WEBVTT - There's Always Another Way (Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon/DJ Diamond Kuts and Conceited /Latham Thomas) 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.800 This is your wake up hall Breakfast Club to show 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.160 you love to hate from the East to the West, 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:11.760 Coach DJ and Charlomagne the guy really show on the planet. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:13.760 This is why I respect this show, because this is 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.440 a voice of society. Samets in the game. Guys are 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.599 the coveted morning show. But y'all earn impacting the coach 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.159 the morning and they want to hear that Breakfast the 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:32.320 world's most dangerous morning show. And this is your time 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.640 to get it off your chests, whether you're mad or blessed, 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:36.919 so you better have the same We want to hear 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.680 from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello. Who's this? Hey man? 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.559 Good morning, this is Ross Russ. What's happening? King? Get 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.320 off your chests? Run not hey man. Let me first 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:48.160 say I've been listening to yars hope it's a ninth 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.199 three right. How old are you now? I'm twenty three 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.360 years old, Lord, have mercy, boy, we've been around too long, man, Listen. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.520 I called y'all back when I was in tenth grade 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:02.040 in high school and am hung up on me. Ain't 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:08.280 right us? Rust rush right? He kept saying, rough. Vis 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:12.360 communication has improved a lot over the year. This is 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:17.840 too difficult hang about at But anyway, I remember what 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.520 I was mad about back then. I was mad because 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:23.920 you know, I'm from Baltimore, man, y'all not on Q 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:31.120 So I was mad. But you know what I'm doing today, mastivating? What? No, something, 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:35.440 don't change what, sir. I'm I'm gonna read your book, 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:40.200 uh anxiety planting tricks on me chick one, Yes, sir exactly, 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.160 because you know I took the mental health day to 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:45.039 day so called out of work. Oh man, listen, we 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:46.560 gotta do that from time to time. But you have 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.720 an anxiety about today, brother, Man, Monday morning, I was 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.880 on my way to a job interview and I had 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.320 crashed my car. Man, that just ruined my week. Damn 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.400 well man, shake it off, my brother. I'm glad you're 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:00.880 taking the mental health day to day. Yesterday was the 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:02.600 day that you should have liked, you know, did some 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.040 energy clinics in man, maybe take a salt bath right 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.560 down your your long term goals, manifest some things in 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.800 your life. But you can still do that today. Yeah, man, 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:12.520 I'm gonna I'm gonna turn with to day. I'm gonna 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.040 get my my my feelings off my chest and like 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.919 write it down. We know what back on this day, 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:19.480 and I know it's not gonna be a big day. 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.720 It was like, you know, I'm trump push. I love 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:26.120 this my brother, I love how you live in king Man. Y'all, 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.760 y'all have a good morning. Thanks for that's Hey, Russ, 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:31.200 I'm gonna put you on hold. I'm gonna send you 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:32.760 some more things to read. I'm gonna send your doctor 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.000 to Walker, the unapologetic guy, the black mental Health. That's a. 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.799 That's a. That's when I recommend to everybody. Man, I'm 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.360 gonna sit. You can autograph for me. It's not mine 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.959 the autograph, but I'll send it to you. Damn man, 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:46.640 I got you kids. I'm gonna send it to the Lord. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.200 Don't hang out, hold on hanging yo. Line of seven? Hello, 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.760 who's this? DJ Ambition? Scuber and Mike Uber? Mike what 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:55.400 I bro get off your chest? How are you doing? 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.080 Two things? First thing, I think you can sending us 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.240 a shout out yesterday. But I only got one problem. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.600 I don't like wait on people when I pull up. 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.160 I don't like wait you there confirm that means ready 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.320 to go? Nah it don't it don't because I'm not 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.760 type of person because sometimes Uber said they'll be there 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.320 in ten minutes and to take fifteen minutes. And I 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.040 don't be waiting outside. So if I'm staying at a hotel, 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.120 i'm doing something. I usually wait to you outside that 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.480 I start walking to you, okay, and then antelaye when 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.000 this ye day, I want to come to your y 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:25.480 days twenty, I'm already studying. Yes, I've already been planning it. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.960 It's gonna be amazing this year. I can't wait. Okay, 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.959 I'll be there. Last thing, I promise you. This is Charlemagne. Yes, sir, okay, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.639 you know that that fear we have when somebody pull 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.200 up on side of you on the car, Yes, sir, yeah, 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.280 I got. That's why I don't like waiting a car 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.760 to be pulling up aside along beside you. That fair 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.800 we got. Hey, it's called you're talking about the anxiety. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.640 But I'm gonna tall you something. I couldn't be an 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.480 Uber driver, bro dealing with all them strangers every day 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.800 and random people jumping in and out, exchanging that different 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.640 energy with different people all day. Lord, have mercy. Oh man, 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.600 it's a blessing. And I love talking to people. Man, 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.880 I have ten thousand pickups. Man, it's it's amazing. I 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:03.440 read that story the other day. It gave me anxiety 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.920 for all the uber and live drivers about the the 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.840 young lady who got killed. Yeah, and she was begging 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.080 for her life. She had four kids, like damn yeah, 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.560 y'all have them. Blessed morning man, Yes, sir, all right, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.479 get it off your chest eight hundred five eight five 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.200 one oh five one. If you need to vent hit 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.320 us up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:32.120 the Breakfast Club. I'm telling you, if this is your 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.240 time to get it off your chest, whether you're mad 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.240 or blessed, eight hundred five eight five one five one. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.800 We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club. Hello. 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:44.720 Who's this? Yes, good morning. I just want to get 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.520 to the attention of your gas station attendance. Why why 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.080 wouldn't you call from the foot one amount in your 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:55.760 car to another amount tending the foot tween out of 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:59.400 my car keep for forty what months ago? For the bastakes, 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.240 intendance put queen eyes my car, he steals it off, 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.840 he put almost and you know what will because it's 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.200 the language, its language, that's what you say. All I 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.039 got is twenty dollars. This is all I have. This 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:15.960 is what I asked you for your card? Oh so 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.640 they already have your carn Right, something has to be done. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.359 And I don't know if it's a new thing. A 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.360 lot of them don't speak the language. You're doing other 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.480 things when that happened, you're not paying to a panic? 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.320 Would you expect them to do what they would you 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.320 ask them to do? Correct? Well, I think since this 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.480 has been happening to you a lot, just make sure 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:35.880 that you actually pay attention now when you're getting gas. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.000 You don't never want to act like Trump to people 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.600 who don't speak the language. Yeah, if it happened a 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.800 bunch of times, you gotta you know, you gotta start watching. Yeah, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.119 but if you don't speak the language, that's never happened 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.720 to me. Stop, bro, they get stopped. Stop. Everybody knows 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.200 stop clearly not hello. Who's this hello? All right? Then? 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.239 Oh my god, I can't believe I got through. Good morning, 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.839 stop and queen you all for everything that you do. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.120 Oh my god. I just want to start out all 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:06.080 the US Army veterans out there. I am a US 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:10.599 Army veteran part of mental health. I got out of 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.839 the Army and after two years of fair and doubt, 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:18.320 I launched my boutique, Fashion's House. The house is spells 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.000 h a us in German because that was my first 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:26.680 duty station and I launched it on Veterans Day last year. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:31.159 It hasn't been easy, but from finding joy through the process. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.000 And you know, basically, my sister and I we just 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.920 made the choice to live consciously and to face our 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:43.120 goals and live intentionally. And so she also has a podcast. 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:47.599 It's called Incommensable. Podcast is pushing the idea that we 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:52.120 all are unique and we have to think for ourselves always, 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.719 and I just want to share with you. I'm so nervous, guys, 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:57.760 you have no reason to be it. I love your 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.800 mission statement. And by the way, that's not an idea 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.040 that we all are unique. We definitely all are unique. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:07.000 Are none of our DNAs are the same? Absolutely? Absolutely? 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:14.000 I want to shift your phone. Hold on a second, Mama, Hello, 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:19.200 who's this morning? Jerome? Jerome was something? Good morning, man, 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:24.920 Get off your chests. Good morning. I don't know. I 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.880 just remember a couple of months back to the Dnnbif 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.760 you don't know, no brothers with no cats, man, we 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:36.400 know what cats? Cat? Cat? Oh, animal cat cats. But yeah, 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.000 I just ordered to let y'all know I have blessed 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.480 cats and the dog and the name of Tina and Turner. 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.680 You can follow them on in gril right now. I 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:52.360 love cats. I'd rather have a cat and have a dog. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.200 They are a lot more little maintenance. Nah, dog protects 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.200 the crib. Yeah, and cats to make sure you don't 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:01.040 have bugs or rodents. Yeah, we grew up with cats 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.000 in our house that we had three cats and a dog. No, 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.080 we never had no cats. We always had dogs. My 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.400 wife had a cat growing up. There's nothing wrong with 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.040 people who like cats. I just said I don't know anybody. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:13.640 If I said I don't know, I just don't know 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.320 any men with cats, That's all I said. Yeah, I 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:19.360 don't know men with cats being a man who has 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:22.360 because you can leave a cat in the house for 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.880 like three days and they'll be okay. Mike Tyson had 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.680 a white tiger. That's the closest person I know they 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.800 had a cat. I don't know. Let's not tell other 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.320 guys with cats. Tell you get it off your chests. 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.480 Eight hundred five eight five one on five one. If 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:34.719 you need to vent hit this up. Now it's the 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:41.719 Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. Morning. Everybody is 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.360 DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all to 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.679 Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:51.120 and have doctor Lakeisha home and welcome. Thank you, thank 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.160 you so much for having me. I've been so excited 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.800 to get here. And before we start, I really want 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.840 to tell you our congratulations on everything that you're doing. Oh, 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.680 thank you very much, thank you so much. So you 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.640 have the founder and CEO of the Village Market. I 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.320 am headquartered in the amazing city of Atlanta. I founded 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:11.360 the Village Market to accelerate black entrepreneurs in twenty sixteen. 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.520 What is it exactly? The Village Market is a company 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:18.720 that focuses on creating marketplaces, creating campaigns, and I also 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.920 have a retail store at punt City Market in Atlanta. 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.960 But the purpose is upward mobility. I believe that cooperative 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.640 economics in a real way should be tangible, like that 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.440 of like that of Tulsa, and that's what I've created 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.160 with the Village Market. How did you get into that? 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.640 Which started you with that? You know? As an interesting career, 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.120 I was a teacher for years. Um, I taught in 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:43.520 the Mississippi Delta something from Mississippi. Enough not enough, clear, 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.239 not enough. But let me tell you. My first salary 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:51.080 in two thousand and four was twenty seven thousand dollars. Y'all. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:52.720 I thought I was rich though I was only twenty 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.360 two years old. But when you understand that, now, that's 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.359 not even a livable wage. But I was teaching in Missisippi, 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.560 Mississippi Dela twenty seven thousand dollars a year. Now, of 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.600 course you can cross state lines. Texas does pretty well. 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.800 Of course New York does well. In California does extremely 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:13.200 well for teachers, but well compared to what thought. If 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.160 we if we're compared and it to Mississippi, then it 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.520 looks like teachers are being paid. But I don't think 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.040 teachers are paid enough. I love what you said about 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.600 group economics being tangible. Isn't that up to us though? 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.800 To make it tangible? Oh? Absolutely, absolutely, it's up to us. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.200 Everything is up to us. Right, So we have an 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.480 urgency at this time. Either we're going to be the answer, 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:37.360 we're going to be the problem. And tangible means that 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.480 we can open businesses that's cooperative that. When I opened 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.960 the Village Market, it wasn't just me. I'm the founder 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.120 of that, but now I represent thousands of businesses in Atlanta. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.880 Outside of Atlanta. My retail store that I told you 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.560 all about, the Village Retail, I gave over forty businesses 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:56.920 the first opportunity in mainstream real estate in Atlanta. So 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.120 that's a cooperative retail store. That's an incubator. So being 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.040 on the shelves that people can actually shot from you. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.319 And so that's what it means for it to be tangible. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.800 I love accelerators. I have my own. I love incubators. 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.800 I have my own, but there should be something at 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.880 the end of that. Again, I'm a former teacher. Experience 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.000 is the best teacher. I want to put entrepreneurs in 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:16.600 a place, but you can be in front of your 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.920 customer where you can make some real money. Now, how 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.319 can black businesses receive more funding for their businesses. I 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.079 know it's very difficult a lot of times to get 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.240 money and to raise money. So how can they do that? 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.800 I'm gonna name some people that's doing it again. Yes, 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:33.800 tangible again. Collab Capital is based in Atlanta. New Voice 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:35.720 is fun. I think they're based here in New York. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.079 Fearless Fun Airing is doing a great job. But these 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.480 are three funds, and no, there's more funds out there, 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.080 but these funds are being led by black folks. Is 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.160 it easy to get the money though? No, absolutely, it's 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.520 not easy to get the money. Absolutely not. I mean again, 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.280 it's not easy to get the money. But what has 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:55.760 been easy for black folk? You know either if we know, 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.600 the odds are there, but it takes some fearless people 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.200 who are persistent enough and who wants to agitate the 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:02.920 system to make sure that we get the money that 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.480 we need. I saw this stat and it kind of 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.280 blew me away because when you think of Atlanta, you 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.240 think that's like the black business mecca, right, But according 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.520 to Prosperity Now, Atlanta's black businesses of value that fifty 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.520 eight thousand, eighty five dollars compared to the Latin next 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.560 businesses that over four hundred and fifty thousand, and white 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.240 businesses that over six hundred and fifty thous. I don't 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.520 even want to call that a gap. That's just no, 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:30.360 that no, that is disrespectful to why Yeah, I mean, 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.400 because this country is built on capitalism, so anytime that 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.439 there is probably anytime that there is well, there is 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:40.240 a desperation of poverty. And that's be it Atlanta, be 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.480 it Mississippi, be it in La. You're gonna always see 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.240 this gap. Now, what I do know that's true about Atlanta. 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.200 If there's a city where black people can have up mobility, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.360 Atlanta as a city for it. But when you see 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.600 a pervasive wealth gap like that, we can't stay in 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.360 our bubble of saying that it is the Black Melca. 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.920 It's the city that can't be the Black Mecca because 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.640 we also lead the entry one of the leading cities 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.120 in a country that has the most black millionaires. And 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:08.439 also the generating of black businesses are now growing from 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.559 that fifty thousand to getting closer that seven seventy five 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.559 one hundred thousand. But what that means when you get 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.640 to a place where you're making some real cash, it 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.880 means you can hire folks. Now you also talk about 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.280 you know, I'm reading the same studies that said approximately 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.559 twenty eight days money stays in the Asian communities, nineteen 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.920 days in Jewish community, seventeen days in white communities, and 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:33.040 just six hours in Black communities. Why is that can 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.320 we start with anything? Is that the reason why for 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:39.160 commercial real estate? Yes? Right, So when when these developers 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.120 are coming into cities, we're not controlling what's being open. 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.200 We don't own the land. Again, it's anytime there as 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.880 well there's poverty, but anytime there is where we're in 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.160 a place of constant the leasing and not owning, we 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.320 have no truth say so what's going to be open 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.760 in those communities? But the circulation of the dollar is 0:13:55.880 --> 0:14:00.520 I mean overt racism Again, you think about Tulsa, Oklahoma, 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.040 when it was true that our dollars circulated in our communities. 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.840 But what happened up with mobility when we produced so many, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.200 so many black millionaires, when so many black businesses were 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.720 being funded from insurance to teachers, to the dude that 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.760 cut your lawn, to the guy that shaped up your 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.440 beer were all black folks. We were winning during that time. 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.480 And then bombs were dropped on us and this black 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.880 city was burned down and there was no way even 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.400 though there was insurance there, they wouldn't even grant at 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.200 their insurance claims. So what happens in this country when 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:33.120 black people began to accelerate? Then literally the airess knocked 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.720 out of us, and we were pushed down further than 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.040 where we were before we started. So that is why 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.080 that number is persistent. It was created to be that way. 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.200 But we have to know that that number is there. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.040 But we can't wait on other people to shop from us. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.520 There's enough black people in this country to shop from 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.160 black people. But I do know that it's also amazing 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.240 that other people are shopping from black folks too. All Right, 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.600 we got more with doctor Lakeisha Holman when we come 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.800 back as the Breakfast Club. Good Morning, the Breakfast Club 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:04.200 Morning everybody is DJ Envy and Jela Yee. Charlomagne, the 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.200 guy we all the Breakfast Club was still kicking it 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.080 with Doctor Lakeisha Harmon Charlomagne. You feel that black people 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.440 supporting black businesses as you're growing, Oh, absolutely, I think 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:16.400 it's growing. What is really shifting, rather than growing, it 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.920 is that our consciousness is shifting. I think we're in 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.960 a very special time. I wrote a couple of weeks 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.400 ago that I believe that we're in our renaissance because 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.680 when it's things are desperately bad, there's also something that's 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:32.280 pervasively really good. And you hear more people now not 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.240 just talking about buying black, but you see entrepreneurs on 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:38.480 the cover of magazines. When did that happen? Right? Yeah, 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:40.840 when did that happen? And we're talking about people getting 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.400 their evaluations, we're talking about companies being acquired. I look 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.880 at what happened with the gathering spy in Greenwood. Shout 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.800 out to my friends Ryan and TK and what they 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:54.280 did that is black collaboration. But I think, though, we 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.640 have to make sure that in our consciousness that buying black, 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:01.560 hiring black, referring black is a part of our lifestyle 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:03.840 and having grace And the reason I say having graces, 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:05.720 it's so funny. We talked about it all the time. 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:07.760 How many times you go to McDonald's and they mess 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.120 up your order or you go in order that the 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.120 ice cream machine ain't working. But if you go to 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.040 a black business and they mess up one time, you 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.480 ready to go on Instagram and say I'm never coming back. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:18.160 Like people have to understand there has to be a 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:20.280 learning curve as well, because this is new to a 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.760 lot of us, especially when when these businesses come. Yeah, 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.600 I mean you think and grace is my words on 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:26.760 halfy set that you see how big got smiled that's 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.120 my word for the year. I think that's the that's 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.480 the word for our generation that we must have with 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.160 black businesses, but we should have overall, even if you're 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.360 a business or not, but just ask the humanity of 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.120 black people together. Now is what is Our Village United? 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:43.520 That's my nonprofit. Again, when you start a business, then 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:47.160 you think of like five more. I started a lunch 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.560 our Village United actually in twenty seventeen, but I didn't 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.960 get it going until the pandemic when so many sole 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:58.360 proprietors were applying for pppee loans and didn't get it. 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.320 It kept me up at night and I said, I 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.119 need to create an incubator that's just for senior operators, 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.720 but that person that is just them. And so Our 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:09.280 Village United focuses on a twelve week incubator. We graduated 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.480 our hundred businesses since the pandemic about two to three 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.480 weeks ago. But we provide full services for twelve weeks 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.720 to entrepreneurs and then they graduate into our incubator program, 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.000 which means you're a part of the village now, but 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:27.320 from CPA services and we all know the tax season 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.680 just ended. We make sure that they're in front and center. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.000 We also make sure one of the things that I experienced, 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.840 especially as my company began to boom, my anxiety spiked. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.480 I found myself being more anxious than I ever experienced. 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.119 And I made sure that our village unit it was 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:48.280 paired with mental health services. So every entrepreneur that's a 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.160 part of the village is then paired with doctor Jeor Beckford. 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.920 Shout out for her, who is our licensed therapist on 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.080 our staff who works with these entrepreneurs and focus groups 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.399 and also one on one, because I don't want us 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.240 to have the wealth without the health. Yeah, Sarah jas 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.119 Roberts said, because I asked her about that. You know 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.239 when how come whenever you achieve something new or go 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.600 to a new level, your anxiety starts to go crazy. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.280 And she said, because you're experiencing something new, absolutely, And 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.200 that's that's just how I embraced, Like, oh, like, it's 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.879 not because I feel like that's when this anxiety is expected. 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.119 You know, it's when the anxiety is not expected that 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.040 calls you to have the panic attacks. But when you're 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.560 trying something new, doing something new, yeah, you should feel 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.640 that way slightly. Yeah, And if you're the first one 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.760 in your family. There's a lot of guilt around that 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.840 you're the person that got out. I'm from Mississippi. I'm 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.159 one of the few people in my family, if not 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.120 the only person at least on my mother's side who's deceased, 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.080 who is doing the things that I'm doing. And there's 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.640 a level of pressure to make sure that I'm looking 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.280 out for my little cousins, that everywhere I go that 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.960 I'm talking about Mississippi, I'm talking about Marx in Basville 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.679 and crowd of Mississippi and in very affirming ways, because 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.040 I know right now I have the mic in the 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.440 responsibility that when you have the mic, how you talk 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.879 about your people, how you talk about your experiences. We 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.080 see that you looked up with Michael Jordan brand, oh yeah, 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.040 and invested in the ovuya and tell us how you 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.280 partnered with him. You know that blew my mind. I 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.639 am I personally think that Michael Jordan is the best 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:14.840 basketball player to have ever played. You'd be right. I 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:18.199 think I'll write to y'all agree. Okay, So, when the 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.800 Jordan Brand announced that they would be funding I think 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.439 thirteen organizations, we put our name in a hat. I 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.480 didn't know what was going to happen. But I knew 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.080 that my team and my team is incredible. I know 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.600 that we're sharp, and so Michael Jordan. We found out 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:36.200 last year that we were one of the thirteen organizations 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.399 in the country that is funded by Michael Jordan. And 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.159 what they're doing is they get us money to do 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.200 what we do well. They didn't ask us to change 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.280 our programming. Is what you asked me earlier, Like you 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.320 need the money to be able to scale in the 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.960 Jordan Foundation, say here's the money. Y'all go ahead and 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.240 do what you're doing and make sure you stay true 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.920 to your your core values with some of the next 0:19:56.920 --> 0:20:01.120 business moves you got planned our partner. When you visit Atlanta, 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:02.960 make sure you stop by the Village Retail. But when 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.199 you all come right behind Plunt City Market is the 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:09.080 belt Line and that is that is currently two million 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:13.600 people frequent this place. Now because of that, the search 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.600