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Speaker 1: What's up his way up at Angela Yee. It is

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Speaker 1: a Wealth Wednesday, so Stacy Tisday is here.

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Speaker 2: Happy Wealth Wednesdays everybody, and today we are going to

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Speaker 2: show you how to find money.

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Speaker 3: Oh please, lots of money.

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Speaker 2: We are so excited to be joined by Jaquina prem

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Speaker 2: aka Coach K. Now Coach K is a nationally recognized

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Speaker 2: grant expert, but she had to really walk on fire,

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Speaker 2: walk over the cohls to get there. I know you.

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Speaker 2: You spent fifteen years in the banking industry at Wells Fargo.

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Speaker 2: What happened?

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Speaker 1: So?

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Speaker 4: Worked for Wells Fargo and they got when that I

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Speaker 4: was teaching entrepreneurs how to actually get access to money

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Speaker 4: and funding for their business. And they called me one

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Speaker 4: day they said, you have two options. You can dissolve

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Speaker 4: the business that you have, or you can continue to

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Speaker 4: do what you're doing. So I decided to lock all

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Speaker 4: in and go all in on my dreams and my

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Speaker 4: vision and they actually terminated me. So they fired me

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Speaker 4: into Freedom for teaching and educating entrepreneurs how to actually

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Speaker 4: get access to money and funding for their business.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that's a conflict like when you're you

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Speaker 1: were working there for you to do these classes.

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Speaker 3: So yes and no.

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Speaker 4: So initially, when I started working for Wells Fargo, I

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Speaker 4: was actually in the branch and I was you know,

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Speaker 4: I seen a need and that's kind of how all

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Speaker 4: of this came about. When I was terminated, I was

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Speaker 4: in a completely different role. So this was during COVID.

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Speaker 4: You know, it was just completely different and I wasn't

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Speaker 3: I wasn't taking yeah, so it was completely separate.

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Speaker 4: But I see how it could potentially be an issue

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Speaker 3: But we're glad to have you. Yeah, I'm sure you

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Speaker 3: and a lot more people in.

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Speaker 2: Your book, it looks like that was kind of a

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Speaker 2: scary moment for you.

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Speaker 4: It was because all I knew was working for Wells Fargo.

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Speaker 4: I've had check a paycheck every two weeks. I've had

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Speaker 3: So all I knew was working for a job.

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Speaker 4: You work really hard, you do really will, you work

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Speaker 4: your way up, and that's what that's what I've seen

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Speaker 4: both of my parents do so to know.

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Speaker 3: And when I actually told.

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Speaker 4: My mom I was going to be an entrepreneur and

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Speaker 4: I was going on, she cried, Wow. Yeah, she was like, she's.

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Speaker 3: Scared for you.

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Speaker 2: I understand she could fill out.

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Speaker 4: Job applications for me while I was doing this, and

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Speaker 4: so it was all I knew.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't commend you on that, because entrepreneurship is

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Speaker 1: a crazy and scary thing. I mean, I've been watching

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Speaker 1: it's not an easy thing and it can be really challenging.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely I agree with that. And I think as women,

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Speaker 4: and we think about grant money, and we talk about

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Speaker 4: how all of the DEI programs are away, and you

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Speaker 4: know they no longer exist. I educate my entrepreneurs inside

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Speaker 3: Who are you going to help and serve?

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Speaker 4: What problem does your business solve, and how are you

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Speaker 4: just like this huge misconception out there that you have

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Speaker 4: as much money. One of our community members married. She's

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Speaker 4: And then we have Miss Emma that's in Memphis, Tennessee

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Speaker 4: So you can be a for profit company and get

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Speaker 1: And people also get intimidated by the process because sometimes

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Speaker 1: we think that applying for these grants, it's competitive and

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Speaker 1: People have to know the right people in order to

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Speaker 4: So I feel like that in a space where we are,

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Speaker 4: that people should not hire a grant writer. And the

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Speaker 4: reason I say that is because if I can, what's

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Speaker 4: or whatever the thing is, it's right. But if I

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Speaker 4: teach and I show other entrepreneurs that are seven eight

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Speaker 4: put them inside of a program like our community. We

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Speaker 2: I love that it's total who, not how exactly, And

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Speaker 2: that's a great book. That's a whole other conversation. So

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Speaker 2: you actually teach people how to cut down grant writing

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Speaker 4: So people, when we think about AI and grants, we think,

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Speaker 4: So now when you're applying for grants, it's applying for

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Speaker 4: Go to it and say, act as a certified grant

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Speaker 4: So you teach, you train, and the next one is

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, So you can go to chat GPT. You take

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Speaker 1: Now, what are some of the red flags when people

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Speaker 3: Now, We're definitely going to have a virtual option for sure.

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Speaker 1: No, it definitely inspired me to want to make sure,

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Speaker 1: like I'm already thinking like this weekend, let me focus

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Speaker 1: on trying to get some things done, but I want

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Speaker 1: to make sure we stay in contact.

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Speaker 2: To absolutely thing I can do to help. Definitely, Yeah, definitely,

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Speaker 2: Coach K. Thank you so much and everybody happy Wealth Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: This was a great one.