May 13, 2025 • 32 mins
Meet the dynamic duo revolutionizing how businesses achieve transformational impact. Janiah Lake and Tamika Stembridge, founders of OGLLC and known respectively as "the Banker" and "the Lawyer," share their journey from corporate careers to becoming trusted advisors for visionary leaders across the globe.
Their philosophy of "operationalizing genius" comes alive as they explain how they help big thinkers turn moonshot ideas into achievable milestones. What sets them apart? The rare ability to understand visionaries who struggle to trust others with their dreams, and the practical systems they've developed to catch every brilliant idea without stifling creative energy.
Through their combined experiences spanning banking, philanthropy, law, entertainment, and nonprofit leadership, Janiyah and Tamika have mastered the art of building authentic connections—not just between themselves and clients, but between their clients and the communities they aim to serve. They share candid insights about their data-driven approach, explaining how they balance ambitious visions with measurable outcomes.
The most touching moments come when they reflect on their own journey from professional colleagues to family, navigating entrepreneurship together with unwavering mutual support. Their advice for emerging visionaries resonates deeply: find your integrator, be gentle with yourself during growth, and trust the process of delegating what doesn't inspire you.
Whether you're a visionary struggling to implement your ideas or an established business looking to scale with integrity, this conversation offers powerful strategies for sustainable success. Subscribe now to catch part two, where these brilliant consultants turn the tables and interview our hosts about their business journey.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I know some people probably had it hard, but I was
blessed.
They ain't never saw my mom anddad in stress.
They only shows.
They said I'm living comfy fromthe sweat off they bags and
that's why all I ever wanted wasto give it back.
I'm not ashamed because I wasraised right.
I would only be ashamed if Ididn't help you fight through
the pain, help you drain out thegames that your mind played.
(00:22):
No matter what, I'm neverletting my shine fade away,
(00:55):
forever searching.
Outro Music.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Hello everybody and welcome back to the Journey Out
Podcast.
We have an exciting episodehere for you guys.
But you know, here on theJourney Out podcast we're
talking all things healthcare,financial literacy,
entrepreneurship and familyvalues.
But before we get into theepisode, go ahead and be sure to
like, subscribe and share thiswith any and everybody that you
know could benefit from thestuff that we talk about here.
(01:20):
We talk about a lot of goodthings, so we want to make sure
that we get it out to those whoneed it.
Now happening to the episode wehave some really great friends
here.
We have our team from OGLLC inthe building, all right, so we
have Ms Janiah Lake and MsTamika Stembridge, and they are
here to talk about OGLLC and howthey just revolutionized
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businesses all across the world,and so let me give you guys a
little backstory.
Okay, so OGLLC is a consultingfirm co-founded by Janiyah and
Tamika, known respectively asthe Banker and the Lawyer.
Okay, now they leverage theirdiverse experience to support
high-performing leaders andorganizations in scaling,
creating transformational impactand fostering meaningful
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connections with communities ofcolor, and so I just need y'all
to break that down.
Whoever wants to go first?
Janiyah Tameka, whoever breakthat down for us?
How are y'all revolutionizingthese businesses?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well, first thank you .
We are so excited to be herewith y'all.
So I am the banker of this duoand I guess how we revolutionize
business.
Tamika always says we think wecan do anything.
So literally if it's like y'allcome and say we want to go to
the moon, we think we can figureout how to get you to the moon.
(02:39):
Like I promise, there's notsomething that we haven't
encountered and a large part ofit is just from our diverse
backgrounds.
So, I guess we could just kindof share a little bit about our
background.
I'm the banker of this duo andmy background I led branches.
I managed branches, led teamsto where the second half of my
career and I had a 20-yearcareer in banking.
So the second half of my careerI was on the philanthropy side
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of it.
Second half of my career I wason the philanthropy side of it
so I did granting of money,managing nonprofits, working on
community issues from theperspective of finance, so
homeownership and underservedcommunities, financial education
and literacy, working with kids.
So I really fell in love withthat half of my career and how
to leverage my expertise inbanking to give back.
(03:23):
And really for me that wasbirthed out of coming from a
large black family in the Southand you know we don't talk about
money.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
And so seeing how other people did well and even
understanding how they did wellwith nothing.
And so I tried to startunderstanding that gap of like
why did these people come tothis country and talk about that
?
They had $2 to their name andwas able to build and build
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family businesses and thingslike that.
But what happened when ourhistory is what it is and we
work as hard as we work, but whyare we always the bottom of
every bad stat?
when it comes to economics andso that's how I ended up meeting
the co-founder that actuallybrought us, or the founder that
brought us together.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
And so that's.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
that's kind of the some of the varied background
that I have, and I let Tamikatell some of her background,
which is why we think we can goto the moon.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Right.
So I'm Tamika, the lawyer ofthe duo.
Moon Right.
So I'm Tamika, the lawyer ofthe duo.
But before becoming a lawyer Iworked in corporate America in
supply chain human resourcesrecruiting, left there, went to
run a nonprofit because I wantedto save the babies.
So I went and did that for alittle while.
I got invited to apply to lawschool because I was either
going to go get an MBA or go geta PhD in Africana studies.
(04:41):
And they were like hey, wethink you might be able to go to
law school.
Would you like to try it?
And I was like all right bet.
So I went to law school tostudy entertainment law, because
that's the only law I caredabout, didn't ever wanted to go
to court, I could do deals allday, went to law school, decided
I would do my MBA while I wasthere.
While I was in law school, I dida stint in fashion.
So I worked with a fashionhouse in New York and then I
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worked in two big firms inPhiladelphia.
And then, when I finished lawschool, I went to a management
company in New York working withsome of the biggest names in
hip hop management.
And then I went for pastoralcare because I was like you know
what I've done, all the thingsthat I've wanted to do.
I'm 31 years old, what else isthere?
So I went to my pastor and he'slike I have something for you to
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do.
Come help me out with thisnonprofit.
So I went and started helpinghim with the nonprofit, just as
a client.
I was still running my lawpractice, still traveling on the
road with acts, doing a wholelot of things, and then, two
years into the work, he's like Ineed you to meet this lady.
She is phenomenal, she isamazing care, but that means I
also got a bunch of pastoralcare cases.
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He would just send me everybodyto work on the team.
So Janiyah and I had thisconference call and like we hit
it off and it was good, like shewas super smart, she sounded
good on the phone, we had funand I was like okay, well, let's
just try this out for like 90days Cause.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I don't really know, how this works.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
And literally we've been stuck together ever since.
So, from 2017 up until now, wehave been rocking and rolling,
and then, you know, we did thattogether.
First, I was there for almostnine years, janai was there for
seven, and then, in 2022, wedecided to take our talents on
the road and create OGLLC.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And here we are, wow.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Okay, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
That's amazing.
So what inspired y'all oncey'all got together and y'all
went through the 90 day period?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
and y'all been stuck to the hill in your background.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So what inspired y'all to uh establish OGLLC?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So I think the thing.
So we both agreed on the 90days right.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Cause I was a corporate girl Like they'll tell
you.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I wore black suits to everything.
Everybody was like, okay, girl,you don't have to wear suits to
everything, like don't you havesome casual wear?
And I was like this is mycasual wear, what are you?
Talking about I was straightthe banker lady.
And so we both agreed on the 90days because I didn't know how
nonprofit world would be.
I was flipping to a wholenother side.
What we both started goingthrough that seven-year period
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was like we just kept gettingaligned, aligned, aligned,
aligned, aligned.
And so it's.
We were not only having greatsuccess growing that nonprofit,
how we seen business was thesame and ran that nonprofit like
a business and, having been onboards and things in the past, I
was able to see very successfulnonprofits.
(07:23):
I was able to see nonprofitsthat really didn't run like a
business and so we thought thesame, we work the same, both of
us are the same.
We do not like group projectsbecause you ain't gonna be
messing up my age Right right.
You know, we don't like.
You know certain ways that wework.
We were the same and so wecomplimented each other so well
and we weren't friends, wedidn't know each other anything,
(07:46):
but we just worked together and, I think, respected each
other's work and we was gettingstuff done, yeah.
And so we started gettingtapped.
We became janiya and tamika, webecame this duo.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You know when everybody would ask for us, they
would ask us together.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yeah and then we started getting pulled to help
other non-profit leaders.
We started getting put onprojects.
We made national partnershipswith, you know uh, sororities
and fraternities andhomeownership organizations Like
we were really doing things big, but we were helping other
organizations tackle subjectsthat we cared about.
So we were in healthcare,bringing economic empowerment,
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tackling health issues andhealth disparities.
We were in homeownership,helping homeownership and
democracy and homeownership withrealtors, and we were bringing
this infrastructure and how wewere going to do this.
And so we just started sayingare we on to something?
here we very much care aboutthese issues and we're able to
(08:41):
lend this expertise, and we hadkind of aligned passion with how
we worked, and so it just wethought we were onto something a
little bit before we even kindof got shoved out there to start
it.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
But yeah it, just and just leaders.
We love our people, we love tosee amazing leaders win and a
lot of times you know Janiyahsays that we've seen the test.
And so in growing the nonprofitthat we worked with from a
philanthropic side, we wereblessed to have huge
philanthropic partners that wereinvesting tons of money into
our nonprofit, which is notnormal in the nonprofit
(09:14):
landscape.
But at the same time, because weran the nonprofit like a
business, we started tounderstand what those
philanthropic organizations werelooking for and we're like, ok,
we've seen this and all theseleaders that are doing amazing
work in the community are nevergoing to see this test, which
means they will never enterthese rooms which means the work
that they're doing will neverget as big as they want it to
get unless somebody helps them.
(09:36):
And so we were like we have todo something about that, and so
we were committed to thatpersonally.
But then you see the same thingon business, and so it was like
all of our experience, all ofwhat we care about, wanting to
see us win Right, and we werelike we just have to do it, and
see what happens, yeah, and soit really you guys' tagline kind
of sums that up like in anutshell so you guys' tagline is
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operationalizing genius.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That is, in and of itself, like I don't even know
how y'all came up with that, butthat's exactly what you guys do
, so like elaborate on what thatmeans and like how it
translates into, like actionableI you know, things that your
clients deal with on aday-to-day basis.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
So OG was originally optimized growth.
Okay, and in that optimizing,well, how do you optimize it?
It's operations, it'sinfrastructure, it's process,
it's taking your big visions andchunking it out.
So when Janiyah says, we cantake you to the moon if you
decide that's your goal, theoperations is what's going to
help you get there.
And so we say we work a lotwith visionary leaders, big
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picture thinkers that literallywant to go to the moon, and the
work that we do is helping youto chunk that out, phase it out,
step it out so that one you'regoing to get to the moon, but
also you can keep going to themoon.
Right, and you can have a teamthat you want to go to the moon.
And if you don't think aboutyour work in that way, one
you're always going to be stuckbeing the person doing it, and
then nobody can come behind youto repeat the pattern.
(10:59):
And so we want sustainableimpact, sustainable success, and
so we help you tooperationalize those ideas so
that they can keep going andgrowing over time.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
How do you get visionaries when they have this
big idea and I guess, let me saythis, and they, they want to go
.
We know this, they want to goand they, they ready, and they
were like yeah how do you pacethem?
And how do you get them Ifthey're always on the go and you
(11:30):
pace them, but how do you getthem to follow that pace?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Right and, like you said, skill for sustainability.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
How do you, how do you do that?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I would say some of it is tapping into that
visionary energy and so we haveto.
If we can concretize the planand give you the plan, sometimes
that's enough to calm thevision down, because now you can
see it Like, okay, bet, I seestep A.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
B, c, D and.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
E, then we can go forward and then giving you
successes along the way.
So it's like, okay, this ismilestone one, we do that.
Okay, bet, we're on the rightpath.
But then also catching theideas.
We consider ourselves for ourbest clients.
We are your backstage partner,so when the idea comes, give it
to us, let us figure out whereto put it.
Don't stop thinking.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Don't stop being the visionary.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Give us the things so we can figure out where to put
it, so that you don't lose it.
Because that's the beauty ofvisionaries You're always
thinking big Right.
The challenge is visionarieswill keep visioning and leave
everybody behind.
Right Right, and so if we canshow you success along the way,
then the visionary staysencouraged, but also you see
things progressing Right and youalso have a place to catch the
new visions, because the moregets done, the more you want to
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do.
So it's kind of a give and takeprocess.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And kind of a give and take process, right, and I
think it just speaks to like thecore of what you're saying,
because at the same time, likewe talked about being
visionaries, I'm sitting besideone of them Right and the way
his mind works is like oh, wecan do this, we can help these
people in this way, we can dothis, we can do this, we can do
this.
And what kind of sometimes canget stuck in the back of our
heads is we know we have to doit, we know we can set it up,
but how, it's the how, and youguys always come with the how,
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you guys come with the how, thewhy, and this goes in this
bucket, this goes in this bucketand it's just set up.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You guys pretty much, I guess.
Read our minds.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, pretty much.
I think there's this trust thathas to happen too.
I think there's this trust thathas to happen too.
Yeah, because visionaries don'ttrust people to bring their
visions to life, and so I thinktwo things that we do well is we
move at a fast pace.
We really do Like we move withy'all at y'all's pace.
There are some people we haveto be very careful not to
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outpace them, because we havekind of two of these big brains
over here and we can just clipthings along, and so one.
I think that first, that trusthas to be built, that people
entrust us with their vision andthey entrust us to bring their
vision to light how they would.
Because we are big onauthenticity, like we want
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people to show up authenticallywith their people in their
marketplace and bring theirvision to light, how they see it
, in a really excellent way.
And so I think that trust hasto be built first because, like
y'all, where you have clientsand you become family with them-
we become family with ourclients, and that's where we all
do our best work and magic iscreated.
(14:16):
So I think that trust first andthen being able to, as she said,
have milestones, but then alsoappropriate places, but that
trust allows us also to be likethis isn't the goal you set for
yourself.
We can absolutely do this bigvision, but it moves but you
remember January.
This was our goal, so let's makesure.
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And so there's this trust youalso build in being able to kind
of say let's place this overhere, let's pin it, let's make
sure we'll get to it.
But it is the landing place forthe visions, because the
visionary has to constantly befeeling like I see and want to
solve these issues, and we neverwant to stifle that.
We always want to appropriatelyplace it and keep them inspired
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.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I'm Janiyah, I'm Tamika and we are OG LLC, a
consulting firm, and weoperationalize genius.
Learn more at wwwweareogllccom.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
And so let's dig into the trust part a little deeper,
because not only is it buildingtrust between you and your
client like you're figuring outtheir ideas and who they are and
kind of trying to put that out,but one thing that you guys do
amazing, like you're so amazingit's also building that
meaningful connection betweenyour client and who they're
trying to target.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
So, cause, cause, honestly, uh, just for me an
example I'm, I'm private right,so to share and open up and talk
about things that I don't know,and not being afraid to say,
hey, I don't know this or thisis where I'm at.
You guys take that in and say,okay, hey, this is where you're
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trying to get.
We have a piece to this puzzle.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
How do you expound?
On creating those meaningfulconnections both ways.
You know client to client, butalso like client to our target
audience as well.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I think it goes back to the authenticity.
So we know you all intimatelyfrom a professional standpoint,
a lot of times from a personalstandpoint, understanding your
goals and figuring out thecommunities you intend to serve
and helping you to show up inthe most authentic way for that
community.
Because the thing is, you knowwe all can shape shift, but
people notice that, and so thereality is, if you guys want to
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show up as the journey outpodcast or you want to show up
as PC home, however you want toshow up, our goal is to help
create an experience in anenvironment so that you can show
up that way for the community.
We have some clients that aresuper corporate.
They're doctors, they're.
You know they don't necessarilythey're not going to do it the
same way you do it, but theyhave great intentions for the
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people they intend to serve.
We create experiences andopportunities that align with
how you want to show up and whatyou want to serve people with,
and we've done it a milliondifferent ways.
We go from conferences tointimate one-on-one scenarios.
You want to host a 5k?
We can do that.
You want to go host a party?
We can do that.
Um and again, we're not eventplanners, but really
strategically figuring out howyou get to the people that you
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want to get to and how you'regoing to have impact, not just
getting in front of them, butgetting to and through them the
way you want.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Right, and that's the impact right there.
I think that's, I think that'swhat just sets you, you all,
apart, because it's buildingthat experience, not, it makes
it not cookie cutter.
You you know what I mean,because anybody can have any and
everybody can have a podcast.
It's the experience that youbring to the person listening
that sets the tone, and so it'snot the same for each, for each
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one, and it's not.
You guys, don't go in it withthat same thought process of
we're going to do this like, doit like this, because it worked
like this for homeboy, and soit's just work for homeboy, it's
going to work for you, right,and it's not that personality.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
So the fun thing I was going to say.
The fun thing about our work isthat we have a process.
Like there is a process.
The beauty is as fast as ourminds work.
We literally go from you all toa different client, like in any
given day our minds are on amillion different things, and
part of that is exciting andexhausting at the same time, but
we know that's how we have toshow up, because every client is
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different.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
And I think the thing , too, is like having the varied
background, right.
So we've been in supercorporate spaces.
You have to show up in a blacksuit all the time, you know.
Um, I think, not only justtrying to find ourself through
our careers.
We believe in people like.
We really really believe inpeople that are trying to do
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things.
I think this is why we'reparticular about who we work
with, right, because we can'twork with somebody that we don't
connect with them, and believethe work that they're doing
right and so that helps us toconnect with them in ways that,
when we learn them, we can helpthem navigate.
But having the backgrounds thatwe have and having to also
navigate our own authenticity,in these spaces.
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We have also a really greatnetwork of people that we have a
great reputation with, and theyknow us in that way.
So, when we do make thoseconnections, like you say, we've
likely been in rooms like that,we likely.
But we want to position peoplethat are able to be their very
best, cause we see that bestthat they're trying to
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accomplish, and then some of thebeauty of the work that we do,
because we care about theleaders and care about their
work.
We we see this ripple effectright so like if we can help you
all do the work you're doing,look at who all you're taking
care of and and amplifying thatwork right.
And the same thing with likewhen people are working on.
I mean, we have everything fromyou know dementia, alzheimer's
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to anti-violence, to you knowcaring for family.
But it's this ripple effectthat if we can pour into those
leaders and they can continue topour into their community and
they continue to mentor andbring up people like we have,
this, like that's the purpose, Ithink that we got attached to
is being
Speaker 1 (19:52):
able to do that.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I don't think I got to say these young ladies are
awesome.
I want to put that out thereright now.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They're awesome, I want to put that out there right
now.
They're awesome.
So, with everyone that you havehelped and you continue to help
on a day-to-day basis, what aresome innovative practices that
you believe are essential forbusinesses aiming to like,
revolutionize their, theirbusiness, to grow and become
like those dynamo companies?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Interestingly enough, we start all of our work with
the biggest vision you have.
So, yes, we work withvisionaries and y'all have big
ideas, but we stretch you evenfurther, like what is the
ultimate goal for you, and if wecan understand that, that helps
us craft the process becauseyou may come to us for a
discrete thing and we're likeokay, well, give us some context
, where does this fit in yourlarger vision?
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And once we can get you to that,then it helps us to lay things
out, because then we're not justthinking about that specific
project.
It's how that project becomes apuzzle piece into whatever the
next thing is.
And I think that's theinnovative practice that, even
if you are a visionary leader,pull it all the way back to see
how that fits into your largervision and then we can start to
operationalize from there.
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That way you're not repeatingthings.
That way you build it in a waythat it's going to fit into that
bigger vision.
And even if it's a spinoffproject that may not seem
related, there's always a way totie it in because you as the
visionary are at the core.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Right, right.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
So, with that, with that being said, and y'all uh
put things in place for thatvisionary to succeed or hit that
milestone that they want to hit.
How do you measure success whenyou're helping someone?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
This is where the banker and the lawyer kicks in
If y'all see our stuff.
We have the data a graph and thething is part of us accepting
our visionary capability.
It's that when people startsharing their big dream with us,
I literally, and she literally,we start to see the path and
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the outline to it.
Right yeah, knowing how datamatters, knowing how these
issues matter in communities,knowing how, what we're trying
to accomplish, you start to seethe path like almost like
stepping stones, and so it justwill click.
It just will click and we'llstart to see it.
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And sometimes I have to likesketch it out or draw it, but we
don't do anything without aplan.
We're probably the most briefedpaper driven two people y'all
will ever meet.
Like I got old school filecabinets and went and got my old
school like loan files to keeptrack of all of my stuff.
And we were laughing at aretreat this weekend, we did a
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training this weekend and wewere giving them their report
back of the summary of what wedid to their staff and I had
mine, highlighted a number.
She was laughing because Ineeded to know the numbers of
what this percentage was andeverything but like that's just
the banker and the lawyer, andso everybody that works with us
is not that we're all sittingaround having pipe dreams and
like, yeah, we're all trying tobe on the moon.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
It's like did this happen Right?
How much did it cost?
How much did we make?
How many people did we impact?
What changed about those people?
Right, we're very much datadriven in that way and not to
say that everything has to becounted Right, but how else do
you measure success?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Right.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
You know, you look at your bank account to see if
you're being successful.
You look at how many never knowif you're successful.
And so, again, it's growth.
And that's what we said.
We're here to grow.
You scale, you, sustain you.
How much more runway do youhave, how much more money do you
have?
And so there's always a datapoint.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Right, okay.
So, with that being said, whatwould be some advice you would
want to offer to some emergingvisionaries who just want to
make like transformationalimpact in their community?
What would be some advice youwould want to give them to get
them started and to get themgoing?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Probably some first advice I have is, like one of
the things that I see is peoplereally are hard on themselves
about what they're trying toaccomplish, or even if they have
core capabilities that they cando the things, but we try to
tackle it all right.
So entrepreneurship we arestarring in our own movies,
writing our own movies producingour own movies, directing our
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own movies.
You're doing all the things.
There does become a moment thatwhen you start to we start to
help them, see them stretchthemselves out.
You have to be gentle withyourself, that you, that's not
like I can do, that, I'm notinspired each day when I wake up
and do that, and so sometimeswe'll end up talking to people
like it's not bad to have growthand outgrow spaces, and so you
(24:34):
have to.
It's a way, and sometimes we'llsee people beat themselves up
about what they're not eitherable to get done or I couldn't
accomplish this.
What they're not either able toget done or I couldn't
accomplish this, or they'rehaving that moment of when
you're taking on everything andthey're hard on themselves
because they just and they'llburn themselves out.
And so even with nonprofits, youknow when, when it's that
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growth moment, there is thatmoment that we're like stretch
it out you know, stretch it out,give it to someone else and
stay where you can, as much asyou can, of what inspires you,
cause that's your gifts, right.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Not what you can do.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
You can do everything you can do likely, but as much
as you can start thinking aboutbuilding your team and thinking
giving away things or lettingpeople help you letting people
delegate.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Yes, yes, yeah, and I would say yeah.
I would say, in addition tothat, like it's, it's the
concretizing of what Janaya justsaid find your integrator Every
strong leader in any field thatthey're in.
They may not call it anintegrator.
It's your number two, it's yoursecond, it's your Tamika and
Janaya that are going to run theplay for you.
Most visionaries, they have theidea no-transcript.
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There's a reason that you gotthe gift, but you may not be the
person to fully run the playright and so be comfortable
allowing other people to step inand do that I love
Speaker 3 (26:15):
that I love that.
So good information yeah frombeginning to end of y'all
journey to this point.
Right now, right, reflect onwhat has been the most rewarding
thing of OG LLC.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
So there's two things for me.
Externally, I would saywatching our clients grow and
actually achieve their visions,like we.
Yes, we do our part to help youguys make those things happen,
but you go out and do it.
The confidence is there, theability to execute is there.
You go out and do the things.
Their wins are our wins.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
We take pride in it, Like we sit there like proud
mama, like oh my God, they didit.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
On the flip side of it, I would say watching us grow
as entrepreneurs, like havingthe varied backgrounds that
we've had.
Entrepreneurship is a journeyunlike no other.
If you have not had faith, youwill gain it on this journey,
and so just watching us grow asentrepreneurs and be confident
in what we originally thoughtfor this business and watch it
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grow every single day and showup for it every single day, like
when we started this, I wasnine months pregnant oh my
goodness.
I delivered a baby on january19th and I was back on a
conference call january 26th,like we have been in it every
single day for the last threeyears, and so that's a lot of
stick to it, or this yeah, butwe believe so much in the work
(27:40):
that we're doing right that youguys help our vision come to
life, for how we wanted to showup for people right, and so I
think that's been the mostinspiring part of this what
about you?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
you know um, I would agree.
I think that when we see ourclients win, it is, it is the
moment, because we don't want toever be the one that does it,
we want to like.
I always say this we want toteach people to fish, like
that's our goal in that kind ofripple effect moment.
(28:11):
And if we can just continue todo that, I would say internally
as well.
Again, I said Tamika and I werenot friends before working
(28:33):
together.
I believe you can becomefriends if you work together,
not the vice versa.
It's hard to be friends and thengo and try to get work done
right.
It's easier to be work friendsand then expand your friendship.
So we've become family, yeah,and walking this test of
entrepreneurship.
But like we've had so muchgrowth in our friendship and
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becoming family and our personaljourneys, like I wouldn't do it
with anybody else in the world.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So not at all and then I won't get no tissue,
because, but like I would saythat's the biggest reward is
doing it with this person yeah,I'll add this to like for us the
biggest reward and I think Ican speak for you too on this
the biggest reward for us, evenbeing with you guys do every
(29:23):
week and look, don't get, don'tget me started, but it can make
me some tissue.
But for real, like, yeah, youall, what you say, you do, you
do but, you do it like times amillion right and y'all.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I don't think y'all really understand the impact
that y'all have for sure umespecially us in our lives and
how y'all helped us.
I mean talking to you, you guys, I can today can be going wrong
or whatever, but I'm likelisten, I know I'm gonna be on
the phone with them and we'regonna get and it's gonna be a
(29:56):
conversation and y'all alwaysask, okay, what do we need to
know about?
and then we probably start goingover a lot of other things and
then y'all, then y'all startsaying okay, y'all start putting
pieces together, all right,when I see y'all writing yeah,
there they go, yeah so, uh, we,we very much appreciate y'all
(30:21):
and everything y'all guys do Idon't even know, just say thank
you, because y'all have been ablessing to us and I know y'all
have been a blessing to othersas well.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
So, uh, they say, we, the dynamic duo, you guys are
the dynamic y'all are thedynamic duo, okay, so yeah, we
said we weren't gonna cry butnow we gotta go yeah, look, we
don't have enough tissue, so I'mgonna break the fourth wall and
say so so so another thing thatwe have.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Uh, I don't know if you meant no, but this is part
one.
This is part one of thisepisode talking with these young
ladies.
So we it's gonna do somethingkind of different they want to
flip the script on us.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
They want to interview us so we will see
y'all for part two yeah uh, anylast words, brie I just want to
say thank y'all, and y'all haveto just understand the enormity
of like what they're doing, andwe're revolutionizing business
businesses all over the world.
Yes, uh, and, as businessowners, if you're going into
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something, if you're trying togrow and expand something, you
need a team around you that'sgoing to be able to say, hey,
this fits here, this goes here,this looks better if you do it
this way, this feels better,this is more authentic.
Whatever that may be, you needthat team and they supply that,
and so that's just the mostimportant part.
You want to make sure thatyou're looking at your business
as like through the full lens.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
And you're looking at your business as a like,
through the full lens, andthat's what they do, and so and
they, help you with it and theyhelp you.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
That's the greatest thing about it.
So I encourage all of youbusiness owners out there please
, please, please, look to have ateam, look to have the
integrator like Tamika talkedabout, and just really want to
grow and expand in a differentlight and basically what she's
saying og llc you, you.
I know some people probably had it hard, but I was
blessed.
They ain't never saw my mom anddad in stress.
They only shows.
They said I'm living comfy fromthe sweat off they bags and
that's why all I ever wanted wasto give it back.
I'm not ashamed because I wasraised right.
I would only be ashamed if Ididn't help you fight through
the pain, help you drain out thegames that your mind played.
(00:22):
No matter what, I'm neverletting my shine fade away,
(00:55):
forever searching.
Outro Music.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Hello everybody and welcome back to the Journey Out
Podcast.
We have an exciting episodehere for you guys.
But you know, here on theJourney Out podcast we're
talking all things healthcare,financial literacy,
entrepreneurship and familyvalues.
But before we get into theepisode, go ahead and be sure to
like, subscribe and share thiswith any and everybody that you
know could benefit from thestuff that we talk about here.
(01:20):
We talk about a lot of goodthings, so we want to make sure
that we get it out to those whoneed it.
Now happening to the episode wehave some really great friends
here.
We have our team from OGLLC inthe building, all right, so we
have Ms Janiah Lake and MsTamika Stembridge, and they are
here to talk about OGLLC and howthey just revolutionized
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businesses all across the world,and so let me give you guys a
little backstory.
Okay, so OGLLC is a consultingfirm co-founded by Janiyah and
Tamika, known respectively asthe Banker and the Lawyer.
Okay, now they leverage theirdiverse experience to support
high-performing leaders andorganizations in scaling,
creating transformational impactand fostering meaningful
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connections with communities ofcolor, and so I just need y'all
to break that down.
Whoever wants to go first?
Janiyah Tameka, whoever breakthat down for us?
How are y'all revolutionizingthese businesses?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well, first thank you .
We are so excited to be herewith y'all.
So I am the banker of this duoand I guess how we revolutionize
business.
Tamika always says we think wecan do anything.
So literally if it's like y'allcome and say we want to go to
the moon, we think we can figureout how to get you to the moon.
(02:39):
Like I promise, there's notsomething that we haven't
encountered and a large part ofit is just from our diverse
backgrounds.
So, I guess we could just kindof share a little bit about our
background.
I'm the banker of this duo andmy background I led branches.
I managed branches, led teamsto where the second half of my
career and I had a 20-yearcareer in banking.
So the second half of my careerI was on the philanthropy side
(03:02):
of it.
Second half of my career I wason the philanthropy side of it
so I did granting of money,managing nonprofits, working on
community issues from theperspective of finance, so
homeownership and underservedcommunities, financial education
and literacy, working with kids.
So I really fell in love withthat half of my career and how
to leverage my expertise inbanking to give back.
(03:23):
And really for me that wasbirthed out of coming from a
large black family in the Southand you know we don't talk about
money.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Right.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
And so seeing how other people did well and even
understanding how they did wellwith nothing.
And so I tried to startunderstanding that gap of like
why did these people come tothis country and talk about that
?
They had $2 to their name andwas able to build and build
(03:52):
family businesses and thingslike that.
But what happened when ourhistory is what it is and we
work as hard as we work, but whyare we always the bottom of
every bad stat?
when it comes to economics andso that's how I ended up meeting
the co-founder that actuallybrought us, or the founder that
brought us together.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
And so that's.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
that's kind of the some of the varied background
that I have, and I let Tamikatell some of her background,
which is why we think we can goto the moon.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Right.
So I'm Tamika, the lawyer ofthe duo.
Moon Right.
So I'm Tamika, the lawyer ofthe duo.
But before becoming a lawyer Iworked in corporate America in
supply chain human resourcesrecruiting, left there, went to
run a nonprofit because I wantedto save the babies.
So I went and did that for alittle while.
I got invited to apply to lawschool because I was either
going to go get an MBA or go geta PhD in Africana studies.
(04:41):
And they were like hey, wethink you might be able to go to
law school.
Would you like to try it?
And I was like all right bet.
So I went to law school tostudy entertainment law, because
that's the only law I caredabout, didn't ever wanted to go
to court, I could do deals allday, went to law school, decided
I would do my MBA while I wasthere.
While I was in law school, I dida stint in fashion.
So I worked with a fashionhouse in New York and then I
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worked in two big firms inPhiladelphia.
And then, when I finished lawschool, I went to a management
company in New York working withsome of the biggest names in
hip hop management.
And then I went for pastoralcare because I was like you know
what I've done, all the thingsthat I've wanted to do.
I'm 31 years old, what else isthere?
So I went to my pastor and he'slike I have something for you to
(05:24):
do.
Come help me out with thisnonprofit.
So I went and started helpinghim with the nonprofit, just as
a client.
I was still running my lawpractice, still traveling on the
road with acts, doing a wholelot of things, and then, two
years into the work, he's like Ineed you to meet this lady.
She is phenomenal, she isamazing care, but that means I
also got a bunch of pastoralcare cases.
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He would just send me everybodyto work on the team.
So Janiyah and I had thisconference call and like we hit
it off and it was good, like shewas super smart, she sounded
good on the phone, we had funand I was like okay, well, let's
just try this out for like 90days Cause.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I don't really know, how this works.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
And literally we've been stuck together ever since.
So, from 2017 up until now, wehave been rocking and rolling,
and then, you know, we did thattogether.
First, I was there for almostnine years, janai was there for
seven, and then, in 2022, wedecided to take our talents on
the road and create OGLLC.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And here we are, wow.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Okay, that's amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
That's amazing.
So what inspired y'all oncey'all got together and y'all
went through the 90 day period?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
and y'all been stuck to the hill in your background.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
So what inspired y'all to uh establish OGLLC?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
So I think the thing.
So we both agreed on the 90days right.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Cause I was a corporate girl Like they'll tell
you.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I wore black suits to everything.
Everybody was like, okay, girl,you don't have to wear suits to
everything, like don't you havesome casual wear?
And I was like this is mycasual wear, what are you?
Talking about I was straightthe banker lady.
And so we both agreed on the 90days because I didn't know how
nonprofit world would be.
I was flipping to a wholenother side.
What we both started goingthrough that seven-year period
(07:01):
was like we just kept gettingaligned, aligned, aligned,
aligned, aligned.
And so it's.
We were not only having greatsuccess growing that nonprofit,
how we seen business was thesame and ran that nonprofit like
a business and, having been onboards and things in the past, I
was able to see very successfulnonprofits.
(07:23):
I was able to see nonprofitsthat really didn't run like a
business and so we thought thesame, we work the same, both of
us are the same.
We do not like group projectsbecause you ain't gonna be
messing up my age Right right.
You know, we don't like.
You know certain ways that wework.
We were the same and so wecomplimented each other so well
and we weren't friends, wedidn't know each other anything,
(07:46):
but we just worked together and, I think, respected each
other's work and we was gettingstuff done, yeah.
And so we started gettingtapped.
We became janiya and tamika, webecame this duo.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You know when everybody would ask for us, they
would ask us together.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Yeah and then we started getting pulled to help
other non-profit leaders.
We started getting put onprojects.
We made national partnershipswith, you know uh, sororities
and fraternities andhomeownership organizations Like
we were really doing things big, but we were helping other
organizations tackle subjectsthat we cared about.
So we were in healthcare,bringing economic empowerment,
(08:20):
tackling health issues andhealth disparities.
We were in homeownership,helping homeownership and
democracy and homeownership withrealtors, and we were bringing
this infrastructure and how wewere going to do this.
And so we just started sayingare we on to something?
here we very much care aboutthese issues and we're able to
(08:41):
lend this expertise, and we hadkind of aligned passion with how
we worked, and so it just wethought we were onto something a
little bit before we even kindof got shoved out there to start
it.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
But yeah it, just and just leaders.
We love our people, we love tosee amazing leaders win and a
lot of times you know Janiyahsays that we've seen the test.
And so in growing the nonprofitthat we worked with from a
philanthropic side, we wereblessed to have huge
philanthropic partners that wereinvesting tons of money into
our nonprofit, which is notnormal in the nonprofit
(09:14):
landscape.
But at the same time, because weran the nonprofit like a
business, we started tounderstand what those
philanthropic organizations werelooking for and we're like, ok,
we've seen this and all theseleaders that are doing amazing
work in the community are nevergoing to see this test, which
means they will never enterthese rooms which means the work
that they're doing will neverget as big as they want it to
get unless somebody helps them.
(09:36):
And so we were like we have todo something about that, and so
we were committed to thatpersonally.
But then you see the same thingon business, and so it was like
all of our experience, all ofwhat we care about, wanting to
see us win Right, and we werelike we just have to do it, and
see what happens, yeah, and soit really you guys' tagline kind
of sums that up like in anutshell so you guys' tagline is
(09:58):
operationalizing genius.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That is, in and of itself, like I don't even know
how y'all came up with that, butthat's exactly what you guys do
, so like elaborate on what thatmeans and like how it
translates into, like actionableI you know, things that your
clients deal with on aday-to-day basis.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
So OG was originally optimized growth.
Okay, and in that optimizing,well, how do you optimize it?
It's operations, it'sinfrastructure, it's process,
it's taking your big visions andchunking it out.
So when Janiyah says, we cantake you to the moon if you
decide that's your goal, theoperations is what's going to
help you get there.
And so we say we work a lotwith visionary leaders, big
(10:38):
picture thinkers that literallywant to go to the moon, and the
work that we do is helping youto chunk that out, phase it out,
step it out so that one you'regoing to get to the moon, but
also you can keep going to themoon.
Right, and you can have a teamthat you want to go to the moon.
And if you don't think aboutyour work in that way, one
you're always going to be stuckbeing the person doing it, and
then nobody can come behind youto repeat the pattern.
(10:59):
And so we want sustainableimpact, sustainable success, and
so we help you tooperationalize those ideas so
that they can keep going andgrowing over time.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
How do you get visionaries when they have this
big idea and I guess, let me saythis, and they, they want to go
.
We know this, they want to goand they, they ready, and they
were like yeah how do you pacethem?
And how do you get them Ifthey're always on the go and you
(11:30):
pace them, but how do you getthem to follow that pace?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Right and, like you said, skill for sustainability.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
How do you, how do you do that?
Speaker 5 (11:38):
I would say some of it is tapping into that
visionary energy and so we haveto.
If we can concretize the planand give you the plan, sometimes
that's enough to calm thevision down, because now you can
see it Like, okay, bet, I seestep A.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
B, c, D and.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
E, then we can go forward and then giving you
successes along the way.
So it's like, okay, this ismilestone one, we do that.
Okay, bet, we're on the rightpath.
But then also catching theideas.
We consider ourselves for ourbest clients.
We are your backstage partner,so when the idea comes, give it
to us, let us figure out whereto put it.
Don't stop thinking.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Don't stop being the visionary.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Give us the things so we can figure out where to put
it, so that you don't lose it.
Because that's the beauty ofvisionaries You're always
thinking big Right.
The challenge is visionarieswill keep visioning and leave
everybody behind.
Right Right, and so if we canshow you success along the way,
then the visionary staysencouraged, but also you see
things progressing Right and youalso have a place to catch the
new visions, because the moregets done, the more you want to
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do.
So it's kind of a give and takeprocess.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
And kind of a give and take process, right, and I
think it just speaks to like thecore of what you're saying,
because at the same time, likewe talked about being
visionaries, I'm sitting besideone of them Right and the way
his mind works is like oh, wecan do this, we can help these
people in this way, we can dothis, we can do this, we can do
this.
And what kind of sometimes canget stuck in the back of our
heads is we know we have to doit, we know we can set it up,
but how, it's the how, and youguys always come with the how,
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you guys come with the how, thewhy, and this goes in this
bucket, this goes in this bucketand it's just set up.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
You guys pretty much, I guess.
Read our minds.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, pretty much.
I think there's this trust thathas to happen too.
I think there's this trust thathas to happen too.
Yeah, because visionaries don'ttrust people to bring their
visions to life, and so I thinktwo things that we do well is we
move at a fast pace.
We really do Like we move withy'all at y'all's pace.
There are some people we haveto be very careful not to
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outpace them, because we havekind of two of these big brains
over here and we can just clipthings along, and so one.
I think that first, that trusthas to be built, that people
entrust us with their vision andthey entrust us to bring their
vision to light how they would.
Because we are big onauthenticity, like we want
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people to show up authenticallywith their people in their
marketplace and bring theirvision to light, how they see it
, in a really excellent way.
And so I think that trust hasto be built first because, like
y'all, where you have clientsand you become family with them-
we become family with ourclients, and that's where we all
do our best work and magic iscreated.
(14:16):
So I think that trust first andthen being able to, as she said,
have milestones, but then alsoappropriate places, but that
trust allows us also to be likethis isn't the goal you set for
yourself.
We can absolutely do this bigvision, but it moves but you
remember January.
This was our goal, so let's makesure.
(14:38):
And so there's this trust youalso build in being able to kind
of say let's place this overhere, let's pin it, let's make
sure we'll get to it.
But it is the landing place forthe visions, because the
visionary has to constantly befeeling like I see and want to
solve these issues, and we neverwant to stifle that.
We always want to appropriatelyplace it and keep them inspired
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.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I'm Janiyah, I'm Tamika and we are OG LLC, a
consulting firm, and weoperationalize genius.
Learn more at wwwweareogllccom.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
And so let's dig into the trust part a little deeper,
because not only is it buildingtrust between you and your
client like you're figuring outtheir ideas and who they are and
kind of trying to put that out,but one thing that you guys do
amazing, like you're so amazingit's also building that
meaningful connection betweenyour client and who they're
trying to target.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
So, cause, cause, honestly, uh, just for me an
example I'm, I'm private right,so to share and open up and talk
about things that I don't know,and not being afraid to say,
hey, I don't know this or thisis where I'm at.
You guys take that in and say,okay, hey, this is where you're
(15:51):
trying to get.
We have a piece to this puzzle.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
How do you expound?
On creating those meaningfulconnections both ways.
You know client to client, butalso like client to our target
audience as well.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I think it goes back to the authenticity.
So we know you all intimatelyfrom a professional standpoint,
a lot of times from a personalstandpoint, understanding your
goals and figuring out thecommunities you intend to serve
and helping you to show up inthe most authentic way for that
community.
Because the thing is, you knowwe all can shape shift, but
people notice that, and so thereality is, if you guys want to
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show up as the journey outpodcast or you want to show up
as PC home, however you want toshow up, our goal is to help
create an experience in anenvironment so that you can show
up that way for the community.
We have some clients that aresuper corporate.
They're doctors, they're.
You know they don't necessarilythey're not going to do it the
same way you do it, but theyhave great intentions for the
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people they intend to serve.
We create experiences andopportunities that align with
how you want to show up and whatyou want to serve people with,
and we've done it a milliondifferent ways.
We go from conferences tointimate one-on-one scenarios.
You want to host a 5k?
We can do that.
You want to go host a party?
We can do that.
Um and again, we're not eventplanners, but really
strategically figuring out howyou get to the people that you
(17:10):
want to get to and how you'regoing to have impact, not just
getting in front of them, butgetting to and through them the
way you want.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Right, and that's the impact right there.
I think that's, I think that'swhat just sets you, you all,
apart, because it's buildingthat experience, not, it makes
it not cookie cutter.
You you know what I mean,because anybody can have any and
everybody can have a podcast.
It's the experience that youbring to the person listening
that sets the tone, and so it'snot the same for each, for each
(17:37):
one, and it's not.
You guys, don't go in it withthat same thought process of
we're going to do this like, doit like this, because it worked
like this for homeboy, and soit's just work for homeboy, it's
going to work for you, right,and it's not that personality.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
So the fun thing I was going to say.
The fun thing about our work isthat we have a process.
Like there is a process.
The beauty is as fast as ourminds work.
We literally go from you all toa different client, like in any
given day our minds are on amillion different things, and
part of that is exciting andexhausting at the same time, but
we know that's how we have toshow up, because every client is
(18:10):
different.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
And I think the thing , too, is like having the varied
background, right.
So we've been in supercorporate spaces.
You have to show up in a blacksuit all the time, you know.
Um, I think, not only justtrying to find ourself through
our careers.
We believe in people like.
We really really believe inpeople that are trying to do
(18:31):
things.
I think this is why we'reparticular about who we work
with, right, because we can'twork with somebody that we don't
connect with them, and believethe work that they're doing
right and so that helps us toconnect with them in ways that,
when we learn them, we can helpthem navigate.
But having the backgrounds thatwe have and having to also
navigate our own authenticity,in these spaces.
(18:53):
We have also a really greatnetwork of people that we have a
great reputation with, and theyknow us in that way.
So, when we do make thoseconnections, like you say, we've
likely been in rooms like that,we likely.
But we want to position peoplethat are able to be their very
best, cause we see that bestthat they're trying to
(19:14):
accomplish, and then some of thebeauty of the work that we do,
because we care about theleaders and care about their
work.
We we see this ripple effectright so like if we can help you
all do the work you're doing,look at who all you're taking
care of and and amplifying thatwork right.
And the same thing with likewhen people are working on.
I mean, we have everything fromyou know dementia, alzheimer's
(19:35):
to anti-violence, to you knowcaring for family.
But it's this ripple effectthat if we can pour into those
leaders and they can continue topour into their community and
they continue to mentor andbring up people like we have,
this, like that's the purpose, Ithink that we got attached to
is being
Speaker 1 (19:52):
able to do that.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
I don't think I got to say these young ladies are
awesome.
I want to put that out thereright now.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They're awesome, I want to put that out there right
now.
They're awesome.
So, with everyone that you havehelped and you continue to help
on a day-to-day basis, what aresome innovative practices that
you believe are essential forbusinesses aiming to like,
revolutionize their, theirbusiness, to grow and become
like those dynamo companies?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Interestingly enough, we start all of our work with
the biggest vision you have.
So, yes, we work withvisionaries and y'all have big
ideas, but we stretch you evenfurther, like what is the
ultimate goal for you, and if wecan understand that, that helps
us craft the process becauseyou may come to us for a
discrete thing and we're likeokay, well, give us some context
, where does this fit in yourlarger vision?
(20:39):
And once we can get you to that,then it helps us to lay things
out, because then we're not justthinking about that specific
project.
It's how that project becomes apuzzle piece into whatever the
next thing is.
And I think that's theinnovative practice that, even
if you are a visionary leader,pull it all the way back to see
how that fits into your largervision and then we can start to
operationalize from there.
(21:00):
That way you're not repeatingthings.
That way you build it in a waythat it's going to fit into that
bigger vision.
And even if it's a spinoffproject that may not seem
related, there's always a way totie it in because you as the
visionary are at the core.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Right, right.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
So, with that, with that being said, and y'all uh
put things in place for thatvisionary to succeed or hit that
milestone that they want to hit.
How do you measure success whenyou're helping someone?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
This is where the banker and the lawyer kicks in
If y'all see our stuff.
We have the data a graph and thething is part of us accepting
our visionary capability.
It's that when people startsharing their big dream with us,
I literally, and she literally,we start to see the path and
(21:49):
the outline to it.
Right yeah, knowing how datamatters, knowing how these
issues matter in communities,knowing how, what we're trying
to accomplish, you start to seethe path like almost like
stepping stones, and so it justwill click.
It just will click and we'llstart to see it.
(22:10):
And sometimes I have to likesketch it out or draw it, but we
don't do anything without aplan.
We're probably the most briefedpaper driven two people y'all
will ever meet.
Like I got old school filecabinets and went and got my old
school like loan files to keeptrack of all of my stuff.
And we were laughing at aretreat this weekend, we did a
(22:33):
training this weekend and wewere giving them their report
back of the summary of what wedid to their staff and I had
mine, highlighted a number.
She was laughing because Ineeded to know the numbers of
what this percentage was andeverything but like that's just
the banker and the lawyer, andso everybody that works with us
is not that we're all sittingaround having pipe dreams and
like, yeah, we're all trying tobe on the moon.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
It's like did this happen Right?
How much did it cost?
How much did we make?
How many people did we impact?
What changed about those people?
Right, we're very much datadriven in that way and not to
say that everything has to becounted Right, but how else do
you measure success?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Right.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
You know, you look at your bank account to see if
you're being successful.
You look at how many never knowif you're successful.
And so, again, it's growth.
And that's what we said.
We're here to grow.
You scale, you, sustain you.
How much more runway do youhave, how much more money do you
have?
And so there's always a datapoint.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Right, okay.
So, with that being said, whatwould be some advice you would
want to offer to some emergingvisionaries who just want to
make like transformationalimpact in their community?
What would be some advice youwould want to give them to get
them started and to get themgoing?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Probably some first advice I have is, like one of
the things that I see is peoplereally are hard on themselves
about what they're trying toaccomplish, or even if they have
core capabilities that they cando the things, but we try to
tackle it all right.
So entrepreneurship we arestarring in our own movies,
writing our own movies producingour own movies, directing our
(24:09):
own movies.
You're doing all the things.
There does become a moment thatwhen you start to we start to
help them, see them stretchthemselves out.
You have to be gentle withyourself, that you, that's not
like I can do, that, I'm notinspired each day when I wake up
and do that, and so sometimeswe'll end up talking to people
like it's not bad to have growthand outgrow spaces, and so you
(24:34):
have to.
It's a way, and sometimes we'llsee people beat themselves up
about what they're not eitherable to get done or I couldn't
accomplish this.
What they're not either able toget done or I couldn't
accomplish this, or they'rehaving that moment of when
you're taking on everything andthey're hard on themselves
because they just and they'llburn themselves out.
And so even with nonprofits, youknow when, when it's that
(24:55):
growth moment, there is thatmoment that we're like stretch
it out you know, stretch it out,give it to someone else and
stay where you can, as much asyou can, of what inspires you,
cause that's your gifts, right.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Not what you can do.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
You can do everything you can do likely, but as much
as you can start thinking aboutbuilding your team and thinking
giving away things or lettingpeople help you letting people
delegate.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Yes, yes, yeah, and I would say yeah.
I would say, in addition tothat, like it's, it's the
concretizing of what Janaya justsaid find your integrator Every
strong leader in any field thatthey're in.
They may not call it anintegrator.
It's your number two, it's yoursecond, it's your Tamika and
Janaya that are going to run theplay for you.
Most visionaries, they have theidea no-transcript.
(26:08):
There's a reason that you gotthe gift, but you may not be the
person to fully run the playright and so be comfortable
allowing other people to step inand do that I love
Speaker 3 (26:15):
that I love that.
So good information yeah frombeginning to end of y'all
journey to this point.
Right now, right, reflect onwhat has been the most rewarding
thing of OG LLC.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
So there's two things for me.
Externally, I would saywatching our clients grow and
actually achieve their visions,like we.
Yes, we do our part to help youguys make those things happen,
but you go out and do it.
The confidence is there, theability to execute is there.
You go out and do the things.
Their wins are our wins.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
We take pride in it, Like we sit there like proud
mama, like oh my God, they didit.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
On the flip side of it, I would say watching us grow
as entrepreneurs, like havingthe varied backgrounds that
we've had.
Entrepreneurship is a journeyunlike no other.
If you have not had faith, youwill gain it on this journey,
and so just watching us grow asentrepreneurs and be confident
in what we originally thoughtfor this business and watch it
(27:20):
grow every single day and showup for it every single day, like
when we started this, I wasnine months pregnant oh my
goodness.
I delivered a baby on january19th and I was back on a
conference call january 26th,like we have been in it every
single day for the last threeyears, and so that's a lot of
stick to it, or this yeah, butwe believe so much in the work
(27:40):
that we're doing right that youguys help our vision come to
life, for how we wanted to showup for people right, and so I
think that's been the mostinspiring part of this what
about you?
Speaker 4 (27:51):
you know um, I would agree.
I think that when we see ourclients win, it is, it is the
moment, because we don't want toever be the one that does it,
we want to like.
I always say this we want toteach people to fish, like
that's our goal in that kind ofripple effect moment.
(28:11):
And if we can just continue todo that, I would say internally
as well.
Again, I said Tamika and I werenot friends before working
(28:33):
together.
I believe you can becomefriends if you work together,
not the vice versa.
It's hard to be friends and thengo and try to get work done
right.
It's easier to be work friendsand then expand your friendship.
So we've become family, yeah,and walking this test of
entrepreneurship.
But like we've had so muchgrowth in our friendship and
(28:56):
becoming family and our personaljourneys, like I wouldn't do it
with anybody else in the world.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So not at all and then I won't get no tissue,
because, but like I would saythat's the biggest reward is
doing it with this person yeah,I'll add this to like for us the
biggest reward and I think Ican speak for you too on this
the biggest reward for us, evenbeing with you guys do every
(29:23):
week and look, don't get, don'tget me started, but it can make
me some tissue.
But for real, like, yeah, youall, what you say, you do, you
do but, you do it like times amillion right and y'all.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I don't think y'all really understand the impact
that y'all have for sure umespecially us in our lives and
how y'all helped us.
I mean talking to you, you guys, I can today can be going wrong
or whatever, but I'm likelisten, I know I'm gonna be on
the phone with them and we'regonna get and it's gonna be a
(29:56):
conversation and y'all alwaysask, okay, what do we need to
know about?
and then we probably start goingover a lot of other things and
then y'all, then y'all startsaying okay, y'all start putting
pieces together, all right,when I see y'all writing yeah,
there they go, yeah so, uh, we,we very much appreciate y'all
(30:21):
and everything y'all guys do Idon't even know, just say thank
you, because y'all have been ablessing to us and I know y'all
have been a blessing to othersas well.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
So, uh, they say, we, the dynamic duo, you guys are
the dynamic y'all are thedynamic duo, okay, so yeah, we
said we weren't gonna cry butnow we gotta go yeah, look, we
don't have enough tissue, so I'mgonna break the fourth wall and
say so so so another thing thatwe have.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Uh, I don't know if you meant no, but this is part
one.
This is part one of thisepisode talking with these young
ladies.
So we it's gonna do somethingkind of different they want to
flip the script on us.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
They want to interview us so we will see
y'all for part two yeah uh, anylast words, brie I just want to
say thank y'all, and y'all haveto just understand the enormity
of like what they're doing, andwe're revolutionizing business
businesses all over the world.
Yes, uh, and, as businessowners, if you're going into
(31:21):
something, if you're trying togrow and expand something, you
need a team around you that'sgoing to be able to say, hey,
this fits here, this goes here,this looks better if you do it
this way, this feels better,this is more authentic.
Whatever that may be, you needthat team and they supply that,
and so that's just the mostimportant part.
You want to make sure thatyou're looking at your business
as like through the full lens.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
And you're looking at your business as a like,
through the full lens, andthat's what they do, and so and
they, help you with it and theyhelp you.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
That's the greatest thing about it.
So I encourage all of youbusiness owners out there please
, please, please, look to have ateam, look to have the
integrator like Tamika talkedabout, and just really want to
grow and expand in a differentlight and basically what she's
saying og llc you, you.
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