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Financial Motivator: Born in a small Alabama town didn't stop her from founding The Financial Literacy Institute, Inc., Jasmine Young · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: She's a founder and president of the Financial Literacy Institute,
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  Speaker 1: and she will be discussing the one hundred and third
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  Speaker 1: Black Wall Street in Oklahoma. Plus you'll be telling us
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  Speaker 1: Master Class. Jasmine Young. How you doing, Jasmine?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing well.
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  Speaker 1: How are you pretty good? First of all, where are
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  Speaker 1: you based? Just get that out the way.
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  Speaker 3: Based out of Atlanta, Georgia?
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  Speaker 1: Are you are you? Are you born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia?
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  Speaker 1: Are you relocated?
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  Speaker 3: Actually no, I'm not in an Atlanta native. I was
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  Speaker 3: born in Jackson, Alabama and raised in Indian Reeds. It's
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  Speaker 3: about an hour above Mobile, Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: Now Jackson, Alabama. Now you know, I'm from a big city. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So I have a different point of view versus what
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  Speaker 1: your might be. So tell us about life in Jackson, Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's very small. Everybody knows everybody. It's just a
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  Speaker 3: very close knit community. We had we do have a Walmart.
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  Speaker 3: That's one of the things that everybody has. We do
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  Speaker 3: have a Walmart. We do have traffic lights, but most most,
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  Speaker 3: most of us grew up and lived on our own land.
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  Speaker 3: Dirt roads, had farms, you know, things of that native
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  Speaker 3: very very country, very country.
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  Speaker 1: Now now, and how did you get out of Jackson?
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  Speaker 1: Was it education and broachradick Jackson? Job opportunities? How did
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  Speaker 1: you get out of Jackson? What motivated you get out
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  Speaker 1: of Jackson?
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  Speaker 3: It was definitely education. I left. I left my hometown
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  Speaker 3: on a full scholarship to Alabama and m University in Huntsville, Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: And I knew that I was going to leave and
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  Speaker 3: actually go to college and be a c PA as
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  Speaker 3: early as the eleventh grade. So I knew that I
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  Speaker 3: was getting out and I was gonna use financial literacy
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  Speaker 3: as a way to do it. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 3: I did. So I left Jackson, Alabama, and I haven't
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  Speaker 3: looked back.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. First of all, you still got that accent.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're not getting rid of that accent. Now, You're
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  Speaker 1: not going to go to New York and act like
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  Speaker 1: you're in New Yorker, not with this accent.
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  Speaker 3: Astely not. I am a country girl born and braided.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: You went to the HBCU, you know, Alabama, And did
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  Speaker 1: that have an impact in your life? Tell us about
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  Speaker 1: that black excellence that they're teaching academically, and Uh, these hbc.
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  Speaker 3: Youths absolutely in a world where we are the minority,
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  Speaker 3: going to a place where we were the majority and
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  Speaker 3: we were treated as such really helped, I would say,
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  Speaker 3: my self esteem. And it also helped how I looked
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  Speaker 3: at myself when it when it came to a professional
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  Speaker 3: in this big world outside of an HBCU, it kind
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  Speaker 3: of it kind of built me for what was to come.
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  Speaker 3: And especially with the teachers that were there, they prepared
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  Speaker 3: us in a way that I feel like I would
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  Speaker 3: not have been prepared had I not gone to an HBCU.
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  Speaker 3: So there were things that were taught to us, like
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  Speaker 3: survival skills that I don't think I would have gotten
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  Speaker 3: had I went to a had I chosen a different school.
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  Speaker 3: And when I say survival skills, I'm not just talking
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  Speaker 3: about you know, how to provide for yourself for things
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  Speaker 3: of that nature. No, they taught us how to operate
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  Speaker 3: in a world where we aren't the majority, where systemic
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  Speaker 3: racism still exists. They taught us how to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: always be prepared to over deliver an underpromise so that
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  Speaker 3: you're always on the mark or better. And it definitely shows.
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  Speaker 3: I came out in twenty thirteen and to say, I'm
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  Speaker 3: proud of my classmates and even those before me and
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  Speaker 3: after me have done some amazing things coming from an HBCU.
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  Speaker 3: Whereas when I expressed that I would be going to
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  Speaker 3: an HBCU, I was met with comments such as, You're
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  Speaker 3: so much better than that, Why would you go there?
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  Speaker 3: Why would you limit yourself? When in actuality, going to
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  Speaker 3: an hbc YOU was the best thing I ever did,
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  Speaker 3: and it didn't limit me. It actually catapulted me into
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  Speaker 3: my career and where I am today, and I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: change the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you are a motivator. I'm telling you. You know, they
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  Speaker 1: need to put your on tape. You know, they need
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  Speaker 1: to put you like on the billboard right outside of Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: A and M.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, listen to jazz when young.
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  Speaker 1: She will teach you right because you know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people stereotypes, you know, will stop you from being
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  Speaker 1: reaching great heights. Because always that's why I always talk
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  Speaker 1: about you know where you came from, because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people say, you know, they put people a certain
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  Speaker 1: educational reach because it's the same thing small towns in
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  Speaker 1: inner city because I came from in the city fifth Ward,
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  Speaker 1: that's where I was born to raise, So people like
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  Speaker 1: me weren't supposed to get out accord to them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: people like me, you know. And when I met people
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  Speaker 1: that go, oh you different, you know, I never knew
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  Speaker 1: how to take that when they said that, oh you're different,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because because you know, it was always like,
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  Speaker 1: what do you mean different? You know, because my teachers
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  Speaker 1: prepared me to be this way. They told me what
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  Speaker 1: I could be in high school. Because if they didn't
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  Speaker 1: tell me these things, like your teachers told you at
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  Speaker 1: Alabama and m I'll tell you, I would not be
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  Speaker 1: the person I am today. But they saw something in me,
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  Speaker 1: Jazz Whine, that allowed me to be able to sit
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  Speaker 1: on this microphone and talk to motivating people like you,
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  Speaker 1: because that's the story that you want to be able
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  Speaker 1: to put out there. And what inspired me to do
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  Speaker 1: this interview was that your drive about financial literacy spread
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  Speaker 1: financial literacy around the world. One family at the time
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  Speaker 1: talk to us about.
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  Speaker 3: That absolutely, So I learned early on that my passion
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  Speaker 3: for financial literacy was actually was actually my purpose, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm blessed that both my passion and my purpose aligned
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  Speaker 3: because I had a knack for numbers growing up. I
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  Speaker 3: counted everything, even my food particles, my steps. When I
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  Speaker 3: would repeat things to myself, I had to say, I'm
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  Speaker 3: a certain amount of times, just really really big on numbers.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that I had a great uncle who
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  Speaker 3: was a math Jeenius, and apparently it was it passed
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  Speaker 3: down to me, so I knew. Back in high school
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  Speaker 3: when I was met with the comment that everybody wasn't
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  Speaker 3: fed with a silver spoone like me, it infuriated me.
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  Speaker 3: But it infuriated me to make a difference because in
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  Speaker 3: all actuality, I don't believe I was fed with a
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  Speaker 3: silver spoone. My mom and dad they grew up poor.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're already in the country, but my mom
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  Speaker 3: was one of eight, my dad is the baby bo
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  Speaker 3: was seventeen. They were poor and they didn't have a
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  Speaker 3: lot growing up. But one thing, one thing they did
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  Speaker 3: for my brother and I is they worked very very hard.
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  Speaker 1: So they came from they came from eight to seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: And is it that two cant.
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  Speaker 3: That's it?
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  Speaker 1: The baby continue to throw. I just had to stop
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  Speaker 1: that when you said seventeen and then only just two
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  Speaker 1: of y'all and they all on the farm.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, but we had a lot of cousins, and
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  Speaker 3: we grew up on our own land. And I'll be honest,
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  Speaker 3: back then, I was ashamed of where I came from
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  Speaker 3: because I was. I lived on a dirt road, there
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  Speaker 3: was no through traffic. Everybody knew everybody. It was farm
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  Speaker 3: animals everywhere, trees, gullies, all types of things. And it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't until I actually went to my HBCU and got
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  Speaker 3: into my career that I realized that I really did,
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  Speaker 3: I really did come from a rich heritage, not only
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  Speaker 3: not only the place that I lived. It's called Indian Ridge,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm an eighth Indian. I had no idea that
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  Speaker 3: my grandparents were Cherokee Indians had no idea. So we
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  Speaker 3: lived on on over seventy eight plus acres of our
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  Speaker 3: own land. Back then, as a child, I didn't realize
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  Speaker 3: that that was something to be proud of us. All
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  Speaker 3: of these roads we walked the roads and ate from
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  Speaker 3: eight from the fruit of the trees, plums, mustardized apples, pears,
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  Speaker 3: pigs like we farmed, we had animals, pigs, horses, chickens,
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  Speaker 3: like we had it. But from my standpoint, because I
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  Speaker 3: had never left Jackson, Alabama before I went to college,
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  Speaker 3: was this is country, Like, why can't we live in
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  Speaker 3: the city we have, you know, a big house, we
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  Speaker 3: don't have we don't have cable like, we don't have
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  Speaker 3: a pool. You know, our rolls are dirt roads. But
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  Speaker 3: I realized that what my parents gave my brother and
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  Speaker 3: I was a basic foundation of how to be a
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  Speaker 3: responsible financial adult. And they surrounded themselves with people that
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  Speaker 3: had the financial education that they wanted to have, and
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  Speaker 3: then they also held each other accountable for the finances
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  Speaker 3: in the household, even down to me and my brother.
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  Speaker 3: My dad would give us two people. My dad was
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  Speaker 3: always gone before we got up to go to school
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  Speaker 3: because he was already at work, but he would leave
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  Speaker 3: two twenty dollars bills, two twenty dollars bills on the table,
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  Speaker 3: and my brother and I knew that outside of any
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  Speaker 3: school requirement, if we wanted to buy anything, whether it
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  Speaker 3: was gas for the car, to get the band, practice,
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  Speaker 3: basketball practice, softball practice, whatever snacks, anything, we had to
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  Speaker 3: make that twenty dollars work. Because we weren't getting in
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  Speaker 3: this and it was it was actually that budget that
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  Speaker 3: my dad gave us. To this day, my parents have
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  Speaker 3: never purchased a cell phone for me. Every minute I
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  Speaker 3: had on my cell phone back then, and I'm dating
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  Speaker 3: myself was a bit. But the minutes that I had
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  Speaker 3: on my phone back then, I purchased them because my
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  Speaker 3: dad taught me, hey, look, this is all you get.
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  Speaker 3: You got to figure out how to make it work.
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  Speaker 3: And it was that example that allowed us to be
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  Speaker 3: able to have the things that we wanted to have.
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  Speaker 3: And to my peers, because they weren't getting that, it
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  Speaker 3: looked as if I was privileged or if I was
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  Speaker 3: sped with a silver sponge, when in actuality, my parents
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  Speaker 3: gave my brother an example and that was it, and
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  Speaker 3: I realized that I wanted to That's that's actually when
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  Speaker 3: I decided that I wasn't gonna gonna become a professional singer.
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  Speaker 3: Mayor Michael Jackson. I was asked, it gonna be a CPA.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, though, can you sing those jasmine?
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  Speaker 3: You know I can hold the tune. You know all
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  Speaker 3: those others will say different, but you know I've been
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  Speaker 3: seeing since I was five years old, it's not something
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  Speaker 3: that I do often anymore. I did sing a lot
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  Speaker 3: in Hunt for You.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're a kid. They let you sing. As
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  Speaker 1: you get older, they'll tell you the truth. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I sung, and I sung in college. And I also
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  Speaker 3: sang on a praise team at my church.
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  Speaker 1: Now, praise a lot of people now and there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of energy. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know that's when I decided. And I
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  Speaker 3: come from a music queen client familys Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Now, they got the musical in class family and then
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  Speaker 1: mathematically inclas family. And you one eighth with your one
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  Speaker 1: age cherokee. Yes, sir, you're you're working it. You're working it.
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  Speaker 1: First of all. First of all, Jasmin yo, this is
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  Speaker 1: an incredible interview from an authentic tone, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that you were telling me who you are.
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  Speaker 1: You're honestly breaking down with I think coming folk talk,
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  Speaker 1: coming folks talk, because that's all I was offered, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I would complain. I would complain about the clothes
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  Speaker 1: I wear. I would complain about everything, not realizing that
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  Speaker 1: my parents did not allow anybody in our house to curse.
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  Speaker 1: We couldn't curse. I didn't I tell people today. I
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  Speaker 1: did not utter a curse word till I was nineteen
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  Speaker 1: years old. Nineteen years old because my parents raised me
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  Speaker 1: that way. But I thought, oh my god, this is
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  Speaker 1: the worst. But in the process of raising me that way,
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  Speaker 1: I had to speak correctly. I had this No, I
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  Speaker 1: have to have a vernacular because I always tell people
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  Speaker 1: you curse you use you like using five words with
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  Speaker 1: a fireword, because it just shortcuts your your intellect and
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  Speaker 1: shortcuts your ability to communicate. And so when I hear
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  Speaker 1: your story, and I remember going because I'm from Houston, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: and we'd go with to Bowisier and Shreetpoint, louis Ella
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  Speaker 1: and we see black people on the farm and they
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  Speaker 1: had little you know, the outhouses and the little pain
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  Speaker 1: by the bed, and I would go, what the heck
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  Speaker 1: is going on here? I can't get away from here.
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  Speaker 1: But I realize now all my life I've been trying
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  Speaker 1: to get back to that.
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  Speaker 3: Jazmine, absolutely, yes, yes, And it's like now when I
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  Speaker 3: go home, I get the best sleep. Is so peaceful there. Wow,
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  Speaker 3: it's so peaceful.
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  Speaker 1: There, Jasmin. I gotta go to break here. Don't go nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: because you got a lot to talk about on the
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  Speaker 1: other side because we want to talk about Black Wall Street,
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about you because you motivated us to
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  Speaker 1: stick around to hear the other side of the story
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  Speaker 1: with jazzmin Yo Financial Literacy US at Financial Literacy Institute,
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  Speaker 1: and she does a lot more than that, and she's
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell you that because y'all can hear she got
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  Speaker 1: that country twang down.
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  Speaker 2: Pack.
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  Speaker 1: This is Rashan mcdonald're listening to Money Making Conversation Masterclass
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  Speaker 1: and I'm speaking to Jasmineyoung. Great story come from Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: Alabama with the Alabama A and M. She knew in
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  Speaker 1: the eleventh grade she was gonna be a CPA. She
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  Speaker 1: just knew numbers talk numbers, talk to numbers game. And
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  Speaker 1: I always admire that because when I came out of
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  Speaker 1: high school. All I wanted to be was a truck
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  Speaker 1: was a forklift driver. That's what I wanted to be.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have any aspiration to be nothing more than
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  Speaker 1: a forklift driver. Well, she's taking that financial literacy to
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  Speaker 1: the next level. She has events coming up that we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about. The event called the third annual
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  Speaker 1: Black Wall Street Black Business Expo. Tell us what that
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  Speaker 1: is all about, Miss Jasmine Young.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely so. The Black Wall Street Black Business Expo is
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  Speaker 3: a twofold event. Of course, we want to honor the
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  Speaker 3: excellence that existed in the Greenwood District commonly known as
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  Speaker 3: Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, back in the nineteen hundred. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: due to racism, that community was burned down and in
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  Speaker 3: Black Wall Street. In the time of Black Wall Street,
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  Speaker 3: that was actually a time where African Americans exemplified exceptional
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  Speaker 3: amounts of wealth. However, since then, the wealth gap has
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  Speaker 3: increased due to the demise of Black Wall Street. So
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  Speaker 3: our event pays homage to our ancestors who exemplify Black
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  Speaker 3: excellence through entrepreneurship, but it also is a call to
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  Speaker 3: action for today's entrepreneurs to use that spirit of Black
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  Speaker 3: Wall Street, one to recreate the generational wealth that existed
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  Speaker 3: back then, but also to create social change and use
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  Speaker 3: the black dollar to actually get legislators to make bills
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  Speaker 3: and laws that will allow us the equity and the
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  Speaker 3: social justice that we are. So it's long overdue for
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  Speaker 3: us to receive, so we're using this event.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Now, why aren't you running for public office?
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm just hearing you. You you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about social change, nin you just mentioned politics. You out here,
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  Speaker 1: you have a good sense, you have a very very
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  Speaker 1: marketable personality. You have an engaging tone of how you are,
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  Speaker 1: your background, and how you're gonna move the community for
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  Speaker 1: Why aren't you running for public office?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'll be honest with you. Going through school, I
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  Speaker 3: actually hated politics. I hated government, which doesn't make sense
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  Speaker 3: because I spent eleven and a half years of my
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  Speaker 3: life as a government employee. But I have come to
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  Speaker 3: have a passion for social action and making a difference.
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  Speaker 3: And I realized that for our community, the way for
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  Speaker 3: us to make I guess you could say move the needle.
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  Speaker 3: And where we need to be economically is we have
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  Speaker 3: to be civically engaged. The two are are synonymous. You
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  Speaker 3: cannot have one without the other. And it just goes
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  Speaker 3: back to the Black Wall Street store, which was one
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  Speaker 3: of my inspirations. And you know, I'm actually toying with
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  Speaker 3: the idea of actually going to law school. I've ordered
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  Speaker 3: my Lsat book and I'm thinking that's the way I
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: want to go. But I would do not. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to fit for the bar because it's literally like
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  Speaker 3: Seeta for the CPA exam, of course without numbers. But
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  Speaker 3: I do want to see us in a better place
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  Speaker 3: than I believe as a community. We can be in
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: a better place because we've done it before and Black
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  Speaker 3: Wall Street is an example of it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, when you thought of this idea, what motive did
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  Speaker 1: you have? A did you pitch it to somebody and
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  Speaker 1: they go, what are you talking about? What did you think?
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  Speaker 3: I did not. I'll tell you what. What sparked this.
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  Speaker 3: I actually wanted to do the event in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: but COVID hit right, so I killed the idea. I
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  Speaker 3: tabled it, and then the murder of George Floyd happened
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  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one. Actually this past was the four
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  Speaker 3: years ago when he was murdered, and I remember it
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  Speaker 3: like it was yesterday, because this is what sparked me
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  Speaker 3: wanting to do this event again, And what sparked it was,
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  Speaker 3: you know, corporations start to state their claims whether they
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  Speaker 3: back the blue or whether Black Lives matter, and for
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  Speaker 3: those that said they backed the Blue, our community said, okay, well,
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  Speaker 3: if you back the blue, we're not gonna support you.
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  Speaker 3: And some of those corporations actually changed their stans because
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  Speaker 3: we decided we weren't going to spend money with them. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if you're familiar with the financial industry and the African
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: American buying power, we are the largest group of consumers
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  Speaker 3: in the world. So for a corporation to decide, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, if this group of people are not going
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: to support us because we don't support what their social justice,
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  Speaker 3: we got to change our stans. And it was at
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  Speaker 3: that moment that I knew this is the answer to
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  Speaker 3: all our social injustice issues is recirculating the black dollar
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  Speaker 3: in our community and making the those that want our
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  Speaker 3: money play by our rules. And that's why I started
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  Speaker 3: the Black Wall Street.
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  Speaker 1: We at business expos Congratulations, Powerful, Powerful Outlook. Powerful Outlook.
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  Speaker 1: Now tell us how we can find out more information
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  Speaker 1: about this and also get in touch with you, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm speaking to Jasmine Young absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: So you can go to Blackwall Street Atlanta dot org
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  Speaker 3: and if you want to buy tickets, if you want
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  Speaker 3: to be a vendor, or if you want to participate
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: in the parade that's going to happen before the event,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: you can sign up literally right there on the website.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to be having mother Vola Ford Fletcher at
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  Speaker 3: our special guest this year. For those that don't know her,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: she is one hundred and ten years old. She just
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: turned one hundred and ten and they tent and she
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: is the oldest living survival of the Tulsa race Master
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: that destroyed black Wall Street. I was able to meet
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  Speaker 3: her last year at form a relationship with relationship with
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: her and now I currently serve as her CPA and
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: I sit on the board of her foundation. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: bringing her to the event this year, of course, to
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  Speaker 3: pay Homas to her, to pay Homas to black Wall
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  Speaker 3: Street and connect my inspiration with with a piece of
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  Speaker 3: the actual Black Wall Street. So we're gonna be having
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  Speaker 3: a parade for her this Saturday, June first, at eight
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  Speaker 3: am down Main Street in College Park, where she's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be the Grand Marshall, so you can come out to
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: the parade. You can be in the parade and help
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: us welcome her to the city of Atlanta. And then
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  Speaker 3: you can come out to the expo that will be
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: at Essence Venue, which is at fifty four to thirty
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  Speaker 3: nine Riverdale Road, Atlanta, Georgia, three zero three four nine
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  Speaker 3: from twelve pm to five pm. You can be a vendor,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: you can just attend. And also we're giving out three
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: thousand dollars in Krowger gift cards to feed children to
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: help fight food in security. You know, school is out
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: and kids turn their in school stomachs off once they
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: get out of school, so we want to help parents
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: feed the children. We're giving away three thousand dollars in
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Krower gift cards to do that. And all you have
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: to do is show up. So all you have to
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: do is literally go to Black Wall Street, Atlanta dot org.
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  Speaker 3: Whether you want to buy a ticket, be in the
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: even be in the parade, or be a vendor, you
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: can do all of that on the website. And then
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: of course if you're just interested in the Financial Literacy
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Institute and the programming that we have, you can go
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: to TF l I inc dot org and you will
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: see all of the programming that we offer in order
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: to spread financial literacy into underserved and underprivileged communities.
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