, if you want to buy bitcoint you
51:02
Speaker 1: can still buy bitcoin. You don't have to buy a
51:05
Speaker 1: full point. So if you want to put a thousand
51:07
Speaker 1: dollars on bitcoin, five hundred dollars on big point, you can,
51:11
Speaker 1: and you can still you know, make money off of that.
51:14
Speaker 1: There are tons of all coins we call those are
51:17
Speaker 1: all coins, and so those are your doge coins, your
51:20
Speaker 1: Shiba coins and things like that that you can get
51:23
Speaker 1: into that are really really inexpensive, and so you can
51:27
Speaker 1: put in five hundred dollars and walk away with like,
51:30
Speaker 1: you know, five hundred thousand shares of a coin by
51:35
Speaker 1: investing in some of these all coins that may have
51:38
Speaker 1: the potential to rise and increase as much as bitcoins.
51:42
Speaker 1: So that's really what the game is now. People are
51:44
Speaker 1: looking for the next bitcoin in cryptocurrency. Um. The other
51:50
Speaker 1: thing too that's really big in crypto right now is
51:53
Speaker 1: really investing in coins that are tied to the metaverse.
51:57
Speaker 1: I was just talking to someone this morning about you know,
52:00
Speaker 1: coins that are heavily involved in digital real estate in
52:04
Speaker 1: the metaverse, and so a lot of people are starting
52:07
Speaker 1: to allocate money and it could be a small amount
52:10
Speaker 1: to some of these coins like Gala and the Central
52:13
Speaker 1: Land and things like that that are heavily connected with
52:18
Speaker 1: the metaverse and digital real estate. So there are really
52:21
Speaker 1: good opportunities, especially for black people to get in with
52:25
Speaker 1: very little money and you know, very little risk um
52:28
Speaker 1: with crypto. So right, digital metaverse, none of that's real,
52:36
Speaker 1: it's not really you know black people thought stock market
52:39
Speaker 1: wasn't really at one point. Well, I know where I
52:42
Speaker 1: be at, I know where the whole I can lose
52:46
Speaker 1: some mon hole deepot, get mad at on deepot digital
52:50
Speaker 1: real estate. Huh huh. And that's the part that we
52:54
Speaker 1: have to cross that line over understanding the reality of
52:58
Speaker 1: n f t s and you know the college athletes
53:03
Speaker 1: learning about n els all these things. Uh, we're fast
53:08
Speaker 1: moving into a society where education really may never catch
53:12
Speaker 1: up with us. So it means that the ability to
53:15
Speaker 1: be a participant may never be an opportunity. And so
53:20
Speaker 1: bringing you on my show at least helps us understand
53:24
Speaker 1: that there are people like us. There's a community of
53:27
Speaker 1: women out there who don't want to be average, who
53:30
Speaker 1: don't want to be left in the back, who want
53:32
Speaker 1: to be able to say, how can I be a
53:34
Speaker 1: party of this? Now, you have a little program called
53:37
Speaker 1: Build a Bag of Wealth. I think that's the best
53:40
Speaker 1: way to close up with you and this interview. But
53:42
Speaker 1: also I have a show. I do my show live
53:45
Speaker 1: on Tuesdays on w CLK Campus. I take phone calls.
53:49
Speaker 1: I love to invite you on my live show. It
53:51
Speaker 1: also plays back on my national platform. But you are
53:54
Speaker 1: so engaging. And whenem I bring an investor on somebody
53:57
Speaker 1: talking about stock, the phone light up and that's I
54:00
Speaker 1: know these black folks want to know how to make
54:02
Speaker 1: some money. I mean, I could bring on celebrities, no calls,
54:06
Speaker 1: I bring on somebody talking about stock home they find
54:09
Speaker 1: their way to that phone. So I know there's education
54:12
Speaker 1: that they want, but the opportunity to participate they're being
54:17
Speaker 1: left out of. So talk about your build a Bag
54:20
Speaker 1: of wealth. Yeah. So Build a Bag is a program
54:24
Speaker 1: that um I came up with to teach women and men.
54:28
Speaker 1: It's actually open to everyone. Um how to trade options.
54:32
Speaker 1: And options are contracts um to buy stocks. You're not
54:37
Speaker 1: obligated to buy them, but oftentimes, you know, we don't
54:40
Speaker 1: have a lot of money to get into the stock
54:42
Speaker 1: market to buy the Amazon's, to buy the Google's because
54:46
Speaker 1: they're just really priced, you know, extremely high. But if
54:50
Speaker 1: you learn how to trade contracts, you can still make
54:53
Speaker 1: money off of Amazon or IBM or home Depot what
54:57
Speaker 1: have you, with very little money. And so we have
55:01
Speaker 1: designed this program called Build a Bag where we show
55:04
Speaker 1: people how to go from five hundred dollars to five
55:07
Speaker 1: thousand dollars and typically about a month and a half
55:10
Speaker 1: to two months. See see see I am about talking
55:18
Speaker 1: about staff. So we should have started out with that
55:19
Speaker 1: conversation five the five dollars. You know, some we're gonna
55:26
Speaker 1: book you on my show My Money makes Mother Master clap,
55:29
Speaker 1: I'm firing some people off the show to bring you
55:32
Speaker 1: on this. Okay, they need to know how to trade options.
55:36
Speaker 1: They need to here. Okay, we're gonna start off with
55:38
Speaker 1: the five hundred dollars to five thousand dollars in the market.
55:42
Speaker 1: That conversation though immediately, but you've been fantastic. I thoroughly
55:46
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I'm glad you contact me. I'm glad we
55:49
Speaker 1: contacted you. It was it was a synergy. My people
55:52
Speaker 1: were reaching out to you and you naturally reach it
55:53
Speaker 1: out to me. Know that you'll be hearing from me again.
55:56
Speaker 1: I want to bring you on my live show. It's
55:58
Speaker 1: just like, this's a very fun nbr airs on a
56:01
Speaker 1: lot of twenty HBCU campuses in seven one stations nationwide
56:05
Speaker 1: with the number one week and showing black radio in America.
56:08
Speaker 1: But more importantly, you are number one in my financial heart. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna win together here girl, five hundred
56:14
Speaker 1: dollars of five thousand ballots of the month. I'm looking
56:17
Speaker 1: forward to it. I appreciate you. Thank you for coming
56:19
Speaker 1: on Money Making Conversation master Class. Thank you. If you
56:23
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Speaker 1: You know, I think a lot of times when you
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