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Speaker 1: Politics until something happens. It is a nonpartisan political training program.
Speaker 1: I curated the program. I wrote the program not just
Speaker 1: because I have a master's in adult education, which is
Speaker 1: critically important, guys, because when you're taking training from folks,
Speaker 1: make sure that they actually have the ability to create
Speaker 1: a course curriculum for you. That's very important. But the
Speaker 1: most important thing is you are getting everything from my
Speaker 1: experience from working on campaigns on the state level, on
Speaker 1: the local level, on the federal level, pretty much whatever
Speaker 1: you think can think of, I've done that job. Volunteer coordinator,
Speaker 1: field director, communications person, campaign manager, crisis calm, you name it.
Speaker 1: So you're getting all of the experience that I've learned
Speaker 1: from working on a campaign and being a candidate and
Speaker 1: realizing the candidate was not for me. Also my crisis
Speaker 1: calm experience. All the major cases that you've seen from
Speaker 1: treyvon Martin on with the tourney Benjamin Crump, I have
Speaker 1: done crisis calm for all of that, So you get
Speaker 1: a lot of that. You also get a lot of
Speaker 1: media stuff that I do that you learn, So really, guys,
Speaker 1: you are getting everything all in one. I want you
Speaker 1: to look at this as a semester, not as a
Speaker 1: one time course. You certainly can come to it one time,
Speaker 1: but look at it as a semester. There are five courses.
Speaker 1: The first one we're doing Course one Roles and responsibilities.
Speaker 1: If you want to be a candidate, If you don't know,
Speaker 1: if you want to be a candidate, but you think
Speaker 1: you might want to run, this course is for you.
Speaker 1: If you want to be a campaign worker. We need
Speaker 1: more campaign workers, guys. I did a survey a quiz
Speaker 1: to see who we had in the training, and most
Speaker 1: of the people want to be candidates or organizers. We
Speaker 1: who're gonna work on the campaign. We need volunteer coordinators.
Speaker 1: We need field directors. We need people who are gonna
Speaker 1: be in charge of your phone banking, all of that.
Speaker 1: We really really really need infrastructure, guys. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go even a step further to say what I envision
Speaker 1: for this training program. I wanted to be where I
Speaker 1: have a databank of people who are ready to work
Speaker 1: on campaigns. Paid somebody in the comments type pay, turn
Speaker 1: to your neighbor and say paid. So I wanted to
Speaker 1: be a referral source as well as we continue to grow.
Speaker 1: So when people are saying, hey, I need a volunteer coordinator,
Speaker 1: you don't have to live in their city. You can
Speaker 1: absolutely work on somebody's campaign no matter where you live.
Speaker 1: You can manage somebody's phone bank, you can manage somebody's schedule,
Speaker 1: you can manage somebody's campaign. I've done it. Commissioner Regina
Speaker 1: hill Or, I helped get elect in Orlando, Florida. I
Speaker 1: did that from Oklahoma City Commissioner Tiffany Moore, who was
Speaker 1: running for Clerk courtse. I did that from Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: Now Timmany Moore is run for mayor. So you can
Speaker 1: absolutely do it virtual. If that's been one of your
Speaker 1: hesitations of hey, I don't know anybody who's running, so
Speaker 1: why would I be a campaign worker? No, still consider that,
Speaker 1: because when we get done with the five core fundamental courses,
Speaker 1: I'm going to roll out some individual courses that are
Speaker 1: strictly for working on campaigns, like how to phone bank,
Speaker 1: how to collect petitions, how to get your candidates to
Speaker 1: listen to what they need to listen to, and shut
Speaker 1: the ass up. You know that type of stuff, How
Speaker 1: to force your candidate to get on the phone and
Speaker 1: do phone bank in time, all of that stuff. We
Speaker 1: are just this is just the beginning. Castide, This is
Speaker 1: not the end. This is the beginning of a university
Speaker 1: style of information. But the first five courses are critical
Speaker 1: to just get the fund to get the fundamentals. You
Speaker 1: don't have to commit like the all star Casey was saying, Hey,
Speaker 1: she's already in two of the program, two or three
Speaker 1: of them. You don't have to commit like her, but
Speaker 1: go to the first one. See if you like it.
Speaker 1: The first one will be in roles and responsibilities. Each course,
Speaker 1: I am giving instructions for candidates, campaign workers, or if
Speaker 1: you want to be an organizer or an activist. Let
Speaker 1: me just explain the difference of the two. An organizer
Speaker 1: actually gets it done, and an organizer is saying, you
Speaker 1: know what, I want to organize around getting an amendment
Speaker 1: put on my local ballot, but I need to get
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty people to sign this petition. That
Speaker 1: is actually organizing. An activist is, hey, I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about this. I'm going to make this an issue.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to the meetings. I'm gonna scream
Speaker 1: about it. I'm a protest about it. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: in the comments. Whatever it is you're generat, you're basically
Speaker 1: bringing awareness, but the organizer is taking the awareness and
Speaker 1: doing a little bit more with it. Really, you should
Speaker 1: be both an activist and an organizer. They go hand
Speaker 1: in hand. But not everybody's an activist. Not everybody wants
Speaker 1: to be on the microphone. Not everybody wants to be
Speaker 1: a speaker. Just like we got folks in the room
Speaker 1: now who says, hey, I'm shy, but they are still
Speaker 1: in the room. So you still can be an organizer
Speaker 1: by you jumping in the room. You don't have to
Speaker 1: be the speaker, but you still be able to get three,
Speaker 1: four or five people to do some type of call
Speaker 1: to action. So I'm breaking down all of those things
Speaker 1: in each course addresses each individual role in what you need.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna use all this time to go through
Speaker 1: the courses, but I do want you to go to
Speaker 1: Telimfigo dot com look at the courses, but just sign
Speaker 1: up with course one. Let me also remind you if
Speaker 1: you say I don't want to pay the fifty bucks,
Speaker 1: what am I giving with the fifty bucks. Let me
Speaker 1: just explain that you're getting a two hour interactive class
Speaker 1: with me on June fourteenth. A two hour interactive class
Speaker 1: with me in June fourteenth. Once you pay for the course,
Speaker 1: you will see where the zoom link is. It is
Speaker 1: in your dashboard. It is a very neat program that
Speaker 1: I paid for that I absolutely love, is very easy
Speaker 1: to understand, and you will see it says zoom link
Speaker 1: for live class two pm June fourteenth. But guess what,
Speaker 1: you will still have access to that pre recorded video.
Speaker 1: So if you're hesitating to say I don't want to
Speaker 1: pay for it because I don't know if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be available for the class, no worries. You'll be able
Speaker 1: to watch the video. Some may find the video even
Speaker 1: better because you can stop, start it, rewind it, watch
Speaker 1: it in your own leisure. If once you pay for
Speaker 1: the course, even if you're in the live class, you
Speaker 1: still will have access to the video. So you are
Speaker 1: paying for the video which will be two hours, and
Speaker 1: the PDFs that are already available in there now to
Speaker 1: prepare you before the course. So look at it as
Speaker 1: twenty five bucks an hour for a class. But in
Speaker 1: addition to that all of the materials you need. Another
Speaker 1: selling point that I love about this training platform is
Speaker 1: the course dashboard, the course dashboard, the community dashboard. I
Speaker 1: love it. People are in there introducing themselves. At least
Speaker 1: I think we got about eighty people in us already
Speaker 1: that have put in saying hey, I'm tesling from such
Speaker 1: and such and I'm here for XYZ. Right now, you're
Speaker 1: not seeing a lot of people talking because the class
Speaker 1: hasn't started. But that's gonna be a beautiful thing to
Speaker 1: be able to network with the people who are in
Speaker 1: the class, who are serious about working. You're gonna find
Speaker 1: you might find your next campaign job, you may find
Speaker 1: your next issue, you may find your next candidate. That
Speaker 1: is what is beautiful. And you will always have access
Speaker 1: to that dashboard when you perchon just the course, you
Speaker 1: will always have access at least to communicate with folks
Speaker 1: in a troll free environment. Now, the course, I can't
Speaker 1: make that available for everybody forever, the first one I
Speaker 1: am because even if you send it to your friend
Speaker 1: like y'all do with Netflix and send the link, I
Speaker 1: can't trip about that. Hopefully it can get them to
Speaker 1: want to go to the other courses, but course two
Speaker 1: through five, it will only be available sixty days after
Speaker 1: the live class, just like you would in any college course.
Speaker 1: You have access for about three months. But the community
Speaker 1: dashboard where you can post, connect talk to folks, you
Speaker 1: will always have access to that. Okay, does that sound fair?
Speaker 1: I hope it does because I'm literally given it all
Speaker 1: more than enough for folks to be able to get
Speaker 1: the information they need. With that said, so please sign
Speaker 1: up ww dot tezemfiguo dot com. I have a tutorial
Speaker 1: there where I'm breaking it down. When I just explained
Speaker 1: to you, I have a video there. Don't let nobody
Speaker 1: tell y'all, oh she explained it. No, no, no, I've
Speaker 1: been explaining. This is what you're learning about organizing. You
Speaker 1: repeat things over and over. Have a video, have a FAQ,
Speaker 1: ask questions, have a tutorial. I have a highlight video
Speaker 1: to show you what others have said who have trained
Speaker 1: with me. And I'm constantly saying it on my podcast
Speaker 1: Revolt and Instagram, so there'll be no excuses about people
Speaker 1: saying I didn't know. You'll learn that as you start organizing.
Speaker 1: Let's get in today's content, guys. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about the report that reveals black women and the loss
Speaker 1: of jobs that they have had more than anybody else
Speaker 1: in April. Now, if you follow my commentary, which you should,
Speaker 1: and I hope that you do. If you don't, why
Speaker 1: don't you follow my commentary, I have been telling you
Speaker 1: that up to three hundred thousand black people will be
Speaker 1: losing their federal job. I've been saying it weekly. I
Speaker 1: know y'all been resting. I know y'all been having boots
Speaker 1: on the ground. I know y'all been saying we done,
Speaker 1: we tapped out. I feel you. I get all of that.
Speaker 1: I know y'all say it ain't bothering me, it ain't
Speaker 1: affecting me. I get all of that. But the reality
Speaker 1: of it is, I've been telling y' all through the
Speaker 1: three Things, Safe, stack and secure, that it is absolutely coming.
Speaker 1: And so here we are, guys. So when we look
Speaker 1: at the report that reveals that black women lost their
Speaker 1: job more than anybody else, it says that DEI is
Speaker 1: partial to blame. Turn to your neighbor and say partial.
Speaker 1: Because this is what I was arguing with my good
Speaker 1: friend Charlemagne. You know, we got a group chat. We
Speaker 1: argue every day. He was saying well, it ain't just
Speaker 1: dei Charlemagne. It literally says partial. It means it's not all,
Speaker 1: it's partial. How many of you understand that if a relationship,
Speaker 1: if your relationship, if your marriage doesn't work, Attorney Shelby,
Speaker 1: if your relationship with your man don't work, is it
Speaker 1: just one thing or is it multiple things? Is it
Speaker 1: you don't tell me you love me anymore? Is that
Speaker 1: the main reason why I'm breaking up with you? Or
Speaker 1: is it partial? Is that the partial reason? Is it
Speaker 1: if they cheated? That might be the main reason, but
Speaker 1: it might be multiple reasons. So we must understand that
Speaker 1: two things can always be true at the same time.
Speaker 1: So this is not saying it's alli, It is saying partial.
Speaker 1: So let's deal with the facts. Black women workers lost
Speaker 1: more jobs than any other demographic in April, according to
Speaker 1: the report. Now y'all may say, well, what report are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Well, I'm glad you asked that question.
Speaker 1: While the overall unemployment rate for April twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: remained unchanged, meaning overall unemployment for everybody else remained unchanged,
Speaker 1: the stats from the US Bureau of Labor statics to
Speaker 1: show that black women lost thirty eight thousand jobs, and
Speaker 1: their unemployment went up by one hundred and six thousand,
Speaker 1: So it remained unchanged. But that doesn't mean that black
Speaker 1: women were not affected. So they say so when you
Speaker 1: hear them say, oh, the unemployment rate is fined, it's unchanged. No,
Speaker 1: let's dig into it and let's see what it really
Speaker 1: looked like. You know, guys, I love doing relationships analogies
Speaker 1: because it's the easiest way to understand. Oh, I'm the
Speaker 1: same man I always was. Yeah, you look like the
Speaker 1: same man. You sometimes act like the same man. But
Speaker 1: let you say you unchanged. But let's really get into
Speaker 1: it and see how you really treat me. Hey, man,
Speaker 1: put a five in a chat if you know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. So we ain't gonna go with this. Well,
Speaker 1: it's remained unchanged. No, let's kind of get down to
Speaker 1: it and let's talk about how unemployment went up one
Speaker 1: hundred and six thousand, it says. Bloomberg notes that the
Speaker 1: unemployment rate for black women was a full percentage higher
Speaker 1: at six point one percent compared to five point one percent.
Speaker 1: And this rate has been on the rise since February.
Speaker 1: So if it's been on the rise since February, then
Speaker 1: what is it doing. It's gonna continue to go up again.
Speaker 1: Let's deal with the many factors that your girl told
Speaker 1: you was coming, that they said wasn't coming. It wasn't
Speaker 1: affecting nobody. But those of y'all have said, well, I
Speaker 1: didn't vote for Trump, and I hope they get what
Speaker 1: they get and it is what it is, and all
Speaker 1: of that. Well, at the end of the day, it
Speaker 1: affects everybody. This is not just the people that just
Speaker 1: voted for Trump. I didn't vote for Trump. It says
Speaker 1: that the steady incline and this source is available on
Speaker 1: afro tech. Let me put it in the chat, so
Speaker 1: it says some of the stuffs, so you know this
Speaker 1: is what afro tech that this is, you know, verify source.
Speaker 1: This story was also in multiple different places as well,
Speaker 1: so it says some of the steady decline in their
Speaker 1: unemployment is partially partially partially. Don't let them try to
Speaker 1: switch it up, guys. I'm not saying it's all d
Speaker 1: I I'm not saying it's all dodged. I'm not saying,
Speaker 1: but we must note the partial nothing is absolute partially
Speaker 1: attributed to the decline in workforce as a result of
Speaker 1: initiatives being pushed by the Trump administration DEI initiatives at
Speaker 1: the federal level, and many corporations who have followed suit
Speaker 1: to ensure their policies are in alignment. For example, Target,
Speaker 1: let me say it again, corporations like Target, Walmart, all
Speaker 1: of those that said we're gonna follow DEI and we're
Speaker 1: gonna make sure we're in alignment. That's a part of it.
Speaker 1: And to sit up your act like it's not, it's
Speaker 1: very irresponsible. Black women at the federal level have declined
Speaker 1: by an estimated thirty three percent within the last year
Speaker 1: in comparison to the three point seven drop across all
Speaker 1: workforce overall. It's that the unusual nature of this increase
Speaker 1: in black women's unemployment is a testament to the direct
Speaker 1: result of the anti DEI and anti black focus of
Speaker 1: new administration policies. It says, this is doing damage to
Speaker 1: the black community something we have not seen before. Stop
Speaker 1: sharing my screen so again, guys, Partial is the keyword.
Speaker 1: Partial is the keyword. We know there's a number of
Speaker 1: things DEI. We also know that Dodge that went in
Speaker 1: and cleared up all the federal employees and the largest
Speaker 1: employee for black people, is the federal government, and then
Speaker 1: there's just regular unemployment issues. So when we mix all
Speaker 1: of those things together, and we mix people not being
Speaker 1: able to find jobs because the economy and companies are
Speaker 1: cutting back, all of that plays into the result. Don't
Speaker 1: let nobody tell you anything different. Now. I want to
Speaker 1: address this because I see this all the time. I
Speaker 1: want to talk a little bit about DII. And I've
Speaker 1: said this before. I guess many of y'all think that
Speaker 1: these are all affirmative action. We gotta employ black people
Speaker 1: because they don't have the merit and so forth. One
Speaker 1: sister says in the comments today, I don't know about
Speaker 1: DEI I've never benefitted from it. I've always had to
Speaker 1: work harder and be more qualified. Let me give you
Speaker 1: some breaking news. Black women are the most educated. We
Speaker 1: always got to be more qualified and work the hardest.
Speaker 1: That's not breaking news. That has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: companies that have had to be forced somebody say force
Speaker 1: to give people black or as y'all say, of color
Speaker 1: and opportunity. We are very well aware that I am
Speaker 1: typically the best in the room, the over qualified in
Speaker 1: the room. That's not what this is about. I also
Speaker 1: want to remind you that just because you were not
Speaker 1: hired under a DEI or an affirmative action program, I
Speaker 1: want to remind you. For those of y'all to say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just my merit, I want to remind you that
Speaker 1: when you put these type of policies in place and
Speaker 1: they feel like they don't have to do anything with
Speaker 1: zero backlash with civil rights guests who might be losing
Speaker 1: a job. See, this is what y'all getting confused about this.
Speaker 1: This is not just oh, a program given is that
Speaker 1: I was having and I won't say, but I was
Speaker 1: talking about, yeah, just because uh, you're supporting your You're saying, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm supporting you because you're the best employee, or you
Speaker 1: got the best numbers on your podcast or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: If there's nothing conscious in policy that says do it
Speaker 1: because it's the right thing. If there's nothing in Target
Speaker 1: in Walmart that say we strive for diversity and they
Speaker 1: feel they don't have to do it, guess what they
Speaker 1: gonna do. Time, Guess what they gonna do, Cassie, guess
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do it, Turny Shelby not do it.
Speaker 1: So those of y'all that think y'all above it and think, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: well it don't affect me. You gonna find out just
Speaker 1: how much forcing their hand are making them even have
Speaker 1: to consider doing the moral, moral right thing to hire
Speaker 1: that over qualified black man and black woman. When once
Speaker 1: you removed that out of the equation, we gonna see
Speaker 1: what it looked like. So stop this. I was thinking,
Speaker 1: this is just about you. Another thing. Y'all love to
Speaker 1: say the white women benefit from him more. Of course
Speaker 1: they do. But what does it have to do with
Speaker 1: me benefiting from it? Charlumay asked me. Yes, said, well
Speaker 1: have you ever benefited from it? Absolutely? With an actual
Speaker 1: contract with the state, with the City of Orlando. I
Speaker 1: got the contract without my certifications based upon merit because
Speaker 1: I worked at the third and fourth largest staffing firm
Speaker 1: in the world. So Spirian hired me because they knew
Speaker 1: that I was able to staff. I was able to
Speaker 1: keep the contract to be competitive. Somebody say competitive because
Speaker 1: I was minority owned, veteran owned, women own, and the
Speaker 1: City of Orlando said they want to strive to have
Speaker 1: diverse contractors. So I got it on merit. But I
Speaker 1: was able to maintain it because if somebody else was
Speaker 1: as qualified, more qualified, or maybe not as qualified, but
Speaker 1: they were able to say, hey, look we gave a
Speaker 1: contract to a black woman veteran, and they're gonna go
Speaker 1: with that person and government contractor. You can believe it
Speaker 1: every time because they are looking to check the boxes
Speaker 1: because when in politics and the cit of Orlando, they
Speaker 1: want to be able to say, we're the city beautiful,
Speaker 1: and we mean that because we offered diverse contracts so
Speaker 1: that all of our constituents benefit from city tax dollars
Speaker 1: as they should. See a lot of these people that
Speaker 1: you're listening to with di guys, they don't know what
Speaker 1: the hell they're talking about. They never had a government contract,
Speaker 1: so they literally don't know what the other they're talking about.
Speaker 1: And yes, the white woman. There was also a subcontractor
Speaker 1: with me. I employed three hundred employees, one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five people that had to put to work every
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. When healthcare reform hit and Spirriann had
Speaker 1: to raise their rates, they lost the contract. So they
Speaker 1: merged me in with the other contractor that had the
Speaker 1: white woman. I had to split it with her. I said,
Speaker 1: I can't afford to only put five to six people
Speaker 1: to work because I can't afford it, so I lost
Speaker 1: the contract. He was able to maintain the contract. It
Speaker 1: wasn't that they didn't want to give it to me,
Speaker 1: but she was able to maintain the contract. You know
Speaker 1: why she had funding because we don't, as black women
Speaker 1: don't have access to funding. I use what was called factoring,
Speaker 1: which means my contract, I was able to show a
Speaker 1: lender who robbed me blind gave me ninety five percent
Speaker 1: of my money, and they said, well, we know based
Speaker 1: on your invoices you're gonna be able to pay it,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna advance you the money. And because I
Speaker 1: had a staff confirm, I had to pay that right
Speaker 1: out immediately, that taxes and plooring taxes, all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. So it was never any property. Though I
Speaker 1: had one hundred thousand plus you know of payroll every month,
Speaker 1: it didn't matter because it went right in and write out.
Speaker 1: And I was never able to have funding that could
Speaker 1: float me. So when when the contract split in half
Speaker 1: and they said, okay, instead of one hundred people, well
Speaker 1: only you only can give you eighteen or seven, I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't do that anymore. I can't afford that. Now
Speaker 1: if I had funding, I would have been able to
Speaker 1: float that till I went and got other business to
Speaker 1: compensate for that loss. So when I lost the contract,
Speaker 1: guess who lost jobs? People like Aaron Clark who did
Speaker 1: ten years in prison, young ladies who had jobs, who
Speaker 1: were in shelters that needed to be able to stick
Speaker 1: in their program to say that we're getting work. People
Speaker 1: are on probation that needed to be able to show
Speaker 1: they had work. And then I still have regular folks,
Speaker 1: people with PhDs that have just got laid off. Because
Speaker 1: this was directly after a recession. So I hired from
Speaker 1: across the board, a community business that hired that looked
Speaker 1: past records that Spurion or the city would not look past.
Speaker 1: I did that, So it wasn't that it just hurt
Speaker 1: me because I recovered, but not being an employer to
Speaker 1: individuals that needed me, that needed a shot. This is
Speaker 1: how it affected them. Put a five in thee chat
Speaker 1: if it's making sense. So as you're listening to people
Speaker 1: on these podcasts, as you're listening to people on these
Speaker 1: radio who may be doing very well, who may be wealthy,
Speaker 1: asked a couple of things. Have they ever had a
Speaker 1: government contract? Do they know anything about how this works.
Speaker 1: Don Mooney, I've set on his board for years. He
Speaker 1: owns down Mooney Enterprises and Nurses, et cetera forty million
Speaker 1: dollar company, ultra conservative who has always said do for self. Well,
Speaker 1: mister Mooney, you came up under the eight A program
Speaker 1: Meany of you may understand familiar with the A federal program.
Speaker 1: It's a program that's basically like an apprenticeship that allows
Speaker 1: you to partner with larger companies so that you can
Speaker 1: scale up. One of the hardest things for black businesses,
Speaker 1: especially and small businesses is scale up. By the way,
Speaker 1: that training is also available, guys, the ten things that
Speaker 1: I learned in business business mistakes. That training is also
Speaker 1: available on telimfergo dot com for twenty five bucks. It's
Speaker 1: a video with me just about fifteen minutes. It's only
Speaker 1: twenty five bucks. It has some downloadable downloadable materials as well.
Speaker 1: Just an fy. I did that because the Chamber is
Speaker 1: enrolling a lot of their folks in just as an
Speaker 1: FI a lot of their folks in the push to line,
Speaker 1: So I'm giving them a two for one. Why am
Speaker 1: I doing that, Cassie, Well, remember on the Save the
Speaker 1: Shack and the secure. Remember number three is securing our nonprofits.
Speaker 1: So my nonprofits, I've been partnering with them to get
Speaker 1: their members in to offer two for one, or how
Speaker 1: can we get more of them involved, how can we
Speaker 1: do it as a fundraiser to split the fees so
Speaker 1: that a kickback goes to them. I believe in doing
Speaker 1: stuff by action, not by talk. So if you know
Speaker 1: a nonprofit, if you know a group that has five
Speaker 1: or ten people and they want to do it as
Speaker 1: a fundraiser, I'm also you know, offering them kickbacks on
Speaker 1: all of the enrollments so it goes directly back to them.
Speaker 1: So they have a member and say, hey, we're it's
Speaker 1: fifty bucks for the course, guys, but twenty five of
Speaker 1: it goes directly back to us, or fifteen of it
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. You know that I negotiate with them,
Speaker 1: at least it goes right back to the organization. That's
Speaker 1: what I mean when I say secure the nonprofits. So
Speaker 1: now not only am I giving your members' resources to
Speaker 1: hopefully grow your organization, but we're also giving the money
Speaker 1: right back to them. And that's another reason why. God,
Speaker 1: I know I'm getting off course, but I just want
Speaker 1: you guys, to know the movement that you're a part
Speaker 1: of and why it's so important that I have your support.
Speaker 1: I can only do these things when I'm doing virtual.
Speaker 1: A lot of y'all want me to come in person.
Speaker 1: It's just not feasibly. I can't afford to do it. Literally,
Speaker 1: three days to go out of town, ninety days of
Speaker 1: marketing to get the amount of people we need in
Speaker 1: the room, and to charge one hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars per person to cover expenses and all
Speaker 1: of that, I'll never get this training off the ground.
Speaker 1: So Virtual allows the resources to come in and me
Speaker 1: to put those resources back out to the community, and
Speaker 1: for us to have more people in the class, and
Speaker 1: for me to be able to do it often and longer.
Speaker 1: So please know that your investment is to a bigger cause,
Speaker 1: much bigger than you and I and I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So with that said, guys, I wanted to give you
Speaker 1: that rundown. If you have any questions, please ask them now.
Speaker 1: This is how we're gonna do straight shot, no chaser.
Speaker 1: Every week, only ten people can get in the room.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do just like I did in my news bureau, guys,
Speaker 1: look for the link. I am trying to do this
Speaker 1: every Sunday, guys, but I'm terrible at it because I
Speaker 1: just be traveling all the time and so much is
Speaker 1: going on. But I always drop content every Thursday. I
Speaker 1: will always you know, you're gonna get content regardless, but
Speaker 1: just be make sure you're in my news borrow so
Speaker 1: you can get that link so that you can join me.
Speaker 1: And I'm always open to you guys joining me, you know,
Speaker 1: being in the chat with me, joining the show and
Speaker 1: giving a shout out. Are there any shoutouts of any
Speaker 1: businesses that I need to mention before I get out
Speaker 1: of it, because I do want to thank you for
Speaker 1: your time, guys, of coming over and just being in
Speaker 1: the chat with me, because it does make a difference
Speaker 1: to make sure you know that I'm I'm answering any question.
Speaker 1: So if there's no questions, if there's nothing else that
Speaker 1: you have or okay, Gus, you want to know when
Speaker 1: are you gonna discuss the Trump promise about cutting funds?
Speaker 1: Are you talking to out the the housing? If you're
Speaker 1: talking about the housing, this is two thousand. His proposal
Speaker 1: for that is twenty twenty six. I will do a
Speaker 1: show just on that guys that did really, really well.
Speaker 1: I did a twelve minute commentary on it. I think
Speaker 1: I pretty much unpacked it, unless you have any additional questions,
Speaker 1: but I pretty much unpacked it. But just in summary,
Speaker 1: it is a proposal. It has not happened yet. They're
Speaker 1: talking about twenty twenty six. I'm letting people know because
Speaker 1: right now I have two of my houses on Section
Speaker 1: eight and they pay partial and I know and I've
Speaker 1: seen how, you know, not showing up for inspections, not
Speaker 1: being there, how they're doing anything to get people off
Speaker 1: this program. And if you know anybody that's ever got
Speaker 1: any rental assistance, sometimes you have to wait for years
Speaker 1: to get in the program. So I wanted to roll
Speaker 1: that out now so that people can be making sure
Speaker 1: that they are paying attention to rental assistance, sticking to
Speaker 1: the guideline, sticking to you know, all the things that
Speaker 1: you have to do, understanding this is not just about
Speaker 1: lazy people. There's also disability. Is any program, any grant,
Speaker 1: any whatever, anything that supports anything they got to do
Speaker 1: with rental that could possibly be on the line. Don't
Speaker 1: listen to these people saying we're gonna be fine. Most
Speaker 1: of the people to keep saying we'll be fine. These
Speaker 1: content creators are rich guys. They're wealthy, and they sit
Speaker 1: back and say, we're gonna be fine. Who is the
Speaker 1: weed that the hell you're talking about? What way are
Speaker 1: you talking about if you don't know the answers to
Speaker 1: give the people, I'd rather you just say that. But
Speaker 1: stop just saying we're gonna be fine. Of course we're
Speaker 1: gonna be fine. But this is not what this is about.
Speaker 1: This is about giving you the information to make sure
Speaker 1: that you're fine. This is about planning plan A, B, C, D.
Speaker 1: So I'm giving people on that one a year heads
Speaker 1: up because as it's looking the current state of midterms,
Speaker 1: I don't know about y'all, but it don't look like
Speaker 1: Democrats is pushing online for me. So if they're not
Speaker 1: pushing on line for men terms. And this is something
Speaker 1: that Trump is proposing in twenty twenty six, it could
Speaker 1: likely pass. And when people jump in the comments and
Speaker 1: lie and say, oh, that's just giving it to the states,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about the federal A good portion
Speaker 1: that come that the federal The sectionary is a federal program.
Speaker 1: Just because the local LA housing authority manages. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean the money don't come from the federal level. So
Speaker 1: you're getting money from the federal level and you're getting
Speaker 1: money from a state level. So don't let these misinform
Speaker 1: people tell you that this ain't no big deal. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely a big deal, especially for our disabled and our elderly.
Speaker 1: So that what you're gonna hear them say is, oh,
Speaker 1: they just saying able body people just need to get
Speaker 1: in and get off in two years. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: what the term is able body? So let's first deal
Speaker 1: with that. Number two, if you had a set back
Speaker 1: in your life, how many of you have turned it
Speaker 1: around in two years with that a miracle? Let's really
Speaker 1: talk about it, guys. When I left, I had a
Speaker 1: business on top of my game. Health Care Forum knocked
Speaker 1: us out the game in twenty thirteen of No. Twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, I went to go work on the campaign trail.
Speaker 1: My mother had cancer. She passed away in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: I moved to Houston twenty seventeen. My old man got
Speaker 1: paralyzed twenty seventeen, twenty eight. It took me all the
Speaker 1: way back to twenty twenty to even be a little
Speaker 1: bit profitable, and I'm probably with many of you consider
Speaker 1: her successful. That's being on national TV, that's happening shows
Speaker 1: and connections and all of that. So I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear this. And I got one child, ain't never
Speaker 1: been on nobody's section, ain't nobody's federal or nothing. And
Speaker 1: I have a great ex husband that is financially available, mentally, emotionally,
Speaker 1: and physical. So I don't want to hear nothing about
Speaker 1: these people talking about two years turn around. They haven't
Speaker 1: turned shit around in their life in two years. These
Speaker 1: are a lot of people who are misery, y'all miserable,
Speaker 1: and they feel like they since they had to go
Speaker 1: through it, they want everybody else to go through it,
Speaker 1: and their hearts have turned cold. That's the bottom line.
Speaker 1: I don't want to mince no words around that. Or
Speaker 1: because they didn't get the help, they don't want nobody
Speaker 1: else to get the help. I don't want to mince
Speaker 1: no words around that. So that's about all I got
Speaker 1: on it outside of the commentary. Go watch the twelve minutes.
Speaker 1: If you got some additional questions, happy to answer, but
Speaker 1: I laid it out pretty good in the twelve minutes.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, that's been straight Shot No Chaser. I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoy this new format. Put a five if
Speaker 1: you like this new format again Black Effect. I'm not
Speaker 1: breaking any rules. It's just ten of us here in
Speaker 1: this private recording. I hope that you guys can join
Speaker 1: me again while I do it, because it does make
Speaker 1: a big, big, big difference. I want you to continue
Speaker 1: to support if you can, and I'm gonna close this out.
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. We will be here every week, each
Speaker 1: and every week until they lay my body down. Guys, please,
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