September 26, 2025 • 49 mins
Dress For Success--Memphis
Mrs. Rhonda Treadwell, Executive Director
Ms. Katrina Kimble, Program Manager
Dr. Shameka Gibson, Program Manager of Business Mentorship
Mrs. Rhonda Treadwell, Executive Director
Ms. Katrina Kimble, Program Manager
Dr. Shameka Gibson, Program Manager of Business Mentorship
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Memphis born and bred, walking the walk and talking and talk.
It's the stand Belle Morning Show, weekday mornings from sixty
ten am on the Heart and Soul of Memphis, ten
seventy wd IA.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So many people have heard the name, you know, and
some may not have, but many have. Dress for Success.
Do you use the numeral for do you just spell
it all the way out?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Foo? It's all alphabets fr.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
For Okay, dress for success Memphis?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Can you distinguish why, particularly when you say Memphis because
it are you doing things for young ladies here or
the world over? Or how does that work? Many dress
for successes?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Basically, Dress for Success is worldwide. Okay.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
There are one hundred and thirty one affiliates in twenty countries,
and the Memphis affiliate has been here for twenty five years.
So we are recognized by our cities or territories or
whatever the case may be. So we always have to
put where you're from. So that's what dress for It's
a phrase, but we're dressed for success in Memphis.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I like it. I like it. And how long have
you been at the Helm?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh? My god, it's been eight years.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Eight it's been eight years it's fascinating to think about it.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, you haven't fought in other words, but I know
it's a lot of work.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
It's passion. Yeah, yes, you know, it's my passion. I'm retired.
Oh yeah, I lost my mind and came back to work.
My husband can tell the story too. That's a whole
nother story, but it is passion. My background is workforce development.
I have over forty six years and workforce development. The
last fifteen years was working with the tan of Program
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Welfare to Work. So I know that like the back
of my hand. And when I was retired and I
needed something to do, I threw my hat into the ring.
Addressed for Success Memphis. Sandra Brooks was executiretor and in
the process we were doing a project with Top Ladies
of Distinction. I was the president at the time, and
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in the process, whenever we do a fundraiser or a
project for our top teens, we have a service project.
And at that particular time, the national president of TLD
had connected with Dress for Success Worldwide, So it just
fell right in the groove of our status of women thrust.
So I contacted Dress for Success Memphis. I had been
a facilitator. I had been a presenter and when I called,
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I said, well, we don't have an executive director. Because
I called Sandraw and she had gone on to Russ's
College and they said well, and I called her. She said, well,
we need pearls, Randa. So we had our guests to
donate pearls. We had the ladies to donate pearls. So
we need to present these pearls to Dress for Success Memphis.
And at that time the president of the board and
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Sandra came out and we made that presentation. And prior
to that, I made the call the young lady said,
we don't have an executive director. It's about two weeks later.
I talked to my husband. I said, you know, I'm
gonna throw my hat in the ring. And I did.
Showed up for a meeting. Can you show up on
Monday morning? It was kind of crazy, but well, you know,
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in present it fell in place. And when I got there,
these two ladies, missus Rubstine Dandris and her sister, Miss
Louise Lay, they've been there for over twenty years. They said, well,
we're getting ready to retire. I said, I just got here.
Y'all gonna leave me hanging because they had institutional knowledge
that I did not have, and there was some challenges
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and they hung in with me and they're still with
me today. Yes, they all away right. They show up
every day. They're there to help assist the ladies with
their clothing. I could not do this without the circle
of influence that I have around me and these volunteers.
They volunteer. So we've expanded our reach. From the standpoint,
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we have one hundred and twenty two now referral agency partners.
We partner with everybody. I believe in partnership and collaboration
and the thing that we do stand is such a
little thing, but it has such an impact on families.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
We provide appropriate work attire and interview attire for anybody
sixteen years and old or completely free of charge.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
So not necessarily for the ladies, weekly for the lady.
For the ladies, okay, A partner with the Christopher Pue
Center Michelle Pugh For the men, Oh okay, Yes, we
partner with them.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
For the men.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
We have a presentation called First Impressions and Branding and
it talks about appropriate attire. The you know, the million
dollar question, what is professional casual or business casual.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
We talk about those.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, so speaking to talk about say, let me move
now to your program manager if you will, Katrina, Katrina Kim.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
But let me tell you, Mike, welcome to the show.
First of all, this show.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
First time the d I a d I no year
because look, I'm like their hair throwing everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I got some highlights.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
For the bright lights.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And that's your best sister, Your best sister. You should
have got the glow. So I see that going on.
So and so you got the glow to have and
you're working with these young ladies and the mission work.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It continues. You know.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Ronner said something about, you know, being in workforce development
for over forty years, you know, and that's some good
experience right there. So and it's still a label of love,
as you mentioned, it's a passion.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You're in it. How long have you.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Been with Dress for Success Memphis, believe it or not,
I'm actually a product of Dress and Success. I've been
associated for over twenty years. I came in as a
client and I came back and started volunteering. So what
we try to encourage everyone that comes through. I tell
people all the time, Dress and Success We're more than
just a suit, So we give you job ready. It's
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not just about job readin the skills, but also giving
you mentally are paired to go into the workforce. And
so what we do through PWG is any woman that
has come through our program, whether they've got in a suit,
a professional women's group. And what we asked is that
once you go through the program, we ask you to
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come back and help us do this work. It's not
about giving somebody a hand out. It's a hand up
because people relate to people that look like them. And
so what we offer is we do virtual programs, we
do in person programs, and sometimes we just get together
and have oh we call a kitchen table talk, or
we just get together and be for coffee. What's happening
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in your career right now? Because all of us need
a community. And I think that's the biggest thing Dressed
success gave me was it gave me a community to
come back to because I've.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Had changes on my job.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
I mean I was downsized three times and I had
to come back and get resuited and had to develop
what Katrina's brand was. And and I'm very grateful for
my relationship with Ms Runda. She says she's been here
eight years. I feel like we've been together longer than that.
And the it is and the and then the blessing
of all of this. I got to serve as a
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global ambassador, so I got to represent.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
So I just got back from New York.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, yeah, because I tell you here, I was going
to New York, to New York.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
So I just got back, and I was proud to
represent my city, Memphis, Tennessee as a global ambassador in
New York City for a week.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
It was only twelve of us there.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
And what I loved about it was the fact everybody
kept asking me questions about you know, what's happened in
your city. I said, we're doing what we always do.
We're answering the call and serving our peoples. That's what
we're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I said, sounds like the mission right there. I got
to take a break, ladies, in case you just join
us on w G I A. We are speaking with
our very special guest inside my special features stand Special
People Spotlight, and they certainly are missus Ronda Lambert tread
Well and missus Katrina Kimball. Yeah with me, and we're
so glad that you're here. I'm taking this break beat
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right back.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
All right, A beautiful day of the neighborhood. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
We're back everybody on this Friday, September twenty six, twenty
twenty five, and Memphis weather abundant sunshine today stops at
eighty two here in Memphis, slow sinati the upper fifties,
so it's gonna be really nice, football weather, Southern Herriage
Classics is in the air. Come on to Memphis, y'all.
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All roads lead to the Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium. Do
the thing, and we got a lot of other activities
and festivities going on as well, so make yourself.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
A part of it. Get on getting that ride, drive.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
To Memphis, Tennessee, Southern Heroas Classic Weekend, a lot of
other things going on to as well. We'll announce with
that before I get out of here, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
All right. In the studio, we got an additional lady
who came to join me this morning. So so Ronni,
can you do the honors introduce we got another guest
in here. Yes, that's who we have. Who do we like? Church?
Who do we have I'm.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Extremely proud to introduce to you doctor Shamika Gibson. She
is our Business Mentorship Program manager, which is funded by
Bank of America, and I'll let.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Her give you more details about that project.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Doctor Gibson, welcome in. I'm on step to that Mike's sister.
Glad to have you.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
It's great to be here. You know, I'm getting all
magitis out. Just touched down on them from Austin, Texas, right.
But just a little bit about the Business Mentorship program.
We started this program in the fall of twenty twenty
during the on set of COVID when a lot of
business owners or aspiring business owners were trying to figure
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out how to properly set up a business, or start
a business, or grow or scale the business that they
currently had. And during that time, we noticed that a
lot of organizations were laying off staff. A lot of
organizations were closing their doors because of funding challenges, and
so they left a lot of employees without employment. So
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they had to think really quickly, and people learned that
they had lots of talents and skills that they could
potentially turn into a business and make money from. So
our program was developed to help those small business owners
become successful and sustainable. So During that program, we help
them with all things to help them be a successful
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business owner. But it wasn't just about teaching them about
financial literacy for a business owner, or teaching them how
to set up their business the proper way, or program
management or revenue building. It was about the mindset of
the business owner. Our goal was to not only just
help them start a business, but to change their mindset
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from business owner, from entrepreneur to growth and stabilizing and
supporting a community.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
So it was a bigger goal.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
During that time, a lot of organizations was doing these
incubator type programs where they was helping individuals that wanted
to start businesses, and that's.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
All it was.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
It was helping them set up LLC and then sending
them on their way and having them.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Figure it out.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
But our goal was to be intentional in the work
that we that we did with those business owners, and
they went through a six month a six month cohort,
and during that cohort, we gave them everything that we had.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So when you say they those who wanted to participate
in this particular program, but then from Memphis or from
more well, so.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
Man our first our first two program, our first two
cohorts were Memphis led businesses. Memphis led third cohort was
when we opened up and we had twenty one. Our
second co holt was an all male cohort, and then
our third cohort we had twenty one women led businesses
from everywhere. The program expanded really quickly. We were able
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to support a lot of businesses through the business mentorship program.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
So this is all through Dress for Success, Memphis.
Speaker 10 (11:46):
Dress for Assessment.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
Absolutely, and today we will be celebrating the completion this weekend,
the completion of cohort nine wow, called nine cohorts, and
we've that is seventy nine businesses that completed the program successfully,
but eighty five businesses that we have helped through the program.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
How long?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
How long does it take?
Speaker 9 (12:09):
So it's a six month it's a six month cohort absolutely,
but it doesn't stop there. You know, after the cohort,
we have a collaborate well what is it called like
a group me where after the program all the business
owners that can connect with the other cohorts and it
get kind of competitive.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
Everyone thinks that cohort was the better cohort.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Yeah, but that's an opportunity for them to get connected
to other business owner small business owners and have their community.
So we still support them even after the six months,
so as long as they're operating that business, will even
start a new business, we still support them. They get
legal support, they get financial support, and then of course
they have assets to me and mis Rondo whenever they
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need it, and then also our networks as well.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So you are you from Memphis? You remember, okay, welcome back,
welcome home. You just touched down straight off the flight Loston, Texas.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
You can get the ground right.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Here.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You troll all no wheels up.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
You're just like, okay, let's get on the road and.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Then two all the way down the hard way. It
might have been ninety three, but you know what, that's
pretty good. That's pretty good. We're glad you here. You
got glad you made it back safely. You gave good directions,
Miss tread Well, you gave good direction. You came right
on the Indeed, you might have one little hiccup.
Speaker 9 (13:25):
Yeah, I said the security sweat.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
You have a good time watching me run across the lobby.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
To the to the baby.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
Yeah, I gotta take my shoes off a run.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Well, you got it. I gone rep in school right quick.
What we got to ask you a question, gave.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
The amazing wonderful why have in high school class of
two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Asked that?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
You know, that's the opportunity question.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Have all these babies around right.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Oh three? You know babies.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Right nineteen seventy?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Come on, helmet, Why did I get you Katrina?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Did you go mail road like you got so many?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, you got a little bit of colors. Just a
look you represented him? Come on, white Haven Tigers. And
I got to ask you, doctor d J your prom
You remember seeing me around your campus in time?
Speaker 10 (14:18):
Uh huh. Absolutely, We've been knowing you for a long time.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Was it mister Norville or mister Hunter? Your president, your
your principal?
Speaker 10 (14:30):
Time wondering Hunter? What's the principal.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
For the fresh coach Hunter?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah? Yeah, there was he the prinsident of the three?
Speaker 10 (14:40):
Hold up? He said, who Hunter?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Doctor Vincent Hunter, white Havenort.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
You got to know now he was back?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Was our process?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Yeah? It's like, yeah, I take you back there, I
take you back now. Look at you.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Now, I'm getting season.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
That's the that's the way to put it.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
You season, your Vietnam you season season Tiger. Well, we're
so glad that you made it safely off first of all.
And and how's your family doing?
Speaker 10 (15:18):
Family is great, Everyone is amazing.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
We're blessed, proud of their dog. I'm sure, yeah, all
of that. Both of your parents still with us, Yes
they are.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I have to ask that question, you know, And I
was never scared to ask because and.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
Then I have a My mom was in this.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
She started in Cohort eight, but she couldn't finish personal problems.
But I made a post on Facebook, my mom lunch
they uh, non emergency medical transport business. She participated in COY,
she participated in cohort No, I'm so proud.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Can you mentioned her name? Can you say?
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Absolutely? Tamika Davis Track Care Transportation.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
H yeah, yeah, you know we shot that out. Yeah,
we lift up this morning.
Speaker 10 (16:08):
Graduation tomorrow and we yeah, graduation tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Okay, so what we go.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
We're going to take another break to go back around
the room and get some more information, and we want
to talk about this fantastic Do you call it a gala?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Is it a or what a fundraiser? What do you
call it?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
It's a fundraiser and it's our twenty fifth anniversary fundraiser.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Little black dress.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Little back, little black dress.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yes, all right, we gotta talk about that that's going
on with tonight this evening, and we're gonna talk about
it when we come back. Yeah, we're talking to missus Treadwell,
Missus Kimball and doctor Gibson in the building.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Is that Gibson would appeal a B B like the donuts?
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Yes, you know, I gotta swing batter and Graham what
it is?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Right?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
We got some agree, We got some out there in
the green room for you.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Just hold time. We got something. But how you like
your coffee? You want to black nose, sugar, no green
what you want?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Girl?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
There you go. We'll be right back. All right, we're
in here, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Back everybody. Thank you so much for being here by
them of the hour.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Standon Bill. They'll to trying to serve you well.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
And it's finally Friday, Southern Harrita's classic weekend in the
studio this morning, Doctor Gibson and of course missus Ronda
Treadwell and Katrina Kimball my very special guest on this
Friday morning, this beautiful Friday morning. I'm so glad that
graced the studios and got here safely and here to
talk about a be loved organization that they serve a
Dress for Success Memphis, and they do so many wonderful
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things for our city for young ladies in terms of
getting them attired, getting them some dress, get them dresses
and whatever they need. Maybe for a job interview, you know,
maybe for a prom, maybe for they.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Got to be in a wedding.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You know, they could be the flower girl, one of
the bridesmaids. But they gotta have clothing that's suitable, keyword suitable.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
And we're so glad that they are here.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
This Double Joy Listening writes, Happy Friday, missus Stanbill. I
would like to give missus Ronda, doctor Gibson, and miss
Kimball the shout out for the dedication and hard work
in the community. All three of them are jewels, love,
ebony triplet words.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Words.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah, yeah, that's your friend, dots running all act like
y'all know that e t yes home on home ebony triplets.
That's nice. Also, this WI listener writes to me. She
says in the subject space Dress for Success Memphis. Good
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morning to you staying and your guests. We have a
Dress for Success here in New York. Yes, located thirty
two East thirty first Street. Yes, she said, I have
the She writes, I had the pleasure of using their
facility and was fitted with a beautiful pant suit and
shirt to match. Yeah, she says, they do a great
job and I would recommend them to anyone looking for
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work or tire. Best your loyal New York listener and
the B, Yes, and the B and the bull Dress
for Success doing it all over the world, all over
the country, all the nation, you know, and that's that's
that's that's that's that's that's amazing. Who all you know
that you reach the people that you reach, and then
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to do it here in Memphis with Dress for Success Memphis.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
The work goes on. You said to twenty five years,
mistert Win.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Existence for twenty five years. Let me give.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
You you're celebrating this evening, right, we're celebration SSS eving
please Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
So in twenty twenty four, we served one thousand, one
and thirty five clients and as of September twenty twenty five,
we served nine hundred and fourteen so far this year. Yes,
that's in person. Virtual presentations went out to the schools.
We just set up a collaborative with the growth at
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the University of Memphis Feed for Services. I'm doing the
presentation on branding with those persons.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
It's too funny.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I went.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
I did my first presentation and the first thing after
the priests.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Mitch, I remember you for Bridges.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
They're now in college, you know, so you know my
life is wonderful. God has sincerely blessed us. We have
some I have to give a shout out to our
board chairman, John C.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Wallace Gold.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
We are celebrating our twenty fifth anniversary this evening at
the Hilton. It's called the Little Black Dress Event. This
is our annual fundraiser. Our goal this year is to
raise at least twenty five thousand dollars. So anybody who
has not purchased a ticket and can't get in, we're
basically sold out. Please consider donating twenty five dollars to
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Dress for Success Memphis.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
It could be a.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
One time donation, it could be a quarterly, it could
be monthly. When you do monthly donations, that helps us
with our level of sustainability.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
So the donation includes what you attire, you get, in
other words, what you get.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
For carry donations of twenty five dollars. Individuals actually donate
gently worn clothing from their closets. Those items that they
donate to us, we categorize them. It can be professional,
it can be casual. We work with other again collaborations.
We work with other smaller organizations or facilities like Catholic charities.
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Those individuals are homeless, so they need more casual items,
backpacks across bodies. So where do we take the clothes cloth?
Thirty one to twenty one directors Row Sweet one o two.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Say that again its stripwell thirty.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
One twenty one directors Row Sweet one oh two. One
more time thirty one twenty one directors Row Sweet one
oh two. If you're coming up airways and you see
the old catfish cabin, the next light is Director's Row.
Make a right turn. Do not read the numbers on
the buildings. Just come around the curve and you'll see
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our sign. We're in the same facility, mister Alfred Washington,
top notch security.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
You cannot miss us.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Operational hours are Tuesdays, Wednesdays Thursdays ten am.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
To one pm.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Call ahead volunteers will be able to help you unload
those items. You sign in and we'll give you a
receipt for all items that you have donated to us.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Love that, Yeah, I love that, and I thought it
was necessary to give that physical address.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Absolutely, so absolutely we did move during COVID. Yes, okay,
we were on Colony Park Drive oh far, Yes, yes,
I was there.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
For twelve years.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
And it just so happened the doors opened. We were
able to move during COVID with the help of the
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis. If you ever go on
their website and go back to the COVID response report.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
My sister in law called me up one day.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
She said, Roy, do I got this report from the
Community Foundation and the mail you got three pages in here,
and I have to tell the story.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Please do.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Beautiful young lady Fluffy size twenty eight, she'd been hired
by Methodist North Hospital, walked in and she was dressed
in appropriate.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
She was referred to me.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
We have a category stand called critical Needs Employment Gear.
So when people donate clothing to us, we big We
asked about ten or twenty bucks. Those funds are set
aside to purchase skit proof shoes, work pants, gift cards
for individuals as they transitioned to work. So I had
a little money, a little change, and she's at a hospital, right,
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So I immediately contact Landau because that's medical uniforms.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Do you know how much.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Those shoes are? They're three hundred dollars a pair. Couldn't
afford that, So then I got I'm an Amazon girl.
I get on Amazon because she wore an eleven wide shoe.
They did not have men, they did not have even women's.
So I got back online to Wallyworld Walmart. I was
able to purchase her two pair of pants and a
pair of shoes for sixty dollars for her to help
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keep her job.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
So it's little.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Things like that that really really matter. And she's been
successful every since. So that's what we do. Yeah, it's
the little things in life that determine the big things.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And when you guys pitch in like that, that's a
memory that you something she'll never forget. Yes, and now
she's still gainful employed. There, that's what a testimony. Speaking
of testimonies, I know, Katrina, I think last time you
were here you had a testimony too about coming through
the ranks. Let me get you over to the mic.
Share with us, share with us your testimony. You came
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through the ranks. You were a client if you will.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Yeah, I've moved to Memphis back in nineteen ninety five. Wow,
and I was going through an ugly divorce and I
had found a job, but I did not have a
professional attire because I was working as an executive assistant
at that time. And that was my first interaction with
dress assess And at that time, we were actually downtown
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and Idwell Presbyterian Church in their basement, that's where we
started at. And I went there, met some ladies, They
gave me some clothes, went from my interview, came back,
got the came back, told them, hey, ladies, I got
the job. They said, oh wonderful, and they was. I
was like, thank y'all so much.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I thought I was through.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
She was like, oh, no, you're gonna need clothes for
the week. So they actually gave me a week of
attire and gave me my first lever briefcase so I
could go to work and you know, not only be
able to show up dress nice on outside, but also
in the head space that I could be successful, that
I could have a career.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
This wasn't just a job for me. And then life happens.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
I went to college, got the degree, was working, and
then two thousand and eight the housing market crash and
I lost my job, I lost my house, I lost
my car, I lost everything. And at that time, my
son was a senior White Heaven High School doctor hunter,
and I was trying to figure out how can I
get my son through his senior year, pay his senior dues,
and how was I going to keep the light song?
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Because I lost my house, I moved in an apartment,
went back to dressing and said, those women embraced me again.
They're like, look, you have it in you, you just
don't know what. So they kind of helped me rebrand myself.
Was that doing Santa Brook's te doing Sandy Brooksten. We
sat down and we talked about what are the skills
you have? And I think sometimes as when we forget
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all the great skills, we really have inside of us.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
So much potential.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
And she said, now let's look at what you know
how to do and what people are willing to pay
you to do.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
And so I became a virtual assistant. I created my own.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
Business because at that time, we didn't have an increbator
program because nobody would hire me. So I just started
offering my services to people at my church, former clients
I work with, and next thing I know, I had
a budding virtual assistant business about four to five years
before I actually went back into the workforce.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
So that's the thing I want to emphasize.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
A lot of people think dress and Success is just
for the new career person starting No, if you're starting
over or you're going through a transition, we're here to
help you figure out your transition and rebrand yourself because
I truly believe we've been all called to be well
and not perfect, and you just got to discover what's
being well for you looks like.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
And I think that's what we do well addressed success.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
And now you're working for the program, right.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
We all be working well.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
I feel like Michael Jackson that got us working, working
day and night. But it's really don't mind because this
is the thing. When you're doing something that you truly
know that you've been called and place here to do.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
It's not work.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
And now I do have a full time job that
is work, but this here is where I come to me.
It's more of a ministry and a service because I
know that if we can change the life of one woman,
We're gonna change the life of a whole family, because
most women are, you know, unfortunate. We got a lot
of single women here in Shelby County, got a lot
of single family homes. But if we can shift that
perspective of that woman, if we can shift her mindset
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and get her to see herself in a different version
of herself, we would change the legacy in the generation
of her children and of her community.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Because when you're able to.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Do well, you can go back and serve well in
your home, in your community, and become a better version
of yourself.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
She is Katrina Kimball. Ladies in general, what a testimony.
This WGI listener rights, thank you by the way, too, you,
miss Kimball. This WGI listener rights, good morning in the
subject space, good morning standing Dress for Success ladies, Stan
I am also a product of Dress for Success. I
came under Miss Sandra Burke with an E. I believe
it was around two thousand and eight or nine. I
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truly appreciate all that Dress for Success Memphis did for me,
and I pray that many more will come under this
great opportunity. That's Patrice Harrises, James Okay fantastic. You bless
the many people, not just in Memphis but the world over.
And I know doctor Gibson had a test to that
you now teach work at an HBCU in Austin.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Talk to us about that as a matter of fact,
not one but two.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Right, Well, So Hustin Tilson is HBCU in Austin, and
so actually they've just been awarded This is their one
hundred and fiftieth year and they've just been awarded uh
I think.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
One hundred and fifty grant.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Yeah, So it's been it's been in the news and
people been talking about it, and they are doing some
really great things at HT and so I'm a professor there,
and I also am a professor at Austin Community College
as well, and so Austin Community College. No, that's just OK,
I w I And I enjoyed teaching this my passion.
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I really enjoy and I think that's why I identify
so much with the Business Mentorship program. My background is psychology,
so I'm always about the mindset and behaviors, and so
I teach that to my students. But I'm real big
about that with the work that I do with my
nonprofit Change in the mindset and then also the work
that I do.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
So how did you get to Austin?
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
You want to undergrad?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
That?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Where'd you go? Undergrad?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Christian Brothers?
Speaker 10 (29:57):
And I tell that cbut.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
That's a good report. Yeah, And so how did Austin?
Austin came calling? Or you just knocked on the door.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
But see what had happened was so my my my
beautiful daughter, Jayla Whittaker. Uh, she actually graduated from Arlington
High and so she's she wanted to go to Preview University,
which HBCU in Texas, and you know, me, trying to
be a good mother, I said, you know what, I'm
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gonna go ahead and move to Texas and get everything
set up so she can go here and I can
be closer to it, because I told her when she graduated,
I'm going wherever she going. So we get to Texas
and find out that it ain't as cheap as we
thought it was gonna be. So her father works at
University of Memphis, and so with him working at University
of Memphis, she's able to get a discount on you know,
her tuition, and she got scholarships and so we just wait,
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we put it on the scale and weighed, and she
stayed in Tennessee and me and my other daughters in Texas.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
I said, I'm not moving back.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
So yeah, that's where I'm at, and.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
That's how industry and you there and doing a wonderful
work at two colleges that's great community college as well
as a university there an HBCU, andwe this is a
good fit, good fit for you. So your ten years
looking like, what, how long you been there?
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (31:15):
Getting there?
Speaker 9 (31:15):
So I've been teaching, So I've been teaching at HT
for about two years. I just started at ACC last year,
but I've been teaching since two thousand and nine, so
I almost have twenty years of academia under.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
So you're able to juggle or balance, if you will,
dress for success even while being in Texas.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
And I would say the good thing about working for
and with Miss Rhonda is that And I always tell
this story as well because me and Ms Rnda was
actually the very first person to give me a chance
when I launched my consulting business.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
She was my very first client.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
So I've been working with her since I started in
Stry consulting and data back in twenty eighteen. Me and
Miss Roonda started working together in twenty nineteen, so here
in Mysis and so she gave me my first opportunity
and she mentored me and supported me and she's I mean,
we still we always say we make magic together. And
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so I'm you know, grateful for her. And I always
tell her that because you know, when you know, when
you're trying to start a business and you're trying to
start a consultant, a lot of people don't really trust you,
they don't know you.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
But Miss Rnda was like, come on, little girl.
Speaker 9 (32:25):
She was like, you got what I need and so
and that's how it that's how their relationship started. And
you know, from there, I've gotten you know better, you know,
I feel more equipped as a consultant.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
When I need advisement, I go to miss Ms Rhonda A.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Katrina has also been a good support person to me
as well. But I would say with a dress for success,
it's not just a job, it's a family. And we
have developed, you know, a sisterhood and and a love
for each other and it's genuine and I enjoy working
for Miss Rhonda.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Well, I can hear in your voice.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah, and Ronda, no doubt in person to work with
and for, And she said, creating opportunities for so many
people you know, and she's one of those who have
passed the baton in a heartbeat. But you know, but
when she does that, or if she does that, she
knows Dress for Success Memphis will be in good hands.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Stan, I cannot. I don't have all the words for it.
I am so definitely grateful. I'm not a selfish person.
I'm realistic, I'm seasoned. I have a skill set, and
I needed to have individuals around me to help me.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Implement this vision.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
There were so many things I wanted to do as
it relates to uplifting Dress for Success Memphis and incorporating
unique and different things. I know about job development, I
know about job or training, you know the whole background
and workforce of development.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
But there are all these.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Gray areas and opportunities out there that can really really
uplift the community and individuals as they are developing themselves
and being tax paying, productive citizens. So they've helped me
realize my vision, and I'm extremely grateful for that. I
believe in putting people around me that know more than
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I do, and they do. I have a skill set
and that you know, and and it all blends and
it works so well together. And that's how we have
been so fortunate. I tell I tell them all the time.
You know, Memphis, we got it going on. When we
when I'm on these calls with our my the other affiliates,
I sit back and be quiet. We had the business
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mentorship program, and all of a sudden, worldwide had one.
And then the question was, well, how did roderh me
gonna say, Ms Roder, We're.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Already doing that, so we're kind of they're catching up
with us.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
So Memphis, we got it going on, no doubt, and
we're just extremely blessed. Shout out to hazel Burg. She's
a past board president. She's always on me about making.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Sure the board.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
No it's a different ver okay.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Her uh Praise Temple, her husband's pastor Praise Temple, DOJCT Church.
She's always there, Bishop Burke, Bishop Burke. Absolutely, So, I'm
very grateful for the individuals and their wives, counsel that's
around me, the volunteers, and let me shout them out,
Miss Ruby, Miss Louise, Miss Mildred.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
There's a third sister, Carol Sloan.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
As well as missus Obie Dorothy Obie, uh, Evelyn Pruitt Davis.
We also have a work husband, mister Emil Salisbury. He's
Johnson Salisbury's brother.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Yeahsbury's brother. Yeah, Bi, Yes.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
We are, We're We're good.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Sure, let me take his break, you know, just a
moment or two and uh, collect yourself. I know we've
been finding off questions and that kind of thing, and
you've been expressing yourself very well, but so so now
it's time for the audience if you like to ask
a question of these lovely ladies and astute ladies and
those these ladies who would continue to represent the most
educated demographic in America.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Group in America. These ladies are ready.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Black women you can call right now not on one
five three five, nine three four two, eight hundred and
five zero three nine three four two or eight three three,
five three, five nine three four two. In the waiting
moments of the Stan Bill Morning Show, Dress for Success, Memphis, Oh.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
A little bit of a silence that we try to
avoid on a regular basis round called dead air. The
transmitter took a burp and then also transparency that went
outside to greet some other guests and get things set
up back in the green room.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
So I guess can get a little some on the
way out. How about that? All right?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
So we're talking with Dress for Success Memphis. We're excited
with the waiting moments of the stand Bill Morning Show.
This is It's been a high day, ladies. It's been
a high day. I mean really for you all to
come out. You know, doctor Gibson can car out some time,
you know, from a business schedule and rigorous. You know,
you teach rigger in the classroom home there, you know,
but so you know your schedule is rigorous. So you
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you come from Austin and you roll up on us
like that, Just like that, you just rolled up in
this thing. I said, Wow, doctor Gibson, come on, you
make up on in this thing, share with us, and
so let's talk about before we go. Held on, let
me see something here. I know we got to give
Hamilton High School. You got pretty much all alumni listening
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this morning, Rocky, I.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Know the class of seventy five is listening.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah, morning, John Repen This morning we got some conversation
going and folks who learn some things about your organization,
you know, Deborah Rivers yes, Deborah Rivers, good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Wow National councilor.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Yeah, the great Deborah Rivers. Yes, that's why.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
And also Reveil. How about Revel, let's give him a
shot out listening from Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
This guy named Albertus Wiggans played basketball at Hamilton as.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
His younger brother.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
He just celebrated his sixtieth birthday at the Rocky Cheer.
Yeah you listened from Atlanta?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Yeah, yeah, from at Ravail. All right, we got to
shout out Revel Williams. Yes, Smiltonian right absolutely okay, And
then got David Wall listening on on the iHeart Radio
app DC Maryland area. Wow, uh this listen, writes, Shamika
is amazing, proud of her. She had a grant writing
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program during the pandemic.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
True star.
Speaker 9 (38:33):
Also, I raised a lot of money for organizations during COVID,
and I taught a lot of people how.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
To write grants. Yeah, raise, yeah, and it.
Speaker 10 (38:43):
Worked, Yes, raised millions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Yes, I think that was the height I have.
Speaker 9 (38:48):
My first one was a three million dollar bullying prevention
grant for organization in Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
That's what you do.
Speaker 10 (38:55):
Yeah, yeah, we right, yeah, we raised.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Lotto dude, that's how you do it, outstanding. Uh, doctor
Jeedy Whittaker, is that name?
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Ring a bell?
Speaker 10 (39:07):
That's my daughter's father.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
All right, ring the bell? What you talking about?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Bill?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Ring?
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Doctor? Respect?
Speaker 6 (39:18):
Right?
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Doctor?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Come on, these doctors in the house, come on now.
Speaker 10 (39:23):
He just wanted me to say his name.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
When you got him one of them, one of them
printy bars. Yeah, we showed the job we want them.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Noops. You know I got to show them.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Love.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
You already know what it is. Come on with it.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, we probably you should make it with your grant
right and self. You're doing it making other folks up
thrive as well. Uh, this double guy listening. I'm gonna
get back to you guys up in just a second.
We are so grateful to have Dress for Success serving
the greater Memphis community and allowing u T Health Line
Center to be a part of his success.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Right. Thanks. It's a big thank you to all of y'all,
especially miss Rhonda.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
You attend the fashion shows they say on campus and
and you support them.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
They support you.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
And thank you miss Randa for attending our fashion shows
on campus. UT Health Science Center. Blessings abound immenseally and
intensely and they say, ps, see y'all tonight.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Yeah, yeah, I like that. See y'all tonight.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Come on miss Vail Vail Wheeler, all right, U T
Health sign Center. And it just goes on and on
and on. Ladies, we just want to thank you so much.
Up be come to the studio before you go. I
need some remarks. I know you got some shout outs,
you got sponsors, that kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Let's go ahead, lift the very grateful for our sponsors.
Our premier sponsor tonight. Of course it is FedEx, So
shout out to Nicole Thomas and Rose, FedEx Global Services, Nike,
m l G, n W, C, BZ Casstagia Baptist Church,
as well as Hughey's FedEx Credit Association, KPg Technologies, Raymond James,
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Memphis Health Center, Lois Stockton, that's my sister, as well
as Hamilton High class.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Of nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
And the new chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha's already incorporated
the Alpha Zeta Delta Omega chapter Outaware Memphis, Memphis.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
The movie Okay, wow.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, we're spanding, we expanding.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
What's that chapter again.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Alpha Zeta Delta Omega.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
So you got you got b oh right, yeah, Filanda,
and then there's a chapter in Arkansas.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Yeah, and then yes, okay, welcome man, come on right first.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
And the final oh, Alzheimer's and Dementia Services.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Of course, Bank of America. You know, we've just.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
Been extremely fortunate over the years to have all of
these organizations to be a part of US. Jones and
Tugle CPA, mg N Enterprises. We're just extremely have a
sponsorship this year from JB. Smiley, He serves on our
board on the heel Smith and Nephew. Oh my god,
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yay Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
They come with the truck every year and a check
and just drop it off little okay, yeah, truck and
a check. Yes, perfect combination, perfect combination.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
Let me ask you this for you for your ladies
to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
And I, Katrina, I know you got one other thing
you want to share, and doctor Shamiker Gibson you want
to share.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
But I got a question.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
How does a pregnant team who is still in let's
just say, in school, in the public system, how theres
matter of fact, we have one or two, probably more
who are in need of clothing to stay in school.
Speaker 5 (42:55):
We are partnering with Memphis Shelby County Schools. All they
have to do is contact the office, not on one
three sixty three three one zero zero.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
They get it again, not on.
Speaker 5 (43:05):
One three sixty three three one zero zero. They can
email us Memphis all lower case letters, Memphis at dress
for Success dot org. We will provide them a for
a form and set up an appointment for them to
be assisted.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
All right, all right, Miss Kimball, thanks for the information
to misterature will. Miss Kimball remarks words.
Speaker 8 (43:27):
So, I just wanted to share some news RNDA that
hadn't even heard that she had heard Oshamika. So last
week I was fortunate to be in New York for
the Global Ambassador's Program, which was hosted by Addressing Success
New York. They brought all of us to New York
to talk about the great work when we're doing on
our community and we have a national partner such as
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TJ Max and Ultra Beauty and Laine Bryant and so.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Stan.
Speaker 8 (43:54):
It's one thing to serve and get back to your community,
but it's different when the organization comes back and investing
in you. One of the gifts they gave us when
we got ready to leave I received a grant. Miss
Wanda doesn't know this. They personally gave me a grant
from TJ Max. They're investing in me to continue my education.
I received the grant for two thousand five dollars.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
So that I can.
Speaker 8 (44:19):
Either go back to school get a certification, or I
can go back and just invest in myself. So I
have a meeting with my coach. They also gave me
a coach to help me to the end of the year.
So I just want to thank Dress and Success Memphis
and Miss Roonda for investing in me and believing in
me and giving me the opportunity to be a global
ambassador to represent our city.
Speaker 7 (44:39):
I just thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Now, that's beautiful, breaking news right there. It just happened.
That's a good report. That's a good report. And doctor
give gets a tissue. Tito brings me some tissue.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Thank you, Gibson while they embracing the hooking and doing
all that emotional stuff.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
That is good news. Your words before you go.
Speaker 9 (45:07):
So we are super excited again. We are celebrating our
ninth cohort this weekend. But our tenth cohort will be
uh well, we'll sepp an applications start in October one
for our tenth cohort that will start February twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7 (45:25):
So if you're.
Speaker 9 (45:26):
Interested in scaling your current business or starting a business,
you don't have to have a business starting.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
We will.
Speaker 9 (45:33):
We will help you develop everything and I identify and
hold your hand along the way. So you don't have
to have a business formed. But if you do have
a business form, we will. We will help you grow
and scale that as well. So you can go to
I would say, right now, we don't have the link available.
I think we'll have it open, so follow follow our
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social media's Stress for Success Memphis Run the Tread will
Shamikha Gibson, Katrina Kimball on Facebook, and and we will
be making announcements of the next mentors your program that
will be opening up.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
All right, well, well, thank you ladies for coming out
and sharing here on WDIA, caring time out to be
with us and talk to our listeners. I guess we
don't need to take calls, will you? Guys kind of
summed it all up, and you gave us some great
information about as you continue to help the up and
coming generation of women and young Black men as well
addressed for success Memphis. Before you get out of here,
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let me run down the Classic cultural celebration. I hope
you guys get a chance to participate in some of
the activities tomorrow. Actually today, we've got the Classic College
and Career Fair going on as we speak.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
And we've suited some clients for that.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
Oh that's absolute.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Yeah, young folks, Yeah, young people out of the Memphis
Sports and Events Center there on Early Maxwell and Liberty Park.
Thank you for continuing that work that you do and
that's going to be super nice. Shout out to all
the businesses and representing the university representats who have come
to Memphis to help our young people get information about
attending college and employment opportunities. Also, you got the Classic
Coaches Luncheon presented by faed Ax. They help so many folks.
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As you know, Ronda and the Classes coach at lunch.
Coaches Luncher will be at the Renaissance. I plan to
attend that one big classic salute to Alcorn State hit
football coach Cedria Thomas and the UAPB had football coach
Alonzo Hampton. This should be really nice going on at
noon today and the Classic Concert this evening at the
Orpheum Branford Marcellus Quartet. Oh, it's gonna be super nice.
(47:28):
No doubt they'll belonging to him. So tick us understand,
are still available for that. That's the seven thirty ath
the Orphium this evening, and then on tomorrow we're gonna
be tailgating. You already know some folk already tailgating now, yeah, sure,
why so?
Speaker 4 (47:39):
But it's official tomorrow eight am.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Simmons Bank, Liberty Stadium, parking lots and Tiger Lane.
Speaker 4 (47:44):
You know that's gonna be super nice.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
Penny Hardaway having his Memphis District Golf Classic going on
at Tunica National Golf and Tennis at eight am tomorrow morning,
and a lot of teams are already getting ready for
that classic parade nine am in the mound and the
parade route, by the way, I got to email about it.
The parade route is along Park Avenue from Haynes to
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Airways and you know the high school watching bands, all
of that. It's gonna be super nice. Card boy, good
morning to you doing a yeoman's job. Aljanier Jackson, yeoman's job. Uh,
we'll see you in the class parade, and of course
the Classic Battle of the bands, eleven am white Haven
High School Stadium or doctor Gibson. I know you you
might go back up in there with mamma there white
Haven High School. Yeah, you don't be getting a phone calls.
Speaker 8 (48:34):
CA.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Yeah, yeah, that was what you come here to do.
Speaker 10 (48:41):
You can grate a dress.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
You can that black dress. H that's right. Shout out
to Walter Banks Jr.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Always Uh does a great job along with doctor Vincent
Hunter and of course Vincent Smith over there white Haven.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
You got the fashions and brunch going on tomorrow, the
eleven am, the Hallary, that's gonna be super nice. Downtown
t time elegance Southern here's the classic football of course,
Six of Rock gonna kick the thing off Simmons Bank
Liberty Stadium tomorrow, the great football rivalry. I know we
got a lot of Alcorn nights in our city. Welcome
to Memphis, and of course the Oxo Pine Bluff they're
doing Battle of course tomorrow is gonna be great. Still
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good seats available, and of course at his own halftime show,
the Asus, the Sounds of Dynamite and uapb's marching musical
Machine of the Mid South and the classic fifth Quarter
presented by FedEx Employees Credit Association. What a grand finale
to all the things that will be happening this weekend
Southern here.
Speaker 4 (49:29):
It is classic man. That's it.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Have a good time this weekend. Be safe, that's for sure.
Thank you WDI listeners.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
He's on and popping.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
So many people have heard the name, you know, and
some may not have, but many have. Dress for Success.
Do you use the numeral for do you just spell
it all the way out?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Foo? It's all alphabets fr.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
For Okay, dress for success Memphis?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Can you distinguish why, particularly when you say Memphis because
it are you doing things for young ladies here or
the world over? Or how does that work? Many dress
for successes?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Right?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Basically, Dress for Success is worldwide. Okay.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
There are one hundred and thirty one affiliates in twenty countries,
and the Memphis affiliate has been here for twenty five years.
So we are recognized by our cities or territories or
whatever the case may be. So we always have to
put where you're from. So that's what dress for It's
a phrase, but we're dressed for success in Memphis.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I like it. I like it. And how long have
you been at the Helm?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh? My god, it's been eight years.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
Eight it's been eight years it's fascinating to think about it.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yeah, you haven't fought in other words, but I know
it's a lot of work.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
It's passion. Yeah, yes, you know, it's my passion. I'm retired.
Oh yeah, I lost my mind and came back to work.
My husband can tell the story too. That's a whole
nother story, but it is passion. My background is workforce development.
I have over forty six years and workforce development. The
last fifteen years was working with the tan of Program
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Welfare to Work. So I know that like the back
of my hand. And when I was retired and I
needed something to do, I threw my hat into the ring.
Addressed for Success Memphis. Sandra Brooks was executiretor and in
the process we were doing a project with Top Ladies
of Distinction. I was the president at the time, and
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in the process, whenever we do a fundraiser or a
project for our top teens, we have a service project.
And at that particular time, the national president of TLD
had connected with Dress for Success Worldwide, So it just
fell right in the groove of our status of women thrust.
So I contacted Dress for Success Memphis. I had been
a facilitator. I had been a presenter and when I called,
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I said, well, we don't have an executive director. Because
I called Sandraw and she had gone on to Russ's
College and they said well, and I called her. She said, well,
we need pearls, Randa. So we had our guests to
donate pearls. We had the ladies to donate pearls. So
we need to present these pearls to Dress for Success Memphis.
And at that time the president of the board and
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Sandra came out and we made that presentation. And prior
to that, I made the call the young lady said,
we don't have an executive director. It's about two weeks later.
I talked to my husband. I said, you know, I'm
gonna throw my hat in the ring. And I did.
Showed up for a meeting. Can you show up on
Monday morning? It was kind of crazy, but well, you know,
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in present it fell in place. And when I got there,
these two ladies, missus Rubstine Dandris and her sister, Miss
Louise Lay, they've been there for over twenty years. They said, well,
we're getting ready to retire. I said, I just got here.
Y'all gonna leave me hanging because they had institutional knowledge
that I did not have, and there was some challenges
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and they hung in with me and they're still with
me today. Yes, they all away right. They show up
every day. They're there to help assist the ladies with
their clothing. I could not do this without the circle
of influence that I have around me and these volunteers.
They volunteer. So we've expanded our reach. From the standpoint,
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we have one hundred and twenty two now referral agency partners.
We partner with everybody. I believe in partnership and collaboration
and the thing that we do stand is such a
little thing, but it has such an impact on families.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
We provide appropriate work attire and interview attire for anybody
sixteen years and old or completely free of charge.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
So not necessarily for the ladies, weekly for the lady.
For the ladies, okay, A partner with the Christopher Pue
Center Michelle Pugh For the men, Oh okay, Yes, we
partner with them.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
For the men.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
We have a presentation called First Impressions and Branding and
it talks about appropriate attire. The you know, the million
dollar question, what is professional casual or business casual.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
We talk about those.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, so speaking to talk about say, let me move
now to your program manager if you will, Katrina, Katrina Kim.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
But let me tell you, Mike, welcome to the show.
First of all, this show.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
First time the d I a d I no year
because look, I'm like their hair throwing everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I got some highlights.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
For the bright lights.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And that's your best sister, Your best sister. You should
have got the glow. So I see that going on.
So and so you got the glow to have and
you're working with these young ladies and the mission work.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It continues. You know.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Ronner said something about, you know, being in workforce development
for over forty years, you know, and that's some good
experience right there. So and it's still a label of love,
as you mentioned, it's a passion.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
You're in it. How long have you.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
Been with Dress for Success Memphis, believe it or not,
I'm actually a product of Dress and Success. I've been
associated for over twenty years. I came in as a
client and I came back and started volunteering. So what
we try to encourage everyone that comes through. I tell
people all the time, Dress and Success We're more than
just a suit, So we give you job ready. It's
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not just about job readin the skills, but also giving
you mentally are paired to go into the workforce. And
so what we do through PWG is any woman that
has come through our program, whether they've got in a suit,
a professional women's group. And what we asked is that
once you go through the program, we ask you to
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come back and help us do this work. It's not
about giving somebody a hand out. It's a hand up
because people relate to people that look like them. And
so what we offer is we do virtual programs, we
do in person programs, and sometimes we just get together
and have oh we call a kitchen table talk, or
we just get together and be for coffee. What's happening
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in your career right now? Because all of us need
a community. And I think that's the biggest thing Dressed
success gave me was it gave me a community to
come back to because I've.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
Had changes on my job.
Speaker 8 (06:40):
I mean I was downsized three times and I had
to come back and get resuited and had to develop
what Katrina's brand was. And and I'm very grateful for
my relationship with Ms Runda. She says she's been here
eight years. I feel like we've been together longer than that.
And the it is and the and then the blessing
of all of this. I got to serve as a
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global ambassador, so I got to represent.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
So I just got back from New York.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yeah, yeah, because I tell you here, I was going
to New York, to New York.
Speaker 8 (07:11):
So I just got back, and I was proud to
represent my city, Memphis, Tennessee as a global ambassador in
New York City for a week.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
It was only twelve of us there.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
And what I loved about it was the fact everybody
kept asking me questions about you know, what's happened in
your city. I said, we're doing what we always do.
We're answering the call and serving our peoples. That's what
we're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
I said, sounds like the mission right there. I got
to take a break, ladies, in case you just join
us on w G I A. We are speaking with
our very special guest inside my special features stand Special
People Spotlight, and they certainly are missus Ronda Lambert tread
Well and missus Katrina Kimball. Yeah with me, and we're
so glad that you're here. I'm taking this break beat
(07:53):
right back.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
All right, A beautiful day of the neighborhood. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
We're back everybody on this Friday, September twenty six, twenty
twenty five, and Memphis weather abundant sunshine today stops at
eighty two here in Memphis, slow sinati the upper fifties,
so it's gonna be really nice, football weather, Southern Herriage
Classics is in the air. Come on to Memphis, y'all.
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All roads lead to the Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium. Do
the thing, and we got a lot of other activities
and festivities going on as well, so make yourself.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
A part of it. Get on getting that ride, drive.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
To Memphis, Tennessee, Southern Heroas Classic Weekend, a lot of
other things going on to as well. We'll announce with
that before I get out of here, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
All right. In the studio, we got an additional lady
who came to join me this morning. So so Ronni,
can you do the honors introduce we got another guest
in here. Yes, that's who we have. Who do we like? Church?
Who do we have I'm.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Extremely proud to introduce to you doctor Shamika Gibson. She
is our Business Mentorship Program manager, which is funded by
Bank of America, and I'll let.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Her give you more details about that project.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Doctor Gibson, welcome in. I'm on step to that Mike's sister.
Glad to have you.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
It's great to be here. You know, I'm getting all
magitis out. Just touched down on them from Austin, Texas, right.
But just a little bit about the Business Mentorship program.
We started this program in the fall of twenty twenty
during the on set of COVID when a lot of
business owners or aspiring business owners were trying to figure
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out how to properly set up a business, or start
a business, or grow or scale the business that they
currently had. And during that time, we noticed that a
lot of organizations were laying off staff. A lot of
organizations were closing their doors because of funding challenges, and
so they left a lot of employees without employment. So
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they had to think really quickly, and people learned that
they had lots of talents and skills that they could
potentially turn into a business and make money from. So
our program was developed to help those small business owners
become successful and sustainable. So During that program, we help
them with all things to help them be a successful
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business owner. But it wasn't just about teaching them about
financial literacy for a business owner, or teaching them how
to set up their business the proper way, or program
management or revenue building. It was about the mindset of
the business owner. Our goal was to not only just
help them start a business, but to change their mindset
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from business owner, from entrepreneur to growth and stabilizing and
supporting a community.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
So it was a bigger goal.
Speaker 9 (10:42):
During that time, a lot of organizations was doing these
incubator type programs where they was helping individuals that wanted
to start businesses, and that's.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
All it was.
Speaker 9 (10:51):
It was helping them set up LLC and then sending
them on their way and having them.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Figure it out.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
But our goal was to be intentional in the work
that we that we did with those business owners, and
they went through a six month a six month cohort,
and during that cohort, we gave them everything that we had.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So when you say they those who wanted to participate
in this particular program, but then from Memphis or from
more well, so.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
Man our first our first two program, our first two
cohorts were Memphis led businesses. Memphis led third cohort was
when we opened up and we had twenty one. Our
second co holt was an all male cohort, and then
our third cohort we had twenty one women led businesses
from everywhere. The program expanded really quickly. We were able
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to support a lot of businesses through the business mentorship program.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
So this is all through Dress for Success, Memphis.
Speaker 10 (11:46):
Dress for Assessment.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
Absolutely, and today we will be celebrating the completion this weekend,
the completion of cohort nine wow, called nine cohorts, and
we've that is seventy nine businesses that completed the program successfully,
but eighty five businesses that we have helped through the program.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
How long?
Speaker 4 (12:07):
How long does it take?
Speaker 9 (12:09):
So it's a six month it's a six month cohort absolutely,
but it doesn't stop there. You know, after the cohort,
we have a collaborate well what is it called like
a group me where after the program all the business
owners that can connect with the other cohorts and it
get kind of competitive.
Speaker 10 (12:25):
Everyone thinks that cohort was the better cohort.
Speaker 9 (12:27):
Yeah, but that's an opportunity for them to get connected
to other business owner small business owners and have their community.
So we still support them even after the six months,
so as long as they're operating that business, will even
start a new business, we still support them. They get
legal support, they get financial support, and then of course
they have assets to me and mis Rondo whenever they
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need it, and then also our networks as well.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
So you are you from Memphis? You remember, okay, welcome back,
welcome home. You just touched down straight off the flight Loston, Texas.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
You can get the ground right.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Here.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You troll all no wheels up.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
You're just like, okay, let's get on the road and.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Then two all the way down the hard way. It
might have been ninety three, but you know what, that's
pretty good. That's pretty good. We're glad you here. You
got glad you made it back safely. You gave good directions,
Miss tread Well, you gave good direction. You came right
on the Indeed, you might have one little hiccup.
Speaker 9 (13:25):
Yeah, I said the security sweat.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
You have a good time watching me run across the lobby.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
To the to the baby.
Speaker 10 (13:32):
Yeah, I gotta take my shoes off a run.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Well, you got it. I gone rep in school right quick.
What we got to ask you a question, gave.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
The amazing wonderful why have in high school class of
two thousand and three.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Asked that?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
You know, that's the opportunity question.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Have all these babies around right.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Oh three? You know babies.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Right nineteen seventy?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Come on, helmet, Why did I get you Katrina?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Did you go mail road like you got so many?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah, you got a little bit of colors. Just a
look you represented him? Come on, white Haven Tigers. And
I got to ask you, doctor d J your prom
You remember seeing me around your campus in time?
Speaker 10 (14:18):
Uh huh. Absolutely, We've been knowing you for a long time.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Was it mister Norville or mister Hunter? Your president, your
your principal?
Speaker 10 (14:30):
Time wondering Hunter? What's the principal.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
For the fresh coach Hunter?
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah? Yeah, there was he the prinsident of the three?
Speaker 10 (14:40):
Hold up? He said, who Hunter?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Doctor Vincent Hunter, white Havenort.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
You got to know now he was back?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Was our process?
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Yeah? It's like, yeah, I take you back there, I
take you back now. Look at you.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Now, I'm getting season.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
That's the that's the way to put it.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
You season, your Vietnam you season season Tiger. Well, we're
so glad that you made it safely off first of all.
And and how's your family doing?
Speaker 10 (15:18):
Family is great, Everyone is amazing.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
We're blessed, proud of their dog. I'm sure, yeah, all
of that. Both of your parents still with us, Yes
they are.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I have to ask that question, you know, And I
was never scared to ask because and.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
Then I have a My mom was in this.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
She started in Cohort eight, but she couldn't finish personal problems.
But I made a post on Facebook, my mom lunch
they uh, non emergency medical transport business. She participated in COY,
she participated in cohort No, I'm so proud.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Can you mentioned her name? Can you say?
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Absolutely? Tamika Davis Track Care Transportation.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
H yeah, yeah, you know we shot that out. Yeah,
we lift up this morning.
Speaker 10 (16:08):
Graduation tomorrow and we yeah, graduation tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Okay, so what we go.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
We're going to take another break to go back around
the room and get some more information, and we want
to talk about this fantastic Do you call it a gala?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Is it a or what a fundraiser? What do you
call it?
Speaker 5 (16:20):
It's a fundraiser and it's our twenty fifth anniversary fundraiser.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Little black dress.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
Little back, little black dress.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yes, all right, we gotta talk about that that's going
on with tonight this evening, and we're gonna talk about
it when we come back. Yeah, we're talking to missus Treadwell,
Missus Kimball and doctor Gibson in the building.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
Is that Gibson would appeal a B B like the donuts?
Speaker 10 (16:43):
Yes, you know, I gotta swing batter and Graham what
it is?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Right?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
We got some agree, We got some out there in
the green room for you.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Just hold time. We got something. But how you like
your coffee? You want to black nose, sugar, no green
what you want?
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Girl?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
There you go. We'll be right back. All right, we're
in here, Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Back everybody. Thank you so much for being here by
them of the hour.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Standon Bill. They'll to trying to serve you well.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
And it's finally Friday, Southern Harrita's classic weekend in the
studio this morning, Doctor Gibson and of course missus Ronda
Treadwell and Katrina Kimball my very special guest on this
Friday morning, this beautiful Friday morning. I'm so glad that
graced the studios and got here safely and here to
talk about a be loved organization that they serve a
Dress for Success Memphis, and they do so many wonderful
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things for our city for young ladies in terms of
getting them attired, getting them some dress, get them dresses
and whatever they need. Maybe for a job interview, you know,
maybe for a prom, maybe for they.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Got to be in a wedding.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You know, they could be the flower girl, one of
the bridesmaids. But they gotta have clothing that's suitable, keyword suitable.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
And we're so glad that they are here.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
This Double Joy Listening writes, Happy Friday, missus Stanbill. I
would like to give missus Ronda, doctor Gibson, and miss
Kimball the shout out for the dedication and hard work
in the community. All three of them are jewels, love,
ebony triplet words.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Words.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah, yeah, that's your friend, dots running all act like
y'all know that e t yes home on home ebony triplets.
That's nice. Also, this WI listener writes to me. She
says in the subject space Dress for Success Memphis. Good
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morning to you staying and your guests. We have a
Dress for Success here in New York. Yes, located thirty
two East thirty first Street. Yes, she said, I have
the She writes, I had the pleasure of using their
facility and was fitted with a beautiful pant suit and
shirt to match. Yeah, she says, they do a great
job and I would recommend them to anyone looking for
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work or tire. Best your loyal New York listener and
the B, Yes, and the B and the bull Dress
for Success doing it all over the world, all over
the country, all the nation, you know, and that's that's
that's that's that's that's that's amazing. Who all you know
that you reach the people that you reach, and then
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to do it here in Memphis with Dress for Success Memphis.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
The work goes on. You said to twenty five years,
mistert Win.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Existence for twenty five years. Let me give.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
You you're celebrating this evening, right, we're celebration SSS eving
please Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
So in twenty twenty four, we served one thousand, one
and thirty five clients and as of September twenty twenty five,
we served nine hundred and fourteen so far this year. Yes,
that's in person. Virtual presentations went out to the schools.
We just set up a collaborative with the growth at
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the University of Memphis Feed for Services. I'm doing the
presentation on branding with those persons.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
It's too funny.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I went.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
I did my first presentation and the first thing after
the priests.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Mitch, I remember you for Bridges.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
They're now in college, you know, so you know my
life is wonderful. God has sincerely blessed us. We have
some I have to give a shout out to our
board chairman, John C.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Wallace Gold.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (20:14):
We are celebrating our twenty fifth anniversary this evening at
the Hilton. It's called the Little Black Dress Event. This
is our annual fundraiser. Our goal this year is to
raise at least twenty five thousand dollars. So anybody who
has not purchased a ticket and can't get in, we're
basically sold out. Please consider donating twenty five dollars to
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Dress for Success Memphis.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
It could be a.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
One time donation, it could be a quarterly, it could
be monthly. When you do monthly donations, that helps us
with our level of sustainability.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
So the donation includes what you attire, you get, in
other words, what you get.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
For carry donations of twenty five dollars. Individuals actually donate
gently worn clothing from their closets. Those items that they
donate to us, we categorize them. It can be professional,
it can be casual. We work with other again collaborations.
We work with other smaller organizations or facilities like Catholic charities.
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Those individuals are homeless, so they need more casual items,
backpacks across bodies. So where do we take the clothes cloth?
Thirty one to twenty one directors Row Sweet one o two.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Say that again its stripwell thirty.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
One twenty one directors Row Sweet one oh two. One
more time thirty one twenty one directors Row Sweet one
oh two. If you're coming up airways and you see
the old catfish cabin, the next light is Director's Row.
Make a right turn. Do not read the numbers on
the buildings. Just come around the curve and you'll see
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our sign. We're in the same facility, mister Alfred Washington,
top notch security.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
You cannot miss us.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Operational hours are Tuesdays, Wednesdays Thursdays ten am.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
To one pm.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Call ahead volunteers will be able to help you unload
those items. You sign in and we'll give you a
receipt for all items that you have donated to us.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Love that, Yeah, I love that, and I thought it
was necessary to give that physical address.
Speaker 5 (22:14):
Absolutely, so absolutely we did move during COVID. Yes, okay,
we were on Colony Park Drive oh far, Yes, yes,
I was there.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
For twelve years.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
And it just so happened the doors opened. We were
able to move during COVID with the help of the
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis. If you ever go on
their website and go back to the COVID response report.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
My sister in law called me up one day.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
She said, Roy, do I got this report from the
Community Foundation and the mail you got three pages in here,
and I have to tell the story.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Please do.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Beautiful young lady Fluffy size twenty eight, she'd been hired
by Methodist North Hospital, walked in and she was dressed
in appropriate.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
She was referred to me.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
We have a category stand called critical Needs Employment Gear.
So when people donate clothing to us, we big We
asked about ten or twenty bucks. Those funds are set
aside to purchase skit proof shoes, work pants, gift cards
for individuals as they transitioned to work. So I had
a little money, a little change, and she's at a hospital, right,
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So I immediately contact Landau because that's medical uniforms.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Do you know how much.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Those shoes are? They're three hundred dollars a pair. Couldn't
afford that, So then I got I'm an Amazon girl.
I get on Amazon because she wore an eleven wide shoe.
They did not have men, they did not have even women's.
So I got back online to Wallyworld Walmart. I was
able to purchase her two pair of pants and a
pair of shoes for sixty dollars for her to help
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keep her job.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
So it's little.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Things like that that really really matter. And she's been
successful every since. So that's what we do. Yeah, it's
the little things in life that determine the big things.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And when you guys pitch in like that, that's a
memory that you something she'll never forget. Yes, and now
she's still gainful employed. There, that's what a testimony. Speaking
of testimonies, I know, Katrina, I think last time you
were here you had a testimony too about coming through
the ranks. Let me get you over to the mic.
Share with us, share with us your testimony. You came
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through the ranks. You were a client if you will.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
Yeah, I've moved to Memphis back in nineteen ninety five. Wow,
and I was going through an ugly divorce and I
had found a job, but I did not have a
professional attire because I was working as an executive assistant
at that time. And that was my first interaction with
dress assess And at that time, we were actually downtown
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and Idwell Presbyterian Church in their basement, that's where we
started at. And I went there, met some ladies, They
gave me some clothes, went from my interview, came back,
got the came back, told them, hey, ladies, I got
the job. They said, oh wonderful, and they was. I
was like, thank y'all so much.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I thought I was through.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
She was like, oh, no, you're gonna need clothes for
the week. So they actually gave me a week of
attire and gave me my first lever briefcase so I
could go to work and you know, not only be
able to show up dress nice on outside, but also
in the head space that I could be successful, that
I could have a career.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
This wasn't just a job for me. And then life happens.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
I went to college, got the degree, was working, and
then two thousand and eight the housing market crash and
I lost my job, I lost my house, I lost
my car, I lost everything. And at that time, my
son was a senior White Heaven High School doctor hunter,
and I was trying to figure out how can I
get my son through his senior year, pay his senior dues,
and how was I going to keep the light song?
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Because I lost my house, I moved in an apartment,
went back to dressing and said, those women embraced me again.
They're like, look, you have it in you, you just
don't know what. So they kind of helped me rebrand myself.
Was that doing Santa Brook's te doing Sandy Brooksten. We
sat down and we talked about what are the skills
you have? And I think sometimes as when we forget
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all the great skills, we really have inside of us.
Speaker 7 (26:19):
So much potential.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
And she said, now let's look at what you know
how to do and what people are willing to pay
you to do.
Speaker 7 (26:24):
And so I became a virtual assistant. I created my own.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
Business because at that time, we didn't have an increbator
program because nobody would hire me. So I just started
offering my services to people at my church, former clients
I work with, and next thing I know, I had
a budding virtual assistant business about four to five years
before I actually went back into the workforce.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
So that's the thing I want to emphasize.
Speaker 8 (26:45):
A lot of people think dress and Success is just
for the new career person starting No, if you're starting
over or you're going through a transition, we're here to
help you figure out your transition and rebrand yourself because
I truly believe we've been all called to be well
and not perfect, and you just got to discover what's
being well for you looks like.
Speaker 7 (27:03):
And I think that's what we do well addressed success.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
And now you're working for the program, right.
Speaker 7 (27:08):
We all be working well.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
I feel like Michael Jackson that got us working, working
day and night. But it's really don't mind because this
is the thing. When you're doing something that you truly
know that you've been called and place here to do.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
It's not work.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
And now I do have a full time job that
is work, but this here is where I come to me.
It's more of a ministry and a service because I
know that if we can change the life of one woman,
We're gonna change the life of a whole family, because
most women are, you know, unfortunate. We got a lot
of single women here in Shelby County, got a lot
of single family homes. But if we can shift that
perspective of that woman, if we can shift her mindset
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and get her to see herself in a different version
of herself, we would change the legacy in the generation
of her children and of her community.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
Because when you're able to.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
Do well, you can go back and serve well in
your home, in your community, and become a better version
of yourself.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
She is Katrina Kimball. Ladies in general, what a testimony.
This WGI listener rights, thank you by the way, too, you,
miss Kimball. This WGI listener rights, good morning in the
subject space, good morning standing Dress for Success ladies, Stan
I am also a product of Dress for Success. I
came under Miss Sandra Burke with an E. I believe
it was around two thousand and eight or nine. I
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truly appreciate all that Dress for Success Memphis did for me,
and I pray that many more will come under this
great opportunity. That's Patrice Harrises, James Okay fantastic. You bless
the many people, not just in Memphis but the world over.
And I know doctor Gibson had a test to that
you now teach work at an HBCU in Austin.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Talk to us about that as a matter of fact,
not one but two.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Right, Well, So Hustin Tilson is HBCU in Austin, and
so actually they've just been awarded This is their one
hundred and fiftieth year and they've just been awarded uh
I think.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
One hundred and fifty grant.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Yeah, So it's been it's been in the news and
people been talking about it, and they are doing some
really great things at HT and so I'm a professor there,
and I also am a professor at Austin Community College
as well, and so Austin Community College. No, that's just OK,
I w I And I enjoyed teaching this my passion.
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I really enjoy and I think that's why I identify
so much with the Business Mentorship program. My background is psychology,
so I'm always about the mindset and behaviors, and so
I teach that to my students. But I'm real big
about that with the work that I do with my
nonprofit Change in the mindset and then also the work
that I do.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
So how did you get to Austin?
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
You want to undergrad?
Speaker 7 (29:51):
That?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Where'd you go? Undergrad?
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Christian Brothers?
Speaker 10 (29:57):
And I tell that cbut.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
That's a good report. Yeah, And so how did Austin?
Austin came calling? Or you just knocked on the door.
Speaker 9 (30:07):
But see what had happened was so my my my
beautiful daughter, Jayla Whittaker. Uh, she actually graduated from Arlington
High and so she's she wanted to go to Preview University,
which HBCU in Texas, and you know, me, trying to
be a good mother, I said, you know what, I'm
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gonna go ahead and move to Texas and get everything
set up so she can go here and I can
be closer to it, because I told her when she graduated,
I'm going wherever she going. So we get to Texas
and find out that it ain't as cheap as we
thought it was gonna be. So her father works at
University of Memphis, and so with him working at University
of Memphis, she's able to get a discount on you know,
her tuition, and she got scholarships and so we just wait,
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we put it on the scale and weighed, and she
stayed in Tennessee and me and my other daughters in Texas.
Speaker 10 (30:56):
I said, I'm not moving back.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
So yeah, that's where I'm at, and.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
That's how industry and you there and doing a wonderful
work at two colleges that's great community college as well
as a university there an HBCU, andwe this is a
good fit, good fit for you. So your ten years
looking like, what, how long you been there?
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (31:15):
Getting there?
Speaker 9 (31:15):
So I've been teaching, So I've been teaching at HT
for about two years. I just started at ACC last year,
but I've been teaching since two thousand and nine, so
I almost have twenty years of academia under.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
So you're able to juggle or balance, if you will,
dress for success even while being in Texas.
Speaker 9 (31:35):
And I would say the good thing about working for
and with Miss Rhonda is that And I always tell
this story as well because me and Ms Rnda was
actually the very first person to give me a chance
when I launched my consulting business.
Speaker 10 (31:49):
She was my very first client.
Speaker 9 (31:51):
So I've been working with her since I started in
Stry consulting and data back in twenty eighteen. Me and
Miss Roonda started working together in twenty nineteen, so here
in Mysis and so she gave me my first opportunity
and she mentored me and supported me and she's I mean,
we still we always say we make magic together. And
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so I'm you know, grateful for her. And I always
tell her that because you know, when you know, when
you're trying to start a business and you're trying to
start a consultant, a lot of people don't really trust you,
they don't know you.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
But Miss Rnda was like, come on, little girl.
Speaker 9 (32:25):
She was like, you got what I need and so
and that's how it that's how their relationship started. And
you know, from there, I've gotten you know better, you know,
I feel more equipped as a consultant.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
When I need advisement, I go to miss Ms Rhonda A.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
Katrina has also been a good support person to me
as well. But I would say with a dress for success,
it's not just a job, it's a family. And we
have developed, you know, a sisterhood and and a love
for each other and it's genuine and I enjoy working
for Miss Rhonda.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Well, I can hear in your voice.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah, and Ronda, no doubt in person to work with
and for, And she said, creating opportunities for so many
people you know, and she's one of those who have
passed the baton in a heartbeat. But you know, but
when she does that, or if she does that, she
knows Dress for Success Memphis will be in good hands.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Stan, I cannot. I don't have all the words for it.
I am so definitely grateful. I'm not a selfish person.
I'm realistic, I'm seasoned. I have a skill set, and
I needed to have individuals around me to help me.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Implement this vision.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
There were so many things I wanted to do as
it relates to uplifting Dress for Success Memphis and incorporating
unique and different things. I know about job development, I
know about job or training, you know the whole background
and workforce of development.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
But there are all these.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Gray areas and opportunities out there that can really really
uplift the community and individuals as they are developing themselves
and being tax paying, productive citizens. So they've helped me
realize my vision, and I'm extremely grateful for that. I
believe in putting people around me that know more than
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I do, and they do. I have a skill set
and that you know, and and it all blends and
it works so well together. And that's how we have
been so fortunate. I tell I tell them all the time.
You know, Memphis, we got it going on. When we
when I'm on these calls with our my the other affiliates,
I sit back and be quiet. We had the business
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mentorship program, and all of a sudden, worldwide had one.
And then the question was, well, how did roderh me
gonna say, Ms Roder, We're.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Already doing that, so we're kind of they're catching up
with us.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
So Memphis, we got it going on, no doubt, and
we're just extremely blessed. Shout out to hazel Burg. She's
a past board president. She's always on me about making.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Sure the board.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
No it's a different ver okay.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Her uh Praise Temple, her husband's pastor Praise Temple, DOJCT Church.
She's always there, Bishop Burke, Bishop Burke. Absolutely, So, I'm
very grateful for the individuals and their wives, counsel that's
around me, the volunteers, and let me shout them out,
Miss Ruby, Miss Louise, Miss Mildred.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
There's a third sister, Carol Sloan.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
As well as missus Obie Dorothy Obie, uh, Evelyn Pruitt Davis.
We also have a work husband, mister Emil Salisbury. He's
Johnson Salisbury's brother.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Yeahsbury's brother. Yeah, Bi, Yes.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
We are, We're We're good.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
All right.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Sure, let me take his break, you know, just a
moment or two and uh, collect yourself. I know we've
been finding off questions and that kind of thing, and
you've been expressing yourself very well, but so so now
it's time for the audience if you like to ask
a question of these lovely ladies and astute ladies and
those these ladies who would continue to represent the most
educated demographic in America.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Group in America. These ladies are ready.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Black women you can call right now not on one
five three five, nine three four two, eight hundred and
five zero three nine three four two or eight three three,
five three, five nine three four two. In the waiting
moments of the Stan Bill Morning Show, Dress for Success, Memphis, Oh.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
A little bit of a silence that we try to
avoid on a regular basis round called dead air. The
transmitter took a burp and then also transparency that went
outside to greet some other guests and get things set
up back in the green room.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
So I guess can get a little some on the
way out. How about that? All right?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
So we're talking with Dress for Success Memphis. We're excited
with the waiting moments of the stand Bill Morning Show.
This is It's been a high day, ladies. It's been
a high day. I mean really for you all to
come out. You know, doctor Gibson can car out some time,
you know, from a business schedule and rigorous. You know,
you teach rigger in the classroom home there, you know,
but so you know your schedule is rigorous. So you
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you come from Austin and you roll up on us
like that, Just like that, you just rolled up in
this thing. I said, Wow, doctor Gibson, come on, you
make up on in this thing, share with us, and
so let's talk about before we go. Held on, let
me see something here. I know we got to give
Hamilton High School. You got pretty much all alumni listening
(37:24):
this morning, Rocky, I.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Know the class of seventy five is listening.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah, morning, John Repen This morning we got some conversation
going and folks who learn some things about your organization,
you know, Deborah Rivers yes, Deborah Rivers, good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Wow National councilor.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
Yeah, the great Deborah Rivers. Yes, that's why.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
And also Reveil. How about Revel, let's give him a
shot out listening from Atlanta.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
This guy named Albertus Wiggans played basketball at Hamilton as.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
His younger brother.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
He just celebrated his sixtieth birthday at the Rocky Cheer.
Yeah you listened from Atlanta?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Yeah, yeah, from at Ravail. All right, we got to
shout out Revel Williams. Yes, Smiltonian right absolutely okay, And
then got David Wall listening on on the iHeart Radio
app DC Maryland area. Wow, uh this listen, writes, Shamika
is amazing, proud of her. She had a grant writing
(38:25):
program during the pandemic.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
True star.
Speaker 9 (38:33):
Also, I raised a lot of money for organizations during COVID,
and I taught a lot of people how.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
To write grants. Yeah, raise, yeah, and it.
Speaker 10 (38:43):
Worked, Yes, raised millions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Yes, I think that was the height I have.
Speaker 9 (38:48):
My first one was a three million dollar bullying prevention
grant for organization in Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
That's what you do.
Speaker 10 (38:55):
Yeah, yeah, we right, yeah, we raised.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Lotto dude, that's how you do it, outstanding. Uh, doctor
Jeedy Whittaker, is that name?
Speaker 4 (39:06):
Ring a bell?
Speaker 10 (39:07):
That's my daughter's father.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
All right, ring the bell? What you talking about?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Bill?
Speaker 5 (39:15):
Ring?
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Doctor? Respect?
Speaker 6 (39:18):
Right?
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Doctor?
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Come on, these doctors in the house, come on now.
Speaker 10 (39:23):
He just wanted me to say his name.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
When you got him one of them, one of them
printy bars. Yeah, we showed the job we want them.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Noops. You know I got to show them.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Love.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
You already know what it is. Come on with it.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Yeah, we probably you should make it with your grant
right and self. You're doing it making other folks up
thrive as well. Uh, this double guy listening. I'm gonna
get back to you guys up in just a second.
We are so grateful to have Dress for Success serving
the greater Memphis community and allowing u T Health Line
Center to be a part of his success.
Speaker 4 (40:02):
Right. Thanks. It's a big thank you to all of y'all,
especially miss Rhonda.
Speaker 6 (40:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
You attend the fashion shows they say on campus and
and you support them.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
They support you.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
And thank you miss Randa for attending our fashion shows
on campus. UT Health Science Center. Blessings abound immenseally and
intensely and they say, ps, see y'all tonight.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Yeah, yeah, I like that. See y'all tonight.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Come on miss Vail Vail Wheeler, all right, U T
Health sign Center. And it just goes on and on
and on. Ladies, we just want to thank you so much.
Up be come to the studio before you go. I
need some remarks. I know you got some shout outs,
you got sponsors, that kind of thing.
Speaker 5 (40:46):
Let's go ahead, lift the very grateful for our sponsors.
Our premier sponsor tonight. Of course it is FedEx, So
shout out to Nicole Thomas and Rose, FedEx Global Services, Nike,
m l G, n W, C, BZ Casstagia Baptist Church,
as well as Hughey's FedEx Credit Association, KPg Technologies, Raymond James,
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Memphis Health Center, Lois Stockton, that's my sister, as well
as Hamilton High class.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
Of nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 5 (41:18):
And the new chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha's already incorporated
the Alpha Zeta Delta Omega chapter Outaware Memphis, Memphis.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
The movie Okay, wow.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Yeah, oh yeah, we're spanding, we expanding.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
What's that chapter again.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Alpha Zeta Delta Omega.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
So you got you got b oh right, yeah, Filanda,
and then there's a chapter in Arkansas.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
Yeah, and then yes, okay, welcome man, come on right first.
Speaker 5 (41:50):
And the final oh, Alzheimer's and Dementia Services.
Speaker 3 (41:54):
Of course, Bank of America. You know, we've just.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
Been extremely fortunate over the years to have all of
these organizations to be a part of US. Jones and
Tugle CPA, mg N Enterprises. We're just extremely have a
sponsorship this year from JB. Smiley, He serves on our
board on the heel Smith and Nephew. Oh my god,
(42:18):
yay Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
They come with the truck every year and a check
and just drop it off little okay, yeah, truck and
a check. Yes, perfect combination, perfect combination.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (42:32):
Let me ask you this for you for your ladies
to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
And I, Katrina, I know you got one other thing
you want to share, and doctor Shamiker Gibson you want
to share.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
But I got a question.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
How does a pregnant team who is still in let's
just say, in school, in the public system, how theres
matter of fact, we have one or two, probably more
who are in need of clothing to stay in school.
Speaker 5 (42:55):
We are partnering with Memphis Shelby County Schools. All they
have to do is contact the office, not on one
three sixty three three one zero zero.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
They get it again, not on.
Speaker 5 (43:05):
One three sixty three three one zero zero. They can
email us Memphis all lower case letters, Memphis at dress
for Success dot org. We will provide them a for
a form and set up an appointment for them to
be assisted.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
All right, all right, Miss Kimball, thanks for the information
to misterature will. Miss Kimball remarks words.
Speaker 8 (43:27):
So, I just wanted to share some news RNDA that
hadn't even heard that she had heard Oshamika. So last
week I was fortunate to be in New York for
the Global Ambassador's Program, which was hosted by Addressing Success
New York. They brought all of us to New York
to talk about the great work when we're doing on
our community and we have a national partner such as
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TJ Max and Ultra Beauty and Laine Bryant and so.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Stan.
Speaker 8 (43:54):
It's one thing to serve and get back to your community,
but it's different when the organization comes back and investing
in you. One of the gifts they gave us when
we got ready to leave I received a grant. Miss
Wanda doesn't know this. They personally gave me a grant
from TJ Max. They're investing in me to continue my education.
I received the grant for two thousand five dollars.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
So that I can.
Speaker 8 (44:19):
Either go back to school get a certification, or I
can go back and just invest in myself. So I
have a meeting with my coach. They also gave me
a coach to help me to the end of the year.
So I just want to thank Dress and Success Memphis
and Miss Roonda for investing in me and believing in
me and giving me the opportunity to be a global
ambassador to represent our city.
Speaker 7 (44:39):
I just thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Now, that's beautiful, breaking news right there. It just happened.
That's a good report. That's a good report. And doctor
give gets a tissue. Tito brings me some tissue.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Thank you, Gibson while they embracing the hooking and doing
all that emotional stuff.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
That is good news. Your words before you go.
Speaker 9 (45:07):
So we are super excited again. We are celebrating our
ninth cohort this weekend. But our tenth cohort will be
uh well, we'll sepp an applications start in October one
for our tenth cohort that will start February twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7 (45:25):
So if you're.
Speaker 9 (45:26):
Interested in scaling your current business or starting a business,
you don't have to have a business starting.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
We will.
Speaker 9 (45:33):
We will help you develop everything and I identify and
hold your hand along the way. So you don't have
to have a business formed. But if you do have
a business form, we will. We will help you grow
and scale that as well. So you can go to
I would say, right now, we don't have the link available.
I think we'll have it open, so follow follow our
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social media's Stress for Success Memphis Run the Tread will
Shamikha Gibson, Katrina Kimball on Facebook, and and we will
be making announcements of the next mentors your program that
will be opening up.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
All right, well, well, thank you ladies for coming out
and sharing here on WDIA, caring time out to be
with us and talk to our listeners. I guess we
don't need to take calls, will you? Guys kind of
summed it all up, and you gave us some great
information about as you continue to help the up and
coming generation of women and young Black men as well
addressed for success Memphis. Before you get out of here,
(46:27):
let me run down the Classic cultural celebration. I hope
you guys get a chance to participate in some of
the activities tomorrow. Actually today, we've got the Classic College
and Career Fair going on as we speak.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
And we've suited some clients for that.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
Oh that's absolute.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Yeah, young folks, Yeah, young people out of the Memphis
Sports and Events Center there on Early Maxwell and Liberty Park.
Thank you for continuing that work that you do and
that's going to be super nice. Shout out to all
the businesses and representing the university representats who have come
to Memphis to help our young people get information about
attending college and employment opportunities. Also, you got the Classic
Coaches Luncheon presented by faed Ax. They help so many folks.
(47:04):
As you know, Ronda and the Classes coach at lunch.
Coaches Luncher will be at the Renaissance. I plan to
attend that one big classic salute to Alcorn State hit
football coach Cedria Thomas and the UAPB had football coach
Alonzo Hampton. This should be really nice going on at
noon today and the Classic Concert this evening at the
Orpheum Branford Marcellus Quartet. Oh, it's gonna be super nice.
(47:28):
No doubt they'll belonging to him. So tick us understand,
are still available for that. That's the seven thirty ath
the Orphium this evening, and then on tomorrow we're gonna
be tailgating. You already know some folk already tailgating now, yeah, sure,
why so?
Speaker 4 (47:39):
But it's official tomorrow eight am.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Simmons Bank, Liberty Stadium, parking lots and Tiger Lane.
Speaker 4 (47:44):
You know that's gonna be super nice.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
Penny Hardaway having his Memphis District Golf Classic going on
at Tunica National Golf and Tennis at eight am tomorrow morning,
and a lot of teams are already getting ready for
that classic parade nine am in the mound and the
parade route, by the way, I got to email about it.
The parade route is along Park Avenue from Haynes to
(48:09):
Airways and you know the high school watching bands, all
of that. It's gonna be super nice. Card boy, good
morning to you doing a yeoman's job. Aljanier Jackson, yeoman's job. Uh,
we'll see you in the class parade, and of course
the Classic Battle of the bands, eleven am white Haven
High School Stadium or doctor Gibson. I know you you
might go back up in there with mamma there white
Haven High School. Yeah, you don't be getting a phone calls.
Speaker 8 (48:34):
CA.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Yeah, yeah, that was what you come here to do.
Speaker 10 (48:41):
You can grate a dress.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
You can that black dress. H that's right. Shout out
to Walter Banks Jr.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Always Uh does a great job along with doctor Vincent
Hunter and of course Vincent Smith over there white Haven.
Speaker 1 (48:52):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
You got the fashions and brunch going on tomorrow, the
eleven am, the Hallary, that's gonna be super nice. Downtown
t time elegance Southern here's the classic football of course,
Six of Rock gonna kick the thing off Simmons Bank
Liberty Stadium tomorrow, the great football rivalry. I know we
got a lot of Alcorn nights in our city. Welcome
to Memphis, and of course the Oxo Pine Bluff they're
doing Battle of course tomorrow is gonna be great. Still
(49:13):
good seats available, and of course at his own halftime show,
the Asus, the Sounds of Dynamite and uapb's marching musical
Machine of the Mid South and the classic fifth Quarter
presented by FedEx Employees Credit Association. What a grand finale
to all the things that will be happening this weekend
Southern here.
Speaker 4 (49:29):
It is classic man. That's it.
Speaker 2 (49:31):
Have a good time this weekend. Be safe, that's for sure.
Thank you WDI listeners.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
He's on and popping.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
It's the stan Bell Morning Show weekdays from six to
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