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Buy Black Podcast | The Voice of Black Business
Hosted by Gerald W Jones II · EN
We amplify the voices of Black Business Owners and Entrepreneurs to Ignite the Global Black Economy. Through this platform our socially conscious listening community connects with black business owners and their companies to learn actionable tips for building successful businesses. Each week we publish a new, compelling interview with a black entrepreneur who shares their story, teaches us some useful business information, and gives their number one piece of advice for the Buy Black Community as a whole.
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075: Malcolm X at Berkeley Spilling Tea and Throwing Shade
May 19, 201900:44:41Tap to summarizeMay 19th, 2019 Happy 94th Birthday Malcolm X A.K.A. - el Hajj Malik Shabazz
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TBT: Black History Month - More than Martin, Malcolm & Maya
Feb 28, 201900:20:59Tap to summarizeHere's a little throwback to February 28th, 2017...several months before I even had the idea for Buy Black Podcast. Happy Black History Month! Also...don't be surprised if I randomly pop up with an episode for you guys while we're between seasons. Uh huh! Gotta keep you on your toes...don't cancel that subscription yet! LOL Enjoy, and please shoot me an email at... gerald@buyblackpodcast.com ...to share any ideas you have for other historical content we can produce and share while we're waiting for season 2. Talk to you soon! Gerald
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074: Three Things You Can Do to Start Brand New in 2019
Jan 28, 201900:52:16Tap to summarizeFrom Self-Employed to CEO: How Close Are You? Take This Assessment to Find Out https://www.dopebusinessplan.com/ceo Episode Notes Things You Can Do to Start Brand New in 2019 Start a new project to get your message out Blog YouTube Channel Podcast Pivot in a new direction the market is pressing you toward Are you spending more money and time than it's worth to convince customers to buy your product? Is your business stable, but stagnant? Is your business profitable, but customers regularly ask for one or two things that you don't currently offer? Rebrand and Relaunch Are you attracting a completely different demographic than you originally intended? Are you attracting people who can't or won't pay for your product or service? Have you lost the joy, passion, and satisfaction you get from providing your service to the community? "If you're content being overworked, worn out, and miserable, just go get a job...at least you'll have benefits. Otherwise, make the changes you need to make in order to build the lifestyle you started your business to create." Is it time for you to make a change? This is the final episode for Season 1 of Buy Black | The Voice of Black Business Stay tuned for our return: July 2019
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073: Martin Luther King - The Three Evils of Society
Jan 21, 201900:46:41Tap to summarizeEpisode Cover Photo Attribution - Bob Fitch Photography Archive, © Stanford University Libraries https://purl.stanford.edu/bc967hk3892 The Three Evils of Society - Transcript Delivered at the National Conference on New Politics, August 31, 1967. Mr. Chairman, friends and brothers in this first gathering of the National Conference on New Politics. Ladiesand gentlemen. . .can you hear me in the back? (No) I don’t know if the Klan is in here tonight or not with allthe troubles we’re having with these microphones. Seldom if ever. . . .has. . . .we’re still working with it. As I was about to say, seldom if ever has such a diverse and truly ecumenical gathering convened under the egis of politics in our nation, and I want to commend the leadership of the National Conference on NewPolitics for all of the great work that they have done in making this significant convention possible. Indeed byour very nature we affirm that something new is taking place on the American political horizon. We have comehere from the dusty plantations of the Deep South and the depressing ghettos of the North. We have come fromthe great universities and the flourishing suburbs. We have come from Appalachian poverty and from consciousstricken wealth. But we have come. And we have come here because we share a common concern for the moralhealth of our nation. We have come because our eyes have seen through the superficial glory and glitter of our society and observed the coming of judgment. Like the prophet of old, we have read the handwriting on the wall. We have seen our nation weighed in the balance of history and found wanting. We have come because wesee this as a dark hour in the affairs of men.For most of us this is a new mood. We are traditionally the idealists. We are the marchers fromMississippi and Selma and Washington, who staked our lives on the American Dream during the first half of this decade. Many assembled here campaigned lasciviously for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 because we could notstand ideally by and watch our nation contaminated by the 18th Century policies of Goldwaterism. We were thehardcore activists who were willing to believe that Southerners could be reconstructed in the constitutionalimage. We were the dreamers of a dream – that dark yesterdays of mans inhumanity to man would soon betransformed into bright tomorrows of justice. Now it is hard to escape, the disillusionment and betrayal. Our hopes have been blasted and our dreams have been shattered. The promise of a Great Society was shipwreckedoff the coast of Asia, on the dreadful peninsula of Vietnam. The poor, black and white, are still perishing on alonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. What happens to a dream deferred?It leads to bewildering frustration and corroding bitterness.I came to see this in a personal experience here in Chicago last summer. In all the speaking I have donein the United States before varied audiences, including some hostile whites, the only time I have ever been booed was one night in our regular weekly mass meetings by some angry young men of our movement. Now Iwent home that night with an ugly feeling. Selfishly I thought of my suffering and sacrifices over the last twelveyears. Why would they boo one so close to them? But as I lay awake thinking. I finally came to myself. And Icould not for the life of me have less impatience and understanding for those young men. For twelve years, I amothers like me, have held out radiant promises of progress. I had preached to them about my dream. I hadlectured to them about, the not to distant day when they would have freedom, all here, now. I had urged them tohave faith in America and in white society. Their hopes had soared. They were now booing me because they feltthat we were unable to deliver on our promises. They were booing because we had urged them to have faith in people who had too often proved to be unfaithful. They were now hostile because they were watching the dreamthat they had so readily accepted, turn into a frustrating nightmare. This situation is all the more ominous, inview of the rising expectations of men the world over. The deep rumblings that we hear today, the rumblings of discontent, is the thunder of disinherited masses rising from dungeons of oppressions to the bright hills of freedom. All over the world like a fever, freedom is spreading in the widest liberation movement in history. Thegreat masses of people are determined to end the exploitation of their races and lands. And in one majestic chorus they are singing in the worlds of our freedom song, “ain’t gonna let nobody turn us around”. And so the collision course is set. The people cry for freedom and the congress attempts to legislaterepression. Millions, yes billions, are appropriated for mass murder; but the most meager pittance for foreignaid for international development is crushed in the surge of reaction. Unemployment rages at a major depressionlevel in the black ghettos, but the bi-partisan response is an anti-riot bill rather than a serious poverty program.The modest proposals for model cities, rent supplement and rat control, pitiful as they were to began with, getcaught in the maze of congressional inaction. And I submit to you tonight, that a congress that proves to be more anti-negro than anti-rat needs to be dismissed. It seems that our legislative assemblies have adopted Nero as their patron saint and are bent on fiddling while our cities burn. Even when the people persist and in the face of great obstacles, develop indigenous leadership and self-help approaches to their problems and finally tread the forest of bureaucracy to obtain existing governmentfunds, the corrupt political order seeks to crush even this beginning of hope. The case of CDGM in Mississippiis the most publicized example but it is a story repeated many times across our nation.Our own experience here in Chicago is especially painfully present. After an enthusiastic approval by H.E. W’s Department of Adult Education, SCLC began an adult literacy project to aid 1,000 young men and women who have been pushed out of overcrowded ghetto schools, in obtaining basic [literary] skills prerequisite to receiving jobs. We had an agreement with A&P stores for 750 jobs through SCLC’s job program, Operation Breadbasket and had recruited over 500 pupils the first week. At that point CongressmenPaccinski and the Daley machine intervened and demanded that Washington cut off our funds or channel themthrough the machine controlled poverty program in Chicago. Now we have no problem with administrativesupervision, but we do have a desire to be independent of machine control and the Democratic Party patronagenetwork. For this desire for a politically independent approach to the needs of our brothers, our funds are beingstopped as of September 15th and a very meaningful program discontinued. Yes the hour is dark, evil comesfourth in the guise of good. It is a time of double talk when men in high places have a high blood pressure of deceptive rhetoric and an anemia of concrete performance.We cry out against welfare hand outs to the poor but generously approve an oil depletion allowance tomake the rich, richer. Six Mississippi plantations receive more than a million dollars a year, not to plant cotton but no provision is made to feed the tenant farmer who is put out of work by the government subsidy. Thecrowning achievement in hypocrisy must go to those staunch Republicans and Democrats of the Midwest andWest who were given land by our government when they came here as immigrants from Europe. They weregiven education through the land grant colleges. They were provided with agricultural agents to keep themabreast of forming trends, they were granted low interest loans to aid in the mechanization of their farms andnow that they have succeeded in becoming successful, they are paid not to farm and these are the same people that now say to black people, who’s ancestors were brought to this country in chains and who were emancipatedin 1863 without being given land to cultivate or bread to eat; that they must pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. What they truly advocate is Socialism for the rich and Capitalism for the poor. I wish that I could say that this is just a passing phase in the cycles of our nation’s life; certainly times of war, times of reaction throughout the society but I suspect that we are now experiencing the coming to thesurface of a triple prong sickness that has been lurking within our body politic from its very beginning. That isthe sickness of racism, excessive materialism and militarism. Not only is this our nation’s dilemma it is the plaque of western civilization. As early as 1906 W. E. B Dubois prophesized that the problem of the 20th century, would be the problem of the color line, now as we stand two-thirds into this crucial period of historywe know full well that racism is still that hound of hell which dogs the tracks of our civilization. Ever since the birth of our nation, White America has had a Schizophrenic personality on the question of race, she has beentorn between selves. A self in which she proudly profess the great principle of democracy and a self in whichshe madly practices the antithesis of democracy. This tragic duality has produced a strange indecisiveness andambivalence toward the Negro, causing America to take a step backwards simultaneously with every stepforward on the question of Racial Justice; to be at once attracted to the Negro and repelled by him, to love andto hate him. There has never been a solid, unified and determined thrust to ...
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072: Purchase Your First Real Estate Investment Property w/ Roxanne Little
Jan 14, 201901:05:49Tap to summarizeREGISTER FOR FREE TRAINING HERE From Self-Employed to CEO: How Close Are You? RESERVE YOUR SEAT ---> CLICK HERE <--- or visit... https://www.dopebusinessplan.com/iwantin Roxanne Little, originally from Trinidad and Tobago, migrated to the United States at the age of 16. After graduating high school, she joined the United States Marine Corps and served with honor from 2001 – 2010. In 2014 she purchased her first real estate property. Four years later, she became an active investor and started expanding her portfolio. Roxanne currently owns three properties: two occupied with tenants, one fix and flip. She is a creative thinker, problem solver, decision maker...and she is an author. In 2017 Roxanne published her first children's' book under the pen name Hazel Walcott as a creative outlet for her spiritual struggles and a tool for her daughter who was struggling with reading. The book, titled "The Choice", helped her daughter to articulate her thoughts and words when she is speaking with her teachers and other children her age. In the real estate arena, Roxanne has built relationships with private lenders as well as investors for properties in Anne Arundel County, Prince George’s County, Montgomery County, Baltimore County and Northern Virginia on (duplexes, lease options, single family homes, rental properties, wholesale deals, and short-sales and fix and flip). Her goal is to leave a legacy for her children, as well as spending more time with them versus working hard for someone else. In today's episode, Roxanne shares the stories of how she invested in the tools resources and mentors she needed to be successful in real estate BEFORE becoming an active investor. She also teaches us the critical formulas that you need to know before you decide to purchase your first real estate investment property. Fix & Flip Formula (After Repairs Value [ARV] x 70%) - Repair Costs = Max Allowable Offer [MAO] Wholesaling Formula Buyer's Price - Your Desired Profit = Max Allowable Offer Buy Roxanne's Children's Book "The Choice" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1478792140?pf_rd_p=c2945051-950f-485c-b4df-15aac5223b10&pf_rd_r=6MN4PQAGM5GWFCDHZ2PH Connect With Roxanne https://hafkarsolutions.com hafkar21@gmail.com https://facebook.com/hafkar21 Resources BEST FREE ONLINE BOOKING SOFTWARE: https://10to8.com/signup/?token=buyblack-p&utm_source=buyblack-p&utm_medium=share BE A GUEST ON BUY BLACK PODCAST: https://buyblackpodcast.com/podcast-guest FIND BLACK-OWNED BUSINESS DIRECTORIES: https://buyblackpodcast.com/business-directory/ REGISTER YOUR BUSINESS IN YOUR STATE: https://buyblackpodcast.com/register-new-business-your-state/ FIND BUSINESS RESOURCES: https://buyblackpodcast.com/business-resources Connect With Me Email Me Show Feedback: gerald@buyblackpodcast.com Business Questions: questions@buyblackpodcast.com Follow Me on Facebook Personal: https://facebook.com/gwjonesii Fan Page: https://facebook.com/buyblackpodcast Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BuyBlackPodcastCommunity/ Follow Me on Twitter Personal: https://twitter.com/gwjonesii Fan Page: https://twitter.com/buyblackpodcast Follow Me on Instagram Personal: https://instagram.com/gwjonesii Fan Page: https://instagram.com/buyblackpodcast Connect With Me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwjonesii/
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071: #TheForeverS7even - Compilation & Original Poetry w/ RaeAnne Chanelle
Jan 7, 201900:59:07Tap to summarizeRaeAnne Chanelle. God's poet. Robin Every's Daughter. Author. Foreverness Obtainer. Interviewer. Healer. S7even. Mental Illness-Awareness Advocate. Soul Collector. Time Taker. Lover. Passion-Giver. Helper. Forever Evolving. Student. Award-winning Poet. Future Nurse. Stigma Breaker. God's muse. First things first for me is God. I believe the more a person believes in him the more they will be able to better focus and execute during lifes endeavors. I have seen my mother manage businesses so I would like to use her insight to remind your audience to do what works for them, while I set an example of doing what works for me. Connect with RaeAnne Follow the hashtag #TheForeverS7even on Instagram Resources BEST FREE ONLINE BOOKING SOFTWARE: https://10to8.com/signup/?token=buyblack-p&utm_source=buyblack-p&utm_medium=share HEART RHYTHM MEDITATION GUIDE: https://canva.com BE A GUEST ON BUY BLACK PODCAST: https://buyblackpodcast.com/podcast-guest FIND BLACK-OWNED BUSINESS DIRECTORIES: https://buyblackpodcast.com/business-directory/ REGISTER YOUR BUSINESS IN YOUR STATE: https://buyblackpodcast.com/register-new-business-your-state/ FIND BUSINESS RESOURCES: https://buyblackpodcast.com/business-resources Connect With Me Email Me Show Feedback: gerald@buyblackpodcast.com Business Questions: questions@buyblackpodcast.com Follow Me on Facebook Personal: https://facebook.com/gwjonesii Fan Page: https://facebook.com/buyblackpodcast Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BuyBlackPodcastCommunity/ Follow Me on Twitter Personal: https://twitter.com/gwjonesii Fan Page: https://twitter.com/buyblackpodcast Follow Me on Instagram Personal: https://instagram.com/gwjonesii Fan Page: https://instagram.com/buyblackpodcast Connect With Me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwjonesii/
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070: The FUNdamentals of Planning Your Business w/ Sheena Morgan
Jan 1, 201900:51:28Tap to summarizeSheena began her career with the small, minority, women, and disadvantaged business community in 1999. In her role as Executive Director of both the North Central Texas Regional Certification Agency and the South Central Texas Regional Certification Agency, from May 2006 to June 2013, she developed and improved community awareness programs, built sustainable relationships with local and federal government business partners and participated in a multitude of educational and speaker forums concentrating on business development and certification. Sheena is now the owner of Lengo, a consolatory suite of best business practices which bridge the gaps and facilitates the expansion of unyielding opportunities and results that rest within the potential of a truly focused organizational vision. She also enjoys public and motivational speaking. Some of her speaking topics include the Power in Female Negotiation and the Growth Zone, Finding Potential in Yourself & Others. She enjoys empowering women with her story and transforming their minds to focus on their inner power and ability to exceed their wildest dreams! Sheena was appointed in August 2017 by the City Council, to the Planning & Zoning Commission for the great city of Glenn Heights, TX, and she is currently RUNNING FOR MAYOR! (Election Day is 26 January, 2019) We get into some discussion about her mayoral run later in the program, but our main focus today is to take the pretentiousness out of business talk and strip back techniques to expose just how easy it is to understand the basics of business. Sheena will teach you how to position yourself with strategic plans that support your vision and maximize your company's success and growth! Exclusive Offer Leverage Unleashed is a master class devoted to educating business owners about techniques to maximize their success and develop true strategies aligned with their firm's overall experience. This is a self-paced online program with monthly chat sessions, 1-on-1 coaching, and competitive business development. For any listeners that sign up for the course, there will be a 30% discount offered! Competitive Business Plan Development for all entrepreneurs is now being offered through December 31st for 30% off. Listeners will receive a full competitive business plan, market research included. Secure a free consultation call by December 31st and receive the offer for all plans booked before March 1, 2019! Discount code BP2019 Support Sheena's Run for Mayor of Glenn Heights, TX https://sheenamorgan4glennheights.com sheena4mayor@gmail.com 972-866-4660 Connect With Sheena https://www.lengofocus.com sheena@lengofocus.com https://facebook.com/lengofocus https://twitter.com/lengofocus https://linkedin.com/in/sheenadmorgan https://instagram.com/lengofocus https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKCpBsNtHweboj3QxaDy5UA
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069: Economics, Community and the Ultimate Black Love Gift Guide w/ Leshelle Smith
Dec 17, 201801:31:24Tap to summarizeLeShelle Smith is a woman who decided she wanted to start her media platform, interviewing individuals who are contributing to the rebuilding of Black Wall Street(s) in cities across America. That decision lead to LeShelle creating Minority Report featuring Black Owned Businesses, a video blog on YouTube that highlights African American entrepreneurs, operating as the media extension of Smith Communication Services, LLC. The mission of Minority Report is to feature Black entrepreneurs through interviews and product/service reviews. The vision of Minority Report is to do for Black Owned Businesses, what Oprah's Book Club did for authors - provide exceptional, one of a kind, Word of Mouth Marketing that converts into increased sales. The goal of every blog article, social media post, and YouTube video is to highlight Black owned businesses through storytelling, promote their products and services but to also empower and educate aspiring entrepreneurs. Advocating for the "buy black movement" has become more and more prevalent as we have moved from the Civil Rights Movement, through Jim Crow, survived the Crack Era and still navigating the Preschool-Prison pipeline. Our community is beginning to see the value of our dollar as it relates to our vote, our livelihood, and our legacy. I am one of many who are on the front lines advocating for black entrepreneurs. But I am one of few exclusively educating consumers on reputable black owned businesses through honest product reviews. I also created the Ultimate Black Love Gift Guide Black Owned Business Coupon Book. I release a new coupon book every year on Black Love Day, February 13th and focus on the 5 Tenets of Black Love. Minority Report TV Show https://www.minorityreporttvshow.com/ https://youtube.com/c/minorityreporttvshow Ultimate Black Love Gift Guide https://bobcouponbook.com Connect With Leshelle info@minorityreporttvshow.com https://facebook.com/minorityreporttvshow https://twitter.com/mreport_tv https://instagram.com/minorityreport717 https://linkedin.com/in/minorityreporttvshow Resources BEST FREE ONLINE BOOKING SOFTWARE: https://10to8.com/signup/?token=buyblack-p&utm_source=buyblack-p&utm_medium=share HEART RHYTHM MEDITATION GUIDE: https://canva.com BE A GUEST ON BUY BLACK PODCAST: https://buyblackpodcast.com/podcast-guest FIND BLACK-OWNED BUSINESS DIRECTORIES: https://buyblackpodcast.com/business-directory/ REGISTER YOUR BUSINESS IN YOUR STATE: https://buyblackpodcast.com/register-new-business-your-state/ FIND BUSINESS RESOURCES: https://buyblackpodcast.com/business-resources Connect With Me Email Me Show Feedback: gerald@buyblackpodcast.com Business Questions: questions@buyblackpodcast.com Follow Me on Facebook Personal: https://facebook.com/gwjonesii Fan Page: https://facebook.com/buyblackpodcast Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BuyBlackPodcastCommunity/ Follow Me on Twitter Personal: https://twitter.com/gwjonesii Fan Page: https://twitter.com/buyblackpodcast Follow Me on Instagram Personal: https://instagram.com/gwjonesii Fan Page: https://instagram.com/buyblackpodcast Connect With Me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwjonesii/
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068: Four Game-Changing Tips to Make Your Service Business More Profitable
Dec 10, 201801:06:12Tap to summarizeMaya believes that one of the best things people can do is create the flexible lifestyle they want. Creating that lifestyle begins when you create something that gives you ownership of your ideas and how you work with your clients....something you're proud and confident enough to share with the world. She has paired her love for helping people leverage their knowledge by creating a profitable online program that shows women how to confidently share more of their purpose-driven messages with the people who need to hear it. On episode 68 of The Voice of Black Business, Maya shares her top 4 Game-Changing Tips to help you get started! For the last 7+ years, Maya Gaddie has built, launched and sold online classes and programs in her business. She loves showing her clients how to do the same. She's backed her education up with a lot of real experience with clients who are out in the field, really doing the work, making money and creating communities online. Maya knows what's up when it comes to online business, how to navigate it and how to elevate an online strategy. Knowing things like what tools she uses to run her business, how she automates payments for new enrollments and how to run a membership site are always useful to other entrepreneurs. I'm convinced that one of the core reasons for me being on this planet, and existing in this space, is to show women that this (this life, this type of business) is possible for them too.
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067: 5 E-Commerce Website Details that Will Make Customers Run and Never Return w/ Courtney Underwood
Dec 3, 201801:30:45Tap to summarizeE-Commerce Retailers strap in and get ready as Courtney Underwood shares the steps - in detail - that it took to build PassportsandPurpose.com. By taking the unusual path of learning to do everything herself so she could effectively delegate later, Courtney learned everything from the psychology of e-commerce to discovering niche audiences to tailoring the voice of your brand. She's handing ALL of that knowledge over to you in this episode! Courtney Underwood is a speaker, mentor, and entrepreneur with a mission to teach people how to value their worth, set boundaries, and create memories that have a lasting impact. She equips both companies and individuals with the necessary tools and resources to discover their strengths and maximize efficiency without sacrificing quality or value. In 2016, she founded Passports and Purpose, an e-commerce retail company that sells travel and affirmation apparel and accessories. Within the first year, she outgrew the platform and expanded the business, adding product lines and multiple languages to satisfy her international customers. Currently, Passports and Purpose is recognized for both high performance, high engagement, and high conversion - metrics that reveal an unparalleled dedication to customer service and product quality. Courtney holds a Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Communication from DePaul University and holds several certifications that point to her years of experience in E-Commerce, Strategic Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Career Consulting. When she is not working, Courtney spends quality time with her family, mentors and volunteers across the Chicagoland area, and travels extensively. Exclusive Offer https://passportsandpurpose.com Use Discount Code - BUYBLACK5 - Get $5 off any order Use Discount Code - FALLSAVINGS - Get Free Shipping on orders over $75 Connect With Courtney hello@passportsandpurpose.com https://facebook.com/passportsandpurpose https://twitter.com/passportsandpurpose https://instagram.com/passportsandpurpose https://pinterest.com/passportsandpurpose
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