Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Felecia Hatcher.
Purpose of the Interview
- To spotlight Black Ambition, a national initiative founded by Pharrell Williams that funds and mentors Black and Brown entrepreneurs.
- To promote the upcoming Black Ambition Demo Day and Fundable Founders Forum in Miami.
- To inspire entrepreneurs by sharing insights on scaling businesses, accessing resources, and building wealth.
Key Takeaways
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About Black Ambition
- Founded by Pharrell Williams to close the opportunity gap for Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs.
- Has invested in 131 companies over five years.
- Provides capital, mentorship, and holistic support (including mental health).
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Event Details
- Demo Day (Nov 14): Entrepreneurs pitch and receive funding.
- Fundable Founders Forum (Nov 15): Masterclasses with industry leaders like Steve Stoute, Nancy Twine, and Linda Clemens.
- Focus on actionable strategies, not just inspiration.
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Competition Structure
- Annual national competition with 2,500–3,000 applications.
- Categories include HBCU founders, national finalists, top prize winners, and people’s choice.
- Process: Applications → 250 semifinalists → 3-month cohort → Top 20–25 awarded funding.
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Challenges & Advice
- Many entrepreneurs fail due to rushed applications and lack of preparation.
- Success requires persistence: “Apply again” if you fail.
- Building a team is essential—Black Ambition does not invest in solopreneurs.
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Impact on Black Women
- Fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs but often limited by resources.
- Need to shift from solopreneurship to team-building for scalability.
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Pharrell’s Motivation
- Believes in democratizing opportunity.
- Inspired by those who invested in him early in his career.
- Goal: Close wealth and opportunity gaps quickly—“Wealth has a need for speed.”
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How to Get Involved
- Visit blackambitionprize.com and join the newsletter for alerts and resources.
- Past winners share insights in info sessions.
Notable Quotes
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On closing gaps:
“People are too comfortable wasting the time of Black entrepreneurs with misaligned resources and low vibrational mentorship.” -
On persistence:
“If it doesn’t work on you in that moment, it works for you in that moment. Either way, it works.” -
On Pharrell’s vision:
“Talent is not equally distributed by zip code, but opportunity can be.” -
On entrepreneurship mindset:
“We have to start enjoying the process that molds us, not just say, ‘I didn’t make it, I’m upset.’” -
On Black women entrepreneurs:
“They’re the fastest growing, but largely solopreneurs. We need them to think about building teams.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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My guess is the executive director of Black Ambition. It
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was founded by Grammy Award winning artist and producer for
Real Williams. Black Ambition is a national initiative that funds
and mentors black and brown entrepreneurs to build the future
of innovation.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
In this fifth year, the program has awarded millions in
capital and support to founders across industries. Please welcome to
Money Making Conversations Masterclass Executive Director.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
At least you're a hatcher. How you doing for Lisa good?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Fantastic Orsan, thank you so much for having me on
the show.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Got to this is right in my alley. My background
is my degree is in mathematics. Graduated degree in mathematics.
I thought I was going to be an engineer, but
they physics ran me out of that class.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I settled them on math and people tell me that's
pretty hard. So I got to be impressed and I
got a math degree. But tell us about your program
here I know is this weekend, the fourteenth and fifteen
in Miami. We're going to talk about that because I
want people to understand what it is because this is the.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Fifth year, which means there will be a six year.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So let's tell us about what's happening this weekend and
why are you involved?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, this weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I've been the CEO for almost five years at Black Ambition.
I've been building what I call like a rocket ship
with Pharrell to cry really to be able to create
unprecedented access to opportunities and resources and really kind of
close that gap. Right. I think there's people that are
too comfortable wasting the time of black entrepreneurs with misaligned
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resources and low quality, low vibrational mentorship, and that's definitely.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Not the path that we are on.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And so as a result of that, we've invested in
one hundred and thirty one really amazing companies over the
past five years now, and we're heading towards Demo Day,
which is our big weekend where we award the checks
to the entrepreneurs. That's also including a fantastic conversation with
Pharrell and then Melanie Hobson of Aerial Investments also was
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on the board of Starbucks and JP Morgan, among among
other phenomenal things. And then we'll also, like I said,
award the checks of the entrepreneurs. That following day is
the Fundable Founder's Forum, and so taking this big celebration
is big kind of catalytic moment for these entrepreneurs. And
then creating a set of master classes. So not only
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are you hearing inspirational stories which I think are fantastic
and cool, but like.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You're leaving there with actually how to implement it.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
And I've been to a lot of conferences ra Sean,
I'm sure you have as well. You leave with a
notebook full of notes, and then a lot of entrepreneurs
just don't apply it right. And so taking the time
instead of going from conference to conference or learning to learning,
when do you actually apply and implement what you were learning.
And so we've created a really unique model with the
Fundable Founder's Forum to allow them to get the information
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from you know, Steve Stout who translation as well as
United Masters and what he's doing and kind of the
creator space for creators on Nancy Twine who has a
phenomenal health and beauty space that she's recently sold for
nine figures. Linda Clemmens, who is a sales and body
language expert.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
She's going to tell you when you walk.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Into the room the things that you're doing with your
micro expressions with your body that actually stop you from
getting the investments and the deals and the partnerships before
you even say a word. And then Louis Vuitton is
a partner of ours who's been creating some phenomenal pathway
for a lot of our entrepreneurs. And that session is
really kind of around creating a luxury retail experience. So
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whether you were in the luxury space or not, consumers
in this economy are requiring, they're asking for different things
as a result of the buying experience, They're demanding more
and so knowing the language the art of how to
really kind of take care of them and then I
think for a lot of entrepreneurs that really need to
raise their rates, how do you do that? Like, how
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do you communicate the value proposition of what you were
building and kind of wrap that around getting people what
they need and ultimately from a profit.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Standpoint, you get to grow and scale what you're doing
as well.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Cool, miss Hatcher, I want to make sure I'm getting
this right, I said, executive director.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You said CEO, which one is?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's so CEO is what I'll be saying. And I
apologize and gave me as executive director of Black Ambition. Now,
if anything is there's always categories to be a participant.
Can you break down the categories that involved with this?
It really is a competition, correct.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Absolutely, Yeah, it's a national competition. At the top of
every year, either between February or March is when we
open up applications.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
We get between twenty five hundred and three thousand applications
a year. So this has become one of the most competitive,
you know, prize competitions specifically designed for black and Hispanic
and HBCU entrepreneurs and so as a result of that,
it's a competition, right, and so the competition is fierce
you really are look at entrepreneurs really need to look
for ways in which can communicate their value in the
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marketplace and ultimately like where they will go with the
investment of resources and time that we do as an organization.
And so I think some of the things that I
see where entrepreneurs fall flat is rushing to fill out
the application and really not taking the time, not understanding
and not participating in info sessions, success leads clues. We've
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invested in one hundred and thirty one companies, right, That
means one hundred and thirty one companies have told you
this is the way that you succeed and matriculate through
the process, and so they have social media profiles, they
often take office hours like these are the things that
I have had to learn in raising capital that allow
me to kind of negotiate and you like navigate right
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tap into where you know the head of marketing and
the where the head of communication, Like what conferences are
they speaking at where you can get some one on
one FaceTime that you may normally not be able to get.
These are the things that I think really kind of
stand out in an application process. And so we go
from those three thousand applications rash on to about two
hundred and fifty semi finalists, and then we take those
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two hundred and fifty companies through a three month cohort
style mentorship program. So it's designed to stretch them in
ways they've never been stretched before. It's been designed to
challenge the assumptions of what they're creating, between their target market,
their product, their teams, what they actually need to grow
and scale and succeed, and just a world class group
of mentors that support them. And I'd say one distinction
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of something that we do that is one from the
early conversations with Forel and I is we take a
holistic kind.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Of fortitude approach to entrepreneurship.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
And so through a program called Evoke, we have mental
health and wellness a team that supports these entrepreneurs. Because
it's one thing to go out and raise money, it's
a whole other thing to make sure that you are
whole as you're running these companies. And a lot of
our entrepreneurs are being interfaced with proximity to wealth and
power for the very first time. And if you're not
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careful and kind of protected in how you raise money,
who you raise money from the eve and flow when
things go well and things would things go horrible? How
to be transparent in your conversation with your investors. This
process of entrepreneurship can swallow you whole. Absolutely we prioritize
that as well.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Cool I'm speaking to the CEO of Black Ambition founded
by Pharrell Williams. If you don't know for Grammy and
we'll be happy. That's my man, among other amazing hits.
So we're talking about the event that's happening this weekend
in Miami, fourteenth and fifteenth of this month. And I
(08:03):
interviewed a young man who is tried three times, he say,
failed twice and he finally got in. He's a graduate
of the Georgia Tech and Electrical Engineering.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
His name is Lawrence Phillips.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
He has a platform called green Book Global, which is
a travel review initiative platform for black travelers. Basically it
launched off of the principle of the original green Book,
but now technology is tied to you well when you
travel places that welcome you, cities that welcome you, and
they have a partnership with Expedia.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
That's how advanced their platform is.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
He founded in twenty seventeen and he told me to
have one hundred and fifty thousand downloads on his app
this year. So I told him that's very good. Now
a person like that, like you said, he tried twice.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Third time he did.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Make the finals, but he won another type honor at
your event.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
What was that?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Yeah, he is, he's a top prize winner, right and
so and then he also got the top kind of
voter's choice as well, right and so you know, and
I hear there's quite a few stories of entrepreneurs that
have applied multiple times, and my advice to them and
sometimes they don't want to hear it is apply again.
(09:19):
My mentor has always said to you, if it doesn't
work on you in that moment, it works for you
in that moment. Either way it works, right. And I've
been an entrepreneur for about fifteen years. There's been so
many things that have applied to that I didn't want to.
I was just I'm not applying for this again. And
it was a second time. It was that third time
when I probably said a few choice words that I
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won't repeat here, but like going through the process, and
what I realized in the process is every time I applied,
I became a different type of entrepreneur. I was asked
questions that I was a different person the first time,
but the second time I had much more clarity, I
had much more traction in what I built, And so
whether I got through the finish line or not, I
was a different entrepreneur just going through the process.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And so we've.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Designed our process, whether people realize it or not, to
do the exact same thing. It's going to ask you
questions that you may not have asked yourself before in
your business. But the result of sitting and actually going
through the process of answering it, you have a completely
different frame on how to approach everything. And so we
have to be comfortable and we have to actually start
enjoying the process that is put in place with a
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lot of the things that we do to mold us
and not just say, man, I didn't make it. I'm upset,
like I'm going to give up and close up. No,
absolutely not, Like continue to mold yourself through the process,
be stretched, be cut by the process.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And that's how you see growth in what you're building,
not when you give up.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
But it's like the iterative process of continuing to go
on and on and if it doesn't work for you
at Black Ambition, there's so many other organizations that I
want you to kind of keep up and keep going
and keep applying.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Now, the ultimate question of the question for me is like, Okay,
I'm applying.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Who's judging?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, well, you know who's telling me I'm good, I
can go to the next round And who's telling me, hey,
try again next year.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You know, we have about two hundred to two hundred
and fifty application reviewers. Every application goes to two to
three rounds of reviews, and so we're getting quite a
few different rounds of feedback on every single application. It's
a pretty lengthy process of what happens on the back end,
but that's how we can decipher who rises to the top,
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and then once they get there, that's how we go
from three thousand applications down to two hundred and fifty
applications that at that point they're submitting things to us,
they're submitting financials as well, so that we can make
sure that they are doing what they say that they've
done and that they are set up to succeed. And
then there's another round, which you talked about with Lawrence,
that gets you down to the public voting, which is
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the top fifty companies, and one of those companies will
automatically get a seat into the program by having the
popular vote, meaning that they've gotten the most people to
vote for them. And then it's demo day where we
take the top twenty to twenty five companies and in
the past thirty three companies in order to award them
with financial capital and about six months of really intense coaching,
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getting them following funding opportunities, getting them on retail shelves.
We kind of take their Christmas list for Rashan, like
three things that they want us to do and support
of them, and it's our goal to either get them
there or get them one big giant.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Step closer to what they need to grow and scale
what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
We will be right back with more insights from Money
Making Conversations master Class. Welcome back to Money Making Conversation
Master Class hosted by me Rashan McDonald.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Let's get back into it, Alicia. You know.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
This is entrepreneurship and women of color, especially black women,
have been the fastest growing entrepreneurs five years. I'd like
to say I've been doing I've been doing these interviews
since twenty seventeen, so I can attest that that's a fact.
Why are black women so into entrepreneurship?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's two things. With that stat right,
they're the fastest growing, but they are also so largely solopreneurs,
and meaning that most of them cannot grow and scale
the company, largely because from a revenue standpoint and the
opportunities that have been dismantled. But we also need them
to be people that are thinking about a team. And
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so even in our process we don't invest in solopreneurs.
You can't apply unless you have a team mindset that
you're building a team and you're going to become a
multiple you're going to become a massive employer. That's how
we have a multiplier effect in our communities. Right, And
so I think the ingenuity of black women, I love one. Right,
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there is a hustle and there is a grind that
is one of one that I highly respect and being
able to see how we can increase more of them,
especially since what I think in the last quarter, about
three hundred thousand of them have lost their job in
the past few months, you know, which is devastating, But
I think that also creates an opportunity for them to
become entrepreneurs. So many of them have multiple degrees, massive
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skill sets and networks and connections that are under leveraged
based off of where they are. That this opportunity and
this marketplace now presents something. It could be a hot
side hustle, It can be asset mapping your contacts a
little bit better of like who do I know that
can get me one step closer to one building?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Right talking to the CEO of Black Ambition, I'm telling
you how popular is I.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Didn't know about that. I'm just let you know that,
but obviously a lot of people know about it.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Twenty twenty five because twenty five entrepreneurs applied nationwide. Twenty
five finalists will receive funding and defined categories HBCU pre
Accelerated Winners, National Finalists, Top Prize, WINN and People's Choice. Now,
when we're talking about the process, because like I said,
I want to make sure people understand that this is
the fifth year. The event is happening this weekend in Miami, Florida,
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the fourteenth and the fifteenth.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Now we're going into twenty twenty six. It's going to
happen in the first quarter.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
How can we be aware of the alert or can
we go somewhere to a website to get on a
mailing list so we won't miss out for twenty twenty
six because I know twenty five hundred applicants they're coming back.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Okay, what about the people on my show that are listening.
I want to know how can.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I get be part of that twenty five hundred and
growing number for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Absolutely the best way is to go to our website,
Blackommission Prize dot com. When you register and you join
the newsletter, they get first hand knowledge and connections to
the inside track of how to really be able to
apply and then stand out in the application process. But
there's a ton of resources that we do throughout the
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year to help people best position. And then what we
also do is we bring back a lot of our
past prize winners, our million dollar prize winners, we bring
back for info sessions. They contribute massively back into the
Black Ambition community because it's definitely a family, and they're
the best ones to tell you the things that they
did or almost did not do in order to end
up ultimately winning top prizes of you know, one two
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hundred and fifty thousand to a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Absolutely. You know.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
The thing about it is that I always tell people,
first of all, based on the color of my stands.
You know, I always had to walk in the room
people knew I was black, so that that that can
stereotype you. That I will benefit you unless you walking
in front of the room for the other black people,
because people have stereotypes. But the entrepreneurship space is really
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important because we can make a decision. And I always
tell people Monday through Friday, my wake up time at
four thirty. There's a commitment to being an entrepreneur.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Now, with that.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Being said, award winning artist and producer for Real Williams,
why is he doing this? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You know I asked him that question all the time,
from the very first time we met, you know, I
asked him that a few times a year. It's usually
the question that I ask him every time we get
on stage.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Right before we present the checks.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
He's still doing this again next year, And I ask
him that because as a celebrity who had the heights
in the career that he's had, he can do so
many other things with his time, right, and he's had
a massive impact from an entertainment philanthropic fashion you know,
product spaces as well. And he's an entrepreneur that didn't
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really know he was an entrepreneur, right, and there are
people that invested it in him, and he will always
talk about like that, right, Like he's his mom has
a PhD in education, but he's a college dropout because
he believed in a vision early on and there were
so many other people that at the time where he
didn't have the full belief in his music abilities, he
borrowed someone else's belief in him until it became his own.
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And so building black ambition is a natural extension of
that belief. The resources that need to come together, the connections,
but also the doors that need to be open from
the gatekeepers in the entertainment industry. And so we've dismantled
all of that. He's dismantled all of that. And that's
why we do what we do, because we know that
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talent is not equally distributed by zip code, but opportunity
can be right if we kind of democratize what that
looks like for other people, especially what it looks like
for our people. But you know, wealth is wealth has
a need for speed, and the only way that we're
going to close the wealth and opportunity gap is we
got to move faster. We got to find our superfans
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that truly care about the value that black people have
always brought to the marketplace. And that's why he does
what he does in the way that we have done
it and we will continue.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
To do it.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I'm gonna just change some Felicia. You're good. You're very,
very talented. I do a lot of interviews you you know.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Ragist dot go, you go. You know you you articulate.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You know the value system, the purpose and the drive. Now,
with that being said, you the CEO of Black Ambition, Okay,
for real, he's the Grammy Award winning artist and producer.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
How did you two connect?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
You know, it's it's it's a few different sways, right,
But you know, I've built an organization called the Center
for Black Innovation, and here in Miami, it built a
technology conference with my husband called Black tech Week that
we sold a few years ago. I'm a c student
who was told I'd never make it to a college
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or university, and I've had the most random career in
in in UH Tech, h NBA, Nintendo, Sony. But I'm
a c student and a college dropout, right Like, ultimately,
at the end of the day, I never let those
things define me because I realized that there was more
than one pathway to success if you get creative. And
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that has been the story of my life. And that
is how I've always looked and approached entrepreneurship. And I've
ran a few companies, have been successful, and I've been
had some epic failures and probably more than I will
ever account and own up to, right And because of
all that is why I'm an entrepreneur. I'm also the dad,
also the grand granddaughter of a Jamaican sugar cane and
(20:26):
yam farmer. And my grandfather was an entrepreneur, and throughout
my own life until he transitioned, I'd never called him
an entrepreneur. No one in our family called him entrepreneur.
But like, we ate a lot of sugar cane and
yam because that is what he harvested, right, and.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
My dad sugarcane market of that right now come.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And my dad and uncle have been in the construction
and development space for about thirty years as entrepreneurs, and
so my other side of the family is from South Georgia,
so I grew up in it without even realizing it,
and I probably for the longest time couldn't even spell
the word entrepreneur correctly. But I am the beneficiary of
what it means to step out on faith, to have
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a plan, to not have any resources, but to be
led by a vision so that it's ultimately transformational in communities.
And so as a result of that, I get to
do this work. But like that connection point to Pharrell
is I think people are always watching you, whether you
realize it or not. And it was a random lunch
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conversation with someone not even necessarily connected to Pharrell that
was just like, I need you to meet someone, And
that ended up being a random lunch that this person.
And the funny thing is a person kept asking me,
are you familiar with black Ambition. I was like, yeah,
I'm a familiar with black and mission. He's like, no,
I need to look at it. And I ended up
having another meeting with him the next day with someone else.
He's like, there's someone I want you to meet, and
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it ended up being Forel's chief of staff, and then
that evening it turned into a zoom conversation where he
was in the backroud.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
He didn't speak. It was his chief of staff.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
And then that turned into about four months of meetings
and conversations and interviews, and then I got asked to
be asked to leave the organization I had founded. I
just raised some significant money for to kind of transform
the Center for Black Innovation. I got asked to come
leave that and kind of build this rocket ship with Pharrell.
It wasn't an easy answer, and I can look back
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and and say that honestly, but it was the right thing.
I was not in a in a position to write
checks with what I had built with Center for Black
Innovation and with Center for with with with Black Ambition,
what I'm actually directly able to put checks and financial
opportunities into the entrepreneurs. They need the capital, they need
the capital. They need the capital, and then they need
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everything else. But it starts with the capital to actually
actualize the dream.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
One other thing I want to say before we this,
we're talking like this is a closed event.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Can the general public come to this event?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
So demo Day is open to the public. We're probably
like almost at like capacity for it. And so you're
listener shoot us a message and we can see what's going.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
But that's all good.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Like I said, I just want to make sure people
know that this is a journal of the event open
to the public, because you know that. I'm just going
to tell you, Felicia, we're talking about twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
In this interview.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I'm establishing the relationship, letting everybody know about Black Ambition.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Go to the website.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Get you get fired up, because it's going to be
a six year is going to happen. You're listening to
the CEO finding about how she created this a massive
relationship with Pharrell while he's doing it, just sating it,
just dropping the bread crumbs. And you it's in Miami.
Who wouldn't want to go to Miami? Especially you up north?
You want to go down there and sexually the food's good,
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some Cuban rights. Come on now, I'm working the girl
and some beings.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Ye absolutely, come on down.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
That'stment well spent in your time right of thinking about
like how do you radically close out this year with
everything that you need? But also you got to ask
yourself based off of where you are right now, do
you want to be in that same position this time
next year. And if the answer is no, like I
need growth happening in the next year, so I'm a
different person. My bank account looks different, my business looks different,
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my household looks different. As a result of that, then
you probably need to say yes of figuring out a
way to get to the Fundable Founder's Forum. And so
you know, we have a discount code, a heavy discount
code BA Forum seventy five specifically for your listeners here.
If you use that code, you're getting a deep discount
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factor into you getting into the room for those conversations
that are ultimately going to change your life and that
network effect that is not going to happen anywhere else
but the Fundable Founders.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Is this weekend fourteenth and fifteenth Demo Days. He keeps saying.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The fifth ae year old Black Ambition Demo Day will
be held in Miami on November fourteenth and fifteenth Founders
Forum on the fifteenth. The Demo Day is on the fourteenth. Now,
it's a program for you black and Latino entrepreneurs. It's
broken down into categories. Again, this is like spreading the
word acknowledging that this campaign has been around five years.
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I just found out about it a couple of weeks ago.
That's why I'm on fire to get the word out
because my shore's about small business, nonprofits, entrepreneurs, tech, financial literacy,
and this false right in line with it. But more importantly,
for Lisia, You're fantastic, You're amazing. I'm so glad you
was able to squeeze me in your super busy schedule
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knowing that the event happens tomorrow, so I know, as
a producer and a live event especially, you are busy.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So but thank you so much for the invitation.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Thank you for just being sacred in the space of
being a storyteller. And I saw you by your brand
architect of opportunities for entrepreneurs, and so thank you so
much for what you do and just allowing us to
kind of share where this can kind of impact way
more entrepreneurs when they get in the run.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, no, just note that this we'll be getting together
in the first quarter, launch it out together. Let everybody
know we're gonna be out there with the starting line.
And so this is, just like I said, a good
starting place for relationships. That's going to happen many years
because I am an advocate. I am a person that
beats this drum. This is why I built this and
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been fortunate to build this and have such a wide
reach for this brand. And again I launched was amazing
and you are even more amazing. I'm talking to the
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My guess is the executive director of Black Ambition. It
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was founded by Grammy Award winning artist and producer for
Real Williams. Black Ambition is a national initiative that funds
and mentors black and brown entrepreneurs to build the future
of innovation.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
In this fifth year, the program has awarded millions in
capital and support to founders across industries. Please welcome to
Money Making Conversations Masterclass Executive Director.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
At least you're a hatcher. How you doing for Lisa good?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Fantastic Orsan, thank you so much for having me on
the show.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Got to this is right in my alley. My background
is my degree is in mathematics. Graduated degree in mathematics.
I thought I was going to be an engineer, but
they physics ran me out of that class.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I settled them on math and people tell me that's
pretty hard. So I got to be impressed and I
got a math degree. But tell us about your program
here I know is this weekend, the fourteenth and fifteen
in Miami. We're going to talk about that because I
want people to understand what it is because this is the.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Fifth year, which means there will be a six year.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So let's tell us about what's happening this weekend and
why are you involved?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, this weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I've been the CEO for almost five years at Black Ambition.
I've been building what I call like a rocket ship
with Pharrell to cry really to be able to create
unprecedented access to opportunities and resources and really kind of
close that gap. Right. I think there's people that are
too comfortable wasting the time of black entrepreneurs with misaligned
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resources and low quality, low vibrational mentorship, and that's definitely.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Not the path that we are on.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
And so as a result of that, we've invested in
one hundred and thirty one really amazing companies over the
past five years now, and we're heading towards Demo Day,
which is our big weekend where we award the checks
to the entrepreneurs. That's also including a fantastic conversation with
Pharrell and then Melanie Hobson of Aerial Investments also was
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on the board of Starbucks and JP Morgan, among among
other phenomenal things. And then we'll also, like I said,
award the checks of the entrepreneurs. That following day is
the Fundable Founder's Forum, and so taking this big celebration
is big kind of catalytic moment for these entrepreneurs. And
then creating a set of master classes. So not only
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are you hearing inspirational stories which I think are fantastic
and cool, but like.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You're leaving there with actually how to implement it.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
And I've been to a lot of conferences ra Sean,
I'm sure you have as well. You leave with a
notebook full of notes, and then a lot of entrepreneurs
just don't apply it right. And so taking the time
instead of going from conference to conference or learning to learning,
when do you actually apply and implement what you were learning.
And so we've created a really unique model with the
Fundable Founder's Forum to allow them to get the information
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from you know, Steve Stout who translation as well as
United Masters and what he's doing and kind of the
creator space for creators on Nancy Twine who has a
phenomenal health and beauty space that she's recently sold for
nine figures. Linda Clemmens, who is a sales and body
language expert.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
She's going to tell you when you walk.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Into the room the things that you're doing with your
micro expressions with your body that actually stop you from
getting the investments and the deals and the partnerships before
you even say a word. And then Louis Vuitton is
a partner of ours who's been creating some phenomenal pathway
for a lot of our entrepreneurs. And that session is
really kind of around creating a luxury retail experience. So
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whether you were in the luxury space or not, consumers
in this economy are requiring, they're asking for different things
as a result of the buying experience, They're demanding more
and so knowing the language the art of how to
really kind of take care of them and then I
think for a lot of entrepreneurs that really need to
raise their rates, how do you do that? Like, how
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do you communicate the value proposition of what you were
building and kind of wrap that around getting people what
they need and ultimately from a profit.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Standpoint, you get to grow and scale what you're doing
as well.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Cool, miss Hatcher, I want to make sure I'm getting
this right, I said, executive director.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You said CEO, which one is?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's so CEO is what I'll be saying. And I
apologize and gave me as executive director of Black Ambition. Now,
if anything is there's always categories to be a participant.
Can you break down the categories that involved with this?
It really is a competition, correct.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Absolutely, Yeah, it's a national competition. At the top of
every year, either between February or March is when we
open up applications.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
We get between twenty five hundred and three thousand applications
a year. So this has become one of the most competitive,
you know, prize competitions specifically designed for black and Hispanic
and HBCU entrepreneurs and so as a result of that,
it's a competition, right, and so the competition is fierce
you really are look at entrepreneurs really need to look
for ways in which can communicate their value in the
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marketplace and ultimately like where they will go with the
investment of resources and time that we do as an organization.
And so I think some of the things that I
see where entrepreneurs fall flat is rushing to fill out
the application and really not taking the time, not understanding
and not participating in info sessions, success leads clues. We've
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invested in one hundred and thirty one companies, right, That
means one hundred and thirty one companies have told you
this is the way that you succeed and matriculate through
the process, and so they have social media profiles, they
often take office hours like these are the things that
I have had to learn in raising capital that allow
me to kind of negotiate and you like navigate right
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tap into where you know the head of marketing and
the where the head of communication, Like what conferences are
they speaking at where you can get some one on
one FaceTime that you may normally not be able to get.
These are the things that I think really kind of
stand out in an application process. And so we go
from those three thousand applications rash on to about two
hundred and fifty semi finalists, and then we take those
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two hundred and fifty companies through a three month cohort
style mentorship program. So it's designed to stretch them in
ways they've never been stretched before. It's been designed to
challenge the assumptions of what they're creating, between their target market,
their product, their teams, what they actually need to grow
and scale and succeed, and just a world class group
of mentors that support them. And I'd say one distinction
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of something that we do that is one from the
early conversations with Forel and I is we take a
holistic kind.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Of fortitude approach to entrepreneurship.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
And so through a program called Evoke, we have mental
health and wellness a team that supports these entrepreneurs. Because
it's one thing to go out and raise money, it's
a whole other thing to make sure that you are
whole as you're running these companies. And a lot of
our entrepreneurs are being interfaced with proximity to wealth and
power for the very first time. And if you're not
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careful and kind of protected in how you raise money,
who you raise money from the eve and flow when
things go well and things would things go horrible? How
to be transparent in your conversation with your investors. This
process of entrepreneurship can swallow you whole. Absolutely we prioritize
that as well.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Cool I'm speaking to the CEO of Black Ambition founded
by Pharrell Williams. If you don't know for Grammy and
we'll be happy. That's my man, among other amazing hits.
So we're talking about the event that's happening this weekend
in Miami, fourteenth and fifteenth of this month. And I
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interviewed a young man who is tried three times, he say,
failed twice and he finally got in. He's a graduate
of the Georgia Tech and Electrical Engineering.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
His name is Lawrence Phillips.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
He has a platform called green Book Global, which is
a travel review initiative platform for black travelers. Basically it
launched off of the principle of the original green Book,
but now technology is tied to you well when you
travel places that welcome you, cities that welcome you, and
they have a partnership with Expedia.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
That's how advanced their platform is.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
He founded in twenty seventeen and he told me to
have one hundred and fifty thousand downloads on his app
this year. So I told him that's very good. Now
a person like that, like you said, he tried twice.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Third time he did.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Make the finals, but he won another type honor at
your event.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
What was that?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Yeah, he is, he's a top prize winner, right and
so and then he also got the top kind of
voter's choice as well, right and so you know, and
I hear there's quite a few stories of entrepreneurs that
have applied multiple times, and my advice to them and
sometimes they don't want to hear it is apply again.
(09:19):
My mentor has always said to you, if it doesn't
work on you in that moment, it works for you
in that moment. Either way it works, right. And I've
been an entrepreneur for about fifteen years. There's been so
many things that have applied to that I didn't want to.
I was just I'm not applying for this again. And
it was a second time. It was that third time
when I probably said a few choice words that I
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won't repeat here, but like going through the process, and
what I realized in the process is every time I applied,
I became a different type of entrepreneur. I was asked
questions that I was a different person the first time,
but the second time I had much more clarity, I
had much more traction in what I built, And so
whether I got through the finish line or not, I
was a different entrepreneur just going through the process.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And so we've.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Designed our process, whether people realize it or not, to
do the exact same thing. It's going to ask you
questions that you may not have asked yourself before in
your business. But the result of sitting and actually going
through the process of answering it, you have a completely
different frame on how to approach everything. And so we
have to be comfortable and we have to actually start
enjoying the process that is put in place with a
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lot of the things that we do to mold us
and not just say, man, I didn't make it. I'm upset,
like I'm going to give up and close up. No,
absolutely not, Like continue to mold yourself through the process,
be stretched, be cut by the process.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And that's how you see growth in what you're building,
not when you give up.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
But it's like the iterative process of continuing to go
on and on and if it doesn't work for you
at Black Ambition, there's so many other organizations that I
want you to kind of keep up and keep going
and keep applying.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Now, the ultimate question of the question for me is like, Okay,
I'm applying.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Who's judging?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, well, you know who's telling me I'm good, I
can go to the next round And who's telling me, hey,
try again next year.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
You know, we have about two hundred to two hundred
and fifty application reviewers. Every application goes to two to
three rounds of reviews, and so we're getting quite a
few different rounds of feedback on every single application. It's
a pretty lengthy process of what happens on the back end,
but that's how we can decipher who rises to the top,
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and then once they get there, that's how we go
from three thousand applications down to two hundred and fifty
applications that at that point they're submitting things to us,
they're submitting financials as well, so that we can make
sure that they are doing what they say that they've
done and that they are set up to succeed. And
then there's another round, which you talked about with Lawrence,
that gets you down to the public voting, which is
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the top fifty companies, and one of those companies will
automatically get a seat into the program by having the
popular vote, meaning that they've gotten the most people to
vote for them. And then it's demo day where we
take the top twenty to twenty five companies and in
the past thirty three companies in order to award them
with financial capital and about six months of really intense coaching,
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getting them following funding opportunities, getting them on retail shelves.
We kind of take their Christmas list for Rashan, like
three things that they want us to do and support
of them, and it's our goal to either get them
there or get them one big giant.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Step closer to what they need to grow and scale
what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
We will be right back with more insights from Money
Making Conversations master Class. Welcome back to Money Making Conversation
Master Class hosted by me Rashan McDonald.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Let's get back into it, Alicia. You know.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
This is entrepreneurship and women of color, especially black women,
have been the fastest growing entrepreneurs five years. I'd like
to say I've been doing I've been doing these interviews
since twenty seventeen, so I can attest that that's a fact.
Why are black women so into entrepreneurship?
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, yeah, I think it's two things. With that stat right,
they're the fastest growing, but they are also so largely solopreneurs,
and meaning that most of them cannot grow and scale
the company, largely because from a revenue standpoint and the
opportunities that have been dismantled. But we also need them
to be people that are thinking about a team. And
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so even in our process we don't invest in solopreneurs.
You can't apply unless you have a team mindset that
you're building a team and you're going to become a
multiple you're going to become a massive employer. That's how
we have a multiplier effect in our communities. Right, And
so I think the ingenuity of black women, I love one. Right,
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there is a hustle and there is a grind that
is one of one that I highly respect and being
able to see how we can increase more of them,
especially since what I think in the last quarter, about
three hundred thousand of them have lost their job in
the past few months, you know, which is devastating, But
I think that also creates an opportunity for them to
become entrepreneurs. So many of them have multiple degrees, massive
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skill sets and networks and connections that are under leveraged
based off of where they are. That this opportunity and
this marketplace now presents something. It could be a hot
side hustle, It can be asset mapping your contacts a
little bit better of like who do I know that
can get me one step closer to one building?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Right talking to the CEO of Black Ambition, I'm telling
you how popular is I.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Didn't know about that. I'm just let you know that,
but obviously a lot of people know about it.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Twenty twenty five because twenty five entrepreneurs applied nationwide. Twenty
five finalists will receive funding and defined categories HBCU pre
Accelerated Winners, National Finalists, Top Prize, WINN and People's Choice. Now,
when we're talking about the process, because like I said,
I want to make sure people understand that this is
the fifth year. The event is happening this weekend in Miami, Florida,
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the fourteenth and the fifteenth.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Now we're going into twenty twenty six. It's going to
happen in the first quarter.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
How can we be aware of the alert or can
we go somewhere to a website to get on a
mailing list so we won't miss out for twenty twenty
six because I know twenty five hundred applicants they're coming back.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Okay, what about the people on my show that are listening.
I want to know how can.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I get be part of that twenty five hundred and
growing number for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Absolutely the best way is to go to our website,
Blackommission Prize dot com. When you register and you join
the newsletter, they get first hand knowledge and connections to
the inside track of how to really be able to
apply and then stand out in the application process. But
there's a ton of resources that we do throughout the
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year to help people best position. And then what we
also do is we bring back a lot of our
past prize winners, our million dollar prize winners, we bring
back for info sessions. They contribute massively back into the
Black Ambition community because it's definitely a family, and they're
the best ones to tell you the things that they
did or almost did not do in order to end
up ultimately winning top prizes of you know, one two
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hundred and fifty thousand to a million dollars.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Absolutely. You know.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
The thing about it is that I always tell people,
first of all, based on the color of my stands.
You know, I always had to walk in the room
people knew I was black, so that that that can
stereotype you. That I will benefit you unless you walking
in front of the room for the other black people,
because people have stereotypes. But the entrepreneurship space is really
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important because we can make a decision. And I always
tell people Monday through Friday, my wake up time at
four thirty. There's a commitment to being an entrepreneur.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Now, with that.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Being said, award winning artist and producer for Real Williams,
why is he doing this? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
You know I asked him that question all the time,
from the very first time we met, you know, I
asked him that a few times a year. It's usually
the question that I ask him every time we get
on stage.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Right before we present the checks.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
He's still doing this again next year, And I ask
him that because as a celebrity who had the heights
in the career that he's had, he can do so
many other things with his time, right, and he's had
a massive impact from an entertainment philanthropic fashion you know,
product spaces as well. And he's an entrepreneur that didn't
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really know he was an entrepreneur, right, and there are
people that invested it in him, and he will always
talk about like that, right, Like he's his mom has
a PhD in education, but he's a college dropout because
he believed in a vision early on and there were
so many other people that at the time where he
didn't have the full belief in his music abilities, he
borrowed someone else's belief in him until it became his own.
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And so building black ambition is a natural extension of
that belief. The resources that need to come together, the connections,
but also the doors that need to be open from
the gatekeepers in the entertainment industry. And so we've dismantled
all of that. He's dismantled all of that. And that's
why we do what we do, because we know that
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talent is not equally distributed by zip code, but opportunity
can be right if we kind of democratize what that
looks like for other people, especially what it looks like
for our people. But you know, wealth is wealth has
a need for speed, and the only way that we're
going to close the wealth and opportunity gap is we
got to move faster. We got to find our superfans
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that truly care about the value that black people have
always brought to the marketplace. And that's why he does
what he does in the way that we have done
it and we will continue.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
To do it.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I'm gonna just change some Felicia. You're good. You're very,
very talented. I do a lot of interviews you you know.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Ragist dot go, you go. You know you you articulate.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
You know the value system, the purpose and the drive. Now,
with that being said, you the CEO of Black Ambition, Okay,
for real, he's the Grammy Award winning artist and producer.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
How did you two connect?
Speaker 4 (19:23):
You know, it's it's it's a few different sways, right,
But you know, I've built an organization called the Center
for Black Innovation, and here in Miami, it built a
technology conference with my husband called Black tech Week that
we sold a few years ago. I'm a c student
who was told I'd never make it to a college
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or university, and I've had the most random career in
in in UH Tech, h NBA, Nintendo, Sony. But I'm
a c student and a college dropout, right Like, ultimately,
at the end of the day, I never let those
things define me because I realized that there was more
than one pathway to success if you get creative. And
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that has been the story of my life. And that
is how I've always looked and approached entrepreneurship. And I've
ran a few companies, have been successful, and I've been
had some epic failures and probably more than I will
ever account and own up to, right And because of
all that is why I'm an entrepreneur. I'm also the dad,
also the grand granddaughter of a Jamaican sugar cane and
(20:26):
yam farmer. And my grandfather was an entrepreneur, and throughout
my own life until he transitioned, I'd never called him
an entrepreneur. No one in our family called him entrepreneur.
But like, we ate a lot of sugar cane and
yam because that is what he harvested, right, and.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
My dad sugarcane market of that right now come.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And my dad and uncle have been in the construction
and development space for about thirty years as entrepreneurs, and
so my other side of the family is from South Georgia,
so I grew up in it without even realizing it,
and I probably for the longest time couldn't even spell
the word entrepreneur correctly. But I am the beneficiary of
what it means to step out on faith, to have
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a plan, to not have any resources, but to be
led by a vision so that it's ultimately transformational in communities.
And so as a result of that, I get to
do this work. But like that connection point to Pharrell
is I think people are always watching you, whether you
realize it or not. And it was a random lunch
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conversation with someone not even necessarily connected to Pharrell that
was just like, I need you to meet someone, And
that ended up being a random lunch that this person.
And the funny thing is a person kept asking me,
are you familiar with black Ambition. I was like, yeah,
I'm a familiar with black and mission. He's like, no,
I need to look at it. And I ended up
having another meeting with him the next day with someone else.
He's like, there's someone I want you to meet, and
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it ended up being Forel's chief of staff, and then
that evening it turned into a zoom conversation where he
was in the backroud.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
He didn't speak. It was his chief of staff.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
And then that turned into about four months of meetings
and conversations and interviews, and then I got asked to
be asked to leave the organization I had founded. I
just raised some significant money for to kind of transform
the Center for Black Innovation. I got asked to come
leave that and kind of build this rocket ship with Pharrell.
It wasn't an easy answer, and I can look back
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and and say that honestly, but it was the right thing.
I was not in a in a position to write
checks with what I had built with Center for Black
Innovation and with Center for with with with Black Ambition,
what I'm actually directly able to put checks and financial
opportunities into the entrepreneurs. They need the capital, they need
the capital. They need the capital, and then they need
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everything else. But it starts with the capital to actually
actualize the dream.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
One other thing I want to say before we this,
we're talking like this is a closed event.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Can the general public come to this event?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
So demo Day is open to the public. We're probably
like almost at like capacity for it. And so you're
listener shoot us a message and we can see what's going.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
But that's all good.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Like I said, I just want to make sure people
know that this is a journal of the event open
to the public, because you know that. I'm just going
to tell you, Felicia, we're talking about twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
In this interview.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I'm establishing the relationship, letting everybody know about Black Ambition.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Go to the website.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Get you get fired up, because it's going to be
a six year is going to happen. You're listening to
the CEO finding about how she created this a massive
relationship with Pharrell while he's doing it, just sating it,
just dropping the bread crumbs. And you it's in Miami.
Who wouldn't want to go to Miami? Especially you up north?
You want to go down there and sexually the food's good,
(23:56):
some Cuban rights. Come on now, I'm working the girl
and some beings.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Ye absolutely, come on down.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
That'stment well spent in your time right of thinking about
like how do you radically close out this year with
everything that you need? But also you got to ask
yourself based off of where you are right now, do
you want to be in that same position this time
next year. And if the answer is no, like I
need growth happening in the next year, so I'm a
different person. My bank account looks different, my business looks different,
(24:27):
my household looks different. As a result of that, then
you probably need to say yes of figuring out a
way to get to the Fundable Founder's Forum. And so
you know, we have a discount code, a heavy discount
code BA Forum seventy five specifically for your listeners here.
If you use that code, you're getting a deep discount
from Felicia to make sure that cost isn't a prohibitive
(24:50):
factor into you getting into the room for those conversations
that are ultimately going to change your life and that
network effect that is not going to happen anywhere else
but the Fundable Founders.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Is this weekend fourteenth and fifteenth Demo Days. He keeps saying.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The fifth ae year old Black Ambition Demo Day will
be held in Miami on November fourteenth and fifteenth Founders
Forum on the fifteenth. The Demo Day is on the fourteenth. Now,
it's a program for you black and Latino entrepreneurs. It's
broken down into categories. Again, this is like spreading the
word acknowledging that this campaign has been around five years.
(25:28):
I just found out about it a couple of weeks ago.
That's why I'm on fire to get the word out
because my shore's about small business, nonprofits, entrepreneurs, tech, financial literacy,
and this false right in line with it. But more importantly,
for Lisia, You're fantastic, You're amazing. I'm so glad you
was able to squeeze me in your super busy schedule
(25:50):
knowing that the event happens tomorrow, so I know, as
a producer and a live event especially, you are busy.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So but thank you so much for the invitation.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Thank you for just being sacred in the space of
being a storyteller. And I saw you by your brand
architect of opportunities for entrepreneurs, and so thank you so
much for what you do and just allowing us to
kind of share where this can kind of impact way
more entrepreneurs when they get in the run.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Well, no, just note that this we'll be getting together
in the first quarter, launch it out together. Let everybody
know we're gonna be out there with the starting line.
And so this is, just like I said, a good
starting place for relationships. That's going to happen many years
because I am an advocate. I am a person that
beats this drum. This is why I built this and
(26:41):
been fortunate to build this and have such a wide
reach for this brand. And again I launched was amazing
and you are even more amazing. I'm talking to the
CEO of Black Ambition, Felicia Hatchet. Thank you for coming
on Money Making Conversation Masteric Class.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Money Making Conversations Masterclass with me Rashaun McDonald.
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Thanks to our guests and our audience.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Visit Moneymakingconversations dot com to listen or register to be
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