July 9, 2025 • 47 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What I call Yeah, it's way yup with Angela ye,
and what a great day today is already I feel
like I've been up for hours, but it is a Wednesday,
and I have a special guest host Today's Wednesday, right,
my guy, what I call you Real Life Cast Team.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
This is cool cat because.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Your Instagram is still Real Life Cast. All in that
game now just because it's just because it used to
be Real Life Cast used to.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Be back in back in the day when he was imagined.
Jay Electronica.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
He's in town right now, by the way, Yes, that's
to Day Electronica.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You go back, you go back.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
But you also are one of the hosts of seven
PM in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yes, So shout out to that, Shout out.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
To Mellow, Shout out to kid Mary Monica mcnut Rudy
Gay best podcast out there.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Really is an amazing podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I appreciate it, and you have had to acquite the career.
But we're going to get into that. Today's also a
Wealth Wednesday. We got Stormy Banks joining us today. What
she does is she helps grants. She helped you get
grants for your business. So a lot of times we
don't know about all these available grants. You know, people
need grant writers, but that can help transform your business.
She talks about also factoring in grant money into your
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business plan. So she gets about four hundred thousand dollars
a year in grants for her business. Can you imagine?
All right, well, let's get this show started with some
shine of light. Eight hundred two ninety two fifty one
fifty Call us up. Let us know who you want
to spread some love to. Its way up, shame.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I'm shin.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Turn your lights on, y'all spreading love to those who
are doing greatness.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
The light on, Shine the light on.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
It's time to shine a light on.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, it's way up with Angela Yee and my special
guest host today, kaz is going to be here, which
I've been so excited to get you on the show.
So excited to guest hosts. So, who do you want
to shine a light on today?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I want to shot on Sean Gettis and Dean Banton.
This past weekend, they put together an incredible event called
Nick's Twitter Day. Social media usually has a ton of
negativity and just bad stuff that comes from it, but
this is a great example of social media, getting people
together for a positive night, positive day with family and friends.
Ben Stiller came out, huge Knicks fan, like a bunch
(02:21):
of Knicks fans on Twitter that create their own content.
They had a big basketball tournament. They gave out MVPs.
All that type of stuff is in Brooklyn. He came,
took pictures of everyone. It was beautiful. Shout out Jalen
Brunton and Josh Hart too. Unfortunately it happened during Independent's
Day weekend, and he said if it wasn't nothing Independent's
Day weekend, they both would it came. But it was
(02:41):
just a great event, a great day. So shout out
to both of those guys.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Was awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Now, how do you know who's positive on social media?
You gotta go through people's social media accounts.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Do you say something negative about that?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well you could be. You could be negative on social media.
But as long as that in real life is positive,
I'll agree with that. That's something good could come from it.
You can't avoid the negativity all the time. So I
wasn't so bad. I enjoyed it all right. Well, thank
you for that.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And Stefan, who do you want to shine a light on?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
I want to shine a light on with my girlfriend.
You know, she's been working really hard, starting a business,
setting a good example for a family, her young siblings,
and just want to tell her to keep telling. Okay,
a free let's just stay prays for everybody in Texas.
You know, if everybody could get connected to other miss children,
(03:30):
I know a lot of them, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I'm still watching her saying more than one hundred people
have died. Again, we are definitely keeping our eye on
what's happening there. But you know, thank you for calling in,
thank you for shining a light. We appreciate you, no
problem having good by you too. Well, that was shining light.
Eight hundred and two nine two fifty fifty. If you
couldn't get through, you can leave a message and shine
a light that way. And when we come back, you
know what, since Kaz is here guest hosting today, let's
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talk about sports kind of Dwight Howard and this divorce.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Oh god, when we come back, yea tee, it's way
up shore.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
She's about to blow the lead and off this but
let's get it. Angelus billing at yee tee, come and
get your tea.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's way up with Angela ye with my special guest
host for today, Kauzine.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Make sure you follow him. Hey, cast Hey, what's up?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
All right, let's get into some of this yea te Now,
we try to do a lot of sports oriented things.
I appreciate it with you because that's your that's your wheelhouse.
As we're sitting here, all you're talking about is sports
run down.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
What you just said, I mean, chat. Holmgren just signed
a two hundred and fifty million dollars Supermax Rookie extension
just days after Shake Gils Alexander signed his super Max extension.
Both of those kids five hundred and thirty five million
dollars from the Thunder for the next four years the
NBA Champions. Congratulations to that man, and shout out to
(04:48):
the good brother Carmelo Anthony, who will be on the
cover of NBA two K twenty six. Well just wasn't nounced,
but my guy, Ronnie two K, so you already know.
I hope, I hope, I guess, I hope I getting
the game. Give me a scam, Ronnie. I'm trying to
be in the game.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
What's up, all right?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, somebody you guys interviewed on the podcast and we've
interviewed up here Dwight Howard. According to reports, Amy Luciani
has filed four divorce after six months of marriage. Now
there was a report that she wants all of their
marital assets and property to be equitably divided by the courts,
but she posted I plan on speaking on this one
time only to this day, have never asked him for
(05:25):
a single dollar, not thirty cents. I don't know why
she said that random numbers. Before we married, I asked
to sign a prenup. I texted right to him. I
told him I want to sign a prenup because I
believe what you work for is yours and I'm not
the type of woman to take what's not mine. I
mentioned a prenup first, he declined, I do not want
any of his assets. I do not want half of
anything that he earned or obtained before me.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That's rough. I feel for Dwight when he was all
sudden came in Brooklyn. He was there with his wife
and it looked as happy as ever. And I feel
for him because there's always talk about his personal life
outside of like the greatness that he had on the court.
And I think you know the news of this coming
out is only gonna it's only gonna intensify that.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I feel bad form, but well, I do want to
say he was amazing on Dancing with the Stars. Aside
from all of this. I was watching, I was like,
what Dwight, how are gonna do today?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
He had the moves or somebody so tall? All right?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Duyne Wade's mother, Joe Linda, has revealed how important the
letters that he was writing to her while she was
incarcerated were for her. She was actually on Today with
Jenna and Friends, which he's co hosting this week, which
is amazing to see Dane Wade doing that. They surprised
him with the prerecorded message from his mother, and here's
that message.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
I remember how we became penpals when I was incarcerated.
Your letters got me through each day and enabled me
to be a part of all the wonderful things.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
That was happening in your life.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
When you sent me pictures of my grandson's air, I
was able to tell from your letters how very proud
you you made up your that you were going to
be the best stand you could be, and that is exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
What you have become.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
She did eventually join them in person too, and opened
up on all the things that led to her getting incarcerated.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Man, that's that's incredible, full circle story. Dwayne Way was
my favorite player growing up, and he's always talked about
how he would send penpals to his mom. And you know,
hearing her side now all these years later, especially be
on the media side that Dwayne's done. He's hold the
Today Show as well. He's done a lot of great
things post NBA career.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
What a nice surprise, incredible, incredible for that to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And he's so googleable because of how she spelled his name.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Why in front of it? I always gotta always gotta
respell when.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
All right, well that is your yet when we come
back about last night, that's where we discussed what we
did last night.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Can't wait to hear what you were up to, Cass.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So about last night. Yes, I went down.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It's way up at Angela Ye and I'm here with
my guest host, Kaz. What's that you feeling? I'm good?
What did you do last night?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Man?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yesterday it was a long day. We had a double
taping day for seven Peam in Brooklyn, so we had
a podcast tape with legendary Hall of Fame in Tracy McGrady.
We talked to Jermaine Dupree after that, kicked it for
a while as well. Shout out to my guy Nick Kahn.
He had a listening session for his new album Colors.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You were outside Brooklyn just.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Little peep in, Just a little peep in. My got
Corey Towns DJ did as well. It was a good
time out there. It was raining, so I stay out
too long on that once that storm started hitting and
I was like, all right, well, got y'all.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You know you interviewed Jermaine dupri yesterday, JD and so
did we forlip Service. Have you had a chance to
see because I know right now he's have you talking
about this Magic City docu series?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Have you seen any of it yet?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I have seen clips, I haven't seen the whole thing,
Magic City and American Fantasy on Stars. I think it
comes out in about two weeks. I can't wait to see.
Not to give away too much of the conversation, but
he compared it to our Studio fifty four. Yeah, you
know where it was just like, you know, his legendary
place where.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
City is legendary.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I love that. I love that he talked about how
it's not just about the women, you know what I mean,
like the strip club culture and everything that goes into
especially in Atlanta, especially with all those young black millionaires,
was more than just watching you know, girls shake it,
shake their butts. You feel me?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Like, did he talk about white chocolate a lot on yours?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
He did not speak about put me on.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
She was a dancer, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
So this docuseriies is five parts to it, right, it's
on Stars.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And he's one of the executive producers.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So is Drake by the way in his company and
Shaq Yeah, I mean the second All Star team. Jamie
Gertz also is one of the producers of it, and
our girl gg maguire produces to and she's also the
narrator for it. But G and JD I feel like
they both haven't seen the full docuseries.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
We randomly have it or work.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You can, and I will say this, it's very very
well done. Nice when I tell you the way that
it's shot. You know, I was up here with Mano
we were watching some of it and he was impressed.
I will say definitely, you know. I mean it's in
Magic City, so there's going to be some nudity. Of course,
Gigi's already giving it away that she's full. You know,
(10:14):
she's there too.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
She's like she's in performing in there too.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, she's topless. All right, Okay, it's beautifully shot. I
want to say that. So and just the whole story
of it, songs like whoop.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
There it is blah blah.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
But anyway, that is about last night. When we come back, Cas,
you're gonna love this. Yeah, tell us a secret.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Lucky you here for tell us a secret day.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Okay, So eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty.
Maybe you've got some strip club secrets that you want
to tell us.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I got none.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Now we'll see eight hundred two fifty one fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Call us up.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's a no judgment zone, so that's no problem. You
are anonymous, Cas, you are not. Eight hundred two nine
two fifty one fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Call us up. Tell us a secret.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
This is a judgment free zone. Tell us a secret.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
All right, it's time for tell us a secret. Cas,
is your first time listening and hearing and taking these
costs for tell us a secret.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I'm so excited. I've seen so many of these viral moments.
I can't wait to be a part of one.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
We can't wait to hear yours all right, my mom
eight hundred two ninety two fifty one fifty anonimous color,
tell us your secret.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
So it was like my bachelor party night and wanted
to go to a strip club, but none of my
male friends wanted to go, so I brought one of
my female friends, just friends and were there. So she
bought your lap dance and then she said, you want
to go in the background with her? So I'm like, okay,
but I didn't think she was gonna.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Come with me, o my friend.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
So I'm in there, I'm getting my dance. But then
all of a sudden, the stripper and her started getting
a little touchy killer, so they let me join what
and I swear almost ain't get married, Almost ain't get married.
So I never told nobody that, but when I heard it,
I'm like, well, I want.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Let me tell you something about these female friends because
that was that was your homegirl?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
So is that still like those? So it's not anymore?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Say not cool?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
No more? Are we cool?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Bro?
Speaker 7 (12:10):
I gotta stay over there because I'm marry. Now what
they call it boundaries to put.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Those Yeah, put the healthy boundaries of a wife. Y,
I'll fail you. Well, at least I went out with
a bang, so to speak.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
She asked me, did you ever do anything strange in
the strip club?
Speaker 9 (12:28):
I'm like, no, Then.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You for feeling comfortable enough to share with us.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
No, they shows you extra for that type of activity
in the strip club.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
All right, well, thank you for sharing with us. Hey,
Anadimus color was good.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Hello, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I'm good. You want to tell me as a secret?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Okay, no judgment, right, no judgment.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Okay, So I am addicted to going to sex parties.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Now when you say sex parties, what what.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yet is it?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You're a little bit more specific.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
You can't even get to know it.
Speaker 11 (12:58):
You got it?
Speaker 10 (12:59):
Okay, So one of my homeboys put me onto it.
Oh and by the way, they're diddy kind of party.
Yeah okay, yeah, like no lives like a hundred nicked
men just everywhere, and it's like very insane.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
So it's all men. Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
It's a little pricey.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
But they provide oil snacks all like.
Speaker 11 (13:27):
They even got sex swings and everything.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Like it's crazy chips, pizzaous.
Speaker 11 (13:44):
Stuff, you know, like stuff to make us like no,
but no.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
What I do like is that they do provide condoms
and everything.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Okay, that's good, it's like it's like a year. Are
you a topper about them?
Speaker 12 (14:00):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (14:01):
I'm definitely.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (14:03):
You want to know what's so crazy? I'm like kissing like,
oh that's sweet. Yeah, but no, but no, that's not sweet.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
I'm in sex forty with people doing all kinds of things.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So are you too intimate with it? You you fall
in love at the sex party?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, trying to have a love scene.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I gotta keep it strictly profession.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Yeah, I'm just going to give you one hit.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Okay, you met a right. Oh I'm going to say
not at a party.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
I was about to say, I said, man, not lady.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You're right, you're right.
Speaker 11 (14:38):
This is not how I wanted to get on your show.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
But okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
No no no, no, no no no no, don't say.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
All like, alright, we late, I see you a get
the share, take care.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
But that was telling us a secret eight hundred and
two ninety two fifty one fifty. If you couldn't get through,
leave a message for last word and cas you ready
for more?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yet?
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I sure am all right.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well, Love Island.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
One person, Sierra got kicked off the show, and now
you're gonna find out what the cast was told about
her sudden exit, why she had to leave the show
after this slur that you said you recently found out too.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Was it slur?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, you can't. You can't, I mean not recently. I
know for a little bit, but you can't say that.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, but people don't know. But we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
It's way up the rooms from industry shade to all
of gods.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Angela's speeling that it's way up with Angela.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yee.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I'm here with my guest host Caaz and you came
on a good day.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I felt like a good day. It's been a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, we got Pope eyes.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
And also catering today Wednesdays is like the prey you
got you got to do.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Tell us a secret. Now, let's get into this yet.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You know, I've been trying to pick special sports stories
for you, and I appreciate that that's not really about sports.
For instance, Charles Oakley, now you know he's been getting
a lot of attention for being on Real Housewise of Atlanta,
which is a different vibe for him with his wife Angela.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
She's been doing great on the show this season.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
He was recently on Relationships Matter Live with Shenonicoles got
her podcast, and here is the clip that's going viral
when he was asked about getting married.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
What were your reasons behind getting married? It wasn't even planning.
It was in vagan. We just did it.
Speaker 13 (16:19):
I told about thank somebody mind for some of my
drenk that night, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
We went to the mall the next.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
Day, got a ring, I gotta to get the jacket, just.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Went to the services, got married, you know what, and
they still married to this day.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
They're still together together to this day.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Hey man. Sometimes that's how it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Goes in their whole relationship though, Like they met each
other and then they met each other again. They ended
up being neighbors like way later in life, but they
weren't together.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
They weren't together.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
They Yeah, then they ended up being neighbors and then
they you know, got married.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Got married and they still married.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Hey, listen, it ain't about the proposal. I've seen people
have the biggest, most extravagant proposals of all time and
last like two months. You know, they've been together for
a lot all times, so good for them.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well in addition to that, you know, speaking of them
being married Real Housewives of Atlanta. The reunion is going
to be coming on in July thirteenth. And in the trailer,
here goes Charles Oakley having another moment.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Everybody want to know about me? What about y'all? Wow,
I'm not a husband here where your.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Husband was at?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
She said? Wow?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
You know, you know when they play that sound effect, that.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Is what you know?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
You probably crossed the line.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Why is he so funny?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oak just got no filter? Man, Lyck's fans know that
you've been following Charles Oakley our entire career. Charles Oakley
did not give af about anything as well. Absolutely well,
you know, hopefully one day he's invited back to guard.
But that's the reason why he can't come back now
because sometimes Oakley be wilding's a little.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Bit all right now And in good news, Shock paid
for every customer's dress. He was at a boutique in
Staten Island and he stopped by there and you know,
the owner said that they saw him walking around and
he basically went in and cracked some jokes and talked
about which gallants he liked and then paid for everybody's dresses.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Isn't that nice?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, Shaq does this though. Like if you catch Shaq
at some sort of retail place, like he will usually
see everyone's behind him and everyone's in front of him,
like yo, pay for everybody's stuff and be out.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
In other words, if you see Shaq going into Ermesh Chanel,
go in the store.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Facts. I've seen him pay for an adventure like a
Mac books or something like people go. I've seen him
do this many many times. Shout out to him. Being
in my hometown of Staaten Island, I was really dope.
I never thought I think I'd see Shaq in Stanton Island.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Ever, anyone who works retail, if you see Shaq coming
in and so, call me and I'll pop up.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I just want to stand there.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And get all right, well that is your yet when
we come back. Is under the radar. These are the
stories that are not necessarily and the headlines. They're flying
under the radar, but you definitely need to know about him.
Never thought Homeland Security would be tweeting at Harvard.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Oh boy, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
His way up.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Take the news newssition in the news that relates to you.
These stories are flying under the radar.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
What an active day with kaz is the co host today.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
This has been so much fun. I can't wait to
do it again.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It's way up and let's go under the radar. Now,
the Department at Homeland Security has sin sub poenis to
Harvard University to force them to disclose information about its
international students. They've been posting on social media too. I've
actually never looked at their page prior to this, right,
both of us haven't, and they've been posting wild stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You would think like academics is running the page at
this point, right, it's insane, Like this is supposed to
be a government like sanctioned social media page and it
just feels like a trolls running it. It's nuts.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Well, they posted an article Trump Administration formerly subpoenis Harvard
University over foreign student information, and they said, we try
to do things the easy way with Harvard. Now through
their refusal to cooperate, we have to do things the
hard way. Alice Johnson, right, like it's.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Not just that page too, Like how many times have
we lived through? Like I love she really just ran
through that pleee Johnson. But now like we live. We
live in a time where like social media accounts are
like threatening, like the lives of people before, like it
really happens. Like we've seen Iran Twitter page talk about
(20:12):
like we didn't start it and stuff like that, this
is crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And now we also have seen Elon Musk Grot going
phone Nazi with these posts on X so. I guess
he wants to like make things not as woke as
to quote an Elon Musk vibe. And so somebody said
at GROC which twentieth century hysterical figure would be best
suited to deal with this problem talking about the flooding
(20:37):
that tragically killed yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
People in Texas.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
The answer from Grok was the recent Texas floods tragically
killed over one hundred people, including dozens of children from
a Christian camp, only for radicals like Cindy Steinberg to
celebrate them as future fascists today with such bile anti
white hate. Adolf Hitler, no question, he would spot the
pattern and handle it decisively every damn time.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
This really makes Elon Musk's phony starks for real, because
this is this is the Ultron story, right, Like he
created something that we feel like he was trying to
do a good thing, and the moment it went rogue,
it was like, oh, yeah, no, this is actually quite evil.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, and you know, now they are posting their aware
of recent posts maybey grac they're actively working to remove
the inappropriate posts. And then Elon Musk tweeted out, never
a dull moment on this platform.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Wow, yeah, this is your fault. So this is what
you wanted.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I mean, it is his fault. About the same time,
it's aout's what it's learning, it's what is teaching itself.
So it's clearly it's some sort of faultiness.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But what it means is this is aggregating information on
social media right, and what that means is maybe you
do need to dive up the woke filters because if
this is what it's getting from everybody and gathering, then
you know, not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
And in Philadelphia, think Jesus.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Workers in the city have reached a deal to end
the strike that halted residential trash pickup. It was nearly
ten thousand employees from just a council thirty three. I
was looking at these videos of the garbage piled up
in the street because they haven't been able to pick
that up since July first.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
That is one of my worst nightmares. That's in New Yorker.
Like anytime the Senate Station Department in New York threatens
that they're going to go and strike, they get immediately.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, listen, that's not an easy job to have to do.
You deserve it, Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So don't go and strike here, please please, But anyway,
that is your under the radar. We have the Way
Up Mix at the top of the hour and it
is a wealth Wednesday, Stormy Banks is going to be
joining us helping you transform your business. And you know
how by grants. Grants are not loans. You do not
have to pay them back, and we'll talk about it.
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Speaker 1 (23:03):
She's like the like they Angela like they Angela ge.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And she's spilling it all.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
This is yeaty walla.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
It's way up at Angela yee cas. You ready for
some yea tea?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I'm so ready for Let's go.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I love gossiping with you. All right, Well, let's get
into some new j Lo.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
She has a new breakup song and she just debuted
this while she was in Spain last night. The footage
was was shares a social media and you want to
hear what it sounds like.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It's called Wreckage of You.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Oh boy, let's play it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Why did you do that?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Listen? Man, I'm a big proponent of music after heartbreak.
I always think the best music comes from trauma and
terrible things. And as we're looking at it looks like
it's a song after her second divorce from Ben Affleck.
But this is Jalo Man. I ain't trying to handle
bouts from her. I'm trying to see it, you know,
make some ass shaking music, play some party songs.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
She did say thank you for the scars you left
on my hearts. Maybe people will be able to relate.
Now we don't have an actual recorded song. This is
just her singing it live.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
She's just testing it out, love.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, testing it out.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
She also performed it, I think on July second at
a private fan event, So this is her second time.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Performing at all Right, good for her man, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Earlier during Under the Radar, we talked about Elon Musk's
platform X.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
We still call it Twitter, and we still tweet Mama Twitter.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I'm a call it Twitter.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yes, Roc is on there and saying all kinds of
crazy things because he wanted to get rid of the
woke filters that are on the platform. Well, after all
of that happened, now the CEO, Linda Yacarino has stepped down.
After that whole meltdown where Groc was saying some very
anti Semitic things and praising Hitler and things like that,
(25:11):
she posted, after two incredible years, I've decided to step
down as CEO of X, And she said when Elon
Musk and I first spoke of his vision for X,
I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime.
And so she went on to say, I'll be cheering
you all on as you continue to change the world.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah, I think going full Nazi is usually grounds for resignation.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Rat called it tough mecha Hitler.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, like like Gundam type of Hitler, Like we
talk about a robotic version of this person. I don't know, man,
Like that whole thing yesterday on Twitter was crazy. I've
seen some wild screenshots. I don't know what's real. I
don't know what isn't real.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
He's not even sorry. He just said never a dull
moment on this platform. That was his only response to
all of the drama.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Well, he's fully start. He's not going to take responsibility
for it. Like it did what it was intended to do,
held up a mirror to all the information that gathers
throughout this app and what it spit out was it's
a pretty racist, hey, inus thing, So we're going to
be bad about well.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Speaking of with Sierra from Love Island, she was kicked
off the show and she's been going through it since
then for using a racial slur, which a lot of
people did not know was a racial slur. Now, in
case people were wondering, how was the cast informed of
what happened with the year, because all of a sudden
she just wasn't there. People did not like how they
just dumped her off the show. Here's what Zach from
(26:29):
Love Island had to say about how they were informed.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
When Sierra left.
Speaker 12 (26:33):
The producers coveredos art together and then they said, unfortunately,
Sierra's has broken some of the policies of our guidelines
and we'll no longer be.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Here in the villa.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
And that's on the information we can give you guys.
Or yeah, now, Nick was really upset that she left.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And you know, this is a slur against Chinese people
that she used, which a lot of people use. People
have their names on social media as this slur where
but people I realized in having to tell people that
they didn't even know that you could say that word.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Well, and I've always been a big proponent of show
me who's offended before you're offended for them, and you're
of Asian descent, like, is that something that offends you?
Like when you hear that word.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
No, But I cringe a little because I also but
I also am aware that people don't realize a lot
of times it's like a descriptive word to them. And
so you just tell somebody, and I think this is
a good way to, you know, help inform people. But yes,
it's been a lot all right, Well, when we come
back as let's talk to you, Let's inform people about you.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Let's do that part of the show.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I want people to know who you are and everything
you have going on, because I know you really well,
but we want to make sure everyone does and they should.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
It's way up.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
You are a media maven, right, people you never know
what AND's gonna say.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Oh is that true?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It's way up with Angela ye, and my guy Cozine
is here with me today and you've been guest hosting today.
But I want to make sure that people are aware
of your background and who you are, of course as
a human being, as a journalist. We first met, we
were trying to figure out when that was, but it
was when you were at the Source, Yes, yeah, before
I even worked at iHeart.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah. I think this when you were at Serious way
back when, and uh, you know the same sort of
passion of storytelling and creating stories and telling about hip
hop culture. Like we were kind of running in the
same circles back then. I was still in college when
we met, I did not know. And funny enough, I
think like a few months later, I think you were
(28:24):
managing Jay Electronica and we brought Jay Electronic to our
school Sonny Purchase and then like he's you were like,
wait a minute, Like, I guess you thought I was
there like covering the show. Wait a minute, you're still in.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
College, yeah, the journalist because you were making big moves.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And I just sometimes I look back in my career
and all the places that I work. But you have
worked with some amazing people.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yes, First of all, people had never heard of a
coup shout.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Out the tip.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yes, you threw it back with that one.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I did.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
But I think it's so important to think about, like
the whole entire history of how you got to where
you are today because you've worked with some amazing, amazing
You were a writer for WWE.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yes, yes, I for about a year and some change.
I was traveling the world.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I know that was stressful though it is.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But like it was a fun type of stress, right,
And I always tell people that people that asked me
about it, I felt like that was entertainment boot camp
for me. It's like everything that you needed to know
and learn about how entertainment works, whether it's working with talent,
whether it's being creative, whether it's taking on your feet,
whether it's working with live audiences. I had a little
bit of that going into there, but it like shot
it to a different level after being there. So and
(29:31):
I was just always a fan of wrestling too, So I've.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Always a dream job, yeah in a way.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
In a way, and I still kind of get to
work with them in specific ways, you know, Lee. And
now we do walle Mania every year Before wrestling Mania weekend,
We're doing something dope July thirty, first Thursday in Brooklyn
with a bunch of dope artists as well, leading into
SummerSlam weekends. So I get to sort of combine all
of my passions of sport and journalism and music and
(29:57):
live events all into sort of one thing.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I've actually been to Summer Slam at the Barclays before.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
This year it's a MetLife Stadium CARDI B's co hosting,
so it's gonna be crazy. It's the first time to
do it two nights.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I remember how excited I was.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
We got these chairs, yes, as you had the good
Seed too to keep our chairs.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Revolt you worked at Revolts Uninterrupted Slam spring Yo Company.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Tell me about that.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
That was super fun. So I was working at the
spring Hill Company my first gig working there was being
a creative executive of audio, and I executive produced DJ
Cowen's podcast, the first one on Amazon Nice, And what
made it a little bit more interesting was it's I
got the job like right when covid started. So it
went from this big production with all these you know,
(30:44):
studio setups to basically trying to produce Kalid from his
home and all these other places homes. But the point
of the podcast was basically DJ Calt and I remember
that these artists about their first major hit. So like
we had Biber on there, Mary J. Blige, Lil Wayne.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I mean, I can't get anybody, anybody, anybody, but he's
relentless to which it works.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And he's even more relentless when you're doing a show
with him because he's just as passionate as you are
about putting it together. So it was great. Working with
Team Lebron was fantastic as well, and doing all those podcasts.
But yeah, man, I've always wanted to I never wanted
to limit myself because I felt like if I got
a little bit of everything, I could keep myself unique.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
And seven PM in Brooklyn because that's current.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yes, all right, so tell me about how you and
and Mellow hooked up and you got on the podcast.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Man. First off, I got to give a shout out
to the guys behind the scenes that don't care enough,
you know, Sean for putting that show together. That's peer Simpson, EJ. Wright.
I got tuned day all those guys, obviously the Kid
Marrow as well. They were all super instrumental and get
me on that show because one of his first being
concept concepted. Uh they I was like one of the
(31:53):
last cuts, like before you know, they were doing the
Kid Marrow as the go host. And I would say
maybe a third of the way into the season was
when me and Mellow finally got really cool. The first
episode I came on and DIDZ with him was the
first one right after he came from the Olympics team
America won gold. He was very visibly on the sideline
rooting the team on and I got to help tell
(32:15):
that story with him when he first came back from Paris,
and ever since then we've just tagged Dan.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
But make sure you follow cast kazem Ka z E
E M. Yes, yes, all right, it's way up. And
when we come back, Oh, let's get some advice for
ascy together. Let's do it eight hundred nine fifty one
fifty call us up.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Everybody sens whether.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
It's relationship for Korea advice, Angela's dropping facts.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
You should know this is ask what's up? His way
up with Angela Yee? I'm having fun with my guest
host cast today. All right, well let's get some advice
for ask ye. We got KB on the line.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
What's up, KB yo?
Speaker 11 (32:50):
What's up? Angela yee?
Speaker 4 (32:52):
What?
Speaker 14 (32:52):
I'm KP. I'm originally from Patterson. I'm living in Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaker 11 (32:58):
Right now. Okay, I heard like like six thousands. Me
and my wife, we don't share an account, but she
can look and she can pay bills and looking at
my account, and five thousand went and paid her mother's
medical bills. Instead of saying anything or asking me anything,
(33:19):
she just took it upon herself. And then for some
reason they are like, I was willing for saying something
about it.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
So if she would have came to you, you probably
would have been like, Okay, we figure it out.
Speaker 11 (33:30):
Wouldn't I her mom? When I'm not married to her mother.
Speaker 14 (33:35):
I've been married thirty five years, So now you do
something out of pocket thirty five years.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Has she ever done anything like this before or something
that made you not trust her?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Never? Well, how sick was mom's Like? Was this like
a sprained ankle or was this like a real Yeah,
well she.
Speaker 11 (33:52):
Had broke her kneecap, she like seventy something.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
What was her defense to you when you when you
questioned her.
Speaker 11 (33:58):
Well, I would help you.
Speaker 14 (34:00):
Ain't nobody ever gave me five thousand dollars in my
whole life.
Speaker 11 (34:03):
She doesn't work. I pay you all the field.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Right, She hasn't worked outside of the home, but she
works holding down the household, right, right, So I've.
Speaker 11 (34:10):
Always paid her every week for that, okay, for washing
the clothes, cooking out with food. When I got paid
on Friday, I give her three or four hundreds because
I know that's a job. I'm gonna know a job
with one month, so I knew that's a job.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
And you have kids, if you'll mind me asking.
Speaker 11 (34:27):
Yeah, I got three, but they three.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
So this is not just about the money.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
It's about the principle of her going and doing something
without even saying anything to you about it. Yeah, what
what would be something that could fix this for you?
Speaker 11 (34:42):
Give me my money?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
But ain't this y'all money together thirty five years. It's
not like it's not like she married you for the money.
Y'all been together thirty five years. Now you make it
sound like that you may take what about about my
job though, I'm just saying money isn't really touchy. This
is the first time in thirty five years that something
like this has happened. It's five thousand dollars and it
(35:05):
was for her mom. It's not like she went and
took it and bought something like a purse because she
always wanted to burn.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
It wasn't like a selfish purchase, you know, like maybe
she didn't really have any real options left.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
And you know, and she said, you yourself said, if
she would have asked you, you would have said no.
Sometimes people do things and ask for forgiveness later because
it's that important to them.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
Man, this ain't going my way on the radio.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
But I mean, KB, I'm just trying to have you
look at it from her point of view, because I
understand your point of view.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Right.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It never feels good when somebody goes and does something
without even consulting you. But the reason she didn't was
because it was that important. And it's not like this
is her character. It's not like she's constantly doing stuff
like this. True, I feel like it's worth a conversation
of why you were bothered by.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
It and why you don't want this to happen again.
But that you you still you do still love her?
Speaker 11 (36:01):
Right, Oh, most definite.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
You know, maybe you get some vouchers for the bedroom
for this.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
There you go, You gotta, you gotta, you gotta take
that roll with it. I was about to say, you got.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
To take you get some special cook meals as a payback.
Speaker 11 (36:16):
That'd be nice. I got some sand in on that'd
be nice.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Okay, but there's a better way to handle this. You're right,
you right, You're right, all right, KB.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
You seem like a fun guy.
Speaker 11 (36:29):
I am, I am, and I'm a people person.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
All right, thanks KB. He said this ain't going my way.
You know that was asking eight hundred two nine fifty fifty.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Were good with the advice. And when we come back,
it's a wealth Wednesday. So we got Stormy Banks here
with us talking about grants for your business, how you
should apply for them, how you can get grant writers.
It's another stream of income that you don't got to
pay back.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
It's way up.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
I had a dream of wealthy and I don't mind
sharing my.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Wealth dog financially, mentally and physically. This is wealth Wednesday
on Way Up with Angela.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yee, what's up?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
His way up with Angela? I need this in my
life right here. It is a Wealth Wednesday. Stacy Tisdaye
is here.
Speaker 15 (37:11):
Happy Wealth Wednesday's everybody. We have something that we all
need right now, free money and knowing how to get
free money.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
And that's why we are so excited.
Speaker 13 (37:20):
I've been really excited for this interview.
Speaker 15 (37:22):
To bring you Stormy Banks, who is the founder and
CEO of pink Print Firm, and that is a full
service grant writing agency.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Amazing that has raised.
Speaker 15 (37:32):
I've actually raised nineteen million dollars yes, and grants for
entrepreneurs to date. You actually factor grant money into your
revenue projections.
Speaker 13 (37:43):
Who has that confidence? Who does that?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Well?
Speaker 16 (37:45):
Everyone needs to be This is literally a revenue strategy.
That's how business owners all the time. If you're just
thinking of grants like a lottery strategy, you're using them
the wrong way. Because the house that I got approved
for I got to prove for more because of the
revenue in our business, and a big chink of that
is grant money. So I tell people this is way
bigger than just getting funding to grow a business.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
That's one thing I would say, as much as we
talk about entrepreneurship, I've not ever gotten that one grant
from my business.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
I know.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
That's how I'm like, I'm so glad.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
You're here today, because what people don't realize is a
grant is so different also than it's not alone, right.
A grant is money that you don't actually have to
pay back.
Speaker 15 (38:19):
There's so many misconceptions about it being complicated, and people
don't understand. What are some of the common misconceptions about it.
A lot of people don't think, oh, it's for nonprofits
or something like that. What are some of the common
misperceptions we have.
Speaker 13 (38:31):
Oh, there's a lot.
Speaker 16 (38:32):
So to your point that it's not alone, right, So
people think they have to have good credit to go
for grants.
Speaker 13 (38:37):
That's wrong.
Speaker 16 (38:38):
People think they have to have a certain revenue or
a certain amount of history in business to start winning grants.
Speaker 13 (38:43):
That's wrong.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Not in all.
Speaker 13 (38:44):
Cases do you need that stuff to get started?
Speaker 16 (38:46):
And so they think they need to be a nonprofit,
and again they're just utilizing it in the wrong manner
instead of using as a strategy. They think it's this
one motery ticket opportunity where they just can get a short, quick,
little boost in their business to do one thing. Maybe
it's an event, or maybe it's a financial literacy program
that they want to offer, but they're not thinking of
it in terms of how can I actually build and
expand my business in a capacity building way to really
(39:08):
be able to build this multimillion dollar, billion dollar company
that I can sell or pass down.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Right now, it said Wealth Wednesday, I'm at Stacy Tisdale
and we're talking to Stormy Banks about grant writing.
Speaker 15 (39:17):
This all came to you during COVID when you had
I know you had two salons before two mobile salons.
Tell us about that story.
Speaker 16 (39:25):
I was a hairstylist, got trained from Paul Mitchell. I
was their top performer. When I went to them and said, hey,
can I change my commission from forty sixty split into
fifty to fifty?
Speaker 13 (39:33):
They said you got to take a hiatus.
Speaker 16 (39:35):
And so I had a full book of clients and
a hiatus wasn't something that was going to be an
option for me. And so I was like well, I'm
taking my clients so what I could at the time,
and I'm going on on my own. And I did that,
and quickly that I realized, oh, it's a lot of overhead.
I see why they needed that sixty percent. And so
then from there I started realizing, how can I get
this funding. I had a five ninety six credit score.
I didn't have enough fund you know, money in the
(39:56):
bank to get traditional funding because Banko America told me
I needed two fifty a year or two hundred fifty
thousand dollars a year to get a loan.
Speaker 13 (40:02):
I didn't have any of that.
Speaker 16 (40:03):
So then I started seeing what are some other options
that are available in New York State was giving out
grants to small business owners at the time, and I
applied for some grants through some different programs and got
funded from a grant there. But I didn't even use
that to start teaching yet. I was just like running
that for that's a lot of business. Yeah, But then
when COVID hit in New York shut down all non
essential workers, I didn't have any money to pay my bills.
(40:24):
I'm like, let me just start teaching people how they
can access this grant funding. That's out here right now,
and then that's how pink Fernt was worth.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
All right, Stormy Banks is here to Wealth Wednesday. We're
talking about grant writing and how you can get access
for grants for your business. That's money you don't have
to pay back. We have more with Stacy Tisdale and
Stormy Banks when we come back. Happy Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
I had a dream of wealthy and I don't mind
sharing my wealth dogs getting you straight financially, mentally and physically.
This is Wealth Wednesday on Way Up with Angela Ye.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
What's up? His way up with Angela Yee. Happy Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I'm here with Stacy Tisdale and we have Stormy Banks.
She's the founder and CEO of Pink Print Firm, which
is a full service grant writing agency.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
If you have a business, you need to listen up now.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Can you tell us some stories about times when you've
seen a grant change that Trajacktory is somebody's business?
Speaker 16 (41:12):
Well me, I'm definitely my own story. But then also
there's been so many people who come into our seminars
and they just really think that grants are not for
their business for whatever reason. And when they finally get
that first grant the validation that it brings to their
business of what it can create, and they're like, Oh,
this is money that somebody just believed in me and
gave me that I can utilize without the extra stress
(41:33):
that comes with Okay, now I got to get this
money by tomorrow because I owe these people this money
back and you can actually build with true freedom and peace.
That's There was one lady, Bonita Clemens who came to
one of our classes who didn't think that she could
get a grant for her for profit. She won twenty
thousand dollars with quick books and literally changed her whole life.
And she's got so many grants after that. Man, let
me tell you something. This is something and I talk
(41:53):
to my partner about this all the time.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
I'm like, we need to apply for some grants, and it's
hard because you do feel like you need to get
somebody because they're people who really make a living off
of being a grant writer. But the other thing I've
heard is people who have used grant writers and have
not gotten grants. I think it's also important for people
to be cautious about who they're tapping in with.
Speaker 13 (42:10):
Absolutely.
Speaker 16 (42:11):
First of all, my whole team is certified grant writers,
so we've actually gone through the process to learn the
skill and build the relationships. So there's a lot of
people who can teach about grants. Maybe they've won one
personally and they're kind of just going out and given
the education. But when you're hiring an actual grant writer
first you need to see some results, right. Everyone should
know how much of success rate do we have? What
are our data measurable things that we can bring to
(42:31):
you outside of just writing the actual grant, Like, for instance,
relationships is a big one. I could go to a
funder and say, hey, what's the rubric on the back end?
So now I know how to put the fund in
application better than someone who's just coming in on their
own right. And so you also want to see like efficacy,
do they actually have morals and values within the company
that they're holding your ideas.
Speaker 13 (42:51):
Some people have some really unique ideas that haven't been
shared yet.
Speaker 16 (42:54):
I have to have a certain code of ethics when
I'm handling certain information. So those are some things that
you need to look for. But a grant writer can't
guarantee you to win a grant, So working with you.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
I want to know that too, because sometimes they think
I paid this person money, I hired them, I didn't
get my results. But it's also not a guarantee necessarily,
but but it's important to know what you're looking for
when you're trying.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
To find the right person. Right now, it's a Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
I'm a Stacy Tisdale and we're talking to Stormy Banks
about grant writing.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
What are your success rates?
Speaker 16 (43:22):
We've had an eighty percent success rate since twenty twenty
one that we've maintained.
Speaker 15 (43:26):
So you have your five day get Grant Ready seminar
coming up August fourth through.
Speaker 13 (43:31):
Eighth, and it's the biggest virtual grants some of our
on Internet period and I love.
Speaker 16 (43:36):
It because we really break down from a certified grant
writer perspective. Day one is all about money mindset, how
to understand how grant's really works because we have to
shift from traditional funding. Then we're talking about how you
can actually access grants, finding them on actual databases and
not through Google. Then we're going into how to write
your grant proposal in full. We're going into how to
(43:57):
use that funding through tax strategy to really grow and
build your business, and how it's a revenue strategy. And
we're also going to tap into the nonprofit side a
lot too, how you can utilize the nonprofit as a
huge way to leverage other grant opportunities. And it's just
going to be super packed. Huge educators are going to
be there and it's going to be amazing. So everyone
who joins is going to learn quite a bit when
it comes to but sign me up because this is
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something that has been like I keep on putting it off,
but it's definitely something that I know can help make
my business thrive.
Speaker 15 (44:25):
So a lot of people sign up for that.
Speaker 16 (44:27):
Yeah, everybody can sign up at Pinkprintfirm dot com.
Speaker 13 (44:31):
Pinkprint Firm dot com.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Thank you so much Stacy Tisdale and our special guests
Dormy Banks.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Make sure you follow her.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Her company again is called pink Print Firm, and sign
up for that. Get grant ready semin or August fourth
to the eighth, and when we come back, this is
your show.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
So you have the last word.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Oh, get your voice heard.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
What the word is is the last word?
Speaker 3 (44:54):
On Way Up with Angela ye?
Speaker 1 (44:55):
What's up? Its Way Up with Angela yee? And what
an amazing day.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Shout out to my guy Cas joining me today as
a guest host because I've always admired all the work
that you do, so I'm just grateful that you were
able to come on, and I'm gonna have you tomorrow too,
when we have Schaquarze Stevenson here.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
I'm down. I'm down. That means a lot for you
coming from you, and like you're somebody I've looked up
to for a long time and you know, you just
always have moved with such grace and presence in the
media industry. So it means lock home for me.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Thank you, well, thank you, And you know, after the
show tomorrow whatever, I'm heading out to Detroit, So shout
out to everybody who's going to be at Global Citizen
Now in Detroit. I was telling you what that is,
and it's like a whole experience where people are going
to be basically just brainstorming. We're gonna see Mark Cuban
Wycliffe is going to be there, Marcus Samuelson, Mary Sheffield,
(45:42):
some of our favorite people, just talking about ways that
we can make sure the youth are prepared for the
future and that we're all talking about the relevant things
for our community. So just excited to be there and
I'm gonna be reporting back so you guys know exactly
what's happening. Also to night at APM if I'm not
doing enough, We're also bringing you a special Wealth Wednesday's
(46:04):
virtual event about how entrepreneurs can use AI to level
up their business. So just go to Facebook dot com
slash team. Ye, it's me and Stacey Tisdale and my
girl Angelina Darisaw. So that's going to be really helpful
as we're always talking about AI and leveling up, all right,
and of course this is your show, so you guys
have the last word.
Speaker 9 (46:23):
Back in nineteen r right, it was a script club
in Detroit called the Brass Key, and I met this
female in there and we.
Speaker 3 (46:31):
Ended up dating. Now we stopped talking.
Speaker 9 (46:34):
I haven't heard some more senior than like all these
years since back then. Now I meet a female now
she's like thirty years old, and we start kicking and
we're messing around doing whatever, and she invited me to
a family gathering and like to meet her family. And
when I get there, she instroduced.
Speaker 3 (46:51):
Me to a mama and her mama old girl.
Speaker 7 (46:52):
From the brass Key that I used to kick it
with back in the day.
Speaker 5 (46:55):
You know, what I'm saying, I like to.
Speaker 17 (46:57):
Sign a light online best friend campus. Actually, she's an
amazing mom, she's an amazing person. She has a kind heart,
she has a justice soul, and I wish he was
the best for the best and nothing left.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
Thank you, It's time.
Speaker 5 (47:13):
I'm about the triber you tapped in and way up
with Angela Yee, the wanding now now
You are.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
What I call Yeah, it's way yup with Angela ye,
and what a great day today is already I feel
like I've been up for hours, but it is a Wednesday,
and I have a special guest host Today's Wednesday, right,
my guy, what I call you Real Life Cast Team.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
This is cool cat because.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Your Instagram is still Real Life Cast. All in that
game now just because it's just because it used to
be Real Life Cast used to.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Be back in back in the day when he was imagined.
Jay Electronica.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
He's in town right now, by the way, Yes, that's
to Day Electronica.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You go back, you go back.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
But you also are one of the hosts of seven
PM in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yes, So shout out to that, Shout out.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
To Mellow, Shout out to kid Mary Monica mcnut Rudy
Gay best podcast out there.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Really is an amazing podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
You.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I appreciate it, and you have had to acquite the career.
But we're going to get into that. Today's also a
Wealth Wednesday. We got Stormy Banks joining us today. What
she does is she helps grants. She helped you get
grants for your business. So a lot of times we
don't know about all these available grants. You know, people
need grant writers, but that can help transform your business.
She talks about also factoring in grant money into your
(01:20):
business plan. So she gets about four hundred thousand dollars
a year in grants for her business. Can you imagine?
All right, well, let's get this show started with some
shine of light. Eight hundred two ninety two fifty one
fifty Call us up. Let us know who you want
to spread some love to. Its way up, shame.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I'm shin.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Turn your lights on, y'all spreading love to those who
are doing greatness.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
The light on, Shine the light on.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
It's time to shine a light on.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, it's way up with Angela Yee and my special
guest host today, kaz is going to be here, which
I've been so excited to get you on the show.
So excited to guest hosts. So, who do you want
to shine a light on today?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
I want to shot on Sean Gettis and Dean Banton.
This past weekend, they put together an incredible event called
Nick's Twitter Day. Social media usually has a ton of
negativity and just bad stuff that comes from it, but
this is a great example of social media, getting people
together for a positive night, positive day with family and friends.
Ben Stiller came out, huge Knicks fan, like a bunch
(02:21):
of Knicks fans on Twitter that create their own content.
They had a big basketball tournament. They gave out MVPs.
All that type of stuff is in Brooklyn. He came,
took pictures of everyone. It was beautiful. Shout out Jalen
Brunton and Josh Hart too. Unfortunately it happened during Independent's
Day weekend, and he said if it wasn't nothing Independent's
Day weekend, they both would it came. But it was
(02:41):
just a great event, a great day. So shout out
to both of those guys.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Was awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Now, how do you know who's positive on social media?
You gotta go through people's social media accounts.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Do you say something negative about that?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well you could be. You could be negative on social media.
But as long as that in real life is positive,
I'll agree with that. That's something good could come from it.
You can't avoid the negativity all the time. So I
wasn't so bad. I enjoyed it all right. Well, thank
you for that.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
And Stefan, who do you want to shine a light on?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
I want to shine a light on with my girlfriend.
You know, she's been working really hard, starting a business,
setting a good example for a family, her young siblings,
and just want to tell her to keep telling. Okay,
a free let's just stay prays for everybody in Texas.
You know, if everybody could get connected to other miss children,
(03:30):
I know a lot of them, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, no, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I'm still watching her saying more than one hundred people
have died. Again, we are definitely keeping our eye on
what's happening there. But you know, thank you for calling in,
thank you for shining a light. We appreciate you, no
problem having good by you too. Well, that was shining light.
Eight hundred and two nine two fifty fifty. If you
couldn't get through, you can leave a message and shine
a light that way. And when we come back, you
know what, since Kaz is here guest hosting today, let's
(03:55):
talk about sports kind of Dwight Howard and this divorce.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Oh god, when we come back, yea tee, it's way
up shore.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
She's about to blow the lead and off this but
let's get it. Angelus billing at yee tee, come and
get your tea.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's way up with Angela ye with my special guest
host for today, Kauzine.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Make sure you follow him. Hey, cast Hey, what's up?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
All right, let's get into some of this yea te Now,
we try to do a lot of sports oriented things.
I appreciate it with you because that's your that's your wheelhouse.
As we're sitting here, all you're talking about is sports
run down.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
What you just said, I mean, chat. Holmgren just signed
a two hundred and fifty million dollars Supermax Rookie extension
just days after Shake Gils Alexander signed his super Max extension.
Both of those kids five hundred and thirty five million
dollars from the Thunder for the next four years the
NBA Champions. Congratulations to that man, and shout out to
(04:48):
the good brother Carmelo Anthony, who will be on the
cover of NBA two K twenty six. Well just wasn't nounced,
but my guy, Ronnie two K, so you already know.
I hope, I hope, I guess, I hope I getting
the game. Give me a scam, Ronnie. I'm trying to
be in the game.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
What's up, all right?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, somebody you guys interviewed on the podcast and we've
interviewed up here Dwight Howard. According to reports, Amy Luciani
has filed four divorce after six months of marriage. Now
there was a report that she wants all of their
marital assets and property to be equitably divided by the courts,
but she posted I plan on speaking on this one
time only to this day, have never asked him for
(05:25):
a single dollar, not thirty cents. I don't know why
she said that random numbers. Before we married, I asked
to sign a prenup. I texted right to him. I
told him I want to sign a prenup because I
believe what you work for is yours and I'm not
the type of woman to take what's not mine. I
mentioned a prenup first, he declined, I do not want
any of his assets. I do not want half of
anything that he earned or obtained before me.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That's rough. I feel for Dwight when he was all
sudden came in Brooklyn. He was there with his wife
and it looked as happy as ever. And I feel
for him because there's always talk about his personal life
outside of like the greatness that he had on the court.
And I think you know the news of this coming
out is only gonna it's only gonna intensify that.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I feel bad form, but well, I do want to
say he was amazing on Dancing with the Stars. Aside
from all of this. I was watching, I was like,
what Dwight, how are gonna do today?
Speaker 1 (06:17):
He had the moves or somebody so tall? All right?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Duyne Wade's mother, Joe Linda, has revealed how important the
letters that he was writing to her while she was
incarcerated were for her. She was actually on Today with
Jenna and Friends, which he's co hosting this week, which
is amazing to see Dane Wade doing that. They surprised
him with the prerecorded message from his mother, and here's
that message.
Speaker 8 (06:39):
I remember how we became penpals when I was incarcerated.
Your letters got me through each day and enabled me
to be a part of all the wonderful things.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
That was happening in your life.
Speaker 8 (06:52):
When you sent me pictures of my grandson's air, I
was able to tell from your letters how very proud
you you made up your that you were going to
be the best stand you could be, and that is exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
What you have become.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
She did eventually join them in person too, and opened
up on all the things that led to her getting incarcerated.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Man, that's that's incredible, full circle story. Dwayne Way was
my favorite player growing up, and he's always talked about
how he would send penpals to his mom. And you know,
hearing her side now all these years later, especially be
on the media side that Dwayne's done. He's hold the
Today Show as well. He's done a lot of great
things post NBA career.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
What a nice surprise, incredible, incredible for that to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And he's so googleable because of how she spelled his name.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Why in front of it? I always gotta always gotta
respell when.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
All right, well that is your yet when we come
back about last night, that's where we discussed what we
did last night.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Can't wait to hear what you were up to, Cass.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
So about last night. Yes, I went down.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It's way up at Angela Ye and I'm here with
my guest host, Kaz. What's that you feeling? I'm good?
What did you do last night?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Man?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yesterday it was a long day. We had a double
taping day for seven Peam in Brooklyn, so we had
a podcast tape with legendary Hall of Fame in Tracy McGrady.
We talked to Jermaine Dupree after that, kicked it for
a while as well. Shout out to my guy Nick Kahn.
He had a listening session for his new album Colors.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You were outside Brooklyn just.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Little peep in, Just a little peep in. My got
Corey Towns DJ did as well. It was a good
time out there. It was raining, so I stay out
too long on that once that storm started hitting and
I was like, all right, well, got y'all.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
You know you interviewed Jermaine dupri yesterday, JD and so
did we forlip Service. Have you had a chance to
see because I know right now he's have you talking
about this Magic City docu series?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Have you seen any of it yet?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I have seen clips, I haven't seen the whole thing,
Magic City and American Fantasy on Stars. I think it
comes out in about two weeks. I can't wait to see.
Not to give away too much of the conversation, but
he compared it to our Studio fifty four. Yeah, you
know where it was just like, you know, his legendary
place where.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
City is legendary.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I love that. I love that he talked about how
it's not just about the women, you know what I mean,
like the strip club culture and everything that goes into
especially in Atlanta, especially with all those young black millionaires,
was more than just watching you know, girls shake it,
shake their butts. You feel me?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Like, did he talk about white chocolate a lot on yours?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
He did not speak about put me on.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
She was a dancer, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
So this docuseriies is five parts to it, right, it's
on Stars.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And he's one of the executive producers.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So is Drake by the way in his company and
Shaq Yeah, I mean the second All Star team. Jamie
Gertz also is one of the producers of it, and
our girl gg maguire produces to and she's also the
narrator for it. But G and JD I feel like
they both haven't seen the full docuseries.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
We randomly have it or work.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You can, and I will say this, it's very very
well done. Nice when I tell you the way that
it's shot. You know, I was up here with Mano
we were watching some of it and he was impressed.
I will say definitely, you know. I mean it's in
Magic City, so there's going to be some nudity. Of course,
Gigi's already giving it away that she's full. You know,
(10:14):
she's there too.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
She's like she's in performing in there too.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, she's topless. All right, Okay, it's beautifully shot. I
want to say that. So and just the whole story
of it, songs like whoop.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
There it is blah blah.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
But anyway, that is about last night. When we come back, Cas,
you're gonna love this. Yeah, tell us a secret.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Lucky you here for tell us a secret day.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Okay, So eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty.
Maybe you've got some strip club secrets that you want
to tell us.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I got none.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Now we'll see eight hundred two fifty one fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Call us up.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
It's a no judgment zone, so that's no problem. You
are anonymous, Cas, you are not. Eight hundred two nine
two fifty one fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Call us up. Tell us a secret.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
This is a judgment free zone. Tell us a secret.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
All right, it's time for tell us a secret. Cas,
is your first time listening and hearing and taking these
costs for tell us a secret.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I'm so excited. I've seen so many of these viral moments.
I can't wait to be a part of one.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
We can't wait to hear yours all right, my mom
eight hundred two ninety two fifty one fifty anonimous color,
tell us your secret.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
So it was like my bachelor party night and wanted
to go to a strip club, but none of my
male friends wanted to go, so I brought one of
my female friends, just friends and were there. So she
bought your lap dance and then she said, you want
to go in the background with her? So I'm like, okay,
but I didn't think she was gonna.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Come with me, o my friend.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
So I'm in there, I'm getting my dance. But then
all of a sudden, the stripper and her started getting
a little touchy killer, so they let me join what
and I swear almost ain't get married, Almost ain't get married.
So I never told nobody that, but when I heard it,
I'm like, well, I want.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Let me tell you something about these female friends because
that was that was your homegirl?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
So is that still like those? So it's not anymore?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Say not cool?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
No more? Are we cool?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Bro?
Speaker 7 (12:10):
I gotta stay over there because I'm marry. Now what
they call it boundaries to put.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Those Yeah, put the healthy boundaries of a wife. Y,
I'll fail you. Well, at least I went out with
a bang, so to speak.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
She asked me, did you ever do anything strange in
the strip club?
Speaker 9 (12:28):
I'm like, no, Then.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You for feeling comfortable enough to share with us.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
No, they shows you extra for that type of activity
in the strip club.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
All right, well, thank you for sharing with us. Hey,
Anadimus color was good.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Hello, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I'm good. You want to tell me as a secret?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Okay, no judgment, right, no judgment.
Speaker 10 (12:47):
Okay, So I am addicted to going to sex parties.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Now when you say sex parties, what what.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yet is it?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You're a little bit more specific.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
You can't even get to know it.
Speaker 11 (12:58):
You got it?
Speaker 10 (12:59):
Okay, So one of my homeboys put me onto it.
Oh and by the way, they're diddy kind of party.
Yeah okay, yeah, like no lives like a hundred nicked
men just everywhere, and it's like very insane.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
So it's all men. Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
It's a little pricey.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
But they provide oil snacks all like.
Speaker 11 (13:27):
They even got sex swings and everything.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Like it's crazy chips, pizzaous.
Speaker 11 (13:44):
Stuff, you know, like stuff to make us like no,
but no.
Speaker 10 (13:49):
What I do like is that they do provide condoms
and everything.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Okay, that's good, it's like it's like a year. Are
you a topper about them?
Speaker 12 (14:00):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (14:01):
I'm definitely.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (14:03):
You want to know what's so crazy? I'm like kissing like,
oh that's sweet. Yeah, but no, but no, that's not sweet.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
I'm in sex forty with people doing all kinds of things.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So are you too intimate with it? You you fall
in love at the sex party?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, trying to have a love scene.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I gotta keep it strictly profession.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Yeah, I'm just going to give you one hit.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Okay, you met a right. Oh I'm going to say
not at a party.
Speaker 10 (14:30):
I was about to say, I said, man, not lady.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You're right, you're right.
Speaker 11 (14:38):
This is not how I wanted to get on your show.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
But okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
No no no, no, no no no no, don't say.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
All like, alright, we late, I see you a get
the share, take care.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
But that was telling us a secret eight hundred and
two ninety two fifty one fifty. If you couldn't get through,
leave a message for last word and cas you ready
for more?
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yet?
Speaker 7 (14:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I sure am all right.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Well, Love Island.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
One person, Sierra got kicked off the show, and now
you're gonna find out what the cast was told about
her sudden exit, why she had to leave the show
after this slur that you said you recently found out too.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Was it slur?
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, you can't. You can't, I mean not recently. I
know for a little bit, but you can't say that.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, but people don't know. But we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
It's way up the rooms from industry shade to all
of gods.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Angela's speeling that it's way up with Angela.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Yee.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
I'm here with my guest host Caaz and you came
on a good day.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
I felt like a good day. It's been a lot.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, we got Pope eyes.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
And also catering today Wednesdays is like the prey you
got you got to do.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Tell us a secret. Now, let's get into this yet.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You know, I've been trying to pick special sports stories
for you, and I appreciate that that's not really about sports.
For instance, Charles Oakley, now you know he's been getting
a lot of attention for being on Real Housewise of Atlanta,
which is a different vibe for him with his wife Angela.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
She's been doing great on the show this season.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
He was recently on Relationships Matter Live with Shenonicoles got
her podcast, and here is the clip that's going viral
when he was asked about getting married.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
What were your reasons behind getting married? It wasn't even planning.
It was in vagan. We just did it.
Speaker 13 (16:19):
I told about thank somebody mind for some of my
drenk that night, but I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
We went to the mall the next.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
Day, got a ring, I gotta to get the jacket, just.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Went to the services, got married, you know what, and
they still married to this day.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
They're still together together to this day.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Hey man. Sometimes that's how it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Goes in their whole relationship though, Like they met each
other and then they met each other again. They ended
up being neighbors like way later in life, but they
weren't together.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
They weren't together.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
They Yeah, then they ended up being neighbors and then
they you know, got married.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Got married and they still married.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Hey, listen, it ain't about the proposal. I've seen people
have the biggest, most extravagant proposals of all time and
last like two months. You know, they've been together for
a lot all times, so good for them.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Well in addition to that, you know, speaking of them
being married Real Housewives of Atlanta. The reunion is going
to be coming on in July thirteenth. And in the trailer,
here goes Charles Oakley having another moment.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Everybody want to know about me? What about y'all? Wow,
I'm not a husband here where your.
Speaker 7 (17:19):
Husband was at?
Speaker 1 (17:21):
She said? Wow?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
You know, you know when they play that sound effect, that.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Is what you know?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
You probably crossed the line.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Why is he so funny?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oak just got no filter? Man, Lyck's fans know that
you've been following Charles Oakley our entire career. Charles Oakley
did not give af about anything as well. Absolutely well,
you know, hopefully one day he's invited back to guard.
But that's the reason why he can't come back now
because sometimes Oakley be wilding's a little.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Bit all right now And in good news, Shock paid
for every customer's dress. He was at a boutique in
Staten Island and he stopped by there and you know,
the owner said that they saw him walking around and
he basically went in and cracked some jokes and talked
about which gallants he liked and then paid for everybody's dresses.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Isn't that nice?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, Shaq does this though. Like if you catch Shaq
at some sort of retail place, like he will usually
see everyone's behind him and everyone's in front of him,
like yo, pay for everybody's stuff and be out.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
In other words, if you see Shaq going into Ermesh Chanel,
go in the store.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Facts. I've seen him pay for an adventure like a
Mac books or something like people go. I've seen him
do this many many times. Shout out to him. Being
in my hometown of Staaten Island, I was really dope.
I never thought I think I'd see Shaq in Stanton Island.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Ever, anyone who works retail, if you see Shaq coming
in and so, call me and I'll pop up.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I just want to stand there.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And get all right, well that is your yet when
we come back. Is under the radar. These are the
stories that are not necessarily and the headlines. They're flying
under the radar, but you definitely need to know about him.
Never thought Homeland Security would be tweeting at Harvard.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Oh boy, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
His way up.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Take the news newssition in the news that relates to you.
These stories are flying under the radar.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
What an active day with kaz is the co host today.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
This has been so much fun. I can't wait to
do it again.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
It's way up and let's go under the radar. Now,
the Department at Homeland Security has sin sub poenis to
Harvard University to force them to disclose information about its
international students. They've been posting on social media too. I've
actually never looked at their page prior to this, right,
both of us haven't, and they've been posting wild stuff.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You would think like academics is running the page at
this point, right, it's insane, Like this is supposed to
be a government like sanctioned social media page and it
just feels like a trolls running it. It's nuts.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Well, they posted an article Trump Administration formerly subpoenis Harvard
University over foreign student information, and they said, we try
to do things the easy way with Harvard. Now through
their refusal to cooperate, we have to do things the
hard way. Alice Johnson, right, like it's.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Not just that page too, Like how many times have
we lived through? Like I love she really just ran
through that pleee Johnson. But now like we live. We
live in a time where like social media accounts are
like threatening, like the lives of people before, like it
really happens. Like we've seen Iran Twitter page talk about
(20:12):
like we didn't start it and stuff like that, this
is crazy.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
And now we also have seen Elon Musk Grot going
phone Nazi with these posts on X so. I guess
he wants to like make things not as woke as
to quote an Elon Musk vibe. And so somebody said
at GROC which twentieth century hysterical figure would be best
suited to deal with this problem talking about the flooding
(20:37):
that tragically killed yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
People in Texas.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
The answer from Grok was the recent Texas floods tragically
killed over one hundred people, including dozens of children from
a Christian camp, only for radicals like Cindy Steinberg to
celebrate them as future fascists today with such bile anti
white hate. Adolf Hitler, no question, he would spot the
pattern and handle it decisively every damn time.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
This really makes Elon Musk's phony starks for real, because
this is this is the Ultron story, right, Like he
created something that we feel like he was trying to
do a good thing, and the moment it went rogue,
it was like, oh, yeah, no, this is actually quite evil.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yeah, and you know, now they are posting their aware
of recent posts maybey grac they're actively working to remove
the inappropriate posts. And then Elon Musk tweeted out, never
a dull moment on this platform.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Wow, yeah, this is your fault. So this is what
you wanted.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
I mean, it is his fault. About the same time,
it's aout's what it's learning, it's what is teaching itself.
So it's clearly it's some sort of faultiness.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
But what it means is this is aggregating information on
social media right, and what that means is maybe you
do need to dive up the woke filters because if
this is what it's getting from everybody and gathering, then
you know, not a good thing.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
And in Philadelphia, think Jesus.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Workers in the city have reached a deal to end
the strike that halted residential trash pickup. It was nearly
ten thousand employees from just a council thirty three. I
was looking at these videos of the garbage piled up
in the street because they haven't been able to pick
that up since July first.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
That is one of my worst nightmares. That's in New Yorker.
Like anytime the Senate Station Department in New York threatens
that they're going to go and strike, they get immediately.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah, listen, that's not an easy job to have to do.
You deserve it, Okay.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
So don't go and strike here, please please, But anyway,
that is your under the radar. We have the Way
Up Mix at the top of the hour and it
is a wealth Wednesday, Stormy Banks is going to be
joining us helping you transform your business. And you know
how by grants. Grants are not loans. You do not
have to pay them back, and we'll talk about it.
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Speaker 1 (23:03):
She's like the like they Angela like they Angela ge.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And she's spilling it all.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
This is yeaty walla.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
It's way up at Angela yee cas. You ready for
some yea tea?
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I'm so ready for Let's go.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I love gossiping with you. All right, Well, let's get
into some new j Lo.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
She has a new breakup song and she just debuted
this while she was in Spain last night. The footage
was was shares a social media and you want to
hear what it sounds like.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
It's called Wreckage of You.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Oh boy, let's play it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Why did you do that?
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Listen? Man, I'm a big proponent of music after heartbreak.
I always think the best music comes from trauma and
terrible things. And as we're looking at it looks like
it's a song after her second divorce from Ben Affleck.
But this is Jalo Man. I ain't trying to handle
bouts from her. I'm trying to see it, you know,
make some ass shaking music, play some party songs.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
She did say thank you for the scars you left
on my hearts. Maybe people will be able to relate.
Now we don't have an actual recorded song. This is
just her singing it live.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
She's just testing it out, love.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, testing it out.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
She also performed it, I think on July second at
a private fan event, So this is her second time.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Performing at all Right, good for her man, all right.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Earlier during Under the Radar, we talked about Elon Musk's
platform X.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
We still call it Twitter, and we still tweet Mama Twitter.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
I'm a call it Twitter.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yes, Roc is on there and saying all kinds of
crazy things because he wanted to get rid of the
woke filters that are on the platform. Well, after all
of that happened, now the CEO, Linda Yacarino has stepped down.
After that whole meltdown where Groc was saying some very
anti Semitic things and praising Hitler and things like that,
(25:11):
she posted, after two incredible years, I've decided to step
down as CEO of X, And she said when Elon
Musk and I first spoke of his vision for X,
I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime.
And so she went on to say, I'll be cheering
you all on as you continue to change the world.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah, I think going full Nazi is usually grounds for resignation.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Rat called it tough mecha Hitler.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yeah, yeah, like like Gundam type of Hitler, Like we
talk about a robotic version of this person. I don't know, man,
Like that whole thing yesterday on Twitter was crazy. I've
seen some wild screenshots. I don't know what's real. I
don't know what isn't real.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
He's not even sorry. He just said never a dull
moment on this platform. That was his only response to
all of the drama.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Well, he's fully start. He's not going to take responsibility
for it. Like it did what it was intended to do,
held up a mirror to all the information that gathers
throughout this app and what it spit out was it's
a pretty racist, hey, inus thing, So we're going to
be bad about well.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Speaking of with Sierra from Love Island, she was kicked
off the show and she's been going through it since
then for using a racial slur, which a lot of
people did not know was a racial slur. Now, in
case people were wondering, how was the cast informed of
what happened with the year, because all of a sudden
she just wasn't there. People did not like how they
just dumped her off the show. Here's what Zach from
(26:29):
Love Island had to say about how they were informed.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
When Sierra left.
Speaker 12 (26:33):
The producers coveredos art together and then they said, unfortunately,
Sierra's has broken some of the policies of our guidelines
and we'll no longer be.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Here in the villa.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
And that's on the information we can give you guys.
Or yeah, now, Nick was really upset that she left.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And you know, this is a slur against Chinese people
that she used, which a lot of people use. People
have their names on social media as this slur where
but people I realized in having to tell people that
they didn't even know that you could say that word.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Well, and I've always been a big proponent of show
me who's offended before you're offended for them, and you're
of Asian descent, like, is that something that offends you?
Like when you hear that word.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
No, But I cringe a little because I also but
I also am aware that people don't realize a lot
of times it's like a descriptive word to them. And
so you just tell somebody, and I think this is
a good way to, you know, help inform people. But yes,
it's been a lot all right, Well, when we come
back as let's talk to you, Let's inform people about you.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Let's do that part of the show.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I want people to know who you are and everything
you have going on, because I know you really well,
but we want to make sure everyone does and they should.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
It's way up.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
You are a media maven, right, people you never know
what AND's gonna say.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Oh is that true?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It's way up with Angela ye, and my guy Cozine
is here with me today and you've been guest hosting today.
But I want to make sure that people are aware
of your background and who you are, of course as
a human being, as a journalist. We first met, we
were trying to figure out when that was, but it
was when you were at the Source, Yes, yeah, before
I even worked at iHeart.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah. I think this when you were at Serious way
back when, and uh, you know the same sort of
passion of storytelling and creating stories and telling about hip
hop culture. Like we were kind of running in the
same circles back then. I was still in college when
we met, I did not know. And funny enough, I
think like a few months later, I think you were
(28:24):
managing Jay Electronica and we brought Jay Electronic to our
school Sonny Purchase and then like he's you were like,
wait a minute, Like, I guess you thought I was
there like covering the show. Wait a minute, you're still in.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
College, yeah, the journalist because you were making big moves.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And I just sometimes I look back in my career
and all the places that I work. But you have
worked with some amazing people.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yes, First of all, people had never heard of a
coup shout.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Out the tip.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Yes, you threw it back with that one.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I did.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
But I think it's so important to think about, like
the whole entire history of how you got to where
you are today because you've worked with some amazing, amazing
You were a writer for WWE.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Yes, yes, I for about a year and some change.
I was traveling the world.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
I know that was stressful though it is.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
But like it was a fun type of stress, right,
And I always tell people that people that asked me
about it, I felt like that was entertainment boot camp
for me. It's like everything that you needed to know
and learn about how entertainment works, whether it's working with talent,
whether it's being creative, whether it's taking on your feet,
whether it's working with live audiences. I had a little
bit of that going into there, but it like shot
it to a different level after being there. So and
(29:31):
I was just always a fan of wrestling too, So I've.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Always a dream job, yeah in a way.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
In a way, and I still kind of get to
work with them in specific ways, you know, Lee. And
now we do walle Mania every year Before wrestling Mania weekend,
We're doing something dope July thirty, first Thursday in Brooklyn
with a bunch of dope artists as well, leading into
SummerSlam weekends. So I get to sort of combine all
of my passions of sport and journalism and music and
(29:57):
live events all into sort of one thing.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I've actually been to Summer Slam at the Barclays before.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
This year it's a MetLife Stadium CARDI B's co hosting,
so it's gonna be crazy. It's the first time to
do it two nights.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I remember how excited I was.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
We got these chairs, yes, as you had the good
Seed too to keep our chairs.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Revolt you worked at Revolts Uninterrupted Slam spring Yo Company.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Tell me about that.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
That was super fun. So I was working at the
spring Hill Company my first gig working there was being
a creative executive of audio, and I executive produced DJ
Cowen's podcast, the first one on Amazon Nice, And what
made it a little bit more interesting was it's I
got the job like right when covid started. So it
went from this big production with all these you know,
(30:44):
studio setups to basically trying to produce Kalid from his
home and all these other places homes. But the point
of the podcast was basically DJ Calt and I remember
that these artists about their first major hit. So like
we had Biber on there, Mary J. Blige, Lil Wayne.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I mean, I can't get anybody, anybody, anybody, but he's
relentless to which it works.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And he's even more relentless when you're doing a show
with him because he's just as passionate as you are
about putting it together. So it was great. Working with
Team Lebron was fantastic as well, and doing all those podcasts.
But yeah, man, I've always wanted to I never wanted
to limit myself because I felt like if I got
a little bit of everything, I could keep myself unique.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
And seven PM in Brooklyn because that's current.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Yes, all right, so tell me about how you and
and Mellow hooked up and you got on the podcast.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Man. First off, I got to give a shout out
to the guys behind the scenes that don't care enough,
you know, Sean for putting that show together. That's peer Simpson, EJ. Wright.
I got tuned day all those guys, obviously the Kid
Marrow as well. They were all super instrumental and get
me on that show because one of his first being
concept concepted. Uh they I was like one of the
(31:53):
last cuts, like before you know, they were doing the
Kid Marrow as the go host. And I would say
maybe a third of the way into the season was
when me and Mellow finally got really cool. The first
episode I came on and DIDZ with him was the
first one right after he came from the Olympics team
America won gold. He was very visibly on the sideline
rooting the team on and I got to help tell
(32:15):
that story with him when he first came back from Paris,
and ever since then we've just tagged Dan.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
But make sure you follow cast kazem Ka z E
E M. Yes, yes, all right, it's way up. And
when we come back, Oh, let's get some advice for
ascy together. Let's do it eight hundred nine fifty one
fifty call us up.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Everybody sens whether.
Speaker 5 (32:35):
It's relationship for Korea advice, Angela's dropping facts.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
You should know this is ask what's up? His way
up with Angela Yee? I'm having fun with my guest
host cast today. All right, well let's get some advice
for ask ye. We got KB on the line.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
What's up, KB yo?
Speaker 11 (32:50):
What's up? Angela yee?
Speaker 4 (32:52):
What?
Speaker 14 (32:52):
I'm KP. I'm originally from Patterson. I'm living in Jacksonville, Florida.
Speaker 11 (32:58):
Right now. Okay, I heard like like six thousands. Me
and my wife, we don't share an account, but she
can look and she can pay bills and looking at
my account, and five thousand went and paid her mother's
medical bills. Instead of saying anything or asking me anything,
(33:19):
she just took it upon herself. And then for some
reason they are like, I was willing for saying something
about it.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
So if she would have came to you, you probably
would have been like, Okay, we figure it out.
Speaker 11 (33:30):
Wouldn't I her mom? When I'm not married to her mother.
Speaker 14 (33:35):
I've been married thirty five years, So now you do
something out of pocket thirty five years.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Has she ever done anything like this before or something
that made you not trust her?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Never? Well, how sick was mom's Like? Was this like
a sprained ankle or was this like a real Yeah,
well she.
Speaker 11 (33:52):
Had broke her kneecap, she like seventy something.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
What was her defense to you when you when you
questioned her.
Speaker 11 (33:58):
Well, I would help you.
Speaker 14 (34:00):
Ain't nobody ever gave me five thousand dollars in my
whole life.
Speaker 11 (34:03):
She doesn't work. I pay you all the field.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Right, She hasn't worked outside of the home, but she
works holding down the household, right, right, So I've.
Speaker 11 (34:10):
Always paid her every week for that, okay, for washing
the clothes, cooking out with food. When I got paid
on Friday, I give her three or four hundreds because
I know that's a job. I'm gonna know a job
with one month, so I knew that's a job.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
And you have kids, if you'll mind me asking.
Speaker 11 (34:27):
Yeah, I got three, but they three.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
So this is not just about the money.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
It's about the principle of her going and doing something
without even saying anything to you about it. Yeah, what
what would be something that could fix this for you?
Speaker 11 (34:42):
Give me my money?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
But ain't this y'all money together thirty five years. It's
not like it's not like she married you for the money.
Y'all been together thirty five years. Now you make it
sound like that you may take what about about my
job though, I'm just saying money isn't really touchy. This
is the first time in thirty five years that something
like this has happened. It's five thousand dollars and it
(35:05):
was for her mom. It's not like she went and
took it and bought something like a purse because she
always wanted to burn.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
It wasn't like a selfish purchase, you know, like maybe
she didn't really have any real options left.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
And you know, and she said, you yourself said, if
she would have asked you, you would have said no.
Sometimes people do things and ask for forgiveness later because
it's that important to them.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
Man, this ain't going my way on the radio.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
But I mean, KB, I'm just trying to have you
look at it from her point of view, because I
understand your point of view.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Right.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
It never feels good when somebody goes and does something
without even consulting you. But the reason she didn't was
because it was that important. And it's not like this
is her character. It's not like she's constantly doing stuff
like this. True, I feel like it's worth a conversation
of why you were bothered by.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
It and why you don't want this to happen again.
But that you you still you do still love her?
Speaker 11 (36:01):
Right, Oh, most definite.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
You know, maybe you get some vouchers for the bedroom
for this.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
There you go, You gotta, you gotta, you gotta take
that roll with it. I was about to say, you got.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
To take you get some special cook meals as a payback.
Speaker 11 (36:16):
That'd be nice. I got some sand in on that'd
be nice.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Okay, but there's a better way to handle this. You're right,
you right, You're right, all right, KB.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
You seem like a fun guy.
Speaker 11 (36:29):
I am, I am, and I'm a people person.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
All right, thanks KB. He said this ain't going my way.
You know that was asking eight hundred two nine fifty fifty.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Were good with the advice. And when we come back,
it's a wealth Wednesday. So we got Stormy Banks here
with us talking about grants for your business, how you
should apply for them, how you can get grant writers.
It's another stream of income that you don't got to
pay back.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
It's way up.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
I had a dream of wealthy and I don't mind
sharing my.
Speaker 5 (36:58):
Wealth dog financially, mentally and physically. This is wealth Wednesday
on Way Up with Angela.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yee, what's up?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
His way up with Angela? I need this in my
life right here. It is a Wealth Wednesday. Stacy Tisdaye
is here.
Speaker 15 (37:11):
Happy Wealth Wednesday's everybody. We have something that we all
need right now, free money and knowing how to get
free money.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
And that's why we are so excited.
Speaker 13 (37:20):
I've been really excited for this interview.
Speaker 15 (37:22):
To bring you Stormy Banks, who is the founder and
CEO of pink Print Firm, and that is a full
service grant writing agency.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Amazing that has raised.
Speaker 15 (37:32):
I've actually raised nineteen million dollars yes, and grants for
entrepreneurs to date. You actually factor grant money into your
revenue projections.
Speaker 13 (37:43):
Who has that confidence? Who does that?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Well?
Speaker 16 (37:45):
Everyone needs to be This is literally a revenue strategy.
That's how business owners all the time. If you're just
thinking of grants like a lottery strategy, you're using them
the wrong way. Because the house that I got approved
for I got to prove for more because of the
revenue in our business, and a big chink of that
is grant money. So I tell people this is way
bigger than just getting funding to grow a business.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
That's one thing I would say, as much as we
talk about entrepreneurship, I've not ever gotten that one grant
from my business.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
I know.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
That's how I'm like, I'm so glad.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
You're here today, because what people don't realize is a
grant is so different also than it's not alone, right.
A grant is money that you don't actually have to
pay back.
Speaker 15 (38:19):
There's so many misconceptions about it being complicated, and people
don't understand. What are some of the common misconceptions about it.
A lot of people don't think, oh, it's for nonprofits
or something like that. What are some of the common
misperceptions we have.
Speaker 13 (38:31):
Oh, there's a lot.
Speaker 16 (38:32):
So to your point that it's not alone, right, So
people think they have to have good credit to go
for grants.
Speaker 13 (38:37):
That's wrong.
Speaker 16 (38:38):
People think they have to have a certain revenue or
a certain amount of history in business to start winning grants.
Speaker 13 (38:43):
That's wrong.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Not in all.
Speaker 13 (38:44):
Cases do you need that stuff to get started?
Speaker 16 (38:46):
And so they think they need to be a nonprofit,
and again they're just utilizing it in the wrong manner
instead of using as a strategy. They think it's this
one motery ticket opportunity where they just can get a short, quick,
little boost in their business to do one thing. Maybe
it's an event, or maybe it's a financial literacy program
that they want to offer, but they're not thinking of
it in terms of how can I actually build and
expand my business in a capacity building way to really
(39:08):
be able to build this multimillion dollar, billion dollar company
that I can sell or pass down.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Right now, it said Wealth Wednesday, I'm at Stacy Tisdale
and we're talking to Stormy Banks about grant writing.
Speaker 15 (39:17):
This all came to you during COVID when you had
I know you had two salons before two mobile salons.
Tell us about that story.
Speaker 16 (39:25):
I was a hairstylist, got trained from Paul Mitchell. I
was their top performer. When I went to them and said, hey,
can I change my commission from forty sixty split into
fifty to fifty?
Speaker 13 (39:33):
They said you got to take a hiatus.
Speaker 16 (39:35):
And so I had a full book of clients and
a hiatus wasn't something that was going to be an
option for me. And so I was like well, I'm
taking my clients so what I could at the time,
and I'm going on on my own. And I did that,
and quickly that I realized, oh, it's a lot of overhead.
I see why they needed that sixty percent. And so
then from there I started realizing, how can I get
this funding. I had a five ninety six credit score.
I didn't have enough fund you know, money in the
(39:56):
bank to get traditional funding because Banko America told me
I needed two fifty a year or two hundred fifty
thousand dollars a year to get a loan.
Speaker 13 (40:02):
I didn't have any of that.
Speaker 16 (40:03):
So then I started seeing what are some other options
that are available in New York State was giving out
grants to small business owners at the time, and I
applied for some grants through some different programs and got
funded from a grant there. But I didn't even use
that to start teaching yet. I was just like running
that for that's a lot of business. Yeah, But then
when COVID hit in New York shut down all non
essential workers, I didn't have any money to pay my bills.
(40:24):
I'm like, let me just start teaching people how they
can access this grant funding. That's out here right now,
and then that's how pink Fernt was worth.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
All right, Stormy Banks is here to Wealth Wednesday. We're
talking about grant writing and how you can get access
for grants for your business. That's money you don't have
to pay back. We have more with Stacy Tisdale and
Stormy Banks when we come back. Happy Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
I had a dream of wealthy and I don't mind
sharing my wealth dogs getting you straight financially, mentally and physically.
This is Wealth Wednesday on Way Up with Angela Ye.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
What's up? His way up with Angela Yee. Happy Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I'm here with Stacy Tisdale and we have Stormy Banks.
She's the founder and CEO of Pink Print Firm, which
is a full service grant writing agency.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
If you have a business, you need to listen up now.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Can you tell us some stories about times when you've
seen a grant change that Trajacktory is somebody's business?
Speaker 16 (41:12):
Well me, I'm definitely my own story. But then also
there's been so many people who come into our seminars
and they just really think that grants are not for
their business for whatever reason. And when they finally get
that first grant the validation that it brings to their
business of what it can create, and they're like, Oh,
this is money that somebody just believed in me and
gave me that I can utilize without the extra stress
(41:33):
that comes with Okay, now I got to get this
money by tomorrow because I owe these people this money
back and you can actually build with true freedom and peace.
That's There was one lady, Bonita Clemens who came to
one of our classes who didn't think that she could
get a grant for her for profit. She won twenty
thousand dollars with quick books and literally changed her whole life.
And she's got so many grants after that. Man, let
me tell you something. This is something and I talk
(41:53):
to my partner about this all the time.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
I'm like, we need to apply for some grants, and it's
hard because you do feel like you need to get
somebody because they're people who really make a living off
of being a grant writer. But the other thing I've
heard is people who have used grant writers and have
not gotten grants. I think it's also important for people
to be cautious about who they're tapping in with.
Speaker 13 (42:10):
Absolutely.
Speaker 16 (42:11):
First of all, my whole team is certified grant writers,
so we've actually gone through the process to learn the
skill and build the relationships. So there's a lot of
people who can teach about grants. Maybe they've won one
personally and they're kind of just going out and given
the education. But when you're hiring an actual grant writer
first you need to see some results, right. Everyone should
know how much of success rate do we have? What
are our data measurable things that we can bring to
(42:31):
you outside of just writing the actual grant, Like, for instance,
relationships is a big one. I could go to a
funder and say, hey, what's the rubric on the back end?
So now I know how to put the fund in
application better than someone who's just coming in on their
own right. And so you also want to see like efficacy,
do they actually have morals and values within the company
that they're holding your ideas.
Speaker 13 (42:51):
Some people have some really unique ideas that haven't been
shared yet.
Speaker 16 (42:54):
I have to have a certain code of ethics when
I'm handling certain information. So those are some things that
you need to look for. But a grant writer can't
guarantee you to win a grant, So working with you.
Speaker 2 (43:02):
I want to know that too, because sometimes they think
I paid this person money, I hired them, I didn't
get my results. But it's also not a guarantee necessarily,
but but it's important to know what you're looking for
when you're trying.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
To find the right person. Right now, it's a Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
I'm a Stacy Tisdale and we're talking to Stormy Banks
about grant writing.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
What are your success rates?
Speaker 16 (43:22):
We've had an eighty percent success rate since twenty twenty
one that we've maintained.
Speaker 15 (43:26):
So you have your five day get Grant Ready seminar
coming up August fourth through.
Speaker 13 (43:31):
Eighth, and it's the biggest virtual grants some of our
on Internet period and I love.
Speaker 16 (43:36):
It because we really break down from a certified grant
writer perspective. Day one is all about money mindset, how
to understand how grant's really works because we have to
shift from traditional funding. Then we're talking about how you
can actually access grants, finding them on actual databases and
not through Google. Then we're going into how to write
your grant proposal in full. We're going into how to
(43:57):
use that funding through tax strategy to really grow and
build your business, and how it's a revenue strategy. And
we're also going to tap into the nonprofit side a
lot too, how you can utilize the nonprofit as a
huge way to leverage other grant opportunities. And it's just
going to be super packed. Huge educators are going to
be there and it's going to be amazing. So everyone
who joins is going to learn quite a bit when
it comes to but sign me up because this is
(44:19):
something that has been like I keep on putting it off,
but it's definitely something that I know can help make
my business thrive.
Speaker 15 (44:25):
So a lot of people sign up for that.
Speaker 16 (44:27):
Yeah, everybody can sign up at Pinkprintfirm dot com.
Speaker 13 (44:31):
Pinkprint Firm dot com.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Thank you so much Stacy Tisdale and our special guests
Dormy Banks.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Make sure you follow her.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Her company again is called pink Print Firm, and sign
up for that. Get grant ready semin or August fourth
to the eighth, and when we come back, this is
your show.
Speaker 1 (44:46):
So you have the last word.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Oh, get your voice heard.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
What the word is is the last word?
Speaker 3 (44:54):
On Way Up with Angela ye?
Speaker 1 (44:55):
What's up? Its Way Up with Angela yee? And what
an amazing day.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Shout out to my guy Cas joining me today as
a guest host because I've always admired all the work
that you do, so I'm just grateful that you were
able to come on, and I'm gonna have you tomorrow too,
when we have Schaquarze Stevenson here.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
I'm down. I'm down. That means a lot for you
coming from you, and like you're somebody I've looked up
to for a long time and you know, you just
always have moved with such grace and presence in the
media industry. So it means lock home for me.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Thank you, well, thank you, And you know, after the
show tomorrow whatever, I'm heading out to Detroit, So shout
out to everybody who's going to be at Global Citizen
Now in Detroit. I was telling you what that is,
and it's like a whole experience where people are going
to be basically just brainstorming. We're gonna see Mark Cuban
Wycliffe is going to be there, Marcus Samuelson, Mary Sheffield,
(45:42):
some of our favorite people, just talking about ways that
we can make sure the youth are prepared for the
future and that we're all talking about the relevant things
for our community. So just excited to be there and
I'm gonna be reporting back so you guys know exactly
what's happening. Also to night at APM if I'm not
doing enough, We're also bringing you a special Wealth Wednesday's
(46:04):
virtual event about how entrepreneurs can use AI to level
up their business. So just go to Facebook dot com
slash team. Ye, it's me and Stacey Tisdale and my
girl Angelina Darisaw. So that's going to be really helpful
as we're always talking about AI and leveling up, all right,
and of course this is your show, so you guys
have the last word.
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Back in nineteen r right, it was a script club
in Detroit called the Brass Key, and I met this
female in there and we.
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Ended up dating. Now we stopped talking.
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I haven't heard some more senior than like all these
years since back then. Now I meet a female now
she's like thirty years old, and we start kicking and
we're messing around doing whatever, and she invited me to
a family gathering and like to meet her family. And
when I get there, she instroduced.
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Me to a mama and her mama old girl.
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From the brass Key that I used to kick it
with back in the day.
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You know, what I'm saying, I like to.
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Sign a light online best friend campus. Actually, she's an
amazing mom, she's an amazing person. She has a kind heart,
she has a justice soul, and I wish he was
the best for the best and nothing left.
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