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Career Tips: Her Google Career Scholarships generate thousands of dollars in job opportunities. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: and providing resources that help individuals make inform financial decisions,
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  Speaker 1: optimize their resources, and develop healthy financial habits. Under her leadership,
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  Speaker 1: Grow give Prosper as partner with an initial partner with
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  Speaker 1: initiatives like Grow with Google to offer a certifcation scholarships
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  Speaker 1: aiming to enhance career opportunities for underserved communities. Please work
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  Speaker 1: with the Money Making Conversation massac last Cassandra Lester. How
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  Speaker 1: you doing, Cassandra, I'm doing swell. Rashaan, how are you
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  Speaker 1: pretty good? Now let's get this. Give us the name
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  Speaker 1: of your Is it a nonprofit?
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  Speaker 2: It is a nonprofit, Grow, Give, prosper.
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  Speaker 1: How did you come up with that name? You know what?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, because that's what I want to see my community do.
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  Speaker 2: I want us to grow together so that we can
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  Speaker 2: give to each other and then prosper as a collective.
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  Speaker 2: So that's how I came up with that name.
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  Speaker 1: Of How long you long have you had the foundation?
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  Speaker 2: I have been in the financial education since about twenty
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  Speaker 2: seventeen and I started the nonprofit of twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, cool, So you said financial education. Can you give
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  Speaker 1: us a little of your background from a financial literacy
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  Speaker 1: standpoint before we get into the interview.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, sure. So it all started when I was a
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  Speaker 2: human resource an office manager at a very prominent medical
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  Speaker 2: facility here in the state of Georgia. And one thing
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  Speaker 2: I noticed, from the people who had the PhDs to
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  Speaker 2: the ones who had the GEDs, every time we sat
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  Speaker 2: down to do that tax paperwork, it leveled the playing field.
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  Speaker 2: So that's when I realized that financial education doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: who you are, what you look like. It's a matter
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  Speaker 2: of accessibility.
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell you, so I have a math degree, Cassandra,
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  Speaker 1: I am scared to death to do my taxes. I
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  Speaker 1: have never in my life the easy form nothing. I've
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  Speaker 1: always paid somebody to do my taxes. So when you
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  Speaker 1: say level the playfield you're talking about, Risha McDonald, I
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  Speaker 1: am a person to go. Can you do my taxes please?
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm confused. So let's talk about you and what
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to do. When you said the word community,
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  Speaker 1: what do you mean when you're a whole you or
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  Speaker 1: referencing When you say the word community.
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  Speaker 2: A community, I'm talking about the people that I encounter
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  Speaker 2: in my daily life walking outside, going to the grocery store,
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  Speaker 2: going to the restaurant, going to the library, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in my traditional nine to five. These are people who
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  Speaker 2: I consider a part of my community. And what I
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  Speaker 2: realized is that, like I mentioned before, it didn't matter
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  Speaker 2: what their background was, we all had the same struggle
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  Speaker 2: and the difference was that nobody was talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: So to me, community is just everybody who has the
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  Speaker 2: same need that needs to get that outreach and to
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  Speaker 2: get that education.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if you're not, if you got like halfway listening
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  Speaker 1: to the show, I want you to stop and focus
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  Speaker 1: on the show because this is the reason, one of
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  Speaker 1: the many reasons I brought her on the show for
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  Speaker 1: this interview her partnership with Grow with Google, that's the
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  Speaker 1: name of it. Grow with Google. Now, Google is what
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  Speaker 1: we're about to concentrate on and what they're doing with
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  Speaker 1: your foundation. Talk to us about what is Grow with Google.
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  Speaker 2: Grow with Google is a tremendous outreach initiative that Google
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  Speaker 2: has delivered to community partners like myself, where we are
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  Speaker 2: delivering career certification scholarships to any and everyone who wants it,
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  Speaker 2: specifically justice impacted, specifically economically impacted communities that may not
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  Speaker 2: have access to that level of education due to financial restraints.
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  Speaker 2: So Google is now saying that, hey, we want to
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  Speaker 2: give you a chance to thrive to So we're going
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  Speaker 2: to give you a chance to get a career certification
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  Speaker 2: entry level into cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing, e commerce,
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  Speaker 2: IT support, project management, or UX design, which is user design,
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  Speaker 2: which is those apps and the websites. So Google is
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  Speaker 2: now leveling the playing field. They're saying, you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to have an ID league education in order to make
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  Speaker 2: an earnable a livable wage.
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  Speaker 1: Now that p on liverable wage, I'm gonna just let
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  Speaker 1: everybody know that. Just go to just go to the internet,
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  Speaker 1: Google indeed and Google salaries of all the job titles
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  Speaker 1: that she listed, you'll see that these are game changing
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  Speaker 1: opportunities that this foundation that Cassandra Lester created, that it's
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  Speaker 1: partnered with Google. And I want to hang on this
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  Speaker 1: for a minute because I don't want to blow past it,
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  Speaker 1: because I want people to be able to reach out
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  Speaker 1: to you. Do you have a website that they can visit?
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  Speaker 2: Certainly if they go to grow with I'm sorry, Grow
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  Speaker 2: give prosper dot org and scroll to the bottom, you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna see the Google scholarship link. And the barrier to
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  Speaker 2: entry is very low. We don't want to make it difficult.
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  Speaker 2: If you have a commitment to yourself and if you
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  Speaker 2: want to increase your earning potential, all you have to
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  Speaker 2: do in the state of Georgia, no matter where you're located,
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  Speaker 2: is go to this website, Grow Give prosper dot org.
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  Speaker 2: Scroll to the bottom, Google certifications, read the information. If
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  Speaker 2: it's what you want for yourself, then enroll and Coursera
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  Speaker 2: is going to send you the link and you can
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  Speaker 2: start learning today.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's do go over those job opportunities that are
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  Speaker 1: available on your website.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing, and e commerce
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  Speaker 2: and this I kind of want to just really touch
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  Speaker 2: on them really quickly. Digital markets.
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  Speaker 1: Please do slow it down because I want people to
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  Speaker 1: understand that you know. And let me also say this.
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  Speaker 1: You say the word scholarship. Oh yeah, is there a fee?
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  Speaker 2: No fee, there's no fear. The only fee is that
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  Speaker 2: you have to commit to doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Would you give you s several or job opportunities to
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  Speaker 1: go out there and get in the game, as we say,
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  Speaker 1: get the game and not get left out. And this
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  Speaker 1: is somebody who may be working a blue college, blue
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  Speaker 1: collar job, somebody who may be just have a ged,
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  Speaker 1: somebody who may have a two year degree. This level
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  Speaker 1: is the plan field for anybody that these scholarships that's
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  Speaker 1: being offered through your foundation through Google. And you're saying, Richard,
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  Speaker 1: there's no charge. It's it's based on if you sign up,
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  Speaker 1: please compete it. Please don't just sign up to be
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  Speaker 1: signed up for the first time in your life. Make
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  Speaker 1: an effort to complete something that can change your life. Both.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm saying I have a college degree on
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  Speaker 1: my wall, or math degree, and I always tell people
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  Speaker 1: you can't repoll that degree, which means you can't take
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  Speaker 1: that But well, once it's on that wall, you can't
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  Speaker 1: take it back. And it's not like a car, it's
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  Speaker 1: like a house. Once you've been certified a degree that's yours,
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  Speaker 1: and it also gives you a sense of empowerment that
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  Speaker 1: you can change your life in the surroundings around you.
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  Speaker 1: So you go, give us more detail on each one
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  Speaker 1: of these job titles that we're doing with I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: with Cassandra Leicster. Give us your foundation one more time
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  Speaker 1: and your website.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Growth Gift Prosper and the website is Growth giftprosper
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  Speaker 2: dot org. And I'm going to dive into what Google
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  Speaker 2: certifications are currently available. We have cybersecurity. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're the kind of person who wants to be the savior,
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  Speaker 2: you want to be able to come in and you
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  Speaker 2: know throwd all of these or if you want to
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  Speaker 2: be the kind of person who can recognize these attacks
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  Speaker 2: before they happen, cybersecurity is a great field for you
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  Speaker 2: to get into data analytics. If you want to tell
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  Speaker 2: businesses what's trending, where they can find the money. Data
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  Speaker 2: analytics is for you. Digital marketing and e commerce. We're
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  Speaker 2: all over the website. We're all out here shopping online,
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  Speaker 2: digital marketing at e commerce. That's gonna tell you, you
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  Speaker 2: know previously where I said you're gonna show the businesses
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  Speaker 2: where the money where you are the one that's making
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  Speaker 2: the money. You are putting your product or products for
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  Speaker 2: other people online and making it abailt and making it
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  Speaker 2: available for them to purchase it. Support so you can
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  Speaker 2: stack it. Support with cybersecurity. You are providing daily maintenance
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  Speaker 2: to laptops, phones, computers. It support project management. Now, when
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned that you can get several certifications, these are
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  Speaker 2: certifications that you can stack. So can you imagine stacking
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  Speaker 2: project management with a data analytics certification? And then finally
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  Speaker 2: UX design. So when I say that, it may sound
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  Speaker 2: Greek to a lot of people, but think about it.
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  Speaker 2: These apps, Instagram, all the websites that you go to.
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  Speaker 2: UX design means user experience design. You're designing the experience
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  Speaker 2: that the person who's on that app is using. So
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  Speaker 2: I remember one time with my baking app, I had
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  Speaker 2: an issue with getting my password. Every time I would
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  Speaker 2: log out to get the password and come back in,
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  Speaker 2: the app would close. Somebody saw that and they fixed it.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what that user experience design. Along that line,
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  Speaker 2: that's what you would be learning.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's ask you this, Sandra Cassandra. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation Masterclass. How
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  Speaker 1: have you been This sounds like a program or your
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  Speaker 1: promtation seems to be locked into Google and providing dream
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  Speaker 1: like opportunities for people who can get these scholarships by
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  Speaker 1: going on to your website. How are you promote this
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  Speaker 1: or how are you spreading the word?
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  Speaker 2: Mister rauchhand you know I'm country, mister rashand I am
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  Speaker 2: boats on the ground. We are out here, grassroots. We
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  Speaker 2: are going to every community center that's local. We are
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  Speaker 2: going to the adult education class. Is I am on
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  Speaker 2: social media pushing this information out? I mean any and
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  Speaker 2: everybody that will hear me. I'm trying to shout it
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  Speaker 2: from the grooftops to let them know you don't want
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  Speaker 2: to miss this.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to.
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  Speaker 2: Miss this opportunity to increase your earning potential. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: literally out here getting in my car I call a pearl,
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  Speaker 2: Me and Pearl, driving up and down these highways, trying
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  Speaker 2: to get to every adult education class that we can
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  Speaker 2: get to to tell these folks you need to sign up.
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  Speaker 1: Okayfore we talk about the classes you're seeing. So if
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  Speaker 1: someone in New York, someone in Chicago, someone in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: someone in Houston or Dallas, they can register.
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  Speaker 2: They can. You have to be Continental US. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: of course Google is gonna know if you're logging in
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  Speaker 2: from outside the US. But Continental US and what I
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  Speaker 2: tell you, they were generous, Like I gave myself a
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  Speaker 2: pat on the back because I wrote that letter. Do
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  Speaker 2: you hear me? They gave me over three hundred scholarships,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm ready to deliver it to the community.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Cool. And so you have three other scholarships available, yes, nationwide. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: all individuals can do that. No charge, Jesus scholarships. Correct,
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  Speaker 1: three to six months worth of online training, but opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to change your life. Your life, and you're doing the
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  Speaker 1: boots on the ground. Now you don't money, make conversations masterclass.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're about to We're going worldwide with you domestic US,
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  Speaker 1: Continental in USA opportunities to register. Now, let's talk about you,
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  Speaker 1: said Rashelle, you and PEERL that's the name of her
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  Speaker 1: vehicle going up and down the road. When you go
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  Speaker 1: in these classes, what has been the reaction or have
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  Speaker 1: you been disappointed in the reaction?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I am being well received. The program is being
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  Speaker 2: well received. The thing about it is that you are changing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm changing minds. People are, you know, thinking that I'll
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  Speaker 2: never be able to get out of the situation. I'm
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  Speaker 2: robbing Peter to pay Paul and when they realize that
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  Speaker 2: you have an opportunity. And what I wanted to do
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  Speaker 2: was be credible. So I did some vetting on the
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  Speaker 2: back end, and I asked people who are in hiring
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  Speaker 2: positions in it. Would you hire somebody with a GED
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  Speaker 2: and a Google certification. A couple of people told me
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  Speaker 2: who graduated college with a master's degree. He said they
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  Speaker 2: lost out on their first job because they didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a certification to a person who did. So it's valid,
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  Speaker 2: it's legitimate. And the people that I meet, they are overjoyed.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them might be a little skeptical at first,
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  Speaker 2: but once they realized that it's legitimate. I initially had
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  Speaker 2: about five hundred scholarships, so we've had so many people
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  Speaker 2: to enroll that now that number has went down.
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  Speaker 1: You're being able to create that are being brought into
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  Speaker 1: our community, that is leveling the playing field, and by
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  Speaker 1: earning this opportunity to get certified that they can get
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  Speaker 1: a job, a career, a career. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me for saying that. Now, let's talk about a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more about you, because I wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: that out at the top of the conversation because I
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  Speaker 1: wanted people to hear exactly the opportunity that your foundation
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  Speaker 1: brings to the table and is chain lives the importance
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  Speaker 1: of financial literacy. That's a financial literacy is a huge
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  Speaker 1: buzzword in the community. What does financial literacy mean to you?
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  Speaker 2: Financial literacy means to me that you understand the words,
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  Speaker 2: You hear the conversation and it's not Greek to you.
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  Speaker 2: You have tools that you can use to manage your
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  Speaker 2: expenses on a daily basis, that you understand how this
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  Speaker 2: applies to you. I heard a song from one of
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  Speaker 2: our famous young female rappers who says that she doesn't
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  Speaker 2: give an f about a credit score. I'm sure she's
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  Speaker 2: changed her mind since then because she's realized. She's realized
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  Speaker 2: that you better care about that credit score because that's
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  Speaker 2: going to make the difference in your borrowing potential and
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  Speaker 2: how much money you have to pay back. So financial
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  Speaker 2: literacy means that we understand the conversation and we know
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  Speaker 2: what it means and how it applies to our daily lives.
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  Speaker 1: So what's a misconception, Like you said, you have a
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  Speaker 1: rapper out there talking to the generation of people telling
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  Speaker 1: them don't care about the credits cade what you and
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  Speaker 1: I know that's a value. That's a value proposition. To
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  Speaker 1: have your credits code anywhere above seven hundred you get
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  Speaker 1: in an eight hundred, you in as they say, platinum,
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  Speaker 1: platinum zone. There. Absolutely, I'm talking to Cassandra Lester her
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  Speaker 1: foundation Grow excuse me, Grow Give Prosper as partner with
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  Speaker 1: initiatives like Grow with Google to offer certifications, scholarships aim
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  Speaker 1: to enhance career opportunities for underserved communities. So would you
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  Speaker 1: say that's your that's your mission.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yes, it is. That's my mission. And a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people know me, they kind of because I'll go
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  Speaker 2: off on a tangent in a minute, you know, I'll
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  Speaker 2: start talking about you know, protection, I'll start talking about
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  Speaker 2: ways to increase your earning potential. Well, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: I'm passionate. I don't go I do workshops month and
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  Speaker 2: when I go into these workshops, I'm not just doing
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  Speaker 2: a lecture. I'm really connecting with my audience and I
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  Speaker 2: want them to feel why I'm so passionate behind it.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not just sitting up there reading a paper.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really talking to my audience. I'm asking them questions,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and the green doesn't hurt, but definitely I
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  Speaker 2: left and I left out of one workshop and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, dang, I feel like I was in the
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  Speaker 2: pulpit because I really engage with my community partners when
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  Speaker 2: they invite me into these sessions. I talk to these
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  Speaker 2: people like their life depends on it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm going to tell you something. I
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  Speaker 1: want to come to one of your sessions. I want
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  Speaker 1: to be with you one time because I am all
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  Speaker 1: about changing people's lives. And this is not I'm not
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  Speaker 1: charging you anything. This is money making conversation masterless. All
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  Speaker 1: it's all about if I can use my brand like
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  Speaker 1: I'm using my brand of this show to let everybody
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  Speaker 1: know about these career changing opportunities with these Google scholars
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  Speaker 1: And all they have to do is visit your website
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  Speaker 1: to register. They have a time commitment three to six months,
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  Speaker 1: because each certification or scholarship has a time period of
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  Speaker 1: commitment you have to do to become qualified and earn
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  Speaker 1: the scholarships. That's what we're talking about, and I'm just
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  Speaker 1: talking to everybody in general. This is not tied to
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  Speaker 1: a degree person. This is not tied to a person
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  Speaker 1: who feels they are they can't qualify, if you have
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  Speaker 1: a ged, if you ever if you didn't finish draw college,
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  Speaker 1: drop out, the high school graduate, anybody who's doing the
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  Speaker 1: job that you're not happy with this interview is something
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  Speaker 1: or you have a relative, it's your husband, your wife,
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  Speaker 1: your partner, your son, your daughter, your cousin, your nephew.
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  Speaker 1: Tell them, look, don't give up. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: change your life. That's what your foundation is all about,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what you're doing. You're trying to really get
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  Speaker 1: them into the financial literacy conversation. Correct, Cassandra, I am.
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  Speaker 2: I am, because we lose so much money doing you know,
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  Speaker 2: going to predatory lending options. So it's a vicious cycle
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  Speaker 2: once you get in. But once you understand where you
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  Speaker 2: went wrong or where you have been misled, then you
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  Speaker 2: can understand where you need to make those corrections and
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  Speaker 2: move forward toward a more positive outcome.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, the think about it is that just
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  Speaker 1: because you want to do good does not mean everybody
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  Speaker 1: want you to do good. A position you to do good.
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  Speaker 1: Ands Andrew, you know, I've been frustrated in my life
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  Speaker 1: because I try to bring individuals like you on my show.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you you're cheerleader for change, tell us
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: some of the roadblocks that you've had to hopover, going
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: around or run over to have an interview like this
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  Speaker 1: on this show. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Some of the roadblocks just encountering people who minimize the
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: impact of obtaining financial literacy. And the very first workshop
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  Speaker 2: I held, I asked them, why don't you want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about this? And a couple of them, I don't
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: want you in my pocket. This is my business. You
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  Speaker 2: know what you're talking about ain't gonna help me. And
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: then also just you know, the community as a whole,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: certain demographics don't like to talk about money. They feel
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: like it's intrusive. And then also because I am a
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  Speaker 2: small nonprofit, a lot of times I'm not taken seriously
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  Speaker 2: by some of the bigger ones. I remember one time
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  Speaker 2: I went to apply for a grant and I saw
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  Speaker 2: one of my constituents apply for the same grant and
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: they got the grant and they told me, oh, sorry,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: we don't do that. And I was like, but I
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: just said, you give her like ten thousand dollars. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, but despite it all, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: tell you something, I quit every day and then I'll
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: get a phone calls like mister Sandra, are you coming
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: to the center this weekend? Are you coming on Saturday? Okay,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I'll be back down there.
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  Speaker 1: It don't take me long to preach, and then it
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: will not take me long to be able to tell
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  Speaker 1: these people this side all things. In my degree in
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  Speaker 1: math manager, my minder was in sociology and computer science,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm a computer sjuduscience nerd. I were in college,
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  Speaker 1: I almost went and got my degree in mis management
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  Speaker 1: information system So I've always been a person that's aware
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: of data management and data security. Now, with that being said,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: let's tell everybody. Google didn't come to you.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: The relationship started because I'm out here for my people.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you have a person that understands how important
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: this is. And even though some people may not quite
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: get it yet, that's not going to stop me from
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: trying to get stuff that's going to be good for them.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: So I actually was using Google for a different capacity
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: and then I was on a webinar and they were
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: just talking about some of the other products that were offered,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: and they you know, it's certain requirements that had to
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  Speaker 2: be met, and they were like, if you want to
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  Speaker 2: offer these scholarships to your community to help your community
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  Speaker 2: increase their earning potential. And I'm going to repeat something
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  Speaker 2: that I said earlier, justice impacted communities, low income communities.
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  Speaker 2: Google is intentionally looking to seek these communities to give
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  Speaker 2: them an opportunity to level up if you will. So
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: once I heard that, I said, this is what we need,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: you know, because you can't talk about managing finances if
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: you really don't have anything coming in. You know, it's possible,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: but ultimately being able to earn a living is the
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: first pillar in financial literacy increasing your earning potential. So
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: when I heard that that was an opportunity, I jumped
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: on it. I you know, like I was obsessed.
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote three, four, five different and you know pitches,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: and finally I settled on one. I submitted it, and
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: it seemed like forever getting the word back. And then
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: when I got the word back, they were like, you're
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: approved and you know, this is what and this is
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: how it goes and good luck. And I was like, wow,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: thank you, you know.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, thank you for coming on my show,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: thank you for being honest about your journey. Our goal
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: is to make your organization to be one of the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: top job finders or career finders for Google. I want
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I want that praise only comings, tough effort, praise only
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: comings through relationships and mentoring. And that's what I want
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to do and mentor you. That's why I want to
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: give you my time personally to try to get the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: word out. But again, as we close the show, tell
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: everybody about your initiative that you grow with Google and
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the jobs and how they can go and get these
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: free scholarships that are being offered three to six months
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: depends on the certification to floorish yours all right?
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  Speaker 2: You know, community, come on out. If you go to
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  Speaker 2: grow give prosper dot org scroll to the bottom Google Scholarships.
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  Speaker 2: Just click on it. The barrier to entry is low.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing we require from you is a commitment
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: and a desire to want to do better and to
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: see the program through to the end. So Grow Give
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: prosper dot org. Click on the Google Career scholarships. They
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: have scholarships in cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing and e commerce,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: IT support, project management, and UX design and these scholarships
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: are self paced online typically take three to six months
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: to complete. No experience is necessary. You don't have to
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: have any experience just to get started. And one thing
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I didn't mention is that you will get a portfolio.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: At the end of your certification. You will have created
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: a portfolio that you can market to in demand businesses
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: and you can go from having no experience to have
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: to have created a portfolio that's gonna make you viable
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: in the market.
• 25:18
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