1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: My guests today are Latasha Brown Southern Black Girls and 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: Women's Consortium visionary founder and co founder Black Voters Matters 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: and Malika Rogers Southern Black Girls, Southern Black Girls and 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: Women's Consort them executive director the Southern Black Girls and 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: because Women's Consortium, which is as b as Southern Black Girls, 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: is a collection of black women. I have six sisters, 7 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: so I know by black women who in philanthropy, activision 8 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: and girls work who hold deep roots and movements and 9 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: building models for success. Please work with the Latasha Brown 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: and Malika Rogers to money making conversation, masterclass, ladies, how 11 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: are you doing? We are wonderful and we are extremely blessed. 12 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: We're on this show with you. We want to talk 13 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: about making money and moves. Well, you know I usually 14 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: get you now, usually get them on split screen. Why 15 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: don't have them on the split screen today because I 16 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: won't see him at the same time. Now say not 17 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: get you one at a time when you talk, then 18 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: you pop up when you know I don't see you. 19 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: Can we can we get that look for me? Because 20 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: I want to be able to. I want to be 21 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: a stand both of y'alli and just action. You know, 22 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: but both of you guys are both ladies, excuse me, 23 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:16,759 Speaker 1: are based in Atlanta, Georgia. Why well, Maliki want to start? Sure, 24 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: my I grew up here in Atlanta, but the work 25 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: is um The work isn't based in Atlanta. The work 26 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: is based all across our tol states. We just happened 27 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: to call Atlanta home, and I've called Atlanta home for 28 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: my life. Lash your Atlanta native to I am not. 29 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: I am an Alabama girl. I'm a deep deep South. 30 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 1: I'm a control to Alaborima. They gave me the big 31 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: cities in Alabama. So what little city you from it? 32 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: And I am from Selma, Alabama. Mobile. I spend part 33 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: of my life at Mobile on the coast, and then 34 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: part of my life the majority of my life in 35 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: little city called Selma, pretty famous city, uh city, a 36 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: little city called Selma, Alabama. Now we're not looking at Malika. 37 00:01:56,720 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: I look at you, Latasha. I see energy, see enthusiasm. 38 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: But when you talk about the black woman, you know, 39 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: I'm working on the project. And I was just talking 40 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,079 Speaker 1: about how black women came out of slavery and the 41 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: white women complaining, but they were still above black women 42 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: because black women considered slaves and at the time, you know, 43 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 1: they can be raped, they can be passed around. But 44 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: and then black men will consider slaves as well. But 45 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,519 Speaker 1: but black women I think always had a two step, 46 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 1: you know, because women in general consider secondary anyway in general. 47 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: But somehow today black women are the number one or 48 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: the fastest growing entrepreneurs in America. Why is the latasha 49 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, you know, it's 50 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: it's my grandmother to say, we don't kill you, make 51 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: you stronger. And I think because black women have literally said, 52 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 1: at this intersection of racism and sexism that we've had 53 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 1: to find a way when it seems like there was 54 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 1: no other way. And so for many of us entrepreneurship, 55 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: many of us have created jobs, not because somebody left 56 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,679 Speaker 1: us an inheritance or not because we got some there's 57 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 1: some big money down fall, you know. Some of us 58 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: created a business because we had to survive. We had 59 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: to survive for our families. We had no other income. 60 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: Some of us couldn't find jobs or were discriminated from 61 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: find a job, and so we had to use our 62 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: skills and our talents um to really be able to 63 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: get us through so that we could take care and 64 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: provide for our families. Many of us literally saw a 65 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 1: gap of a need in our community, and so we 66 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: were led as nurturers. We were led to literally create 67 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 1: a business. I had a sister that came over last 68 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: night who is as a nurse. She's a licensed nurse, 69 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: and she does I V therapy around vitamins, and she 70 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: talked about how she worked for a doctor, but also 71 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: that she saw the opportunity to start her own so 72 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: that she could actually it wasn't just her administer, and 73 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: she could actually administer information. She could share her own experience, 74 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: and she could provide that nurturing space so that we 75 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: could actually be able to get this these these these 76 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 1: additional vitamins. I'm saying that because I think what we 77 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: see in terms of entrepreneurship. We see women, I mean, 78 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: some of us going to business because we're trying to 79 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: get We try to make money. I mean, we all 80 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: want to make money. With some was like, listen, I 81 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: can use my skills instead of just making money for 82 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: other people. I can make money for myself. But but 83 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: I do want to say that our approach to entrepreneurship 84 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: has been very different from our white counterparts. You know, 85 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: our approach ship to to entrepreneurship really has been informed 86 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: by some of the struggle in our community that we've 87 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 1: had to create businesses because it's the irony is that 88 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: while black women are the fastest growing, we have the 89 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 1: largest numbers of entrepreneurs in the country in terms of 90 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: percentage wise. Percentage wise, we're entering college more than anybody 91 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: else in the country. Right in terms of voting, we 92 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: vote more than anybody in the country. So we basically 93 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: if America said that you got to go to school, 94 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: get your education, start your business, and and use your 95 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,080 Speaker 1: civic responsibility, we've done all of that. Then why is 96 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:58,480 Speaker 1: it that economically we're still at the bottom? And that actually, 97 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: I think our work exposes the deficiencies and the racism 98 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,280 Speaker 1: and the sexism that is embedded in all of these systems, 99 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 1: but it also really elevates how bad systems are, and 100 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,919 Speaker 1: how determined we are and how resilient we are, and 101 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: that in the midst of it, because what we see 102 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: is even when we're starting businesses, our businesses don't receive 103 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: the kind of investment that other businesses receiving. Now when 104 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 1: we're actually creating these opportunities that that that was that 105 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: mother that um started a daycare in her home. One 106 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: that daycare may but may have started because she needed 107 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: to have her kids and sheets somebody else like, baby, 108 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: can you keep care of my baby? And somebody else 109 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: needed somebody to take care of their children, and it 110 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: grew out of us responding to a need in our community, 111 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 1: not just this, not just a desire of regardless of anything. 112 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna gonna make money because it's good to 113 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 1: make money, right, we all want to make I won't 114 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 1: folks to make money. This whole existence of the Southern 115 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: Black Girls and Women's Consortium is for us to help 116 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 1: get money and investment in our communities. But that cannot 117 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 1: be at the expense of harm in our communities. And 118 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: sometimes we've actually seen people approach this, I'm gonna make money, 119 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 1: even if that means I'm gonna sell somebody out, I'm 120 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 1: step over, I'm gonna do things that are untechnical. So 121 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,119 Speaker 1: what we're saying is that the way that you create 122 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: abundance is that when you are making money or you're creating, 123 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: those you're creating to tap into the full wealth of 124 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,799 Speaker 1: who we are. That's our gifts, that's our talents, that's 125 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: also our treasures. But when we combine that, it ain't 126 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 1: no stopping us. We'll be right back with more Money 127 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 1: Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return to 128 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. Now, Malika, I'm 129 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: gonna tell you now, they actually moved out of seal 130 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: because she can talk. She can talk, you know, you know, 131 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 1: you know right now she is like a two questioned person. 132 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: You know, you asked a course. She gonna give you 133 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 1: five minutes now. So so so I'm gonna squeeze on 134 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: rushing into you, Blika before I come back to Hub, 135 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: because when I come back to Hub, it's gonna be 136 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: by five to ten minute for I come back to me. 137 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: Don't feel back. But you know this already. You know 138 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: this already. Don't you say that? Right? You say something again? 139 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: Right when you talk, she's about to say something. Just 140 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: keep smile, now, Milika, you sent me straight early in 141 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: the interviews that a little strong black women. She said, 142 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: we're just not in Atlanta, were in twelve states. Okay, 143 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: Executive director, tell us about the what the consortium is 144 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: and what states and why is there that growth in 145 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: those twelve states. We are the seven Black Girls and 146 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: Women's Social at our base. We are a foundation. We 147 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 1: invest in black girls and women in the South, and 148 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: we do that because there has been a gap. And Milica, 149 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: now LaTosha, you on the screen. Now you keep be 150 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: looking at your little iPad or your phone, people looking 151 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: at us because you're gonna be on national TV and 152 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: people gonna say, she ain't even listen to none of y'all. 153 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: So I don't want to do you wrong. Now we're 154 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: gonna edit this little part of that. So act like 155 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: you care about us now that you ain't talking. Now, 156 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: look at see her because she talking. Because she talking. 157 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 1: She she't shut us down, Malika, she shut us down. No, 158 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 1: I did not. I would never shut Malika. Don my brother. 159 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: But I was not on the screen when I was 160 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: trying to sneak and look and respond to this. I 161 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: can see you right now. I can see you right now. 162 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: See you look at that screen. Look behind me, y'all 163 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: a screen. Put that shot on it so she can 164 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: know that she on the big Now I see it now, 165 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: then you see you always I fixed it. At first, 166 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,560 Speaker 1: y'all was solo. But I like to look at both 167 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: beautiful women at the same time, I love black excellence. Okay, now, Malika, 168 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: you set me straight. You said, I said we just 169 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: you said, we're just not in Atlanta. We're in twelve states. Now. 170 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: I took a step back because I knew that. But 171 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 1: I know you're gonna come too hard at the early 172 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,719 Speaker 1: part of the interview. Tell us about the But but 173 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,719 Speaker 1: what exactly you guys are representing in the organization and 174 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: why twelve states? Because I'm sure is growing so at 175 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 1: our base. The Southern Black Girls and Women's Consoration is 176 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 1: a foundation supported to invest created to invest in black 177 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:18,280 Speaker 1: girls and women across the South. We are founded by 178 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: Latasha Brown and four and three other women who have 179 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: long histories and professional experience professional excellence in philanthropy. They 180 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: lead the Appalachian Community Foundation, the Fund for Southern Communities 181 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: in the Black Belt Community Foundation. And what they knew 182 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: over the years of experience is that there was a gap, 183 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: I might even call it a chasm of funding where 184 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: they're out of the nearly five million dollars invested in 185 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: the South, black girls and women were only receiving about 186 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: less than one percent excuse me, receiving less than one 187 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: percent and with that piece of information, the four organizations 188 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: and the leadership of Latasha and the four other leaders 189 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: this group. So there's that's not acceptable. It's not acceptable 190 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: in the face of that. Fifty of Americans who identified 191 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: black as black live in the South, and of those 192 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: people are black women. And so when you want to 193 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: look at what we can do for our country, for 194 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: our nation, for the South, we are investing here. This 195 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 1: is smart money. Investing in black women and black girls 196 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 1: in the South is a smart investment. So we took 197 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: it on ourselves to do this work. And we are 198 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, 199 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: West Virginia, and now East Texas. That's Texas in my state. 200 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: Now you know tex I'm from Houston, Texas, so I 201 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: I claim I claim all parts. So you have to 202 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 1: go through uh East Texas to get to my hometown 203 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: of Houston, Texas. Now, now when I when out Latasha, 204 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: you know your your your gift. Your gift is communication. 205 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: That's obviously you know your guard is giving you that 206 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 1: blessed blessing. Now when you talk about where we're at 207 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: in life today because we have Stacy Abrams, you're running 208 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: for the governorship for the second time. That's black women. 209 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: We are now now so much so at one time 210 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 1: I could just talk about George and people go, he 211 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: did talk about George. But now it's a national referendum, 212 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: and then you're tied to black voters. Tell us the 213 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,839 Speaker 1: important role that you're playing because what you do here 214 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: does impact the entire country. Yep. So, I am co 215 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:35,959 Speaker 1: founder of the organization with Cliff Alright called Black Voters 216 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: Matter Fund and Black Voters Capacity Building Institute, and it 217 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 1: was created out of need of the in the in 218 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 1: the same spirit of of Southern Black girls. We want 219 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: to get resources on the ground directly to grads, FROO 220 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: organizations to build their capacity so that we could actually 221 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: fight for power in our communities. And so we've been 222 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: doing that. We work in twelve states. We put money 223 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: on the ground, we actually provide support, We shift the narrative. 224 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: I always said, you can as understanding three three buckets. 225 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: We put money, it's money, it's mobilization and its message right, 226 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: having a message that centers black people, mobilizing resources and 227 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: folks to go to the polls and actually put money 228 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: on the ground and it's all sent around not elections, 229 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: but how do we build power in our communities? Now, 230 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 1: what's that being said? You know, this this country really 231 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: it has become divided, you know, and I think Trump 232 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: has played a huge and uh, I think that we've 233 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: always kind of hidden their racial issues were in existing 234 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: this country, but now it feels like they is obvious. 235 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: It's obvious, and it's overt in a lot of ways. 236 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: As a person trying to get the black electric motibalized, 237 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: what what words of encouragement and how do you do 238 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 1: how do you get the black voter mobilize? You know? 239 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: Part of what I think that we have to do. 240 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 1: The whole purpose of white supremacy is to make you 241 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: feel like you're less stand And so part of what 242 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 1: we see is we go through and you see these systems. 243 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: But every single policy, every every aspect of our lives 244 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: is impacted by public policy. I mean, you can't be 245 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 1: born without without some policy impact in your life. You 246 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: can't even die and your family get the death certificate 247 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: to get the insurance right. All of that is controlled 248 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,199 Speaker 1: by policy. And so what we tell people to shank 249 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: change the frame that when folks tell us that they 250 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: don't trust this system, that the system works for those 251 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: who have resources that their works and favored white folks. 252 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: We say, you're right, you're right, right, We say when 253 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: when when we're telling them about why they're voting, we're saying, 254 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: you're not You're not voting um because you want to 255 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,559 Speaker 1: get some political party in our office. What you're voting 256 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 1: for is you're voting for yourself. That you have to 257 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: use every until your community has everything that it needs. 258 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:47,920 Speaker 1: You have to use every single tool available to you 259 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: to actually push back to reduce the harm in your 260 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: community and make sure you're holding folks accountable, but also 261 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,199 Speaker 1: to literally be able to advance an agenda that is 262 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: gonna support your community. And that's real. Whether you vote 263 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 1: or not, somebody's gonna be a elected and the question 264 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:03,080 Speaker 1: is if anybody's gonna make a decision about me and 265 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,120 Speaker 1: my family, I need to be a part of that process. 266 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: So what we tell people, as we tell folks that 267 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: focus on what centers you in your community, and you 268 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: use everything that God has given you to actually push 269 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,640 Speaker 1: towards that. That's why some folks have started the business 270 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: with less than five dollars in their checking account. There 271 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: are some people that have actually taken taken one little 272 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: they had and turned that into millions. You've got to 273 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 1: use whatever seeds you have, that seed of hope to 274 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: grow the kind of trees that you want to have. 275 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: And so our work in the Black community, it's not 276 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,880 Speaker 1: about what the numbers are for folks to vote on 277 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: how many people registered, is about how are we gonna 278 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: use our collective power different aspects of power, our economic power, 279 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: our social power, our cultural power, and our political power 280 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: in such a way that we're going to advance our 281 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: community so American could be the American we design, we deserve. 282 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: Because while we're saying that it is more divided, yes, 283 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 1: that in some ways what we're seeing is we're seeing 284 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,680 Speaker 1: the rise of white supremacy. But I would say the 285 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: division has always been here that black folks have never 286 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: received that There's always been a a a wealth gap 287 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 1: within our community in terms of the half and half 288 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: not sixty of black people live in poverty, sixty eight 289 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: percent of black women live are working hourly wags jobs. 290 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: All of those things have to change and shift so 291 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 1: that we can actually have the resources we need in 292 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: our community. That's round two Malika, thank you. You know 293 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:33,040 Speaker 1: when I um it says you're on a mission, the 294 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: organization is to raise a hundred million dollars. Now that's 295 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 1: to show you the money mission and you can have 296 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: passion and I love I always tell people marketing guru, 297 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: all right, I know the marketing brands up, but you 298 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 1: have to have an angle. You have to have a 299 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: motivational moment to be able to get people. Because you 300 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 1: look Trump out there. You know he's getting money left 301 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: and right because he got his angle. You know he's 302 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 1: tapped into his base. What base have you guys tapped into? 303 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 1: And what is your angle? And I'm not saying angle 304 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: is a negative because every every marketing, successful marketing has 305 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: an angle to be able to consider that one hundred 306 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: million dollars as a possibility. So there are a couple 307 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: of uh, there are a couple of foundational spaces where 308 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: we where we make sense. We've tapped into the network 309 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: of black women that are already doing this work. We 310 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: have networks of hundreds of organizations, thousands of millions of 311 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: women and girls who that who we talked to because 312 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: we are actually out there trying to identify who is 313 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:45,480 Speaker 1: doing the right work. The good work and how do 314 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: we invest in net work. So our base is pretty 315 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: broad across these twelve set states. Our angle is exactly 316 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: what I shared with you earlier, is that when you 317 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: make an investment in these black women and girls, you 318 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: make an investment in this country. I'm not the first 319 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: one to say, but an investment in the South is 320 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: an investment in this nation. In investment in a girl 321 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,680 Speaker 1: is an investment in this nation. You grow this country. 322 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: And so it's not a hard message to con conceive 323 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 1: of that this is money well spent. This is money 324 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,920 Speaker 1: well spent. The South is a seed of activism. When 325 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 1: we think about all the things that have been tried 326 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: to oppress people in the South, we absolutely simultaneously then 327 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: think about all of the people in the South who said, 328 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 1: you can't try this here, it won't work here. We're 329 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: coming for you here. And this if we want to 330 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 1: make sure that this country has a series of activists 331 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: and leaders who are always at the ready, an investment 332 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 1: in girls and women make sense. Well, you know the 333 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: interesting thing, because we don't know a subject of money, Latasha, 334 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 1: what exactly is the Black Girl's Dream Fund. Black Girl's 335 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,000 Speaker 1: Dream Fund is one of four funds that we've created. 336 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: It is a hundred million dollar initiative over the last 337 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: next thing years. Our goal is to raise and to 338 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: give out and invest over a hundred million dollars to 339 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 1: organizations that serve black women and Black girls. And so 340 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: what we are excited is with the Black Girls Dream 341 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: Fund is that we funded. We've already provided in this 342 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: spring two point two million dollars. So it was seventy 343 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: one organizations that we wrote grants to and so we 344 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 1: will continue to do that. We have three other funds 345 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 1: that will come online that we're launching towards the end 346 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: of the year that we're super super excited about. But 347 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,919 Speaker 1: the whole purpose of that fund is to invest in 348 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: those organizations that are working at center black girls and 349 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 1: women and so to help them to build their capacity. 350 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 1: We believe that if they are stronger, then the movement 351 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: to actually change um um change the conditions of black 352 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: girls will be stronger. It's a way for us to 353 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: build out the ecosystem of support for Black women and girls. 354 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,480 Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations master 355 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 1: Class with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's return to Money Making 356 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Wow, I really appreciate that 357 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 1: I have a daughter, you know, and so I always 358 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: i'm motivated by women who pushed the narrative. And that's 359 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,959 Speaker 1: what you're doing because sometimes you not. Sometimes you can 360 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,640 Speaker 1: never sit back, because you sit back, you're gonna get 361 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,640 Speaker 1: passed up. And that that's just the number one thing 362 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 1: I get from my conversation is that because I definitely 363 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: want to invite you to my w CLK show I'll 364 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:24,199 Speaker 1: doing Tuesday, because I just I want to be like 365 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: said you. We all can contribute in different ways, and 366 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,960 Speaker 1: you have a newsletter, of social media, of a radio show. 367 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: This is just an extension. But y'all, y'all dominating in Georgia. 368 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: I gotta let the Georgia people know. You know, it's 369 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: all right for them to know your Milwaukee, in Chicago 370 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: or d C. But we we need to lock this 371 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,679 Speaker 1: down in in Atlanta. So we're gonna get And then 372 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:47,880 Speaker 1: let me let me say this too, that many of us, 373 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: all of us who are working on this will come 374 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 1: out of our pockets. And so there is while the 375 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: large necessary, the large foundations and corporations we invest that 376 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: we want to have more corporate partners individual. If it's 377 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:03,360 Speaker 1: five dollars, if it's two dollars. You don't know how 378 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,120 Speaker 1: much it means to us to be able to get 379 00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 1: those small donations, because sometimes that's the message that says, 380 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:11,879 Speaker 1: we believe in you, we believe that we can do this, 381 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: we can take care of us. And so people who 382 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: want to donate to us, they can text us, they 383 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: can text black girls black girl to six six eight 384 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,120 Speaker 1: six six. That's black girl to six six eight six six. 385 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: He'll get a donation, a donation. League send us five dollars, 386 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: ten dollars, a hundred dollars, a million dollars. But generally 387 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: those donations are the donations that send us affirmations that 388 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,679 Speaker 1: you're in this movement with us and you believe in that. Well, 389 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: you know, that's what people think, Maliko. They think that 390 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: they you know, you know, Trump not getting up to 391 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: two and fifty million dollars, he get five dollars, one dollars, 392 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: ten dollars, a hundred dollars, twenty dollars. And so we 393 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: as donors need to understand it's not how much it 394 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: is how much, but doing something and a dollar adds 395 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:56,679 Speaker 1: up to another dollar, and then all of a sudden, 396 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: the momentum grabs and the Gavinizers, the organization and get 397 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,360 Speaker 1: is where you start bragging about your dream but possibly 398 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,920 Speaker 1: coming true. Now you have no you have no This 399 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: this bus tour. That's why I'm gonna come back to human. 400 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,359 Speaker 1: You know, this bus tour in the South. You know, 401 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:11,919 Speaker 1: first of all, whenever a lot of people don't know, 402 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,920 Speaker 1: the South is just beautiful to me. It's a beautiful culture, 403 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: is a beautiful food, is beautiful people, beautiful music. So 404 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: when you start talking about I get a little jealous. 405 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: It's this just for for young ladies, this bus tour. 406 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: It's a family affair now, without question, it is the prettiest, 407 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 1: pinkest bust in America that I grew up with six 408 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: sisters like a toy, pinking all in my life a 409 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: long time. Okay, well good, because this is more pink 410 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:44,400 Speaker 1: than you can shoot. Definitely it is. But it's a 411 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: family affair. Everybody is welcome. I bought my eight year 412 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: old son this weekend and we kicked off the tour 413 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:52,800 Speaker 1: in Atlanta. We're heading to Elaine, Arkansas and Little Rock 414 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: this this coming weekend. So absolutely everyone is welcome. And 415 00:21:57,359 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 1: what we wanted was to give family these but young 416 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 1: girls and young women in particular, a journey to joy. 417 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: So they get a little passport and they get a 418 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: chance to visit the journey to to joy and the 419 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,239 Speaker 1: journey to fun, and the journey to stem and the 420 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: cosmetic chemistry. They get a chance to experience as many 421 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 1: things as we can put together for them on this tour. 422 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,880 Speaker 1: And I'll tell you that we had more than three 423 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: hundred girls and women in Atlanta that didn't want to leave. 424 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 1: We actually had to tell them the event was over 425 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: incredible experience. This is an incredible experience. And because we've 426 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: all been away from each other for two years, this 427 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:39,199 Speaker 1: is the perfect way to give ourselves a moment to 428 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: smile at each other, to recognize the fact that joy 429 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 1: is restorative, to take some time to actually share stories 430 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: with each other, because our mental health and self care 431 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,360 Speaker 1: is important. This is an important event. It's a lot 432 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 1: of fun, but it actually does help restore our souls. 433 00:22:56,119 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: So it started Saturday August and an in September seventeen. 434 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: Why that window, why why are that particular window of 435 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:09,919 Speaker 1: travel for the tour. So September sixteen is actually the 436 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,399 Speaker 1: um if you would remember, and those of us who 437 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,919 Speaker 1: are history buffs may remember that that is the commemoration 438 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,440 Speaker 1: of the bombing at the sixteen Street Baptist Church with 439 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: the four little girls, And so we always try to 440 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: make sure that its Southern Black girls and women's consortion. 441 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 1: We take a moment to mark that that moment in 442 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: our lives um to make sure that we remember those 443 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:37,399 Speaker 1: young women, remember their sacrifice, and remember that black girls 444 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: have been given to social justice movements for years and 445 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 1: that their lives were not in vain. So that date 446 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,919 Speaker 1: is August. It started August twenty, but it ends September, 447 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: six September, seventeen September, And I wonder if they gave 448 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,679 Speaker 1: me some bad information. I think I've reading sevente there, 449 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: but I got to come back. I was just I 450 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: would speaking specifically to the day. Let me ca like 451 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: I gotta close the show with the mouth the wonderful 452 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: the articulates straight out of selbum. You know visionary founder 453 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,840 Speaker 1: co founders. He got two co founders. She got on 454 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:17,320 Speaker 1: my show here, the one and only Latason Brown. You 455 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 1: started this and then said three other ladies had the 456 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 1: same vision you brought on with leak. Because during a 457 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,400 Speaker 1: wonderful job as the executive dress. What is the ultimate goal? 458 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: Because it ain't something going to happen in the year. 459 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,919 Speaker 1: This is a jourans legacy campaign you've created here, Like 460 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 1: I could believe that, but Dr Martin Luther King created 461 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: it's a legacy campaign because we're always going to continue 462 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 1: to fight. We're always gonna have obstacles. We know we 463 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 1: have obstacles. How will we be able to come overcome 464 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,400 Speaker 1: it with your organization? So you know, I am really 465 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 1: clear that when God gives a vision, he gives the provision. 466 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:54,399 Speaker 1: This is a vision that God gave me. I was 467 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 1: in the shower. The vision came so strong, so hard, 468 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: matter of fact, I had a whole another job that 469 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,919 Speaker 1: I jumped out of the shower and created UM and 470 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 1: start writing down what was coming to me at the time. 471 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,959 Speaker 1: And so I'm raising that because I think part of 472 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: what we also um don't do enough of is happening 473 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: into our spiritual gifts. And know that literally if we follow, 474 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: we're in alignment with that we can create the vision 475 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 1: that God gives us. And the vision for me wasn't 476 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: about the organization, It wasn't about the money. It was 477 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: how to create that that I was so excited that 478 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 1: God would tap me as one of his many many people, 479 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,280 Speaker 1: that we could act have the audacity to believe that 480 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 1: we could create the kind of environment that could be 481 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,679 Speaker 1: that people, women and girls could feel healthy and whold, 482 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: that we could actually staying in the space of abundance. 483 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: That our abundance wasn't determined by the stock marketing, determined 484 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 1: about about check them out. But my abundance is what 485 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: God has given me and put in me that we 486 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,679 Speaker 1: could actually create, We could use our innovation to actually 487 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: address some of the problems. That we didn't need anybody 488 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: to come in and look at us as victims, but 489 00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,719 Speaker 1: in fact we could actually share out of our abundance, 490 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: our abundance of spirit, our abundance of joy, our abundance 491 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,920 Speaker 1: of thoughts, our abundance of creativity. And we've seen whether 492 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 1: the world has has has actually benefited from that and 493 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 1: has exploited that. And so but what best way to 494 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 1: do it is to lead and create a vision that 495 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: literally all of us collectively could be a part of 496 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: that If we change the life of a black girl, 497 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: I am convinced that if we change your life, a 498 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 1: little black girl, we will change the world. And so 499 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 1: that is my vision. My vision is that black girls 500 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:32,959 Speaker 1: will recognize that they are already whole and complete and 501 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: there's nothing left to do but just operate in the 502 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: in the gifts and the talents that God has given them. Well, 503 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,520 Speaker 1: thank you for that. You know that. I won't say 504 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,880 Speaker 1: sermon because if you you're you're, you're a talker, you're 505 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 1: a gifted speaker, You're you know what to say and 506 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: know how to say it. But I want to add 507 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: this um. On every Wednesday, my news I have sixty 508 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,800 Speaker 1: or six thousand fan club members receive a news letter 509 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: at ten am. I do you have any banner about 510 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 1: the tools? We have videos, fantastic videos, and least get 511 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: it to me today so it can go out to 512 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,199 Speaker 1: my fan base tomorrow. Ten o'clock is gone. We were like, 513 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: we're professional over here, not ten fifteen. I'm they were creeping. 514 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 1: One day they did ten fifth answer Who time y'all 515 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: telling it's ten am at this company. So please get 516 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: that information today because I like to my fans to 517 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:26,959 Speaker 1: know about it, and I like to know about it 518 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 1: because I like to surprise y'all. One of them stops. Okay, wonderful. 519 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,639 Speaker 1: I love the South. You can't. You can't run a 520 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: brother out to South Okay, and I love your energy. 521 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: I'm a fan and I'm very seriously y'all hear me 522 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: on my show. I'm inviting them, but Lika Latasha over 523 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 1: by the building and we're gonna have a down home. 524 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 1: We're gonna capture it on video, putting on TikTok and 525 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 1: just let everybody know we're gonna and we do so. 526 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: We might even do a fundraiser too. We're gonna get 527 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: something rolling around here. Let's get these folks to know 528 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 1: why they're watching us eat. Give us a dollar, give 529 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: us the dollar. Long we eat, y'all keep giving them 530 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: some dollars, but more importantly, get that information so we 531 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: can let everybody know about this tour nationwide. Okay, thank 532 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: you so much. It was awesome. I love both of y'all. Y'all, y'at, 533 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 1: like you said, family, I feel like I'm talking to family. 534 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,639 Speaker 1: And when you're talking to family, you can talk to 535 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,680 Speaker 1: him for a long time because guess what you're gonna 536 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:22,760 Speaker 1: start eating. And I love to eat, by y'all,