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In this episode of The Human Experience, I sit down with Vincent Thompson, longtime journalist and current Communications Director for the President of Philadelphia City Council. Born and raised in Philly, Vincent shares how his curiosity led him from a school newspaper to national political conventions and eventually into public service. We discuss the power of local government, how to engage with your city, and why compassion still matters in civic life. Whether you're a Philly native or just want to better understand how your community works, this episode will leave you both informed and inspired.Interview recorded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Key Takeaways:Vincent Thompson is the Communications Director for Philadelphia City Council President Kenyatta Johnson.A lifelong Philadelphian, he grew up in North Philly and Germantown, and attended Temple University and Marietta College.He began his career in journalism, covering politics for outlets like the Philadelphia Tribune and WURD Radio.Vincent has hosted City Council radio sessions and emphasized the importance of knowing your district councilmember.He explains the structure of local government and why citizens should be more engaged at the city level.He encourages people to “be curious, not judgmental” and offers a human-centered view of government service.Vincent shares personal stories—from receiving a letter from his journalism idol to the importance of leading with kindness in leadership.A passionate advocate for Philadelphia, he invites visitors to see City Hall, the city's diverse neighborhoods, and yes—try the cheesesteaks (but he's not picking favorites).Vincent Thompson's Bio:Vincent Thompson is the Director of Communications for Philadelphia (Pa) City Council and Philadelphia City Council President Kenyatta Johnson. In his more than 30 year career in media and government, he has served as a Chief of Staff for the late Philadelphia City Councilman Juan Ramos, spokesperson for two past School District of Philadelphia Superintendents, former President of the Philadelphia Black Public Relations Society, former Vice President/Broadcast for the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists and has covered Republican and Democratic National Conventions starting with the 1988 Republican National Convention. Mr. Thompson has won numerous awards in his career for his work in journalism, public relations and community service. In 2018, he received PABJ's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2017, he was named Politics and Government Reporter of the Year by the Pen & Pencil Club of Philadelphia, the nation's oldest press club in daily operation. He has been named one of Philadelphia's Most Influential African-Americans by the Philadelphia Tribune newspaper and has been a winner of the National Education Association's Excellence in Broadcasting Award.Connect with Vincent:Twitter @MediamancommInstagram: @phillymediamancomm#TheHumanExperiencePodcastFollow Along:Website: https://www.thehxpod.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehxpod/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getthehxTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thehxpodYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thehxpodSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today's episode is so special. Bethny is a true treasure to me and I love having her on the show. We cover A LOT of ground, this interview is one of my favorites. So, enjoy this season 9 bonus, meet author, speaker, one of  American's Most Influential African Americans in business, my friend, Bethny Ricks.   Find Bethny's book here: https://amzn.to/3zWZEVN Find out more about Bethny here: https://www.bethnyricks.com/ Find the reading plan and freebie for each season at chrystanferrell.com/podcast   Daily Pages Links https://amzn.to/3to5dJV https://www.chrystanferrell.com/dailysheets   Dive in deeper! Join my community Chrystanferrell.com/community   The commentary I use https://amzn.to/3ODZQxp   Bible Study Tools I recommend https://amzn.to/4cL5EP1 Check out my new favorite Adorned hair glam at: https://adornthenorm.com/?ref=usucsrtt Use code CF15 for !5% off!

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Follow us @doseofblkjoy & learn more about “A Dose of Support” from the 4A's - American Association of Advertising Agencies ⁠https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEW1U3sVdZRCQHPVtmwxAITUEA5I4ojWGAgKJMMp3Tc63l-A/viewform?usp=sf_link⁠ About God-is: Throughout her career, God-is has been a strategic executive who is responsible for better serving and engaging diverse communities through digital channels all around the world through brand marketing, campaigns with partners, and events and experiences. As a proud Black American woman hailing from the Bronx, NY, she is passionate about pairing an authentic community care approach with inclusive, culturally fluent marketing, community-integrated product and policy evolution and cultural insights to show there is value in all communities, and that they deserve to be recognized, respected and rewarded—not counted out. As a marketing executive at Twitter for over 4 years culminating in 2022, she drove strategy to make sure that campaigns and programs were connective, inclusive and reflective of the communities Twitter served. Externally, she both established and built on Twitter's work in developing relationships and programs with community leaders, content partners, influencers, creators, partners and brands. Prior to joining Twitter in 2018, God-is was Director, Inclusion & Cultural Resonance for VMLY&R. In this newly created role she focused on bridging strategic inclusive marketing and strategy with internal processes and policies to foster an equitable environment at the agency, and produce inclusive work outputs. Earlier, she held lead channel strategy roles at VMLY&R, global agency iCrossing, and Austin-based T3. God-is has been profiled in digital trade and national publications Adweek, Ad Age, Marie Claire, Forbes, Digiday, Fortune, Campaign US, and The Drum. In 2018 she was named an Ad Age “Woman to Watch” and Adweek “Disruptor” for continuing to fight for representation and equity in the advertising industry. In 2020 God-is was recognized for her work at Twitter amplifying historically marginalized voices as #28 on the Root 100 Most Influential African-Americans list, BET's Top 100 Most Innovative and Influential Business Executives, and by Fortune Magazine on their esteemed 40 Under 40 list of influential people in the technology category. In 2023 she was recognized by ColorComm as one of the influential 28 Black Women in Communications “Making History Now”. This same year she was also recognized by her hometown, the Bronx Tourism Council, and was inducted in the Bronx Walk of Fame for excellence in the field of marketing. In November 2023 God-is also was chosen to be inducted into the American Advertising Federation's esteemed AAF Hall of Achievement Class of 2023, a prestigious honor representing an impactful and innovative career in marketing, advertising, and/or media. In October of 2022 God-is joined The Walt Disney Co. as their first VP, Inclusive Marketing across all Disney streaming platforms and networks including content and IP across ESPN+, Hulu, and Disney+ where she is tasked with developing and leading strategies to connect with diverse audiences and amplify inclusive content. In June of 2023 God-is joined Essence Ventures as their first-ever Chief Content Officer. Leading content strategy and connection with intersectional global audiences across all Essence Ventures brands including; Essence Publishing, Afropunk, BeautyCon and Essence Studios. As of 2024 she has been active as an independent consultant with top global brands and organizations around the world. God-is is also a highly sought after keynote speaker and moderator who has spoken for several brands like Netflix and Spotify, and at international events such as The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, The Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity in Cannes, France, and Brandweek in Palm Springs, CA among many more. God-is resides in the greater New York City area with her husband and daughter

My guest is B.K. Fulton, former Vice President Mid Atlantic Region, Verizon Communications,  President, Verizon Virgina. He is now a major entrepreneur in film, stage and television investment through his Company, Soulidifly Productions, LLC. His restaging of the iconic production of THE WIZ is due on Broadway in April of 2024.His company, Ario, LLC, an augmented reality productivity software company, invented EZ Reader, the world's first ophthalmologist approved digital reading glasses app. B.K. has been recognized as one of the "50 Most Influential African Americans in Technology."You are going to enjoy this episode!  Produced, directed, Edited and hosted by Stephen E Davis

Stacy Spikes is an award-winning entrepreneur and inventor who USA Today named one of the 21 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology. He is the co-founder and CEO of the nation's first theatrical subscription service, MoviePass. In addition, Spikes is the founder of Urbanworld, the largest international film festival dedicated to nurturing women and minority filmmakers.Spikes is the author of an empowering business memoir called Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider.Follow To Dine For:Official Website: ToDineForTV.comFacebook: Facebook.com/ToDineForTVInstagram: @ToDineForTVTwitter: @KateSullivanTVEmail: ToDineForTV@gmail.com Thank You to our Sponsors!American National InsuranceTerlato Wine Group Follow Our Guest:Official Site: StacySpikes.comLinkedIn: Stacy SpikesInstagram: @StacySpikes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In conversation with Marc Lamont Hill Tanisha Ford's Our Secret Society is a biography of Mollie Moon, the socialite, powerbroker, and founder of the National Urban League Guild, who was a key fundraiser for the Civil Rights Movement. It also serves as a social history and who's who of Black Americans from the 1930s through the 1960s, as Moon moved in New York and Harlem society circles that included the likes of Lorraine Hansberry and Langston Hughes. A history professor at The Graduate Center, CUNY and a former Smithsonian research associate at the National Museum of American History, Ford was named to The Root's 2019 list of the ''100 Most Influential African Americans.'' Her other books include Dressed in Dreams, Kwame Brathwaite, and Liberated Threads, which was awarded the 2016 Organization of American Historians' Liberty Legacy Foundation Award. The Steve Charles Chair in Media, Cities and Solutions at Temple University, Marc Lamont Hill is the host of BET News and the Coffee and Books podcast. The recipient of honors from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, he is the author of six books, including Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life; Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond; and Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU! (recorded 11/8/2023)

Marcus Bullock is the CEO of Flikshop, an innovative mobile app that allows easier communication between families and incarcerated loved ones. To help build reentry ecosystems through entrepreneurship, coding, and mobile app development, he created the Flikshop School of Business. Marcus' background extends to sales, contracting, teaching, and sitting on the Board of Directors for the Justice Policy Institute (JPI), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to developing policies and solutions within the criminal justice system. In 2019, he was honored as one of the Root 100 Most Influential African Americans. In this episode… The hard reality of both life and entrepreneurship can be circumstances. Much of what defines our success comes from factors outside of our control. However, bad decisions and poor judgment can exacerbate the situation. In the face of adversity, how can you create opportunities that impact the lives of others? Despite unfavorable odds and big mistakes, Marcus Bullock turned his life around. Now a successful tech entrepreneur and activist, he positively influences other people's lives. His story is the cornerstone of his brand and drives him to help others through difficult times by sharing his hard-won lessons and guiding others through their trials and tribulations. After living through the results of the bad decisions he made at an early age, Marcus was inspired to develop an app that helps families connect with their incarcerated loved ones. In this episode of Next Wave Leadership, Dov Pollack sits down with Marcus Bullock, the CEO of Flikshop, to discuss his story and his journey to entrepreneurship. They go through his circumstances, what helped him through, and the inspiration that led to his business. He also discusses his business school and how he helps other budding entrepreneurs.

My guest is B.K. Fulton, former Vice President Mid Atlantic Region, Verizon Communications,  President, Verizon Virgina. He is now a major entrepreneur in film, stage and television investment through his Company, Soulidifly Productions, LLC. His restaging of the iconic production of THE WIZ is due on Broadway in April of 2024.His company, Ario, LLC, an augmented reality productivity software company, invented EZ Reader, the world's first ophthalmologist approved digital reading glasses app. B.K. has been recognized as one of the "50 Most Influential African Americans in Technology."You are going to enjoy this episode!  Produced, directed, Edited and hosted by Stephen E Davis

In this episode of "The Running Wine Mom," we explore the journey and insights of Nikki Silvestri, a remarkable leader, entrepreneur, and advocate. Nikki wears many hats - she's a mother of two, a non-profit executive director, and the CEO and founder of Soil and Shadow. She also serves on the board of Greenpeace USA and is an international keynote speaker.Nikki's approach to inclusion, leadership, and organizational development is deeply rooted in nature, weaving the concept of "social fertility" into her Joy and Impact™ framework. She encourages a shame-free approach to addressing societal shadows and blind spots, especially in the pursuit of balancing the triple bottom line of ecology, economy, and equity in our ever-changing world.Throughout her wide-ranging career, Nikki has presented at the White House, negotiated with the Environmental Protection Agency, and conducted intimate workshops with local businesses. She's a recipient of prestigious awards, including ELLE Magazine's Gold Award and OxFam America's Act Local, Think Global Award, and she's been named one of The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans.Join us as we explore Nikki's unique perspective, her experiences across different sectors, and her passion for creating positive change. Discover how she uses her platform to drive impactful conversations and empower others. Tune in now for an enlightening and inspiring conversation with Nikki Silvestri.Instagram: @Nikki_Silvestrihttps://linktr.ee/nikki_silvestri

A nationally recognized thought leader, Bernard Franklin completed the Hoffman Process in June 2022. As Bernard shares, he was a man who had blocked his emotions, feelings, and energy, and "all of those channels were ready to explode." He was shaky. He wasn't comfortable in his own skin. And having arrived at the world's best educational institution and at the height of his career, he found himself profoundly needing something he could not yet name. He found it at the Hoffman Process. At Bernard's Process: Bernard beautifully shares a story from the first night of his Process. In the first few hours, something did not sit right with him. Old childhood memories were triggered. At that moment, Bernard spoke up from his belly. He said what he couldn't say as a child. And at this moment, he was met by his Process teacher with kindness, gentleness, and the invitation to look deeper. Bernard stayed and had a profoundly transformative experience. His story is an example of how surrender to the Process does not imply or insist on acquiescence. The recurring theme woven throughout this rich conversation with Bernard and Sharon is that of healing the wound left by a father who could not love his son in the way his son needed. Bernard takes us into the journey of healing his relationship with his father and in turn with his own masculinity. Through his Process, Bernard was able to truly embrace the reality of his parents' lives as they were, not as he'd wished they'd been. In this embrace, he found a deep and lasting compassion for both his parents. Consequently, the direction of his life's work has changed. After integrating the work of the Process, Bernard realized he must follow a new path. He is now bringing his lifetime of work and his open, vulnerable heart to what he names "our world's toughest men."  Content Warning: This episode does mention abuse and might not be suitable for all audiences. More about Bernard Franklin: Dr. Bernard Franklin is a nationally recognized thought leader on issues confronting urban trauma and violence, mental health, resilience, boys' and mens' development, and K-12 and higher education issues. His 40-year career includes leadership at five higher education institutions and a Kansas City philanthropy. In 2022, Bernard completed a Fellowship with Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative focused on urban mental health research, specifically on violent and marginalized urban individuals. He is the Managing Director of Uncornered, a Boston-based organization transforming urban communities into violence-free neighborhoods. Bernard earned an MS in Counseling and Behavioral Studies from the University of South Alabama. He obtained a Ph.D. in Counseling and Higher Education Administration, with an outside emphasis in family studies from Kansas State University. Bernard earned a master's Professional Training Certificate focused on the trauma/resilience theory model of Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) from Texas Christian University. He has been a speaker, taught courses, and consulted K-12 and higher education organizations on social-emotional teaching and learning, trauma, attachment disorder, resilience, and neuroscience. Bernard served as Chaplin and a member of the NFL Kansas City Chiefs professional counseling team. He is a member of the distinguished advisory board of The Center for Law, Brain & Behavior at Harvard. Bernard is a widowed and proud father of a daughter and three sons; and has seven adorable grandchildren. Discover more about and connect with Bernard on LinkedIn. Among Bernard's many awards and honors: Bernard was twice honored among the 100 Most Influential African Americans in Kansas City (1998, 2009). The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce honored him with the Distinguished Leadership Award for contributions to urban education. The Kansas City Downtown Council awarded him “Urban Hero” for his urban public education work.

Bringing a new look to wellness Jessamyn Stanley has graced the covers of SELF Magzine, Cosmo UK, and has even caused a stir with both Donal Trump and Piers Morgan leading to some heavy body shaming about her looks and what it says for the fitness world. Opening the door to new conversations is part of the reason she was named one of 2020s Most Influential African Americans of the Year by Root 100. Jassamyn chats with us about dealing with the evolution of self-love and body acceptance, having her body shamed on national and international television, and how we can start showing ourselves some love.

The Sharvette Mitchell Radio Show | www.Sharvette.com | Every Tuesday! Meet our guest: Marie Denee is the creator of the digital plus size media platform, The Curvy Fashionista.  With over 11 years of prior retail and management experience and her MBA in Marketing, Marie often is sought after for her industry knowledge, marketing expertise, and the ins and outs of plus size fashion. As an industry veteran, she has received many honors, including The Root 100's List of the Most Influential African Americans, The Network Journal's Top 40 under 40, and BET's #Future40 award.  She has partnered with top retailers and brands such as Nordstrom, Marina Rinaldi, Old Navy, Gwynnie Bee, Eloquii, Ashley Stewart, Chevrolet, and other brands through hosting, consulting, and strategic partnerships. https://thecurvyfashionista.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TheCurvyFashionista Instagram: @mariedenee and @thecurvyfashionista Twitter: @mariedenee and @tcfstyle ✔Meet our host: Sharvette Mitchell, of Mitchell Productions Consulting, helps small businesses generate more revenue by focusing on marketing, visibility and branding. She does this with one on one consulting, group coaching programs based on her trademarked framework, THE PLATFORM BUILDER®,  book collaborations and conferences.  She is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing.   Since 2008, she has hosted a weekly talk radio show  - The Sharvette Mitchell Radio Show which airs on six streaming platforms. Sharvette has been seen on CBS 6, The CW Network and featured in publications such as Huffington Post & AARP.  Learn more at www.Mitchell-Productions.com. The Sharvette Mitchell Radio Show | www.Sharvette.com

Originally aired August 18, 2021   Singer/Songwriter, Activist, and Speaker Jamar Rogers sits down with Denise to discuss nourishing your inner child and putting aside your victimhood to live an abundant life. Jamar shares how he framed his HIV status as a “gift”, and how he's used it to step into his own power. Be on the lookout for Jamar's released series of quarantine concerts and his latest work of art, Flow, at the end of August.    About Jamar Rogers: Jamar Rogers, a contestant on NBC's show, The Voice, was known as “The Comeback Kid” due to his powerful story of resilience. He has been a guest on: The Ellen Show, BET's 106 & Park, The Tonight Show, SNL, CNN and The Expresso Show in South Africa. He has also been featured in USA Today, The New York Post and Rolling Stone. The Root named him as one of their 100 Most Influential African-Americans. He signed with Tommy Boy Entertainment and released his debut album, Lazarus, in 2017. His independent EP, On God, I Got You, was released in 2019.   Recommended Reading: Game Changer by Neal Shusterman

Kevin Newell, founder of Royal Capital, shares how his life's work is committed to building the urban core through the lens of social responsibility. Newell's passion for business led him to explore the potential of public-private partnerships after graduating from the prestigious Associates in Real Estate (ACRE) program at Marquette University. Royal Capital invests in affordable housing, health care and education, and Newell is particularly proud of his company's work with ThriveOn King, a 455,000-square-foot, place-based investment that will bring economic and social benefit to communities of color disproportionately affected by disparities.Newell is a proud Milwaukeean and shares his insights on entrepreneurship and leadership during this can't-miss episode.Episode Highlights11:59 - In order for me to keep my engine going, once you get to the point of financial success, you're going to need other things to kind of keep you motivated. And in order for me to not go down and spend my time in South Beach and stick my time here in Wisconsin, it's got to be tied to something bigger than financial reward. And social responsibility is that engine for me, it gets me going. 14:58 - We have the benefit of having brought in a significant major player around early childhood education and understanding that 0-3, that birth-3 timeframe, is so important for our youth, especially with the folks who are marginalized and disenfranchised in our community.17:36 - If we're going to have a real impact in our communities, we need to start with policymakers. We need to start with legislation. Even Dr. King talked about it on his last stage, where we were talking about going from simply marching to figuring out ways we can get people into appropriate seats on the political side.Connect with Becky Dubin JenkinsLinkedInConnect with Kevin L. NewellLinkedIn Guest BioKevin L. Newell is the founder of Royal Capital Group and has served as CEO since 2010. Royal Capital Group is a leading venture and holdings company with a firm focus on urban development and innovation. As the CEO of the organization, Newell has proudly led the company's efforts on business development, strategy, project management and its investment profile. As leader of the organization, he serves as an advocate for urban planning that is aligned with the aim to provide quality, safe, affordable lifestyle campuses that are in the best interest of the community he serves.Newell is a proud Milwaukee Public Schools graduate and received his undergraduate degree and MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He also is a graduate of the Marquette University ACRE (Associates in Commercial Real Estate) program.Some of Newell's notable career achievements include:☐ Real Estate Partner with the NBA Milwaukee Bucks, as Developer/Owner for the new $1 billion Live-Work-Play Entertainment District☐ First African-American to build and own multifamily-commercial developments in downtown Milwaukee and Madison, Wis.☐ Recognized by the Milwaukee Business Journal as a 40 under 40 recipient, National Top Real Estate Executive, Regional Top 25 Power Brokers and Top 48 Most Influential African Americans in Wisconsin.

Kimberly Bryant is the Founder and CEO of ASCEND Ventures and the Founder and creator of the groundbreaking and revolutionary non-profit organization Black Girls CODE; a social change organization founded to “change the face of technology” by introducing girls of color (ages 7-17) to the field of technology and computer science with a concentration on entrepreneurial concepts. Under Kimberly's leadership, Black Girls CODE grew from a local grassroots initiative serving only the Bay Area to an international organization reaching more than 30,000 students with chapters across the U.S. and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Kimberly has been nationally recognized as a thought leader for her work to increase opportunities for women and girls in the technology industry and has received numerous awards for her work with Black Girls CODE. Kimberly has been awarded the prestigious Jefferson Award for Community Service for her work to support communities in the Bay Area, named by Business Insider on its list of “The 25 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology”, and named to The Root 100 and the Ebony Power 100 lists in 2013. Kimberly has been named one of FastCompany's Most Creative People. Kimberly was named a White House as a Champion of Change for her work in tech inclusion and for her focus on bridging the digital divide for girls of color and received an Ingenuity Award in Social Progress from the Smithsonian Institute. Tune in today to hear Kimberly's Story as an African American Female Entrepreneur braking barriers and creating a better future for women of color in tech. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/unapologetech/support

Hello friends, We are back with The Gender Reveal Party Podcast! Thank you for indulging my extra long hiatus. We have an extra special guest for our return, and I am so excited to share this with you all. He is the Author of All Boys Aren't Blue and We Are Not Broken. George M. Johnson's young-adult memoir All Boys Aren't Blue has become one of the most banned books in the U.S. It's a young adult memoir discussing their adolescence growing up as a young Black Queer boy in New Jersey through a series of powerful essays. Why is this book getting banned? That's a good question. Grab a copy of All Boys Aren't Blue here https://iamgmjohnson.com. Aside from being a #1 best selling author, George M. Johnson is a prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist. George was listed on The Root 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2020. The Out 100 Most Influential LGBTQ People in 2021. And in 2022 was honored as one of the TIME100 Next Most Influential People in the World. I can't begin to express what an honor it is to have had George M. Johnson share their story and their time with us. With over 200 anti LGBTQ bills being brought up in US legislation last year, these topics are more important now more than ever. We appreciate George giving us their valuable time and are even more appreciative for who they are for the queer community and especially for the kids.

Today's podcast is very special as I have the distinct pleasure of introducing a wonderful friend and mentor Pastor Gerald Wilcoxon and First Lady Janice Wilcoxon, of Mount Sanai Institutional Baptist Church, in North Chicago. Biography Pastor Wilcoxon is a graduate of Lakeland College, Wisconsin, with a Bachelor of Religion, and a graduate of Milwaukee Theological Institute with a Bachelor of Ministry. He was called into the ministry and Licensed to Preach on February 5, 1989, and was ordained on March 17, 1991 at Friendship Baptist Church under the leadership of the Pastor Joseph L. Thomas. Pastor Wilcoxon served as Interim Pastor at United Faith Baptist Church for nine months before being called to serve the Mount Sinai Institutional Baptist Church family, in North Chicago, Illinois. Pastor Wilcoxon has served the Mount Sinai Family for 27 years, and has received numerous awards and recognitions for his service to the community. A native of Chicago, Pastor Wilcoxon, is a United States Marine Corps Vietnam Veteran, and for 51 years has been married to his lovely wife Janice. From their union God has blessed them with three beautiful daughters Tamecca, Tamarra, and Trinae, four wonderful granddaughters, and a grandson, and one great granddaughter. Biography Evangelist Janice Wilcoxon, aka “Lady J”, Motivational Speaker and Philanthropist, has been the First Lady of the Mount Sinai Institutional Baptist Church for 27 years. A devoted and loving wife, she has been married to Pastor Gerald for 51 years. She attended the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and retired after 37 years with Alfa Laval Incorporated, a Pharmaceutical Company. In 1999 Evangelist Wilcoxon was inspired by God to organize the Mt. Sinai Women's Retreat, an annual event that attracts more than 400 women from across the nation. As the First Lady, she started the Mount Sinai Women for Christ and Ministers and Deacons Wives Ministry; as well as hosting the Seasons of a Woman's Life Series. In 2013, Evangelist Wilcoxon was called into the ministry, allowing God to user her fully. In 2004, she was awarded the “Women in the Spirit” award by the People's Voice newspaper, and in 2011, Evangelist Janice Wilcoxon, along with her husband Pastor Gerald Wilcoxon, were awarded Most Influential African Americans of Lake County, Illinois. The Lord is continuing to use Evangelist Wilcoxon to lead those that are lost to Christ and constantly encourage women on their faith's journey. Today's Podcast is titled. A Conversation With Pastor Gerald and First Lady (Evangelist) Janice Wilcoxon Ladies and Gentlemen, please join me in welcoming today's guests. Pastor Gerald and First Lady Janice Wilcoxon. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/david66634/message

(Airdate 12/14/22) Downtown Crenshaw Board Member, 27-year Leimert Park resident Damien Goodmon has been labeled a “visionary” by the LA Times and recognized as one of the L.A.'s “100 Most Influential African-Americans'' by the LA Wave Newspapers. Damien Goodmon is the CEO of Downtown Crenshaw, Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Crenshaw Subway Coalition and a board member of the Liberty Community Land Trust. (He's hiring) jobs@LibertyEcoSystem https://www.downtowncrenshaw.com/ www.libertyecosystem.org

Many of us may know the broad outline of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. But for most of us, the details, the headline names, the level of malevolent violence and the horrific sacrifices were, at best, vague. But David Dennis, Jr., in his new book, The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride, poignantly and vividly gives us an intimate portrait of the personal side of the civil rights movement. David wrote this book in collaboration with his father, David Dennis, Sr. His father had a pivotal role in the civil rights movement as an organizer and hero of the Freedom Rides, lunch counter sit-ins, and voter registration drives, as well as an official of the Congress of Racial Equity. Dennis, Sr.'s story exposes the risk, the relationships, and repercussions on families and lives that brings the movement to life for us. Dennis David, Jr. is an award -winning journalist and educator creates the stories of his father and the movement that has lingered in my mind and forced me to rethink today's movement for Black Rights and safety. DAVID J. DENNIS JR. is a senior writer at The Undefeated. His work has been featured in Atlanta magazine, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and Huffington Post, among other publications. Dennis is the recipient of the 2021 American Mosaic Journalism Prize, is a National Association of Black Journalist Salute to Excellence award winner, and was named one of The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans of 2020. He lives in Georgia with his wife and two children and is a graduate of Davidson College. Related Episodes: Claudia Rankine: The Reconciliation Won't Be Easy, But It's Necessary Work David Blight on the Prophet of Freedom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prior to founding Untapped, Tariq spent most of his career exploring ways to close the opportunity gap for untapped talent. The first Head of Diversity & Inclusion for both Lyft and Coinbase, Tariq continues to be motivated by his mission to enable companies to realize their full inclusion potential through technology solutions. Named The Root 100: Most Influential African Americans and a Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient, to his core, Tariq believes that people should not be defined by their life circumstances, but empowered to defy them. His work as Co-CEO of Untapped seeks to make this a reality.

"Black, white, brown — it doesn't matter. You show up for what's right. Even when it's controversial or unpopular. Even when it's dangerous. Speak truth to power.” - Ben Crump How is Ben Crump working to fix a broken criminal justice system? Does bringing awareness and attention to a problem exacerbate the very issue he is trying to solve? How does he remain optimistic when one in five black men is convicted? In the face of death threats, how does he press on with such important work? What can attorneys who wish to drive real change do, beyond posting on social media? What is it like being one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People?   Attention and Advocacy Equal access to justice. Fair treatment. Hope for the future. Every American deserves these basic rights. Yet the number of Blacks and Hispanics convicted of felonies remains wildly disproportionate to that of their white counterparts. The criminal justice system, plagued by discrimination, implicit bias, and racism, requires a strong salve of tireless activism and unwavering optimism. Legendary national civil rights attorney Ben Crump draws optimism from one source over the rest: the precedent of Black Americans who have overcome, from the middle passage and slavery through Jim Crow and excessive police force. "Based on the precedent of black people in America, Whatever the enemies of equality throw at us, we're going to overcome it. We're going to be alright." - Ben Crump Often heralded as Black America's Attorney General, Attorney Ben Crump is listed amongst the Most Influential People of 2021 by TIME Magazine, Ebony Magazine's Power 100 Most Influential African Americans, The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Lawyers, and the 2014 NNPA Newsmaker of the Year. In high-profile civil rights cases, he has represented the families of Henrietta Lacks, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, among others. Also the President of the National Civil Rights Trial Lawyers Association, he reached a $641 MM settlement for the residents of Flint, Michigan.   Show Up There is no nobler thing than to fight for the equity of your children. The price is often high, and the opposition is deadly. But in the matter of life and death in America, this is what it takes. Showing up. Speaking out. Leveraging the education and power you have to build a more equal America.    Key Takeaways: Take someone with you. Mentor someone who looks nothing like you, someone from a different background. Support scholarship funds to help trial lawyers become more diverse. There are always things you can do. Remain optimistic. There is always hope and possibility, even in the face of staggering statistics. Attorneys can build a better world — a better America — for generations to come. Embrace the struggle.  Pressure is what makes coal into diamonds and makes engines run. A necessary element of progress, the struggle should not be shied away from. Links and Resources The Game Changing Attorney Podcast Michael Mogill Facebook Michael Mogill Twitter Michael Mogill Instagram Michael Mogill LinkedIn Crisp Website Crisp Facebook Crisp Twitter Crisp Instagram Crisp LinkedIn Ben Crump Website Ben Crump LinkedIn Ben Crump Twitter   Author Michael Mogill, Crisp, and Ben Crump

Malynda welcome back Author and activist, Frederick Joseph. They discuss the personal stories that led to his growth as an advocate and his upcoming book Patriarchy Blues. They also discuss toxic masuclinity, anti-blackness and current events affecting the country. Frederick is a New York Times bestselling author of The Black Friend and upcoming Patriarchy Blues and Better Than We Found It (2022), Forbes Under 30 list-maker for marketing and advertising, an activist, philanthropist, with over 10 years of marketing experience. He is also the sole creator of the largest GoFundMe campaign in history, the #BlackPantherChallenge, which ultimately generated over $43 million dollars in earned advertising and media for Disney and raised over $950K and allowed more than 75,000 children worldwide to see 'Black Panther' for free. He is also the creator of the largest individual Covid-19 support effort, the #RentRelief campaign, which has raised over $2 million dollars.Frederick has been honored as the 2018 Comic-Con Humanitarian of the Year award and a member of the 2018 Root 100" list of Most Influential African Americans.  He was also a national surrogate for the Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders campaigns.Frederick consistently writes about marketing, culture, and politics for the Huffington Post, USA Today, NowThisNews, The Independent, amongst others.

One year since the first episode, Fireside History presented by the Luzerne County Historical Society is going strong. In episode 12, Mark Riccetti, Jr. and Michael Ward talk about influential African Americans and their contributions to the Wyoming Valley. Hear the stories of American Revolutionary soldier Gershom Prince, businessman Samuel Wright, former diplomat John Henry Smythe, community activist Blanche Wright Morris, artist and sculptor C. Edgar Patience, and the “fastest human alive” in 1938 Ben Johnson. 

Dr. Cullen Buie is an Associate Professor and the Esther and Harold E. Egerton Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In Cullen's lab, they are working on a variety of projects that involve putting new nucleic acids or DNA into cells. For the most part, they use bacteria or other microbial cells and insert DNA that allow the cells to produce different things. When he's not working, Cullen likes spending time with his wife and three kids. He takes advantage of down time to catch up on sleep and also to indulge in watching stand-up comedy. One of his favorite comedians is Jim Gaffigan. Cullen is also a big college football fan, and he is always rooting for the Ohio State Buckeyes. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Afterwards, Cullen was awarded a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research at the University of California-Berkeley. Cullen joined the faculty at MIT in 2010. He has received many awards and honors in his career, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the DuPont Young Professor Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. Cullen was also named a Stanford Distinguished Alumni Scholar, and, in 2016, Cullen was named one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans by The Root. Cullen is joining us to give us an inside look into his life and science.

In this episode of Black Power Moves, part of the Ebony Covering Black America Podcast Network, we're speaking to Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green is a STEM pioneer, leader, humanitarian, and entrepreneur who is introducing the world to the next generation of cancer treatments, cancer charities, and affordable healthcare.  She is one of the nation's leading medical physicists and one of the first African American women to earn a Ph.D. in Physics. Dr. Green developed a revolutionary cancer treatment that uses lasers and nanotechnology to eliminate cancer in mice after only one 10-minute treatment in just 15 days with no observable side effects.  To ensure the affordability of this treatment, she founded a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, the Ora Lee Smith Cancer Research Foundation to raise the funding for human clinical trials. https://oralee.org/ Further, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs awarded her a $1.1 million grant for her research. Her story has been featured in a variety of media outlets, including ABC News, NBC News, New York Times, Forbes, The History Channel, PBS, NPR, TV One News One Now with Roland Martin, and The Karen Hunter Show.  Dr. Green has been distinguished as one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans in the U.S. by Ebony and The Root magazines, Top 30 Under 40 in Healthcare by Business Insider, 100 Women of the Century by USA Today, and 50 Champions by Forbes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  Guests Andrea Williams Andrea Williams is an author, journalist and editor. Prior to turning to writing full-time she worked in marketing and development for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Besides her book, Baseball's Leading Lady, Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues. Andrea is the best-selling author of the children's book, We Are Family co-authored with Lebron James. She now lives and writes in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and four children.     Bob Kendrick Bob Kendrick is the President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) in Kansas City, Missouri. The Kansas City Globe named Bob on their list of “100 Most Influential African-Americans in Greater Kansas City” in 2009 and he was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. He attended Park College on a Baseball scholarship and earned his BA in Communication Arts. EEE Host Michael Zeldin Michael Zeldin is a well-known and highly-regarded TV and radio analyst/commentator. He has covered many high-profile matters, including the Clinton impeachment proceedings, the Gore v. Bush court challenges, Special Counsel Robert Muller's investigation of interference in the 2016 presidential election, and the Trump impeachment proceedings. In 2019, Michael was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he taught a study group on Independent Investigations of Presidents. Previously, Michael was a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as Deputy Independent/ Independent Counsel, investigating allegations of tampering with presidential candidate Bill Clinton's passport files, and as Deputy Chief Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Foreign Affairs Committee, October Surprise Task Force, investigating the handling of the American hostage situation in Iran. Michael is a prolific writer and has published Op-ed pieces for CNN.com, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Hill, The Washington Times, and The Washington Post.

  Guests Andrea Williams Andrea Williams is an author, journalist and editor. Prior to turning to writing full-time she worked in marketing and development for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Besides her book, Baseball's Leading Lady, Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues. Andrea is the best-selling author of the children's book, We Are Family co-authored with Lebron James. She now lives and writes in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and four children.     Bob Kendrick Bob Kendrick is the President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) in Kansas City, Missouri. The Kansas City Globe named Bob on their list of “100 Most Influential African-Americans in Greater Kansas City” in 2009 and he was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2014. He attended Park College on a Baseball scholarship and earned his BA in Communication Arts. EEE Host Michael Zeldin Michael Zeldin is a well-known and highly-regarded TV and radio analyst/commentator. He has covered many high-profile matters, including the Clinton impeachment proceedings, the Gore v. Bush court challenges, Special Counsel Robert Muller's investigation of interference in the 2016 presidential election, and the Trump impeachment proceedings. In 2019, Michael was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he taught a study group on Independent Investigations of Presidents. Previously, Michael was a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as Deputy Independent/ Independent Counsel, investigating allegations of tampering with presidential candidate Bill Clinton's passport files, and as Deputy Chief Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Foreign Affairs Committee, October Surprise Task Force, investigating the handling of the American hostage situation in Iran. Michael is a prolific writer and has published Op-ed pieces for CNN.com, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Hill, The Washington Times, and The Washington Post.

"Radical Self Acceptance" Guest: Jamar Rogers Singer/Songwriter, Activist, and Speaker Jamar Rogers sits down with Denise to discuss nourishing your inner child and putting aside your victimhood to live an abundant life. Jamar shares how he framed his HIV status as a “gift”, and how he's used it to step into his own power. Be on the lookout for Jamar's released series of quarantine concerts and his latest work of art, Flow, at the end of August.    About Jamar Rogers: Jamar Rogers, a contestant on NBC's show, The Voice, was known as “The Comeback Kid” due to his powerful story of resilience. He has been a guest on: The Ellen Show, BET's 106 & Park, The Tonight Show, SNL, CNN and The Expresso Show in South Africa. He has also been featured in USA Today, The New York Post and Rolling Stone. The Root named him as one of their  100 Most Influential African-Americans. He signed with Tommy Boy Entertainment and released his debut album, Lazarus, in 2017. His independent EP, On God, I Got You, was released in 2019.   Recommended Reading: Game Changer by Neal Shusterman

Hey Secret To Success Family!There's nothing more personal than your health, so when it comes to finding the right nutrition supplements to meet your fitness goals, you need a personalized approach. Thankfully now there's Gainful—the personalized nutrition system that's formulated for your body and goals. Gainful gives you peace of mind that your protein, hydration and pre-workout supplements contain the finest ingredients, specifically for you.Get started by taking the 5-minute Gainful quiz. Gainful considers your dietary needs, goals and unique physiology to personalize your formula.  Then, Gainful delivers your supplements with no shipping charge every month. You can cancel anytime or adapt your plan as needed. To get $20 off your personalized supplements, go to GAINFUL.com/success. That's GAINFUL.com/success for $20 off. Gainful—personalized nutrition made for your tastes.  Nathaniel Wilkins is recognized as 100 Most Influential African Americans in Kansas City, Missouri. Extreme poverty, deep tragedies, and serving in the Navy shaped his unbreakable mindset.Nate has helped major achievers create fundamental shifts including former 400-meter sprint world record holder, multinational business mogul, and hockey sports celebrity to overcome their greatest challenges (like overcoming cancer) through mindset strength training.He went from working minimum wage at a beef packing plant to becoming Chief Operating Officer, at the country's largest Park and Recreation AssociationNate is the author of The NOW Factors for Success and is on a mission to help everyone win, what he calls, 'the race to 100'.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-secret-to-success/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Joining me in the Huddle is the President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick. Bob is the man to listen to if you love baseball and its history. Bob's appointment in 2011 marked a celebrated return to the NLBM. The NLBM is the world's only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of African-American baseball and its profound impact on the social advancement of America. Bob became the museum's first Director of Marketing in 1998. He was named Vice President of Marketing in 2009 before accepting the post as Executive Director of the National Sports Center for the Disabled-Kansas City. Before his departure, Bob's leadership helped secure more than $15 million in financial support for the NLBM and widespread national acclaim. Kendrick is now responsible for the Museum's day-to-day operations and for developing and implementing strategies to advance the mission of the NLBM. Bob began his association with the NLBM as a volunteer during his 10-year newspaper career with The Kansas City Star as a senior copywriter for The Star's Promotions Department. While he doesn't fashion himself to be a historian, Bob has become one of the leading authorities on the topic of Negro Leagues Baseball history and its connection to issues relating to sports, race and diversity. He has been a contributing writer for "Ebony Magazine" and the National Urban League's "Opportunity Magazine." His volunteer roots in the Kansas City community are deep and passionate. He has served on the boards of various Kansas City-area non-profit organizations and has worked with Kansas City youth for more than 20 years. He remains active in the community and spends a great deal of time in Kansas City classrooms giving motivational talks to area students and sharing the illustrious history of Negro Leagues Baseball with nearly 100 schools, social and civic groups annually. In 2006, the Greater Kansas City Black Chamber of Commerce awarded him the Mary Lona Diversity Award. He was named "Citizen of the Year" by the Omicron Xi Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. In 2009, The Kansas City Globe named Kendrick to the papers' list of "100 Most Influential African-Americans in Greater Kansas City." A native of Crawfordville, Ga., Kendrick received a basketball scholarship to attend Park College (Parkville, Mo.) in 1980, where he earned a B.A. degree in Communications Arts in 1985. 

DEVON FRANKLIN IS AN AWARD-WINNING PRODUCER, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, AND RENOWNED MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER.He serves as President and CEO of Franklin Entertainment, a dynamic multimedia entertainment company with a first-look film deal at Paramount Pictures, a second-look film deal at Netflix, and an overall deal at CBS TV Studios.HIS INSPIRATIONAL FILMS HAVE GROSSED OVER $175MM AT THE BOX OFFICE WITH MOST RECENT HITS INCLUDING BREAKTHROUGH STARRING CHRISSY METZ (DISNEY/FOX), THE STAR (SONY PICTURES), AND MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN (SONY PICTURES).Franklin Entertainment has several projects in development including Flamin' Hot, the true story of the creation of Flamin' Hot Cheetos (Fox Searchlight), and Daring to Live (Paramount Pictures), the true story of four Black women who went on extreme adventures to overcome their greatest fears in life. Variety Magazine named him one of the “Top 10 Producers to Watch,” Ebony Magazine has distinguished him as one of the “Top 100 Influential African-Americans in America,” and Oprah has called him “…a different kind of spiritual teacher for our times.” In addition to his work as a producer, DeVon is also the author of multiple bestselling books including THE TRUTH ABOUT MEN, THE SUCCESS COMMANDMENTS, THE WAIT (co-written with his wife, award-winning actress Meagan Good) and PRODUCED BY FAITH. His highly anticipated fifth book, LIVE FREE: Exceed Your Highest Expectations will be released May 4, 2021.Additionally, DeVon serves on the Board of Governors and is the Co-Chair of the Representation and Inclusion Taskforce for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. Recently, he spearheaded the initiative to implement historic diversity and inclusion guidelines for Oscar eligibility. DeVon has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Meagan.SPIRITUALITY, FAITH, AND THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESSA recognized authority on spirituality, faith, and the entertainment business, DeVon is one of the youngest executives in Hollywood history. BeliefNet named DeVon one of the “Most Influential Christians Under 40.” Variety Magazine called him one of the “Top 10 Producers to Watch.” Ebony Magazine named him one of the “Top 100 Influential African-Americans in America.” He's been interviewed by Oprah, Dr. Oz, Steve Harvey, Dr. Phil, CNN, and featured in numerous radio, print, and online appearances.DeVon has a new book out titled: LIVE FREE. FOR ALL THE CAGED BIRDS,IT'S TIME TO LIVE FREE!The New York Times Bestselling Author returns with his most thought-provoking book yet, in which he teaches you how you can LIVE FREE from unnecessary stress and anxiety to claim a happier more fulfilling life by learning to set your own expectations rather than accepting those imposed on you by culture, career, and relationships.For most people, sadly, the answer is “no.” Life today has left us feeling anxious, stressed, and disconnected from ourselves and those we care about the most. It has caused us to feel like we're not doing enough, earning enough, acquiring enough—like we're not enough.UNMANAGED EXPECTATIONS LEAD TO AN UNHAPPY LIFE.You aren't in as much control of your life as you think, the truth is… your expectations are running the show.Expectations are the secret software running your life, controlling your mind, influencing your actions, disrupting your decisions, and hi-jacking your emotions.Your disappointment with your life comes from what you think should have happened but didn't.Your discontent with your career is due to where you believed you would be by now but aren't.Your dissatisfaction with your relationships is because of what you feel they should do but don't.If this is you, don't worry there is hope.LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE NOWHave more time, more peace, and the courage to live your true life, rather than living for everyone else. Prepare to step into a whole new reality where you are happier, less judgmental, more hopeful—and totally free.Buy a copy of his book here: https://devonfranklin.com/live-free/Connect with DeVon here: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/devonfranklin/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DeVonFranklinOfficialTwitter - https://twitter.com/DeVonFranklinHELPFUL FREE COURSES FROM MINDVALLEY: CPM: https://mval.li/?a=9745&c=2880&p=r&s1=Sleep: https://mval.li/?a=9745&c=2839&p=r&s1=Life Visioning: https://mval.li/?a=9745&c=2881&p=r&s1=Speak & Inspire:  https://mval.li/?a=9745&c=2511&p=r&s1=Follow The Story Box on Social MediaINSTAGRAM ► - https://www.instagram.com/thestoryboxpodcast/ TWITTER ► - https://twitter.com/jay_fantom FACEBOOK ► - https://www.facebook.com/thestoryboxpodcast WEBSITE ► - https://thestoryboxpodcast.com/SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE! Apple Podcast ► - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-story-box/id1486295252 Spotify ► - https://open.spotify.com/show/7h8Qv3r2ZV29f7ktJOwmgM?si=FXxYC1JFSHesBv7_d1WtNQ WATCH HERE:YouTube ► - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheStoryBox If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to YouTube & Apple Podcasts, and leave a 5-star positive rating and review over on Apple Podcasts. 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Rev. Dr. Yolanda Pierce is Professor and Dean of the Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, DC. She is the first woman to be appointed as Dean in the Divinity School's 150-year history. In 2016, Pierce served as the Founding Director of the Center for African American Religious Life at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Previously, she served as the Founding Director of the Center for Black Church Studies and Associate Professor of Religion and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. Pierce holds degrees from Cornell University and Princeton University.  Pierce's research specialties include African American Religious History; Womanist Theology; African American Literature; and Race and Religion. A widely-published author, her work focuses on the historical and contemporary significance of the African American religious tradition. Pierce has written over 50 critical essays and articles in academic and trade journals which consider the relationship between religious faith, race, and gender in the American context. You can find her work in a wide variety of publications, including: Time Magazine; Christian Century; Theology Today; and Christianity & Literature. Pierce is the creator and curator of “Touching the Sacred,” an exhibit on material religion and the Black Church. She is a member of various professional organizations, including the Modern Language Association, the American Academy of Religion, and the American Historical Association. Pierce has been the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Pew Foundation. In 2015, she was honoured to be selected as one of The Root 100 Most Influential African Americans. In addition to her teaching and academic scholarship, Yolanda Pierce is a dedicated mentor, community activist, board member of a foster care agency, and cable news commentator. She maintains a public intellectual presence through her blogs and frequent appearances on television and radio. She believes that teaching and scholarship are meaningful only if they truly enhance people's daily lives, thus she works tirelessly to bridge the gaps between pulpit, pew, and academy. A member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Sorority, Inc., and a native New Yorker, Pierce was raised in the Church of God in Christ and still maintains a close connection to her Pentecostal roots.~~~~~ IT'S NOT A LIE...Was Kevin's first date interrupted with an angry bowel? ~~~~~This podcast was recorded on April 13th, 2021.

In this podcast, Nikki Gamble talks to Frederick Joseph about his recently published book: The Black FriendWriting from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about theirs—creating an essential read for white people who are committed anti-racists and those newly come to the cause of racial justice.Frederick is an award-winning marketing professional, activist, philanthropist, and author of the upcoming highly anticipated book The Black Friend (2020), with over 10 years of marketing experience, and a Forbes Under 30 list maker for Marketing and Advertising.He is also the sole creator of the largest GoFundMe campaign in history, the #BlackPantherChallenge, which ultimately generated over $43 million dollars in earned advertising and media for Disney and raised over $950K and allowed more than 75,000 children worldwide to see 'Black Panther' for free. He is also the creator of the largest individual Covid-19 support effort, the #RentRelief campaign, which has raised over $1 million dollars.Frederick has been honoured as the 2018 Comic-Con Humanitarian of the Year award and a member of the 2018 Root 100" list of Most Influential African Americans. 

Join Katrina Johnson, Michael Bennett, Nikkita Oliver and Jesse Hagopian to talk about justice for Charleena Lyles and Black Lives Matter. Katrina Johnson, Charleena Lyles' cousin, will join Michael Bennett, Nikkita Oliver and Jesse Hagopian to talk about the struggle for justice for Charleena and the new uprising for Black Lives. The mass uprising in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd around the world has created bold new possibilities for the Black Lives Matter Movement. Bold incentives are being taken around the country to defund, disarm, and dismantle policing. As the African American Policy institute raised by launching #SayHerName, much of the focus of police violence has been given to the killing of Black men, and Black women and transgendered people have not received the same attention. The recent murder of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American emergency medical technician, who was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department by police is one case that deserves more attention. Another is Charleena Lyles. On June 18, 2017, two Seattle police officers entered the apartment of Charleena Lyles. The police had been called by Charleena because she feared someone was breaking into her home. Within minuets of entering the apartment, the officers shot her down in a hail of seven bullets, with at least three of them in the back. The officers alleged they had to use lethal force because Charleena had a paring knife. One of the officers was supposed to have a taser, but had not properly charged it, so he did not bring it with him–a violation of department policy. Charleena was pregnant and was killed in front of three of her four kids, who had to be carried over her body to leave the apartment. Join a conversation about next steps in winning justice for Charleena and her family and how her story connects to the new movement for Black Lives in the streets today. Katrina Johnson works for the Public Defenders Association as a Project Manager diverting people out of the criminal legal system into community based resources—instead of jail and prosecution. Katrina became a social justice activist/advocate and spokesperson for her family in June of 2017, after her first cousin Charleena Lyles was killed in her home in North Seattle after police officers responded to the location to investigate a theft Charleena had reported. Katrina works with other families who have lost loved ones to the use of lethal force in Washington State and around the county. Michael Bennett is a three-time Pro Bowler, Pro Bowl MVP, Super Bowl Champion, and two-time NFC Champion. He has gained international recognition for his public support for the Black Lives Matter Movement, women's rights, and other social justice causes. In 2017, he was named one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans by The Root, was the Seattle Seahawks nominee for the NFL's Walter Payton Man of the Year award, and was honored along with his brother Martellus with a BET Shine a Light award for exceptional service. He is the author of Things That Make White People Uncomfortable. Nikkita Oliver is a Seattle-based creative, community organizer, abolitionist, educator, and attorney. Nikkita is the co-executive director of Creative Justice, an arts-based alternative to incarceration and a healing engaged youth-led community-based program. Jesse Hagopian is an award-winning educator and a leading voice on issues of educational equity and social justice unionism. He is an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine and is the co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives, and editor of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/vAM_XkdCXJY Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Niki Okuk, Downtown Crenshaw Board Chair, and Damien Goodmon, Downtown Crenshaw Board Member, discuss plans for the acquisition and redevelopment Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza. The historic Crenshaw Mall being acquired through Downtown Crenshaw Rising, a community nonprofit established to purchase and redevelop the mall. Downtown Crenshaw plans to reinvent the mall as an “urban village.” The 40-acre site will be used to create worker owned businesses, community space, cooperative housing and much more. Niki Okuk attended Audubon Middle school in South LA and went on to complete her degree in Economics at Columbia University, a Masters from the Nanyang University in Singapore, and a certificate in Sustainability at MIT Sloan School of Business before returning home to start a green-collar business in Compton. Rco Tires existed for nearly a decade as an example of black woman owned small business, employing dozens of formerly incarcerated community members, recycling millions of pounds of tire rubber into new products and creating decent, dignified, and democratic workplaces in South LA, which she talked about in her 2017 TED talk, "Fire the Boss". “Niki and her mom, Lis Ryder, are co-founders of LUCI (Los Angeles Union Cooperative Initiative). Lis, together with Mary Hoyer, is a co-founder of the Union-Coop Council, part of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Both the USFWC Union Coop Council and LUCI are closely aligned with the 1worker1vote movement.” Niki continues to work at the intersection of sustainability, industry and environmental justice and is currently serving on the leadership team for Downtown Crenshaw Rising, the ambitious community led effort to purchase and redevelop the historic Crenshaw Mall 40-acre site into a thriving urban village under collective and cooperative models which will house, employ, stabilize, and nurture the Crenshaw community for generations to come. Damien Goodmon, a 27-year Leimert Park resident, has been labeled a “visionary” by the LA Times, recognized as one of the L.A.’s “100 Most Influential African-Americans” by the LA Wave Newspapers, chosen beside former LA Mayor Richard Riordan and actress Drew Barrymore for the 2009 “LA People” issue of LA Weekly, and is a lead subject of the award-winning documentary “Beyond the Echo of the Drum,” which premiered at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. As a nonprofit executive director he has led some of the Crenshaw and Black Los Angeles' most impactful community advocacy campaigns. As a political operative he has managed, led departments and advised electoral campaigns from the school board level up to the presidential. As an executive management consultant and systems thinker, he has built, reconstructed and managed multiple large companies and departments, including some with over 400 employees, and successfully guided complex projects and partnerships, featuring actors with divergent interests. A graduate of L.A. Loyola High School, he has studied at the University of Washington and Harvard University programs.

In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning broadcaster and journalist ''A nuanced analysis of White male America'' that ''deftly combines history and sociological study with personal narrative'' (Washington Post), Ijeoma Oluo's So You Want to Talk About Race took a frank look at America's institutionally racist political, economic, and social systems. A New York Times bestseller, it garnered wide critical acclaim and was named to a plethora of 2018's best-of-the-year lists. Named one of the Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017, Oluo has written for the Guardian, the Stranger, Time, and Elle, among other publications. In Mediocre, she investigates the costs and consequences of white male supremacy over the last 150 years of American history. Closed captioning and ASL Interpretation will be provided. A book and signed book plate are included with the price of your ticket. Books will be mailed after the event. Please allow 2 - 3 weeks for delivery.  (recorded 1/19/2021)

Presley Nelson Jr. (Founder & President of Positive Deposits Inc. ) invites Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green (Founder of Ora Lee Foundation, USA Todays 100 Top Women of the Century, Ebony magazine 100 Most Influential African Americans & 1st African American women to earn a PhD in Physics) to the show to talk about her journey to fight and defeat cancer. Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green opens up her first interaction with cancer, the journey to create the groundbreaking laser technology to treat cancer, and the importance of never giving up when it comes to your calling.

0:00 - Episode Introduction1:10 - Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo 31:20 - Conclusion____________________________________________________________Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and Internet Yeller.  She's the author of the New York Times Best-Seller So You Want to Talk about Race, published in January by Seal Press. Named one of the The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017, one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met, and winner of the of the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society, Oluo's work focuses primarily on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, the arts, and personal essay. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, NBC News, Elle Magazine, TIME, The Stranger, and the Guardian, among other outlets. ____________________________________________________________Life On The Margins is a Production of : The South Seattle Emerald  (https://southseattleemerald.com/)_____________________________________________________________Executive Producer + Host  // Marcus Harrison GreenExecutive Producer + Host // Enrique CernaAdditional Production Support Provided By // Hans Anderson & JEFFSCOTTSHAWMusic Provided By // Draze "The Hood Ain't The Same" // http://www.thedrazeexperience.com/about-draze/

You may remember this guest from season two of NBC's hit show, The Voice but I got to meet Jamar Rogers for the first time in Boston, at an LGBTQ Youth Conference for QTBIPOC. At first, I wasn't sure why he made the decision to be at a youth conference for queer folks of color, but as I would later learn from hanging out with him is that we had a lot more in common than not. We talked about Jamar's reaction to my gender nonconformingness, coming out, music, spirituality, and the power of love. Guest Bio: Music is his truest form of expression. From singing on the church stage as a child to performing on NBC’s highest-rated reality show, The Voice, music has always been a part of Jamar Rogers, as he found the art medium to be the most powerful unifier there is. Rogers uses music to tell stories and connect his heart’s broken pieces. After overcoming an addiction to crystal meth, he was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 2005 and have since used his story and newfound status to spread a message of love and awareness. In 2009, after receiving considerable TV time on American Idol, he became a contestant on NBC's show, The Voice, in 2012. Known as "The Comeback Kid”, he finished as a semi-finalist and hit the ground running. He has guest starred in: The Ellen Show, BET’s 106 & Park, The Tonight Show, SNL, CNN and The Expresso Show in South Africa. He has also been featured in USA Today, The New York Post and Rolling Stone. The Root named Rogers as one of their 100 Most Influential African-Americans. Episode Sponsors: Cognicare Psychological Services (cognicarepsych.com) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode of Mindfulness Monday, Ora Nadrich discusses self-care and spirituality with Dr. Ro. Dr. Ro has been a leading nutrition coach for over 2 decades and was named one of the nation's top 5 nutritionists by More Magazine and Shop Smart (The quick & easy guide from Consumer Reports). She penned a health column “America's Nutrition Coach,” for the National Newspaper Publishers Association, distributed to 200 African American newspapers nationwide. Dr. Ro has served as the resident nutritionist and blogger for iVillage.com, the leading health source for women and families online, and joins First Lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey on the Ebony Power 100 List of the Most Influential African Americans in the U.S. (2010 and 2011). She is the Dr. Oz Show Nutrition Coach who helped over a half-million Americans lose more than 5 million pounds and served on the Medical Advisory Board for the Dr. Oz Show for 7 seasons. She recently joined the Advisory Board at Family Circle Magazine and is columnist to Ebony Magazine's “Get Fit” and “Health and Wellness” columns. Dr. Ro also served as nutrition coach to the Meredith Vieira Show and has held the same post on The View, helping Sherri Shepherd lose weight for her infamous on-camera swimsuit reveal. She contributed to “Anderson Live,” Anderson Cooper's Daytime Talk Show where she helped obese teenagers and families lose weight to gain their lives back. Dr. Ro has contributed to national news outlets such as NBC's Today Show, The CBS Early Show, Good Morning America, CNN, HLN, and to National Public Radio, where she also had a weekly segment. She served as lead nutrition coach, to TV-One's Makeover Manor where she also hosted Livin' Healthy with Dr. Ro and was the Medical Correspondent to BET News and host of Heart and Soul, the network's first ever national health magazine show for women of Color. As the go-to nutrition coach to real people and celebrities nationwide, Dr. Ro has been featured in O Magazine, Quick & Simple, Self, Ebony, Essence, Family Circle, The Dallas Morning News, Memphis Commercial Appeal and numerous national publications. Her recent book, Lose Your Final 15, has been the cover story in Woman's World Magazine and her first book Dr. Ro's Ten Secrets To Livin' Healthy was recommended by USA Today and New York Daily News as a “must-have” to slim down. Lear more: everythingro.com

CHARLIE LEWIS: Charlie is an associate broker at The Corcoran Group, the leading luxury residential real estate firm. He is a Gold Council Member (Top 4% of 2500 employees). Through www.charlielewisnyc.com Charlie provides a destination for buyers, sellers, developers and investors. In 2016, Charlie launched the Love the Way You Live brand further expanding his mission to change the landscape of people's lives beyond real estate. As a Howard Alum, Charlie has developed/supported the following, including but not limited to: Engagement: - Alumni Speaker Series – of distinguished scholars, experts, activists, authors & artists; - Howard Admission & Recruitment team - 73 fairs, visited over 15 top tier schools in Greater NYC reaching 1,000+ students/parents; - Bi-Monthly Networking Events (In the 5 Boroughs) Happy Hours, “Bison Who Brunch”, Bison Family Picnic, Bounce Skate, & La Marina Summer Party; - Inaugural Harvard vs. Howard --Alumni Reception/Fundraising & Strategic Meeting with Digitas (Digital Agency) regarding opportunites for students; Christmas Party w/4 HBCUs; - London Student Acceptance Day & Panel Discussion; - Region I Virtual Bison Spirit Week -Covid 19; - Pipeline for Howard graduates in the NY job market, for entry level & internships; - Athletics events w/Columbia, Rutgers, Stony Brook, Hampton and Harvard; - Eagle Academy alliance to increase the number of Black males at HU; and - Five Annual Accepted Student Day & Freshmen send-off events Fundraising: - Raised over $40k for “Between the World and Me” Reception w/ Ta-Neishi Coates; - “School of Business” 50th Anniversary Reception at Moody's; First Bison Art Show—featuring all Bison artist raised $10k Bison Art Show –featuring Rod Terry –raised $5k; Collaborate with Tao Omega Chapter, AKA Sorority Inc, scholarship $1k; Book Scholarship Fundraising Dinner - In Memory of HU Alum Keison Griffith-Roberts raised $1.5k;and #BisonWrite Event -150th Project- $1k. Service: Transition Team for New HUAA Structure; "God Loves We Deliver” -delivered meals to cancer and HIV patients; and Created housing referral service for HU interns. Education: - Region I Chair 2018-2020, Past President of HU Alumni Club of Greater NY 2015-2018 QUENTIN JAMES: A native of Greenville, South Carolina, Quentin James is the Founder & President of The Collective, including its four legal entities, as well as the co-founder of Vestige Strategies, LLC. Before launching the Collective in 2016, Quentin led a team of Vestige Strategies' consultants in securing victory for Dr. Keith Rowley as Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago in 2015. Previously, Quentin was the Black Americans Director for the Ready for Hillary PAC. In that role, Quentin directed the PAC's outreach to the black community across the United States, and helped recruit over 50,000 African American grassroots donors and over 3 million grassroots supporters. Formerly the National Director for the Sierra Club's Sierra Student Coalition, the nation's largest youth environmental organization, Quentin directed the organization to train, empower, and organize youth to run effective campaigns that resulted in tangible environmental victories and developed leaders for the environmental movement. From 2009-2013, Quentin served as a National Board Member for the NAACP, the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. Quentin is the founder of Inclusv, a diversity hiring initiative and was named one of the 2017 NBC Blk28 under 28 and named one of the 2018 Root 100 Most Influential African Americans. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/humovemakers/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/humovemakers/support

What do you know about communicating with an incarcerated loved one? For millions of Americans, this problem is all too familiar. And it's a problem our guest on the podcast today experienced firsthand. Marcus Bullock is the CEO and Founder of Flikshop, a company that helps people communicate and maintain connections with their incarcerated friends and family members. Marcus shares his personal journey from being incarcerated at the age of 15 to founding a company that has grown to serve people at over 2500 prisons nationwide. He offers his advice to founders on everything from building a network to raising capital to executing on your vision. It's the kind of story you don't often hear in the world of tech, and one we hope you enjoy. FlikShop has been featured in the Washington Post, Forbes, CNN, NPR, and dozens of other national media outlets. Marcus has given TED Talks, he was selected as one of The Roots' 2019 100 Most Influential African Americans in the US, he is a member of the Justice Policy Institute's Board of Directors, Advisory Board Member of Princeton University's Prison Teaching Initiative, and is an Advisor to the Aspen Institute's Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund. You can check out the important work Marcus and his team are doing at Flikshop.com and you can follow them on Twitter and on Instagram @flikshop.

"Equity and inclusion, when done well, is a transformative strategy…it should be treated with the same rigor a business would address any challenge.” Jerilan Greene is the Global Chief Communications and Public Affairs Officer of Yum! Brands, Inc., the parent company of the iconic KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell brands that also recently acquired fast-casual concept The Habit Burger Grill. Jerilan leads the company's global reputation-building and oversees global communications, crisis management, government affairs, and the company's ESG and sustainability strategies.   Jerilan served as the lead communications architect for the spinoff of Yum!'s China business into an independent company in 2016 and the multi-year strategy for global growth to transform Yum! into a capital-light, pure-play franchisor. Prior to Yum! Brands, Jerilan was Executive Vice President at global communications firm Edelman. She has also held leadership positions at Deloitte, Burson-Marsteller, and Willis Towers Watson. A member of the Fast Company Impact Council and the Arthur W. Page Society, Jerilan was named on the list of 100 Most Influential African-Americans in Corporate America by Savoy Magazine in 2018. In our interview, Lippe Taylor CEO Paul Dyer gets Jerilan's perspective on the importance of deep listening across stakeholders; how Yum! Brands prioritizes equity, diversity & inclusion, and why mentorship, coaching, and sponsorship is critical to cultivating world-class talent.      Here are some key takeaways from this conversation with Jerilan.   It all begins with listening. As social unrest began to take hold in the spring, leaders at Yum! Brands knew that the first thing they had to do to determine the right actions was to listen. They facilitated listening sessions across the entire company, connecting to diverse employees at all levels and branches to determine how they could better serve. Jerilan claims this forum was extremely effective, as change always starts with a conversation and exchange of ideas. Jerilan further claimed that despite the fact that Yum! was observing how other brands were reacting to the crises, it was important for their team to develop their own strategy and do their own listening to ensure they were addressing the specific needs of their customers & shareholders.    Yum! Brands developed a robust plan to fight inequality by unlocking opportunities for their restaurant teams and the local communities they serve. For example, globally, they are investing $100 million over five years in education & skill development, equity & inclusion, and entrepreneurship to give people opportunities they wouldn't otherwise have. The first step in driving conversations and actions at this scale and magnitude was listening to their local customers and internal stakeholders.   Integrate internal and external strategic teams for dynamic solutions. Great ideas can come from anywhere – and anyone. As chief communications officer, Jerilan sees her job as the curator of conversations. She says this requires bringing multiple stakeholders together to integrate ideas and perspectives horizontally. The real magic happens within collaborations between internal teams (HR, communications, and operations) and external teams (PR and marketing agencies). When everyone comes to the table with diverse perspectives while sharing a cohesive brand view, it's possible to think around corners to solve the brand's greatest challenges as a dynamically integrated unit.     Earned creative is picking up where advertising left off.  In this age of ad blockers and DVR, advertising has been disrupted big time. Great ideas are going to require more integrated and cross-channel relevance to work and resonate with customers. Once again, this comes down to listening; listen to your customers and the broader culture as they continue to evolve and change. Yum!

Jerilan Greene is the Global Chief Communications and Public Affairs Officer of Yum! Brands, Inc., parent company of the iconic KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell brands that also recently acquired fast-casual concept The Habit Burger Grill. Jerilan leads the company’s global reputation-building and oversees global communications, crisis management, government affairs, and the company’s ESG and sustainability strategies. Jerilan served as the lead communications architect for the spinoff of Yum!’s China business into an independent company in 2016 and the multi-year strategy for global growth to transform Yum! into a capital-light, pure-play franchisor. Prior to Yum! Brands, Jerilan was Executive Vice President at global communications firm Edelman. She has also held leadership positions at Deloitte, Burson-Marsteller, and Willis Towers Watson. A member of the Fast Company Impact Council and the Arthur W. Page Society, Jerilan was named on the list of 100 Most Influential African-Americans in Corporate America by Savoy Magazine in 2018. In our interview, Lippe Taylor CEO Paul Dyer gets Jerilan’s perspective on the importance of deep listening across stakeholders, how Yum! Brands prioritizes equity, diversity & inclusion, and why mentorship, coaching, and sponsorship is critical to cultivating world-class talent.  Here are some key takeaways from this conversation with Jerilan It all begins with listening. As social unrest began to take hold in the spring, leaders at Yum! Brands knew that the first thing they had to do to determine the right actions was to listen. They facilitated listening sessions across the entire company, connecting to diverse employees at all levels and branches to determine how they could better serve. Jerilan claims this forum was extremely effective, as change always starts with a conversation and exchange of ideas. Jerilan further claimed that despite the fact that Yum! was observing how other brands were reacting to the crises, it was important for their team to develop their own strategy and do their own listening to ensure they were addressing the specific needs of their customers & shareholders.  Yum! Brands developed a robust plan to fight inequality by unlocking opportunities for their restaurant teams and the local communities they serve. For example, globally, they are investing $100 million over five years in education & skill development, equity & inclusion, and entrepreneurship to give people opportunities they wouldn’t otherwise have. The first step in driving conversations and actions at this scale and magnitude was listening to their local customers and internal stakeholders.   Integrate internal and external strategic teams for dynamic solutions. Great ideas can come from anywhere – and anyone. As chief communications officer, Jerilan sees her job as the curator of conversations. She says this requires bringing multiple stakeholders together to integrate ideas and perspectives horizontally. The real magic happens within collaborations between internal teams (HR, communications, and operations) and external teams (PR and marketing agencies). When everyone comes to the table with diverse perspectives while sharing a cohesive brand view, it’s possible to think around corners to solve the brand’s greatest challenges as a dynamically integrated unit.   Earned creative is picking up where advertising left off.  In this age of ad blockers and DVR, advertising has been disrupted big time. Great ideas are going to require more integrated and cross-channel relevance to work and resonate with customers. Once again, this comes down to listening; listen to your customers and the broader culture as they continue to evolve and change. Yum! Brands continues to take a creative, playful, and unexpected approach with their marketing assets through earned creative ideas that are so bold and noteworthy they naturally garner significant media attention. Case in point: Kentucky Fried Chicken Crocs! A playful campaign that garnered nearly 3 billion impressions. ----- Produced by Simpler Media

Dr. Kathie-Ann Joseph is a surgeon and researcher at New York University Langone Health where she specializes in breast surgery and oncology surgery. Joseph is also the chief of breast surgery at Bellevue Medical Center, where she was recognized in 2015 as Bellevue's Physician of the Year. Joseph works to reduce disparities in cancer care in order to improve health care for individuals in need. Specifically, Joseph focuses on developing programs that will help African-American women to address their needs in breast cancer prevention and care. She is also studying the effects of a cell surface receptor molecule called RAGE which appears to play a role in tumor growth. Dr. Joseph is the first African-American woman to be appointed to the faculty at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in the Department of Surgery. She has presented before the President's Cancer Panel, an advisory board to the President of the United States. and has advised the New York State Cancer Consortium on the development of its cancer control plan. In 2009, Essence magazine included her among the year's 25 Most Influential African Americans. Dr. Kelly Bay is a functional medicine practitioner in Midtown Manhattan with an evidence based, comprehensive approach to improve health and wellness.. She received her Doctor of Chiropractic, Master's in Human Nutrition with a focus in Functional Medicine and Bachelor of Science in General Studies: Natural Sciences & Mathematics degrees from the University of Bridgeport. Dr. Bay has additional licenses as a clinical nutrition specialist and certified dietician nutritionist. She has worked with various HIV nonprofit organizations, providing functional protocols for HIV patients with health issues such as: diabetes, IBS, kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer and several other HIV related comorbidities. Dr. Bay received an award from the LGBT Network, along with congressional recognition, in December 2019, for her innovative functional medicine approaches aimed at improving the health status of HIV+ individuals. She also recently co-founded a non-profit organization aimed at continued functional and regenerative medicine research and education, called The Foundation of Regenerative and Functional Medicine. Shauna Lane is a New York City based actress and comedian known for her appearances on Comedy Central, MTV, and Sirius XM. Shauna studied with the legendary Wynn Handman and has graced the stage at the New York Comedy Festival, The 10,000 Laughs Festival in Minneapolis, The Ct. Comedy Festival and the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal.  Always hosted by Marina Franklin - One Hour Comedy Special: Single Black Female ( Amazon Prime, CW Network), Trainwreck, Louie Season V, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert, HBO's Crashing, and The Breaks with Michelle Wolf

Kimberly Bryant is the founder and CEO of Black Girls CODE – a non-profit organisation dedicated to “changing the face of technology” by introducing girls of colour (ages 7-17) to the field of technology and computer science with a concentration on entrepreneurial concepts. Prior to starting Black Girls CODE, Kimberly enjoyed a successful 20+ year professional career in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries as an engineering manager in a series of technical leadership roles for various Fortune 50 companies such as Genentech, Merck, and Pfizer. Since 2011, Kimberly has helped Black Girls CODE grow from a local grassroots initiative serving only the Bay Area, to an international organisation with fourteen chapters across the U.S. and in Johannesburg, South Africa. Black Girls CODE has currently reached over 10,000 students and continues to grow and thrive. Kimberly has been awarded the prestigious Jefferson Award for Community Service for her work to support communities in the Bay Area, named by Business Insider on its list of ‘The 25 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology’, and featured on The Root 100 and the Ebony Power 100 lists in 2013. Kimberly has been deemed one of FastCompany’s Most Creative People, and was named a White House as a Champion of Change for her work in tech inclusion, as well as for her focus on bridging the digital divide for girls of colour. In this exclusive one-to-one interview, Anna Britten – managing editor of EdQuarter – explores Kimberly’s journey from engineering manager to edtech pioneer. They will discuss Kimberly’s experience as a woman of colour in tech, her campaign for increased diversity and her continuing battle for BAME inclusion.

In Episode 83, we met and heard the story of Marcus Bullock, who is currently a CEO, and a formerly incarcerated individual. The first part of the conversation painted the picture of his time entering and spent in prison - something we bet most of you hadn’t heard firsthand about before. But here’s the thing. 95% of incarcerated individuals DO make it out of prison, so how is the American system setting people up for success - or for failure, as the case may be? These are citizens we’re talking about, even though some of their basic rights are stripped away from them as a result of their time in prison. But these missing rights along with the stigma and societal setup make it very, very difficult to ever fully re-integrate into society. Should we really all be defined by our worst mistake, forever? Listen in to the conclusion of our two-part interview with Marcus Bullock to hear more truths about the US prison system - and so much more. Questions? Comments? Contact us at hello@dearwhitewomen.com What to listen for in Part Two: The medical care within prison, and how our society’s linkage of medical insurance to jobs inherently prevents returning citizens from getting the care they need What it takes to get a job, when so many people ask you if you’ve been convicted of a felony in the last few years The work that Flikshop is doing to restore connection and hope to those who are in prison The humanity that continues to link us together, regardless of what bad decisions we’ve made About Marcus Bullock: Marcus Bullock is an entrepreneur, justice reform advocate, and TED speaker. Following his 2004 release from prison, he launched a construction business that grew to employ other returning citizens. Bullock is the Founder and CEO of Flikshop, Inc., a software company that builds tools to help incarcerated people stay connected to their families and build community. He also founded the Flikshop School of Business, a program that teaches returning citizens life skills and entrepreneurship via computer coding and software development. Marcus is an inaugural cohort member of Techstars Anywhere 2018 and John Legend's Unlocked Futures business accelerators. He was selected as one of The Root's 2019 100 Most Influential African Americans in the U.S. He is also a member of the Justice Policy Institute's board of directors, Advisory Board member for Princeton University's Prison Teaching Initiative, and serves as an advisor to the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and Aspen Institute's Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund. Married with two children, Marcus' story has received coverage from Forbes, CNN, Washington Post, Black Enterprise, and NPR.  Venture: Flikshop is the tech platform that allows family members to connect easily with their incarcerated loved ones. The Flikshop app is famously known as the Instagram for prisons, allowing users the ability to send personalized pictures and messages delivered as postcards to any person in any cell in the US. Website: http://www.flikshop.com/ Like what you hear? Support us through Patreon! Don’t miss another episode and subscribe to the podcast! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter – and don’t miss our new anti-racism action calendar by joining our email list.  

Have you ever had someone who has been incarcerated over for dinner, to learn about their story? Or, if you knew that someone was in prison, does that frighten you enough to stay away? Whatever you think about “law & order,” 95% of incarcerated people do leave prison and rejoin society. What is being done to help support them, instead of making it more difficult to succeed post-incarceration?  If any of these questions have intrigued you - at any level - we encourage you to take some time to listen to this special two-part series, where we interview someone who helps us answer all of these questions and more. Introducing Marcus Bullock, the CEO of Flikshop.   What to listen for in Part One: The proper terminology to refer to someone who has spent time in prison What does it feel like to stand in front of a judge, and end up going to adult maximum-security prison as a 15-year-old boy? The connections that kept Marcus going through eight years of incarceration, and which inspired the creation of his current company His interactions with other prisoners and the misconceptions people have of the motivation to get out and succeed … and subscribe to the show to make sure you don’t miss Part Two, where we will talk about life after prison. About Marcus Bullock:  Marcus Bullock is an entrepreneur, justice reform advocate, and TED speaker. Following his 2004 release from prison, he launched a construction business that grew to employ other returning citizens. Bullock is the Founder and CEO of Flikshop, Inc., a software company that builds tools to help incarcerated people stay connected to their families and build community. He also founded the Flikshop School of Business, a program that teaches returning citizens life skills and entrepreneurship via computer coding and software development. Marcus is an inaugural cohort member of Techstars Anywhere 2018 and John Legend's Unlocked Futures business accelerators. He was selected as one of The Root's 2019 100 Most Influential African Americans in the U.S. He is also a member of the Justice Policy Institute's board of directors, Advisory Board member for Princeton University's Prison Teaching Initiative, and serves as an advisor to the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and Aspen Institute's Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund. Married with two children, Marcus' story has received coverage from Forbes, CNN, Washington Post, Black Enterprise, and NPR.  Venture: Flikshop is the tech platform that allows family members to connect easily with their incarcerated loved ones. The Flikshop app is famously known as the Instagram for prisons, allowing users the ability to send personalized pictures and messages delivered as postcards to any person in any cell in the US. Website: http://ww.flikshop.com/

Zach chats with award-winning marketing professional and author Frederick Joseph about marketing, white supremacy, and capitalism in this wide-ranging interview. Frederick speaks a bit about the nuances of white supremacy, particularly its function in the space that he inhabits, touches on his upcoming book The Black Friend, and so much more. Click the links in the show notes to connect with Frederick - you can pre-order The Black Friend on a variety of platforms!Connect with Frederick on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. You can find out more about (and pre-order!) his upcoming book, The Black Friend, on a variety of platforms.Donate to the Justice for Breonna Taylor GoFundMe by clicking here.Find out how the CDC suggests you wash your hands by clicking here.Help food banks respond to COVID-19. Learn more at FeedingAmerica.org.Check out our website.TRANSCRIPTZach: What's up, y'all? It's Zach with Living Corporate. You know what we're doing. Every single week we're having a really good conversation, or I would think it's a pretty good conversation--yeah, your feedback says they're pretty good conversations--insightful discussions, real talk in a corporate world, with Black and brown influencers, thought leaders, elected officials, executives, entrepreneurs, social influencers, activists, you know, professors, educators, public servants, and I'm just really proud of this platform. I think we're in a point of time where people are really starved for content that centers and amplifies marginalized or historically oppressed voices and experiences, and Living Corporate has been doing that for over two years, and we've been doing that by having conversations every single week with the aforementioned folks that I just shared, and this week is no different because we actually have an incredible guest, someone actually that I really just met personally, but I've been following his work for a while - Frederick T. Joseph. Frederick is an award-winning marketing professional, activist, philanthropist, and author of an upcoming highly anticipated book "The Black Friend" with over 10 years of marketing experience, and a Forbes Under 30 list maker for Marketing and Advertising. He is also the sole creator of the largest GoFundMe campaign in history, the #BlackPantherChallenge, which ultimately generated over $43 million dollars in earned advertising and media for Disney and raised over $950K and allowed more than 75,000 children worldwide to see 'Black Panther’ for free. So I don't know if y'all remember, like, when the kids, you know, like, he was dancing on the [table], and he was like, "Ayyyyye." Like, that's part of that--you know, that was this person that we're about to talk to. Anyway, so he is also the creator of the largest individual COVID-19 support effort, the #RentRelief campaign, which has raised over $1 million dollars. Frederick has been honored as the 2018 Comic-Con Humanitarian of the Year award and a member of the 2018 Root 100 list of Most Influential African Americans. He was also a national surrogate for the Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders campaigns. Frederick consistently writes about marketing, culture, and politics for the Huffington Post, USA Today, NowThisNews, The Independent, amongst others, and is a current contributor at AdWeek. Fred, welcome to the show, man.Frederick: What's going on, man? It's a pleasure to be here, and I should've definitely sent you a shorter bio, but I appreciate you showing the love though.Zach: Nah, it's cool. I mean, you got, like, a short Iliad. I wanted to make sure I give it just due. Not a simple question - how are you doing these days?Frederick: Man... you know, life is what it is. I think that, you know, I'm Black in America. That's how I'm doing. How about you?Zach: Exactly. I think it's interesting too. I've had folks ask me how I'm doing. "I can't imagine how you feel. And I try to explain to folks, you know, the reality is I don't feel any better or worse than I do on most days, you know what I mean?Frederick: Yeah. I mean, that's the reality of it. I'm in the exact same position as you, man.Zach: You know what I mean? I'm Black in America. I'm conscious of the way that this country and this world is set up to be, largely against me even existing. So it's interesting though that we're in this point I think where we're seeing such massive uprisings, and white people are really leaning in. Like, I just saw--so we're recording this on July 26th, and so just last night I just saw protests in Portland, right, and they're, like, screaming "Black Lives Matter," and it's a lot of people out there, and it's a lot of people that are not us out there.Frederick: Yeah, I mean, I think that's interesting. Definitely in some of the whitest places in the country we're seeing that.Zach: Well, let's do this. Let's get into it, man. Why marketing? Why is marketing the space you chose to engage as a career? Like, I've seen what you're doing in the space, but I'm curious, like, what got you there.Frederick: Um, it was the only space that made sense. I was on the trajectory of becoming an attorney. I think that's, like, kind of, for a lot of Black families if you become an attorney, a doctor, a [?], so on and so forth, you've made it, but for me I was, you know, the first one to go to college really, and when I went I had all these passions and interests from music to writing to art, so on and so forth, and I was trying to actually figure out what could I incorporate all of my interests into, and I realized that marketing, when done well, is really just story-telling, right? And to be a great marketer you have to be multi-faceted. So it just kind of made sense to me.Zach: And to your point about being multi-faceted, as I read your bio, right, you have a lot of things going on. Like, talk to me about how that space lent itself into the book that you're working on.Frederick: Yeah. So that's been interesting because when you're a marketer--like, I'm of the firm belief that every single thing in this world is driven by marketing, driven by branding and advertising, right? Like, you know, whether it be Trump or Obama or some of the worst people in history, it was just a matter of how their story was told and how they branded themselves, right? And that's just the nature of how that works, you know? You go see a movie, you listen to an album, you buy food all based on how somebody was able to make you believe in it. So for me in terms of my book coming out, it's a really interesting thing because all I'm really doing in the book is trying to market to people who are young, like, as to why they should reassess race and, you know, essentially work towards being anti-racist, and now I'm partnering with my publisher to figure out the actual marketing campaign for "How do you make young people be anti-racist?" You know? [laughs] So yeah, it's been interesting.Zach: Let's talk about white supremacy and how it functions in marketing even now. When people talk about white supremacy, often times we think about KKK, burning crosses, hard R 'N' word, but can we talk a little bit about, like, the nuances of white supremacy and its function in, like, the space that you inhabit, which is largely marketing?Frederick: Yeah. So I'm actually happy that's something you want to talk about, because as a matter of fact that's what my book is about, right? People don't understand that white supremacy and racism are so nuanced they exist in every facet of what we do on a daily basis, from something as simple as an interaction on an elevator, right? Like, it's me getting in the elevator in my building where I pay my rent, and people assume that I'm a delivery person, though I've lived here for over a year. In the workplace, and specifically in marketing, I actually think is one of the industries in which racism and white supremacy are most prevalent because it dictates what we see and what we ingest, right, like, as humans. So often times, I mean, marketing as an industry and advertising are extremely white. I think the numbers, if I remember correctly, was, like, 75% white people. So what does that mean for what you end up seeing, right? It's like... let's take Black Panther as a really good example. When I looked at the marketing team for Black Panther, this, like, super pro-Black, afro-futuristic content, the entire marketing team that worked on it from Disney that was, like, on their website was white. [laughs] And while that did do very well obviously, it's like... how is it that we don't even get to craft how we story-tell around narratives, right? And that's the reality. So, like, even if you're watching something like the NBA, most of the ways in which the NBA is pitched to us as people is through a white lens, white gaze, which is why we see something like--right now the marketing team for the NBA said, "Hey, you know what we should do? We should put Black Lives Matter on the courts in the bubble, and we should also put Breonna Taylor and these things, these names, on jerseys," and that's all marketing, but there's never the actual substance of, like, "Hey, actually, maybe if we got some more Black people from different experiences in the room, someone might say, like, "Oh, well, what about making systemic change?" Like, "What about not doing something that's performative? What about us actually using our cache, our narrative, our platform, to actually make change?" Like, if I was in that room I would say, "Well, that's cool and all, but if we actually built our marketing around creating a program where we send scouts to HBCUs, right, and start actually recruiting Black talent from Black schools, which could create systemic change where more young Black people would go play at HBCUs, which puts more dollars in the Black community and brings more cache to those schools. Right? [both laugh]Zach: Right. It was interesting to your point, right. So I'm looking at it, right, and we can talk a little bit about, like, the memeification of Breonna Taylor, and I'd like to get your opinion on that, but when you see these things and, like, it seems like we like to get in this, like, awareness loop. Like, we just talk about awareness over and over and over. So, like, if we just talk about it long enough, things will magically change. But, like, it's interesting because, like, that approach has never shown itself useful in any other endeavor, and when you look at the government and how--like, when we talk about making systemic change in other ways we pass laws. We create policies. Right? Like, we hold trials. There are, like, tangible things that we know that we do to actually move the needle in a real way, and so what I've appreciated is I've been seeing, like, the postgame and, like, LeBron has talked about it and other NBA players have been like, "Look, I'm only talking about Breonna Taylor," which I think is--that's admirable, right, to a degree. Like, I'm not shading that at all, and what I'm looking for, to your point, is like, "Okay, now at what point do we, like, move to, again, tangible solutions?" You know what I mean?Frederick: Yeah. No, that's exactly it. Tangible solutions, systemic change, because as you said, you know, it's not even just--it's a memeification of Breonna Taylor and really a memeification of, like, Black bodies as a whole, right? And that's what I'm saying, right? Like, every day people are posting this witty ways of saying, "Oh, we should have justice for Breonna Taylor." Like, I saw yesterday it was, like, in alphabet soup. I'm like, "Uh..." It's extremely weird, and it would only happen with Black people to be quite frank. I mean, like, let's be real. Let's look at somebody like the case around JonBenet Ramsey, right, the little girl who went missing, right? There was never a singular moment where that was turned into a global pun, right, and they still were looking for that little girl. They did not stop looking, and I think they still have content that comes out about looking for. They reopened the case for, like, the fifth time I think, like, two years ago. You know, we are the only ones where our Black bodies, like, our Black existence is commodified and turned into entertainment and turned into ROI, right? Zach: Right. Like, there are financial reasons, right? It's part of the capitalistic system we live in. It literally pays to talk about Black Lives Matter right now, right? Like, it gives you returns to, like--if I put #BlackLivesMatter in my social media--and it's easy. It's relatively easy for me to do that compared to me really investigating and examining, again, my own organization's policies, practicies, procedures, and institutions that drive or support white supremacy, like, within my own organizational walls. And so then, like, I think about--so there have been some cities that have been painting roads Black Lives Matter and making streets called Black Lives Matter. I'm like, "Y'all's own police forces have open investigations. There's unsolved murders." Like, there's all types of things that are happening, and so it gets to the point where it's almost--not almost, like, it is just gaslighting, you know? 'Cause we're not taking this serious, and we're still somehow, even in this moment, sidestepping the very real problem of the brutalization of Black and brown people.Frederick: Mm-hmm. Absolutely. And to the point of, you know, painting Black Lives Matter on things, so on and so forth... in every major city where Black people live there's a Malcolm X Boulevard, there's a Martin Luther King Way, there's a James Baldwin this and a bell hooks that, and those are actually, like, sadly some of the worst streets in the areas of all of those cities, right? So we've already seen that performative isn't actually doing anything, right? Like, we've absolutely seen that, but again, there is a return on investment. It is dollar-making for cities, football teams, individuals to put up something that is aligned with Black Lives Matter? Why? As is often said, Black people and our buying power is, you know, on par with some of the larger countries in the world. So let's just be real here.Zach: I mean, yeah, 100% I mean, we alluded to it a little bit earlier. You know that we're seeing federal and state police forces and harm and murder civilians en masse on camera. We wouldn't even really know about these things without social media. So, you know, you and I, a little bit of tea, we met through an influencer event hosted by Twitter, right? And I would love to hear more about your perspective on how the Twitters, Facebooks and Reddits of the world, the role that they play in protecting basic human dignity and freedoms and, like, what all they could and should be doing in this moment.Frederick: Yeah. Well, you know, one, I'm happy that you called that out because I think that we have gone from a moment or a period of time where these platforms, the Facebooks, the Reddits, the Twitters, are that, right, they're platforms. They're no longer platforms. They're actually worlds now, and that's what these companies wanted them to traject towards. They wanted them to traject towards small worlds where people exist on them, whether as their actual selves or their other selves, whatever, they exist on them in real time. They breathe on them. They sleep on them. They eat on them, right? And therefore you can also be lost on them and be lost because of them, and you can also be saved, right, and I think that we saw that case with Toyin, right? We saw that Toyin was someone who had existed on and off the platform, Twitter, for quite some time, someone who came on Twitter and sought help. Now, Twitter has built itself to have various tools and various rules around how they stifle or amplify certain voices and moments. In terms of stifling, you can say the 'N' word for instance and be suspended from Twitter. I've seen it happen. It's happened to me. But they don't have things in palce to actually help people, right? In our real world, right, you can't try to recreate the real world online for your own capitalistic gain but not have the tools or the resources to support the people who are existing on these spaces. So I think that is one issue that I've seen that these companies and these platforms could do a great deal around. You know, I know the role that these platforms play. I just struggle with what we should expect from them, because at the end of the day, you know, these things are owned by white men for the most part, and white men are gonna be a white men. And that's a long-winded answer, but--Zach: So I think my follow-up to that is, like, we know that Black people specifically, right--like, I could say BIPOC, but I want to say Black people specifically. We know that Black people really make social media what it is, right? Like, we are the engine and the spice and everything else that really makes social media dope, and so I guess my question is, like, do you think the reason why Black voices are promoted and have grown and kind of, like, been the influencer and shaker that we are, do you think that's because of capitalism? Do you think that the ecosystem would be the same without capitalism?Frederick: I don't, and that's because of the history of Black people globally, right? Like, every turn in our history, except for when we were left alone, which was long before most history books can date, we have been leveraged because of some type of capitalistic or imperialistic agenda, right? So right now we are [?], whether that be on Black Twitter or on Instagram or on Facebook, right? I think that the only one we probably don't have that cache on is probably, like, Reddit, 'cause white supremacy owns Reddit for the most part. Like, we are the reason the United States and every facet of it is the United States, from the good, the bad and the ugly, right? We are the reason that most of the world is the way that it is. We are the influencing, driving force behind music, art, just every single thing to do with culture, but we've never reaped any of the benefits of that. So I do think that if capitalism didn't exist though, I don't think that it would be the same. I do think that we'd be much happier in our own space doing the same things amongst each other, but in terms of the influence globally? No, I don't think so, but I don't know if our global influence anyway matters if we haven't been benefiting from it.Zach: I agree with that. Yeah, and I appreciate you answering the question, because I've been thinking about it. I appreciate the fact that we have the influence, but it's like... it gets increasingly exhausting to see us have all this influence just for it to get monetized by everybody else, you know what I mean?Frederick: Right. To the point of the Twitter conversation that you were mentioning, you know, I talked about a lot of things in that conversation, and I think one of the things I mentioned that was a real criticism of capitalism and platforms was when I said, you know, for instance #BlackPantherChallenge, I made a joke, like, "Oh, yeah, Twitter was touting it, but at events I wasn't even invited to." [?] me caring about that, wanting to go to events, as moreso a criticism of how we operate around Black lives and Black work, but in that, you know, hours later you had a Black person from Twitter attacking me saying that, like, I don't care about anything but being invited to parties or something like that.Zach: It's the principle though, and I think it's interesting that you bring that up because I had a colleague, you know, and I had been doing some work around--so, look, Living Corporate has been around for a second, so I do this work in, like, creating digital media, creating different types of thought leadership around what does it really mean to drive diversity, equity and inclusion programs, right? So I had a colleague who was like, "Yeah, you know, I've been taking this and presenting this at Such-and-such," and I'm like, "Wait, wait, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I appreciate the fact that you've been taking it and it speaks to you, but if you're going to speak on work that you didn't create, you should at the very least let me know and give me an opportunity to speak to it myself since I'm the person who created it. And again, it's not about me getting the accolades or me getting paid per se, it's just respect. It's respect and courtesy for the people that, like, honor the creators, honor the people who did the work to lead something and give them the space. Like, don't pick and choose your own token representatives, and certainly don't center and place yourself as a representative. That's not cool. So yeah, that resonates with me, 'cause I think that nuance is often times lost in these moments, and I think that, for whatever reason, it can be hard for people to understand the principle of recognition and what real inclusion means, especially if it means that they have to, like, de-center themselves, you know what I mean?Frederick: Absolutely. It's something that I've had to also learn, right? Like, how do you step back to make sure that people are fully seen or give them the opportunity to be seen, right, if they want to, right? And I think that, again, we do it to ourselves. Like, we do it to other Black people. It's a conditioning thing, and it's absolutely rooted in white supremacy because, you know, white supremacy is at the center of every little thing wrong with society as a whole and always has been, right? Zach: Right. It's a scarcity mindset, man. It's like, you know, I think it's a core function of capitalism as well. It's not only production but consumption too. So it's like, "I gotta just take, take, take, and if I'm not the one taking it, then it's not real," or "If I'm giving it away, that's a loss to me." But, like, that's not an abundance mindset. It's literally the opposite of that.Frederick: Yeah. I mean, that's exactly it. And it's funny, 'cause I'm working on something right now, a second book called Black Under Trump, and, you know, that proposal went out, and I've noticed that you can tell a lot about engagements online. Like, you can tell a lot about who engages with you and how people engage and who shares what and who sees what, because--you know, you've looked at metrics before. You see impressions versus actual engagement, and one of the things that I notice is when I'm talking about my wins, right, when I'm talking about--my first book, when I announced that everyone was like, "Oh, congrats! This, that and the third!" And I'm like, "Well, I'm working on a second and third," and it's kind of like everybody was like, "Oh, no, to hell with that. You've had yours," right? And I'm like, "Oh, where did everybody go?" Right? And I realize--you know, 'cause most of my followers are Black people and people of color, I'm like, "Oh, it's because people think that there can only be one," right? This Highlander idea, the scarcity mindset.Zach: It's scary because it's like, if you would just pause and think about how little content there is out there that really centers and amplifies us, you would not be so--I mean, I hope you wouldn't be so quick to dismiss or, like, fight over crumbs. Like, we take up so little of the narrative, right, we take up so little of the space when it comes to our perspectives, our lived experience, our frustrations, our passions, our joys. I want to pivot that into my next question, which is what role do you imagine independent Black and brown media will take in this new decade, right? So, like, do you think it's gonna increase? Do you think it's gonna decrease? Do you think it's gonna stay the same? And why?Frederick: Now, do you mean media in the traditional sense or media as in, like, if you have a certain following you're also considered media.Zach: That's a good question. I'm thinking media more in the traditional sense, so thinking about platforms. But let's also extend it out to individuals, 'cause I do think that that's gonna continue to be a budding space.Frederick: You know, it's interesting because one of the things that I've learned--I think this year, in 2020, I've become a lot more radical, especially as I was on the campaign trail for these different presidential candidates, and in this year I've realized how different Black people are, right? I've always said Blackness is not a monolith, and I've always meant it, but I just never realized how big that spectrum was, because you have Black people who are from where I'm from--you know, I'm from the projects in Yonkers, New York, and I come from nothing, and I'm happy to have anything that I have now, and that is a lot different from a Black person who is fourth-generation, you know, college and fourth-generation [?], you know, Kappa Alpha Psi, so on and so forth, and in that what I'm struggling with now is when I think of Blackness in terms of, like, that question, right, like, "What role does Black media play?" Like, to be honest, I don't know because I don't know what type of Black people are at these different places, right? I don't know. Like, when I look at The Root, I know some of the people there, and there's a lot of them who, like, I deeply respect, and then there's also some of them I've met and I'm like, "Oh, wow. Oh, okay." Or there's Black outlets like Shade Room, and I'm like, "Oh, wow." You know? So I think that because of that spectrum, because of us not being a monolith, I deeply struggle with knowing what our place should be because sometimes I think some of us should have less of a place on the forefront, to be frank, and that means, like, some of our own platforms that we have currently.Zach: Yes. Well, expound upon that a little bit.Frederick: So I'll just be pretty direct. I think that there are groups, platforms, media outlets, so on and so forth, even individuals, who are highly platformed, highly powerful, and I hope every single day that in the next 10 years that their place amongst the epicenter of Blackness and visible Blackness is reduced, frankly. I hope that if any outlets are getting pushed, anyone, platform, so on and so forth, I hope that it's people with a lens to the more--I wouldn't even call it radical, but the more progressive, inclusive, liberating front.Zach: You know, it's interesting. I've talked about Living Corporate as a platform, and I would say, like, 99.9% of the people are like, "Oh, that's dope," because I come from a similar background as you, right? Like, I'm first-generation in a few different ways, and I'm not, like you said, fourth-generation college and whatever. Like, that's just not my story. That's not my background. My people came up poor, you know what I mean? But then I have met folks whose parents were, you know, a little elitist, and I think about the fact that there's--it's interesting how those voices end up being the representation in, like, major platforms for everybody, you know what I mean?Frederick: Absolutely.Zach: And that's something we don't talk about a lot, like, out loud, but it's true. So you see these people and they're like, "Man, that's a weird take," and I'm not saying that's your perspective, but it's certainly not mine or anybody's in the spaces that I move around in. Again, I am one person. But when I think about, like, kind of how white supremacy works in that way too, how it kind of will gravitate to these Black voices that are not really radical or that are not progressive, who are not much more politically left than they are, or just focused on Black liberation, and it's interesting how, like, you end up kind of just switching faces at the top, but you're not really focused on, like, dismantling anything, you know what I mean?Frederick: Right. White supremacy gravitates towards Black people who will do just enough to make white supremacy to feel like it's coming down when it's actually not. 100%. And that becomes very, like, confusing for me, and it's something that, again, this year I have struggled deeply with. You know, you and I follow each other and we see the things we say and have worked on. I love my people, and I do everything that I can for my people, you know, to exhaustion, and even that night at the Twitter thing or whatever, like, it broke my heart. The next day was Juneteenth, and I cried at one point because I was just like, "I can't believe my own people view me in this way and are doing this to me," right? And that's how I feel on a regular basis, whether it be BlackPantherChallenge or CaptainMarvelChallenge or whatever it is. I often find that my lens being liberation-focused and being very attuned to the movements of white supremacy ends up ostracizing me, and the only people who I end up getting support from are either really radical Black people or, like, to be honest with you white people, and that makes me really, really sad. Even my book cover reveal next week and my pre-order launch, I already know in the back of my head, like, "Oh, I don't think Black people are gonna buy my book." I don't think Black people are gonna support me because, like, I've never really seen Black people support me before. And that's not our fault, that's white supremacy, but it hurts.Zach: Right, 100%. Before we get up out of here, any parting words or shout-outs as we think about where we're at, where we've yet to really arrive to? I think about the fact that we're recording this, like I said, in late July. We have one of the most consequential elections in our lifetimes during a very unique season, like, a weird confluence of events between one of the worst economic crises that we've had for almost 100 years, a global pandemic, and global protests focused on anti-racism. I mean, like, what are some things you'd like to just leave the folks with?Frederick: Well, I think the first thing is something that you said that was a very powerful quote when you and I were talking some weeks ago, when you said, you know, "Black bodies have to be worth something," right? That sat with me and that's real, and it's deep, because I don't think that people understand sometimes that we could pile up the Black bodies lost to the Moon, right, while we've been in this fight for resistance and justice since we were brought over to these shores, right? Another thing is when people are upholding certain things, you're only upholding things that are founded on the bones that you think that they're not, right? You know, people are talking about, "Oh, I'm gonna get this role as VP of this company." Yeah, well, I mean, your ancestor's bones are in those walls, so let's just be real about this, right? You're not actually getting anything that you didn't already die for a million times. So that being said, I guess the last thing I'll leave people with is stop settling. Stop settling for the gaslighting that America has put us through in thinking that not being oppressed in some ways makes up for still being oppressed in others, right? Like, Donald Trump is a symptom of a much larger condition, and getting him out of office, whether it was gonna be Bernie, Elizabeth, or Biden or whoever else, we are still left with those same conditions, so unless we are going to work on the conditions and how we got here we will end up with another Trump in our children's lifetimes or our children's children's lifetimes, and that's the reality of the moment that we're in. Stop settling.Zach: I love it. Frederick, man, I appreciate you taking the time to be on Living Corporate. Y'all know what we're doing, right? This has been another episode of Living Corporate. We have conversations like this every single week - on Tuesdays, just a reminder, 'cause for those who this is their first time listening, every single Tuesday we have conversations like this, one-on-one deep dives with an incredible Black or brown person or an aspirational ally, and then on Thursdays we have Tristan's Tips. Those are, like, quick career tips, and then on Saturdays we either have an extended career conversation with Latesha Byrd or we have See It to Be It with Amy C. Waninger when we talk with a Black or brown person about the technical aspects of their job so that y'all can understand that we exist all over corporate America and we actually operate and do very well when we are given opportunities or we create opportunities for ourselves. Check us out. We're all over Beyonce's internet. Living-corporate, or just type in Living Corporate. We'll pop up, okay? We're on all the browsers. Make sure you share this with your friends. Make sure you check out the links in the show notes. Preorder Frederick Joseph's book and check out his website. Until next time, y'all. Peace.

Ijeoma Oluo is a writer, speaker, and Internet Yeller. Her NYT bestselling book So You Want to Talk about Race has had a huge resurgence as of late, and it's no wonder given the times we are in. Ijeoma has been named The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans, one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine and Seattle Met for her work on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, the arts, and personal essay. In this episode: How to get from idea to getting your work out there How to get through hard creative work Diversifying where we get our information from ... plus so much more. Enjoy! Today's episode is brought to you by CreativeLive. CreativeLive is the world's largest hub for online creative education in photo/video, art/design, music/audio, craft/maker and the ability to make a living in any of those disciplines. They are high quality, highly curated classes taught by the world’s top experts -- Pulitzer, Oscar, Grammy Award winners, New York Times best selling authors and the best entrepreneurs of our times.

As we have entered the final three months to the 2020 Election, Dr. Gin is hosting a series of conversations creating a platform for our modern day leaders in the Civil Rights Movement to inform and inspire as we enter this dire time that will determine the future of our country, and our very lives. Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump is referred to as, “The African American Family Emergency Plan.” Representing the Trayvon Martin family in 2012 he has since been the go to leader and attorney in high profile cases of the deaths of dozens of African Americans plagued by a genocidal system of law, police brutality and murder. He is currently lead attorney for the George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor families. Attorney Crump is also the bestselling author of Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People released in October 2019. He is included in prestigious lists including The National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100 Lawyers and Ebony Magazine’s Power 100 Most Influential African Americans. Above all Ben Crump is a national figure of sincerity, integrity with an unshakable dedication to justice, while also serving as an advocate of support to the families of the victims he represents as they publicly mourn in the spotlight of tragedy. During this riveting conversation Attorney Crump concisely presents the dire need for all to vote democratic up and down the ballot in the 2020 Election or the protests in the streets and the deaths of George Floyd and countless others by police will be in vain, stating never in American history have we had to deal with a President as divisive as Trump. Dr. Gin Love Thompson is a nationally recognized psychotherapist, author, civil rights activist and racial justice educator. A member of the Trayvon Martin movement and official coalition, Attorney Ben Crump has referred to Dr. Gin as, “an unsung hero of the Trayvon Martin and civil rights movement.” She has also served as lead organizer in additional high profile civil rights cases. Music by André Cymone: Trayvon https://andrecymone.bandcamp.com/track/trayvon Vote! https://andrecymone.bandcamp.com/track/vote-2018

This week, Misty and Lisa review the New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and Internet Yeller.  She’s the author of the New York Times Best-Seller So You Want to Talk about Race, published in January by Seal Press. Named one of the The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017, one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met, and winner of the of the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society, Oluo’s work focuses primarily on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, the arts, and personal essay. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, NBC News, Elle Magazine, TIME, The Stranger, and the Guardian, among other outlets.  In this So You Want to Talk About Race book review, we primarily cover Ijeoma Oluo's suggested tips of how to have conversations about race, but this book covers everything from police brutality to the school-to-prison-pipeline to cultural appropriation to the model minority myth, and so much more. It is a must-read for anyone hoping to strengthen their knowledge of how to be anti-racist and how to be a better ally.  If you'd like to purchase the book and learn more about Ijeoma Oluo, you can do so at her website here.  If you'd like to listen to the podcasts Lisa and Misty mention to better understand how race was invented and constructed, please check out 1619 and Scene On Radio's Seeing White.  You can also contact your senators, sign petitions, make your voice heard and generally resist by using the amazing interface ResistBot! It truly takes only seconds. Sign up by texting "resist" to 50409.  And don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review Go Help Yourself!

This week I’m super pumped to bring you this episode with Ijeoma Oluo she is an incredible writer and someone I admire. Ijeoma is based in Seattle, and she is the author of the New York Times Best-Seller, So You Want to Talk about Race, published by Seal Press. She was named one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017. Ijeoma is the winner of the of the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society.If you’re not familiar with her works, she focuses on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, and the arts. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, NBC News, Elle Magazine, TIME, The Stranger, and The Guardian, among other outlets. In today’s episode, we cover Ijeoma’s love of politics, how her career plans changed and why she landed in Tech. She talks about leaving her career behind to pursue writing and some of the instability she faced when she did it. Also, stick around to hear her worst advice.Please do check out Ijeoma's work my favourite article is ‘The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black’.You can get a copy of So You Want To Talk About Race on Amazon. I highly recommend it. To find out more about Ijeoma, you can follow her on Twitter @IjeomaOluo, and you can also visit her website ijeomaoluo.com.If you’re enjoying this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes.To get extended show notes listing the tools and resources we’ve talked about on this episode visit wannabepodcast.com. Show notes update on Wednesday.Thank you for listening!

Good day to all you good people, and Happy Friday once again!This week is brought to you by one of Angel's dogs, Merlin. Everybody say Thank you Merlin!Check out our Instagram if you want to see a picture of Merlin joining the recording sesh.Angel talks about, not one but TWO Ross Castles in Ireland.Janel takes us through a news train that includes cosmetic changes that Blizzard made to our favorite futuristic cowboy, games that are on sale right now, how Epic Games store has integrated into GAG Galaxy 2.0, and more!We appreciate your continued support and ask that you could subscribe, leave us a rating and a comment on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts!The Undefeated 44 of the Most Influential African Americans in History: https://theundefeated.com/features/the-undefeated-44-most-influential-black-americans-in-history/ The following are links to YouTube videos about the hauntings of the Ross Castle in County Meath, Ireland.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvlOCH80rnw&t=593shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITJ5uWLBAYk&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-3bs3GOmtgAs always, we appreciate your continued support! You can find us on Spotify, Stitcher, Spreaker, Acast, Youtube, Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts.Interact with us on Social Media at Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (maybe).If you have a suggestion, a story, a comment, or a puppo who you would like to sponsor an episode, please email us at ghoulgaminggals@gmail.comNew Episodes posted every Friday!We'll catch ya in the next one! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Find the "LIVE" video version of this episode :  HERE0:00 - Town Hall Episode Introduction1:30 - Host Introduction7:32 - Spoken Word from Jessica Rycheal10:30 - Conversation with Dr. Julian Perez37:00 - Spoken Word from Naa Akua40:20 - Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo____________________________________________________________Jessica Rycheal is a Multi-disciplinary Storyteller and Creative Director from Macon, Georgia. Since relocating to Seattle in 2014, Jessica has carved space for herself in the pacific northwest with a decade of experience in brand strategy and design, and a blossoming presence in the fine art space.Her diverse body of work embraces vulnerability as an act of resistance. It asks us to challenge traditional notions of identity and belonging as she chronicles tales of healing, resilience, and her journey toward authentic selfhood.In 2018, her exhibition “Everyday Black,” a collection of contemporary portraits affirming the humanity and brilliance of blackness, debuted at the Northwest African-American Museum. Since then, Jessica Rycheal has appeared in the Seattle Times, NPR, City Arts Magazine, Human Condition Magazine, and featured at Seattle Art Museum.Dr. Julian Perez  has been with Sea Mar since 2007. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Zoology with a minor in Spanish from the University of Idaho, and his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine (2004). He completed his Family Medicine Residency with in 2007 and his Sports Medicine Fellowship in 2016 with Swedish Family Medicine at Cherry Hill, in Seattle. He is board certified in Family Medicine, Sports Medicine and Musculoskeletal Ultrasonography.Dr. Perez's philosophy of care is that health care is a human right for all. He believes that the work of primary care physicians is to ensure the health and well-being of the people of our country. He is an advocate for universal health care for all, and supports the community health center model as the instrument for achieving this goal.Dr. Perez enjoys folkloric dancing with Seattle's highly regarded professional dance group, Bailadores de Bronce. He also loves hiking, camping, road biking, international travel, ethnic festivals, gardening, and cooking.Naa Akua, was a 2019 Citizen University Poet-in-Residence, queer poet, emcee, and Gregory Award winning actor. They are a WITS writer-in-residence at Franklin High School and a co facilitator for Young Women Empowered Y-WE Lead program. Intentionality, love, and encouragement is the focus of Akua's work that can be found in tracks like “The Elements” or “Till It All Goes Away” from their mixtape Odd(s) Balance (on SoundCloud.com). Naa Akua was a cast member of Book-it Repertory Theater's adaptation of T. Geronimo Johnson's “Welcome to Braggsville”, a cast member for Theater Schmeater's production of “Welcome to Arroyo's”,  a participant of an original boilesque ballet Earth Pearl Production called “Tailfeathers”. Naa Akua's one person show, Akwaaba: Healing of A Queer Black Soul ran as part of Gay City's Mosaic program and recently Earth Pearl Collectives, Sovereign Queer Black Womyn Festival. Naa Akua has also been a cast member of the groundbreaking play “Queer. Mama, Crossroads” written by Anastacia-Reneé and directed by Anastacia-Reneé and Aviona-Rodriguez Brown, Akua has also been apart of Sound Theater's Gregory Award winning production of “Citizen, An American Lyric” written by Claudia Rankine and produced by Jay ‘O Leary. When Akua is not writing and performing they are facilitating Sound Healing sessions which focus on breathing, being in the body and meditation.Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and Internet Yeller.  She's the author of the New York Times Best-Seller So You Want to Talk about Race, published in January by Seal Press. Named one of the The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017, one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met, and winner of the of the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society, Oluo's work focuses primarily on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, the arts, and personal essay. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, NBC News, Elle Magazine, TIME, The Stranger, and the Guardian, among other outlets. ____________________________________________________________LIVE Season Finale Produced In Partnership With :Town Hall Seattle  (https://townhallseattle.org/)The South Seattle Emerald  (https://southseattleemerald.com/)The Seattle Channel  (https://www.seattlechannel.org/)_____________________________________________________________Executive Producer + Host  // Marcus Harrison GreenExecutive Producer + Host // Enrique CernaExecutive Producer + Host // Jini PalmerAdditional Production Support Provided By // Hans Anderson & JEFFSCOTTSHAWMusic Provided By // Draze "The Hood Ain't The Same" // http://www.thedrazeexperience.com/about-draze/ 

Dr. Dudley delves into  how to save the African American community through social activism and focused leadership with President and CEO of Urban League Michael P. McMillan.  FULL Guest Bio: Michael P. McMillan is the President and CEO of the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Inc., a nonprofit organization that has been providing social services to the metropolitan St. Louis community since 1918. The St.Louis Urban League is the largest affiliate of the NUL movement headquartered in New York City. The Urban League's mission is “to assist African Americans and others throughout the region in securing economic self-reliance, social equality and civil rights.” Each year, the Urban League serves more than 100,000 residents with economic opportunity, educational excellence, community empowerment, civil rights and advocacy programs. As an advocate for social and economic parity, McMillan speaks on behalf of Urban League constituents.  In response to the crisis in Ferguson, McMillan created the Save Our Sons program in St. Louis County to help over 850 African-American men find jobs and hosted the Urban League's largest job fair in its history at St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley with over 5,000 participants. He has also charted the building of the Urban League Community Empowerment Center of Ferguson on the site of a convenience store that was burned down during the crisis. Opened in 2017, the Ferguson Community Empowerment Center houses the Save Our Sons program along with social service partners: The Salvation Army, Midland Division; the University of Missouri Extension and the Lutheran Hope Center. In July 2017, McMillan and the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis hosted the largest National Urban League Conference in history with nearly 25,000 in attendance.  McMillan has received hundreds of awards and commendations from various organizations and was recently inducted into the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame as its youngest and as one of the Ebony Power 100 Most Influential African Americans in the United States. Additionally, he is the recipient of the 2013 Trumpet Award for Community Service; the Whitney M. Young and the John Mack Leadership Awards from the National Urban League; Chairman's Award presented by the St. Louis Minority Supplier Development Council; a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Montford Point Marines and for the Salute to Women in Leadership Awards program.  McMillan is a member of Boards of Directors of the following companies and organizations: The St. Louis Zoological Commission, Regions Bank Community Development Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama, The Sheldon, Grand Center, Heat Up St. Louis, Inc. (Cool Down St. Louis), The St. Louis Community Foundation, The DESE Task Force, The Muny, Greater St. Louis Area Council - Boy Scouts of America and the Workforce Investment Board of St. Louis County. ​ Michael P. McMillan is a graduate of Saint Louis University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in African American Studies and a minor in Political Science with an emphasis in Finance. Additionally, McMillan is an Eisenhower Fellow, American Council of Young Political Leaders Alumnus and member of Eta Boule Chapter of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Inc., 100 Black Men of Metropolitan St. Louis and St. Alphonsus “Rock” Church.Support the show (https://ileadacademy.net)

Bakari Sellers is a Morehouse graduate, and he made history in 2006 when, at just 22 years old, he defeated a 26-year incumbent State Representative to become the youngest member of the South Carolina state legislature and the youngest African American elected official in the nation. In 2010 he was named to TIME's "40 Under 40." In 2014 and 2015, he was named to The Root 100 "Most Influential African Americans." he practices law with the Strom Law Firm, LLC in Columbia, SC and is a Political Commentator at CNN. He is the author of a great book that I read this week, and we will be talking about during his interview, MY VANISHING COUNTRY: A Memoir. "My Vanishing Country" is a memoir of his childhood in rural South Carolina and his education from movement leaders, including Julian Bond, co-founder of the Institute for Southern Studies, publisher of Facing South. In it, he explores how two high-profile incidents of racial violence — the Orangeburg Massacre of 1968 and the Charleston Massacre of 2015 — have impacted his life and his work. He is on the show to discuss, civil unrest and his new book My Vanishing Country which is also a love letter to fatherhood—to Sellers' father, his lodestar, whose life lessons have shaped him, and to his newborn twins, who he hopes will embrace the Sellers family name and honor its legacy. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations, Bakari Sellers.https://www.moneymakingconversations.comhttps://www.youtube.com/MoneyMakingConversationshttps://www.facebook.com/MoneyMakingConversations/https://twitter.com/moneymakingconvhttps://www.instagram.com/moneymakingconversations/Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSupport the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode of 'This Is Palestine,' we shift our focus to the protests that have swept the nation, sparked by the tragic murder of George Floyd by police officers on May 25. We hear from three distinct Black American voices as they discuss systemic racism and what it means to be Black in America. First, we hear from Mychal Denzel Smith, author of the forthcoming Stakes is High: Life After the American Dream and New York Times bestseller Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, The Nation, and more. In 2014 and 2016, TheRoot.com named him one of the 100 Most Influential African-Americans in their annual The Root 100 list. Mychal navigates us through this moment and what it means, what's different about it now, and why defunding the police is vital to gaining justice. Next, we hear from Kinjo Kiema and Khury Petersen-Smith, who speak in conversation with one another about this moment and connections to global solidarity. Kinjo Kiema is an organizer with BYP100, a Black queer feminist organization working to create justice and freedom for all Black people. She is also a leader in the reproductive justice movement, and has organized within the labor and student movements, including with Students for Justice in Palestine. Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. Petersen-Smith has been a leading activist for internationalist solidarity, economic justice, and racial and gender equality since he was a high school student. He traveled to Iraq in 2004 on a United for Peace and Justice delegation where he represented the Campus Anti-War Network.

Gwen Jimmere is a gifted visionary on an unrelenting mission to challenge the narrative that “the struggle is real” when it comes to natural hair. As CEO of Naturalicious, she leads a 7-figure empire that creates high-performing, time-saving haircare products that have collectively saved over 70,000 women more than 1.2 million minutes on washday. She’s cemented her place in history as the first African-American woman to hold a patent for natural haircare products, which can be found around the world in over 1200 retail stores, including ULTA, Whole Foods, and Sally Beauty. Named, “the world’s leading authority on textured hair care”, she was named one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans in the U.S. along with the likes of Beyonce, Serena Williams, and LeBron James; as well as a Top 10 Business Woman in the U.S., a Crain’s 40 Under 40.

If you haven’t already heard, we received a Webby nomination for Best Podcast Episode in the Science & Education category. We’re really proud to be nominated again… but, we also really want to win. So, today, we’re re-airing the episode that received a nomination and (https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2020/podcasts/individual-episodes-mini-series-specials/science-education) . Back in Episode 70, Quinn & Brian discussed: When things are broken, when the people who are working on those things are also broken, and why we need to help them. Our guest was Nikki Silvestri, the founder and CEO of Soil and Shadow, the Co-Founder of Live Real, and the former Executive Director of People's Grocery and Green for All. She is a nationally recognized thought leader and general good doer, including being named as one of The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans and receiving both ELLE Magazine's "Gold" Award and OxFam America's "Act Local, Think Global" Award. We don’t hesitate or feel like we’re overselling things when we say that what Nikki has to say is something that most people need to hear, and this could be a truly transformative message if it falls on the right ears. Brian said it, Quinn took credit for it, and now we hope you take it to heart. Have feedback or questions? Tweet us (http://www.twitter.com/importantnotimp) , or send a message to funtalk@importantnotimportant.com Trump’s Book Club:  (https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/3R5XF4WMZE0TV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_ws_2Gr8Ab6RS5WF3) by Hal Straus and Jerold Jay Kreisman Links: Vote for us for Best Podcast Episode (https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2020/podcasts/individual-episodes-mini-series-specials/science-education) Vote for us for Best Newsletter (https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2020/websites/general-websites/email-newsletters) www.soilandshadow.com (https://www.soilandshadow.com/) www.nikkisilvestri.com (https://www.nikkisilvestri.com/) Instagram: www.instagram.com/nikki_silvestri (https://www.instagram.com/nikki_silvestri/) Connect with us: Subscribe to our newsletter at ImportantNotImportant.com (http://importantnotimportant.com/) ! Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ImportantNotImp (http://twitter.com/ImportantNotImp) Follow Quinn: twitter.com/quinnemmett (http://twitter.com/quinnemmett) Follow Brian: twitter.com/briancolbertken (http://twitter.com/briancolbertken) Like and share us on Facebook: facebook.com/ImportantNotImportant (http://facebook.com/ImportantNotImportant) Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com (http://timblane.com/) Important, Not Important is produced by (http://crate.media/) Support this podcast

Gwen Jimmere is a gifted visionary on an unrelenting mission to challenge the narrative that “the struggle is real” when it comes to natural hair. As CEO of Naturalicious, she leads a 7-figure empire that creates high-performing, time-saving haircare products that have collectively saved over 70,000 women more than 1.2 million minutes on washday. She's cemented her place in history as the first African-American woman to hold a patent for natural haircare products, which can be found around the world in over 1200 retail stores, including ULTA, Whole Foods, and Sally Beauty.Named, “the world's leading authority on textured hair care”, she was named one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans in the U.S. along with the likes of Beyonce, Serena Williams, and LeBron James; as well as a Top 10 Business Woman in the U.S., a Crain's 40 Under 40. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts. Click here to subscribe via RSS feed (non-iTunes feed): https://anchor.fm/s/e18d360/podcast/rss As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases Books Mentioned: Purple Cow - Set Godin Start with Why - Simon Synek Social Media Info Gwen Jimmere (Instagram) – @gwenjimmere Naturalicious Beauty (Instagram) - @naturalicious_beauty Websites Gwen Jimmere - www.gwenjimmere.com Naturalicious Beauty - https://naturalicious.net/ Follow FB - https://www.facebook.com/dasan.robinson.1 FB - https://www.facebook.com/brntolive/ Instagram - @brntolive #BorntoLive --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Frederick Joseph is an award-winning marketing professional, media representation advocate, and author of the upcoming highly anticipated book, "The Black Friend," with over 10 years of marketing experience, and a Forbes Under 30 list maker for Marketing and Advertising. Frederick is also the sole creator of the largest GoFundMe campaign in history, the #BlackPantherChallenge, which ultimately generated over $43 million dollars in earned advertising and media for Disney and raised over $950 thousand and allowed more than 75,000 children worldwide to see 'Black Panther’ for free. He has been honored as 2018 Comic-Con Humanitarian of the Year award and is a member of the 2018 "Root 100" list of Most Influential African Americans. He consistently writes about marketing, culture, and politics for the Huffington Post, USA Today, NowThisNews, The Independent, among others and is a current contributor at AdWeek. Visit www.frederickjoseph.org. Get the Off the Grid Into the Heart CD by Sister Jenna. Visit www.americameditating.org. Download our free Pause for Peace App for Apple or Android.

0:37 - Introducing the Life On The Margins Podcast3:43 - Jini Palmer's personal experience with Coronavirus8:05 - Interview with former Washington Governor Gary Locke21:05 - Interview with Ijeoma Oluo36:56 - Episode Recap____________________________________________________________Gary Locke graduated from Seattle's Franklin High School.  He achieved the rank of Eagle Scout and is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America.  He attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor degree in political science and received his law degree from Boston University. As Governor of Washington State (the first Chinese American to be elected governor in United States history and the first Asian American governor on the mainland), U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and most recently as America's envoy to China, Gary Locke has been a leader in the areas of education, employment, trade, health care, human rights, immigration reform, privacy, and the environment.Ijeoma Oluo is a Seattle-based writer, speaker, and Internet Yeller.  She's the author of the New York Times Best-Seller So You Want to Talk about Race, published in January by Seal Press. Named one of the The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017, one of the Most Influential People in Seattle by Seattle Magazine, one of the 50 Most Influential Women in Seattle by Seattle Met, and winner of the of the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society, Oluo's work focuses primarily on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, the arts, and personal essay. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, NBC News, Elle Magazine, TIME, The Stranger, and the Guardian, among other outlets. ____________________________________________________________Produced In Partnership With :Town Hall Seattle  (https://townhallseattle.org/)The South Seattle Emerald  (https://southseattleemerald.com/)_____________________________________________________________Executive Producer + Host  // Marcus Harrison GreenExecutive Producer + Host // Enrique CernaExecutive Producer + Host // Jini PalmerAdditional Production Support Provided By // Hans Anderson & JEFFSCOTTSHAWMusic Provided By // Draze "The Hood Ain't The Same" // http://www.thedrazeexperience.com/about-draze/    

Check out this HEART-WARMING interview I ( Gibson Sylvestre ) did with Renowned Attorney Juliet Roulhac Esq @gibsonsylvestre Ms. Juliet is MORE THAN AN ATTORNEY, SHE'S A WORLD CHANGER!!! In this episode, topics covered is: • Overcoming Adversity • Overcoming Negative People • Serving Others • Living for a Greater Purpose • Leaving a Legacy Juliet Murphy Roulhac, is the Director of External Affairs for Broward and West Florida for Florida Power & Light Company, a Fortune 200 company and the largest electrical utility in the state.  Ms. Roulhac manages governmental and community relations with elected officials and major stakeholders and develops regional strategies for the company.She is an attorney with over twenty years of complex business litigation and appellate experience. As a Broward resident, she has been part of the South Florida Community for more than 35 years. Ms. Roulhac has achieved a peer-based reputation as a recognized leader in her profession and community, serving on many state and local boards. She has been invited to speak throughout the country due to her expertise in law, lobbying and philanthropy. She has received several national, regional and local awards, has been recognized as one of the “100 Most Influential African-Americans in South Florida, and holds the distinction of inclusion on the South Florida Business Journal’s List of South Florida’s 2019 Power Leaders 250.” WHERE CAN LISTENERS FIND THE PODCASTS? All of Mr. Gibson Sylvestre’s MBA’s podcasts can be found on every platform where podcasts are offered. The podcast feature mercurial, smart, interesting, and fearless content created to engage and inform listeners. APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&v=m6GFcG7lVuc&redir_token=hirrvc1aGVpKdK6b0-SXynXxNOB8MTU4NzUzOTA1OUAxNTg3NDUyNjU5&q=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.apple.com%2Fus%2Fpodcast) ... iHeart Radio Podcast https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-le (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&v=m6GFcG7lVuc&redir_token=hirrvc1aGVpKdK6b0-SXynXxNOB8MTU4NzUzOTA1OUAxNTg3NDUyNjU5&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iheart.com%2Fpodcast%2F269-le) ... GOOGLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&v=m6GFcG7lVuc&redir_token=hirrvc1aGVpKdK6b0-SXynXxNOB8MTU4NzUzOTA1OUAxNTg3NDUyNjU5&q=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcasts.google.com%2F%3Ffeed%3DaHR) ... TUNEIN PODCASTS https://tunein.com/podcasts/Podcasts/ (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&v=m6GFcG7lVuc&redir_token=hirrvc1aGVpKdK6b0-SXynXxNOB8MTU4NzUzOTA1OUAxNTg3NDUyNjU5&q=https%3A%2F%2Ftunein.com%2Fpodcasts%2FPodcasts%2F) ... SPOTIFY PODCASTS https://open.spotify.com/show/1sMuJ1P (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&v=m6GFcG7lVuc&redir_token=hirrvc1aGVpKdK6b0-SXynXxNOB8MTU4NzUzOTA1OUAxNTg3NDUyNjU5&q=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fshow%2F1sMuJ1P) ... YOUTUBE PODCASTS https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl5G... Visit www.gibsonsylvestre.org www.GreatestSpeakerInTheWorld.com To find out more about our company

To WATCH this episode, visit www.stayoutyourlane.comDr. Ferguson chats with Ramunda Lark Young, Connection Strategist, Speaker, Community Activist and Bookstore OwnerCo-Founder | Mahogany Books Washington, DCA lover of books spreads her wings to open a bookstore with the love of her life, embraces a thriving speaking career and shares all the secret sauce about how to meet, mix and mingle with the people we want to engage with...authentically.ABOUT RAMUNDARamunda Lark Young is a Connection Strategist, Socialpreneur, community advocate and passionate leader. She and her husband Derrick, are the owners and co-founders of the nationally recognized, MahoganyBooks. A bookstore focused on books for, by, and about people of the African Diaspora in Washington, DC. Young has successfully worked with celebrity authors like ballet icon Misty Copeland, R&B legend Charlie Wilson, Civil Rights leader Congressman John Lewis, award winning actor Omar Epps and countless others.Recognized as a book industry leader for more than a decade, Young is a sought-after speaker, workshop presenter and panelist who speaks on thecritical importance of building business relationships, self-esteem, and literacy in the community .Young is also the founder and Chief Encouragement Officer of Ramunda Young, Inc. – a company dedicated to Encouraging Extraordinary Women to SOAR – Surpass Obstacles and Rise! Built on the principal that women can exceed beyond their expectations when given the proper tools to build authentic business relationships, Young has dedicated her life to equipping women for success through speaking at conferences, personal coaching, masterclasses and more. Her passion for strengthening women began in college when she founded the Langston University Section of the National Council of Negro Women, LU NCNW. That inaugural year LU NCNW was the largest organization on campus numbering close to 200 women at its first meeting. Focused on community service, sisterhood and empowerment, the organization remains at Langston over two decades later. For years, Young has been engaged in successfully connecting women and identifying strategies that allow them to fully live out loud in every facet of their life.Young is a proud community leader who currently serves as Vice Chair of the Prince William County Human Rights Commission and on several boards including Manassas City Public Schools Education Foundation and is Vice Chair of the Prince William Chamber Education & Innovation Committee. She has been named to the Root 100 list of Most Influential African Americans (2018) and featured in Essence Magazine, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post and other publications. She was also named Commissioner of the Year in 2015 by the Virginia Association of Human Rights and Most Influential by Prince William Living Magazine. Ms. Young graduated from Langston University in Oklahoma with a degree in Business and is a proud member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc, and Leadership Prince William’s Class of 2014 where she now serves on its Board of Regents.She and her husband are excited parents of a precocious teen named Mahogany.

Candice Morgan is the Head of Inclusion and Diversity at Pinterest, where she leads strategies to build a more inclusive and diverse global company. Previously, Candice spent nearly 10 years at Catalyst, where she designed strategic talent initiatives for global companies and firms across a range of industries. Candice holds an MS in cross-cultural psychology from Brunel University and a BS in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a frequent speaker and advisor at global conferences and events, a contributor to Harvard Business Review, and was recently honored on Fast Company's list of Most Creative People in Business & The Root 100 Most Influential African-Americans of 2017.

Thomas W. Dortch, Jr. is in his sixth term as the Chairman of the Board of the 100 Black Men of America, Inc. Dortch is the recipient of numerous awards and honors that celebrate his efforts, including: Ebony Magazine 100 Most Influential African Americans; he c urrently serves on the Florida A&M University Board of Trustees, and was honored by the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame…just to name a few. Dortch is a giant in the Atlanta business community and comes with a wealth of knowledge on how move Black communities to success. As Chairmen of the Board of the 100 Black Men of America, Dortch is key to relationship building for support of the organization and its more than 100-chapter member network to sustain the mentoring work being done throughout the nation. On this edition of Real Talk we’ll talk with Tommy Dortch. We’ll discuss Black economic development, civic involvement and of course, the work of the 100 Black Men of America.

Everette Taylor is a serial entrepreneur, marketing executive, and public speaker. His entrepreneurial journey began at the age of 19 when he started an event marketing technology company, EZ Events, which he successfully sold 2 years later.Since then, Everette has been a leader in the world of entrepreneurship and marketing, building several multi-million dollar brands.As CEO of ET Enterprises, Everette oversees a diverse portfolio of companies that include PopSocial, MilliSense, ArtX, Southside Fund, Hayver, and GrowthHackers.As a marketing executive, he helped lead both Qualaroo (acquired by Xenon Ventures) and Skurt (acquired by Fair) to successful acquisitions, oversaw growth for new mobile apps for Microsoft China, and led e-commerce company Sticker Mule to unprecedented growth as their youngest executive ever.He has been called a "marketing genius" by Forbes, a "marketing star" by Fortune Magazine, and "an innovator who's changing the consumer marketing game" by Black Enterprise. Most recently he was named one of the "100 Most Influential African-Americans" by The Root and Forbes 30 Under 30.In this episode, Pat and Posh sit down with Everette to learn about his upbringing in Richmond, VA, overcoming homelessness at a young age, getting his first marketing job at 14, and launching his own businesses after running marketing for various successful startups.He also shares his thoughts on today’s social media landscape, growing one’s personal brand, putting impact over profits, and what “wanting more” means to him.Tune in for a super genuine conversation with Everette as he uncovers some truths about being an entrepreneur and demystifies the crazy world of startups!SUBSCRIBE TO TFH NEWSLETTER & STAY UPDATED > http://bit.ly/tfh-newsletterFOLLOW TFH ON INSTAGRAM > http://www.instagram.com/thefounderhourFOLLOW TFH ON TWITTER > http://www.twitter.com/thefounderhourINTERESTED IN BECOMING A SPONSOR? EMAIL US > partnerships@thefounderhour.com

Will Smith says, "In the 20 years I've known DeVon, he's lived his life the same way he makes his movies: with commitment, humility, and a work ethic that demands respect." Oprah has called him “a bonafide dynamo…a different kind of spiritual teacher for our times.” ....................... DeVon serves as President/CEO of Franklin Entertainment, a dynamic multimedia entertainment company with a first-look film deal at 20th Century Fox. DeVon most recently produced the hit inspirational film BREAKTHROUGH starring Chrissy Metz for Disney/Fox, the hit Sony Pictures Animation animated film THE STAR and the hit Sony Pictures film MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN. Along with his work as a producer, he is also the author of multiple best-selling books including THE TRUTH ABOUT MEN, THE SUCCESS COMMANDMENTS, THE WAIT (co-written with his wife actress Meagan Good) and PRODUCED BY FAITH. .................. Beliefnet called him one of the “Most Influential Christians Under 40,” Variety Magazine named him one of the “Top 10 Producers to Watch,” Ebony Magazine has distinguished him as one of the “Top 100 Influential African-Americans in America.” In this amazing interview DeVon and I talk about: Knowing who you are and what that means for your life The power of self-love and commitment Why willpower isn't good enough to have success in any area of your life What the roles of men are today and how these roles can affect your health The important role Wil Smith played in his personal and professional career to produce films, write and public speak Why he has a purpose and passion for entertainment to inspire and motivate people Hollywood honors the maverick and how he has maintained his truth in the industry And much more... You will be left inspired and enlightened by DeVon after listening to this podcast. It certainly is one of the most important conversations I've had with someone in the entertainment industry. Website: https://devonfranklin.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/devonfranklin/ www.stevejordan.com/podcast

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Marie Denee is a plus size business expert and the Editor In Chief of The Curvy Fashionista, a fashion and style blog that is a one-stop shop for all things curvy, confident, and chic! In 2017 she was honored as The Root 100's List of the Most Influential African Americans and was a recipient of The Network Journal's 2018 "40 Under Forty" Achievement Award. Marie has been featured in Ebony, Essence, Lucky Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Black Enterprise Magazine, Marie Claire Italia, The London Times, The Wall Street Journal, Madame Noire, Shape Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and more. She is also the creator of the TCFStyle Expo, an annual plus size shopping event where women and men bond over style, entertainment, and empowerment.  The 2019 TCFStyle Expo will be August 9 -11 in Atlanta at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center!

In Episode 70, Quinn & Brian discuss: When things are broken, when the people who are working on those things are also broken, and why we need to help them. Our guest is Nikki Silvestri, the founder and CEO of Soil and Shadow, a project development firm designing economic and environmental strategies with human left in.  As the Co-Founder of Live Real and former Executive Director of People's Grocery and Green for All, Nikki has built and strengthened social equity for underrepresented populations in food systems, social services, public health, climate solutions, and economic development. She is a nationally recognized thought leader and general good doer, including being named as one of The Root's 100 Most Influential African Americans and receiving ELLE Magazine's "Gold" Award and OxFam America's "Act Local, Think Global" Award.  We don’t hesitate or feel like we’re overselling things when we say that what Nikki has to say is something that most people need to hear, and this could be a truly transformative message if it falls on the right ears. Brian said it, Quinn took credit for it, and now we hope you take it to heart.  Want to send us feedback? Tweet us, email us, or leave us a voice message!  Trump’s Book Club: I Hate You - Don't Leave Me by Hal Straus and Jerold Jay Kreisman: https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/3R5XF4WMZE0TV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_ws_2Gr8Ab6RS5WF3  Links: Have feedback or questions?  Send a message to funtalk@importantnotimportant.com  https://www.soilandshadow.com  https://www.nikkisilvestri.com  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikki_silvestri  Connect with us:  Subscribe to our newsletter at ImportantNotImportant.com!  Check out our Morning Show and other daily bite-size content on Instagram: instagram.com/ImportantNotImportant  Leave us a voice message: anchor.fm/important-not-important/message  Follow Quinn: twitter.com/quinnemmett  Follow Brian: twitter.com/briancolbertken  Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/ImportantNotImp  Like and share us on Facebook: facebook.com/ImportantNotImportant  Pin us on Pinterest: pinterest.com/ImportantNotImportant  Tumble us or whatever the hell you do on Tumblr: importantnotimportant.tumblr.com  Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com Support this podcast

DeVon Franklin is an award-winning film and TV producer, best-selling author, renowned preacher, and spiritual success coach. DeVon is the ultimate multi-hyphenate. With a commitment to uplifting the masses through entertainment, Franklin has quickly become a force in the media as well as a leading authority on faith, spiritual wellness, and personal development. Beliefnet has called him one of the "Most Influential Christians Under 40," Variety Magazine named him one of the "Top 10 Producers to Watch," Ebony Magazine has distinguished him as one of the "Top 100 Influential African-Americans in America," and even Oprah has called him "a bonafide dynamo...a different kind of spiritual teacher for our times." Franklin serves as President/CEO of Franklin Entertainment, a dynamic multimedia entertainment company with a first-look film deal at 20th Century Fox. As a filmmaker, Franklin is producing the inspirational true story Breakthrough, starring Chrissy Metz in theaters Easter of 2019. Additionally, he produced the hit animated film, The Star, and the hit film, Miracles From Heaven. Along with his work as a producer, Franklin is the author of a new book, The Truth About Men, released on February 5, 2019, as well as The Hollywood Commandments, New York Times bestseller The Wait (co-written with his wife award-winning actress Meagan Good) and Produced By Faith. Show Highlights: No one can become successful without mentorship. -DeVon FranklinOne of the keys of mentorship is to not overburden the mentor. -DeVon FranklinWhether or not you know the person, or you ever get to meet them, they can be your virtual mentor. You can look at your field and the people who inspire you in your field and get virtual mentorship from them by reading their interviews, looking at their social media, etc. That's a powerful opportunity to get mentorship from someone you believe in. -DeVon FranklinWhen things happen that we don't expect, it's important to acknowledge how you feel. -DeVon FranklinIt's disappointing when something doesn't work that you wanted to work, but that's when you need to go back and look at the process. -DeVon FranklinWhen you hit a brick wall, it's so important to feel it and go through it so that you can move on and grow from it.-DeVon FranklinIf you're "out of aces," maybe it's time to get up from that particular table and pursue something new. Or maybe, you're at the right table, but waiting on the right hand, so you need to be persistent. -DeVon FranklinEven if things aren't working out how you want, you should still stay, because you're still getting more benefits than cost put in. The moment you stop growing or learning is when it's costing you more than the benefit. -DeVon FranklinIt's important to maintain a strong sense of self. -DeVon FranklinWe need to look at success in a more dynamic way. -DeVon Franklin DeVon's closing thoughts: It's important to keep a strong sense of self and a sense of humility. If you're working with or around strong personalities—in either a personal or professional sense— and they suggest or do something that is against your personal values, it's okay to say, that's cool, I'm going to pass on that. It's important to look in the mirror and say I'm comfortable with who I am, and no matter the personalities I'm around, I'm going to do my best to stay true to myself. The Action Catalyst is a weekly podcast hosted by Dan Moore, President of Southwestern Advantage, the oldest direct-sales company in America, and Partner with Southwestern Consulting. With more than 45 years in sales leadership and marketing management, Dan has a wealth of knowledge to share on how to make better use of time to achieve life, sales, and other business goals. Each week, he interviews some of the nation's top thought leaders and experts, sharing meaningful tips and advice. Subscribe on iTunes and please leave a rating and review!