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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she

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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's giving me

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Speaker 1: hear from my man, Rashan McDonald money Making Conversations. Here

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Speaker 1: we go. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. You're listening to Money Making

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Speaker 1: Conversations masterclass. And as he stated clearly, I am your host,

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Speaker 1: Rashan McDonald. As always, I want to hear from you today.

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Speaker 1: As always, this shows your show. I recognize that we

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Speaker 1: all have different definitions of success, and today it's a

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Speaker 1: very special show because our guess today we focused on

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Speaker 1: HBCU what I like to call Black excellence, because I

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Speaker 1: recognize that we have to have an ability to be

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Speaker 1: able to communicate and share this slice of opportunities. This

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Speaker 1: is happening on these HBCU campus Now, frankly, I did

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Speaker 1: not graduate from an HBCU campus. But that does not

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Speaker 1: and I almost went to HBCU and Baton Rouge Southern University,

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Speaker 1: Not that my degree I got a UH has failed me.

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Speaker 1: that they are important because they're going to share with

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Speaker 1: you the possibilities. If you're sitting on the fence, if

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Speaker 1: you were curious about what an HBCU is, let me

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Speaker 1: just give you some facts about an HBCU. And these

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Speaker 1: And sometimes I feel that if you don't have people

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Speaker 1: That's sports. I'm talking about the academic side. Or your

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Speaker 1: as always, our theme is there's no perfect time to

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Speaker 1: have ever thought from Wilmington, Delaware to Walt Disney World.

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Speaker 1: I mean that is the biggest jump that we could

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Speaker 1: have ever experienced. So having that opportunity was incredible for

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Speaker 1: us because to be on a stage like that, it

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Speaker 1: got us all the eyeballs that we needed to continue

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Speaker 1: to grow. And I'm especially grateful because bringing on Stephen A.

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Speaker 1: Smith and having him agree to be our brand ambassador

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Speaker 1: caught the attention of the Walt Disney Company, you know,

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Speaker 1: because the ESPN is a part of the Walt Disney Company,

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Speaker 1: and you know it caught some attention of some some

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Speaker 1: key decision makers and the restless history. Next thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're planning and going on site visits and executing events

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Speaker 1: in Orland Hill. So you know, now you will end Wilminton, Delaware.

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Speaker 1: Thirty five hundred students in Wilmington, Delare show it up. Okay,

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Speaker 1: how many and so how many HBCUs attended the event

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Speaker 1: the college the event, that's the event we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: And then how many students attended the event seeking uh

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Speaker 1: information about HBCUs enrollment in HPCUS and as well as

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Speaker 1: scholarship opportunities at HBCUs. Well, you know, twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: was a very special year. We had record breaking numbers.

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Speaker 1: So in Wilmington, Delaware, we had forty HBCUs present and

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Speaker 1: seven thousand students at our college fair. When we went

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Speaker 1: to Walton, Holo, Holo. Okay, all the HPCUS in Wilmington, Delaware,

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Speaker 1: Littl Willington right between Philadelphia and Baltimore, right h we

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Speaker 1: had forty and seven thousand students show up to that.

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Speaker 1: But then months later when we went to Walt Disney World,

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Speaker 1: we had eight thousand, six hundred students and fifty seven HBCUs.

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Speaker 1: So every time we execute this event or reactivate HBCU,

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Speaker 1: we can get the bigger and better. I have no

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Speaker 1: idea what to even expect later this year in the

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Speaker 1: fall when we do this again. Um, but it's just

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Speaker 1: really growing at a pace that I couldn't be more

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Speaker 1: grateful for. Well, so you know you're throwing out these numbers.

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Speaker 1: You don't got your ball here stumbling now, So let's

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Speaker 1: let's do some quick math, you know. Yeah, so yeah,

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Speaker 1: but roughly ninety seven HBCUs that attended a lot of

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Speaker 1: them were the same though still me Brad, can I can?

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Speaker 1: I Brad. That's why some people need marketers. So that's

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Speaker 1: why people need to have managers and consultants rich that

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Speaker 1: would do it to get schools. You know, because you know, uh,

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Speaker 1: Clark Atlanta, they went to both locations. You're gonna say, well,

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Speaker 1: it was the same students of both locations, Rishan, you know,

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Speaker 1: the same students. You know, we didn't really have fifteen

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Speaker 1: thousand students, sixteen thousand students that you go so you

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Speaker 1: have so you had forty in Wilmington Delaware, and that's

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Speaker 1: what's in September of last year. And then you had

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Speaker 1: fifty seven in Orlando in October of last year, as

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Speaker 1: ninety seven schools HBCUs seeking a Tier one students I'd

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Speaker 1: like to call tier one students students who are interested

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Speaker 1: in going to college, seeking higher education. And then on

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Speaker 1: top of that almost nine thousand students, oh yeah, eighty

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Speaker 1: six hundred in Orlando and seven thousand in Wilmington. So

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Speaker 1: it was it was a huge crowd in both spaces,

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Speaker 1: um and nobody. Nobody paid the dime. No students paid anything.

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Speaker 1: They just came and they met, They met the counselors,

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Speaker 1: They presented their their their their graduate or information from

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Speaker 1: their high school academic information, they transcript if they had

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Speaker 1: test scores, act or sets, and they could have enrolled

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Speaker 1: on the spot. Did you have any information on from

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Speaker 1: Delaware how many students enrolled and how much scholarship dollars

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Speaker 1: were delivered there? And I'll in the same in Orlando.

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Speaker 1: Do you have that type of information you can share

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Speaker 1: with my listeners. Yeah, So between the two locations, we

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Speaker 1: offered over six thousand college acceptances on the spot and

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Speaker 1: more than fifteen million dollars and scholarship awards, so that

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Speaker 1: was split between each of the different locations that we

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Speaker 1: activated it in twenty twenty two. So I'm gonna just

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Speaker 1: tell you what you just did. You change six thousand

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Speaker 1: young people's lives, fifteen million dollars and academic opportunities. If

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Speaker 1: you didn't have an HBCU Foundation Week Foundation, then there's

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Speaker 1: six thousand students who we don't know. I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: they would they would have been lost out there, but

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Speaker 1: at least they was given up a sense of purpose.

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Speaker 1: At least they was given a direction. At least they

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Speaker 1: weren't tricked and they got to then they and then

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Speaker 1: they walking to your college day and they're not just

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Speaker 1: walking and talking to just one HBCU. You know, there

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Speaker 1: were there were There were fifty seven in Orlando, there

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Speaker 1: were forty in Wilm Delaware. There were options. That's the

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Speaker 1: beauty of what you're trying to do. So when we

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Speaker 1: talk about going to other locations in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: what are the other places that you're looking at besides Orlando,

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Speaker 1: besides Wimbledon, Delaware that we may be able to attend

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Speaker 1: an HBCU Week Foundation event. Well, we're looking to activate

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta this year. So okay, okay, you know I'm

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Speaker 1: in a mouthpiece, I mean your mouthpiece. Yeah, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know. I'm excited. I love it Landa, I love

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Speaker 1: the city of Atlanta, so um. It's such a rich

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Speaker 1: spot for HBCU culture, especially with the AUC and Morris

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Speaker 1: Brown getting their accreditation back. So it's just a really

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Speaker 1: I think high time for us to come into that

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Speaker 1: city and expose those kids to these opportunities. So we're

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Speaker 1: working on it right now. We're doing some some pretty

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Speaker 1: aggressive fundraising and we're on our way, so I look

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Speaker 1: forward to that and the ultimate goal. There's always a

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Speaker 1: goal to this, you know, because of the fact that

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Speaker 1: it is h Maybe one day on a telethon where

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Speaker 1: you know you're honoring people, are you what does the

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Speaker 1: ultimate goal of the HPCU Foundation, outside of just presenting

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Speaker 1: academic opportunities for students who are interested in tending HBCUs. Well,

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Speaker 1: I have to say that that does fall in line

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Speaker 1: with the main goal. I tell people all the time

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Speaker 1: that I want HBCU Week to be as big as

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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, meaning I want people from every area

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Speaker 1: of the world to at least know what it is. Right.

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Speaker 1: You may not even have any interest in it, but

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Speaker 1: you know what it is because our impact is so great,

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Speaker 1: and our scholarships I am very very proud of, particularly

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Speaker 1: the ones on our corporate side, because we don't give

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Speaker 1: away anything less than ten thousand dollars when we give

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Speaker 1: a scholarship from our foundation through our corporate partners, and

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Speaker 1: those awards range between ten and fifty thousand dollars per students.

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Speaker 1: Our most popular scholarship is our Fosse Scholarship. That's for

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Speaker 1: STEMS students that are studying STEMS, and we give away

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty forty thousand dollars scholarships per year

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Speaker 1: for students that are declaring a STEM major and are

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Speaker 1: headed to an HBCU. So what I'd like to do

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Speaker 1: is offer that opportunity in every industry, not just STEM

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Speaker 1: but also banking or if you want to be an

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Speaker 1: entertainment or marketing or communications. I want people to know

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Speaker 1: that if they want to go to an HBCU, we

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Speaker 1: have the funds available to sustain them throughout their career. Wow,

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Speaker 1: she's on fire. You know you know you started slow there, Ashley,

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Speaker 1: but ball you ended you and fire you and fire

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Speaker 1: that last pitch you gave me. I'll try to I

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Speaker 1: don't try to fire me a kid. Actually, you're tremendous.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you for taking the time to

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Speaker 1: come on it before we go. Tell everybody to contact

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Speaker 1: information on social media, to reach out to the website

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Speaker 1: and all that good stuff. Yes, please follow us. You

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Speaker 1: can keep up with all of our events and any

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Speaker 1: information on our website at hbcuweek dot org or on

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Speaker 1: any social channel that's Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn at

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Speaker 1: HBCU Week. HBCU Week is coming to Atlanta. You're he

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Speaker 1: heard it here first, and when they're coming, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: hear it again. On Money Making Conversations Masterclass, Actually, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming in calling on my

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Speaker 1: show with telling everybody about your incredible brand. Awesome. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for Shana. I appreciate you having me. You have a

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Speaker 1: great night. I appreciate you were coming up next. Miss Lawrence.

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Speaker 1: She's out of Utah, but she's making a big impact

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Speaker 1: with HPCU and Utah. Can you believe it in Utah,

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Speaker 1: HBCU impact. What we're doing a big on Money Making

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Speaker 1: Conversation Masterclass, HBCUs taking over the world be right back.

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Speaker 1: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute

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Speaker 1: of Inspiration with Rashaan McDonald Him Rashan McDonald for Money

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Speaker 1: Making Conversation masterclass with your daily minute of Inspiration. This week,

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Speaker 1: I sat down with director, executive producer, and head writer

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Speaker 1: of the hit series First Killed on Netflix, Felicia Henderson.

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Speaker 1: She explains how being an open minded in the writing

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Speaker 1: room can lead to a well balanced project. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm a big believer that the writer's room should have

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Speaker 1: the experience that you're depicting on the screen. I also

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Speaker 1: wanted to make sure there wasn't just one queer person

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Speaker 1: in the room right where everybody was looking at going

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Speaker 1: and now we turned to you as the queer expert,

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Speaker 1: right because you know, it's like like all experiences, there's

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Speaker 1: no such thing as a monolithic experience or whatever it

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Speaker 1: is that you are. It was important for all the

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Speaker 1: experiences that I thought we were going to be depicting

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Speaker 1: right right. If you want to listen to this full

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Speaker 1: interview with Felicia Henderson, it's available on Money Making Conversations.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna tell everybody, you know, because you

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Speaker 1: get a lot of people we we shine. You know,

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Speaker 1: they have more HBCUs out there. Hey, you can come

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Speaker 1: on my show. Anybody who graduates from HBCU can come

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Speaker 1: on my show. My show is open to everybody. I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to get the word out about how great academic

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Speaker 1: opportunity and how great the academic opportunities are being made

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Speaker 1: at HBCUs. And that is one of these shows I've

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Speaker 1: dedicated specifically the conversation of HBCUs. Like I tell everybody,

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Speaker 1: I didn't go to an HPCU. I went to a PWI,

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Speaker 1: which is predominantly white institution of what they call a

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Speaker 1: p WI, and it was the University US Too, which

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Speaker 1: is now ranked number one and in basketball hopefully they

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Speaker 1: win the Big March Madness this year. But my next guest,

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Speaker 1: she is also an HBCU graduate, but she's doing it

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Speaker 1: big in the state of Utah, Samon Lawrence. She's the

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Speaker 1: program manager at the University of Utah's HPCU Impact Program. Now.

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Speaker 1: She's originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, where she attended college

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Speaker 1: in DC at Howard University, where she received her Bachelor

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Speaker 1: of Arts and Strategic Legal and Management Communication. So you know,

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Speaker 1: she can talk HBCU Impact is a summer internship program

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Speaker 1: that allows students at HBCUs to connect with companies in Utah.

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Speaker 1: This will give companies access to more diverse talent with

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Speaker 1: the hopes of them having full time employment opportunities at

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Speaker 1: their company. The companies paid for the students flights, listen

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Speaker 1: to them. The companies pay for the students flights, house

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Speaker 1: and the salary over the summer. In return, the University

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Speaker 1: of Utah will provide access to HBCUs students, housing, the campus,

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Speaker 1: community connections, and weaken activities such as professional development and

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Speaker 1: community service. Impact It's an acronym for internship mentorship, professional development,

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Speaker 1: academic achievement, and community service as well as talent enrichment.

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversations Masterclass. She's straight out

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Speaker 1: of Utah by where of North Carolina. Some own Lawrence. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you know him, it's Lawrence. I'm great, Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for having you today. Well, you know it's HBCU

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Speaker 1: day for me today. Now I'm doing HBCU Conversations. Now.

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Speaker 1: Now you and Utah. You're tall, you're talk you til

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Speaker 1: I've been to Utah. I'm just telling everybody I've been

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Speaker 1: to Utah. I should just standing up, come up comedy.

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Speaker 1: And I went to Utah one time, and I would

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Speaker 1: tell you that town closed down. And I'm telling a

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Speaker 1: Salt Lake City, Utah. Let me just tell you, not

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Speaker 1: just the old state. I went to Salt Lake City.

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Speaker 1: You talk beautiful city, beautiful. I love snow. People are

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Speaker 1: but I can't ski though. I just love snow. I

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Speaker 1: just love the the picturesque and the look of snow.

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite states is Colorado. And so when

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Speaker 1: I went there, all activity basically ceased for me socially.

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Speaker 1: At ten am. Now that's a long time ago. Now

636
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Speaker 1: is it still hot and popping? Is it popping after

637
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:48,840
Speaker 1: ten o'clock at Salt Lake City today? Um? On the

638
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: weekends sometimes coming from DC where I could get tacos

639
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: at two am, and now I have to eat my

640
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:03,320
Speaker 1: food by nine. I've been learning to adjust. I love it.

641
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: I love it. So let's talk about this program HBCU Impact,

642
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: because I you know, when I was in college. I remember,

643
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 1: I'm from Houston, Texas, and I went down to Louisiana

644
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: and I met with this company and they had they

645
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 1: kind of had a program like this, you know, and

646
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: I when they were trying to get diversity. They were

647
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: trying to bring in more people of color into the company.

648
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: And I worked off shore. I worked eighty five miles

649
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 1: out in the Gulf. I would do that for two

650
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: weeks on, two weeks off and I was doing engineering world. Now,

651
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,240
Speaker 1: this program here is in at tied to the University

652
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: of You Talk. Can you tell us a little bit

653
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 1: about the University of You Talk before we get started.

654
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So University Ties is located right on the

655
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,879
Speaker 1: hill in Salt Lake City. It's an R one institution

656
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: and it's just slowly growing to this great economic development.

657
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: And this is a unique partnership with an R one

658
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:01,399
Speaker 1: institution reaching out these HBCUs and developing these partnerships. Now

659
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: when you now you you are a person who was

660
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: a part of this program. Do you participated two years before?

661
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: So you're not a person just over the program the

662
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: program manager. You are a person who was I guess

663
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: benefited from the program. Correct. Yeah. So I went through

664
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: the program twice and then at the end of my

665
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 1: second term, Day offered me the job to manage the program.

666
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: So I've been doing that since twenty twenty one. Okay,

667
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: so so how did you how did they how did

668
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: you find out about the program? So in twenty twenty one,

669
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: this is when the program was starting, and I had

670
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: an internship class that I had to take, and Thorough Site,

671
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: which was one of the first companies to come participate

672
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: in the program, they ran my class. You were talking

673
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: about this new opportunity. It's like, Yeah, the University of

674
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: Utah is trying to get more diversity out here. We

675
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: are going to pay for your flights, We're gonna pay

676
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: for your housing, will pay you a salary. Oh like,

677
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: this sounds amazing. Why would I not want to take

678
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: this opportunity to try something new and expand my horizons.

679
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:02,280
Speaker 1: Even if I just find out that I hated Utah,

680
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 1: at least I get to check you on another state

681
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: off my list. So I was very excited to try

682
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,879
Speaker 1: this out. And then the pandemic happened and I didn't

683
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: even get to go to Utah twenty fo hours. Yes,

684
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: and then in twenty twenty one they opened it back up.

685
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Speaker 1: I still was able to get TU my internship virtually,

686
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: but in twenty twenty one was the first year that

687
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: we're able to go out there. So my cohorts or

688
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: sixteen of us and now sixteen sixteen from the one

689
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: HBCU or attendant of various HBCUs around the country. In

690
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, there was only one HPCU involved, which

691
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: was Howard University. But since then we've expanded to work

692
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Speaker 1: with other HBCUs like Morgan State, Morehouse, Tuskegee, FAMU, North Carolina,

693
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Speaker 1: Ant So we're gradually expanding. But that first two years

694
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: were only Howard stealing Okay. Yeah, So basically you were

695
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: kind of like the ambassadors to the brain to see

696
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 1: if the program worked, the value of the programs, so

697
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: you set you set the tone for the success of

698
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: the program. Correct, yes, And you know, even though it

699
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,720
Speaker 1: was new, I still had obviously had a great impact

700
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: on me where I thought, how can I get other

701
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: students to get involved with this because it be kind

702
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 1: of scary to want to go to Utah. I have

703
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: no family out here. I just within U talk for

704
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: two months during the summer for my internship and they said, uh,

705
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: it's all just come move out here in two weeks.

706
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: And I'm like, really, okay, let's back, let's back this

707
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 1: up there. You know, I'm a readid bio you know, Charlotte,

708
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: North Carolina and went to Howard University, Salt Lake City, Utah. Yeah,

709
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: you know, you know, first of all, I think about

710
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: the food. I think about let's let's go and kill

711
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: the stereotypes. Now black people, black black people, I got.

712
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: I gotta wonder where the black people at in Salt

713
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: Lake City, Utah. Okay. And so so I know I

714
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: saw you your Bachelors of Art and Strategic Legal and

715
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:03,879
Speaker 1: Management Communication. Okay, So what did the world Adventure adventure

716
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: you know, come up and do this into your background?

717
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: Who did you talk to? You talk to your parents,

718
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: you talk to your classmates? Did you talk to anybody?

719
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: They went, Girl, have you lost your mind? Why are

720
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,879
Speaker 1: you going there? Because because I gotta get that side

721
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: of the story, because you usual leading all that, I

722
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: leading all this little extra stuff out talk about that

723
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: that before you got on the plane to go to

724
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City, Utah for the first time. Yes, that

725
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 1: wasn't experienced. Everybody They're like, small, why are you going

726
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: to Utah? What's in Utah? I was like, I don't know.

727
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,720
Speaker 1: People are trying to tell me different. I didn't research

728
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Speaker 1: anything about it. I wanted to be completely surprised. I

729
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: didn't want to have any biases against it, and I

730
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: just wanted to just soak in the whole experience to

731
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: see what I can get out of Utah and what

732
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: it would teach me about myself. And so I just

733
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: I thought, I was like, Yeah, I'm going to usat there,

734
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: like what so again, I'm gonna just go there for

735
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Speaker 1: this summer, Mike move there. Thing like that is crazy.

736
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: But ever since then, I've had family who would come

737
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 1: out here and my cousin, my dad, my mom, like Wow,

738
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: Utah is such an amazing place, a hidden gym that

739
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,359
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have been thought of the quality of life

740
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: that you have here. The black People's always the first

741
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:22,399
Speaker 1: thing I get asked about where we have So where

742
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: are the black people? And so, like said, the Utah

743
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: they are everywhere. We have them in Agsen, late in

744
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: just around. It's not in a dense community, but they're

745
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: kind of spread out around Utah. But it's once for me,

746
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: one person, you get to me everybody in the community.

747
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: It's a very tight knit community. So there's a group

748
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 1: chat that we have. And when I first came here

749
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,839
Speaker 1: about a year and a half ago, there were four

750
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: hundred people in there. Now there's six hundred people in there,

751
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: so it's just continues to grow. They're always have their

752
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 1: different hands in the community, like, oh, wants to go

753
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 1: to the movies. Oh, we have this panel going on.

754
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna have this party to host us off together

755
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: their June team here, all the festivities that are happy involved.

756
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: As the legislator I got du teenth is salt Lake

757
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 1: said to Utah, alright that alright that yes, you guys,

758
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: not what you think it is. Okay, okay, now, but

759
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: there are two Utahs. Then there is a summer Utah

760
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: and then there's a winter Utah. Okay, see see the

761
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,280
Speaker 1: beauty of you. You were just doing internships, doing the summer,

762
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:29,640
Speaker 1: doing the summer. Did I tell you, hey, did you

763
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: want to start working here? Now? Had you experienced the

764
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 1: winter Utah at that point? No? I have not. When

765
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: I was about to move, I love I love the mountains.

766
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: I can have this the beautiful view. And then I

767
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah it never rained here. It was like, great,

768
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: it rained the first two weeks I was there. After

769
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: I moved there, I said, now, why did y'all lave

770
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: seeing you like that? Um? Better one show wiper Blaze.

771
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: But this last year wasn't as um. It is snow

772
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: as much, and this year it has been snowing every

773
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,720
Speaker 1: single day. I think he just snowed this morning. Actually

774
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: now the sun's out, so there's definitely but there's no

775
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 1: commidity here, so that makes it different from the East Coast.

776
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, abs so I think it's a bit more variable. Yeah, absolutely.

777
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: I'm talking to the program manager at the University of

778
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: Utah's HPCU Impact Program. This program allows students during the

779
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,760
Speaker 1: summer where their companies will pay for the students flights,

780
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: housing and salary over the summer and return the University

781
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: of Utah will provide access to HPCU students. That's that's

782
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: what you're doing. They're trying to get students to come there,

783
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 1: lived there, and possibly work there to create a more

784
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: diverse and much more I guess you know, you learned

785
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: by people you meet. You in stereotypes, stereotypes, and even

786
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: in this interview we're laughing a lot, but we also

787
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 1: end in stereotypes because of the fact that if you

788
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: don't go there, you don't know what it's like. We'll

789
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with

790
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 1: Rushan McDonald, host of Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Rushan McDonald

791
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: is uniquely positioned to provide a step by step, easy

792
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 1: to understand blueprint because it's time to stop reading other

793
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: people's success stories and start writing your own. The show,

794
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass interviews CEOs, small business owners, influencers,

795
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: and celebrities. They share financial and career success tips that

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797
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Money Making Conversations Masterclass, hosted by

798
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: Rashaan McDonald. Hi, I'm interviewing interviewing Samon Lawrence. He's the

799
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Speaker 1: program manager for the HBCU Impact Program. At the top

800
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Speaker 1: of the show, I gave out some information about the

801
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 1: success what I call Black excellence at HBCUs. I'm just

802
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: gonna give it out again, just in case you weren't

803
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: there at the top of the show. Eighty percent of

804
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: the black judges in America graduate from HBCUs, seventy percent

805
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: of the black doctors graduate from HBCUs, fifty percent of

806
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: the black lawyers graduate from HBCUs, forty percent of the

807
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: black engineers graduate from HBCUs, forty percent of the Black

808
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 1: Members of Congress graduate from HBCUs. Fifty percent of the

809
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: black public school teachers graduated from HBCUs, twenty five percent

810
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: of the black stem professionals graduated from HBCUs, seventy five

811
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: percent of the black veterinarians graduated from HBCUs, seventy percent

812
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: of the Black dentists graduate from HBCUs. Reasons, I say

813
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: that with your program, HBCU impact, HBCUs deliver, and they

814
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: deliver academic success. So this program that they've set up

815
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: at the University of Utah really is its vis basically

816
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: inviting the best of the best academically into the city

817
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: of the state of Utah in Salt Lake City. Correct, Yes,

818
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:47,799
Speaker 1: you're such a great talker and they need you go yes. Yes,

819
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: usually like followed up with the robust tones of encouragement.

820
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: And this is what I got out of This is

821
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 1: very close to your Angela Davis moment I gave you

822
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: and you just said yes. But that's all right, that's

823
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,439
Speaker 1: all right now I digress. The program started in twenty twenty.

824
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 1: You've been a product of the program. Now the program

825
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,399
Speaker 1: this is unique because as far as a PWI, which

826
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Speaker 1: is a predominant white institution, this is one of the

827
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: first that's ever been created for HBCUs. Correct, Yes, this

828
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 1: is correct. On campus, we're working out reaching out to

829
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,240
Speaker 1: different our two institutions, and hopefully we can develop faculty

830
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 1: exchanges as well, so not only focusing our students, and

831
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: we offer fifty percent off grad school if the students

832
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: participate in this program and then come back at the

833
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: U for any graduate degree. So it's very impactful and

834
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: just something new that I don't think we see a

835
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Speaker 1: lot of this at these higher education institutes. Well, you know,

836
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Speaker 1: it's unique because of the fact that we all know

837
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Speaker 1: that if you don't know that the predominant amoun it's

838
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 1: like one hundred and seven HBCUs. The predominant amount of

839
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 1: HBCUs are located in the southeastern part of the country.

840
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: And that's not by accident, because of discriminatory practices not

841
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: allowed black higher education in eighteen sixty five. Basically when

842
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: HBCU who were founded, they were founding based as a

843
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 1: trade school, based on trade school, and then all of

844
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: a sudden it led or then you had w v

845
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846
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Speaker 1: emphasized trade school training. W eb du Bois emphasized academic.

847
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: He wanted doctors, he wanted lawyers, he wanted engineers. And

848
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:25,760
Speaker 1: so that's really how HBCUs, the core, the HBCUs drive

849
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: that we see today came out of that. Then if

850
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Speaker 1: we all know the background of a Bookati Washington was

851
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: Tuskegee University. Now when you talk about it, so when

852
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: you talk about this program, that's what makes it even

853
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 1: more unique because you know, Utah is Utah, it's not

854
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Speaker 1: near an HBCU, it's in a part of the company

855
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 1: country that is predominantly white. But also so I wouldn't

856
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Speaker 1: see this program being tied to I wouldn't see like

857
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: the University of Alabama or the University of Georgia doing

858
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Speaker 1: this because HBCUs are right around the corner from them.

859
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Speaker 1: But it's but it's a blessing to me that the

860
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Speaker 1: University of Utah sees VA you in this type of

861
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:04,880
Speaker 1: HBCU partnership because it gives not only a new experience

862
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 1: for you, but you get to share a part of

863
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 1: life that I wouldn't never have known about it. When

864
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: I found out about this opportunity, I immediately wanted you

865
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Speaker 1: might show to talk about it. Continue. Wow, thank you.

866
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Speaker 1: So yeah, this is such a unique program for the

867
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Speaker 1: Salt Lake City. A lot people don't know about it,

868
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: but it's like number two fast and growing city for

869
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: business and the number one for financial institutions. So bringing

870
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Speaker 1: having me see that step out of their comfort zone

871
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,760
Speaker 1: say oh, you know, I want to work at Google,

872
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: I want to work at Apple. But there's just so

873
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 1: many other career paths and like tech companies, financial banking companies,

874
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: or even just healthcare companies in Salt Lake City that

875
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: you wouldn't think about. We have an area called Silicon Slops,

876
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: which is just kind of trying to replicate Silicon Valley

877
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,279
Speaker 1: in California, where we have all these tech cups like

878
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,720
Speaker 1: Adobe is located here. We've and something that you wouldn't

879
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:57,399
Speaker 1: think about because you're like, oh, let's use how there's

880
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 1: something out here for me. But just having acts to

881
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: that and being able to know, oh, I can go here,

882
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 1: A lot of students don't think that they can do

883
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: something because they don't see themselves, they don't see people

884
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: like them in those situations. They're like, oh, I wouldn't

885
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: go to Utah because I don't see my health here.

886
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 1: But once you find out what the type of opportunities

887
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 1: that they have. I think it's just a great opportunity

888
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: for them come out here. And why wouldn't you want

889
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: to go where internships offer youse free flights, paying for

890
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: your housing, You get to go on fun activities I

891
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: take in the southern Utah, get your head shots, work

892
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: on networking skills in this type community where usually students

893
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: are out here and you get an internship in another

894
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 1: state and you have to find housing, or you have

895
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: to pay for other things, or you have to figure

896
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 1: out what to do on the weekends. But I create

897
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: all that curriculum and I'm sitting here with these students like, hey,

898
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: I understand where you're coming from. You know, I went

899
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: to an HBCU, I went through this program, and now

900
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 1: I live in Salt Lake City. So anything you need

901
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: help navigating, I can be that for you. Give the

902
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: list of black pages. Here's the barber shops, here's the

903
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: nail shops. Here's some good food places to eat. You

904
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier. You know we had those hidden gyms. But

905
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: you need to reach out to that community and have

906
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:07,879
Speaker 1: them engage that they're able to see what resources are

907
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 1: out there for them. Awesome. Here's the thing about it

908
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: when I when I listened to you talk or you

909
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: know the reason you're on my show today money Making

910
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Speaker 1: Conversation Magic class because people don't know it's about promoting,

911
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:22,520
Speaker 1: it's about getting the word out about because I always

912
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: tell my story about working off shore and people look

913
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 1: at me. Really, how did you find that out? I

914
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Speaker 1: just happened to walk into you know, career training at

915
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Speaker 1: the University of Houston, and uh happen to see it

916
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Speaker 1: on board on the board, and I called a number

917
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Speaker 1: and I had to go to like three different interviews

918
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Speaker 1: in the state of Louisiana. And while I was eighty

919
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: five miles out of the Gulf with a story that

920
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Speaker 1: I would also you know, the beauty of even if

921
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Speaker 1: you didn't work there and you came back, but the

922
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: experience that you have of being in Salt Lake City,

923
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: in turning in Salt Lake City would have been the

924
00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 1: ultimate blessing anyway. Correct, Oh, yes, definitely, just because when

925
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: you expand your horizons to go out to different places

926
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 1: where you don't see people like you and get out

927
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: your comfort zone, it allows you to broaden your conversation topics.

928
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: It allows you to speak with people that you wouldn't

929
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: necessarily think you have me being communist, but now you

930
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: have this unique experience if you want to know, oh,

931
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: how did you get here? What did you learn from there?

932
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: Oh you're not afraid to be an uncomfortable situations like

933
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,880
Speaker 1: let's talk more about you know what can I do

934
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: for you? Or and how can you help me? So

935
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 1: I think something very impactful about that. Now I've read

936
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Speaker 1: a little bio. Say the bio, not the little bio,

937
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: the bio. Now you have a c au alarm. Yes,

938
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 1: So Rodnie Cohen, we started this program in twenty twenty

939
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty one realize there are other HBCU programs

940
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: on campus. They're about seven other programs that work with

941
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: students as well, like pass make Your Programs, a radiation

942
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: safety programs, and cancer research programs as well on campus.

943
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: Back KATA to HBCU students. We needed somebody to help

944
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,280
Speaker 1: manage all the discent programs. So Rodney Cohen has joined

945
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: us and he has been instrumental to engaging with all

946
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:11,359
Speaker 1: of these different universities and developing out more of these partnerships.

947
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:14,359
Speaker 1: Now you had the NBA All Star Game was there

948
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 1: and recently and I know they do a lot I

949
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: think they're doing an HBCU game there at every HBCU

950
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: an NBA All Star event. I know that Chris Paul

951
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: is a number one ambassador for HBCUs and promoting the

952
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: value of HBCUs. I think he recently got his degree

953
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 1: from an HBCU. That's Chris Paul, NBA All Star, future

954
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, future Hall of Famer who now plays

955
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: for the Phoenix Suns. Did you guys benefit from any

956
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: exposure of the NBA All Star Weekend when it was

957
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: hosted in Salt Lake City the HPCU impact. Yes. So

958
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,320
Speaker 1: the university actually hosted a number of events on campus.

959
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 1: We hosted the HBCU Classic versus Southern and Grambling, and

960
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: we also hosted the g League game and the university

961
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks before that came to us say

962
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:02,240
Speaker 1: we heard about your program, how can you help support

963
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,880
Speaker 1: you and help build up these black communities, And they

964
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: give us a gift up fifty thousand dollars, which has

965
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:11,280
Speaker 1: been exciting news for here just to hear that the NBA,

966
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: since one of our partners is used high jazz and

967
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,480
Speaker 1: have this to spread out in the community where it

968
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: reaches up to those levels where like we see what

969
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: you're doing, we support these students in this community. How

970
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:26,040
Speaker 1: can we help you? And so that was that's interesting.

971
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:28,280
Speaker 1: You say you received a gift from fifty thousand dollars

972
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,560
Speaker 1: donation to the HBCU Impact Program at the university. You

973
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,280
Speaker 1: talk what does one do with fifty thousand dollars donations?

974
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 1: What do you do? How does that benefit your program?

975
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: So we were true during the school year, we go

976
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:40,879
Speaker 1: to these hbcs on campus and say may we want

977
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: these galleries, resumes or helps start travel, help for the

978
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:47,240
Speaker 1: professive development workshops that you try to pay for welcome

979
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,319
Speaker 1: packages that we have with the students, and I host

980
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 1: a number of community events to get the black community

981
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: introduced to the students so that they can develop these

982
00:53:55,080 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: organic mentorships relationships, and so it just helps fund and

983
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,360
Speaker 1: having these farewell welcome events to take them out to

984
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 1: Moile to experience the different what southern Utah is like,

985
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 1: which is more red rocks and what you would think

986
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 1: Salt Lake is like. Food just goes towards that development.

987
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: And we actually shared donation with the Black Cultural Censor

988
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 1: on campus where they're creating new program Generation Next and

989
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: they're trying to work with their black students who are

990
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 1: locally and take them through these professional development workshops throughout

991
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: the year and then engage with our students over the summer,

992
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 1: so they worked with them as well. As we close

993
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 1: out the interview, how can we get in touch with you?

994
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: Tell us more about any social media handles, any website

995
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: that they can visit to find out more about the

996
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 1: HBCU Impact Program at the University of Utah. Yeah, so

997
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: if you go to diversity dot Utah dot edu and

998
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,880
Speaker 1: then type in HBCU Partnerships in the search par it

999
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 1: will take you to all of the different partnerships that

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00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: we have on campus and the first one will be

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00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: HBCU Impact. I want to thank you for taking the

1002
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:59,320
Speaker 1: time to come on making conversations Massaca. You enjoy I

1003
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: enjoy your energy. And again if you need any and

1004
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: tell Rodney we love him down here at Clark Atlanta University.

1005
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:08,799
Speaker 1: We shouting out his name, Rodney Cohen down there doing

1006
00:55:08,840 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: big things, and so LA said, you talk with the

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Speaker 1: one and only some own Lawrence. Thank you for coming

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Speaker 1: on money making Conversations masterclass. Yes, thank you so much

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1011
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1012
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