E255: Howard Alumni & Founder of Café Mocha Podcast Network, Sheila Eldridge, talks new show line-up
February 18, 2021 • 36 mins
My next guest is Sheila Eldridge. She is the CEO of Miles Ahead Entertainment & Broadcasting and Founder of the Mocha Podcasts Network. She is an HBCU graduate of Howard University's prestigious school of communications. Her Miles Ahead Entertainment & Broadcasting (MAEB) is a certified multicultural marketing and public relations firm that provides consumer lifestyle marketing, event management, sponsor engagement as well as integrated broadcast media campaigns for clients like Ford, Boost Mobile, Toyota America, National Museum of African American History and Culture, AARP, Essence Communications. She syndicates the highly successful Café Mocha Radio show, the CafeMocha2go digital show, and the streaming Salute THEM Awards series. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations Sheila Eldridge.
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she has to see your miles and here and Entertainment
and Broadcasting and founder of the Mocha podcast Network. She's
an HBC you graduate of Howard University something I never
(01:06):
knew about it, from prestigious School of Communications, her Miles
Ahead Entertainment and Broadcasting and certified multicultural marketing and public
relations firm that revised the school and lifestyle marketing, event management,
sponsor engagement, as well as integrated broadcast media campaigns for
clients like Ford, Boost Mobile, Toyota America, a RP, and
Essence Communisations, just to name a few. She senticates the
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highly successful Cafe Mocha radio show, the Cafe Mocha to
Go Digital show and Streaming Salute the Streaming Salute Them
Awards series. I called her the Queen of syndication and busy.
Please welcome to money making conversations, Sheila Aldred. Was that enough? Sheiling, year,
(01:52):
how's everything going? Everything's going well? Just busy, you know,
but it looks in this day and time it's a
blessing to be busy. Well, you know, I never knew
you were a graduate of Howard University School of Communications
and then HBCU suddenly became a hot topic for corporate donations.
(02:13):
Uh why do you think that happened in like that.
I think it's always been that way. It's just that
it became more known that there were more alumni that
were hailing from a more popular alumni that were helding
from HBCUs. But I've always believed that part of your
life's experience as an African American is to attend an HBCU.
(02:36):
The best years of my life were at Howard University
and I was in the School of Communications, kind of
the first couple of years of the School of Communications.
So um, and the relationships that I built and that
you built at an hbcuit, HBC you just last a lifetime.
My first client was as a result of my roommate
(02:58):
at Howard University. Uh, so you know, the relationships uh,
and the experience, UM just really kind of craft. I
think who you are, uh, you know, as an African
American in America. Well, you know, I'm a big fan
of hbc U S and I see you know you've
been a voice of an HBC is powerful and uh
of course you know one of your alumni it is
(03:20):
going to be the next Vice President of the United States.
How do you feel about that she's a female too?
I mean, she's a female. It is a coming um evolution. UM.
It's such a great feeling to know that we number
one have an African American female vice president. But the
(03:41):
fact that she came from an HBCU. I think it's
going to be great for universities across all the HBCU
is not just h U and Howard, but all of
the universities, because it puts a spotlight on the education
UM that is comparable with your ivy schools UM. And
(04:01):
what we have from hbc US is that endeering kind
of long relationships of the sororities and the fraternities and
just I mean, I think it's a real powerful moment
for anyone that attended an HBCU, and specifically you know
for women. You know, so wow, Well, you know we
always talk about yours, your life. Let's go back to
(04:24):
the roots of our relationship. You know. Cafe Moke Radio,
you know it's in noble for their markets. Uh, you
know so Sears xm Uh we're just the future of
that show. I know. London Love is the is the
cornerstone of Yo Yo and Angelie tell Us about everybody
about the Cafe Moke radio platform for women of color only. Yes, yes,
(04:44):
Well when we started, and thanks to you, one of
the first big TV shows that we did and big
events that we did was the Hoodie Awards, and we
were so excited because we felt like that was in
our second year. We just celebrated ten years by the way, um,
and you gave us that opportunity to kind of put
(05:05):
us on in the spotlight. UM. You know, when I
came up with the concept for Cafe Mocha, I did
not want it to be named after any one woman.
It was about women coming together to empower one another.
And it really became as a result of watching a
lot of what we were seeing on TV at the time,
with some of the reality shows that I just felt
(05:27):
did not really depict who the full scope of who
we are African American women. UM. So I decided, let's
put together a show that represents us that we can
all work together to inspire one another, and the stories
of the women on the show, and that the women
that we honor along the way in these ten years
will hopefully inspire other women. And that's really how the
(05:50):
show came about. UM. And we just celebrated ten years.
We've got Lonnie Love, who you know is on the rideo. Uh.
And Lonnie is unique in that she's such a well
with comedian, so she could go from having topical conversations
to giving you that aha moment uh and and and
making you feel good. Um. And then we have Yo
(06:11):
Yo who's around and the Way Girl, who represents all
the sisters that I have been there and are going
through it and have made it through. Um. And she
represents the West Coast of course. And then we have
Angelique Parent who is an amazing producer and voice over
character artist. Um. That is she just brings the show
(06:32):
to live there a live. I mean, I'm blessed in
that to have a concept and then be able to
bond with three women that really bring that concept a
live you know, it's that's not easy and so I
feel very blessed, you know, have that and for us
to have been together for ten you know, for ten years.
So um, and where are we going from here? Well,
(06:53):
quite honestly, we'd like to take the concept to television
or streaming, so that's kind of where we had it. Uh. Yes,
So that's where we're looking to navigate and especially now
given the streaming platform has come so full circle. Um,
you know with the pandemic. Um, that's really kind of
(07:14):
where we're headed. And you know, we feel like with
the local podcast network and then our syndication, we can
offer a full range for um, you know, for our
listeners and for our advertises. Yeah, before we get to
the podcast network, I want to talk about the Sleut
Awards because you and I were talking last year about
producing some of these lives because before the pandemic hit,
(07:37):
and then also we kept pushing days and pushing days.
We realized the pandemic is not going anywhere and the
ability to do live events are gonna go away. And
so now you have the Sleuth Awards, their virtual I'm
assuming that you have three of them coming up. Correct, Yes,
we have the salutar Wards. They are virtual Salute Her
Awards as well. We are the women because the Cafe
Moca is called radio from a woman's perspective, So we
(08:00):
want to put the spotlight on women from celebrities to
uh women who you don't know, all working in service
to support the community. UM. So that's the Salute Her Awards,
and that's coming up. The next one is for Women's
History moth UM in March and in March sixteen, and
(08:23):
then in June we're going to go back to salute them,
and we're gonna celebrate Black music, and so we will
do Salute Them. UM. One of the things that came about,
and this is thanks to someone that we know, Rashean McDonald, UM,
is that we needed to do more to honor the
full spectrum of our community, and we didn't want to
(08:46):
alienate men. And so as a result, we decided that
if we did salute them, then we are honoring women,
men and organizations that all have a common goal of
serving the community. UM. And so the Salute Them Awards
will be in June, and then we're going back in
September where we're doing in conjunction with a comgressional Black Cancus,
(09:07):
and that will be the Salute Her Award. So we
kind of go back and forth, but the common denominator
is that we are saluting and paying tribute to people
organizations that are making a difference in our culture and
in our community. I know you are a lot of
marketing and event production for the Essence platform, in particular
Essence Music Festival, Essence Festival apologize. Last year was canceled,
(09:32):
actually was pushed a little bit, and then they realized
that because of the pandemic is we should avoid it
all together. Any word yet there has been announced that's
gonna come back in New Orleans in the summertime, or
doing the fourth of July weekend, or that's still on hold.
That's still on hold. I think a lot is going
to be determined based on the first quarter you wanted
(09:53):
this year, um, and how New Orleans and how Louisiana develops. Um.
But now I would venture to say it will probably
be virtual again. But um, it growing to happen people.
That's and that, And then on that multi day event
(10:14):
on fourth job, it was like a writer passage. A
lot of times, I know, you go down there, girl,
you've been Assence, come on down, let's go to black experience.
And a lot of people don't know it had a
diverse drawer as well. It wasn't always one African Americans
that attended the Essence Festival. It was really diverse in
a lot of ways. Let's talk about the whole virtual
(10:34):
versus live event experience, because that's a different sale, that's
a different approach. You can't count people and actually, in
some ways when you go virtual, it becomes an international
event because it's not really tied to that particular market
or that particular city that you're doing the event, and
just we're just talking about people who listening to the show.
This is money making conversation. What are something the hoops
(10:55):
you had to jump or something that changed you had
to do. Your platform to encourage advertised is to experience
the virtual platform versus traditional live event platforms. I have
to tell you that I am really UM surprised and
happy that corporations have started to pivot, you know with
(11:16):
the production UM because we do events and I was
really concerned that some of our sponsors you know, had
a concern about going virtual, but they see the value
now of reaching right far more people UM, your social media,
your digital all your promotions UM. For them, it's it's
(11:39):
broadening their brand and it's it's even better than the
actual events, the actual in person events, because you know,
my plan is to go back to in person events
in two if that we can do that, but my
sponsors like the virtual experience and are saying maybe you
should stay in this space and really grow this space.
(12:02):
And so that's what we're looking to do. We might
you know, we will probably go back and do some
in person events. But I have to tell you that
this virtual space is very intriguing because ultimately, like I said,
my goal is to go to television or to go
to more you know, some of the streaming services. Um
and this is kind of escalated that process into moving
(12:24):
in that area. UM. So you gotta have a great
production team and learning production very fast um and and
and a good editor um and you know, and and
concepts and and great writers. But you know that. I mean,
you've been doing when you were ahead of the game
on all of this, so um but we're all catching up.
But yes, I like this virtual space. While I love
(12:46):
it because like I said, uh, you know, if you
do have been in Atlanta in the venue, if it's
a thousand people or two thousand people that tend to
do it, that's all who saw, That's all who saw.
Where Now when you go virtual, I my whole thing
because I was doing it with the neighborhood. I was
streaming live and do the live event. So I'm saying
do both because you don't want to lose their international growth.
(13:08):
It's it's it's fun to see the people in Australia
or Spain or South Africa or degreement watching your brand
grow and it has a has a big plus there.
So I would say keep both, keep growing your brand
because you are an international brand and you only benefit
by being bigger. Well, I'm surprised that the people that
(13:29):
are you know, responding to us from other countries, you know,
especially in Africa, which is very interesting, you know. And
Ireland loves you too, by the way, just let you
know that. Let's talk about my favorite I've been waiting
to talk about this because I want to talk about
each one of these shows. I hope you know them all,
because I want to talk about every last one your podcast,
(13:50):
your podcast, because there has so many names on here
and people that I know. But let's talk. Let's start
with this. When they really called my eye the Funcky
the two folks, the Funny Mom was hosted by a sheriff,
Shephard and Kim with the two of my favorite people.
I knew they were doing it on the Tom Joy's
show before he ended his syndication, so he just snapped
him up. Yes, Well, they had started, you know, doing
(14:13):
the podcast and they really needed well First, what I
found is that most people that have podcasts having figured
out how to monetize at number one and number two,
how to really you know, put it into a business
and really develop it. Um. And so for Sherry and
for Kim, who were you know, very busy with their
(14:36):
other careers, and everything that we did was helped them
kind of for the structure to it. And it has
done extremely well. UM. And that's just an extension of
you know, they say, well, you know, black women can't
always work together, can't have too many women, you know,
But I don't subscribe to that because all the women
that I've worked with and worked with, um, we just
(14:58):
make it work. You know, we kind of fit in
where what we have to do to make it work.
And um. And so they wanted to join the podcast
Network is one of the podcasters and it's been great.
I mean, it's it's you know, it's been a great experience.
We started out, we've already got sponsors on board and
you know, and they're excited and everything. So yes, those
ladies and it's a funny podcast, but it's it's life.
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both of most single moms. That's so, that's that we
know the population of single moms keep seems, unfortunately teens
to be growing every year, and you're looking for guys
who are looking to be entertained, so it sells itself there.
But Kim is amazingly funny and I've known her all
the way back to my parents who are sitcom writing days.
Same thing with Sharon Shephard. I met her when I
was doing Jamie Fox as a as a co ejecutive
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producer of that show. But the podcast local podcast network
as a platform bringing authentic voices and perspective of multicultural talent,
including entertainers what you just said, Shepherd and the sher
Shepherd and Kim whiley during less experts with the following shows.
Now I'm assuming that the Funky Divers podcast hosted by
involved Now, how did you which invoked members do you have? Okay,
(18:17):
we we have Terry Ella my girl, yes who HBC
year by the way, and you too, um, And then
we have Cindy Aaron Bragg and then we have Rona
Bent and you might know Rona from the Jamie FOXX show. Um.
(18:37):
And so they have been I mean they've been a trio.
A lot of people don't know, but they've in a
trio for almost seventeen years. You know is the newest member.
But they're celebrating get thirty. They will selling last year
they celebrating the thirty canapers and um, the idea for
the podcast. You know, I went to them and said, look,
you need to tell your story to stay together for
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third years and they've been through we know they've been
through some change, they've been you know, experiences. You know,
you need to tell your story because other people need
to hear that, and your fans need to hear that.
Another young groups need to hear that. Another females. You
need to hear how you are kind of stayed in
year and gotten through this and so that's really what
the podcast is about. It was the celebration of their
(19:20):
thirties and anniversary and it was so well re seed
that you know, it's just now taken off. You know,
we're um, they'll be doing every you know, we've been
doing it once a month. Now we're doing it every
two weeks and just you know, and they're really getting
into it and they're speaking from their perspective and very
honestly from their perspective. So yeah, we called it the
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Funky Divas because that's what in Vogue is known for
as the Funky Diva. Well, I like it because when
you start talking about singing group female singing groups. You know,
it's just Supremes. To me, it's in vogue and then
Destiny's Child. Those are three you know that to me
a legendary that resonated and so to have their voices
not being silent. And that's what this podcast is all about,
(20:02):
giving authentic virtues. That's what you're talking about. People were
talking for a point of reference, can give career advice,
to give advice about the loads of success when it
does not happen and when you at the peak of
the game. But more important is the longevity. Thirty years,
that's a long time. And I know those people. So
you got a lot of HBCU people. I forget that
Loney love is a pre view and m HBCU people.
(20:25):
I think, uh kim with this from Fisk, Tennessee, Tennessee.
You know, I kind of thoughts. I'll tell you, I
know all these people. You got to show which I love?
I love. Now. Now let's go back to My Girl
the Vegans Sexy Cool podcast hosted by Jackie Reid. How
did you get Jackie on the radio? In the podcast?
(20:46):
You know, I did not realize that there were so
many African Americans and black folks that have yes. Um,
when I talked to Jackie and she told me kind
of how she came up with the idea. She lost
the dog, her dog pads, and I think, if you
know what, she realizes how important it is what you
feed and what you put in your body. And she
(21:08):
said that she just kind of went on that journey
of veganism and now she's in it. Um, and I'm surprised.
She gave me a recipe for some greens that had
no meat at all, and when I tell you, those
greens good. So she is. She has her podcasts and
we're excited about that. And um, we're going to be
(21:29):
doing a she's gonna be doing a series panel discussions
with African Americans. You know, in addition that are celebrities
that are vegans and understanding that it's a difference between
the vegetarian and a vegan. I didn't realize that. So um,
it's it's an exciting of course. You know, Jackie is um,
you know, just a journalist, a great journalist. So she
(21:52):
brings a lot of new information, you know, to the podcast. Now,
one of my favorite people you have is Brishian Shaw. Uh, superpower,
my girl, tell me how that relationship was created because
I interviewed her recently on Moneymaking Conversation. She's an inspiration
to me personally and to have on the show motivating
people and tell them there is tomorrow. When people tell
(22:14):
you that, isn't it? That might not be a tomorrow?
I think to me, For she represents on your network,
is amazing. Talk about that relationship. Yeah, she she came.
Actually I didn't really know her. I knew of her.
One of our affiliates WBLS and New York he told
her you need to connect with she or Elbridge, and
he told me we needed to connect. And she and
(22:35):
I just connected and it was like we know one
another for years, you know. Um, and that's kind of
how we connect. It was through a radio one of
my radio affiliates. And she's she's amazing. I mean, she
she's she's a duo. I mean she just goes and
gets it done and she can just inspire people. So
(22:56):
she's very very and she's very special. So you know,
she's a council survivor and she's a superwoman, four times
council survivor. And so when somebody's delivered that that information
to you, that many times, and you still is upbeat
as she is. It's still forward thinking. This she is.
That podcast is as as a definitely listened to because
(23:16):
it's not about, uh, the fact that she's a councilervivor.
She's letting you know that when people give you direct,
you know, dramatic messages of information that you feel may
not allow you to have the life that you want
to have. What do you do? And she her messages
keep on keep planning, keeps living your dream, and keep
accelerating to the next page of success. That's why I
(23:37):
love and I love the diversity of when when I'm
looking at get a vegan host, you got miss Shaw
and then dare direct. I haven't heard dear. She she
still based out of the Dallas Yep, she's still based
out of Dalla. Yeah. And she's you know, she's dealing
with mental health relationships. Uh, and and and and mental
(23:58):
and mental health and menopause. Okay, she said, can I talk?
I said, yes, that's this network is a lifestyle network
and a lot of when I going through METAPA and
so we have conversation definitely, So uh, you know dea um,
you know she is very direct. Uh, and you know
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we were excited, uh you know with her podcast, but
you're right, Um, the goal is that you all the
podcasts have been curated so we our philosophy is it's
more equality versus quantity on the network, and that you
can come to this network, um in a week and
listen to the different podcasts and get a full you
(24:42):
get some laughter, you know. I mean, whenever a person
hears the word cancer, you get you're nervous, you know,
so you can Shane, you can listen and then helping
through that, and then if you're going through relationships you know,
and then if you're not sure about I want people
there to come and listen to the differ podcasts and
be able to have a nice, full experience and lead,
(25:04):
you know, saying Okay, I'm good. You know, I've got inspired.
I can make it and I'll be back next week.
That's really the the purpose of what we're trying to do.
I'm gonna tell you something, you know. You know, I'm
a big fan with your top fans in this business.
I always tell you you're amazing. You know what mentor
(25:25):
you know, you are a real mentors and you have
been so straight with me, you know, and honest with me.
You know, because you're you're you're you'runique talent. When I
look at all this you're talking about these careers, you know,
because you have our herd. You have a lot of
podcast platforms out there, and it's a very competitive medium,
and these people are trusting your brain. That's why I've
always told you that you know you're special from a standpoint.
(25:47):
You've created a voice, a channel, and then to build
this out like this seems like the sky is unlimited
for you in this podcast or genre, especially when you're
talking about women of color. We need a voice. Sometimes
you don't get that on local radio anymore. You definitely
don't get it on streaming platforms and things like that.
So what what Lanes I forgot my girl Rulanda Watch?
(26:10):
How could I forgive her? Landa Wats know, that is
one of my favorite people. I can't believe. I'm so
happy you got on this platform. Rlanda Wats. Yeah, she's something,
you know. She's another one that I've known for a
long time from you know, her TV show and just
you know, various acting and things that she's done. Um,
(26:32):
and so when I approached her, I was like, well,
you know, look, you can't hurt ask okay, right, And
I was really She said, you know, I like this.
I can see what you're trying. Yes, I want to
be on this platform. Yes, I like this UM, and
so she came on board. I was nervous, you know,
because when I went to these women, like you said,
it's pretty competitive out there. But with that's the reason
(26:54):
why we're niche, you know. I I'm about UM empowering
where man, I like being in the background. UM, I
like started. I like startups and growing businesses and growing
platforms UM and compelling women. That's our platform. And so
I just stayed with what we do and who we
(27:15):
are in our lane and we just keep driving through.
And we have a nice group of advertisers now that
we've developed over the last ten years that they're with us.
They've seen the results and they take the chance with us.
And so that's what's unique about this network too, is
that we're you know, we're starting out with advertisers that
(27:36):
are supporting as well my virtue of the relationship that
we had in syndication for the last teen years. So
I'm excited about that. UM. But yeah, Landa was just like,
I'm I'm I'm on it so so it's so that
you can see how it's a nice rounded out of group.
Oh it's awesome. Like I said, I've been I looked
up and go, I can't believe I forgot Relunda Ones.
That is because all these people I love Mischew Dear Direct,
(28:00):
Jackie Reid, you got my boy to be Lifted with
Alfred Evan and d C Marshall, or Landa Watts, who
one of my DearS for involgue that, Oh my goodness,
Sherif Schefer, King Willie, and then you got the traditional
Cafe Moke radio is also on your podcast platform with
London Love Yo Yo and Angelique Correct correct, correct, because
(28:21):
it's so much, you know with radio, with the restaural radio,
the brakes have to be so short and there's so
much it gets cut, and that's great conversation that can
go into the podcast. So we say what you don't
hear on the radio, you can go to the podcast
and get them than I love it. Now before I go,
I want to talk about this, this Cafe Moca Virtual
(28:43):
digital series. What exactly this first time I've heard day
I always trying to be in the loop with you
and now you create a new digital series or the
Caffe Moker to the Gold salute her soul sessions and
she boutique. What exactly is all that? Well, the you
know because with the whole pand M and I found
that more people obviously were on the digital on the
(29:03):
platforms Facebook and on social media platforms. And you know,
the talent for the radio show is talent bats. They
have other you know, TV and careers and so they
stay true to the radio show. UM. But what we
decided to do was is to take a topical conversations
(29:24):
UM and have a host that's been a long host
with us as an ambassador, Vanessa James. A lot of
people don't know she's out of Miami, hum and social
media ambassador. She's been with us for a while. And
let Vanessa host a it's a little ten minutes segment
show that's on Facebook called Cafe Moka to Go and
it's what's trending is what people are talking about. It
(29:46):
might be you know, certain subjects. We did a lot
obviously when you know the voting season UM. And it's
hosted by Vanessa James and so it's a it's an
extension of the Cafe Moka brand. But it's a quick
little catch that you can get all the little new
and everything from our perspective, from a woman's perspective and
Cafe Moker perspective. So you know, we're growing our brand. Um.
(30:07):
You know it's gotta be I say, we have to
be a village, um, and so part of our village
is the necessary Cafe Moker to go. And then when
we moved into the virtual space was salute Her. So
many people responded and said, well, who else have you honored?
And you know, I want to know more about you know,
how how can a person get nominated to be honored?
(30:30):
And so what we decided to do well start Soul Sessions.
And the Soul Sessions is on Facebook and it's hosted
by one of our past honorees, sirl for Loott Williamson,
who is an amazing speaker UM and so she interviews
has Salute Her on a reads because when we were
(30:50):
doing events over the last ten years, people didn't know
a lot about Honor reads. So this way we're able
to feature some of our past Honor reads. So that's
what the Soul Sessions. They are conversations from the heart
on how women have kind of you know, UM Forge
through Life UM and and and their story everyone there's
(31:10):
a story, like you said, in their story hopefully will
inspire someone else. And then we have our you know,
I love John Murray. UM. We have the Cathie. We
have the Sheep Boutique, and that is a show where
we feature UM small businesses and not just female lone
small business but you know, unique, one of a kind
small businesses. Things that you can't products and services that
(31:33):
you can't get in the big stores that you could
only get on these you know, these little boutiques. And
so that is a We just launched that in November
and that will run straight through UM next year. And
that's hosted by John Mary. So that's it. We're just
creating a little big and that's a thirty minute show
where we're featuring small businesses. Well, my friend, uh, we
(31:57):
just turned you're busy. I'm sure, as we all know,
it's only gonna get busier for you because you're one
of those people like me. If it's a great idea,
you're gonna turn it into an executable idea. And that's
the brand of what you've developed with Miles Ahead Entertainment
and broadcasting again, thank you for coming on the show.
(32:18):
Make sure I get all my social media calls so
I can promote your events. You know, I support you
in all those different lanes because you're special and I'm
always be a big friend of you. With the Swag Awards, huh,
can we talk about the swag who well, you know
we would know the piece of paper I didn't know.
You know, you know I talked about swag. That's my show.
(32:39):
That's my show. Come on now that you have taught
me its collaboration. My collaborations are to grow your brands.
And so I proud that we're now gonna go into
our second year about collaboration on the Swag Awards. And
the Swag Awards is where you know we are an
ament uh and so and it's hosted of course with
(33:02):
money making conversations and comes to about you. So I
just want to thank you for that. And we've got
some big ideas that will be coming this we look
to grow you know, I Swag Awards and everything. But
thank you for being a mentor. Thank you for all
you do to promote small businesses and HBCUs um. But
we're excited and thank you, you know, just for hanging
(33:25):
in there with us and giving you know, Cafe Mocha
and miles Ahead broadcasting entertaining, you know, some of the
insights that have made you so successful. Well, I'm gonna
tell you something. I wasn't gonna bring up the Swag Award.
You know, I'm goold deliver those every week because I
I love your platform. It comes on in Atlanta, Georgia,
you know, and uh magic one of then point five.
(33:48):
I listened to it every Sunday, and so I'm just happy. Yeah,
I run commercials during that time slot to promote my
own money making conversation platform. And so I realized this
relationships and and I I respect what you do, and
I will continue to deliver the Swag Awards. And as
you say, it's a partnership. I send you names. You
said reach this will work on my platform, don't work
(34:08):
on the platform. And unfortunately, blessed that so many people
do my show now and it give us a nice
options for you to be able to deliver on your
platform the type of men age wise and execute and
everyday dad, because we want to promote that as well
celebrities and well known entrepreneurs. So I appreciate you and
thank you for let me get my little hype on
(34:29):
for great Thank you very much, lad. I was like,
we gotta get there. You know, I didn't see a
little paper. You know. I don't want to push nothing,
but believe me, I'm proud every week I do it. Uh.
It's a priority for me and my staff the Swag
(34:50):
Awards because more and more black men need to be
recognized and to be recognized on the platform for women
of color. That's what's so impressive to me, because the
fact that you know, there's so many miss miss normals
and misstatements about relationships and being that platform, and we're
in to say the positive side and it just becomes
a snowball effect. And so yes, anytime you need me
(35:13):
for that, but of course I represent for all your platforms.
So thank you very much again. Oh, thank you, thank you,
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my next guest is one of my favorite Sheila Ldridge,
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and Broadcasting and founder of the Mocha podcast Network. She's
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(01:06):
knew about it, from prestigious School of Communications, her Miles
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clients like Ford, Boost Mobile, Toyota America, a RP, and
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(01:30):
highly successful Cafe Mocha radio show, the Cafe Mocha to
Go Digital show and Streaming Salute the Streaming Salute Them
Awards series. I called her the Queen of syndication and busy.
Please welcome to money making conversations, Sheila Aldred. Was that enough? Sheiling, year,
(01:52):
how's everything going? Everything's going well? Just busy, you know,
but it looks in this day and time it's a
blessing to be busy. Well, you know, I never knew
you were a graduate of Howard University School of Communications
and then HBCU suddenly became a hot topic for corporate donations.
(02:13):
Uh why do you think that happened in like that.
I think it's always been that way. It's just that
it became more known that there were more alumni that
were hailing from a more popular alumni that were helding
from HBCUs. But I've always believed that part of your
life's experience as an African American is to attend an HBCU.
(02:36):
The best years of my life were at Howard University
and I was in the School of Communications, kind of
the first couple of years of the School of Communications.
So um, and the relationships that I built and that
you built at an hbcuit, HBC you just last a lifetime.
My first client was as a result of my roommate
(02:58):
at Howard University. Uh, so you know, the relationships uh,
and the experience, UM just really kind of craft. I
think who you are, uh, you know, as an African
American in America. Well, you know, I'm a big fan
of hbc U S and I see you know you've
been a voice of an HBC is powerful and uh
of course you know one of your alumni it is
(03:20):
going to be the next Vice President of the United States.
How do you feel about that she's a female too?
I mean, she's a female. It is a coming um evolution. UM.
It's such a great feeling to know that we number
one have an African American female vice president. But the
(03:41):
fact that she came from an HBCU. I think it's
going to be great for universities across all the HBCU
is not just h U and Howard, but all of
the universities, because it puts a spotlight on the education
UM that is comparable with your ivy schools UM. And
(04:01):
what we have from hbc US is that endeering kind
of long relationships of the sororities and the fraternities and
just I mean, I think it's a real powerful moment
for anyone that attended an HBCU, and specifically you know
for women. You know, so wow, Well, you know we
always talk about yours, your life. Let's go back to
(04:24):
the roots of our relationship. You know. Cafe Moke Radio,
you know it's in noble for their markets. Uh, you
know so Sears xm Uh we're just the future of
that show. I know. London Love is the is the
cornerstone of Yo Yo and Angelie tell Us about everybody
about the Cafe Moke radio platform for women of color only. Yes, yes,
(04:44):
Well when we started, and thanks to you, one of
the first big TV shows that we did and big
events that we did was the Hoodie Awards, and we
were so excited because we felt like that was in
our second year. We just celebrated ten years by the way, um,
and you gave us that opportunity to kind of put
(05:05):
us on in the spotlight. UM. You know, when I
came up with the concept for Cafe Mocha, I did
not want it to be named after any one woman.
It was about women coming together to empower one another.
And it really became as a result of watching a
lot of what we were seeing on TV at the time,
with some of the reality shows that I just felt
(05:27):
did not really depict who the full scope of who
we are African American women. UM. So I decided, let's
put together a show that represents us that we can
all work together to inspire one another, and the stories
of the women on the show, and that the women
that we honor along the way in these ten years
will hopefully inspire other women. And that's really how the
(05:50):
show came about. UM. And we just celebrated ten years.
We've got Lonnie Love, who you know is on the rideo. Uh.
And Lonnie is unique in that she's such a well
with comedian, so she could go from having topical conversations
to giving you that aha moment uh and and and
making you feel good. Um. And then we have Yo
(06:11):
Yo who's around and the Way Girl, who represents all
the sisters that I have been there and are going
through it and have made it through. Um. And she
represents the West Coast of course. And then we have
Angelique Parent who is an amazing producer and voice over
character artist. Um. That is she just brings the show
(06:32):
to live there a live. I mean, I'm blessed in
that to have a concept and then be able to
bond with three women that really bring that concept a
live you know, it's that's not easy and so I
feel very blessed, you know, have that and for us
to have been together for ten you know, for ten years.
So um, and where are we going from here? Well,
(06:53):
quite honestly, we'd like to take the concept to television
or streaming, so that's kind of where we had it. Uh. Yes,
So that's where we're looking to navigate and especially now
given the streaming platform has come so full circle. Um,
you know with the pandemic. Um, that's really kind of
(07:14):
where we're headed. And you know, we feel like with
the local podcast network and then our syndication, we can
offer a full range for um, you know, for our
listeners and for our advertises. Yeah, before we get to
the podcast network, I want to talk about the Sleut
Awards because you and I were talking last year about
producing some of these lives because before the pandemic hit,
(07:37):
and then also we kept pushing days and pushing days.
We realized the pandemic is not going anywhere and the
ability to do live events are gonna go away. And
so now you have the Sleuth Awards, their virtual I'm
assuming that you have three of them coming up. Correct, Yes,
we have the salutar Wards. They are virtual Salute Her
Awards as well. We are the women because the Cafe
Moca is called radio from a woman's perspective, So we
(08:00):
want to put the spotlight on women from celebrities to
uh women who you don't know, all working in service
to support the community. UM. So that's the Salute Her Awards,
and that's coming up. The next one is for Women's
History moth UM in March and in March sixteen, and
(08:23):
then in June we're going to go back to salute them,
and we're gonna celebrate Black music, and so we will
do Salute Them. UM. One of the things that came about,
and this is thanks to someone that we know, Rashean McDonald, UM,
is that we needed to do more to honor the
full spectrum of our community, and we didn't want to
(08:46):
alienate men. And so as a result, we decided that
if we did salute them, then we are honoring women,
men and organizations that all have a common goal of
serving the community. UM. And so the Salute Them Awards
will be in June, and then we're going back in
September where we're doing in conjunction with a comgressional Black Cancus,
(09:07):
and that will be the Salute Her Award. So we
kind of go back and forth, but the common denominator
is that we are saluting and paying tribute to people
organizations that are making a difference in our culture and
in our community. I know you are a lot of
marketing and event production for the Essence platform, in particular
Essence Music Festival, Essence Festival apologize. Last year was canceled,
(09:32):
actually was pushed a little bit, and then they realized
that because of the pandemic is we should avoid it
all together. Any word yet there has been announced that's
gonna come back in New Orleans in the summertime, or
doing the fourth of July weekend, or that's still on hold.
That's still on hold. I think a lot is going
to be determined based on the first quarter you wanted
(09:53):
this year, um, and how New Orleans and how Louisiana develops. Um.
But now I would venture to say it will probably
be virtual again. But um, it growing to happen people.
That's and that, And then on that multi day event
(10:14):
on fourth job, it was like a writer passage. A
lot of times, I know, you go down there, girl,
you've been Assence, come on down, let's go to black experience.
And a lot of people don't know it had a
diverse drawer as well. It wasn't always one African Americans
that attended the Essence Festival. It was really diverse in
a lot of ways. Let's talk about the whole virtual
(10:34):
versus live event experience, because that's a different sale, that's
a different approach. You can't count people and actually, in
some ways when you go virtual, it becomes an international
event because it's not really tied to that particular market
or that particular city that you're doing the event, and
just we're just talking about people who listening to the show.
This is money making conversation. What are something the hoops
(10:55):
you had to jump or something that changed you had
to do. Your platform to encourage advertised is to experience
the virtual platform versus traditional live event platforms. I have
to tell you that I am really UM surprised and
happy that corporations have started to pivot, you know with
(11:16):
the production UM because we do events and I was
really concerned that some of our sponsors you know, had
a concern about going virtual, but they see the value
now of reaching right far more people UM, your social media,
your digital all your promotions UM. For them, it's it's
(11:39):
broadening their brand and it's it's even better than the
actual events, the actual in person events, because you know,
my plan is to go back to in person events
in two if that we can do that, but my
sponsors like the virtual experience and are saying maybe you
should stay in this space and really grow this space.
(12:02):
And so that's what we're looking to do. We might
you know, we will probably go back and do some
in person events. But I have to tell you that
this virtual space is very intriguing because ultimately, like I said,
my goal is to go to television or to go
to more you know, some of the streaming services. Um
and this is kind of escalated that process into moving
(12:24):
in that area. UM. So you gotta have a great
production team and learning production very fast um and and
and a good editor um and you know, and and
concepts and and great writers. But you know that. I mean,
you've been doing when you were ahead of the game
on all of this, so um but we're all catching up.
But yes, I like this virtual space. While I love
(12:46):
it because like I said, uh, you know, if you
do have been in Atlanta in the venue, if it's
a thousand people or two thousand people that tend to
do it, that's all who saw, That's all who saw.
Where Now when you go virtual, I my whole thing
because I was doing it with the neighborhood. I was
streaming live and do the live event. So I'm saying
do both because you don't want to lose their international growth.
(13:08):
It's it's it's fun to see the people in Australia
or Spain or South Africa or degreement watching your brand
grow and it has a has a big plus there.
So I would say keep both, keep growing your brand
because you are an international brand and you only benefit
by being bigger. Well, I'm surprised that the people that
(13:29):
are you know, responding to us from other countries, you know,
especially in Africa, which is very interesting, you know. And
Ireland loves you too, by the way, just let you
know that. Let's talk about my favorite I've been waiting
to talk about this because I want to talk about
each one of these shows. I hope you know them all,
because I want to talk about every last one your podcast,
(13:50):
your podcast, because there has so many names on here
and people that I know. But let's talk. Let's start
with this. When they really called my eye the Funcky
the two folks, the Funny Mom was hosted by a sheriff,
Shephard and Kim with the two of my favorite people.
I knew they were doing it on the Tom Joy's
show before he ended his syndication, so he just snapped
him up. Yes, Well, they had started, you know, doing
(14:13):
the podcast and they really needed well First, what I
found is that most people that have podcasts having figured
out how to monetize at number one and number two,
how to really you know, put it into a business
and really develop it. Um. And so for Sherry and
for Kim, who were you know, very busy with their
(14:36):
other careers, and everything that we did was helped them
kind of for the structure to it. And it has
done extremely well. UM. And that's just an extension of
you know, they say, well, you know, black women can't
always work together, can't have too many women, you know,
But I don't subscribe to that because all the women
that I've worked with and worked with, um, we just
(14:58):
make it work. You know, we kind of fit in
where what we have to do to make it work.
And um. And so they wanted to join the podcast
Network is one of the podcasters and it's been great.
I mean, it's it's you know, it's been a great experience.
We started out, we've already got sponsors on board and
you know, and they're excited and everything. So yes, those
ladies and it's a funny podcast, but it's it's life.
(15:20):
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lifestyle network for women of color um So and they
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both of most single moms. That's so, that's that we
know the population of single moms keep seems, unfortunately teens
to be growing every year, and you're looking for guys
who are looking to be entertained, so it sells itself there.
But Kim is amazingly funny and I've known her all
the way back to my parents who are sitcom writing days.
Same thing with Sharon Shephard. I met her when I
was doing Jamie Fox as a as a co ejecutive
(17:51):
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Shepherd and Kim whiley during less experts with the following shows.
Now I'm assuming that the Funky Divers podcast hosted by
involved Now, how did you which invoked members do you have? Okay,
(18:17):
we we have Terry Ella my girl, yes who HBC
year by the way, and you too, um, And then
we have Cindy Aaron Bragg and then we have Rona
Bent and you might know Rona from the Jamie FOXX show. Um.
(18:37):
And so they have been I mean they've been a trio.
A lot of people don't know, but they've in a
trio for almost seventeen years. You know is the newest member.
But they're celebrating get thirty. They will selling last year
they celebrating the thirty canapers and um, the idea for
the podcast. You know, I went to them and said, look,
you need to tell your story to stay together for
(18:59):
third years and they've been through we know they've been
through some change, they've been you know, experiences. You know,
you need to tell your story because other people need
to hear that, and your fans need to hear that.
Another young groups need to hear that. Another females. You
need to hear how you are kind of stayed in
year and gotten through this and so that's really what
the podcast is about. It was the celebration of their
(19:20):
thirties and anniversary and it was so well re seed
that you know, it's just now taken off. You know,
we're um, they'll be doing every you know, we've been
doing it once a month. Now we're doing it every
two weeks and just you know, and they're really getting
into it and they're speaking from their perspective and very
honestly from their perspective. So yeah, we called it the
(19:41):
Funky Divas because that's what in Vogue is known for
as the Funky Diva. Well, I like it because when
you start talking about singing group female singing groups. You know,
it's just Supremes. To me, it's in vogue and then
Destiny's Child. Those are three you know that to me
a legendary that resonated and so to have their voices
not being silent. And that's what this podcast is all about,
(20:02):
giving authentic virtues. That's what you're talking about. People were
talking for a point of reference, can give career advice,
to give advice about the loads of success when it
does not happen and when you at the peak of
the game. But more important is the longevity. Thirty years,
that's a long time. And I know those people. So
you got a lot of HBCU people. I forget that
Loney love is a pre view and m HBCU people.
(20:25):
I think, uh kim with this from Fisk, Tennessee, Tennessee.
You know, I kind of thoughts. I'll tell you, I
know all these people. You got to show which I love?
I love. Now. Now let's go back to My Girl
the Vegans Sexy Cool podcast hosted by Jackie Reid. How
did you get Jackie on the radio? In the podcast?
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You know, I did not realize that there were so
many African Americans and black folks that have yes. Um,
when I talked to Jackie and she told me kind
of how she came up with the idea. She lost
the dog, her dog pads, and I think, if you
know what, she realizes how important it is what you
feed and what you put in your body. And she
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said that she just kind of went on that journey
of veganism and now she's in it. Um, and I'm surprised.
She gave me a recipe for some greens that had
no meat at all, and when I tell you, those
greens good. So she is. She has her podcasts and
we're excited about that. And um, we're going to be
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doing a she's gonna be doing a series panel discussions
with African Americans. You know, in addition that are celebrities
that are vegans and understanding that it's a difference between
the vegetarian and a vegan. I didn't realize that. So um,
it's it's an exciting of course. You know, Jackie is um,
you know, just a journalist, a great journalist. So she
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brings a lot of new information, you know, to the podcast. Now,
one of my favorite people you have is Brishian Shaw. Uh, superpower,
my girl, tell me how that relationship was created because
I interviewed her recently on Moneymaking Conversation. She's an inspiration
to me personally and to have on the show motivating
people and tell them there is tomorrow. When people tell
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you that, isn't it? That might not be a tomorrow?
I think to me, For she represents on your network,
is amazing. Talk about that relationship. Yeah, she she came.
Actually I didn't really know her. I knew of her.
One of our affiliates WBLS and New York he told
her you need to connect with she or Elbridge, and
he told me we needed to connect. And she and
(22:35):
I just connected and it was like we know one
another for years, you know. Um, and that's kind of
how we connect. It was through a radio one of
my radio affiliates. And she's she's amazing. I mean, she
she's she's a duo. I mean she just goes and
gets it done and she can just inspire people. So
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she's very very and she's very special. So you know,
she's a council survivor and she's a superwoman, four times
council survivor. And so when somebody's delivered that that information
to you, that many times, and you still is upbeat
as she is. It's still forward thinking. This she is.
That podcast is as as a definitely listened to because
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it's not about, uh, the fact that she's a councilervivor.
She's letting you know that when people give you direct,
you know, dramatic messages of information that you feel may
not allow you to have the life that you want
to have. What do you do? And she her messages
keep on keep planning, keeps living your dream, and keep
accelerating to the next page of success. That's why I
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love and I love the diversity of when when I'm
looking at get a vegan host, you got miss Shaw
and then dare direct. I haven't heard dear. She she
still based out of the Dallas Yep, she's still based
out of Dalla. Yeah. And she's you know, she's dealing
with mental health relationships. Uh, and and and and mental
(23:58):
and mental health and menopause. Okay, she said, can I talk?
I said, yes, that's this network is a lifestyle network
and a lot of when I going through METAPA and
so we have conversation definitely, So uh, you know dea um,
you know she is very direct. Uh, and you know
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we were excited, uh you know with her podcast, but
you're right, Um, the goal is that you all the
podcasts have been curated so we our philosophy is it's
more equality versus quantity on the network, and that you
can come to this network, um in a week and
listen to the different podcasts and get a full you
(24:42):
get some laughter, you know. I mean, whenever a person
hears the word cancer, you get you're nervous, you know,
so you can Shane, you can listen and then helping
through that, and then if you're going through relationships you know,
and then if you're not sure about I want people
there to come and listen to the differ podcasts and
be able to have a nice, full experience and lead,
(25:04):
you know, saying Okay, I'm good. You know, I've got inspired.
I can make it and I'll be back next week.
That's really the the purpose of what we're trying to do.
I'm gonna tell you something, you know. You know, I'm
a big fan with your top fans in this business.
I always tell you you're amazing. You know what mentor
(25:25):
you know, you are a real mentors and you have
been so straight with me, you know, and honest with me.
You know, because you're you're you're you'runique talent. When I
look at all this you're talking about these careers, you know,
because you have our herd. You have a lot of
podcast platforms out there, and it's a very competitive medium,
and these people are trusting your brain. That's why I've
always told you that you know you're special from a standpoint.
(25:47):
You've created a voice, a channel, and then to build
this out like this seems like the sky is unlimited
for you in this podcast or genre, especially when you're
talking about women of color. We need a voice. Sometimes
you don't get that on local radio anymore. You definitely
don't get it on streaming platforms and things like that.
So what what Lanes I forgot my girl Rulanda Watch?
(26:10):
How could I forgive her? Landa Wats know, that is
one of my favorite people. I can't believe. I'm so
happy you got on this platform. Rlanda Wats. Yeah, she's something,
you know. She's another one that I've known for a
long time from you know, her TV show and just
you know, various acting and things that she's done. Um,
(26:32):
and so when I approached her, I was like, well,
you know, look, you can't hurt ask okay, right, And
I was really She said, you know, I like this.
I can see what you're trying. Yes, I want to
be on this platform. Yes, I like this UM, and
so she came on board. I was nervous, you know,
because when I went to these women, like you said,
it's pretty competitive out there. But with that's the reason
(26:54):
why we're niche, you know. I I'm about UM empowering
where man, I like being in the background. UM, I
like started. I like startups and growing businesses and growing
platforms UM and compelling women. That's our platform. And so
I just stayed with what we do and who we
(27:15):
are in our lane and we just keep driving through.
And we have a nice group of advertisers now that
we've developed over the last ten years that they're with us.
They've seen the results and they take the chance with us.
And so that's what's unique about this network too, is
that we're you know, we're starting out with advertisers that
(27:36):
are supporting as well my virtue of the relationship that
we had in syndication for the last teen years. So
I'm excited about that. UM. But yeah, Landa was just like,
I'm I'm I'm on it so so it's so that
you can see how it's a nice rounded out of group.
Oh it's awesome. Like I said, I've been I looked
up and go, I can't believe I forgot Relunda Ones.
That is because all these people I love Mischew Dear Direct,
(28:00):
Jackie Reid, you got my boy to be Lifted with
Alfred Evan and d C Marshall, or Landa Watts, who
one of my DearS for involgue that, Oh my goodness,
Sherif Schefer, King Willie, and then you got the traditional
Cafe Moke radio is also on your podcast platform with
London Love Yo Yo and Angelique Correct correct, correct, because
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it's so much, you know with radio, with the restaural radio,
the brakes have to be so short and there's so
much it gets cut, and that's great conversation that can
go into the podcast. So we say what you don't
hear on the radio, you can go to the podcast
and get them than I love it. Now before I go,
I want to talk about this, this Cafe Moca Virtual
(28:43):
digital series. What exactly this first time I've heard day
I always trying to be in the loop with you
and now you create a new digital series or the
Caffe Moker to the Gold salute her soul sessions and
she boutique. What exactly is all that? Well, the you
know because with the whole pand M and I found
that more people obviously were on the digital on the
(29:03):
platforms Facebook and on social media platforms. And you know,
the talent for the radio show is talent bats. They
have other you know, TV and careers and so they
stay true to the radio show. UM. But what we
decided to do was is to take a topical conversations
(29:24):
UM and have a host that's been a long host
with us as an ambassador, Vanessa James. A lot of
people don't know she's out of Miami, hum and social
media ambassador. She's been with us for a while. And
let Vanessa host a it's a little ten minutes segment
show that's on Facebook called Cafe Moka to Go and
it's what's trending is what people are talking about. It
(29:46):
might be you know, certain subjects. We did a lot
obviously when you know the voting season UM. And it's
hosted by Vanessa James and so it's a it's an
extension of the Cafe Moka brand. But it's a quick
little catch that you can get all the little new
and everything from our perspective, from a woman's perspective and
Cafe Moker perspective. So you know, we're growing our brand. Um.
(30:07):
You know it's gotta be I say, we have to
be a village, um, and so part of our village
is the necessary Cafe Moker to go. And then when
we moved into the virtual space was salute Her. So
many people responded and said, well, who else have you honored?
And you know, I want to know more about you know,
how how can a person get nominated to be honored?
(30:30):
And so what we decided to do well start Soul Sessions.
And the Soul Sessions is on Facebook and it's hosted
by one of our past honorees, sirl for Loott Williamson,
who is an amazing speaker UM and so she interviews
has Salute Her on a reads because when we were
(30:50):
doing events over the last ten years, people didn't know
a lot about Honor reads. So this way we're able
to feature some of our past Honor reads. So that's
what the Soul Sessions. They are conversations from the heart
on how women have kind of you know, UM Forge
through Life UM and and and their story everyone there's
(31:10):
a story, like you said, in their story hopefully will
inspire someone else. And then we have our you know,
I love John Murray. UM. We have the Cathie. We
have the Sheep Boutique, and that is a show where
we feature UM small businesses and not just female lone
small business but you know, unique, one of a kind
small businesses. Things that you can't products and services that
(31:33):
you can't get in the big stores that you could
only get on these you know, these little boutiques. And
so that is a We just launched that in November
and that will run straight through UM next year. And
that's hosted by John Mary. So that's it. We're just
creating a little big and that's a thirty minute show
where we're featuring small businesses. Well, my friend, uh, we
(31:57):
just turned you're busy. I'm sure, as we all know,
it's only gonna get busier for you because you're one
of those people like me. If it's a great idea,
you're gonna turn it into an executable idea. And that's
the brand of what you've developed with Miles Ahead Entertainment
and broadcasting again, thank you for coming on the show.
(32:18):
Make sure I get all my social media calls so
I can promote your events. You know, I support you
in all those different lanes because you're special and I'm
always be a big friend of you. With the Swag Awards, huh,
can we talk about the swag who well, you know
we would know the piece of paper I didn't know.
You know, you know I talked about swag. That's my show.
(32:39):
That's my show. Come on now that you have taught
me its collaboration. My collaborations are to grow your brands.
And so I proud that we're now gonna go into
our second year about collaboration on the Swag Awards. And
the Swag Awards is where you know we are an
ament uh and so and it's hosted of course with
(33:02):
money making conversations and comes to about you. So I
just want to thank you for that. And we've got
some big ideas that will be coming this we look
to grow you know, I Swag Awards and everything. But
thank you for being a mentor. Thank you for all
you do to promote small businesses and HBCUs um. But
we're excited and thank you, you know, just for hanging
(33:25):
in there with us and giving you know, Cafe Mocha
and miles Ahead broadcasting entertaining, you know, some of the
insights that have made you so successful. Well, I'm gonna
tell you something. I wasn't gonna bring up the Swag Award.
You know, I'm goold deliver those every week because I
I love your platform. It comes on in Atlanta, Georgia,
you know, and uh magic one of then point five.
(33:48):
I listened to it every Sunday, and so I'm just happy. Yeah,
I run commercials during that time slot to promote my
own money making conversation platform. And so I realized this
relationships and and I I respect what you do, and
I will continue to deliver the Swag Awards. And as
you say, it's a partnership. I send you names. You
said reach this will work on my platform, don't work
(34:08):
on the platform. And unfortunately, blessed that so many people
do my show now and it give us a nice
options for you to be able to deliver on your
platform the type of men age wise and execute and
everyday dad, because we want to promote that as well
celebrities and well known entrepreneurs. So I appreciate you and
thank you for let me get my little hype on
(34:29):
for great Thank you very much, lad. I was like,
we gotta get there. You know, I didn't see a
little paper. You know. I don't want to push nothing,
but believe me, I'm proud every week I do it. Uh.
It's a priority for me and my staff the Swag
(34:50):
Awards because more and more black men need to be
recognized and to be recognized on the platform for women
of color. That's what's so impressive to me, because the
fact that you know, there's so many miss miss normals
and misstatements about relationships and being that platform, and we're
in to say the positive side and it just becomes
a snowball effect. And so yes, anytime you need me
(35:13):
for that, but of course I represent for all your platforms.
So thank you very much again. Oh, thank you, thank you,
and be careful with me, safe down I have to.
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