Amatullah Shabazz, the visionary force behind Wealth Climbers, joins us on Journey Out to share her transformative mission of empowering youth through financial literacy and entrepreneurship. Discover how Amatullah's personal experiences shaped her journey from focusing on adults to passionately investing in the education of young minds. Through the innovative approach of gamified learning, she's breaking barriers and paving the way for future generations to thrive financially and creatively. We'll explore how these foundational skills can shape the future of the United States, one empowered youth at a time.
We dive into the vibrant world of young entrepreneurship, where creativity meets real-world application. From guiding budding authors to publish their work on platforms like Amazon to nurturing young business minds selling croc charms, we celebrate success stories that ignite entrepreneurial spirits. The episode emphasizes the crucial role of parents in unleashing their children's potential and hints at exciting new programs poised to launch in 2025. As we focus on the DFW area unique technological landscape, join us in envisioning a future where financial literacy and entrepreneurial skills lead to generational change.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What is home care?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
How do I navigate health care?
Speaker 1 (00:03):
What do I do when I feel down and depressed?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I'm stressed.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Am I enough?
What can I do?
What is this going to cost?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hello everybody and welcome back to the Journey Out
podcast.
We are so excited to have youguys back today, and today we're
talking about something alittle fun.
Today, actually, we're talkingabout the youth.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Fun, but important, important.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Very fun and important.
So just to kind of open us up,how important do you think the
youth is to just growing ourgeneration and growing pretty
much the foundation of who weare in the United States of
America?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Well, I think it's very important.
Like you say, it's generationRight, education, empowerment.
The youth need that right.
Right and knowing who they are,where they come from and who
they can be.
And where they can go.
I think this is very importantagree.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So that's why today is super important, because we
wanted to just hop into thestart of our youth, taking us to
the next level right.
And we have a very importantguest here today her name is.
Mat.
She is the founder and owner ofWealth Climbers, and so we're
so excited to have you with ustoday.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
All right, all right, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, thank you so much for being here.
I think, first and foremost,please just start us off on your
journey.
Who you are, how WealthClimbers came to be.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Okay, absolutely Well first.
Thank you so much for theopportunity to allow me to come
on here.
Absolutely Well, first, thankyou so much for the opportunity
to allow me to come on here, andy'all are absolutely right the
youth are the foundation is soimportant and that's one of the
key things that started me,Right?
So you introduced me, but I'mAmatula Shabazz.
Yeah, I am the founder and thethe mind behind Wealth Climbers
(01:39):
and Wealth Climbers the mindbehind Wealth Climbers and
Wealth Climbers.
We are a youth organizationthat focuses on teaching
financial literacy,entrepreneurship and technology
through gamified learning.
So what we do that's differentfrom others is that everything
that we do is games.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's all through gamified learning.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So what we decided was in order for us to start to
reach the children where they atplay a game.
They know how to game.
Learning has always been funfor me when I made it like a
game or something like that, soI just created the next step.
I had some different thingshappen in my life, like when
(02:20):
Wealth Climbers Now is about twoyears old.
We started in 2022.
And during that time, myyoungest son, his father, had
just transitioned and they alsohad experience Like we were
staying in Addison, my boys, andsomebody tried to kidnap my
boys.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So with these things like back to back to back, so it
was like, man, what can I dothat will provide some type of
you know just structure for theyouth?
Like something that'sprotecting them, like they need
advocates.
That's how I felt, because Ifelt violated.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
With my, you know, with that experience in it, and
it was in the middle of thedaytime, you know, with my boys,
with my boys and it made mejust feel like I needed to be
more empowered to be protectorof not just my youth but youth
in general.
Thank god, I was able to, likeI, homeschool my children so
yeah, okay let me say that as myfoundation, because education
(03:17):
is everything.
Okay, I say it's always ateacher, right yeah in our
household.
They know Like okay mom.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Right, I understand.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
They feel like I weigh them down, but it's for a
purpose, because if I had notbeen able to instill in them and
teach them different strategiesand how to protect themselves,
they wouldn't even be here rightnow.
So with that I wanted to beable to provide that to other
youth.
Like man, it's at home, it'sright here.
Like man, it's at home, it'sright here.
Like when you get somethingthat close, it's serious.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
In your community Exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's serious, not just as someone I know
experienced, but I experiencedit.
So from there came WealthClimbers.
I had a financial firm.
I was working in the financialindustry.
I was like what can I createthat will allow me to connect
with them and build up the youth?
I started targeting the youth.
I closed down my firm.
I just completely focused onwealth climbing.
(04:12):
I started everything over fromscratch.
Wow.
And from there came wealthclimbers and just off the gate,
I think, with the passion andalso the drive and just fully
being committed to creatingsomething that's just going to
be for the future, like we spoke.
Y'all spoke about generations,right?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You want it for the generations to come, because
when you have a properfoundation, it helps you for
generations to come.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Right right.
So tell me this In buildingWealth Climbers, right?
What were some of thechallenges that you face in
doing that?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So one of the main challenges is that you don't see
financial literacy as being theforefront in our community.
first, so, and also switching mymy focus from adults to the
youth, you see where the valueis that you and I.
It made me, made me, understandwhy they pay teachers so little
.
The value of a teacher isn't ashigh as it should be, but
(05:10):
that's completely wrong.
We're talking about those whoare creating a foundation for
these children, right?
So one of the challenges ispeople seeing the value in it.
They always say, oh my God, Iwish I learned that, I want to
learn it too, but then youunderstand that they didn't go
through the steps of learning.
So, though they see value, thatit should be taught and it
(05:31):
should be learned, they're stillnot putting their financial
resources to make sure they'resuccessful for their children.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So you still see that it's a mental block in there
somewhere.
Oh, you don't want to pay for afinancial class, but you want
to say that you appreciate, youknow having, you see the value
of it.
So then we had that.
That's a challenge, so itoftentimes was mindset that I
saw was one of the majorchallenges.
Though People can readily admitthis is something that we need
(06:01):
Right, but when it came to thempaying for their children
something, that we need rightbut when it came to them paying
for their children to get in theclass, right, yeah, they didn't
see the value you know alwaysin them paying right, right,
right.
So it made me have to getcreative with how we did our
classes.
So, uh, it made me seek outsponsorships, it made me seek
out corporate help and that'show I kind of got in that space,
and one of my very firstsponsors when we got started was
(06:24):
AT&T and Jewish Family Services.
So, they were my first twosponsors and with that I was
able to use the ConnectedLearning Center in Addison and
that was just like my hub forthe first year of Web Climbers.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
OK, so break that down for me some more, because I
really want the audience toreally understand like the depth
that you go and go to with itwith your youth.
So break down some of yourinitiatives that you have under
Wealth Climbers.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Absolutely so.
What we do is we do workshops,interactive workshop experiences
, that's what I call it, becausewe do a whole game in part.
First half is dedicated tofinancial literacy.
We have a game that we create.
It's called the adulting game.
Basically, we give them a career, you get your credit score, you
get everything you know, andfrom then I have different areas
(07:15):
that I had a youth and that'swhere they step in it like so
okay, you gotta have someone tolive with.
Do you want to live in a house,a home?
Do you want to rent, you wantto own?
So that allow us to kind ofbuild out that with them.
Yeah, you want a car, you wantto drive, you want an uber?
Then we're gonna build that out.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I'm saying so those different things are allowed to
make their choices on, but thathas to be put into their budget.
Can you afford this lifestyle?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
so the game is pretty much a lifestyle and the
choices that they make in thatworkshop in the gaming kind of
helps help them understand thevalue of the decision making yes
the money and what type of life.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Okay, I got you and it came down like and that's
when wealth climbers became muchmore than just financial
literacy, because, like you said, the decision.
Then I get to see, well, ouryouth need assistance with
decision making skills.
So I'm in the life and game.
It all came from that like,okay, how much you gonna spend
the money on on your food?
And they'll be like, oh,hundred dollars.
(08:16):
And I'm like nah notunderstanding.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, I'll take the hundred.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
You know what I mean, right, but it's like nah, it's
not, it's not going for a wholemonth.
So we had to put differentthings in perspective.
Like, okay, you want to spend$100 on food groceries, but when
I ask you what you want tospend on your fashion, your
budget, you're like oh, I thinkI want to go shopping about $500
a week?
Yeah, okay, you know what I'msaying Setting realistic, yeah,
(08:48):
exactly, so they can startlearning to make better
decisions.
And then you get to see thatthese are the same type of
decision making rationale thatadults have.
Like oh, you spent all yourmoney because you want to go do
this instead of doing this, andthat's what you know the youth
watch.
So when we get to see how muchthey truly are paying attention
(09:10):
to either their parents orwhoever is that adult that's in
their life, how are they makingfinancial decisions?
And yes, they are payingattention, you know, like they
are paying attention.
So after we do that first half,which is we go through that and
we break down everything and Iget them back to reality check
Right right.
(09:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's what it is.
It's a reality check.
And then we go to the secondhalf, and the second half is the
entrepreneurship side of things.
It's the games and it's a gamecreators call like billion
cookie Empire.
So basically we start teachingthem just basics of
entrepreneurship profit,location, marketing, getting
(09:53):
familiar with these differenttype of terms and then how each
one of those locations affecthow much you make right how much
customer flow coming.
Can you target these people?
Yeah, so we have the good thingabout our games we can make
them as detail or, as you know,kind of blanketed, because we do
a range of ages okay okay, Iliterally could work with youth
(10:16):
all the way from 6 to 17 okay,okay and I can go a little bit
younger if they, you know,depending on how sharp they are
with it, or what we're focusingon versus.
You know certain foundationalskills.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
They may have in place reading math so let me ask
you this question do you think,how do you, how do this prepare
the youth?
What have you seen with thisworkshop and the things that
you're doing?
How do they prepare the youth?
I'm glad what are the benefits?
What have been the benefits?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
the benefits have been them uh, making better
decisions, being able to savemoney.
I've had some of you from myclass already.
Uh, miss chi, I started abusiness I'm doing, I know how
to do this.
So they, they start to look atthings differently.
Right, they see themselves asthe creators and not the
consumers, and that's one of ourfocuses.
We want to turn consumers tocreators.
(11:07):
They're consuming technology,they're consuming all of these
different things, but they'renot creating enough.
Now they're creating.
So what I've seen is thecreators.
I've seen them activate theircreative head, their creativity
inside, and I love that part.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
And I love that too, because sometimes really what
happens is we get used to ourday to day and if these things
aren't aren't brought to theyouth at this, at this time or
later in their life they don'tget to learn about
entrepreneurship or just finance, finance or building and
growing like their portfolio,because that's not something
(11:43):
that they even thought about,right.
But you're also doing it in away that kind of gets their
attention with games, right,because we all know that gaming
is super important in today's uhtime.
I mean we have what they callstreamers and all these
different things.
So that's that stuff isimportant and streamers nowadays
are making lucrative moneystreaming and so being able to
(12:03):
manage that at a young age andbeing able to kind of facilitate
that.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
So tell me what your biggest influence was in shaping
like that mission, uh, to kindof get them in these everyday
situations well, um, Ihomeschool my children and
seeing how they react to, uh,the different, just I tested out
on them like that's the bestway I could say it, like I see
(12:27):
how they react, I see howdifferent information helps them
feel more empowered right andand.
Then I see how their friendslike you know how their friends
react to it how they start tofeel empowered.
So I think it's almost like youcan see, there's a domino effect
they feel strength, they feelstrong, they feel empowered,
(12:49):
they feel I can do that Right.
And we want them to haveconfidence, because that's the
key a confident child.
And then now we have not onlyconfident, but they feel, you
know, confident in themselvesand confident in the information
that they learn, so that theycan continue to add that and put
that in same place, you knowposition, where they go home and
(13:11):
they can talk to their parents.
They're like, oh wow, wecreated a digital product in our
class, because that's one ofthe classes that we did too.
We created e-books.
My goal was to create them andteach them how to become an
author.
I figured them having adifferent title, something they
could be proud of something thatthey can show as an
(13:32):
accomplishment for themselves.
But those are different type ofprograms.
So we've done AI programs withthe youth.
We've done creating digitalproducts with them, where they
created their own coloring bookand now they publish authors
because their book is on Amazonand teaching them how to
monetize.
So with everything we do, wealso always teach them how you
(13:55):
can make this financiallylucrative for you.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Because we do know that with finances you can
change your situation and youcan change a lot of different
things by having access tocapital, and these youth like
making money.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It is what it is they like making money?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Like they know, you can make money streaming they
know, you can make money as aninfluencer, as a creator, a
content creator right so now wehave to get them direction on
how to do it, so they're notjust out here doing anything,
yeah, to do it.
You know what I'm saying.
So that's when we come in andwe teach them.
Well, now you can cultivate askill, now you can learn how to
tap into an audience and teachthem terms like that, so that
(14:34):
they do know.
Oh, maybe that's not my targetaudience right okay, this is my
target audience, right love that.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
That's right.
So tell me this what makes dfwthe right place for this?
And also, how do you envisionexpanding?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
oh, like that expansion okay.
So, um, I love dfw.
I think dfw is the perfectmetroplex for us to do it,
because right now we have about300 wealth climbers in the dfw
okay, great, all right beingable to do classes from fort
worth to addison to Soto.
(15:12):
We've done Class DayPan-African Connection, which is
an excellent beacon here in thecommunity, but Dallas got it
going on Like if the big hubsknow to come here you know what
I'm saying.
So I feel like we perfectlycentered in where we need to be.
As far as in technology, yeah,you know.
(15:32):
And why not?
Why not make Dallas one of thegroundbreaking spots so people
can understand?
Now we're changing the dynamicsof technology for the youth.
We're changing how they look atdifferent things when it comes
to learning, when it comes togaming, when it comes to having
fun Right, it literally can beall in one All in one, right,
(15:54):
yes?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
And why do you think gamification was a huge model
for you to kind of tap into?
Why did you say, okay, I wantto start with this.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Well, I learned through games, okay.
So when I thought back on whatwas some of the things that I
learned the best and what aresome of the ways that my
children absorb information thebest and how we have fun doing
it Right Games I make a game up,I tell them, all right, whether
I made it like slightlycompetitive or I just made it so
(16:22):
that they had a benchmark toreach Right.
It always got them riled uplike, oh, I can do it, I can do
it Right.
And then, at the same time, whenwe finish, at the end, you
understood the lesson, yougained the information.
You can move forward with that.
You can teach somebody now.
You know, what I'm saying.
So if we're teaching the youthand they get it enough, where
(16:42):
now they feel like I can go homeand teach this to my little
brother, I can teach this to mylittle sister, I feel like
that's a mission accomplished.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Well, yeah, what's so important about that is, even
with me, um, through generations, financial literacy wasn't a
big staple in my family growingup, right?
Uh, starting a business orhaving my own wasn't a big
staple in the family.
And how you say this can affectgenerations, right?
Uh, as I started learning howto start a business or how to be
(17:14):
more financially literate in myhousehold, guess what my
children started learning?
Right, I don't want to knockthe school, public school thing,
but at the same time, you getmore information from your home.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Social media.
Social media more informationuh from your home.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Social media.
Social media, uh, and when youcome out of public school, a lot
of us just know what theytaught, but it's not preparing
us for the real world rightright you know.
So it's not telling us about howto own our own, how to buy land
, how to invest what everyoneelse is learning right.
So that's that.
So that's great that you havethis platform and you started
(17:54):
this with the vision that Godhas blessed you with to help our
youth in the community, andalso their families, right To be
more financial literacy andknow their worth and what they
can be.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Right, exactly.
And so, as an entrepreneuryourself, what advice would you
give young people or peopleaspiring to be entrepreneurs to
start their own journey?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I would say do your research on what it is that you
want to create, and createsomething so that it is opening
up doors to help others.
That's how I know, once youstart creating, it can kind of
take on an energy of its own,and a lot of times, as an
entrepreneur, that's like whenwe get to that space we found
(18:37):
our sweet spot.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You know what I'm saying, right?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
And if you just get now and you know it's like man,
I know I want to work for myself.
I don't want to work, no job,no more I'm over with for that
2025.
Right you know, and if that'show you feeling, then I
definitely encourage you to goforward with it.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, and go forward with something that you have
passion and purpose with yes,that's important, because not
everything is for everybodyRight, and I feel too, as youth,
very impressionable, you see,like Ka Sinet.
Now, he's a streamer that Iknow and I like Ka and what he
does is what he does, but itdoesn't work for everybody.
(19:14):
So you have to find your lane,you have to find what works for
you.
You have to find, like you said, what you're passionate about,
because once there's passion, itjust feeds everything else.
It's not work, you know when youlove what you do, and so I mean
that's how we met you, becausewe're out doing the things that
we love, that we find passion indoing, and we find like-minded
(19:34):
individuals to help grow andbuild these type of things.
And so I love that you saidthat, because it really does
just drive the passion.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Well, give me a, I guess, testimonial of a student.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
A success story.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
A success story of a student or someone that you have
helped in this process that hasgone on to do bigger and better
things because of your help.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Okay, absolutely so.
My daughter, one of her friendsbefore she had came.
She then the conceptentrepreneurship it wasn't there
was.
Just like you know, I can goget some money for my mom and my
dad Right, yeah.
And by the time we finished thatsummer doing classes and
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everything, they had startedthem a little business.
They created a logo, they wereselling croc charms and they
literally was ordering ininventory, inventory.
So they had a lot of differentlittle moving pieces.
That was a part of the businessbut, uh, that was like a great
success because then you seethem make money, uh, money, and
(20:44):
her friend, there's about 10okay, at the time, that's
awesome they were 10 and theywere.
they were so excited, you knowwhat I'm saying and they'd be
like oh we got a new shipment in, we got some new charms in.
So that was something I saw.
I saw them feeling empowermentof being able to do something.
And they'd come in and they'dbe like mom look how much we
(21:04):
made.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Look how much we made today.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I love that, and now it has grown to oh, what new
business can we do?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You know what I'm saying so.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I've seen the evolution of their conversation
and how they look at money alsofor themselves, so now I can
hear them say well, we need tomake some more money girl.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And so this is like completely sidebar.
This is like completely sidebar, but kind of talk to me to the
extent of how like pivotal it isfor the parent to see those
little things in their kids solike say, for instance, they're,
they're decided, oh, I want tosell chips to the kids at school
, whatever that may be.
How pivotal it is for theparents to see that and just
(21:49):
kind of nurture that so they canbecome that entrepreneur or
kind of find those things thatkind of can shape their and look
, you know about the kids, I doknow look that, from the jump,
dad had us.
What can y'all do to make money?
And that was, that was him.
So me, my sister, all of us, we, we did that for a little bit.
That really wasn't my, mysteelo, but my brother he was
(22:09):
good at that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yeah, he was good at it, he was.
He was good at it, he was good.
We did that in school too.
Like I come from anentrepreneur family, so I can
appreciate that, but yeah, I gotstories.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, I was the husband of a schoolgirl, right
right Something else.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
But okay, you said.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
So how important is the parent for the parent to
kind of nurture?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I think that is key because we're talking about
that's like watering.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like them watering.
It's almost in children.
They look for confirmation fromtheir parents.
So that's just like when theydo a painting they bring to you.
Look what.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I drew.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
So it's the same thing.
If that parent sees a childshowing interest and then the
parent starts to water thatinterest, it sparks another
different energy in that child.
And I see that every time.
So, I love when parentsparticipate.
I love to encourage parents tolet's continue this conversation
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at home Talk about it in thecar.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Like turn the music down, y'all just talk about this
.
Y'all had that conversation ina way that they light up, it
intensifies their passion forwhatever it is that they look
into, pursue, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
So question so how can they, if a family or a
parent want to have their youngyouth participate in this?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
What would be the next step to get them to
participate?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Excellent.
So 2025, we got some reallycool programming that's going to
be coming out and we'll bedropping our new schedules.
So we have workshops available.
Currently we're doing gamingclasses.
So since the conception ofWealth Climbers, it kind of then
changed a little bit, notnecessarily in our mission or
(24:01):
purpose, but in the direction inwhich we deliver in the program
.
So a lot that we're doing nowis focused on gaming, literally
platforms using Roblox,minecraft, platforms like that
and we have classes that we doat 4O Cliff.
We're in communication withsome other different rec centers
, so we're going to have ourprogram available and accessible
(24:23):
to students there.
The beautiful thing about uspartnering with rec centers and
different recreationalfacilities throughout Dallas is
that those classes can beextended to them with no fee.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You know what I'm saying Through membership at
those different particular reccenters.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
So like, for example, foro Cliff.
Right now, if you go to Foro, acliff website, you get a
membership.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You can take our classes for free, like it's
included within your membershipokay, and then you give the
classes that the y'all take,right?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
yes, sir, yes we do it there, and we'll also be, uh,
jumping back classes up at theat&t connect, the learning
centers, some differentlocations throughout the dfw.
So the best way I I would sayfollow us on social media, go to
the website, look for your girl, you know it's Wealth Farmers
Life on all platforms andwealthfarmerslifecom is the
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website we revamped up for thenew years to show all of our
different scheduling.
We also be very, very excitedabout it.
But we are now working withCompTIA and we'll be having
cybersecurity classes for middleschoolers.
So that'll be a certificateclass so they literally going to
(25:37):
get a CompTIA certificate atthe end of completion for
cybersecurity.
And we want to usher in theyouth at a young age.
So we're focusing on thosemiddle middle schoolers so that
we can start walking them intodifferent tech careers because,
again, consumers to create usright.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So with with what you just said, there, it sounds
like you got plans.
Where do you see what climbersthe next five to ten years?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
well climate the next five to ten years.
Wealth climbers the next fiveto ten years definitely see us
in multiple states.
In multiple states, we're goingto be growing y'all.
We're going to be mobile.
Also, working on for 2025, mygoal that I have, we're going to
have a tech bus, so we're goingto have a gaming bus and
that'll allow us to be mobilewithin the DFW Metroplex and
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then from there we're going tojust go keep expanding out.
But I want Wealth Climbers tobecome a name and synonymous
when you think of like a YMCA oryou think?
Of these organizations thathave been around for years and
they have roots within community.
But what I'm focused on is theunderserved, the underprivileged
(26:45):
.
So they say, you know thosecommunities that lack resources.
Well, resources, we've shown ithistorically as a people Once
we get access to the resources,it's a wrap, it's a wrap.
Look at gymnastics.
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Leave it alone.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
We got it on lock leave it alone?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
yeah, we got it on lock.
So, to kind of sum upeverything, what impact do you
hope to leave behind?
With well, climbers andeverything that you do, you know
personally, what impact do youhope to leave behind?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
my impact that I hope to leave behind is the legacy
of opening up doors forfinancial wealth for families
all across the United States,all across the world Like.
So we can start having that asa foundation, because with
financial literacy, it's aboutthe family.
Right, we spoke about familyearly in our conversation before
(27:41):
we got on air.
But family is key and it's notjust the blood family you're
talking about literally buildinga community that's centered
around love, that's centeredaround growth, that's centered
around, you know, positivity andhaving some type of
foundational morals codestandards that we can stand on.
(28:01):
Yeah, so I don't want people tolook back on me and look on
back on my legacy and say thatshe opened up doors, she created
something in the financialindustry that no one had ever
seen before, because we tiny andnot just it's not just about
money, because too often have weseen the narrative change
because of money and because ofthe money changed the people, it
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changed the mission, it changedthe purpose.
I'm going to stay true to itbecause I want to see the impact
.
I want to see our community.
I hear the stories of theelders.
They tell us how it was wheneconomics was secondhand nature.
That's what I hope my legacybrings.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
And I'm going to say this stick to it, because what
you're doing is just amazing.
I don't think I've ever heardof an organizational program
doing this.
And, of course, like you said,reaching those underserved
communities is super importantand you're giving them life
lessons, decision making,financial lessons.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
To build generational wealth and generational income
and to give them options becausemost times they don't have
options.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
So I thank you for what you're doing.
I thank you for just being apowerhouse, because that's what
you are.
You're a powerhouse and justcontinue to keep it up.
Please, y'all get in touch withher Wealthclimberslifecom.
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yes, wealthclimberslifecom.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Wealthclimberslifecom , put it out there because we
need y'all to connect.
If you know your kids would beinterested in doing something
like this, please, please,please, have them check it out,
get connected with her, go tosome of those recreation centers
and try to get into thoseprograms, because it's super
important to be able to expandyour child's mind frame, to
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expand what they're gettingbrought to them each and every
day, because this is the timewhere they're very
impressionable and they reallyneed that, that group, that
family, to kind of get them tothat next level.
And this is kind of where itstarts.
So I thank you so much forbeing with us today.
We're so excited to see allthat, what climbers would do,
and you guys just tap in and wewill check you out, or you check
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us out next time on the JourneyOut podcast.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yes, and I hope this information has been a blessing
to you and can serve you andyour family on your journey out.
Thank you all for watching.
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What can I do?
What is this going to cost?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hello everybody and welcome back to the Journey Out
podcast.
We are so excited to have youguys back today, and today we're
talking about something alittle fun.
Today, actually, we're talkingabout the youth.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Fun, but important, important.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Very fun and important.
So just to kind of open us up,how important do you think the
youth is to just growing ourgeneration and growing pretty
much the foundation of who weare in the United States of
America?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Well, I think it's very important.
Like you say, it's generationRight, education, empowerment.
The youth need that right.
Right and knowing who they are,where they come from and who
they can be.
And where they can go.
I think this is very importantagree.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So that's why today is super important, because we
wanted to just hop into thestart of our youth, taking us to
the next level right.
And we have a very importantguest here today her name is.
Mat.
She is the founder and owner ofWealth Climbers, and so we're
so excited to have you with ustoday.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
All right, all right, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, thank you so much for being here.
I think, first and foremost,please just start us off on your
journey.
Who you are, how WealthClimbers came to be.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Okay, absolutely Well first.
Thank you so much for theopportunity to allow me to come
on here.
Absolutely Well, first, thankyou so much for the opportunity
to allow me to come on here, andy'all are absolutely right the
youth are the foundation is soimportant and that's one of the
key things that started me,Right?
So you introduced me, but I'mAmatula Shabazz.
Yeah, I am the founder and thethe mind behind Wealth Climbers
(01:39):
and Wealth Climbers the mindbehind Wealth Climbers and
Wealth Climbers.
We are a youth organizationthat focuses on teaching
financial literacy,entrepreneurship and technology
through gamified learning.
So what we do that's differentfrom others is that everything
that we do is games.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's all through gamified learning.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So what we decided was in order for us to start to
reach the children where they atplay a game.
They know how to game.
Learning has always been funfor me when I made it like a
game or something like that, soI just created the next step.
I had some different thingshappen in my life, like when
(02:20):
Wealth Climbers Now is about twoyears old.
We started in 2022.
And during that time, myyoungest son, his father, had
just transitioned and they alsohad experience Like we were
staying in Addison, my boys, andsomebody tried to kidnap my
boys.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
So with these things like back to back to back, so it
was like, man, what can I dothat will provide some type of
you know just structure for theyouth?
Like something that'sprotecting them, like they need
advocates.
That's how I felt, because Ifelt violated.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
With my, you know, with that experience in it, and
it was in the middle of thedaytime, you know, with my boys,
with my boys and it made mejust feel like I needed to be
more empowered to be protectorof not just my youth but youth
in general.
Thank god, I was able to, likeI, homeschool my children so
yeah, okay let me say that as myfoundation, because education
(03:17):
is everything.
Okay, I say it's always ateacher, right yeah in our
household.
They know Like okay mom.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Right, I understand.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
They feel like I weigh them down, but it's for a
purpose, because if I had notbeen able to instill in them and
teach them different strategiesand how to protect themselves,
they wouldn't even be here rightnow.
So with that I wanted to beable to provide that to other
youth.
Like man, it's at home, it'sright here.
Like man, it's at home, it'sright here.
Like when you get somethingthat close, it's serious.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
In your community Exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It's serious, not just as someone I know
experienced, but I experiencedit.
So from there came WealthClimbers.
I had a financial firm.
I was working in the financialindustry.
I was like what can I createthat will allow me to connect
with them and build up the youth?
I started targeting the youth.
I closed down my firm.
I just completely focused onwealth climbing.
(04:12):
I started everything over fromscratch.
Wow.
And from there came wealthclimbers and just off the gate,
I think, with the passion andalso the drive and just fully
being committed to creatingsomething that's just going to
be for the future, like we spoke.
Y'all spoke about generations,right?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You want it for the generations to come, because
when you have a properfoundation, it helps you for
generations to come.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Right right.
So tell me this In buildingWealth Climbers, right?
What were some of thechallenges that you face in
doing that?
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So one of the main challenges is that you don't see
financial literacy as being theforefront in our community.
first, so, and also switching mymy focus from adults to the
youth, you see where the valueis that you and I.
It made me, made me, understandwhy they pay teachers so little
.
The value of a teacher isn't ashigh as it should be, but
(05:10):
that's completely wrong.
We're talking about those whoare creating a foundation for
these children, right?
So one of the challenges ispeople seeing the value in it.
They always say, oh my God, Iwish I learned that, I want to
learn it too, but then youunderstand that they didn't go
through the steps of learning.
So, though they see value, thatit should be taught and it
(05:31):
should be learned, they're stillnot putting their financial
resources to make sure they'resuccessful for their children.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Right.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So you still see that it's a mental block in there
somewhere.
Oh, you don't want to pay for afinancial class, but you want
to say that you appreciate, youknow having, you see the value
of it.
So then we had that.
That's a challenge, so itoftentimes was mindset that I
saw was one of the majorchallenges.
Though People can readily admitthis is something that we need
(06:01):
Right, but when it came to thempaying for their children
something, that we need rightbut when it came to them paying
for their children to get in theclass, right, yeah, they didn't
see the value you know alwaysin them paying right, right,
right.
So it made me have to getcreative with how we did our
classes.
So, uh, it made me seek outsponsorships, it made me seek
out corporate help and that'show I kind of got in that space,
and one of my very firstsponsors when we got started was
(06:24):
AT&T and Jewish Family Services.
So, they were my first twosponsors and with that I was
able to use the ConnectedLearning Center in Addison and
that was just like my hub forthe first year of Web Climbers.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
OK, so break that down for me some more, because I
really want the audience toreally understand like the depth
that you go and go to with itwith your youth.
So break down some of yourinitiatives that you have under
Wealth Climbers.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Absolutely so.
What we do is we do workshops,interactive workshop experiences
, that's what I call it, becausewe do a whole game in part.
First half is dedicated tofinancial literacy.
We have a game that we create.
It's called the adulting game.
Basically, we give them a career, you get your credit score, you
get everything you know, andfrom then I have different areas
(07:15):
that I had a youth and that'swhere they step in it like so
okay, you gotta have someone tolive with.
Do you want to live in a house,a home?
Do you want to rent, you wantto own?
So that allow us to kind ofbuild out that with them.
Yeah, you want a car, you wantto drive, you want an uber?
Then we're gonna build that out.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I'm saying so those different things are allowed to
make their choices on, but thathas to be put into their budget.
Can you afford this lifestyle?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
so the game is pretty much a lifestyle and the
choices that they make in thatworkshop in the gaming kind of
helps help them understand thevalue of the decision making yes
the money and what type of life.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Okay, I got you and it came down like and that's
when wealth climbers became muchmore than just financial
literacy, because, like you said, the decision.
Then I get to see, well, ouryouth need assistance with
decision making skills.
So I'm in the life and game.
It all came from that like,okay, how much you gonna spend
the money on on your food?
And they'll be like, oh,hundred dollars.
(08:16):
And I'm like nah notunderstanding.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, I'll take the hundred.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
You know what I mean, right, but it's like nah, it's
not, it's not going for a wholemonth.
So we had to put differentthings in perspective.
Like, okay, you want to spend$100 on food groceries, but when
I ask you what you want tospend on your fashion, your
budget, you're like oh, I thinkI want to go shopping about $500
a week?
Yeah, okay, you know what I'msaying Setting realistic, yeah,
(08:48):
exactly, so they can startlearning to make better
decisions.
And then you get to see thatthese are the same type of
decision making rationale thatadults have.
Like oh, you spent all yourmoney because you want to go do
this instead of doing this, andthat's what you know the youth
watch.
So when we get to see how muchthey truly are paying attention
(09:10):
to either their parents orwhoever is that adult that's in
their life, how are they makingfinancial decisions?
And yes, they are payingattention, you know, like they
are paying attention.
So after we do that first half,which is we go through that and
we break down everything and Iget them back to reality check
Right right.
(09:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's what it is.
It's a reality check.
And then we go to the secondhalf, and the second half is the
entrepreneurship side of things.
It's the games and it's a gamecreators call like billion
cookie Empire.
So basically we start teachingthem just basics of
entrepreneurship profit,location, marketing, getting
(09:53):
familiar with these differenttype of terms and then how each
one of those locations affecthow much you make right how much
customer flow coming.
Can you target these people?
Yeah, so we have the good thingabout our games we can make
them as detail or, as you know,kind of blanketed, because we do
a range of ages okay okay, Iliterally could work with youth
(10:16):
all the way from 6 to 17 okay,okay and I can go a little bit
younger if they, you know,depending on how sharp they are
with it, or what we're focusingon versus.
You know certain foundationalskills.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
They may have in place reading math so let me ask
you this question do you think,how do you, how do this prepare
the youth?
What have you seen with thisworkshop and the things that
you're doing?
How do they prepare the youth?
I'm glad what are the benefits?
What have been the benefits?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
the benefits have been them uh, making better
decisions, being able to savemoney.
I've had some of you from myclass already.
Uh, miss chi, I started abusiness I'm doing, I know how
to do this.
So they, they start to look atthings differently.
Right, they see themselves asthe creators and not the
consumers, and that's one of ourfocuses.
We want to turn consumers tocreators.
(11:07):
They're consuming technology,they're consuming all of these
different things, but they'renot creating enough.
Now they're creating.
So what I've seen is thecreators.
I've seen them activate theircreative head, their creativity
inside, and I love that part.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
And I love that too, because sometimes really what
happens is we get used to ourday to day and if these things
aren't aren't brought to theyouth at this, at this time or
later in their life they don'tget to learn about
entrepreneurship or just finance, finance or building and
growing like their portfolio,because that's not something
(11:43):
that they even thought about,right.
But you're also doing it in away that kind of gets their
attention with games, right,because we all know that gaming
is super important in today's uhtime.
I mean we have what they callstreamers and all these
different things.
So that's that stuff isimportant and streamers nowadays
are making lucrative moneystreaming and so being able to
(12:03):
manage that at a young age andbeing able to kind of facilitate
that.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
So tell me what your biggest influence was in shaping
like that mission, uh, to kindof get them in these everyday
situations well, um, Ihomeschool my children and
seeing how they react to, uh,the different, just I tested out
on them like that's the bestway I could say it, like I see
(12:27):
how they react, I see howdifferent information helps them
feel more empowered right andand.
Then I see how their friendslike you know how their friends
react to it how they start tofeel empowered.
So I think it's almost like youcan see, there's a domino effect
they feel strength, they feelstrong, they feel empowered,
(12:49):
they feel I can do that Right.
And we want them to haveconfidence, because that's the
key a confident child.
And then now we have not onlyconfident, but they feel, you
know, confident in themselvesand confident in the information
that they learn, so that theycan continue to add that and put
that in same place, you knowposition, where they go home and
(13:11):
they can talk to their parents.
They're like, oh wow, wecreated a digital product in our
class, because that's one ofthe classes that we did too.
We created e-books.
My goal was to create them andteach them how to become an
author.
I figured them having adifferent title, something they
could be proud of something thatthey can show as an
(13:32):
accomplishment for themselves.
But those are different type ofprograms.
So we've done AI programs withthe youth.
We've done creating digitalproducts with them, where they
created their own coloring bookand now they publish authors
because their book is on Amazonand teaching them how to
monetize.
So with everything we do, wealso always teach them how you
(13:55):
can make this financiallylucrative for you.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Because we do know that with finances you can
change your situation and youcan change a lot of different
things by having access tocapital, and these youth like
making money.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
It is what it is they like making money?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Like they know, you can make money streaming they
know, you can make money as aninfluencer, as a creator, a
content creator right so now wehave to get them direction on
how to do it, so they're notjust out here doing anything,
yeah, to do it.
You know what I'm saying.
So that's when we come in andwe teach them.
Well, now you can cultivate askill, now you can learn how to
tap into an audience and teachthem terms like that, so that
(14:34):
they do know.
Oh, maybe that's not my targetaudience right okay, this is my
target audience, right love that.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
That's right.
So tell me this what makes dfwthe right place for this?
And also, how do you envisionexpanding?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
oh, like that expansion okay.
So, um, I love dfw.
I think dfw is the perfectmetroplex for us to do it,
because right now we have about300 wealth climbers in the dfw
okay, great, all right beingable to do classes from fort
worth to addison to Soto.
(15:12):
We've done Class DayPan-African Connection, which is
an excellent beacon here in thecommunity, but Dallas got it
going on Like if the big hubsknow to come here you know what
I'm saying.
So I feel like we perfectlycentered in where we need to be.
As far as in technology, yeah,you know.
(15:32):
And why not?
Why not make Dallas one of thegroundbreaking spots so people
can understand?
Now we're changing the dynamicsof technology for the youth.
We're changing how they look atdifferent things when it comes
to learning, when it comes togaming, when it comes to having
fun Right, it literally can beall in one All in one, right,
(15:54):
yes?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
And why do you think gamification was a huge model
for you to kind of tap into?
Why did you say, okay, I wantto start with this.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Well, I learned through games, okay.
So when I thought back on whatwas some of the things that I
learned the best and what aresome of the ways that my
children absorb information thebest and how we have fun doing
it Right Games I make a game up,I tell them, all right, whether
I made it like slightlycompetitive or I just made it so
(16:22):
that they had a benchmark toreach Right.
It always got them riled uplike, oh, I can do it, I can do
it Right.
And then, at the same time, whenwe finish, at the end, you
understood the lesson, yougained the information.
You can move forward with that.
You can teach somebody now.
You know, what I'm saying.
So if we're teaching the youthand they get it enough, where
(16:42):
now they feel like I can go homeand teach this to my little
brother, I can teach this to mylittle sister, I feel like
that's a mission accomplished.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Well, yeah, what's so important about that is, even
with me, um, through generations, financial literacy wasn't a
big staple in my family growingup, right?
Uh, starting a business orhaving my own wasn't a big
staple in the family.
And how you say this can affectgenerations, right?
Uh, as I started learning howto start a business or how to be
(17:14):
more financially literate in myhousehold, guess what my
children started learning?
Right, I don't want to knockthe school, public school thing,
but at the same time, you getmore information from your home.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Social media.
Social media more informationuh from your home.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Social media.
Social media, uh, and when youcome out of public school, a lot
of us just know what theytaught, but it's not preparing
us for the real world rightright you know.
So it's not telling us about howto own our own, how to buy land
, how to invest what everyoneelse is learning right.
So that's that.
So that's great that you havethis platform and you started
(17:54):
this with the vision that Godhas blessed you with to help our
youth in the community, andalso their families, right To be
more financial literacy andknow their worth and what they
can be.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Right, exactly.
And so, as an entrepreneuryourself, what advice would you
give young people or peopleaspiring to be entrepreneurs to
start their own journey?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I would say do your research on what it is that you
want to create, and createsomething so that it is opening
up doors to help others.
That's how I know, once youstart creating, it can kind of
take on an energy of its own,and a lot of times, as an
entrepreneur, that's like whenwe get to that space we found
(18:37):
our sweet spot.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You know what I'm saying, right?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
And if you just get now and you know it's like man,
I know I want to work for myself.
I don't want to work, no job,no more I'm over with for that
2025.
Right you know, and if that'show you feeling, then I
definitely encourage you to goforward with it.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, and go forward with something that you have
passion and purpose with yes,that's important, because not
everything is for everybodyRight, and I feel too, as youth,
very impressionable, you see,like Ka Sinet.
Now, he's a streamer that Iknow and I like Ka and what he
does is what he does, but itdoesn't work for everybody.
(19:14):
So you have to find your lane,you have to find what works for
you.
You have to find, like you said, what you're passionate about,
because once there's passion, itjust feeds everything else.
It's not work, you know when youlove what you do, and so I mean
that's how we met you, becausewe're out doing the things that
we love, that we find passion indoing, and we find like-minded
(19:34):
individuals to help grow andbuild these type of things.
And so I love that you saidthat, because it really does
just drive the passion.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Well, give me a, I guess, testimonial of a student.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
A success story.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
A success story of a student or someone that you have
helped in this process that hasgone on to do bigger and better
things because of your help.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Okay, absolutely so.
My daughter, one of her friendsbefore she had came.
She then the conceptentrepreneurship it wasn't there
was.
Just like you know, I can goget some money for my mom and my
dad Right, yeah.
And by the time we finished thatsummer doing classes and
(20:20):
everything, they had startedthem a little business.
They created a logo, they wereselling croc charms and they
literally was ordering ininventory, inventory.
So they had a lot of differentlittle moving pieces.
That was a part of the businessbut, uh, that was like a great
success because then you seethem make money, uh, money, and
(20:44):
her friend, there's about 10okay, at the time, that's
awesome they were 10 and theywere.
they were so excited, you knowwhat I'm saying and they'd be
like oh we got a new shipment in, we got some new charms in.
So that was something I saw.
I saw them feeling empowermentof being able to do something.
And they'd come in and they'dbe like mom look how much we
(21:04):
made.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Look how much we made today.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I love that, and now it has grown to oh, what new
business can we do?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
You know what I'm saying so.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
I've seen the evolution of their conversation
and how they look at money alsofor themselves, so now I can
hear them say well, we need tomake some more money girl.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
And so this is like completely sidebar.
This is like completely sidebar, but kind of talk to me to the
extent of how like pivotal it isfor the parent to see those
little things in their kids solike say, for instance, they're,
they're decided, oh, I want tosell chips to the kids at school
, whatever that may be.
How pivotal it is for theparents to see that and just
(21:49):
kind of nurture that so they canbecome that entrepreneur or
kind of find those things thatkind of can shape their and look
, you know about the kids, I doknow look that, from the jump,
dad had us.
What can y'all do to make money?
And that was, that was him.
So me, my sister, all of us, we, we did that for a little bit.
That really wasn't my, mysteelo, but my brother he was
(22:09):
good at that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Yeah, he was good at it, he was.
He was good at it, he was good.
We did that in school too.
Like I come from anentrepreneur family, so I can
appreciate that, but yeah, I gotstories.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, I was the husband of a schoolgirl, right
right Something else.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
But okay, you said.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
So how important is the parent for the parent to
kind of nurture?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I think that is key because we're talking about
that's like watering.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like them watering.
It's almost in children.
They look for confirmation fromtheir parents.
So that's just like when theydo a painting they bring to you.
Look what.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I drew.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
So it's the same thing.
If that parent sees a childshowing interest and then the
parent starts to water thatinterest, it sparks another
different energy in that child.
And I see that every time.
So, I love when parentsparticipate.
I love to encourage parents tolet's continue this conversation
(23:10):
at home Talk about it in thecar.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Like turn the music down, y'all just talk about this
.
Y'all had that conversation ina way that they light up, it
intensifies their passion forwhatever it is that they look
into, pursue, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
So question so how can they, if a family or a
parent want to have their youngyouth participate in this?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
What would be the next step to get them to
participate?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Excellent.
So 2025, we got some reallycool programming that's going to
be coming out and we'll bedropping our new schedules.
So we have workshops available.
Currently we're doing gamingclasses.
So since the conception ofWealth Climbers, it kind of then
changed a little bit, notnecessarily in our mission or
(24:01):
purpose, but in the direction inwhich we deliver in the program
.
So a lot that we're doing nowis focused on gaming, literally
platforms using Roblox,minecraft, platforms like that
and we have classes that we doat 4O Cliff.
We're in communication withsome other different rec centers
, so we're going to have ourprogram available and accessible
(24:23):
to students there.
The beautiful thing about uspartnering with rec centers and
different recreationalfacilities throughout Dallas is
that those classes can beextended to them with no fee.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
You know what I'm saying Through membership at
those different particular reccenters.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
So like, for example, foro Cliff.
Right now, if you go to Foro, acliff website, you get a
membership.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You can take our classes for free, like it's
included within your membershipokay, and then you give the
classes that the y'all take,right?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
yes, sir, yes we do it there, and we'll also be, uh,
jumping back classes up at theat&t connect, the learning
centers, some differentlocations throughout the dfw.
So the best way I I would sayfollow us on social media, go to
the website, look for your girl, you know it's Wealth Farmers
Life on all platforms andwealthfarmerslifecom is the
(25:17):
website we revamped up for thenew years to show all of our
different scheduling.
We also be very, very excitedabout it.
But we are now working withCompTIA and we'll be having
cybersecurity classes for middleschoolers.
So that'll be a certificateclass so they literally going to
(25:37):
get a CompTIA certificate atthe end of completion for
cybersecurity.
And we want to usher in theyouth at a young age.
So we're focusing on thosemiddle middle schoolers so that
we can start walking them intodifferent tech careers because,
again, consumers to create usright.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
So with with what you just said, there, it sounds
like you got plans.
Where do you see what climbersthe next five to ten years?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
well climate the next five to ten years.
Wealth climbers the next fiveto ten years definitely see us
in multiple states.
In multiple states, we're goingto be growing y'all.
We're going to be mobile.
Also, working on for 2025, mygoal that I have, we're going to
have a tech bus, so we're goingto have a gaming bus and
that'll allow us to be mobilewithin the DFW Metroplex and
(26:25):
then from there we're going tojust go keep expanding out.
But I want Wealth Climbers tobecome a name and synonymous
when you think of like a YMCA oryou think?
Of these organizations thathave been around for years and
they have roots within community.
But what I'm focused on is theunderserved, the underprivileged
(26:45):
.
So they say, you know thosecommunities that lack resources.
Well, resources, we've shown ithistorically as a people Once
we get access to the resources,it's a wrap, it's a wrap.
Look at gymnastics.
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Leave it alone.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
We got it on lock leave it alone?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
yeah, we got it on lock.
So, to kind of sum upeverything, what impact do you
hope to leave behind?
With well, climbers andeverything that you do, you know
personally, what impact do youhope to leave behind?
Speaker 3 (27:20):
my impact that I hope to leave behind is the legacy
of opening up doors forfinancial wealth for families
all across the United States,all across the world Like.
So we can start having that asa foundation, because with
financial literacy, it's aboutthe family.
Right, we spoke about familyearly in our conversation before
(27:41):
we got on air.
But family is key and it's notjust the blood family you're
talking about literally buildinga community that's centered
around love, that's centeredaround growth, that's centered
around, you know, positivity andhaving some type of
foundational morals codestandards that we can stand on.
(28:01):
Yeah, so I don't want people tolook back on me and look on
back on my legacy and say thatshe opened up doors, she created
something in the financialindustry that no one had ever
seen before, because we tiny andnot just it's not just about
money, because too often have weseen the narrative change
because of money and because ofthe money changed the people, it
(28:23):
changed the mission, it changedthe purpose.
I'm going to stay true to itbecause I want to see the impact
.
I want to see our community.
I hear the stories of theelders.
They tell us how it was wheneconomics was secondhand nature.
That's what I hope my legacybrings.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
And I'm going to say this stick to it, because what
you're doing is just amazing.
I don't think I've ever heardof an organizational program
doing this.
And, of course, like you said,reaching those underserved
communities is super importantand you're giving them life
lessons, decision making,financial lessons.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
To build generational wealth and generational income
and to give them options becausemost times they don't have
options.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
So I thank you for what you're doing.
I thank you for just being apowerhouse, because that's what
you are.
You're a powerhouse and justcontinue to keep it up.
Please, y'all get in touch withher Wealthclimberslifecom.
Right.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yes, wealthclimberslifecom.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Wealthclimberslifecom , put it out there because we
need y'all to connect.
If you know your kids would beinterested in doing something
like this, please, please,please, have them check it out,
get connected with her, go tosome of those recreation centers
and try to get into thoseprograms, because it's super
important to be able to expandyour child's mind frame, to
(29:42):
expand what they're gettingbrought to them each and every
day, because this is the timewhere they're very
impressionable and they reallyneed that, that group, that
family, to kind of get them tothat next level.
And this is kind of where itstarts.
So I thank you so much forbeing with us today.
We're so excited to see allthat, what climbers would do,
and you guys just tap in and wewill check you out, or you check
(30:03):
us out next time on the JourneyOut podcast.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yes, and I hope this information has been a blessing
to you and can serve you andyour family on your journey out.
Thank you all for watching.
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