Speaker 1: What's up, family, I'm to make a d. Mallory's your
Speaker 1: general and we are your hosts of street politicians, the
Speaker 1: place where the streets and politics meet. God, what's going on? See?
Speaker 1: How did it first? This time? Every freedom I do
Speaker 1: have my good famous plug, you know, I wear mine,
Speaker 1: go go go to until freedom dot can't get your
Speaker 1: little sweatsuit hat. Yeah, support the movement and I wear
Speaker 1: my sweatsuit as fashion and they feel good. People love
Speaker 1: these sweatsuits. The screen time is coming. There's new colors,
Speaker 1: hot pinks and pretty blues and purples. Good stuff. Go
Speaker 1: down until freedom dot com. I have allergies and it's
Speaker 1: really really bad. It's bad. Yeah, you've been finish and
Speaker 1: at first over again yesterday we took it to taking
Speaker 1: tests every two times in the last Yes, don't have
Speaker 1: But people should get the antibody test, because I took
Speaker 1: antibody test yesterday with you chickened out and didn't take
Speaker 1: that got a little negative. They pricking fingers, They prick
Speaker 1: your fingers and they picked hers twice, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: because she couldn't get the blood out of one thing.
Speaker 1: That should have go prick another one. And my finger
Speaker 1: is still like there's a lot of it's sensitive in
Speaker 1: that spot. This is a real prick. You know, there's
Speaker 1: pricks for some things, but then this one has like
Speaker 1: some kind of plastic and they literally pushed something down
Speaker 1: and it's a thick, little prick into your fingers. It hurts.
Speaker 1: But what the reason why I was so adamant about
Speaker 1: getting it done. And it's funny because in New York,
Speaker 1: everyone that I know that has to hook up with
Speaker 1: COVID testing, none of them know where to get an
Speaker 1: antibody test. It's one place that I know to get
Speaker 1: an antibody test is in Kentucky and little a Book
Speaker 1: and we get at every time we go. Every time
Speaker 1: we go to Kentucky, a black woman. She tests us
Speaker 1: on our way in and on our way out, sometimes
Speaker 1: in different events we have going on. She tests us
Speaker 1: and um from the Hope Wellness Center. The Hope Wellness Center,
Speaker 1: So if you in Louisville, Kentucky, check out the Whope
Speaker 1: Wellness Center. You have to call to schedule an appointment,
Speaker 1: and if you don't have insurance, you have to pay
Speaker 1: your thirty dollars. I think per person to get tested
Speaker 1: is very important that we support black folks and that
Speaker 1: you don't ask them to like cut you a deal,
Speaker 1: go then pay, or you can go stand online at
Speaker 1: the other places where it was wrapped around the corner
Speaker 1: and you just wait until it's your turn. That's life.
Speaker 1: But anyway, she did the antibody test, and the last
Speaker 1: time we took it, it was like a talk of
Speaker 1: the whole office because they said my antibodies were so
Speaker 1: high that they were like, wow, this is it wasn't
Speaker 1: the mother, it was the grandmother something like. It was
Speaker 1: a real, real strong level of antibodies. And all of
Speaker 1: the medical professionals were in communication about how high the
Speaker 1: levels were. So that was a while because the last
Speaker 1: time we just got COVID, I didn't get an antibody's test.
Speaker 1: So now we're talking about a few months. So now
Speaker 1: I'm like, dang, you know, let me get it again,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure that the antibody sort of died down.
Speaker 1: And then yesterday they were like still very strong. And
Speaker 1: I had COVID in September and still my antibody. I
Speaker 1: really must have. I told y'all I was sick. Nobody believed.
Speaker 1: I mean, some people's bodies just react different, like I don't.
Speaker 1: I've taken the antibody test and never had it. So
Speaker 1: I never had no antibody, so maybe it didn't take it. Yea,
Speaker 1: it was several couple of months after. But anyway, you know,
Speaker 1: speaking of tests and things like that, r X, Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: you know, we lost one of the great man. It's
Speaker 1: not just for me, it's it's personal. DMX was a friend,
Speaker 1: personal friend of mine, one of the first people when
Speaker 1: I started to rapping and I was signed who like
Speaker 1: kind of took me under his wing, you know, DMX.
Speaker 1: I was in Vegas with DMX. The only time I
Speaker 1: ever smoked weed in my life, I tell his story
Speaker 1: is with DMX and we were just in the hotel room,
Speaker 1: meet him and my manager, and we're just chilling and
Speaker 1: we're drinking Hennessey. I'm twenty one years old, and he's
Speaker 1: just telling me stories and he's telling me how to
Speaker 1: rhyme and how to have this level of my melody
Speaker 1: and how to change flows. And I'm just listening to him.
Speaker 1: And then he's telling me about the game. How the
Speaker 1: songs he put up now he wrote ten years ago,
Speaker 1: Like all the songs that was on his album he
Speaker 1: wrote ten years ago, and he did it specifically to
Speaker 1: prove to people that he'd been though. You know, he
Speaker 1: didn't change the songs and nothing. He wrote these songs
Speaker 1: ten years ago and came to the industry and just
Speaker 1: got new beats and put out and came out with
Speaker 1: five times platinum. So he's telling me five times platinum
Speaker 1: first album, you know, so when he's telling me this
Speaker 1: one album went five times platinum, had two albums that way,
Speaker 1: I think both of them were five or I think
Speaker 1: one of them were five and one with three. So
Speaker 1: he so like he so somewhere between eight and ten
Speaker 1: million back to back albums within six months he released them,
Speaker 1: and I think I think nobody has ever done in
Speaker 1: a history. He was a musical genius. So he taught
Speaker 1: me a lot about music. He gave me a lot
Speaker 1: of life lessons. You know. He's somebody that I really
Speaker 1: looked up to, and he had a lot of um,
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for me as well. You know,
Speaker 1: he put he used to tell people he's the truth,
Speaker 1: you know. So he one of the first people that
Speaker 1: really motivated me in this game. So you're hearing that
Speaker 1: he passed was really difficult man. So shout out to
Speaker 1: his family, My respects to my regards to his family,
Speaker 1: sleeping peace, to the goat, the dog. The greatest entertainer
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. D Mix was the only entertainer that
Speaker 1: I've ever seen performed for an hour with new hype man.
Speaker 1: And you know how hype his songs are. So there's
Speaker 1: nobody else on the stage with him going inside the side,
Speaker 1: it's just him and the mic jumping around getting the
Speaker 1: crowd or hype. I watched him perform to where he
Speaker 1: came off and he almost fell out and they had
Speaker 1: to wrap him in the blanket. He was completely exhausted,
Speaker 1: but he would leave every inch of itself on that stage,
Speaker 1: you know. So you'll never get another DMX. There will
Speaker 1: never be another one like him. The authenticity that he faced.
Speaker 1: I watched that man go to projects literally reported he
Speaker 1: would say, let's go to projects. Where's the projects that
Speaker 1: and go to the projects in any hood in America,
Speaker 1: no security enough, and everybody coming outside hugging him like family.
Speaker 1: He's nervous, he and nothing. They just loved that man
Speaker 1: because they sensed that authenticity him. So, man, it's so
Speaker 1: funny because as you know, we've been discussing, it wasn't
Speaker 1: long ago that actually saw him talking to people. People
Speaker 1: were like hugging him and they were all around him,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you know, kind of like sliding past,
Speaker 1: but as you know black, and it was all folks
Speaker 1: that were trying to talk to him. They were taking pictures,
Speaker 1: and you know when black people see each other, we'd
Speaker 1: be like, what's up. And so he saw me over
Speaker 1: white folks like hey, and I was like, almost gonna
Speaker 1: just wave and keep moving, but something in my spirit
Speaker 1: said go back. And I told him that you and
Speaker 1: what's our Noriega was together somewhere and he said okay.
Speaker 1: He said, well tell me the address, and he just
Speaker 1: left and went there and met y'all. Was so cool.
Speaker 1: But if I had that's the last time, just a
Speaker 1: couple of months ago. But if I had just kept
Speaker 1: it moving, it would never have y'all wouldn't have connected
Speaker 1: that day. And it was and I just something in
Speaker 1: my spirit said, don't just keep running, because we always
Speaker 1: just keep running. You see people, you're like, what's up?
Speaker 1: This love and that's it. But this day something said, no,
Speaker 1: I need to go back. And I don't think I
Speaker 1: was hit the mall, hanging out with my girlfriends, and
Speaker 1: but something in my spirit said you go back and
Speaker 1: talk to him, and I did, and I told him
Speaker 1: to go and meet y'all, and y'all were able to
Speaker 1: hang out. And that was the last time I see him.
Speaker 1: He drove his home Lord speed Demon. I ain't never
Speaker 1: seen the white drug to the King. That's all I
Speaker 1: could say. Man, Like, you know, it's a lot when
Speaker 1: you listen to his music, you realize he was in
Speaker 1: term more and he was in pain. He was constantly
Speaker 1: fighting this good and evil fight, you know, but and
Speaker 1: he everybody fights, everybody fights, but he was so vocal
Speaker 1: about it. And that's why I think you were so
Speaker 1: able to connect because he actually spoke what we was
Speaker 1: thinking and what we was feeling. And he wasn't afraid
Speaker 1: to admit his faults, his weaknesses, you know, the things
Speaker 1: he done wrong. He wasn't afraid to be transparent, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's that's a very rare trait, you know, when
Speaker 1: you come just people in general, but when you have musicians,
Speaker 1: you know, like that have that level of connection to
Speaker 1: their fan base is just different. Man. A lot of
Speaker 1: people love dmx SO and and you know, I have
Speaker 1: to say that to Shara, his wife. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if they are married or divorced. They were definitely separated,
Speaker 1: but I know her very well well. Someone said, and
Speaker 1: you told me that he was engaged, So I guess
Speaker 1: that means that they are divorced or let me be clear,
Speaker 1: because you know folks, they listen and they take everything
Speaker 1: and make it something that is not um. But anyway,
Speaker 1: to Shara is a great woman that I have come
Speaker 1: to know. She's God fearing positive. She's given me a
Speaker 1: lot of encouragement. I watched her story and the progress
Speaker 1: of growth, you know, um, from everything that they went
Speaker 1: through together, building up from you know, wherever he started,
Speaker 1: and her being there on the journey taking care of
Speaker 1: they had children. I mean, she's just a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1: So to your point, we want to say to uh,
Speaker 1: to d m X is family that we love all
Speaker 1: of you, sending our blessings. I have to say that
Speaker 1: my brother and sister, UM Swiss Beats and Alicia Keys,
Speaker 1: I've watched them love up on d MX in a real, solid,
Speaker 1: solid solid way. Swiss was really appreciative. You can tell
Speaker 1: to DMX for helping him along the way in his career,
Speaker 1: helping to get him started, you know, and and and
Speaker 1: and you could tell that the two of them were
Speaker 1: his real friends, you know. And and it's hard to
Speaker 1: find people that when you come to them, you could
Speaker 1: come to them in any kind of condition. You could
Speaker 1: come as your natural self and they are they are
Speaker 1: there to pick you up. Most of the time, when
Speaker 1: we have friends, we don't show back up around until
Speaker 1: we get it a little bit together. You know. In
Speaker 1: the dusty busty time period, you kind of like stay
Speaker 1: away from everybody. You don't want people to judge, you
Speaker 1: don't want people to see. But you know that there
Speaker 1: were moments when DMX was going through a lie, he
Speaker 1: was broken, and you would still see Swiss like right
Speaker 1: there by his side, like being with him and being
Speaker 1: like we're coming back from any situation and circumstance. And
Speaker 1: I know, you know all of rough riders and why
Speaker 1: and all of them did that. And so he has
Speaker 1: some good people that loved him definitely. Man, he was
Speaker 1: he was one of a kid. And I watched DMX
Speaker 1: go through so many different phases, but it was always
Speaker 1: an authenticity man always. And the people around him, my
Speaker 1: brother's d and Wad, these are two of the most
Speaker 1: solid people that I've ever known. You know, and they've
Speaker 1: always been by his side and always you know, it's
Speaker 1: dead with guidance and and everything for him. So I
Speaker 1: know their feeling is lost a lot right now. So
Speaker 1: when setting out my love to them too, man, the
Speaker 1: whole Rough Writers camp, they embraced me like families since
Speaker 1: we was kids. Man. It's just it's it's a um
Speaker 1: like a lot of people. I've been reading a lot
Speaker 1: of means that people are saying. You know that he's
Speaker 1: his soul is in peace now, soul is in rest. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, he's one of God's angels. Man, so God
Speaker 1: had to bring him back home with him, Man, to
Speaker 1: celebrate both the living and the dead, because as I
Speaker 1: saw on one of our other brother nineteen Keys page,
Speaker 1: he said that there is no life without death, and
Speaker 1: there's no death without life. You can't understand the moment
Speaker 1: you're in without knowing what the other side looks like,
Speaker 1: you know. And so definitely that peace. Sometimes at fifty,
Speaker 1: he was fifty, and sometimes at fifty you've lived more
Speaker 1: than people that seventy eight years old. Um, And so
Speaker 1: again peace like a sleeping angel. So my thought of
Speaker 1: the day today, you know, every now and then I
Speaker 1: get in my comments and I go with my d
Speaker 1: M s and I read because you know these are
Speaker 1: sometimes which I'm beginning to find out, my son. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of fake people online, like you know,
Speaker 1: they exist. They have three, four or five accounts. Didn't
Speaker 1: you show me something the other day? You said they
Speaker 1: got a new thing. What is it? How? How does
Speaker 1: it go? The new thing is the scammers. See now
Speaker 1: that I'm talking about you said if a person started, yeah,
Speaker 1: so what it is? Yeah, they're gonna um when you
Speaker 1: can block on Instagram now right, So when you block
Speaker 1: somebody we love because that's my new thing. I don't
Speaker 1: even before you out of here. So now when you
Speaker 1: block somebody, you block them in any page that they
Speaker 1: may create. So when they they gotta go with a
Speaker 1: whole new everything different in order they got it ain't
Speaker 1: just in five minutes. I'm just gonna put another note.
Speaker 1: You gotta get another email, you gotta get maybe I
Speaker 1: have to get a whole another phone number because it
Speaker 1: picks up that it's a page that's from somebody that
Speaker 1: you already blocked. So shout out to Instagram that they're
Speaker 1: making it so much easier. That's but so now, because
Speaker 1: sometimes I start going back and forth with people and
Speaker 1: then and a lot of times I do it not
Speaker 1: because I care who's on the other side. They can
Speaker 1: have two followers, no followers, be a troll or whatever.
Speaker 1: But some of the things that they say, I've heard
Speaker 1: it more than one time, and I think it's important
Speaker 1: not to leave their comments without there being a response,
Speaker 1: because people do get educated in the comments. Like sometimes
Speaker 1: when I see something on Instagram that I don't understand,
Speaker 1: I go and start reading the comments and then I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's what happened, or that's who died, or this and
Speaker 1: that in the third So sometimes the education needs to
Speaker 1: be there. But um, and so I found out it's
Speaker 1: a lot of trolls, but I do read and there
Speaker 1: are real people who have real thoughts and real feelings.
Speaker 1: And I noticed that during certain times I get attacked
Speaker 1: by men. You know. Often often there are women who,
Speaker 1: of course come on my page and they have things
Speaker 1: to say, um and mostly you know, and sometimes they
Speaker 1: might be a little rude and disrespectful, but the men
Speaker 1: are blatantly. They call me witches, they call me bitches,
Speaker 1: they um, you know, I mean, they say just really
Speaker 1: really bad things to me. And I noticed that I
Speaker 1: had a spike again after the Cadillac commercial came out
Speaker 1: um in men saying that I was um participating in
Speaker 1: the divide between the black man and the black woman.
Speaker 1: And my thought of the day or the question I
Speaker 1: have for you, because you be out there like you,
Speaker 1: you be out there with the hoteps, you be out
Speaker 1: there with the street dudes, you be out there with
Speaker 1: the bourgeoise, the black bourgeoise e. So you know, and
Speaker 1: I've had people that's the other thing, from different walks
Speaker 1: of life. It's all different types. Asked me, Well, I
Speaker 1: don't understand why there had to be something where was
Speaker 1: just you as and other women? So my question is
Speaker 1: do men not think that we should celebrate women's his
Speaker 1: three months? Like? Is that is it? Should we? Do?
Speaker 1: You do? Do men feel like get rid of women's
Speaker 1: his three months and like the celebration we shouldn't have that? Well?
Speaker 1: I think there is uh, you know, a level of fear,
Speaker 1: you know, until you start to get a level of
Speaker 1: comfort in yourself. You know, Um, black men are dealing
Speaker 1: so much right now. We we realize that the enemy
Speaker 1: has an agenda to get rid of us, you know,
Speaker 1: And I don't and I don't agree with the fact
Speaker 1: that elevating black women is diminishing black man. I do
Speaker 1: not believe that at all. I think that narrative is false.
Speaker 1: I think it's a skewed mindsett I think Black women
Speaker 1: are the backbone of civilization, you know, who have been
Speaker 1: taken the back seat for so long. So to have
Speaker 1: them being elevated and acknowledge them in their strength, beauty
Speaker 1: and all of those things at one time and say
Speaker 1: and call them lead, let them lead, or allow them
Speaker 1: to lead, or you know, give them the space to
Speaker 1: lead as they do what they naturally do. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's anything wrong with that, But I think what happened,
Speaker 1: just like anything when when men have been so used
Speaker 1: to being you know, revered and talked about in the
Speaker 1: front row and in the family is based on the
Speaker 1: man and all those things. And when you start to say,
Speaker 1: well the woman, my mother was just as strong as
Speaker 1: my father was. You know, my father, my mother actually
Speaker 1: ran the household because she did all these things. My
Speaker 1: father went to work, he paid the bills and all that,
Speaker 1: but she made sure all these things. And when you
Speaker 1: start acknowledging that, some people feel they have a fear
Speaker 1: they fear that it diminishes them. And I and I'll
Speaker 1: hear you saying that a lot of black men, but
Speaker 1: they are black women who share this same thing. I've
Speaker 1: listened to someone I'm not that is communicated to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think and I think it's out of fear.
Speaker 1: I think it's out of fear. I think when black men,
Speaker 1: look how we've been you know, we're being assassinated, you know,
Speaker 1: how we're being incarcerated, all of those things at the
Speaker 1: highest rates of any other race is the black man.
Speaker 1: And then we see our women being elevated. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a fierce like damn, you know, and some
Speaker 1: people they have to get over there. You have to
Speaker 1: get over that fear. And there's a level of, you know,
Speaker 1: just fear. Some men are just actually scared and ain't
Speaker 1: just feel they're just scared because a lot of times, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: that's the only place that black men are in control.
Speaker 1: They go to work, they're working for some people, some
Speaker 1: black men, not all that, you know, most of them
Speaker 1: are working for somebody. They're being beat down by the man,
Speaker 1: they being incarcerated, and in their household, they feel like
Speaker 1: Daddy's the king. He runs this. So when you start
Speaker 1: seeing commercials that say women are gonna black women are
Speaker 1: gonna lead this nation there and there's there aren't no men,
Speaker 1: they just immediately equated with something that's wrong, not even
Speaker 1: they don't look at the back story and say, well,
Speaker 1: this is black, this is women's history, and Black women
Speaker 1: are beautiful women. Let's let them be elevated, let them
Speaker 1: acknowledge their time, let them have their time. But then
Speaker 1: they say, oh, we don't got a black we don't
Speaker 1: got a man's mouth, and we don't and it's just
Speaker 1: it's a counter mentality. Men have been celebrated, men have
Speaker 1: throughout history, men have led things. So when you when
Speaker 1: you look at it from the perspective, just basic perspective,
Speaker 1: you say, it doesn't make sense. But when you look
Speaker 1: at the history of what black men have dealt with
Speaker 1: on separation of our families, UM, I understand that I do.
Speaker 1: But I think the challenge for me is something that
Speaker 1: um Sojourny Truth said a long time ago, and I
Speaker 1: would add a little bit to it when she was
Speaker 1: standing before UM a group of white women at a conference.
Speaker 1: The biggest line that we know from sojourn the truth
Speaker 1: is ain't I woman, And the thing that I would
Speaker 1: say is, ain't I a black woman? Do I not
Speaker 1: have the right to celebrate black women because I am one?
Speaker 1: So I hear people say all this feminism thing first
Speaker 1: of all, and and lendus also explains it in the
Speaker 1: way that it's best. My feminism is not nected to politics.
Speaker 1: My feminism is connected to my own spirituality and faith.
Speaker 1: And that means that I believe in the power of women.
Speaker 1: And I understand the abuse that has been done to
Speaker 1: us by the world, of course, and by our men
Speaker 1: at times. Right, I understand that just like we are
Speaker 1: in a position where we're breaking through the chains of racism,
Speaker 1: we also are breaking through the chains of sexism. But
Speaker 1: even as I sat as one of the highest ranking
Speaker 1: if you will, uh people, black women within the Women's March,
Speaker 1: my role there was to always make sure that the
Speaker 1: agenda covered the entire black family. And y'all know that
Speaker 1: because not just you, but I bought several black men
Speaker 1: along with me and forced them at that table to
Speaker 1: allow black men's voices to be heard. And I said
Speaker 1: over and over again, and I said it in speeches.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you go back and listen to some
Speaker 1: of my words, which is another thing. People talk and
Speaker 1: they don't listen. They don't do research, they just talk.
Speaker 1: If you listen to some of my speeches, I have said,
Speaker 1: my feminism also includes my black son. It includes the
Speaker 1: black man that I am. I don't have the luxury
Speaker 1: of leaving the black man behind. But I also understand
Speaker 1: that I have an obligation to my own womanhood, not
Speaker 1: even to the greater collective, that's one thing, but my
Speaker 1: own womanhood that I recognize my greatness, the power of
Speaker 1: my grandmother and my great grandmother, and my aunties and
Speaker 1: my own mother, who are staples in society. And the
Speaker 1: problem that we have, the problem that we have, brethren
Speaker 1: who may be listening, is that women have always been leading.
Speaker 1: We are now just being pro vided with platforms to
Speaker 1: actually talk about it. But we've always been leading. In fact,
Speaker 1: there was not. Even when you think about the speech
Speaker 1: that Dr King gave um the the I have a
Speaker 1: Dream speech, we know the story goes that at some point,
Speaker 1: as he was speaking, Mahellia Jackson calls out, tell him
Speaker 1: about the dream. Martin tell him about the dream, and
Speaker 1: he begins to get into the I have a dream portion,
Speaker 1: which would go on to be the most renowned words
Speaker 1: that he ever stated that the world, the world's world,
Speaker 1: world world knows about that was because a black woman
Speaker 1: was there pushing them and telling them go ahead on
Speaker 1: and give them that good stuff. You know, that's what
Speaker 1: I can imagine she would have said, you know, given
Speaker 1: that good stuff. You know, why is it that the
Speaker 1: that we discount what it looks like for Martin and
Speaker 1: Abernathy and other members of their team, and and and
Speaker 1: and Reverend Jackson and Wyatty Walker to stop by Mary
Speaker 1: Lou's house and get a fried chicken meal a telephone
Speaker 1: to use to call their families. That's a part of
Speaker 1: the revolution as well, if they didn't have the sanctity
Speaker 1: of what a black woman was doing for them to
Speaker 1: help them along the way. And so for us not
Speaker 1: to be able to have a moment during one month
Speaker 1: to talk about that. Now is this other thing right
Speaker 1: where people will say, because you know what they do
Speaker 1: is when they realize that what you're saying over here
Speaker 1: is right, they go, oh, but you said this other thing.
Speaker 1: And you know, we we we only hold other people
Speaker 1: to every word they've ever said. We don't hold ourselves
Speaker 1: to that. You don't hear people doing YouTube videos, Twitter
Speaker 1: and all of that about their own mishaps, their failures.
Speaker 1: You don't see people running down Yeah, I messed up today.
Speaker 1: I said this. I meant to say that. You don't
Speaker 1: see them apologizing to other people when they do and
Speaker 1: say things that are wrong. That's not what happens. But okay,
Speaker 1: that's cool. That's why God made us who we are,
Speaker 1: and they are who they are, and that's why they
Speaker 1: do YouTube and Twitter and we actually out here changing
Speaker 1: your world, right, so you know that's why. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so the other thing they'll say is, so, no, but
Speaker 1: you said, you said that sexism, uh is worse than racism,
Speaker 1: and of course if you want to lift that, right,
Speaker 1: because I have a friend who's hope tepi ish, right,
Speaker 1: So he calls me all the time like, yo, sis,
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, you know, but he knows
Speaker 1: me well enough to know that you know who I am.
Speaker 1: So he respects me enough to come to me when
Speaker 1: he's like, yo, that feminism thing, y'all all going on,
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, I'm like this, you said. So
Speaker 1: he hits me up and he's big on faceboo on
Speaker 1: Facebook too, and he hits me up and he's like, yo,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just trying to understand. And we begin
Speaker 1: to speak about the context that I was speaking. In
Speaker 1: what I was talking, I also always called Mark Thompson.
Speaker 1: I run it by him because he you know, he's
Speaker 1: in these worlds too, and he's like to make I
Speaker 1: know exactly what you're saying. The context of the conversation
Speaker 1: was talking about Kamala Harris becoming president. I was doing
Speaker 1: a TMZ interview in which um, they were asking me
Speaker 1: a bunch of things about the election. What do we
Speaker 1: want to see from Biden? How are we gonna you know,
Speaker 1: they're running it all down, And they got to a
Speaker 1: point where they said, well, do you believe that Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris is going to be president? So the first thing
Speaker 1: I said was she can want to be president all
Speaker 1: she wants, but unless she shows us something during her
Speaker 1: tenure as vice president I mean vice president. And by
Speaker 1: the way, you only have about eighteen months of that,
Speaker 1: because it's getting ready to be time to run for
Speaker 1: president right now, like in a minute. They got to
Speaker 1: start picking up the steam. So I said, she has
Speaker 1: a short period to show us that she's even first
Speaker 1: of all reconciled with some of the things that people
Speaker 1: have challenged her on in her past, and that she's
Speaker 1: up into the table bowl, courageous and ready to call
Speaker 1: out the system and do some real things. They this
Speaker 1: administration has to get something done in order for her
Speaker 1: to become president. They asked me another question. I can't remember.
Speaker 1: I haven't I've never listened to the interview again. But
Speaker 1: they said, you know, do you think whatever about her
Speaker 1: being president? And I said, but the thing is racism,
Speaker 1: I said, Sexism is even worse than racism in the
Speaker 1: context of her being able to become president as a
Speaker 1: black woman. You understand I'm saying. So perhaps they're right,
Speaker 1: maybe because extra line. Look in context a black man,
Speaker 1: black man exactly exactly, so you know, exactly so. But
Speaker 1: maybe and which I'm you critique me, That's why you know,
Speaker 1: critique me. And that's fine. Perhaps a line could have
Speaker 1: been added to explain that I'm speaking about a black
Speaker 1: woman in this context. But you know, you I was
Speaker 1: in a car doing an interview with Team and Z,
Speaker 1: so I'm moving, you know, trying to get my points out.
Speaker 1: So and I've never listened to it again to even
Speaker 1: know if I did say that, or if I didn't,
Speaker 1: and I'm fine with the fact that people say, well whatever,
Speaker 1: But instead what I received was you see, you see
Speaker 1: she's against the black man. She's against black How damn she?
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you talking about? How could you
Speaker 1: say that? But if you actually are looking for the
Speaker 1: positive in people rather than the negative, then you will
Speaker 1: be able to identify that I was speaking in the
Speaker 1: context of the fact that she's a black woman, so
Speaker 1: that she might be able to get as a or
Speaker 1: a black man we saw become president, right, we know
Speaker 1: that can happen, might be hard to get it done again,
Speaker 1: but he became president. We know that. But a black woman,
Speaker 1: I don't believe we're anywhere near there because America actually
Speaker 1: preferred a black man white woman. So my position is
Speaker 1: that I understand that there are black ceo male for
Speaker 1: the most part, then maybe like one or two, there
Speaker 1: are black men who are running major hedge funds. Right,
Speaker 1: there are black men who are regarded as some of
Speaker 1: the highest levels of our society. Even when you look
Speaker 1: at Congress, you look at um, even city councils, and
Speaker 1: and first black mayor black woman mayor flat first woman,
Speaker 1: this first black woman that we know that black women
Speaker 1: have been a step behind in terms of accomplishing some
Speaker 1: of these things that are looked upon in high society.
Speaker 1: We know that, so we understand that there must be
Speaker 1: something else that plays into it, that adds a little
Speaker 1: bit of ice and on the cake. So you got
Speaker 1: racism as a foundation, and then you pour on top
Speaker 1: of it sexism, and now you really have a problem.
Speaker 1: That was the context that I was speaking in. Could
Speaker 1: I have added a word or two? Sure? If that's
Speaker 1: what you know, you could tell somebody could tell me
Speaker 1: right now? Ohsis I heard, I hear what you say. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll see what you're saying. Let me tell you how
Speaker 1: you you to said it. And the next time you
Speaker 1: hear me speaking, I will what they said down and
Speaker 1: be saying it even better than they said it. So
Speaker 1: I get that it's not about whether or not we
Speaker 1: could do and speak better. But if you are looking
Speaker 1: for the positive in your own people, if you're looking
Speaker 1: for a way to say, I get it. And like
Speaker 1: I said, my homeboy, he's like I thought, that's what
Speaker 1: you were saying, you know, but you left out this
Speaker 1: or that in the third right. And so if you're
Speaker 1: looking for the positive in people you're not going to
Speaker 1: jump to and and and the sad part and not
Speaker 1: say this and be done with it. The sad part
Speaker 1: is that clickbait is so real that most of our
Speaker 1: people are running to make a video so that they
Speaker 1: can and they don't realize that. They say, oh, y'all exploiting,
Speaker 1: y'all exploit its. Well, guess what, how do you what
Speaker 1: do you think you're doing when you use your social
Speaker 1: media platform to get clickbaits for yourself and you could
Speaker 1: pay your own bills and do the things that you
Speaker 1: need to deal By tearing down other people and trying
Speaker 1: to put people who are actually really trying to do
Speaker 1: something every day in a bad life, you don't think
Speaker 1: that that's freaking exploitation. Like we are so damn hypocritical,
Speaker 1: and it is absolutely ridiculous that we sit and we
Speaker 1: use our platforms to be the same damn co and
Speaker 1: tell pro operators that have existed since every every movement.
Speaker 1: We gotta deal with the coin tell pro operators. And
Speaker 1: I tell you all the time, people who had that
Speaker 1: point of view were never your supporters, right, People who
Speaker 1: actually supported you, have faith in you, knew who you was.
Speaker 1: They don't come to you and be like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do all of this. The people that if they confused,
Speaker 1: like you said, your support of somebody. That's cool that
Speaker 1: you came to ask the questions, all right, I get it,
Speaker 1: because they want they know your heart. They believe in you,
Speaker 1: so when we do something that disaccording to what they believe,
Speaker 1: then they're gonna ask the question because they give you
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt. The haters don't give you
Speaker 1: the if they're looking for the aha moment, right Like
Speaker 1: black people don't want to see other people with And
Speaker 1: they said, oh, you said all of us, Now we
Speaker 1: know ain't talking about all that you know, dann Well,
Speaker 1: I ain't talking about every black person in the world.
Speaker 1: I'm just it was a general statement, but it didn't.
Speaker 1: It didn't mean every person. But you know what, the
Speaker 1: people that wouldn't want to find something for you, come
Speaker 1: to one of them. Yep. Nicole, my friend of Cole Chaplin,
Speaker 1: text me and she was and she sends me text
Speaker 1: message make sure I'm good. She's like, hey, I hope
Speaker 1: everything is good with you. You know, I love everything
Speaker 1: you do. I'm supporting you. She said, I just want
Speaker 1: to let you know one thing. Not all black people
Speaker 1: don't want to see you. And because I want to
Speaker 1: see you, then when she said that, it clicked in
Speaker 1: my head. Okay, God, I get it. Because my people
Speaker 1: want me to know that they would me and they
Speaker 1: don't want to be put into this thing. And I
Speaker 1: respect that. I'm human. We all make mistakes. You move
Speaker 1: a little too fast, we say something a little too fast.
Speaker 1: But when you know somebody is authentic, and you know
Speaker 1: their hard and their track record has proven to be right,
Speaker 1: and you actually want to believe in them, then you will.
Speaker 1: But when you don't, your whole thing is to fund
Speaker 1: everything up. You don't say you said, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. They look, he put a wire. Look, you
Speaker 1: don't know what he's doing. So that's what we live in.
Speaker 1: And I don't have the time or even the will
Speaker 1: to try to change your mind because you're not going
Speaker 1: to mess up the people who don't. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you this, this is young kings and queens. The people
Speaker 1: who don't support you, fuck them. The bottom line is
Speaker 1: you're never going to change their minds. There's never going
Speaker 1: to be a time that you change the mind of
Speaker 1: somebody who doesn't like you, and if you do, then
Speaker 1: that's guard's work. But make sure that you continue to
Speaker 1: make the people proud who already support you. Make sure
Speaker 1: you continue to move alone the path of the people
Speaker 1: who have been loving you and supported you supports So
Speaker 1: that's how you win everybody else you gotta Sometimes you
Speaker 1: just gonna flock. M hmm, that's it, that's what you got.
Speaker 1: And I'm blocking them down. And I didn't even know.
Speaker 1: I used to not even know how to block people.
Speaker 1: But finally I asked my manager, I said, what exactly
Speaker 1: do I do? I said, how do I? She told
Speaker 1: me there's a way you can mute people, in a
Speaker 1: way you can block them. And I just started blocking
Speaker 1: a bunch of people. I know we need to be
Speaker 1: around um winding this down, but this is so important.
Speaker 1: So why would you block this person and that person?
Speaker 1: This one is nice, and that one is they just
Speaker 1: a truth teller, and this one is this And you
Speaker 1: guys are need to be listen your approach. And maybe
Speaker 1: I need to grow up, maybe I need to know
Speaker 1: I do. I accept the fact that I have to
Speaker 1: say to go every night. I said, Lord, work right there,
Speaker 1: like you get like when you're getting a massage and
Speaker 1: you telling mssus like right right right here, work right
Speaker 1: on that spot. That helps me to grow up At
Speaker 1: forty years old, I know I need to grow to
Speaker 1: allow people to attack me, slamming me, misrepresent me, use me,
Speaker 1: come with negative energy all the time. Every time I
Speaker 1: see something that I'm tagged in, it's about decoding with this.
Speaker 1: One said, uh, dealing with my son. Um. I can't
Speaker 1: believe they did this this time. Oh um she said this,
Speaker 1: and oh and I'm and I I need to work
Speaker 1: on God to allow that person to think they can
Speaker 1: still talk to me. I'm not mad at what you're doing.
Speaker 1: I'm not I know how to find you. I know
Speaker 1: who you are. I know that at one point we
Speaker 1: were in communication and we no longer are. I know
Speaker 1: that I know exactly who you are. But I'm not
Speaker 1: looking for you to ask you to stop talking about me.
Speaker 1: I'm saying talk all day and all night. I just
Speaker 1: don't have to see it, because when I wake up
Speaker 1: in the morning, it's a list of people that I
Speaker 1: know I gotta deal with all day. People need me
Speaker 1: to get things done all day, all day, all day.
Speaker 1: There's precious coming from every different direction. This happening, that happening.
Speaker 1: Gotta check on your own family. I don't need negative
Speaker 1: energy that I don't have to deal with. It's sad
Speaker 1: enough that I gotta watch the George Floyd murder. It's
Speaker 1: sad enough that I gotta listen to Brianna tell his
Speaker 1: mother cry when she gets frustrated. It's sad enough that
Speaker 1: I gotta work with organizers where we don't always get along.
Speaker 1: It's sad enough that I have to look at my
Speaker 1: mother who was at one point dancing and moving around,
Speaker 1: and now she's crying because she's partially paralyzed, and I
Speaker 1: gotta worry about my son. Your negative energy, I don't
Speaker 1: need that right now. I just don't if I want
Speaker 1: to look for it. If I want to look for
Speaker 1: negative energy, I will come to your page because I
Speaker 1: know what's gonna be there. Block facts. Before we go
Speaker 1: to the next segment and have our special guests joint,
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Speaker 1: products for consideration. Under a new stimulus bill signed by
Speaker 1: President Biden, millions of Americans have or or they probably
Speaker 1: have already, but they will receive a third stimulus check.
Speaker 1: The third round payments are for fourteen hundred dollars for
Speaker 1: eligible persons. You really get I think I got a check,
Speaker 1: put it in your bank account. You should actually nobody,
Speaker 1: but you can also get fourteen hundred dollars for each
Speaker 1: eligible dependent. So today we're speaking to tax experts ship
Speaker 1: Kwana Brooks to learn more about the smartest ways to
Speaker 1: use your stimmy check and also your tax refund, because
Speaker 1: you know, the tax refund and the semi check is
Speaker 1: all sort of coming at the same time, and well,
Speaker 1: you got to flip that stimmy, flip it, but it's
Speaker 1: got to be done legally. Legally, we got to legally
Speaker 1: flip that stimmy. And I think if there's one thing
Speaker 1: that we learned from the pandemic is that we cannot
Speaker 1: not have money have stash right because people just all
Speaker 1: of a sudden were cut off from working. They just
Speaker 1: didn't have a check. And until uh you know, at
Speaker 1: that time, it was the Trump administration got it together
Speaker 1: to say okay, we're gonna start sending out money, or
Speaker 1: that there was going to be unemployment. You had different
Speaker 1: states with different rules, and there was so much happening.
Speaker 1: There were folks who literally went under during that time.
Speaker 1: And I think the thing we learned is that we
Speaker 1: have to make sure that we are secure enough to
Speaker 1: make it a few paychecks right before, you know, before
Speaker 1: you run out. So it's nice to have you here.
Speaker 1: You are our first, our first in studio guests. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm so honored and you should be because because we
Speaker 1: don't really be liking people think I'm grateful that you
Speaker 1: guys like me have here and this business. So before
Speaker 1: we get into flipping this, then me tell people, like,
Speaker 1: what is it you do? How did you become successful? Like,
Speaker 1: give us your little background, my background, a little background.
Speaker 1: Well it's a big background. Okay, yes, it's a big background. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I started out in big four accounting firm right
Speaker 1: after college. Before that, my dad owns restaurants um in
Speaker 1: Brooklyn and New York City. I was raised. I've literally
Speaker 1: been working since I was six years old. So at
Speaker 1: this point I kind of feel like it's time for
Speaker 1: me to retire, but I haven't working since I was
Speaker 1: six years old, just in that entrepreneur space, went to college,
Speaker 1: studied accounting, decided that I wanted to just really understand
Speaker 1: what the cool what corporations knew that we didn't, How
Speaker 1: were they moving, what were they doing, how were they
Speaker 1: able to get for even from a stock perspective, which
Speaker 1: which is where I started my career out in mutual funds.
Speaker 1: Then I switched over to real estate private equity, just
Speaker 1: so I just wanted to understand what they were doing
Speaker 1: and what they knew that we didn't. So I stayed
Speaker 1: there for six and a half years before starting my
Speaker 1: own tax and accounting company, Brooks Alliance. And at Brooks Alliance,
Speaker 1: I pretty much have taken the corporate structure on how
Speaker 1: they approached taxes and accounting and implemented it for small
Speaker 1: businesses and real estate investors. It's important and no one
Speaker 1: uh when I started about three and a half years ago,
Speaker 1: no one was having the conversation about taxes, no one,
Speaker 1: And I was like, everyone's always talking about getting money,
Speaker 1: but no one's talking about how to save their money.
Speaker 1: And that's important because as I'd like to say, the
Speaker 1: I R S is like your secret. It's like your
Speaker 1: silent partner. They come in and they take a piece
Speaker 1: of your your paycheck, but no one questions it. And
Speaker 1: it's like one of our highest senses that we're paying.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I started Brooks Alliance and it's
Speaker 1: been three years and it's been amazing. So that's pretty
Speaker 1: much you know, my journey and what I do. And
Speaker 1: I just love to have the conversation about finances because
Speaker 1: I know that every time I have a conversation with somebody,
Speaker 1: they're able to have a conversation with somebody else. And
Speaker 1: that's the way I have that what the sound like
Speaker 1: like talk to us? So conversations. Um, So I meet
Speaker 1: clients at different stages. I meet a lot of clients
Speaker 1: when they're just starting out their business and they may say,
Speaker 1: I don't know where to start, and so you know,
Speaker 1: what does it mean for me to have a business.
Speaker 1: I didn't have this in my family, so I'm literally
Speaker 1: starting from scratch. So help me out. We're talking about
Speaker 1: structure your business? Structure? What does that mean? Right? Everyone?
Speaker 1: Do you need an LLC? Do you need a corporation?
Speaker 1: If you're going in partnership. What does that look like,
Speaker 1: What are those terms look like? Hiring a team, like
Speaker 1: really getting into a mindset because I feel like we're
Speaker 1: so trained to just try to do everything ourselves that
Speaker 1: no one is talking. You need a team. You need
Speaker 1: to consult with people that can help you eliminate a
Speaker 1: lot of these mistakes, right, because mistakes cost money, and
Speaker 1: a lot of people, especially starting out, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of money that you have to put out and no
Speaker 1: one is talking about. Okay, yeah, you need to hire
Speaker 1: your team. You need to consult with the right people
Speaker 1: to help you eliminate a lot of those mistakes. Then
Speaker 1: we're talking about how to effectively operate a business. You
Speaker 1: need a business bank account, which was a lot of
Speaker 1: issues that a lot of people were running into during
Speaker 1: the pandemic. When they were giving out all of these
Speaker 1: loans and grants and all of these things, people businesses
Speaker 1: weren't structured correctly. No one had business bank accounts, no
Speaker 1: one fouled their taxes, and so now they're running into issues. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of people really didn't have bank accounts. A
Speaker 1: lot of people do not have bank accounts for their business,
Speaker 1: for their business, and a lot of people are not
Speaker 1: do not have personal accounts. They had me have like
Speaker 1: you know, maybe like a cash card or something like that.
Speaker 1: And so people are really really you would be surprised.
Speaker 1: You would be surprised how people are not operating or
Speaker 1: they don't have things in order, but they're doing business.
Speaker 1: But they're doing business. They're operating business on their cash
Speaker 1: act or you know, venmo or things like that. And
Speaker 1: so when it's time for you to qualify for things
Speaker 1: and really benefit for the things that's out here, you're
Speaker 1: not able to qualify. The same thing goes for home loans.
Speaker 1: When it's time for people to qualify for loans, whether
Speaker 1: you have a job or whether you're self employed, you
Speaker 1: need your taxes. That's the number one thing that they
Speaker 1: ask for. And some people are not following their taxes
Speaker 1: if they are self employed. Is really struggle to get
Speaker 1: them to file their taxes, you know. So I just
Speaker 1: try to pretty much in so compliance as well as
Speaker 1: how can we use what we have to help us
Speaker 1: get ahead, because until we get to a point where
Speaker 1: you know, our financials is going to push us through,
Speaker 1: we need those tax returns we have to the game.
Speaker 1: And to be honest, it really comes down to a
Speaker 1: lot of paperwork and just knowing what you need in
Speaker 1: order to get what you know to get where you're going.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and it's funny because I learned, you know, um,
Speaker 1: I had to pay a tax bill that was massive. Um,
Speaker 1: And I learned bad habits just over many years. But
Speaker 1: now I'm in a different space. And the thing that
Speaker 1: I learned is the paperwork you do beginning I guess
Speaker 1: January first or whatever, the you know, beginning of your
Speaker 1: year is it's so important to maintain that, keep it up,
Speaker 1: the receipts where you're putting them, what type of fold
Speaker 1: is you have, what notes are being written? Even if
Speaker 1: I spend X amount of dollars on like zell or
Speaker 1: even cash at Vemo, I make sure to use the
Speaker 1: note section to remind myself of what it is, because
Speaker 1: you think you're gonna remember, and you you don't remember where,
Speaker 1: who was this and what was it for? And now
Speaker 1: you've got an account and looking at you like, here's
Speaker 1: a spreadsheet. I need to know what all this is. Yes,
Speaker 1: And so that's another thing where people don't understand bookkeeping,
Speaker 1: and I'd like to explain it to clients. Where that's
Speaker 1: like the foundation of your business. You know, like you
Speaker 1: have to know what's coming in. You need to know
Speaker 1: what's going out that's gonna one help you file your
Speaker 1: taxes at the end of the year, remain compliant, as
Speaker 1: well as help you make decisions in your business. A
Speaker 1: lot of people are operating at a loss from when
Speaker 1: they first start because they don't even understand how much
Speaker 1: it costs them to push out a product. Maybe selling
Speaker 1: the T shirt and you think because Johnny is selling
Speaker 1: the T shirt for twenty five dollars, that that means
Speaker 1: that you can sell the T shirt for twenty five
Speaker 1: dollars too. But you're not even you know, you're not
Speaker 1: even taken into account you're shipping, You're the cost of
Speaker 1: your you know, the T shirts, the printing, all of you.
Speaker 1: Are so many people who do business like that. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's so many people who like I have conversation with
Speaker 1: people that I'm gonna sell it this and I'm okay,
Speaker 1: So how much do you pay for it? And how
Speaker 1: much does it want you to ship it? How much
Speaker 1: are you paying when you staying able to just saying
Speaker 1: that about until free Day, I said, we have to
Speaker 1: really be attention, like we can't just put sell merchandise
Speaker 1: for two dollars more than we actually bought it. Because
Speaker 1: that the two dollars, we ain't making no money. We're
Speaker 1: actually in the red. So a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: understand it. So we got these we get these um
Speaker 1: tax refunds, you know, we get anyse stimulus checks. We
Speaker 1: are not me everybody else because some reason I ain't
Speaker 1: never had none of it. But anyway, people are getting
Speaker 1: these things. How do we flip this, How do we
Speaker 1: make this make money? How do we create some wealth
Speaker 1: some you know, some generate some income that it could
Speaker 1: be continual. So I think it's important to first be
Speaker 1: realistic and understand where you are and what's important. Right. So,
Speaker 1: if you are a person that wants to start a business,
Speaker 1: you should go out and start that business. You should
Speaker 1: form your LLC. You should um educate yourself because that's
Speaker 1: another thing. Educating yourself, maybe buying a course, right that
Speaker 1: will help you eliminate a lot of those mistakes, get
Speaker 1: started and put you in a position where you are
Speaker 1: able to flip that money. Um. Something else that I
Speaker 1: think is really important is investing, and we can do
Speaker 1: that in a few different ways. Some people don't have
Speaker 1: that knowledge to actually go out and invest in the
Speaker 1: check and see what's going on with my stuff. While
Speaker 1: right now, so a lot of people, you know, they
Speaker 1: see stocks and they feel like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: can't invest. But the reality is if you are, if
Speaker 1: you're drinking a beverage, if you have clothes, that those
Speaker 1: clothes are on the stock market. Louis Vutan is all
Speaker 1: on the stock market. You know, it's important to invest, right,
Speaker 1: invest holding everyone's taking flights, everyone's flying out. Delta is
Speaker 1: on the stock market, every airline is on the stock market. Right,
Speaker 1: So invest in some stocks. I think if you know,
Speaker 1: for some people that are just in a position where
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, well I don't want to individually just
Speaker 1: say okay, I'm gonna put you know, just one like
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna pick up one stock with this money.
Speaker 1: Maybe what you can do is invest inside of a
Speaker 1: roth IRA. Right. So that's a retirement account and it
Speaker 1: is when you take the money out of it, it's
Speaker 1: non taxable. So that is extremely important because again the
Speaker 1: I R S is your silent you know, your silent partner,
Speaker 1: and can kill your wealth much faster than a lot
Speaker 1: of things. And you know, if you're paying thirty and
Speaker 1: to the I R S, then guess what that could
Speaker 1: have been that you're you know, taking somewhere else. So
Speaker 1: with the roth Ira, you get to contribute to that
Speaker 1: roth ira. You can choose, you know, either a bucket
Speaker 1: of type of stocks or industries that you want to
Speaker 1: invest in, and then you can have that growth for you.
Speaker 1: And then when you decide to take it out, you
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about paying taxes on it. If
Speaker 1: you have debt, maybe paying that debt debt on that
Speaker 1: keeps a lot of people. Remember I had like debt
Speaker 1: from the old cable building my mother put my social Security.
Speaker 1: Most of the people in the hood and still dealing
Speaker 1: with the old cable for real. And when I'm when
Speaker 1: I'm listening to you, right, and I'm one of these people, right,
Speaker 1: like I have an issue with structure. Like I'm one
Speaker 1: of the people that I'm very creative. I'm a very
Speaker 1: creative mind, come up with ideas and thoughts as soon
Speaker 1: as you want to sit down and structure it. It's
Speaker 1: if I have a fear of that, the polar opposites.
Speaker 1: And so that's why I always tell people you shouldn't
Speaker 1: have to be the CEO and accountant in your business
Speaker 1: because a lot of times, if you're creative, you need
Speaker 1: space to be creative and the moment that you to
Speaker 1: lock you in. And I've been saying this for years.
Speaker 1: Everybody has a different role. I'm not the structure person.
Speaker 1: I am a creative. My mind create. So do you
Speaker 1: insert yourself? Yes, I insert myself in every process is
Speaker 1: set for just nothing. Okay, then that I really literally
Speaker 1: I get scared of it, Like it frustrates me, Like
Speaker 1: it really frustrates me, Like every time I sit down
Speaker 1: and I have to structure this creativity, it really and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of us who feel like that. For me,
Speaker 1: you skip past it. The problem is that if you
Speaker 1: are a person, in my judgment, who just wants to
Speaker 1: be a creative, then you have to take on just
Speaker 1: a creative role. But when you step into management and say,
Speaker 1: now you're actually running an organization, a company, a show
Speaker 1: of this and that you have to know how to
Speaker 1: wear multiple hats unfortunately, because you gotta run your business. Right,
Speaker 1: But that's not really true because everybody has a different role.
Speaker 1: I understand for me, right, I understand that somebody is
Speaker 1: better than some and than I am, and I know
Speaker 1: what I'm good at, and what i'm good at i'm
Speaker 1: great at. Like I know I'm the best that what
Speaker 1: I do. I'm in the top tier of what I do.
Speaker 1: I can do that all the time, all the time.
Speaker 1: The things that I don't do, I don't like to
Speaker 1: venture in because there are people who are way better
Speaker 1: than me, and I don't ask people to venture into
Speaker 1: my speaking. No, but that's but unfortunately, unfortunately you can
Speaker 1: you know, of course, correct me if I'm wrong. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: that's how most artists, entertainers, and creatives lose money because
Speaker 1: you have to know what's going on with your business.
Speaker 1: If you don't know the ins and outs of what's
Speaker 1: happening with your business, you can't just trust even your
Speaker 1: own family members to just run things. You have to
Speaker 1: be in the details of business. I agree, you have
Speaker 1: to understand what's happening, because what you're doing is you
Speaker 1: don't understand it, so you're deviating away from it. If
Speaker 1: you understood it, then you wouldn't be You know, it's
Speaker 1: not that I don't understand, is that I don't like it.
Speaker 1: You don't like it, But like if you understood every
Speaker 1: single part of it, every single aspect of you. I
Speaker 1: do understand. I'm very intelligent. I know how, and that's
Speaker 1: why to get the same time, what questions you want
Speaker 1: me to get? Okay, do you want a real example.
Speaker 1: You sat through all of the insurance calls, so you
Speaker 1: know about the setup of the insurance, how it works,
Speaker 1: what's going on. I forced you and your brother our
Speaker 1: other person that is a lawyer, and he's very he's brilliant.
Speaker 1: He wants to write and think and do policy and
Speaker 1: this and that and dream about what the world for
Speaker 1: black people should be without, you know, separation, our own
Speaker 1: world that we can create. That's what he wants to do. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the paperwork is due tomorrow. Okay, you know I did
Speaker 1: you here right here with us getting through this process
Speaker 1: and this one over here is like I'm writing the thing,
Speaker 1: and I got to go to the studio tonight and
Speaker 1: this and that and then they check in and go, chicks,
Speaker 1: y'all good. I got it all right, good. So he
Speaker 1: sat through all the calls about the insurance. I made
Speaker 1: them get on the phone. It was three and a
Speaker 1: half hours of the day of talking through the steps
Speaker 1: when we got off the phone, maybe two or three
Speaker 1: days later he calls me and said, so we have insurance,
Speaker 1: So what is it? What does it look like? Well?
Speaker 1: So how much I gotta spend that kind of money?
Speaker 1: We went through, we chose the plan together. You wrote
Speaker 1: it off. You just didn't want to deal with it.
Speaker 1: But I do agree with that. So let me say,
Speaker 1: let me not even say that you don't understand. If
Speaker 1: you applied yourself and paid attention, you'll understand it. But
Speaker 1: I think that you don't like it so much that
Speaker 1: you just write it off because it's not your thing.
Speaker 1: But you have to understand it because guess what if
Speaker 1: something happens to your business, that insurance is going to
Speaker 1: come in handy. Like a lot of people during COVID
Speaker 1: was able to pull from their insurance because they were
Speaker 1: not able to make money, right Like a lot of
Speaker 1: people are able to pay into insurance over their lifetime
Speaker 1: and then pull from it at a cash value in
Speaker 1: and invest in it or live from off of it
Speaker 1: at some point. Right, So I think that, and what
Speaker 1: about if something happens to one of us? Yes, that's important.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna know where to get the passwords? The information?
Speaker 1: Like you don't know? Now? Thank god? Michelle Richberg, who
Speaker 1: is our finance person, has it together, okay, And she's
Speaker 1: got it together because you concluded that. Because that, He's like, well, listen,
Speaker 1: I don't need to do that because I can just
Speaker 1: go to her and I think for me, like, I
Speaker 1: understand what they said because I'm I pay attention to it.
Speaker 1: I pay attention enough to know, Okay, well, I don't
Speaker 1: intricate details and all that. I don't. I don't Michael
Speaker 1: manage nobody on this stuff. I'm just because I believe.
Speaker 1: I come to you, I say, you know we're gonna
Speaker 1: get this done. And I come to you when you
Speaker 1: said it's gonna get done, and I said, is it done?
Speaker 1: And it's not then that we have an issue other
Speaker 1: than that, I'm not calling you a thousand times. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to figure out when you do it. They
Speaker 1: do that, they say my song, did you do this?
Speaker 1: I said I was gonna do. I don't need you
Speaker 1: to call me a thousand times because I get no. No,
Speaker 1: that's not Actually, whenever I take on a task, I
Speaker 1: get my task that I don't take on anything that
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get done that you are more of
Speaker 1: the Okay, so you guys just operate different. You are
Speaker 1: more detail oriented. You want to be in the detail
Speaker 1: of it, right, You're a detail person. He is more
Speaker 1: high level. He's more like, I'm gonna hire who I
Speaker 1: need to hire and have them give me high level
Speaker 1: what's going on. I'm both of you, right, So you
Speaker 1: have to have things. I get it, like, I'm a
Speaker 1: detailed person, but where I can things, I don't have
Speaker 1: to be in the detail about. Yeah, I totally just
Speaker 1: kind of and I and yeah, and we take on
Speaker 1: like he said, which is true, each one of us
Speaker 1: has a different role and that's what makes our team
Speaker 1: so amazing that we all have something different that we do.
Speaker 1: The one thing they want is the little text message
Speaker 1: that I send every few days. Here's what's in the bank.
Speaker 1: They want to know that. They want to know how,
Speaker 1: and then and then and then they say and then
Speaker 1: they say, and why did we spend something? Now, that's
Speaker 1: the other thing when we hire vendors. Our security bill
Speaker 1: is outrageous, but it has to be because we live
Speaker 1: in a time and we deal with situations that are
Speaker 1: just ridiculous. They never understand why the bill is so high,
Speaker 1: but they want to. But they want all the things. Well,
Speaker 1: now he doesn't even care. He's like, I don't need security.
Speaker 1: I'll fight for myself. We have had many fights about
Speaker 1: that several times because he says that and then and
Speaker 1: then he goes, no, he says that, and then he
Speaker 1: goes we go somewhere, he goes where a song. This
Speaker 1: is ridiculous. I mean we're walking around we oh, so
Speaker 1: you know that's what they do. They act like they
Speaker 1: don't know, and then they know. And it really just
Speaker 1: comes down to the fact that in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: I believe that men and women operate differently. It's just
Speaker 1: like women we run out homes into the little little
Speaker 1: you know, and we know that and we say I
Speaker 1: don't get it. And I think that was actually one
Speaker 1: of the things that I was going through, um talking
Speaker 1: about women and just from a financial perspective, I was,
Speaker 1: you know, just saying, the women face financial hardship sometimes
Speaker 1: because sometimes women don't want to have the conversation about
Speaker 1: finances or they over extend themselves. We are over extenders.
Speaker 1: We want to please everybody, We want to know every everything.
Speaker 1: We want everyone to be able to rely on us,
Speaker 1: where men are just like, if that gives me a
Speaker 1: little bit of stress. I'm not doing it, and we're
Speaker 1: just like, we're gonna push through the stress, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna push through. We're gonna get it all together. So
Speaker 1: I definitely agree there's definitely a difference on how men
Speaker 1: operate and women operate, even financially. So you're telling me
Speaker 1: my stimmy check that I think I got it. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure I got it because I saw four dollars
Speaker 1: more in my bank account than what was supposed to
Speaker 1: be there, and so I think I did get it. Um,
Speaker 1: So I can't go buy back. You tell me it's
Speaker 1: put it in. My little l has a stock by
Speaker 1: the stop by the stock So how do we? Okay?
Speaker 1: So give me, give me, like, because there are a
Speaker 1: couple of programs that you can you know, I find
Speaker 1: out a lot of them. What like, if you just
Speaker 1: a regular dude from the hood, you got your stimmy,
Speaker 1: you've been working all year, You've got a couple of dollars.
Speaker 1: You still got a little check that you're working, but
Speaker 1: you got a little stimmy. You've got a few thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: What do I do? What program do? What app do
Speaker 1: I get into to look for these things? Like? What
Speaker 1: is the basic simple thing that Joe Joe can do
Speaker 1: Joe Joe. Okay, So first brokerage accounts, I use uh
Speaker 1: a Merritrade. I use a Merrior trade um for my stocks.
Speaker 1: I do think that there's needs to be some education, right,
Speaker 1: So you have to learn first. So find someone that
Speaker 1: is educating, like Wall Street Trapper. That's his whole on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you follow him on Instagram, but
Speaker 1: that's his whole thing where he's like, I want to
Speaker 1: show the hood that we can invest in stocks too,
Speaker 1: and this is how you do it. Like he has
Speaker 1: a monthly membership, membership membership, right, so you can do
Speaker 1: that where it's I think it's like twenty seven dollars
Speaker 1: a month. But you're in this community of investors and
Speaker 1: so now it becomes a part of your conversation and
Speaker 1: now you're able to say, Okay, well I can do this,
Speaker 1: and okay this this person made this play or you
Speaker 1: know got this stock. I'm going to do the same.
Speaker 1: So sometimes it's before you can actually get the results,
Speaker 1: which I know everybody wants to be living this microwave
Speaker 1: society where people like, Okay, I want to invest in
Speaker 1: stocks and I want to be rich today. But it's
Speaker 1: really about understanding like the power of stocks, because a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't even understand that. So if I
Speaker 1: was Jojo and I got fourteen hundred dollars, you know,
Speaker 1: now some people got a lot of money. They got
Speaker 1: a lot of racks for your for your from your
Speaker 1: tax can take. So if I have ten thousand, can
Speaker 1: I slid it in half and get my bag with
Speaker 1: five or four or three or whatever and some things?
Speaker 1: And I know, you know what I'm saying, because I'm
Speaker 1: just being really being realist. I'm being realistic, and I
Speaker 1: know that if you make if you're forcing me to
Speaker 1: take my whole ten thousand dollar check, I get it. No,
Speaker 1: But I'm saying in my situation, I have grown to
Speaker 1: a whole different place because I've been through enough to
Speaker 1: understand and I got bagged glore, so I don't need
Speaker 1: to think about that. So I am invested because I
Speaker 1: have a stash app um and when I see things
Speaker 1: going on, I am moving my money around. And Airbnb,
Speaker 1: by the way, has actually been doing really really well
Speaker 1: for me, really well, so to be clear, But I
Speaker 1: also have I come from a time and I have friends, cousins, family, members.
Speaker 1: And I know that if I tell them to take
Speaker 1: their whole ten thousand dollar check and go invested, they're
Speaker 1: not gonna and more than likely, and more than likely
Speaker 1: because of the pressure of the whole ten thousand they
Speaker 1: start thinking it is and that and and then the
Speaker 1: next thing you know, they did nothing. They didn't invest anything.
Speaker 1: So I want to give realistic advice. If you've got
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars you're sitting on, if you got five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars you're sitting on, take fifteen hundred dollars and
Speaker 1: blow it doing whatever it is you want, but make
Speaker 1: up investment of thirty five hundred or five thousand or
Speaker 1: whatever and go and do something. I think people can
Speaker 1: do that. I think what she's saying is right. I
Speaker 1: feel like when you make things and people make people
Speaker 1: feel that they can obtain things, they do it. It's
Speaker 1: kind of breaking it down in body sizes. You can't
Speaker 1: take someone that's used to getting money and blowing it
Speaker 1: to then saying, hey, take this whole ten thousand and
Speaker 1: just put it doesn't stop money, so he doesn't understand.
Speaker 1: You don't understand that, see your mind, I think, But
Speaker 1: y'all came from the bottom, like all the way zero
Speaker 1: and I did prison time, so I know, dudes that's
Speaker 1: in jail, that's beg you for a soup. Of course
Speaker 1: ten cents. They don't have nothing. So I've seen absolutely destitution.
Speaker 1: So for me to just gonna waste money, I'm just
Speaker 1: not gonna do it. It's gonna make sense. If I
Speaker 1: buy something, I can buy three of them, like I don't.
Speaker 1: That's just most people don't think like that. And that's
Speaker 1: what you have to understand. Most people are living paycheck
Speaker 1: to paycheck, and some of the time it is because
Speaker 1: of bills, but a lot of the time also people
Speaker 1: out here, they're eating out all the time. They're popping bottles,
Speaker 1: they are buying bags. They offensive it's expensive. I don't
Speaker 1: do that. If I go outside with with with with guys,
Speaker 1: guys like the pop bottles, I'm not doing that. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, so a lot of the time,
Speaker 1: you know, people are wasting a lot of money. So
Speaker 1: you do have to be realistic and you can't just say, oh,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna take your ten thousand and make it twenty,
Speaker 1: people don't see it like that. They're like, I'm gambling.
Speaker 1: I may not be able to flip this ten thousand
Speaker 1: because again you're entering an arena you know nothing about,
Speaker 1: so you don't see the value. Let's saying stops or
Speaker 1: even if somebody may want a house if you get
Speaker 1: ten thous some dollars, if you get an FH program,
Speaker 1: sometimes that's enough for a down payment for a house,
Speaker 1: but some people aren't looking at it like that, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, she's perfect because because I can see, I
Speaker 1: can right, it might never listening right here in my
Speaker 1: new Lubertans, right, and I'm gonna look cute and I
Speaker 1: need to yes, and I might be able to flip
Speaker 1: it because when I put my never for and my
Speaker 1: new Lubatan shoes on, that I might meet somebody that's
Speaker 1: got the ability to get me to the ten thousand,
Speaker 1: so I could get You're welcome. Yes, So what I
Speaker 1: would say is, um, figure out. Let's say in your
Speaker 1: in your example where you're like, okay, the person got
Speaker 1: ten thousand, maybe take of it, do something that you
Speaker 1: want to do, and then take and really invested because
Speaker 1: and I think again, you have to really understand where
Speaker 1: you are, and I think being realistic with with with
Speaker 1: yourself is very important. Are are you ready to invest.
Speaker 1: If you're not, then maybe you should just kind of
Speaker 1: put your money to the side until you fit. It
Speaker 1: only takes fifty dollars, so but listen, but this has
Speaker 1: been great, and just stay and talk because there's so
Speaker 1: many little questions and ins and outs. But how do
Speaker 1: people contact you if they want to work with you?
Speaker 1: They need some support. I think the biggest thing for
Speaker 1: me has been, like you said, the educational piece. I
Speaker 1: shied away from it for so long one because I
Speaker 1: wanted to blow my money. I wanted to buy you know,
Speaker 1: as soon as I got came into three thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: I wanted to go buy six d worth the makeup,
Speaker 1: and you know, a new pair of shoes and this
Speaker 1: and that I need. I wanted that. That's what made
Speaker 1: me feel validated in the moment. But as I became
Speaker 1: more educated, especially when I got my tax bill and
Speaker 1: when some other things happened to me, and also when
Speaker 1: during two thousand eighteen, two thousand and nineteen, I tell
Speaker 1: the story all the time I had to ask people
Speaker 1: for money to help bail me out of situation. But
Speaker 1: yet I was making big money and just like you said, dinner,
Speaker 1: this that just not thinking now I don't play no
Speaker 1: games like it's a different situation. But the education that
Speaker 1: I went through with the folks who I finally allowed in,
Speaker 1: they were always around, but I didn't want them to
Speaker 1: see how bad the situation was. And I also didn't
Speaker 1: want to listen because I knew it was going to
Speaker 1: take a sacrifice and you wasn't ready again being real
Speaker 1: with yourself and knowing where you are at that moment. Right. So, UM,
Speaker 1: in regard to reaching out to me across all platforms,
Speaker 1: is miss business one on one, Miss business on such,
Speaker 1: Miss Business, so miss business one on one across all platforms.
Speaker 1: That's also my website, Miss Business one on one. UM.
Speaker 1: If you reach out to me on any of my
Speaker 1: social media platforms, you can email me d M me.
Speaker 1: I will get back to you great. Well, we appreciate
Speaker 1: your brooks a Miss Bennett. She out here doing the thing.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you. I'm gonna take a lot of that that.
Speaker 1: I'm going to invest my statement that att I'll be trying.
Speaker 1: I'm a part of me. Don't listen to that because
Speaker 1: I'm a part of the meeting. I just know my role.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem playing my role. I'm good
Speaker 1: at what I do, and I'm not good at what
Speaker 1: I don't. I learned piece by piece. I come to
Speaker 1: the meeting, right, I'm at the meeting. I'm listening. I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I check out when it ain't my part, though,
Speaker 1: But when it's my part, I'm all in. And the
Speaker 1: thing is, they want to interfere with my part too.
Speaker 1: See that ain't gonna have to That ain't gonna work
Speaker 1: because I don't interfere with yours. No, no, no, it's
Speaker 1: very important. Well, thank you, misses. We appreciate you so
Speaker 1: much for having me than you so much to be politicians.
Speaker 1: Thanks for being our first first in studio guests. Before
Speaker 1: we go to the next segment and have our special
Speaker 1: guests joined, we're gonna take a quick break for our sponsors.
Speaker 1: That's how we are. You're getting a little little little
Speaker 1: bit better at the stuff we were just talking to
Speaker 1: Chiqua about. Listen, I'm great what I'm saying. I know
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. You're getting a little bit better. You
Speaker 1: get a little bit of letting me do my own thing.
Speaker 1: That's true. I stay out of your people do their
Speaker 1: own thing, But you noticed that I stay out of
Speaker 1: it completely but that's only because I left Julian Hoffenberg
Speaker 1: in the middle of it, and so I know that
Speaker 1: there's the same type of management is happening. Calls me
Speaker 1: and said, hey, I need this done. It gets done.
Speaker 1: I called her and we have a business relationship that
Speaker 1: works for us. She doesn't Michael manage me, and it works.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But shout out to Chakwana.
Speaker 1: You know, she showed us how to flip ms bennes.
Speaker 1: I mean, basically, the thing I learned from what she said,
Speaker 1: which we already know, is that this is the time
Speaker 1: of engaging in the market. Right. If you have money
Speaker 1: in your hand, you need to be investing. You need
Speaker 1: to be getting a LLC is paying off debt, doing
Speaker 1: things that will help you to be more financially secure.
Speaker 1: I think most people will say, well, we were never
Speaker 1: taught and we don't know. But there's so much information
Speaker 1: about this now. We do know, but we're choosing to
Speaker 1: ignore the things that we should be doing because we
Speaker 1: have bad habits that so many of us have settled into.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are just scared of doing something new.
Speaker 1: You know, when you start talking about money and you
Speaker 1: talking about big words and you say stock market. They
Speaker 1: think it's just this far off planet, yeah, you know
Speaker 1: any thing. It's like, no, I can't do that because
Speaker 1: rich people do that. I'm just a regular person. So
Speaker 1: you have to really start breaking it down from nuts
Speaker 1: to boat so they can feel comfortable in doing it.
Speaker 1: So I think we're in that error right now. We're
Speaker 1: in the stage of doing that right now in seeing
Speaker 1: that we have another guests. Yes, really because because for
Speaker 1: our next guest, I think one of the things that
Speaker 1: will make people more comfortable is helping our child ldren,
Speaker 1: like starting with them being really really small, because even
Speaker 1: you know, when I look at my child, the one
Speaker 1: thing about him is that he at two years old,
Speaker 1: he doesn't really ask for money. He takes care of himself,
Speaker 1: he pays his bills. But he also doesn't understand the
Speaker 1: way I feel like. He goes to the club they
Speaker 1: they you know, pop bottles, and then when it's rent time,
Speaker 1: you can tell he hustling it up, doing what he
Speaker 1: got to, trying to figure it out right. And so
Speaker 1: that's something. But these are skills that you learn as
Speaker 1: that you should learn as a kid. You put your
Speaker 1: important things away and then use whatever is left over.
Speaker 1: So today we have somebody that will talk to us
Speaker 1: about the children and what we should be teaching them.
Speaker 1: I love this book, Yes s Larry The Lending Lion,
Speaker 1: Money and Finance Lessons for Kids by Ayisha hol who
Speaker 1: is a very good friend of mine. She is dope.
Speaker 1: She's formerly in Carsted like myself, and she came home
Speaker 1: hitting the ground running and she's done. She does so
Speaker 1: many different things, but this is one of her many feats.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have her talk about this book and
Speaker 1: her journey and all the things that she's doing for
Speaker 1: the community. She's also activists, she's entrepreneurs. She does so
Speaker 1: many different things. So how are you doing. We appreciate you.
Speaker 1: I have long respected and appreciated what it is that
Speaker 1: you are contributing into society. So thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being with us today. Thank y'all. Thank you for
Speaker 1: having me like. I'm honored. I love you, you know, UM,
Speaker 1: I definitely look up to you your coverage. You know,
Speaker 1: I think that it's amazing, my sign you already know,
Speaker 1: my friend, my brother. I really respect what you'll do.
Speaker 1: So this is an honor to even be here. UM,
Speaker 1: and you are our second in studio, second ever had. Yes, So, UM,
Speaker 1: this this was a very This is probably the most
Speaker 1: important thing that I've done so far. Um, since I've
Speaker 1: been home, how long has it been. I've been home
Speaker 1: three years. I've been out of the halfway house for
Speaker 1: a little over two years. And how long were you?
Speaker 1: Give them a little give them a little background, you know,
Speaker 1: so they can see all the greatness that you do. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you. Well. I did ten years in in federal
Speaker 1: prison and um, the reason I went to prison is
Speaker 1: I was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and UM,
Speaker 1: I had a company. I was very young, I was
Speaker 1: twenty four, and UM, I got involved in the trade business.
Speaker 1: And what I learned was that in private placement trading
Speaker 1: that um, there's not a lot of African Americans, and
Speaker 1: the requirements to enter those trades are like unrealistic. Hundred
Speaker 1: million dollars, fifty million dollars. That's the network that you
Speaker 1: have to have to get in. You can spend a
Speaker 1: hundred dollars if you want once you get in, but
Speaker 1: they don't let you in unless you have a certain network.
Speaker 1: So anywhere from fifty million to a hundred millions. So
Speaker 1: you know who's getting in there. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: small class of people that are getting into those trades
Speaker 1: and it's just not fair. So what I did, um,
Speaker 1: was I took clients and I linked them with hedge
Speaker 1: fund managers or people who had very high end assets, um,
Speaker 1: and they shared the assets on paper. So now when
Speaker 1: you get to the trade door and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we don't you want to come in here
Speaker 1: and spend you know, a million dollars, but if you're
Speaker 1: not worth a hundred million, you can't get in. And
Speaker 1: now they were able to say I am worth a
Speaker 1: hundred millions because I connected them with people who are
Speaker 1: The problem in the way I got in. Trouble is
Speaker 1: that process took a while, so people who were anxious,
Speaker 1: you know, I changed the paperwork so that they could
Speaker 1: get in faster. And that's what I messed up. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, in the scope of things, it wasn't
Speaker 1: something that I should have gotten ten years for. I
Speaker 1: taught myself. Yeah, I taught myself UM and UM. You
Speaker 1: know I was very young, and like I said, I'm
Speaker 1: ade ten million dollars. Um. I didn't expect to. It
Speaker 1: was something that came to me like just from you know,
Speaker 1: different relationships with people and being in the mortgage business
Speaker 1: at one time. So I got lucky, I guess and
Speaker 1: being able to learn that. But what I was taught
Speaker 1: with self taught, and I wish that I had more
Speaker 1: financial education younger. You know, they didn't teach about credit
Speaker 1: because this is a credit driven business, and they didn't
Speaker 1: teach about credit and commodities, which is the actual thing
Speaker 1: that's traded. Mostly comes from Africa. So I did a
Speaker 1: lot of business in Africa, a lot of businesses Sierra
Speaker 1: Leone and most of the business is won by run
Speaker 1: by European companies. And you know, it's not really something
Speaker 1: that we're a part of, but we are the creators
Speaker 1: of it because it comes from our land. So it's
Speaker 1: it's a very interesting thing and I wanted to after
Speaker 1: being in prison, you know, coming home, I came into
Speaker 1: like scamming was huge, and I realized that a lot
Speaker 1: of people aren't just criminal minded. They want things, they
Speaker 1: want tools to be able to live a better life,
Speaker 1: and they don't really know how to go about it,
Speaker 1: so they do it the wrong way or the fast way,
Speaker 1: but they're not bad people. So this book that I wrote,
Speaker 1: the Lindon Lyon is to teach children about financial response, stability,
Speaker 1: um and learning how to manage their money, what it
Speaker 1: means to have good credit, what it means to have
Speaker 1: bad credit. And I've read this book to five and
Speaker 1: six year olds and there's a quiz in the back
Speaker 1: and they get it because it's rhyme, is very rhyme,
Speaker 1: is very simplified, and it just teaches them that if
Speaker 1: you borrow, you have to pay it back. But if
Speaker 1: you pay it back, you earn points, and those points
Speaker 1: can make will make people trust you to lend you
Speaker 1: money so you can do the things that you want
Speaker 1: to do responsibly. But it sounds like I can send
Speaker 1: this to It's true? Is it like money for dummies?
Speaker 1: Like type of not? Kind of like you know, I can,
Speaker 1: I can give you a little piece of it. It's
Speaker 1: really a quick read, but it rhymes, so it starts off,
Speaker 1: you know, in the town and it helps with retention
Speaker 1: the rhyming. So in the town of Money Deal right
Speaker 1: next to a lake, Larry, the London Lion owns a
Speaker 1: penny bank. Early every morning, Larry proudly wakes up, He
Speaker 1: brushes his man, puts on his chain and it's inside
Speaker 1: his truck. When an animal borrows one penny, they have
Speaker 1: to pay back ten. Trusting that someone will pay you
Speaker 1: back is what it means to lend two pennies, course
Speaker 1: twenty cents, four pennies, course forty. But not every animal
Speaker 1: pays back what they borrow. Some of them are naughty.
Speaker 1: So it teaches them about interest, um, and then it
Speaker 1: goes into the definition of interest. It goes into the
Speaker 1: definition of what it means to lend. And Larry is
Speaker 1: going on this journey to try to collect the money
Speaker 1: that he gave to the animals in the community that
Speaker 1: weren't paying back. And they all have these excuses, and
Speaker 1: the one in here is um. Greeted the frog greeted.
Speaker 1: The frog borrowed tenpennies, and that was a big amount.
Speaker 1: He owed the lions so much money, Larry, the lion
Speaker 1: laws count. Don't worry, said Mr Greedy. The frog. Take
Speaker 1: my wallet. It's ten pennies. I checked, Well, ten pennies
Speaker 1: are not enough. Remember you owe me interest. Interest, he asked,
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Why don't you come back tomorrow. Interest
Speaker 1: is when you pay me back more than what I
Speaker 1: let you borrow. So at the end of the book,
Speaker 1: when I asked chosen to questions what is interest when
Speaker 1: you borrow more than they originally gave you, like, they
Speaker 1: really get the concept. And when you pay I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: when you pay back more than what you originally borrowed,
Speaker 1: and they really get the concept. And then there's a
Speaker 1: game that I created in the back that parents can
Speaker 1: play with their children and they use pennies and they
Speaker 1: have to do different things in the house or wherever
Speaker 1: they have to, like, you know, they can take they
Speaker 1: borrowed tenpennies and then they can buy, you know, a lemon,
Speaker 1: they can buy a cup, they can buy sugar, and
Speaker 1: then they have to go sell it and pay the
Speaker 1: bank back. And it teaches them, you know, um, some
Speaker 1: entrepreneural skills from five being an author myself, you know,
Speaker 1: and having having the same similar outlook, you know, the
Speaker 1: fact that it rhymes definitely is something that helps your retention.
Speaker 1: And this is definitely a skill that people need to
Speaker 1: understand about borrowing and about the value of money. You know, yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: And I think it will help, um a little bit
Speaker 1: if I can help one kid, you know, not go
Speaker 1: to prison like I did. You know, I had the
Speaker 1: right intention, um, but I did it the wrong way,
Speaker 1: And I think that if I have more knowledge, this
Speaker 1: is a little bit of financial morals also, you know,
Speaker 1: you can't just take money and and think that if
Speaker 1: it's not yours that you just get to keep it
Speaker 1: and not pay it back. And they need to understand
Speaker 1: that because right now, you know, it's a music, you know,
Speaker 1: scamming this and people think that's okay, and it's really
Speaker 1: not because it affects the community, especially our community. So
Speaker 1: I think that it's a very important book. And do
Speaker 1: you suggest that parents read the book with their children.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, it's definitely because the game is interactive and
Speaker 1: parents have to also understand that there's an emotion attached
Speaker 1: to money that we teach. So when we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: these bills, you know, you're teaching kids a negative way
Speaker 1: to look at money when you always complain about it.
Speaker 1: So we have to have positive talks about money and
Speaker 1: make money be a part of, you know, our our
Speaker 1: lifestyle like other communities do. Like there's certain vocabulary that
Speaker 1: we don't even use that gets used in other homes,
Speaker 1: you know, and then they expect us to understand we
Speaker 1: don't because money is cultural, you know, So it's important
Speaker 1: that a book like this, and there wasn't one. Because
Speaker 1: I looked to see if there were any other similar books,
Speaker 1: you know, because I wanted to mind to stand out,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't find any that were like this and
Speaker 1: geared towards us. So you you also focus on credit repair, Yes,
Speaker 1: yes I do, and I actually have a credit repair company,
Speaker 1: the Real Credit Pro. And the way I started it
Speaker 1: was when I came home, Um, I was so broke,
Speaker 1: I lost everything, and a lot of the girls that
Speaker 1: I was locked up with I made a promise to
Speaker 1: help them, so I would be sending money orders ten dollars.
Speaker 1: It was like not really much, and my friend was like, girl,
Speaker 1: you need to get yourself together first, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what, You're right, But what helped me was
Speaker 1: getting my credit together. So I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: rather than be giving them money when they come home
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, I can help them get their
Speaker 1: credit rights so they can get their own money. And
Speaker 1: that's where we started doing it, and then it just
Speaker 1: grew from there. Can be within a circumstance and then
Speaker 1: use that dark cloud to make sunlight for and it's
Speaker 1: just so comportant for people to constantly see their lives
Speaker 1: in that way that your dark moments are actually a
Speaker 1: blessing to other people if used properly. Because you know,
Speaker 1: we know people they come home from prison, they come
Speaker 1: home from different situations out the hospital with the surgery,
Speaker 1: and they're angry, they're evil, they don't they are unapproachable,
Speaker 1: But you're doing things. That's why I said, I really have,
Speaker 1: you know, respected the journey and what it is that
Speaker 1: you're doing, because I have. After meeting my son and
Speaker 1: Jamility Davis and a few of the other people that
Speaker 1: I work with, I started to uh to see a
Speaker 1: different side of people coming home that I didn't see before.
Speaker 1: I mean, my my brother, he's definitely a very positive
Speaker 1: person who's you know, thank God for that. But most
Speaker 1: of the people that I meet that come home there
Speaker 1: it's like they're really in a dark funk. They're really struggling.
Speaker 1: They have not figured out while being inside what it
Speaker 1: looks like to sort of flip their live like, they
Speaker 1: haven't figured that out, and it's like they're coming out.
Speaker 1: What I think I have learned from you, my son,
Speaker 1: and from Jamil and others is that the time when
Speaker 1: you're inside, you're supposed to be trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: like what does life look like on the other side
Speaker 1: of those del fences, gates or what have you. But
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't do this hard, yeah, because
Speaker 1: a lot of people get so caught up in you know,
Speaker 1: a false reality. Right, Because when you're sitting and sell
Speaker 1: you can make, you can write the biggest things down
Speaker 1: on the paper. I'm gonna come home, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: this job, and I'm gonna make ten thousand a week,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna give me my house,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna have a wife and and all of
Speaker 1: those things. They write this on the paper, right, they don't,
Speaker 1: but they don't plan for that not to happen. So
Speaker 1: what happens is when you come home and you don't
Speaker 1: get the job, immediately, people go right back to what
Speaker 1: they normally did, and they have expectations, especially when you
Speaker 1: leave the streets with ten million dollars in online you
Speaker 1: come home and you don't have nothing. Hard. It's hard.
Speaker 1: You're surrounded by people that expect you to have this,
Speaker 1: and they know that you used to do things illegal,
Speaker 1: so they come back to you with the same mind state,
Speaker 1: and it's easy to fall into that. If you haven't,
Speaker 1: if you haven't prepared your mind that, look, there's nowhere
Speaker 1: I'm going back to prison and there's no way that
Speaker 1: I'm giving up. So those have to be two things
Speaker 1: that you prepare me so and when you come home
Speaker 1: with that mind state. And I told people because I
Speaker 1: used to teach re entry programs, and I said, you
Speaker 1: have to be prepared to fail in order to be successful.
Speaker 1: You gotta come home and say, Yo, this might not work.
Speaker 1: You know, I was a rapper. I can't I left
Speaker 1: with a million other record there. Everybody, Oh, you're gonna
Speaker 1: go home and be fair. I said, that might not happen.
Speaker 1: And if it don't, I'm okay with that. Whatever the
Speaker 1: steps is gonna take for me to make sure that
Speaker 1: I again keep my freedom, and then if I have
Speaker 1: to gradually grow to do that, I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1: And it was hard because a lot of people say,
Speaker 1: when you watched up, you ain't got this, you ain't
Speaker 1: this person and such and such, God this why you
Speaker 1: ain't got that? And then you have to hear that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's definitely not easy. I mean, even right now,
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with a situation where I was almost finished reprobation.
Speaker 1: I had UM just until June. And UM, the my
Speaker 1: boyfriend who is also UM, an ex offender, a felon. Um,
Speaker 1: we're not supposed to be together because we're both felons.
Speaker 1: That's like against the rules. And I didn't tell them,
Speaker 1: which you can't help who you love, you know, And UM,
Speaker 1: he got violated as well. They came into the home
Speaker 1: and I was there and they called my p O
Speaker 1: and UM, I got violated. So probation was supposed to
Speaker 1: end for me. Not only did it not end, it
Speaker 1: was extended for two additional years. And I have a
Speaker 1: bracelet on a bracelet, wow, And that's for being with
Speaker 1: a felon. And you know, I don't think that's fair
Speaker 1: because the number of men are men that are felons
Speaker 1: is so outrageous, you know. And my father was a felon,
Speaker 1: My brother was a felon. And just in case, you know,
Speaker 1: we want to catch you up, well boom, that's something
Speaker 1: so easy to almost violate anybody with. So dang, that
Speaker 1: just happened. That just happened, just happened so close. And
Speaker 1: I mean in our communities, like I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: outside of one man maybe too that I've been with
Speaker 1: him out entire you know life. All of the men
Speaker 1: that I have dated or been with, they all have
Speaker 1: a record. They all are either convicted felon or you know,
Speaker 1: they at least have done state time. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: mean these are some of them. It's for different reasons.
Speaker 1: Some of them. It could be, you know something extra years,
Speaker 1: did ten half just because you love the man who
Speaker 1: was formerly in carhein in jail now former he's home.
Speaker 1: He was violated, but his violation got him locked up,
Speaker 1: but he got violated the days he was in the
Speaker 1: house with chilling home. You're trying to change your life around,
Speaker 1: You're doing positive things, and they come in and they
Speaker 1: take him, violate him, and then violate you and give
Speaker 1: you two extra years, extra years, you know, which affects
Speaker 1: business everything. That's what I respect that you should resilience,
Speaker 1: help people. Country Miller, like when you watched them, she
Speaker 1: came straight home. When I first met her, she was
Speaker 1: she does music. She was in the club. She had
Speaker 1: this energy and she kept doing music. And I just
Speaker 1: loved the way that she moved herself and I see
Speaker 1: her constantly. She did the books. You know, she had liquor,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. She's an entrepreneurs. She kept going back
Speaker 1: to work for the white man. Oh never, let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. I read this book. It's called Wake
Speaker 1: Up the Wind, and I had a new respect for
Speaker 1: I always put, you know, my people in high regard,
Speaker 1: but this book was about when slavery was over and
Speaker 1: how we was in the woods. People were dying from
Speaker 1: snake bites. Women were running around. I haven't seen my
Speaker 1: child in six years. They looked like this. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just chaos. And then I connected with that.
Speaker 1: Coming home from prison. People have so many expectations of
Speaker 1: people coming out of prison, but we were just literally slaves.
Speaker 1: It is a slave system and you're just freely released
Speaker 1: and it's like, go ahead, go shoot figured out. We're
Speaker 1: not a slave. You were enslave, enslave, that's right, you
Speaker 1: were enslave, but you were not a slave. I mean,
Speaker 1: how you feel, you know, that's how you feel. You can't,
Speaker 1: you know, and to come home, especially if you were
Speaker 1: successful before and people just expect so much of you
Speaker 1: and you're really starting over, and that this book, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just resonated with me because we were
Speaker 1: in such a bad people. You're free, Now what does
Speaker 1: that mean? You know, I still have to be able
Speaker 1: to build myself back up after I've been torn down
Speaker 1: for a decade. So it's not easy, especially for women
Speaker 1: who were mothers. You know a lot of times fathers
Speaker 1: incarcerated the children up with the mother. But imagine being
Speaker 1: a woman, you know, and you don't have children. I
Speaker 1: don't have children. I don't have children, And you know,
Speaker 1: that was all that was an issue for me when
Speaker 1: I was away. I'm like, you know, will I have
Speaker 1: time to meet somebody and maybe have children? You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot that women deal with who are incarcerated.
Speaker 1: So this is very important to me, very passionate. So
Speaker 1: you open to partnerships with the white man, but you
Speaker 1: ain't trying to go to the job every day and
Speaker 1: put the chick chicken in right. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's like not even um. Because we have in order
Speaker 1: to build up a good community, we have to build
Speaker 1: up our our mindset of taking care of ourselves and
Speaker 1: not being the pending that. They really don't want to
Speaker 1: see you win anyway because us winning, you know, in
Speaker 1: their minds represents them losing, so they don't want to
Speaker 1: see you win. So where can people buy this book?
Speaker 1: They can buy it on Amazon, buy it on Amazon,
Speaker 1: and we can also buy it at Larry the Lending
Speaker 1: Lion dot com Larry the Lending Lion dot com. And
Speaker 1: that's more directly from you or is it self published?
Speaker 1: This is amazing, Thank you so much, really it is.
Speaker 1: And it's dedicated to my brother and he was killed
Speaker 1: by the police. Is dedicated to my father who was murdered.
Speaker 1: You know who told me, you know, keep pushing, keep pushing,
Speaker 1: keep pushing. There at the forefront of my mind. So
Speaker 1: I just want to shout them out. I always do. Well.
Speaker 1: I want to say thank you, and you know, you
Speaker 1: are very inspirational. Like I always tell you, you you constantly
Speaker 1: see you moving. She'll text me a bro, I see you,
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, yo, I'm proud of you, you know,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a real authentic relationship that we have
Speaker 1: and I really appreciate you continue to do what you do.
Speaker 1: You know, you always have my support and we're just
Speaker 1: proud of you. Man. Yes, yes, yes, and thank you
Speaker 1: for being the second in studio guest politicians. Y's go
Speaker 1: get the book. Larry Lindon Lyon I used to hold
Speaker 1: the entrepreneur the winner keep going, and that brings me
Speaker 1: to my you know, it's a lot of things I
Speaker 1: don't get, I think, but this week, you know, us
Speaker 1: losing one of the greats, you know, and seeing negative
Speaker 1: some negative things from just news outlets. You know about
Speaker 1: how DMX loses houses since he's been rapping in the the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, or you know, Kobe Bryant, there
Speaker 1: was negativity that came up. It's like, why is it that,
Speaker 1: especially these media outlets choose to try to bring up
Speaker 1: negativity about someone when they pass away, and they just
Speaker 1: they listen, you come out the New York Post, they
Speaker 1: bring up negativity about the living, the dead, whoever. They
Speaker 1: just racist period posts. Yeah, they definitely have horrible every
Speaker 1: time that something negative is in the post. And I think,
Speaker 1: you know, people got to stop buying stuff that don't
Speaker 1: support us and doesn't show us in the you know,
Speaker 1: in the proper light. Man. Any time that somebody like DMX,
Speaker 1: what he's meant to this culture, even through you know
Speaker 1: it's ups and his downs, but and he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's in a position where he's in critical condition and
Speaker 1: you decided to put out an article about homes that
Speaker 1: he's lost. You know, I just don't even understand what
Speaker 1: brings you to that, What is the mindset that goes
Speaker 1: with that? You know, And and it happens with a
Speaker 1: lot of our people that we love, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of I was super stars and our icons when
Speaker 1: they passed this some media outlet that tries to find
Speaker 1: a way, you know, to highlight negativity that they've been through.
Speaker 1: You know what, I think, we we we gotta stop
Speaker 1: supporting it. We gotta stop even allowing it to happen. Mm. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's been an issue for black folks. The
Speaker 1: way we're covered in the media. It is really problematic
Speaker 1: in general, not just when we pass, but throughout our
Speaker 1: entire existence. Like there's never been a time when the
Speaker 1: media has properly represented our stories. Even in the moments
Speaker 1: when they're celebrating us. Um, there's still always either something
Speaker 1: problematic and or it's very short lived. There's no commitment, loyalty,
Speaker 1: dedication to our stories. It's just about the you know,
Speaker 1: picket a draw. So today is a good day, Tomorrow
Speaker 1: will lie on you, you know, we'll we'll we'll have
Speaker 1: three days apart a great story and then allow somebody
Speaker 1: to write an opinion piece that's like saying something that
Speaker 1: they haven't even verified. So it's the media is very
Speaker 1: very dangerous in that way. And I guess um it
Speaker 1: brings it makes me think about how important two things are.
Speaker 1: One for us to financially support black media, so you know,
Speaker 1: people like A Rolling Marin and others out here even
Speaker 1: subscribing to our show. It helps to keep the media,
Speaker 1: the black media that's telling our stories in the ways
Speaker 1: in which you want, you know, it helps to keep
Speaker 1: us um uh just I don't want to say courageous,
Speaker 1: that's not the word. But I think it just keeps
Speaker 1: it authentic to your point, right, the Black Effect Network,
Speaker 1: you know, making sure you support things that they're doing
Speaker 1: in all the different shows that Charlemagne has now launched
Speaker 1: um through his network, his platform um you know. And
Speaker 1: and again there are people who have, you know, real
Speaker 1: subscription based models where they are actually giving us good information. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about people that their entire time is
Speaker 1: negative about who ain't doing what. I'm telling about people
Speaker 1: who are actually doing the work and also speaking and
Speaker 1: sometimes critiquing things that need to be critiqued. So I
Speaker 1: think one is definitely, um, you know, support black media.
Speaker 1: But I think the second thing is um that black
Speaker 1: media has to do a better job of telling the
Speaker 1: stories themselves, of doing the research, of using the context
Speaker 1: to get to the person who knows the thing, because unfortunately,
Speaker 1: what the black media is doing is copying and pasting
Speaker 1: what they see on other outlets and then they just
Speaker 1: put the story out there. Of the problems, especially in
Speaker 1: Kobe situation. Yeah, absolutely, I mean, you know the way
Speaker 1: that well, black media representation is different from black Okay,
Speaker 1: it's very different. I'm I'm talking about black media networks.
Speaker 1: I had to contact three or four people that are
Speaker 1: my people, like we are cool and close, hang out
Speaker 1: talk all the time, and I'm like, why are you
Speaker 1: running this story about me that? And by the way,
Speaker 1: they ran other stories about things that, you know, different
Speaker 1: issues that people had with me that I didn't call
Speaker 1: them at all because it's the news and that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But in this particular situation, they were running stories about
Speaker 1: what somebody said about me and nobody actually called me.
Speaker 1: I didn't say, don't run the story, because you can't
Speaker 1: do that. That's not integrity. I didn't say, don't really
Speaker 1: I said, did anybody on your team, the one that
Speaker 1: saw me in the office, or know as we go
Speaker 1: to dinner, just think to call me and say, hey,
Speaker 1: what's your perspective? Do you not even get that opportunity?
Speaker 1: So it makes it diminishes the value of even black
Speaker 1: press when they don't do real work. And I know
Speaker 1: the budgets are low because so the two things. That's
Speaker 1: why I said these are two points, because they'll say
Speaker 1: the researchers and all the things that the bigger entities
Speaker 1: had they can't afford, so they end up being cut
Speaker 1: and pace journalists. And that's not real journalism. Our legends
Speaker 1: and our icons should be able to die with respect,
Speaker 1: you know, and overcome their shortcomings, especially if they've done
Speaker 1: the work to move past them. So no media, and
Speaker 1: especially not black media, should be covering us in that
Speaker 1: life and if they do, look buck. So that brings
Speaker 1: us to the end of another episode. Street Politicians who
Speaker 1: want to thank you all for joining us, always love
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Speaker 1: not gonna always be right to Mika. Maybe she won't
Speaker 1: always be wrong, but we will both always be authentic.
Speaker 1: Actually laughed. It's true. It's funny. It's the true, because
Speaker 1: you're gonna be wrong most all, sometimes not not about this.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, get this right now. That's how we owed it.
Speaker 1: That's how we owed it. That's how we owed it.
Speaker 1: That's how that's how we owned it.