1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Part of the mission of your work is to help 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: us understand the history UM and how wealth is generating, 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:10,880 Speaker 1: why wealth wasn't generated in our community. And you have 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: a seven step methodology that you believe helps us, you know, 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 1: increase our net worth. UM. Why is history so so 6 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 1: much a part of that? When I mean we get 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: inundated with our history all the time. What is what 8 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: are we missing about that? Then that you feel like 9 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: this is important to reinforce or a different perspective on 10 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: it that UM that helps us, It helps us get 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 1: over the hurdle. Yeah. Man, I think history is so 12 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: valuable because it can help predict and see the future 13 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 1: when we look back at when we look at our 14 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: current state. So many black founders and entrepreneurs will say 15 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: the words imposter syndrome. They will yearn for community. And 16 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: we're very aware of the feelings that we that we hold, 17 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 1: the sentiments how we show up, but we don't always 18 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: know the root cause of some of these ailments or 19 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: dispositions that we possess. And I think it really goes 20 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: back historically to our what we call we have this 21 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: eight step methodology and our Shine Heart Family Legacy Accelerator 22 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 1: and one of our core principles is find your roots. 23 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 1: And in that module, we talk about two questions, where 24 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: are you from? And how did you get here? And 25 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: where are you from? Leans into your genealogy because if 26 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 1: you ask a black person, a black American, where they're from, 27 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: they're gonna tell you an American city that's named after 28 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: a slaveship. They're gonna tell you some city that is 29 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: not really where they're from. You know, that's where they 30 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: were born, that's where they were raised, but they're probably 31 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 1: they're definitely from Africa, and some at some point in 32 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: their lineage they come from Africa. So doing your genealogy, 33 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: whether that's ancestry, whether that's UH twenty three and me 34 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: or any African ancestry, doing your ancestry because you know, okay, 35 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: I'm from Nigeria, I'm from Cameroon, I'm from ben in Togo. 36 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: That that gives you a sense of pride and identity 37 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: when you're here in America. And then number two, doing 38 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: your family tree helps you see like, how did I 39 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: get here? Who were the folks that are in my 40 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: family tree in my lineage that preceded me into showing 41 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: up in this place where I am, And what you're 42 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:36,799 Speaker 1: what folks do We've gone through this course and I'll 43 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: help folks unpack this. You start to find there's threads 44 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: and their superpowers found in your lineage. You start to see, 45 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: for example, my second great grandfather was born a slave 46 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: in in eighteen twenty one, and he bought his own 47 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: freedom in eighteen forty two for a thousand dollars, which 48 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: at the time is probably equivalent to like half maybe 49 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: a quarter mill and I don't know, a hundred thousand dollars. 50 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: But then he went on to to die. When he 51 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: died in nineteen o six, he had a net worth 52 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:12,119 Speaker 1: of fifty thousand dollars, which is probably equivalent to three 53 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: or four million dollars. He had, he had like multiple farms. 54 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: He was he was like a real estate mogul in 55 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: his own right. And when I heard that, it gave 56 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,360 Speaker 1: me a great sense of pride, a great sense of identity. 57 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: And why I'm I'm so entrepreneurial in nature, and why 58 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: I'm so um care so deeply about creating wealth and 59 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: expanding the abundance of my assets and in my net 60 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: worth um And so I've helped so many folks really 61 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: discover who they are and why they are from their 62 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: history and they show up differently now the impostit syndrome 63 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: is eradicated. Now they have a sense of responsibility over 64 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: their lives to start that business, to push forward. And 65 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: we all always tell folks we are the leaders of 66 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: right now. This is our dash. You know, there's gonna 67 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: be people that come. There's obviously people will come before us, 68 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: and there's gonna be people that come after us. But 69 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: where will we leave those folks? What position will they 70 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: be in when we passed the baton. That's the question 71 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: that we have to ask. And if you dial it 72 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: down to your own lineage and say where would your 73 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: family be when you pass the baton, that to me 74 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: is a fire starter and gets people really really fired 75 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 1: up to to go build a business that that transcends 76 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: and stands the test of time. It's black tech, Green money. 77 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 1: Share this podcast with the people you're closest to.