The Black Perspective: November 02, 2025

This week on The Black Perspective, host Misty Jordan brings you two powerful conversations. She kicks things off with part two of her interview with Slim, from the legendary R&B group 112, followed by a chat with Nichole Pointdujour, entrepreneur, author, community impact leader, and founder of The Master Connector Agency, about her upcoming event in Atlanta.

BIN's Esther Dillard speaks with author and financial coach Michael Wynn on how to finish the year strong and financially focused. 

Morgyn Wood catches up with Will Jawando of Montgomery County, Maryland, at the 58th Annual Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference to discuss leadership and community empowerment. 

And Doug Davis returns with another edition of Your Black Business, featuring Olasimbo Sojinrin, who’s driving solar energy innovation and creating new economic opportunities across Africa.

Listen now! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Sunday, November two, the first Sunday of the month,
and on today's show, mister Jordan has two conversations, starting
off with part two of her conversation with Slim of
the legendary R and B Group one twelve, an entrepreneur, author,
community impact leader, and founder of the Master Conductor Agency
Nicole Point du Jour. She talks about holding an event
called the Master Connector in Atlanta. The Black Information Networks

(00:22):
Ester Dillar talks to author and financial coach Michael Wynn
about closing out the year strong financially. Morgan Wood talks
to Councilman Will Jawando of Montgomery County, Maryland from the
fifty eighth Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference. And Doug
Davis is back with another installment of Your Black Business
with als Simbo Sojenrn who is bringing solar energy and

(00:42):
economic opportunities to Africa. These stories and more are coming
your way on today's program, Welcome to the Black Perspective.
I'm your host, Mike Island.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Welcome to the Black Perspective, a weekly community affairs program
on the Black Information Network featuring interviews and discussions issues
important to the black community.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Good Sunday, and welcome to the Black perspective. Grammy Award
winning R and B group one twelve is celebrating thirty
years of making music. They've toured with huge names like
Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, and the Eisley Brothers. To celebrate
three decades in the music industry, the group will kick
off their own live nation tour called Room one twelve
this month. Last week, we heard from lead singer Slim.

(01:24):
Today he will continue the conversation with our own Misty Jordan.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Okay, so, speaking of your label, AI artists are all
the talk right now. Would you ever sign an AI
artist to your label?

Speaker 4 (01:36):
No, I probably would use AI differently. You know, there
are so many programs where you know, if I'm you know,
me being a writer, if I wanted to put words,
you know, if I'm trying to figure out like certain things,
I would probably use it in that aspect. And I
probably would not use it to put it out because

(01:57):
you have to look at the fine lines of things.
If they do download and on there or whatever, that
particular platform would probably own your stuff. So on the
creative side, you know, sitting in sitting in the studio.
Big Shot outs my boy skills out there for playing skills.
He's out there in Miami here basically showed me these
particular It was like a couple of years ago. He

(02:17):
was really already on it. And you know, I learned
a lot. But answering your question, no, I would rather
work with a human, work with someone like somebody work
with me. Yeah you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, yeah, I love that. Before you take the stage,
what are your rituals?

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Oh my goodness, here we go.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
I want to know.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
I so twelve twelve hours, twelve hours before before I'm
on the stage. No bananas, no dairy products, notnhing that
coats the throat. I don't drink a smoke or anything
like that because I baby my voice. So I want
everybody to hear the clear sound like actuality. I went
to the throat, I went to the voice doctor, and

(03:02):
I wanted to understand why my voice sounds the way.
And it's crazy because uh, when when when the thing
closes this, I think that's where the voice box closes.
There's like a still like a little space there, so
it has an airy feel. Son air comes in, so
you know what I mean. So me I mean, I'm

(03:23):
a bit of a nerd so so so it's just
like I got to kick a kick out of that.
So when I I guess it actually helps. When I
listen and look at certain comments and they say, oh,
he sounds nasally, I'm like, wow, well how about this
whisper through your nose?

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Can you listen to your nose?

Speaker 4 (03:41):
No one can whisper to their nose, so I can't.
So I mean, just because you can't understand say that,
but you know what I mean, it's impossible. It's God
gave me a very unique and untradition, untraditional voice, and
you know what I mean, I give all praises to
God that I'm able to do it in a way
that you know helps and people, because you know that'sline

(04:05):
yeah and once what we want. You know, everybody has
these traditional way and my mom told me that too.
You know, I tried to understand. You know, when you
growing up in church and you hear all those different
amazing voice and it's strong and they can do we
all kinds of stuff. I don't have vibrado. I my voice,
my tone of my voice is different. And I used
to sit back and my mom used to be like, hey,

(04:29):
you know, you're gonna understand when you have something that
only God understands, he puts it in front of you.
You're gonna see the difference of doing something and then
being remembered forever. So legacy is everything. I'm glad that
we were my voice was used in the correct way.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's wonderful. One celebrities that you hang out with, who
is like, this is my bff. We just going to
dinner together, we play basketball together.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
Oh my god. Okay, Well besides Mike, Mike from you know,
from one twelve, which is also the people. I just
just found out that through twenty three and meters that
he's actually my real blood cousin.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Oh really, yes, that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
That's crazy. So we're always together all the time anyway,
So now it makes sense of why. Yeah, but if
I'm not on that type of cheat code, I mean,
I have a lot of friends that are all in
the industry, and then the genders. It just all over
the place, Like I just call playing skills right, yeah,
everybody are Argentina, but they do stuff on the Latino world.

(05:43):
I was able to work with Pitt Bull and David
Ghatta and the UK I'm saying whatever, and then I
kick it with Blanco Brown. You know what I'm saying.
Everybody knows he sings country even though he's dead. From
Bankhead Courts. I just told my age they'll say bank
that course, and then you know, of course I got
the I mean, I hang with a lot of rappers. Well,

(06:04):
just a couple of days ago, I was kicking it
with Jada Kiss and uh Turk from Hot Boys. Yeah. Man,
it's so many people that you know, oh my god,
from Gorilla Zoe to uh, oh my God, Like I
see my mind when to start going foggy now, But
I have so many people what's up? J Money, good Lord?

(06:27):
And you know it's it's it's not like I have
a lot to do in a day, So it's not
like I just kick it in this out or whatever. Yeah,
but I work with so many people, you know what
I'm saying. So you can see me with jay Z,
you can see me with Rick Rosss, you can see
me with fifty Cent. You know what I'm saying. You
see it like like I've touched and work with so

(06:47):
many people, you know what I'm saying on all different genres,
and it's just amazing, Scott bless This is a blessing
for God.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
So the Diddy verdict? What you what is your hope
for Diddy?

Speaker 5 (06:59):
If you?

Speaker 4 (06:59):
If you, I'm praying for him as a person, because
here's the thing, Diddy has nothing else to prove. This
man has done Everything's been around the world. He has
a legacy. Look at we're celebrating our thirty year anniversary musically.
Also we're bringing our sister Total with us. Love it,

(07:20):
you know, and we're giving it up like and we're
bringing our brother Case, who's also came out in ninety six.
And it's not just about us. We're giving flowers to
people that we actually have so much respect for. We
actually went and got Total and told Total, we'll pay
for you to be here.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
Why did you do that?

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Because you know, for us it's personal. When we said
it's a family, it's a real family. Like we were
talking with Kema and Keisha. Whether y'all saw them on
stage or not. You know what I'm saying. We see
in Case all the time. Anybody say everybody knows, well,
people don't really know Like me and Case, we're very cool,
you know what I'm saying. And matter of fact, we

(08:00):
in the studio. We got enough records right now, me
and Case could put out an EP right now.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
That's crazy that see that stuff that people don't don't know. Yeah,
you know what I mean, exclusive.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
Exactly exclusive. I know what Travis like, slim let it go.
But yes, it's just those things there, you know, where
the relationships that we have and what one twelve wanted
to do was, it's not about just us. It's about
people that we respect, who we felt like didn't get
the flowers today, were supposed to live. Nation gave us

(08:33):
the platform and here we go.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
We're going with it. Which song is like picking a
favorite baby, But I gotta ask you which song is
your favorite song to perform? And then I'm gonna go next.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Let's see. Uh So, I know everybody's gonna say I
think I'm gonna say yes, But but it is the
only reason why I say that is because I know
everybody just makes all this is like one of the
best love songs or whatever, but it's not really a
love song. This was an argument. It was an argument.

(09:11):
It was just like a come to Jesus moment, Like okay,
so we're like, if you listen to the worst girl,
If I told you I loved you, that doesn't mean it.
I don't care. If I tell you I need you,
don't you think that I'll never be there? Baby. I'm
so sick and tired of the way you turn my words.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Into deception our lives.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Don't don't misunderstand me. I'm just trying to speak my mind.
I'm only saying what's in my heart. My heart CID
Cupid doesn't lie, but you won't know us. You give
it a try, true love. You don't know what you
don't know what true love? Give it and see how

(09:51):
you singing it ain't no doubt about it. No, come on,
I see in that part right there, I didn't write that.
That was that was out of my field. That was
just out of what I was feeling because that's what
I was going through. So it was just like, man,
how do you how do you tell it? Say something
through songs?

Speaker 5 (10:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (10:10):
And I was just like, and if you anybody noticed,
I don't do what traditional artists do. They do all
that woo. No, I put real words. So why while
the while the hook is saying one thing, I'm saying another.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
And lives and that's what you live for.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
That's what I live for. As a crowd goes and
it louder than me, and so when I look at
them away, they go crazy. Man, let me tell you something.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Man, Okay, what's your favorite song?

Speaker 4 (10:36):
Though? My favorite song to sing?

Speaker 3 (10:37):
I try to get out of it. He tried it.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
I did, I did? I did? You know what? I
think the favorite one is probably like only you why
because my mind is made different like than other. Probably
a lot when I sing things or whatever. I can
still remember when it was recorded, when we shot the
video down forty seconds and people were running down the street,

(11:02):
and you know what I'm saying, it was it was
such amazing feel Biggie. You know what I'm saying. Biggie
just got out of jail. He just came out and
just for something small and he just came out. He
came out there. You notice he didn't have but a
blue polo shirt. Man our boys, Junior ma you know
what I'm saying, Junior Manfield. Let's seeze was out there.
It was like they were dressed in regular clothes and

(11:22):
we were like, and you know, we made vancing popular
by just going to a motorcycle joint right up the street.
Got four jackets, put them on over T shirts and
there we go. You know what I'm saying. So I
can still remember the smell of the burnt pretzels in
New York. I can remember the popcorn. I can remember
the sounds that the yellow the yellow cabs when they
were still blowing the horns. You know what I'm saying.

(11:44):
All of that, the hip hop beats, that's what drives me,
you know what I'm saying. So that's what I see.
So when I see, that's what I feel. So that's
why when y'all see me sometimes I'm not looking in
the crowd. That's where my mind and my heart really is.
Every time, that's wonderful.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Tell me what's next for you after the Room one
twelve concert or tour wraps up.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
Okay, So even while this is going on, I have
a new single that I have called Somebody to Love. Right,
amazing record, big shout out to Dirt Dirt Payt. You know,
he did the song before we get started with Tank,
so he already had a number one joint, you know
what I'm saying. So I got this record up tempo.
It's a feel good record, and my boy Murphy Lee

(12:28):
jumped on the record, and I just had it serviced.
I think today, I think today, thank you so much,
so much. And I'm doing that at the same time
as I'm doing this tour. I got community situations going
on right now. My cousin Sheriff Reginald Skeandret, he's the

(12:52):
first African American sheriff down here in Henry County. We
do a lot of stuff along with my bro Shaq,
and we do a lot of stuff down there. You know.
Oh my god, A big shout out to Greg Street.
He's always down there. We just had like a motorcycle
a joint. They're just doing so much in the community,
basically letting the community see that law enforcement is the

(13:16):
an everyday person that you know what I'm saying, just
like us, and it's just really just hey, we gotta
have law and order. You gotta have. But they're normal people,
you know what I'm saying. They understand. My cousin understands,
and my family is riddled for law enforcement, you know
what I'm saying, And I understand. I see what's going
on in the world. It's crazy out here, you know
what I'm saying. But you need some people who's not

(13:38):
gonna sit out from the sidelines and just complain. Sometimes
you got to get uncomfortable and jumping stuff that's not
as let's say popular as what goes on in the
industry and all this stuff. You know, I'm a real cat,
so you know what I mean. So you want to
have people inside that you can hold responsible. You can

(13:58):
speak to them and talk to them. They're not to
hide through. Is all this their little stuff that they
feel like they're higher than anybody else. No, you want
people who actually care about the community. So that's what
I'm a part of. Anybody know, like Henry count you
can write down there you say slim, They're gonna say
what's up? They know, hey, yeah, we see them all
the time. You know what I'm saying. So that's what

(14:18):
I got going on. And after that we have I
have some several movie offers. People want to know about biopics, situations,
about the whole name of one twelve. I own all
the trademarks and the rights. I wanted to be told, right,
it's probably through my eyes. That's a whole other situation.
There's so many things.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Like you've been in businessman within the business man, Yes,
well you can I can see.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
And that's the part where you know, I just want
everything when all said and done, forget all the smoke
in the mirrors and all this stuff and rubber because
a lot of people talk and don't know there are
things that you know, you have a person that really
cares about our brand, our history, what we've done for

(15:04):
this just industry in general, absolutely, and our testimony regardless
of whatever naysayers or what people say they you can
and can't do. We are living and breathing testimony that
yes you can. And we just have our.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Story, that's all and thirty years later, ready to celebrate
it with everybody.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
With everybody. I can't wait. Please everybody. I'm telling you,
this is not the difference between us and a lot
of other stuff that's going on, and you have the
other concerts that's going on or whatever. This is a
one time situation, thirty year situation. You only get one time.
The way we're doing this is totally different from just
sitting there and just having a band in the background

(15:45):
and something like that. No, no, no, We're going to
make you feel it from the first person that walks in,
which is case. Think about those sublu think about his
catalog total think about their situation, and we're going to
present it in One twelfth in a wild situation and
probably the most artistic and very Martin feel you've probably

(16:09):
never seen with the group before.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Is there a dress code? Because you know, Chris Brown,
one of the jerseys, Monica and Brandy want you to
wear suits. What does one twelve want us to wear?

Speaker 4 (16:18):
That's what I'm so okay, So this is what I
would say. Think about the nineties, right all right? So
with us, we're not one of those groups that's gonna
sit there and we don't have just a bunch of
uptempos or just a bunch of ballots where you're gonna
be like, Okay, yeah, No, it's gonna feel like in
a wild adventure. So that being said, come prepared the party.

(16:42):
Come prepared. But everybody know we're an urban upscale So
you got to be fly. You're talking to mister so
Fly himself, so you know what I'm saying. So hey man,
I'm telling you right now, be fly because in this situation,
once those doors closed and you hear and those lights come,
it's gonna go. Here we go, and we're gonna make

(17:02):
y'all feel exactly where you were, who you were with,
what you were doing, or what you were supposed to
be doing at the time over there in the nineties.
We're bringing the whole nineties nostalgia. It's not about one artist.
It's not one artist and the rest of them. Oh no,
this is the whole experience, y'all. I can't wait to
see y'all.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Slim, thank you so much for joining the Black Information Network.
We appreciate you continued success and we cannot wait. Congratulations
on thirty years in the business.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
To God, you to Glory, Thank you, Slim and Misty.
The Room one twelve tour kicks off Wednesday, November twelfth
in Stamford, Connecticut. It will wrap up in Atlanta in February.
You can find more information about the Room one twelve
Live Nation tour with Total and Case on their website
one twelve forever dot com. As we head toward the
end of the year, many of us are taking a

(17:52):
hard look at our finances, asking whether they're really where
we hope they'd be. Author and financial coach Michael Wynn
believes the answer often comes down to our daily habits,
not just our paychecks. The Black Information that Works. Ester
Dillard spoke with when about how faith, structure and consistency
can turn financial setbacks into success.

Speaker 6 (18:12):
We have to be in an error where we understand
they're going to be up and down situations.

Speaker 7 (18:18):
They're going to be struggled.

Speaker 6 (18:19):
We have to be able to put money aside in
order to meet our responsibilities joying an up and down period.

Speaker 8 (18:27):
In this edition of The Color Between the Lines, I'm
speaking with author and financial coach Michael Wynn, whose book
Habits Don't Lie explores how small, consistent actions can lead
to major breakthroughs. Michael opens up about his own journey
overcoming depression, financial setbacks, and self sabotage, and how building
good habits helped him reclaim his life and purpose. You know,

(18:49):
given the fact that a lot of people are struggling,
they're struggling financially, everybody's I mean, the prices are crazy.
You've seen the eggs in the grocery store. A lot
of folks are trying to figure out how do I
do this? And you say you've had you know, you've
gone through your tough times as well. What would be

(19:11):
some of the things that you would advise people in
these times? To try and get their handle around just
the financial day to day, not talking about saving, but
just about the day to day.

Speaker 6 (19:24):
Yeah, day to day. I will start off with focus
on understanding. Yeah, I want to get them the ground zero.
Understanding is important. The financial liasery side of running because
we inherited most of in our black communities inherited it
not so good somewhat some would say poor financial strategies.

(19:44):
So the main thing is to understand what I start off.
In my book Habits Don't Lie talk about no money.
I intentionally wrote k n ow so people can think
of no money in Oh, but it's no money and
that's been off. The Habit of Fact talks about valuing
good habits for financial stability. Before financial freedom comes, people

(20:05):
need to learn how to pay their bills.

Speaker 7 (20:07):
So with that in mind, I use that to get
into focus on understanding because we have to be in an.

Speaker 6 (20:16):
Error where we understand they're going to be up and
down situations, They're gonna be struggles. We have to be
able to put money aside in order to meet our
responsibilities during the up and down period, you know in times.
So when people are struggling like that, they have to
resort to really having that hard to heart conversation because

(20:38):
things are drastically changing and it's not the end of
the world, but we have to make an adjustment. So
I've always talked some of my clients into understanding what
is their responsibilities as far as trying to make it
through the week.

Speaker 7 (20:51):
You know, real, what are the things that you've got
to have, What are the things that you want? What
are the things that you're going to you're.

Speaker 6 (20:58):
Gonna put aside because of the certain situations.

Speaker 7 (21:02):
That's how I get them into.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
All right.

Speaker 8 (21:05):
Your book emphasizes the importance of habits and overcoming obstacles.
Can you share a personal experience where a specific habit
helped you turn I guess a major setback into success.

Speaker 7 (21:20):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
The key to what I started speaking about it it
was an awakening that I had a situation where I
deal with bipolar depression disorder, and I went through a
whole series of trying to to stay in a professional
job and a professional career at the same time masking

(21:41):
my situation because there was a stigma and I took
it for that and being in a financial industry, I
had my challenges with keeping the job straight. So that
particular situation mounted into me accepting my diagnosis, and when
I went to my therapy is my doctor and my therapist,

(22:02):
she recommended habits because she felt I had a habit
formation based on my career path of being a financial
expert a license builder. So try as she asked me
a focus on that, and when I came up with
my what I call a habit matrix or my structure,
I looked at that as the screenboard.

Speaker 7 (22:21):
And then it goes into a lot of.

Speaker 6 (22:24):
Situations where I used my habits to help me overcome
this obstacle because I was dealing with bipolar, depression, bankruptcy.

Speaker 7 (22:34):
All of these are part of my conditions.

Speaker 6 (22:37):
So the key BacT was I had a list of
habits that I kind of sketched out as I was
going through my whole process understanding or taking her advice
on finding people and finding scholars that can get me focused.
And when I formed those habits, the biggest thing that
I had was to put it to test. Part of

(23:00):
one of my habits was to was to affirmations, buying
a place a personal place to a positive area nothing negative,
and to meditate and pray as I visualized on faith.

Speaker 7 (23:14):
That was the habit.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
That condition was to the three things, was to the
affirmations that I needed to see myself in a different light.
I had to go through those affirmations. Then the next
step was to understand that you had to have your
private area where it's nothing but positivity. You're reading, you're meditating,
your praying. And then the last thing part of that

(23:38):
visualizing faith came with challenging your negative thoughts and situations,
which I go into a lot about that because I overcame.

Speaker 7 (23:47):
That particular breakthrough was built around me really.

Speaker 6 (23:52):
Finding what negative what negative thoughts were, you know, So
that's how I really came out of it, just trying
to try to focus. So my step back was really
hard situation because I had a family and they saw
me in a different light than I saw myself.

Speaker 7 (24:10):
I was screamed and yell for little simple things.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
And my two sons have called me to hawk, you know,
the green monster that is crazy man.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
And I'm going about my ways because I.

Speaker 6 (24:20):
Feel obligated to raise a family in a situation that
would get me to the next level. And so I'm
not paying attention to anybody until I have my incidents.

Speaker 7 (24:31):
I pass out.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
I go through all these different things, so I had
to find my way back, and finding my way back
was to identify those.

Speaker 7 (24:40):
Habits that helped me best. And within ten years I
was off of medication. I was on some hard.

Speaker 6 (24:45):
Medication, and you know, it came in concert with working
a job, dealing with the politics of the job, and
trying to find a way to support my theory of
getting off of this medication and feeling good about myself.
So everything was pulling against me, you know, during the time,
So I made it shifting jobs because I was trying

(25:08):
to hold on to what I had being selected.

Speaker 7 (25:14):
In a key position. I was ordered in charge of
the first casino built in.

Speaker 6 (25:18):
Detroit, so I'm trying to hold on to that at
the same time maskingness disorder.

Speaker 7 (25:24):
And it's an interesting story about how it came.

Speaker 6 (25:30):
Apart, and then I had to rebound from all of
that and believe that that within those ten years I
found my way through all of that.

Speaker 8 (25:41):
I know that your story is so unique and so
interesting in terms of being able to bounce back and
change things, but it didn't happen overnight. What kind of
habits do you think that other black folks who are
you know, facing systemic and personal financial challenges.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
What mindsets or habits do you.

Speaker 8 (25:58):
Suggest that they take on to help, you know, break
cycles of financial struggle.

Speaker 6 (26:04):
Financial struggles, I've always say first in any of the obstacles,
visualized faith first and target your self success. When I
talk about financial struggles, I put them in a position
where they have to understand what is it that they need.
They need they need to they need to go through

(26:26):
this process of thinking that I need to live every day,
I need to support my family, and I would like
to leave generational wealth.

Speaker 7 (26:35):
In addition to some people want.

Speaker 6 (26:37):
To have a business, so they have to get over
the obstacles of running a business and and uh.

Speaker 7 (26:43):
You know, they face with fear, they face with being perfection.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
These perfectionist people and trying to connect, trying to do
so much at the same time get people in the
situation of stress.

Speaker 7 (26:56):
And I always say stress leads.

Speaker 6 (26:57):
To the rest experiencing, which to me, I find it
a good conversation to lay that out is that this.

Speaker 7 (27:07):
Is your your roadmap, your roadmap to success.

Speaker 6 (27:10):
You have to understand the faith that come with the
work that you have to put behind understanding.

Speaker 8 (27:16):
Michael Wynn drops a lot more gems in his full
interview and you can find it on the Color between
the Lines and YouTube channel, iHeartRadio, or wherever you get
your podcasts. You can also check out Coach Win's coaching
services and his book at Coachwin. That's w N dot com.
I'm Esther Dillard.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Thanks Esther and Michael. Next, Morgan caught up with Councilman
will Jouanda of Montgomery County, Maryland during the fifty eighth
Congressional Black Caucustanuel Legislative Conference, and he spoke with her
about the theme Made for This Moment and the importance
of economic growth in the black community.

Speaker 9 (27:48):
All right right here with Montgomery County council Member Willando.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
He's also running for Montgomery County Executive. Yes, we're here at.

Speaker 9 (27:57):
The annual CDC Annual is Native Conferences. Why did you
find it important to be here today?

Speaker 10 (28:03):
Well, this is really the coming together of This is
really the coming together of some of the smartest, the
most intelligent, diverse Black minds in the country at a
time where this conference is aptly named Made for this moment,
where the democracy is under attack. We have a fascist
in the White House, we have people being swiped up

(28:24):
from our streets by mass men. Unemployment is rising, So
for the black community, we've got to come together. If
we don't support each other with good ideas supporting our businesses,
we're going to be in real trouble. So I'm here
as a local elected leader to make sure that we
are doing what we need to do, to trade the ideas,
to support each other, to strategize, get too support, and

(28:45):
to have some joy because you can't keep fighting if
you don't have to it.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
You spoke about coming together, what does that truly look
like to be.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
On one of four.

Speaker 10 (28:53):
Yeah, it doesn't mean you agree on every issue. It
means that you are agreed on the direction of forward
movement and solidarity amongst your people, Like we all agree
we want to build black well, we want to increase
black home ownership. We want to make sure that we
are giving people jobs in healthcare and quality education. And
the great thing about America is that when Black Americans

(29:15):
are doing well, the country is doing well. So we're
really kind of a test for how well America is
streeting her residents. And so that's why this is such
an important thing. And it doesn't mean you agree on everything,
but it's that you agree on the broad strategies and
that you commit to working together having the dialogue to
move forward on.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
A local level.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
We are running for executive I am so being that we.

Speaker 5 (29:37):
Are at a legislative conference.

Speaker 9 (29:39):
What are some of the legislative items on your agenda.

Speaker 10 (29:42):
It's about economic development, tax breaks and support for small businesses.
It's about making housing more affordable, making sure rent stabilization
is in our communities, in building black home ownership. You know,
sixty percent of my black residents are renters. Need we
need to change that trend. That's the biggest way to
develop wealth. It's about making sure that our education system

(30:03):
and every neighborhood has a high quality teacher, a great principle,
and a safe neighborhood to go to school in. And
I think those basics are what people are concerned about.
Those are the top three issues. Obviously, we want a
community where our seniors can age in place that are
safe for your pedestrian, safeway and like ways and all
those things. But I think the core issues of education, jobs,

(30:24):
and housing are what my residents are asking about. And
it's really a lot of about what's being talked about
at this conference as well.

Speaker 9 (30:31):
What is your message to your residence.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Those are Montgomery County and those across the state of Marylands.

Speaker 5 (30:36):
It's that we're going to get through this.

Speaker 10 (30:37):
We've been through this before. We are literally made for
this moment.

Speaker 7 (30:41):
You know.

Speaker 10 (30:41):
Administration's pass Our ancestors have been through actually much worse.
We just have to come together, stay determined, make sure
we're taking time for our mental health, our well being,
our physical health, and then working together. See what the
effort is easier when we work together. Can't don't be
a siloed, don't be an island onto your So this
is why this community, this conference is important. I'm here

(31:03):
to help you. We're here to help each other, and
we will get through this and we'll build a stronger
America than even the one that's being destroyed by net
right now by Donald Trumps.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Cathton, thank you, thanks Morgan, and will stay tuned for
more interviews from the fifty eighth Congressional Black Caucus. Doug
Davis returns with Your Black Business and speaks with a
Nigerian woman who has been empowering women across Africa with
solar empowered businesses that bring clean energy and economic opportunity
to communities.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Doug Hey Thanks Mike, and welcome to your Black Business. Recently,
leaders from around the world marked twenty years of the
Clinton Global Initiative, focusing on the theme What's next around
climate equity and innovation. Today we're joined by Oslimbo Sojourn,
CEO of Solar Sister, who's work in Nigeria, Kenya and
Tanzania empowers women entrepreneurs to build solar businesses, showing that

(31:54):
clean energy and gender equity can be real, scalable solutions.
Welcome to the Black Information Network and your Black Business.
So let's start. What sparked the idea for Solar Sister.
I mean, was there kind of like a moment, a
story or somewhat of a need that you couldn't ignore
that made you say, hey, I've got to do something
and I've got to build this.

Speaker 11 (32:14):
Yeah, thank you dog. So you know, I remember really clearly.
I think I was about eight years old. I grew
up again a little bit of a background. I grew
up in Lagos, Nigeria, to a single mom who was
kind of juggling four of us and you know, having
to work.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
She was a professional.

Speaker 11 (32:32):
But again we were facing something called energy poverty, which
is a lack of access to modern energy services, and
as such, we had to you know, light the house,
group the foods with what we could make do of.
And in that scenario, it was her trying to make
a meal for the family using firewood, and I remember
very vividly in that kitchen it was, you know, completely

(32:54):
engulfed in smoke, and I was looking at my mom,
this is a professional woman who you know, my idol,
looking up to her. She was struggling. Our eyes were
all red, and I was just like, why, why, why
is this challenge of having a lack of energy just
solely on the woman? And I think that was the

(33:15):
birth of what can women actually do to change the
situation of Solar Sister, And really Solar Sister is really
recognizing that energy poverty disproportionately affects women, but not just
leaving it such that we are the victims of it,
but actually having women being the solution providers, being the

(33:36):
ones at the forefront, first of all using these technologies
and then sharing with their families and telling them and
their neighbors that, look, you could also change how you're
currently doing things to a safer, cleaner way of cooking
and of lighting your home so that was the bedth
of Solar Sister, which is now this movement of women
entrepreneurs based in their different underserved communities where even though

(34:00):
there's no access to the energy and to the electric grid,
they're still able to cook with Queen Energy solutions without
having to leave with all that indoor air pollution.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
I mean that is such a testament to our purpose
on this earth and how we as humans need to
tap into the powers that we have. It's obvious that
that situation that happened to you early in life is
fueling and breathing life into thousands of women in need.
And it's because you recognize that in your spirit and

(34:34):
you move forward. It's just a testament. Now you had
the vision. Now let's talk business. How did you get
it off the ground? Where did you get your first
round of funding from? What did those early.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
Days look like?

Speaker 11 (34:47):
So early days, again, as with any startup, it is
you know, looking inwards, looking at your first kind of
network of when I say family and friends and starting
an organization from scratch.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
I mean it's really tough, you know.

Speaker 11 (35:02):
I look back at my team, So that's justter Nigeria
actually started in twenty thirteen and I still see the
core team.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
So it was me and admin and finance.

Speaker 11 (35:14):
We're still here. Like everyone has put in like hours
on end, sweat, blood, not literally, but like put in
everything to get it off the ground. And we started with,
you know, just building that first sisterhood group. So how
we operate is that we recruit women individually as entrepreneurs,

(35:36):
going to communities that are underserved, kind of talk to
them about the opportunity. When we started in twenty thirteen
in Nigeria, many of these opportunities, many of these communities
had never had a touch or feel with any solar
solution or any you know, it was totally new, totally
novel to them.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
You know, they've been.

Speaker 11 (35:56):
Cooking in a certain way for centuries, passed down you know,
or lighting, you know, just like anything. You see some
communities that we visit when it's six pm, seven pm,
when the sun has set, I mean the whole village
is in darkness and nothing happens, no economic, no economic
activities are happening. Everyone is in darkness, right, And this

(36:19):
had a ripple effect, not just on the household, I
mean the education of the children were suffering because they
have to kind of study using like either the naked
flame of a candle or just the carrising lantern which
is really smoky and you know it has admits so
much cabin and it's so uncomfortable if you have to
be very close to it, and that's what you have

(36:41):
to be in order to use it to read. So
just you know, letting them know that there is another way,
and it's not just of course for them to use
it first, but also to now start a business around this, right,
So it's not yes, you have now solved your problem,
but you can also be the solution point for others

(37:01):
in your community. You can also make this change in
your community. And that's how we started.

Speaker 5 (37:06):
Gotcha?

Speaker 9 (37:06):
Gotcha?

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Did it take a massive investment for you to move
forward after you got started? You know with all of
the support from your team members, you know, and from
family and friends, How did it go to the level
of where you're at now?

Speaker 5 (37:19):
Absolutely so.

Speaker 11 (37:22):
We Our very first investment came from a social from
a foundation was actually the Exon Mobile Foundation in Nigeria
who had a mandate then for women's economic empowerment and
energy were the ones that gave the Nigerian Office its
first grant, which was I think valued at two hundred

(37:44):
thousand dollars.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
So that was the first kind of big So if
I did.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Just come in real quick, technically, that was a DEI
initiative that you were part of. Correct, it was a
you know, which is somewhat of a bad word in
some circles here in the country, but.

Speaker 11 (38:02):
I mean for us, it was just simply women's economic empowerment.
It was more, you know, what can we do to
upolift women in these communities because of the disproportionate challenges
that women bear. You know, a lot of the communities
that we are very patriarchal, and so women are the
ones that bear a lot of the buddings when it

(38:23):
comes to kind of just household managing household activities.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
And yeah, finally, you know, being that you know, CGI
is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, could you speak directly to
the global community.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
What is your call to action?

Speaker 2 (38:38):
What do you want the global community to do?

Speaker 4 (38:40):
Support?

Speaker 2 (38:41):
And remember, after hearing this amazing conversation that we're having.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
They see think global our cloak.

Speaker 11 (38:47):
I'm saying, I strongly believe that African women will lead
the charge of solving the energy challenge.

Speaker 5 (38:55):
I believe that we.

Speaker 11 (38:56):
Are firmly like we know with the as I say,
how the shoe feits. We know we feel the challenges.
We've felt it for many years and we have you know,
the passion, the drive, the energy to make that change.
So I'm calling on investment in the African woman. If
you look at the global investment to women in energy,

(39:19):
it's something like two percent. It's it's it's there is
a lot that we can do in this community to
actually change put a dent in in in solving the
energy challenge.

Speaker 5 (39:35):
So that is my call.

Speaker 11 (39:37):
And I know that there's a lot of politics now
around terms, and you know, it's just comes down to
just basic humanity. Who is the best person to get
this done? And in our scenario, it's the African woman.

Speaker 5 (39:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Absolutely, And you know, like I didn't really ask, you know,
what does it feel like.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
Being a part of this big anniversary.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
I mean, is it a milestone moment for you? What's
changed since you first joined and what do you feel
still needs to change with the with the.

Speaker 11 (40:06):
Initiative again, yes, you know, as the world continues to advance,
you know, as technology continues to to take over. Again,
we are in the world where one half is running
and the other half is left behind. And our collective

(40:29):
mission should be to leave no one behind, you know,
to always always think about, you know, those who don't
have as you know, as much opportunity as others, because
this world is for all of us.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
So how can we learn more about Solar Sister.

Speaker 11 (40:45):
Absolutely so. Our website is Solar Sister dot or org
and that has the link to all our socials. So
please find us, please interact with us. We're very active
on x as well, and so yes, we always want
to continue to convert.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Ali Simbosa Journey, CEO of Solar Sister, who's work in Nigeria,
Kenya and Tanzania continues to empower women entrepreneurs to build
solar businesses. We appreciate you. This is Doug Davis. You're
listening to your black business on the Black perspective.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Thanks Doug and Ala Simbo. Nicole Point Dujoor is an entrepreneur, author,
community impact leader, and founder of the Master Connector Agency.
Nicole has been featured in several publications and spent more
than twenty years on Wall Street. She has gained a
wealth of knowledge she wants to share to help African
Americans become entrepreneurs, homeowners and climb the corporate ladder. She

(41:35):
is holding an event called the Master Connector in Atlanta
at Prime on Peachtree the Black Information Networks. Mister Jordan
sat down with Nicole to get all the details about
the event.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Joining the Black Information Network. I have Nicole Point du Jour,
CEO of the Master Connector Agency. So you have a
huge event coming up at Prime on Peachtree. Tell me
all about it.

Speaker 9 (41:56):
Yes, So November sixth, you want to be in this room.
God gave me the vision to create this from last year.
So this is my fourth event that I'm doing. But
I wanted to bring together corporate executives, which is my background.
I've been on the Wall Street for twenty one years
and I have a plethora of corporate executives in my
arsenal right like that are major corporations as well as
some successful entrepreneurs, industry leaders and influencers. So I created

(42:20):
this room so that the corporate executives can meet these
up and coming entrepreneurs and industry leaders, and the industry
leaders can meet the corporate executives because they need each other.
Corporate executives need industry leaders and entrepreneurs to help bring
them the business of choice right so they can be
brand ambassadors for them. And entrepreneurs need corporate executives because
they are the ones that have the business funding, the branding,

(42:40):
and the business documents. So I created a room called
the Room where the Deals are done, so that it
gives everybody a chance to meet the people, like the
Moves and shakers in Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
Why did you create this, Like where did this idea
come from?

Speaker 9 (42:51):
Yeah, that's a great question to see. So I was
on the Wall Street for twenty one years as a
vice president and most recently I was investment in banking
and equity trading. In the last five years, I was
head an Sponsorships. But what I realized was when I
would go to my corporate events and my Wall Street events,
I wouldn't see our friends that were amazing entrepreneurs industry
leaders in those rooms. And then when I would go
to their events, which were so fun and interesting, and

(43:11):
I wouldn't see my friends that were corporate vps in
their rooms. So God gave me the vision last year
to say, You're going to create a space where you're
bringing together your network, which is consists of corporate executives,
industry using entrepreneurs all in one room and call it
the room where the deals are done, so that they
can share resources and help each other get ahead. We
need each other and one and ever now. Missive it's
all about building community. It's all about building your network.

(43:31):
They always say that cliche, your network is your net worth,
which is true because I can look at my phone
and call anybody get to get deals done or just
if I need something. Right, So you want to build
out that network that you can lean on, right, And
so that's what I create. So God gave me the
vision and I executed it. Last year. At each event,
I interview a multimillionaire celebrity that has made it to

(43:52):
give us their career trajectory of how they got from
point A to point Z. The first one that I
did on October last year, I interviewed Egypt Hiad and
Mike Jackson. The second one, I interviewed Andy Smith Harris.
People know her from TV, but she's also a multi
millionaire in her business.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
Yeah, and she's been a businesswoman for a long time.

Speaker 9 (44:10):
A long time, right. She has the Eel skincareline, and
she told us how she grew up from six dollars
and six million dollars at the last event that I
did with her. It's incredible. And in March I interviewed
doctor Eric Thomas. He's known as a hip hop preacher
et the hip Hop Feacher. And so this one coming
up on November six, I'm interviewing Angela Ye radio personality,
but she's also a mogul in real estate and business. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
So yeah, So to someone who's coming to your event
for the first time, first of all, thank you for
not being a gatekeeper, because I think it's awesome for
you to be a connector. I think sometimes that people
may have these visions and they may want to explore
these rooms, but it may be intimidating or just not
know where to start, frankly, and so for you to
create an opportunity for them to actually connect these dots.

(44:52):
For someone coming to this event for the first time,
and they may be a little intimidated by some of
the people that they see, you know, in this room,
what would your advice be to them?

Speaker 9 (45:02):
Yeah, So I love that question because people ask me
that all the time. They're like, Nicole, I don't think
I belong in that room. I wasn't on a Wall
Street or I wasn't this, or I'm not a most
I don't know how to influence. I don't have multi
millions of followers or multi million dollars. I tell everybody
you belong in any room you go in.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
One.

Speaker 9 (45:15):
I tell everybody you belong in any room that you
go in. That's one. Two. I wrote a whole. I
wrote a book on the Master Connector of the Ultimate
Guide to Building Impactful Relationships for life and Business Success.
But I tell you how to network in those rooms.
So one thing I tell people, if you're shy, leave
with a compliment. People love a compliment. If you walk
up to somebody, you tell them, I love your hair,
I love your shoes, I love your bag. Oh that's

(45:35):
a great outfit, what colonnia. People love a compliment, and
they'll say, oh my god, thank you and tell you
either where they got it from, or you know, just
say thank you. Then if that's where they're in, you
can say, are you from around this area? It's another thing.
You just the icebreaker. They'll tell you where they're from.
They can go into the go down that rabbit hole,
or you can say what industry are you in? Like
what you know? What field are you in?

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Then?

Speaker 9 (45:53):
Now there are three icebreakers that people can use when
you're in the room. One you belong there, and then
two I just gave you three icebregers to use so
that you can lead with conversation. And the number one
goals to networking people ask me all the time how
I built my network and how I know so many
people is lead with value. Lead with value.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Everybody go into that a little bit.

Speaker 9 (46:12):
Sure. So most times when people meet people, and and
I've been pivaighed to be around a lot of high
profile people. When I'm with them, everybody runs up to
them and says Angelae, for example, oh keep put me
in your radio station. Oh can you give me this?
When I'm a yandy? Oh can you can you? I'm
not coming I want to be on TV right Like
they always come at them with ask. If you come
out with a value add you're you're gonna set yourself

(46:33):
apart from the other ninety percent that are coming at
them with ask. So I've been around Angela like when
I even met both of them, I'm like, how can
I help you? What are you working on for twenty
twenty five? What are your goals? Angela was like I
want to do more corporate speaking gigs, right, or just
get more corporate alignments. So I was incorporate at the time,
so I helped her get a corporate speaking gig. Same
thing for Yandy, she wanted more speaking opportunities and I
got her some opportunities, right, So I led with value

(46:55):
with them before I led with an ask. I've known
Angela for decades, but like more recently, I've been asking
how can I help you? Asking people like what are
they working on for twenty twenty five? What are your
goals for tweenty twenty six? What's your biggest what keeps
you up at night?

Speaker 5 (47:06):
Right?

Speaker 9 (47:07):
Like, then you try to figure out how you can
add the value to help them before you come with
your ask.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
And so for Nicole, I have joining me with the
CEO of the Master Connector Agency. What do you get
out of this?

Speaker 9 (47:20):
So for me, I'm a servant leader. I love helping people.
I love connecting people. I never even knew it was
a business, to be honest, because I was always connecting,
Like people will call me for things and I would
just connect the dots, connecting people. I've gotten people millions
of dollars and never received the dome, and I just
I did it because I enjoy doing I love helping
people win. I have access. I don't gate keep right

(47:42):
because I feel like me being a girl from the
inter Cities of Jersey the first person or I feel
me to go to college and end up on Wall
Street where they as recruit from Ivy League schools. And
I went to HBCU and back twenty years ago, I'm
dating myself. HBCUs wasn't as popular as it is today
for me to get on, get in that, get that opportunity.
Like I'm like, I tell my friends about this opportunity.
I want them to be in these rooms. I want

(48:02):
them to have these exposure. So I've always been that
servant leader in connecting the dots between the two spheres.
And so that's that's what I get out of it.
I get joy out of helping people. And now I'm like, Okay,
this is a whole business. And Angela's always been on
me like when are you starting this business? When are
you starting this business? And so that's that's where it
came from.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
And now we have the business.

Speaker 9 (48:21):
And now we have the business. I just turned one
year old in October, so I was excited about that
I've been in business for one year and then I've
been full time in the business since July.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
Congratulations on that. So Thursday, November sixth at Prime on
peace Tree. What can people expect at your event? Call?

Speaker 9 (48:40):
Yeah, so one, it's going to be a room like
no other. I was telling somebody the other day, like
the value that I add is that you get access.
A lot of times people go to these conferences and
they have these big speakers, but you don't get access
to them. They come on stage, they speak, and then
their whisked way. You are in the room with the
decision makers. So Truest is a big bank in the South.
They're our corporate sponsor. So because they're the corporate sponsor,

(49:01):
they're bringing in the corporate executive So you will be
sitting next to corporate executives, decision makers, VP level and
above at these organizations that can potentially help you in
your business. The last event I did, I had Amazon
and Puma sponsor. They whatt their corporate executives. So when
you come to this room, one we play networking Bingo,
which which I think is fun. So it forces you
to network. So on the Bengo card. There's questions like
who was in corporate and moves to entrepreneurship, who's from Atlanta,

(49:24):
because that's always that thy people move here on it's
hard find somebody from Atlanta right that actually grew up
and was born raised here. But there's just different fun
questions on the Bingo card that forces you to go
around and talk to different people. And then you want
a prize at the end. So whoever gets their Bingo.
I think we take about three prize winners and they
win a prize. So that's what you start off with.
So it's networking bingo.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
And it's a siccebreaker too, and it allows people to
kind of come in get comfortable. I love this because
it's not just you come and sit and listen you're
a student. This is interactive. You're gonna actually engage. This
is what I love it more. Okay, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 9 (49:57):
Yes. So we're going to kick it off with network
and bingo. They'll be pas and then after that then
I will you'll hear from two of the sponsors, because
to a sponsor's the event, another sponsor the local vendor sponsored.
And then I have a membership, so people are part
of my membership because they wanted more out of the
these events. They're like, we want to hear more from you,
we want access to your network. So then you'll hear
from three people from my membership community to tell them

(50:18):
the value of being a part of the Master Country Agency.
And then I'll interview ANGELAEE, and so we will get
into how she started from point A all the way
to point Z, how she was in radio, she still
lives in radio, how she decided to buy a building
in Detroit, how she opened up a coffee shop. Right,
she has multiple strings of income which we all need nowadays. Right,
so yes, yes, given those those gems on how how
for us to get get ahead. And then after that,

(50:41):
if you have the VIP ticket, I tell everybody, get
the VP ticket, investing yourself, see yourself where you see
yourself with you know, to see closer to the closer
people that have the access for you. But if you
have a VIP ticket, you get a meet and greet
with ANGELAEE. Yeah after the event.

Speaker 7 (50:57):
Nice.

Speaker 9 (50:57):
Yes, and then there's a dinner so if yees, So
if you have the VIP ticket, we'll be supplying a
dinner for you and you go upstairs. So climber Peatriet
is downstairs. Everybody's going to be then after my interview Angelie,
you'll go upstairs and have dinner with her and whoever
else that has a VIP ticket. So it's like a
real intimate space. I love it because again, it gives
people access to people. So one girl, I was having

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lunch with one of my girlfriends and she came up
to us. One of my girlfriends is a celebrity, and
I thought she was talking to me because she goes,
I know you, and I think she's talking to those
leb because I'm like, she doesn't me. She's like, no,
I know you, and I said you know me? She
said yeah. She's like, I came to your event and
I said which one and she said I came to
the one with Egypt and I said oh okay, and
she said it changed my life.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Oh that's so wonderful.

Speaker 9 (51:37):
She said your event changed my life. And I said,
well how because those are some powerful words, right, something
changing your life?

Speaker 3 (51:41):
It is. Yes, that's a gift to you too, Like
what a huge compliment to say you change someone's life.
Because you could say you made my day, you made
me smile, But to change someone's life.

Speaker 9 (51:50):
That's huge, right, And this was the first event that
I did, so I was like the fuel that I
needed to keep going. And she changed my life. I said,
how do I even change your life? She said, I'm
working on a two million dollar real estate project in Tennessee,
two million dollars they'll estate project in Tennessee. And I
met a gietary event that does government contracting, and through
that connection, it helped me get over the hump that
I was dealing with all these different contracts, because anybody

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knows you do anything in the city need government contract
especial when you building big, big buildings or housing. And
he helped her with that process. And so she hadn't
come to my room, she would still be stuck in
the rut with trying to get through the two million
dollar projects she's working on. And then another young lady
flewing from Canada, right, So I was like, oh, you're
making my brand international, right, We got people Canada.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
We will take that, we will take that, take that.

Speaker 9 (52:33):
And so she came and she uh, she said hey,
and I knew who she was because when she got
the ticket it said Canada on the ticket, and so
she really wanted to meet Andy, and she came to
the Yandy event. So I personally walked her over and said, Yandy,
this woman flew in from Canada to be at this
event to meet you. Yandy took extra time, poured into her.
Now she told me too, she said, she said, come
in to your event and changed my life. I met Yandy.

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She told me to start my trucking business. I started
the trucking business. I moved to Atlanta. She moved to
Atlanta to start out your She just bought a warehouse
a couple of months ago.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
So it's wonderful just you being a girls girl. I
know I've hosted a party with Yandy, so I know
that she's a girl's girl. Yes, and very approachable, just
very down to earth and for you. So I know
that if you two were keeping company, I know what
kind of cloth your cup from?

Speaker 9 (53:18):
Yeah? So I so. So she changed her life when
she checks on her like said, she's building this business.
She joined my membership. So and my membership. We pour
into people. We help you with your business. We bring
on experts every month to talk about networking, trademarking, marketing,
AI anything you need to be a business owner. We
pour into you with that because I'm running myself. I
was on Watch You for twenty one years and within
the last year we started running a business. So there's

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so much I still learn in the entrepreneurship.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
Space that's awesome, And who should come to this event
and Nicoll.

Speaker 9 (53:47):
Anybody looking to grow their network. It's because it's the
corporate executives, it's the industry leaders, it's to influencers, it's
everybody that's looking for your tribe to help you get
to the next level. I feel like if you're stuck
and you have a business owner, you can't get to
that next level. You need community to sell your products,
to write, you need corporate sponsors. If you have an
event like like I do events to help us get
our event sponsored. I also teach how to get corporate sponsors.

(54:10):
I was headed sponsors for the last five years at
JP Morgan, so I know what it takes to get
a corpus sponsor, and then I was able to get
Amazon pull my intruest to sponsor my six month old
business right. And so if you look at a corporate sponsors,
if you're an entrepreneur, if you're a corporate executive that
wants to get your product in front of more people
because there will be influencers in the room as well.
I say it for the everyday person looking to grow

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their network and the networth.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
I love this. And if someone needs more information about
the event on Thursday, November sixth at Prime on P Street,
where can they get it?

Speaker 9 (54:41):
Yeah, so you can go to my website www dot
the Maasterconnectoragency dot com. So again that's www dot the
maasterc Connector Agency dot com. You can follow me on
Instagram at the Master Connector. The link is in my bio.
I'll be posting about it multiple times. You'll see it
all over my Instagram page. And Angelie and I you're
live together talking about the event. I did her radio

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station talking about the event. I've been on multiple syndications
talking about it. Thank you, Missy for allowing me time
to be on your the Black Information Network to talk
about it. But yes, you can follow me on Instagram
at the Master Underscore Connector. Or you can go to
my website www dot Themaster Connection Agency dot com.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
And if someone can't make this event this week on Thursday,
what advice do you have for them if they still
want to make sure that they get all of this
knowledge and they have access to you.

Speaker 9 (55:29):
You can grab my book The Master connector The Ultimate
Guide to Building Impactful Connections for life and Business Success.
You can join my membership. So the membership is you're
automatically going into a tribe, a tribe of corporate executives,
industry leaders, and entrepreneurs all in there together to help
our businesses grow. When somebody has an event, we all
show up. If somebody has a new product, we all

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support and buy it. We share resources in there, and
the membership is on my website too. It's ninety nine
dollars a month, but when I tell you it's worth it.
I also do a dinner for them, all about brick
and bread to brick barriers, Meaning there's something about going
to dinner with somebody or a lunch with the boers
right that they let their hair down. You get to
learn a little bit more about them for a meal.
And so I treat my members to a meal one

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time a year. We're actually doing a dinner on November fifth,
So the members that have been a part of my community,
I'm taking them to dinner at this private club in
Atlanta called The Retreat, which is a members only club yeah,
and so so you can find me on the website,
you can get my book, you can follow me on Instagram.
I post all things that I'm doing there at the
Master connect, the Master Underscore connector. But yeah, like I'm

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like I said, I'm not a gate keeper. I share
all the information and knowledge. I've been doing it for
free for over twenty plus years, Misty, and it's like, Okay,
I have to put a price because this is my.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Police and it's invaluable. And the information you're giving, like
you know, you've had people tell you this has been
life changing for me. And I think it's wonderful that
you're sharing your network because people are gate keepers and
so to have this opportunity where they're not coming to
a stuffy room and sitting and watching people on a stage.
They're actually having a chance to rub shoulders with these people.

(57:00):
And so once I get you in the room, then
the work is on you. But you also have given
three tips on what to do in terms of mice breakers,
are what to do when you get in that room.
So this is really you've made it really easy and
accessible to really help people get to the next level,
and you've done this for free. I don't imagine the
information that you're going to get once people are actually
there at your event on Thursday.

Speaker 9 (57:21):
Thank you. And I want to say Egypt was my
first guest that I interviewed. She loved it so much.
She's like, I'm coming back to your next event and
I'm buying mind she's my friend. She's like, I'm buying
ten tickets because my real estate investors need to be
in that room. And she literally came back to the
next event and bought ten tickets so that she can
bring her team to get access to corporate executives, industrudios
and entrepreneurs because if you're selling houses in your real
estate business, those are your clients, right And so I

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tell people investing yourself, Yes, the ticket is two hundred
dollars for general or two hundred for VIP, but it's
life changing getting access to people that are decision makers
that can help you grow your network and your networth.
I feel like it's priceless. Oh, I want to give
a discoud code. So because you're listening in and you
guys are taking your time to listen to Mecy and
I to I'm giving twenty percent off if you get

(58:02):
your ticket within the next twenty four hours. Use coal
Connect twenty to get twenty next twenty Okay, connect twenty,
you get twenty percent off your tickets. But I hope
to see you November six. I'm telling you it's a
life changing, impactful room. Chruice is bringing their corporate executives,
there's industry leaders. Angelaee's coming with her video executives right like.
It's an amazing room.

Speaker 3 (58:22):
Nicole Point is your CEO of the Master Connector Agency.
Thank you so much for joining the Black Information Network
with this wealth of knowledge that feels like it's never ending.
So thank you for sharing what you've shared with us today.
Continue success to you and I know your event is
going to be amazing and we will talk to you
when you do it again.

Speaker 9 (58:39):
Yes, thank you, Thank you so much for the opportunity
and hope to see you all November six.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Thank you, Misty and Nicole. iHeartRadio personality. Angela Yee will
be the guest speaker at the event on Thursday. If
you're interested in attending the Master Connector Agency event, you
can get more info at the Masteragency Connector dot com.
Black Information Network listeners can use code connect twenty for
twenty percent off your ticket, and that's our program for

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