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Speaker 1: My guest is Dr Shanta Williams. She's the CEO of

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Speaker 1: Black Pearl Global Investments, is a black owned asset management

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Speaker 1: firm that's focused on reducing health disparities across the globe.

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Speaker 1: Black Pearls tagline, be Well Do Well captures the firm's

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Speaker 1: mission to invest in transformative companies around the world. Dr

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Speaker 1: Shanta earned a bachelor's degree from Western Salem State University

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Speaker 1: HUTH and a Master's of Business Administration from Queen's University

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Speaker 1: of Charlotte. She holds a doctorate in Integrated Medicine in

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Speaker 1: Biomedical Medicine from the Ohio State University. Please working with

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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations of Master Class. Dr Shanta Williams,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing? I am great, Thank you for

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Speaker 1: having me today. Well, I gotta say this to everybody.

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Speaker 1: You know, some people will probably only listen to this podcast,

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Speaker 1: but people who are viewing this path podcast, her background

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Speaker 1: is amazing. She has an amazing background, and there's not

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Speaker 1: some fake background, there's the reality. So so when I

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Speaker 1: look at your background, is that is that the background

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Speaker 1: that's tied to success that view? You know, Actually, the

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Speaker 1: two buildings right behind me our banks, um and so

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Speaker 1: I like to say my house is mostly windows. So

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Speaker 1: I say I wake up and I go to sleep

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Speaker 1: with money on my mind. Well, you know, I tell

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Speaker 1: people you know when you say that, because that's how

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying. I'm tying I see banks when I

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Speaker 1: go to sleep, which I which is a good thing now,

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Speaker 1: because you know you're always bankers. What runs out live

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Speaker 1: money is what runs out live. If you can see

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Speaker 1: something that motivates you to say I want to put

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Speaker 1: more money in that bank, and more money in that bank,

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Speaker 1: that means you're focused, and that means that there's a

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Speaker 1: drive that we all need to have. But I do

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Speaker 1: go to sleep with goals in mind. I do. I

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Speaker 1: always tell people that allows me to wake up because

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Speaker 1: a lot of people always say I'm not a morning person,

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Speaker 1: where I've always been a morning person, because I've always

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Speaker 1: went to sleep with goals and that when my clock

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Speaker 1: you talk about the whole process of how you tie

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Speaker 1: I will say I'm a person since I'm not a

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Speaker 1: up early in the morning. UM. Actually live by the

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Speaker 1: UM mantra that I need a full night of sleep

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Speaker 1: to be the best person I can be. So most

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Speaker 1: people are surprised that I sleep eight hours a night

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Speaker 1: at least um every night, UM, even when traveling. UM.

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Speaker 1: And I don't compromise on my sleep because a tired

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Speaker 1: I have a whole line down process at night. UM.

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Speaker 1: I try to stop all meetings, you know, at least

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Speaker 1: electronic devices. I try to read something that's inspirational UM

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Speaker 1: really to help my mind calm down. But then you know,

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Speaker 1: take that moment to reflect um on what what's been done, what, um,

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Speaker 1: So so I'm already mad because I go look the

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Speaker 1: The interesting thing about you, Dr Williams, was that you know,

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Speaker 1: Talk about your journey at Winston Salem State because each

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Speaker 1: And so for me, it was very intentional to make

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Speaker 1: be right back with more Money Making Conversations master Class

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Speaker 1: with Rashan McDonald. Now, let's return to Money Making Conversations

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Speaker 1: master Class with Rashan McDonald. Now that's just going through

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Speaker 1: But you're a doctor to go get a master. Talk

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Speaker 1: chapter really looks like UM expanding UM into other countries. UM.

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Speaker 1: plans to help other entrepreneurs come into that space, reducing

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Speaker 1: really just saying, hey, if you need to use our

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Speaker 1: to work, we're open to that. And that's where I

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Speaker 1: think the future for us is really going to be

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Speaker 1: headed helping businesses level up, but then also bringing in

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Speaker 1: practitioners people UM. One of our programs that I'm most

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Speaker 1: proud of is we take folks with UM no health

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Speaker 1: just is it right? And so I'm really proud of

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Speaker 1: the work we're doing today, and I look forward to

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Speaker 1: seeing that expand beyond North Carolina and to other states

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Speaker 1: you your storytelling this is amazing. She is the CEO

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Speaker 1: Black Pearl Global and the investment firm that is changing

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Speaker 1: the healthcare of the African American columing not only domestically

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Speaker 1: feels like we're part of the people care about us. Again,

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Speaker 1: I want to appreciate. I wanted to say, I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you taking the time, and all my interviews have their

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Speaker 1: special journeys. But I think from an academic standpoint, you're special.

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Speaker 1: From a lifestyle standpoint, you're special and for your calls.

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Speaker 1: So what you're doing out here in the community, as

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Speaker 1: we all goal is to make money, but ball you

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Speaker 1: can help people along the way. Isn't that a blessing? Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: yes absolutely. I want to thank you for coming on

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Speaker 1: money Making Conversation Masterclass and we talked soon. Okay, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: thank you for having me. I appreciate you. It's been

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Speaker 1: ray Sean McDonald I hosted Money Making Conversation Masterclass