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Speaker 3: So when we start earning your leisure to show now,
Speaker 3: we have a lot of things working for us right
Speaker 3: so when we hit the ground, it's like an explosion
Speaker 3: because we was able to actually provide information in a
Speaker 3: very relatable manner. So we're kind of like the latter
Speaker 3: to the clouds. I think a lot of times in
Speaker 3: our community there have been a small pocket of black intellectuals,
Speaker 3: but they have not been able to fully communicate or
Speaker 3: relate to the vast majority of Black people on the ground.
Speaker 3: So now you have a disconnect. The intellectuals feel like
Speaker 3: they're better than the masses. The masses feel like the
Speaker 3: intellectuals are Bouoagie's and they just like disregard them, right Like.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, well, there's value in both places. We
Speaker 3: need each other, right So it's like, Okay, we have
Speaker 3: an interesting background where we're able to communicate to everybody.
Speaker 3: We can be in an Ivy League school, where we
Speaker 3: can be in a penitentiary communicating to people. And we
Speaker 3: have been in both places communicating with people and educating people.
Speaker 3: So when we were able to provide the education, it
Speaker 3: was done in a very non traditional manner when it
Speaker 3: comes to business. So the way that we dressed we
Speaker 3: had hoodies and T shirts. The way that we talk
Speaker 3: we would using hip hop references. But we're breaking down
Speaker 3: case studies and we're actually talking about very high level business,
Speaker 3: right and everybody wants to make money. So what happens
Speaker 3: is that it's just perfect timing, it hits social media,
Speaker 3: and then it just explodes on social media. My original
Speaker 3: thesis on social media actually turned out to be right.
Speaker 3: Like I said, we just had to wait some time
Speaker 3: and we switched lanes a little bit, but the idea
Speaker 3: of it came to fruition. And then there's opportunities in
Speaker 3: every crisis. So when the pandemic happened, everything shut down
Speaker 3: and everybody was scared, and a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 3: unfortunately lost their jobs and some people passed away as well.
Speaker 3: But then some people benefited. We were on this side
Speaker 3: of the people that actually benefited because when everybody was home,
Speaker 3: they had nothing to do. So then they started watching us.
Speaker 3: And then we developed a show called Market Money, so
Speaker 3: we're actually teaching people about stocks investing. Then something that
Speaker 3: happened in our favor was that everybody got a stimulus check.
Speaker 3: Then something that happened in our favors that the stock
Speaker 3: market started the skyrocket. So now people are making money
Speaker 3: in real time from our information. And then it becomes
Speaker 3: like a cult following. Now everybody's passing it along and
Speaker 3: they're telling their friend, they telling their cousins, and before
Speaker 3: you know it, we're at like a million people that's
Speaker 3: watching us right. So this is all part of the
Speaker 3: Unuleasha's story how we was able to grow organically. But
Speaker 3: it's a mix of I think, having a unique product,
Speaker 3: mixing it with the right time and maximizing the moment.
Speaker 3: We're in a moment right now where traditionally media, if
Speaker 3: we were to try to start a show fifteen twenty
Speaker 3: years ago, we would have to go to Bloomberg, CNBC, ABC,
Speaker 3: and we would have to compromise who we are. We
Speaker 3: would have to shave our face, and we would have
Speaker 3: to talk in a language that we didn't fully even
Speaker 3: feel comfortable talking in. We would have to wear a suit,
Speaker 3: we would have to be under the umbrella of them.
Speaker 3: We couldn't own our own show. It be unpossible. But
Speaker 3: now the cell phone has empowered the creatives and independence
Speaker 3: and now we're able to break through without having to
Speaker 3: go through the actual gatekeepers or the larger institutions. But
Speaker 3: what has propelled us to even a higher level is
Speaker 3: there's a middle ground that can be reached where now
Speaker 3: independence is at an all time high and we have
Speaker 3: the leverage, but it's only so far you can go
Speaker 3: as an independent from just exposure resources. There's still some
Speaker 3: level of benefit from corporate, but now we can work
Speaker 3: with corporate from a relationship standpoint as opposed to them
Speaker 3: owning everything standpoint, because we have leverage. So now we've
Speaker 3: been able to leverage with a lot of different corporate
Speaker 3: relationships which have helped us expand our reach globally and
Speaker 3: expanded our reach and accelerated the growth in a much
Speaker 3: quicker manner. So this is an interesting time for creatives
Speaker 3: because now you can grow your following, whatever you're doing,
Speaker 3: use that leverage to work with corporate, but maintain ownership,
Speaker 3: maintain independence and have real leverage and real partnership as
Speaker 3: opposed to being an employee. And that's something that has
Speaker 3: accelerated our growth as well. So as a very long
Speaker 3: winded answer to your question, but I think that it
Speaker 3: might be beneficial for anybody that's interested in the new
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Speaker 4: It's crazy because as he's talking and I was listening
Speaker 4: to you, Dre when you were talking about Nigeria, when
Speaker 4: we talk about how we creatively are reaching people, it
Speaker 4: maybe think about the first time, like what you were
Speaker 4: speaking about was illegal. Dangode, right, he has an opportunity
Speaker 4: to change the export import ratio from Nigeria.
Speaker 5: And so I'm thinking, like, how do I teach kids
Speaker 5: about that?
Speaker 4: How do I walk in the classroom and tell him,
Speaker 4: like they should know this person?
Speaker 5: And so always was hip hop right. The first lesson
Speaker 5: was I took jay Z's line.
Speaker 4: I said, all Black Scouts is sports and entertainment until
Speaker 4: we even And I showed them six people from the
Speaker 4: world of sports entertainment. They knew every one of them,
Speaker 4: jay Z, Beyonce, Floyd Maywether, doctor Dre and Oprah.
Speaker 5: They knew them all right, and Jordan.
Speaker 4: And then I gave him another sheet with the six
Speaker 4: wealthiest people black people on the planet, and they knew none.
Speaker 5: I said, damn.
Speaker 4: Jay kind of prophesized this, right, He really showed us
Speaker 4: like all we had until we eat, because we've never
Speaker 4: recognized anything outside that world until I get to teach
Speaker 4: him about the wealthiest guy on the planet who was
Speaker 4: a legal Dan Godi. And now this is the crossroads.
Speaker 4: And so now that group of kids never gets to
Speaker 4: say they don't know who that guy is. And guess what.
Speaker 5: He didn't do it because he dribbled it. He didn't
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Speaker 4: And these are all different things. So now that kid
Speaker 4: or those kids that are now hearing it know that
Speaker 4: there's value in other things then the traditional things that
Speaker 4: have been fed through us through the TV. Right, we
Speaker 4: have to be entertaining that there's no value in the
Speaker 4: guy who's going.
Speaker 5: To be the doctor in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4: There's no value to the person who's going to be
Speaker 4: the teacher, or who's going to be the chemist, or
Speaker 4: who's going to be the next person to venture capital.
Speaker 4: Those people weren't celebrated until this moment in time, and
Speaker 4: so that was kind of the thing, was like, all right,
Speaker 4: this is how we now can creatively reach people use
Speaker 4: social media, use hip hop, merge it all together and
Speaker 4: delivered to the people.
Speaker 7: How long did that breakthrough tape? Because when you sit
Speaker 7: there we talked about just recently, you know, to be
Speaker 7: more than an athlete was the thing that just popped
Speaker 7: up like five or six years ago. And then a
Speaker 7: lot of times when you're coming down and talk about
Speaker 7: sports and entertainment and what young individuals typically want to be,
Speaker 7: they necessarily don't want to hear all the rye educational stuff.
Speaker 7: And how did you guys keep your confidence? We always
Speaker 7: have a saying, don't you know this academy pillar and
Speaker 7: jot the butterfly, So like it kind of been at
Speaker 7: easy going in and you know, continue to build step
Speaker 7: by step. So how'd you guys keep that momentum up
Speaker 7: in the face? Did you ever get discouraged?
Speaker 3: Well, I think that when losing is not an option,
Speaker 3: then you really have no choice but to win. So
Speaker 3: it's a few ways how you look at the timeframe.
Speaker 3: You can look at it from when we started social media.
Speaker 3: That's a relatively short period in the grand scheme of
Speaker 3: things of success, like we kind of it just kind
Speaker 3: of went up. But then you look at it from
Speaker 3: like your whole entire life takes you to the moment
Speaker 3: that you're at, and that's a very long journey, right.
Speaker 3: So it's like he was a teacher and he was
Speaker 3: preparing for that moment without knowing it. I was a
Speaker 3: financial advisor, and I was preparing for that moment without
Speaker 3: knowing it. Right. So I feel that you have to
Speaker 3: fully believe in what you're doing to not even thinking
Speaker 3: of not even you can't really even think about it
Speaker 3: not working. It's only a matter of how do I
Speaker 3: get it to work. So like for me my personal journey,
Speaker 3: I never really had a job BeForever So I went
Speaker 3: to school and then I became a financial advisor. It's
Speaker 3: a commission based situation, so anybody can get hired.
Speaker 5: It wasn't.
Speaker 3: I wasn't working on Wall Street. I was working for
Speaker 3: an insurance company. It's not too difficult to get hired
Speaker 3: in that situation just being honest, but it's also extremely
Speaker 3: difficult to be successful in it. That's why it's not
Speaker 3: difficult to get hired, Like not even centing to people
Speaker 3: is not going to be successful. But you know, it's
Speaker 3: extremely difficult type of job, especially at twenty four years old,
Speaker 3: to try to convince people that they, you know, need
Speaker 3: life insurance and irais and stuff like that. But my alternative,
Speaker 3: like I said, I didn't have an advanced degree, I
Speaker 3: went to a state school. My alternative was to actually
Speaker 3: get a job, and that wasn't going to happen. So
Speaker 3: I really had no choice but to make it happen.
Speaker 3: So I think, you know, and you when you use
Speaker 3: that type of framework, then you really don't think about
Speaker 3: like tough times or like because at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, what is a tough time? We really never
Speaker 3: really had anything anyway, So that's something that we already
Speaker 3: used to. Like, I mean, if you think about it, like,
Speaker 3: it can't really get too much worse. You only really
Speaker 3: have a really you really have nothing to lose. When
Speaker 3: you have nothing to lose, right, Like when you become
Speaker 3: a millionaire, now you start to think like, damn, I
Speaker 3: can really screw this up and I'm back to zero.
Speaker 3: But I mean, if you have five thousand dollars in
Speaker 3: a bank account, what's the worst that can happen?
Speaker 4: You're closer to zero, yes, right, I mean, and that's
Speaker 4: the reality, Like we grow up, we're so close to zero,
Speaker 4: So what is the risk, right, but I thought he's
Speaker 4: gonna answer this a whole different way. I was like,
Speaker 4: because the thing about I've known him since he was
Speaker 4: probably eleven years old.
Speaker 5: He's known vice versa.
Speaker 4: There was never a time where our confidence ever weighed
Speaker 4: in ourselves. What we were gonna do is we would
Speaker 4: figure that out. But we were always confident we were
Speaker 4: gonna be Like I knew he was going to be
Speaker 4: successful probably vice versa, and our community knew that too
Speaker 4: because we were rooted in the community. But what happened
Speaker 4: over time was that we realized representation and showing up
Speaker 4: as your authentic self was the key.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: So most people when I worked, they were like, well,
Speaker 4: you're the gym teacher. I'm like, yeah, I'm the physical educator.
Speaker 4: But there's other things I do too. But people will
Speaker 4: only judge you from where they see.
Speaker 5: You at, right.
Speaker 4: So like even now, if I go back to the school,
Speaker 4: they always ask me if I'm coming back. I'm like,
Speaker 4: well about that, right, But they only could see me
Speaker 4: as that.
Speaker 5: But there was so much more to it. So when
Speaker 5: we started to grow as a company, it was like,
Speaker 5: all right, don't change who you are. Right when I
Speaker 5: was standing in front of the kids, in the Bronx.
Speaker 4: I had the freshest jordans on right, I had g
Speaker 4: shot watches, I had a BMW because I knew one
Speaker 4: day a kid was going to look at mister Millers
Speaker 4: and say I want to be him.
Speaker 5: Like a lot of kids are going to grow up
Speaker 5: saying they want to be you. But I was like,
Speaker 5: I want.
Speaker 4: Kids to grow up and say they could be me,
Speaker 4: because the chances that they could be me there's one
Speaker 4: hundred percent chance, right right, Like making it to the
Speaker 4: NBA is one in a million, right, But being somebody
Speaker 4: that is productive in their community, somebody that's giving back,
Speaker 4: somebody that's educating that community.
Speaker 5: They could do that.
Speaker 4: So if I could show them, I can have the
Speaker 4: nice car that you guys have, I can have some
Speaker 4: of the watches and some of the kicks.
Speaker 5: And that's where it stops. I'm making it very That's
Speaker 5: where it stops.
Speaker 7: You might get luckier, you never know.
Speaker 4: That's but like now, so that's the thing. Now they
Speaker 4: see that's my teacher, right, he was my teacher, and
Speaker 4: he I know him right, he's in Dubai.
Speaker 5: He just sat with Steve Harvey.
Speaker 4: He's here where Andre and Gordald returned like right now
Speaker 4: he's speaking at Warren Yo. He used to teach me
Speaker 4: how to catch a football, like anything is possible.
Speaker 5: But the representation was there. So when you see it, show.
Speaker 4: Up in a hoodie and we have one fresh kicks,
Speaker 4: and you know we do travel and we'd like to
Speaker 4: wear nice clothes, that's all part of the presentation because
Speaker 4: that's authentically who we were prior to all of this.
Speaker 4: All we get to do now is show up as
Speaker 4: we are and people receive receptive to it because it's like, wait,
Speaker 4: these guys is real, the real deal.
Speaker 5: This is real.
Speaker 4: This is really who they are every day and that's
Speaker 4: the easiest part. We get to show up as ourselves
Speaker 4: every single day.
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