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Rushion Interviews Latosha Brown on How Black women entrepreneurship impacts the country! · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My guests today are Latasha Brown Southern Black Girls and
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  Speaker 1: Women's Consortium visionary founder and co founder Black Voters Matters
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  Speaker 1: and Malika Rogers Southern Black Girls, Southern Black Girls and
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  Speaker 1: Women's Consort them executive director the Southern Black Girls and
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  Speaker 1: because Women's Consortium, which is as b as Southern Black Girls,
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  Speaker 1: is a collection of black women. I have six sisters,
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  Speaker 1: so I know by black women who in philanthropy, activision
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  Speaker 1: and girls work who hold deep roots and movements and
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  Speaker 1: building models for success. Please work with the Latasha Brown
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  Speaker 1: and Malika Rogers to money making conversation, masterclass, ladies, how
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? We are wonderful and we are extremely blessed.
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  Speaker 1: We're on this show with you. We want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about making money and moves. Well, you know I usually
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  Speaker 1: get you now, usually get them on split screen. Why
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  Speaker 1: don't have them on the split screen today because I
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  Speaker 1: won't see him at the same time. Now say not
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  Speaker 1: get you one at a time when you talk, then
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  Speaker 1: you pop up when you know I don't see you.
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  Speaker 1: Can we can we get that look for me? Because
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  Speaker 1: I want to be able to. I want to be
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  Speaker 1: a stand both of y'alli and just action. You know,
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  Speaker 1: but both of you guys are both ladies, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: are based in Atlanta, Georgia. Why well, Maliki want to start? Sure,
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  Speaker 1: my I grew up here in Atlanta, but the work
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  Speaker 1: is um The work isn't based in Atlanta. The work
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  Speaker 1: is based all across our tol states. We just happened
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  Speaker 1: to call Atlanta home, and I've called Atlanta home for
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  Speaker 1: my life. Lash your Atlanta native to I am not.
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  Speaker 1: I am an Alabama girl. I'm a deep deep South.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a control to Alaborima. They gave me the big
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  Speaker 1: cities in Alabama. So what little city you from it?
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  Speaker 1: And I am from Selma, Alabama. Mobile. I spend part
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  Speaker 1: of my life at Mobile on the coast, and then
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  Speaker 1: part of my life the majority of my life in
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  Speaker 1: little city called Selma, pretty famous city, uh city, a
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  Speaker 1: little city called Selma, Alabama. Now we're not looking at Malika.
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  Speaker 1: I look at you, Latasha. I see energy, see enthusiasm.
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  Speaker 1: But when you talk about the black woman, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm working on the project. And I was just talking
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  Speaker 1: about how black women came out of slavery and the
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  Speaker 1: white women complaining, but they were still above black women
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  Speaker 1: because black women considered slaves and at the time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they can be raped, they can be passed around. But
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  Speaker 1: and then black men will consider slaves as well. But
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  Speaker 1: but black women I think always had a two step,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because women in general consider secondary anyway in general.
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  Speaker 1: But somehow today black women are the number one or
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  Speaker 1: the fastest growing entrepreneurs in America. Why is the latasha
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  Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's my grandmother to say, we don't kill you, make
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  Speaker 1: you stronger. And I think because black women have literally said,
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  Speaker 1: at this intersection of racism and sexism that we've had
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  Speaker 1: to find a way when it seems like there was
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  Speaker 1: no other way. And so for many of us entrepreneurship,
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  Speaker 1: many of us have created jobs, not because somebody left
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  Speaker 1: us an inheritance or not because we got some there's
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  Speaker 1: some big money down fall, you know. Some of us
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  Speaker 1: created a business because we had to survive. We had
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  Speaker 1: to survive for our families. We had no other income.
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  Speaker 1: Some of us couldn't find jobs or were discriminated from
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  Speaker 1: find a job, and so we had to use our
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  Speaker 1: skills and our talents um to really be able to
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  Speaker 1: get us through so that we could take care and
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  Speaker 1: provide for our families. Many of us literally saw a
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  Speaker 1: gap of a need in our community, and so we
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  Speaker 1: were led as nurturers. We were led to literally create
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  Speaker 1: a business. I had a sister that came over last
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  Speaker 1: night who is as a nurse. She's a licensed nurse,
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  Speaker 1: and she does I V therapy around vitamins, and she
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  Speaker 1: talked about how she worked for a doctor, but also
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  Speaker 1: that she saw the opportunity to start her own so
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  Speaker 1: that she could actually it wasn't just her administer, and
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  Speaker 1: she could actually administer information. She could share her own experience,
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  Speaker 1: and she could provide that nurturing space so that we
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  Speaker 1: could actually be able to get this these these these
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  Speaker 1: additional vitamins. I'm saying that because I think what we
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  Speaker 1: see in terms of entrepreneurship. We see women, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: some of us going to business because we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: get We try to make money. I mean, we all
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  Speaker 1: want to make money. With some was like, listen, I
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  Speaker 1: can use my skills instead of just making money for
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  Speaker 1: other people. I can make money for myself. But but
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  Speaker 1: I do want to say that our approach to entrepreneurship
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  Speaker 1: has been very different from our white counterparts. You know,
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  Speaker 1: our approach ship to to entrepreneurship really has been informed
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  Speaker 1: by some of the struggle in our community that we've
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  Speaker 1: had to create businesses because it's the irony is that
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  Speaker 1: while black women are the fastest growing, we have the
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  Speaker 1: largest numbers of entrepreneurs in the country in terms of
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  Speaker 1: percentage wise. Percentage wise, we're entering college more than anybody
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  Speaker 1: else in the country. Right in terms of voting, we
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  Speaker 1: vote more than anybody in the country. So we basically
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  Speaker 1: if America said that you got to go to school,
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  Speaker 1: get your education, start your business, and and use your
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  Speaker 1: civic responsibility, we've done all of that. Then why is
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  Speaker 1: it that economically we're still at the bottom? And that actually,
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  Speaker 1: I think our work exposes the deficiencies and the racism
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  Speaker 1: and the sexism that is embedded in all of these systems,
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  Speaker 1: but it also really elevates how bad systems are, and
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  Speaker 1: how determined we are and how resilient we are, and
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  Speaker 1: that in the midst of it, because what we see
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  Speaker 1: is even when we're starting businesses, our businesses don't receive
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  Speaker 1: the kind of investment that other businesses receiving. Now when
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  Speaker 1: we're actually creating these opportunities that that that was that
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  Speaker 1: mother that um started a daycare in her home. One
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  Speaker 1: that daycare may but may have started because she needed
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  Speaker 1: to have her kids and sheets somebody else like, baby,
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  Speaker 1: can you keep care of my baby? And somebody else
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  Speaker 1: needed somebody to take care of their children, and it
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  Speaker 1: grew out of us responding to a need in our community,
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  Speaker 1: not just this, not just a desire of regardless of anything.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna gonna make money because it's good to
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  Speaker 1: make money, right, we all want to make I won't
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  Speaker 1: folks to make money. This whole existence of the Southern
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  Speaker 1: Black Girls and Women's Consortium is for us to help
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  Speaker 1: get money and investment in our communities. But that cannot
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  Speaker 1: be at the expense of harm in our communities. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes we've actually seen people approach this, I'm gonna make money,
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  Speaker 1: even if that means I'm gonna sell somebody out, I'm
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  Speaker 1: step over, I'm gonna do things that are untechnical. So
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  Speaker 1: what we're saying is that the way that you create
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  Speaker 1: abundance is that when you are making money or you're creating,
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  Speaker 1: those you're creating to tap into the full wealth of
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  Speaker 1: who we are. That's our gifts, that's our talents, that's
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  Speaker 1: also our treasures. But when we combine that, it ain't
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  Speaker 1: no stopping us. We'll be right back with more Money
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  Speaker 1: Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return to
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  Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Now, Malika, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell you now, they actually moved out of seal
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  Speaker 1: because she can talk. She can talk, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know right now she is like a two questioned person.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you asked a course. She gonna give you
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  Speaker 1: five minutes now. So so so I'm gonna squeeze on
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  Speaker 1: rushing into you, Blika before I come back to Hub,
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  Speaker 1: because when I come back to Hub, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: by five to ten minute for I come back to me.
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  Speaker 1: Don't feel back. But you know this already. You know
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  Speaker 1: this already. Don't you say that? Right? You say something again?
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  Speaker 1: Right when you talk, she's about to say something. Just
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  Speaker 1: keep smile, now, Milika, you sent me straight early in
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  Speaker 1: the interviews that a little strong black women. She said,
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  Speaker 1: we're just not in Atlanta, were in twelve states. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Executive director, tell us about the what the consortium is
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  Speaker 1: and what states and why is there that growth in
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  Speaker 1: those twelve states. We are the seven Black Girls and
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  Speaker 1: Women's Social at our base. We are a foundation. We
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  Speaker 1: invest in black girls and women in the South, and
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  Speaker 1: we do that because there has been a gap. And Milica,
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  Speaker 1: now LaTosha, you on the screen. Now you keep be
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  Speaker 1: looking at your little iPad or your phone, people looking
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  Speaker 1: at us because you're gonna be on national TV and
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  Speaker 1: people gonna say, she ain't even listen to none of y'all.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't want to do you wrong. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna edit this little part of that. So act like
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  Speaker 1: you care about us now that you ain't talking. Now,
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  Speaker 1: look at see her because she talking. Because she talking.
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  Speaker 1: She she't shut us down, Malika, she shut us down. No,
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  Speaker 1: I did not. I would never shut Malika. Don my brother.
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  Speaker 1: But I was not on the screen when I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to sneak and look and respond to this. I
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  Speaker 1: can see you right now. I can see you right now.
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  Speaker 1: See you look at that screen. Look behind me, y'all
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  Speaker 1: a screen. Put that shot on it so she can
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  Speaker 1: know that she on the big Now I see it now,
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  Speaker 1: then you see you always I fixed it. At first,
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  Speaker 1: y'all was solo. But I like to look at both
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  Speaker 1: beautiful women at the same time, I love black excellence. Okay, now, Malika,
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  Speaker 1: you set me straight. You said, I said we just
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  Speaker 1: you said, we're just not in Atlanta. We're in twelve states. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I took a step back because I knew that. But
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  Speaker 1: I know you're gonna come too hard at the early
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  Speaker 1: part of the interview. Tell us about the But but
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  Speaker 1: what exactly you guys are representing in the organization and
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  Speaker 1: why twelve states? Because I'm sure is growing so at
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  Speaker 1: our base. The Southern Black Girls and Women's Consoration is
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  Speaker 1: a foundation supported to invest created to invest in black
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  Speaker 1: girls and women across the South. We are founded by
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  Speaker 1: Latasha Brown and four and three other women who have
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  Speaker 1: long histories and professional experience professional excellence in philanthropy. They
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  Speaker 1: lead the Appalachian Community Foundation, the Fund for Southern Communities
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  Speaker 1: in the Black Belt Community Foundation. And what they knew
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  Speaker 1: over the years of experience is that there was a gap,
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  Speaker 1: I might even call it a chasm of funding where
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  Speaker 1: they're out of the nearly five million dollars invested in
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  Speaker 1: the South, black girls and women were only receiving about
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  Speaker 1: less than one percent excuse me, receiving less than one
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  Speaker 1: percent and with that piece of information, the four organizations
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  Speaker 1: and the leadership of Latasha and the four other leaders
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  Speaker 1: this group. So there's that's not acceptable. It's not acceptable
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  Speaker 1: in the face of that. Fifty of Americans who identified
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  Speaker 1: black as black live in the South, and of those
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  Speaker 1: people are black women. And so when you want to
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  Speaker 1: look at what we can do for our country, for
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  Speaker 1: our nation, for the South, we are investing here. This
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  Speaker 1: is smart money. Investing in black women and black girls
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  Speaker 1: in the South is a smart investment. So we took
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  Speaker 1: it on ourselves to do this work. And we are
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  Speaker 1: in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia, and now East Texas. That's Texas in my state.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know tex I'm from Houston, Texas, so I
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  Speaker 1: I claim I claim all parts. So you have to
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  Speaker 1: go through uh East Texas to get to my hometown
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  Speaker 1: of Houston, Texas. Now, now when I when out Latasha,
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  Speaker 1: you know your your your gift. Your gift is communication.
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  Speaker 1: That's obviously you know your guard is giving you that
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  Speaker 1: blessed blessing. Now when you talk about where we're at
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  Speaker 1: in life today because we have Stacy Abrams, you're running
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  Speaker 1: for the governorship for the second time. That's black women.
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  Speaker 1: We are now now so much so at one time
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  Speaker 1: I could just talk about George and people go, he
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  Speaker 1: did talk about George. But now it's a national referendum,
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  Speaker 1: and then you're tied to black voters. Tell us the
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  Speaker 1: important role that you're playing because what you do here
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  Speaker 1: does impact the entire country. Yep. So, I am co
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  Speaker 1: founder of the organization with Cliff Alright called Black Voters
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  Speaker 1: Matter Fund and Black Voters Capacity Building Institute, and it
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  Speaker 1: was created out of need of the in the in
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  Speaker 1: the same spirit of of Southern Black girls. We want
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  Speaker 1: to get resources on the ground directly to grads, FROO
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  Speaker 1: organizations to build their capacity so that we could actually
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  Speaker 1: fight for power in our communities. And so we've been
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  Speaker 1: doing that. We work in twelve states. We put money
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, we actually provide support, We shift the narrative.
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  Speaker 1: I always said, you can as understanding three three buckets.
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  Speaker 1: We put money, it's money, it's mobilization and its message right,
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  Speaker 1: having a message that centers black people, mobilizing resources and
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  Speaker 1: folks to go to the polls and actually put money
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  Speaker 1: on the ground and it's all sent around not elections,
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  Speaker 1: but how do we build power in our communities? Now,
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  Speaker 1: what's that being said? You know, this this country really
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  Speaker 1: it has become divided, you know, and I think Trump
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  Speaker 1: has played a huge and uh, I think that we've
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  Speaker 1: always kind of hidden their racial issues were in existing
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  Speaker 1: this country, but now it feels like they is obvious.
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  Speaker 1: It's obvious, and it's overt in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 1: As a person trying to get the black electric motibalized,
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  Speaker 1: what what words of encouragement and how do you do
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  Speaker 1: how do you get the black voter mobilize? You know?
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  Speaker 1: Part of what I think that we have to do.
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  Speaker 1: The whole purpose of white supremacy is to make you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're less stand And so part of what
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  Speaker 1: we see is we go through and you see these systems.
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  Speaker 1: But every single policy, every every aspect of our lives
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  Speaker 1: is impacted by public policy. I mean, you can't be
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  Speaker 1: born without without some policy impact in your life. You
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  Speaker 1: can't even die and your family get the death certificate
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  Speaker 1: to get the insurance right. All of that is controlled
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  Speaker 1: by policy. And so what we tell people to shank
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  Speaker 1: change the frame that when folks tell us that they
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  Speaker 1: don't trust this system, that the system works for those
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  Speaker 1: who have resources that their works and favored white folks.
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  Speaker 1: We say, you're right, you're right, right, We say when
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  Speaker 1: when when we're telling them about why they're voting, we're saying,
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  Speaker 1: you're not You're not voting um because you want to
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  Speaker 1: get some political party in our office. What you're voting
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  Speaker 1: for is you're voting for yourself. That you have to
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  Speaker 1: use every until your community has everything that it needs.
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  Speaker 1: You have to use every single tool available to you
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  Speaker 1: to actually push back to reduce the harm in your
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  Speaker 1: community and make sure you're holding folks accountable, but also
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  Speaker 1: to literally be able to advance an agenda that is
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  Speaker 1: gonna support your community. And that's real. Whether you vote
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  Speaker 1: or not, somebody's gonna be a elected and the question
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  Speaker 1: is if anybody's gonna make a decision about me and
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  Speaker 1: my family, I need to be a part of that process.
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  Speaker 1: So what we tell people, as we tell folks that
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  Speaker 1: focus on what centers you in your community, and you
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  Speaker 1: use everything that God has given you to actually push
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  Speaker 1: towards that. That's why some folks have started the business
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  Speaker 1: with less than five dollars in their checking account. There
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  Speaker 1: are some people that have actually taken taken one little
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  Speaker 1: they had and turned that into millions. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: use whatever seeds you have, that seed of hope to
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  Speaker 1: grow the kind of trees that you want to have.
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  Speaker 1: And so our work in the Black community, it's not
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  Speaker 1: about what the numbers are for folks to vote on
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  Speaker 1: how many people registered, is about how are we gonna
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  Speaker 1: use our collective power different aspects of power, our economic power,
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  Speaker 1: our social power, our cultural power, and our political power
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  Speaker 1: in such a way that we're going to advance our
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  Speaker 1: community so American could be the American we design, we deserve.
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  Speaker 1: Because while we're saying that it is more divided, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that in some ways what we're seeing is we're seeing
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  Speaker 1: the rise of white supremacy. But I would say the
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  Speaker 1: division has always been here that black folks have never
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  Speaker 1: received that There's always been a a a wealth gap
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  Speaker 1: within our community in terms of the half and half
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  Speaker 1: not sixty of black people live in poverty, sixty eight
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  Speaker 1: percent of black women live are working hourly wags jobs.
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  Speaker 1: All of those things have to change and shift so
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  Speaker 1: that we can actually have the resources we need in
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  Speaker 1: our community. That's round two Malika, thank you. You know
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  Speaker 1: when I um it says you're on a mission, the
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  Speaker 1: organization is to raise a hundred million dollars. Now that's
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  Speaker 1: to show you the money mission and you can have
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  Speaker 1: passion and I love I always tell people marketing guru,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I know the marketing brands up, but you
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  Speaker 1: have to have an angle. You have to have a
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  Speaker 1: motivational moment to be able to get people. Because you
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  Speaker 1: look Trump out there. You know he's getting money left
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  Speaker 1: and right because he got his angle. You know he's
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  Speaker 1: tapped into his base. What base have you guys tapped into?
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  Speaker 1: And what is your angle? And I'm not saying angle
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  Speaker 1: is a negative because every every marketing, successful marketing has
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  Speaker 1: an angle to be able to consider that one hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars as a possibility. So there are a couple
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  Speaker 1: of uh, there are a couple of foundational spaces where
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  Speaker 1: we where we make sense. We've tapped into the network
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  Speaker 1: of black women that are already doing this work. We
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  Speaker 1: have networks of hundreds of organizations, thousands of millions of
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  Speaker 1: women and girls who that who we talked to because
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  Speaker 1: we are actually out there trying to identify who is
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  Speaker 1: doing the right work. The good work and how do
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  Speaker 1: we invest in net work. So our base is pretty
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  Speaker 1: broad across these twelve set states. Our angle is exactly
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  Speaker 1: what I shared with you earlier, is that when you
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  Speaker 1: make an investment in these black women and girls, you
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  Speaker 1: make an investment in this country. I'm not the first
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  Speaker 1: one to say, but an investment in the South is
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  Speaker 1: an investment in this nation. In investment in a girl
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  Speaker 1: is an investment in this nation. You grow this country.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's not a hard message to con conceive
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  Speaker 1: of that this is money well spent. This is money
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  Speaker 1: well spent. The South is a seed of activism. When
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  Speaker 1: we think about all the things that have been tried
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  Speaker 1: to oppress people in the South, we absolutely simultaneously then
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  Speaker 1: think about all of the people in the South who said,
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  Speaker 1: you can't try this here, it won't work here. We're
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  Speaker 1: coming for you here. And this if we want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that this country has a series of activists
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  Speaker 1: and leaders who are always at the ready, an investment
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: in girls and women make sense. Well, you know the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: interesting thing, because we don't know a subject of money, Latasha,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: what exactly is the Black Girl's Dream Fund. Black Girl's
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Dream Fund is one of four funds that we've created.
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  Speaker 1: It is a hundred million dollar initiative over the last
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  Speaker 1: next thing years. Our goal is to raise and to
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  Speaker 1: give out and invest over a hundred million dollars to
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  Speaker 1: organizations that serve black women and Black girls. And so
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  Speaker 1: what we are excited is with the Black Girls Dream
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  Speaker 1: Fund is that we funded. We've already provided in this
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  Speaker 1: spring two point two million dollars. So it was seventy
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  Speaker 1: one organizations that we wrote grants to and so we
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  Speaker 1: will continue to do that. We have three other funds
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  Speaker 1: that will come online that we're launching towards the end
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  Speaker 1: of the year that we're super super excited about. But
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  Speaker 1: the whole purpose of that fund is to invest in
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  Speaker 1: those organizations that are working at center black girls and
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  Speaker 1: women and so to help them to build their capacity.
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  Speaker 1: We believe that if they are stronger, then the movement
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  Speaker 1: to actually change um um change the conditions of black
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  Speaker 1: girls will be stronger. It's a way for us to
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: build out the ecosystem of support for Black women and girls.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations master
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Class with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return to Money Making
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Wow, I really appreciate that
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  Speaker 1: I have a daughter, you know, and so I always
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  Speaker 1: i'm motivated by women who pushed the narrative. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what you're doing because sometimes you not. Sometimes you can
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  Speaker 1: never sit back, because you sit back, you're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: passed up. And that that's just the number one thing
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  Speaker 1: I get from my conversation is that because I definitely
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  Speaker 1: want to invite you to my w CLK show I'll
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: doing Tuesday, because I just I want to be like
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: said you. We all can contribute in different ways, and
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: you have a newsletter, of social media, of a radio show.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: This is just an extension. But y'all, y'all dominating in Georgia.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I gotta let the Georgia people know. You know, it's
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: all right for them to know your Milwaukee, in Chicago
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: or d C. But we we need to lock this
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: down in in Atlanta. So we're gonna get And then
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: let me let me say this too, that many of us,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: all of us who are working on this will come
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  Speaker 1: out of our pockets. And so there is while the
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: large necessary, the large foundations and corporations we invest that
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: we want to have more corporate partners individual. If it's
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: five dollars, if it's two dollars. You don't know how
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: much it means to us to be able to get
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: those small donations, because sometimes that's the message that says,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: we believe in you, we believe that we can do this,
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  Speaker 1: we can take care of us. And so people who
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  Speaker 1: want to donate to us, they can text us, they
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: can text black girls black girl to six six eight
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  Speaker 1: six six. That's black girl to six six eight six six.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: He'll get a donation, a donation. League send us five dollars,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: ten dollars, a hundred dollars, a million dollars. But generally
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: those donations are the donations that send us affirmations that
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you're in this movement with us and you believe in that. Well,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you know, that's what people think, Maliko. They think that
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: they you know, you know, Trump not getting up to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: two and fifty million dollars, he get five dollars, one dollars,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: ten dollars, a hundred dollars, twenty dollars. And so we
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: as donors need to understand it's not how much it
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: is how much, but doing something and a dollar adds
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: up to another dollar, and then all of a sudden,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the momentum grabs and the Gavinizers, the organization and get
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: is where you start bragging about your dream but possibly
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: coming true. Now you have no you have no This
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: this bus tour. That's why I'm gonna come back to human.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: You know, this bus tour in the South. You know,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: first of all, whenever a lot of people don't know,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the South is just beautiful to me. It's a beautiful culture,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: is a beautiful food, is beautiful people, beautiful music. So
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: when you start talking about I get a little jealous.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: It's this just for for young ladies, this bus tour.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: It's a family affair now, without question, it is the prettiest,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: pinkest bust in America that I grew up with six
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: sisters like a toy, pinking all in my life a
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: long time. Okay, well good, because this is more pink
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: than you can shoot. Definitely it is. But it's a
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: family affair. Everybody is welcome. I bought my eight year
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: old son this weekend and we kicked off the tour
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta. We're heading to Elaine, Arkansas and Little Rock
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: this this coming weekend. So absolutely everyone is welcome. And
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: what we wanted was to give family these but young
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: girls and young women in particular, a journey to joy.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: So they get a little passport and they get a
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: chance to visit the journey to to joy and the
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  Speaker 1: journey to fun, and the journey to stem and the
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  Speaker 1: cosmetic chemistry. They get a chance to experience as many
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: things as we can put together for them on this tour.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you that we had more than three
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: hundred girls and women in Atlanta that didn't want to leave.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: We actually had to tell them the event was over
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: incredible experience. This is an incredible experience. And because we've
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: all been away from each other for two years, this
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: is the perfect way to give ourselves a moment to
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: smile at each other, to recognize the fact that joy
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: is restorative, to take some time to actually share stories
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: with each other, because our mental health and self care
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: is important. This is an important event. It's a lot
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: of fun, but it actually does help restore our souls.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: So it started Saturday August and an in September seventeen.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Why that window, why why are that particular window of
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: travel for the tour. So September sixteen is actually the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: um if you would remember, and those of us who
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: are history buffs may remember that that is the commemoration
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of the bombing at the sixteen Street Baptist Church with
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  Speaker 1: the four little girls, And so we always try to
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: make sure that its Southern Black girls and women's consortion.
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  Speaker 1: We take a moment to mark that that moment in
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  Speaker 1: our lives um to make sure that we remember those
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: young women, remember their sacrifice, and remember that black girls
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: have been given to social justice movements for years and
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: that their lives were not in vain. So that date
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: is August. It started August twenty, but it ends September,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: six September, seventeen September, And I wonder if they gave
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: me some bad information. I think I've reading sevente there,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: but I got to come back. I was just I
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: would speaking specifically to the day. Let me ca like
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I gotta close the show with the mouth the wonderful
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the articulates straight out of selbum. You know visionary founder
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: co founders. He got two co founders. She got on
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: my show here, the one and only Latason Brown. You
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: started this and then said three other ladies had the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: same vision you brought on with leak. Because during a
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: wonderful job as the executive dress. What is the ultimate goal?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Because it ain't something going to happen in the year.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: This is a jourans legacy campaign you've created here, Like
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I could believe that, but Dr Martin Luther King created
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: it's a legacy campaign because we're always going to continue
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: to fight. We're always gonna have obstacles. We know we
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: have obstacles. How will we be able to come overcome
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: it with your organization? So you know, I am really
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: clear that when God gives a vision, he gives the provision.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: This is a vision that God gave me. I was
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: in the shower. The vision came so strong, so hard,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: matter of fact, I had a whole another job that
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I jumped out of the shower and created UM and
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: start writing down what was coming to me at the time.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: And so I'm raising that because I think part of
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: what we also um don't do enough of is happening
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: into our spiritual gifts. And know that literally if we follow,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: we're in alignment with that we can create the vision
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  Speaker 1: that God gives us. And the vision for me wasn't
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: about the organization, It wasn't about the money. It was
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: how to create that that I was so excited that
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: God would tap me as one of his many many people,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: that we could act have the audacity to believe that
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: we could create the kind of environment that could be
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: that people, women and girls could feel healthy and whold,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: that we could actually staying in the space of abundance.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: That our abundance wasn't determined by the stock marketing, determined
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: about about check them out. But my abundance is what
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: God has given me and put in me that we
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: could actually create, We could use our innovation to actually
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: address some of the problems. That we didn't need anybody
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: to come in and look at us as victims, but
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: in fact we could actually share out of our abundance,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: our abundance of spirit, our abundance of joy, our abundance
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: of thoughts, our abundance of creativity. And we've seen whether
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the world has has has actually benefited from that and
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: has exploited that. And so but what best way to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: do it is to lead and create a vision that
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: literally all of us collectively could be a part of
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: that If we change the life of a black girl,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I am convinced that if we change your life, a
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: little black girl, we will change the world. And so
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: that is my vision. My vision is that black girls
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: will recognize that they are already whole and complete and
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: there's nothing left to do but just operate in the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: in the gifts and the talents that God has given them. Well,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: thank you for that. You know that. I won't say
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: sermon because if you you're you're, you're a talker, you're
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: a gifted speaker, You're you know what to say and
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: know how to say it. But I want to add
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: this um. On every Wednesday, my news I have sixty
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: or six thousand fan club members receive a news letter
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: at ten am. I do you have any banner about
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the tools? We have videos, fantastic videos, and least get
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: it to me today so it can go out to
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: my fan base tomorrow. Ten o'clock is gone. We were like,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: we're professional over here, not ten fifteen. I'm they were creeping.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: One day they did ten fifth answer Who time y'all
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: telling it's ten am at this company. So please get
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: that information today because I like to my fans to
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: know about it, and I like to know about it
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: because I like to surprise y'all. One of them stops. Okay, wonderful.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I love the South. You can't. You can't run a
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: brother out to South Okay, and I love your energy.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I'm a fan and I'm very seriously y'all hear me
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: on my show. I'm inviting them, but Lika Latasha over
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: by the building and we're gonna have a down home.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: We're gonna capture it on video, putting on TikTok and
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: just let everybody know we're gonna and we do so.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: We might even do a fundraiser too. We're gonna get
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: something rolling around here. Let's get these folks to know
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: why they're watching us eat. Give us a dollar, give
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: us the dollar. Long we eat, y'all keep giving them
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: some dollars, but more importantly, get that information so we
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: can let everybody know about this tour nationwide. Okay, thank
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: you so much. It was awesome. I love both of y'all. Y'all, y'at,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: like you said, family, I feel like I'm talking to family.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: And when you're talking to family, you can talk to
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: him for a long time because guess what you're gonna
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: start eating. And I love to eat, by y'all,