SERVICE_ LEADERSHIP_ AND LEGACY_ THE CHRIS V_ REY STORY

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The Kim Jacob Show, where we are bringing balance to
the world, one household at a time. And guess what today,
y'all are in for a serious treat. When I say
a serious treat, you're talking about a man that's making
waves throughout the whole world. He is bringing some significant
fight to the universe. It is Chris the Ray and

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I'm excited to have you here today. How are you today,
President Chris Ray?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm good. I'm good. I love the I love the
bringing the fire. I'm bringing fire and bringing waves.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Thank you. That's really it is a good thing because
a lot of times people are really trying to make impact,
but really are we being as impactful as we think
we're being, right, And at the end of the day,
you're you're actually walking the walk and talking the talk
and making a difference in a lot of people's lives.

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So I'm really glad to have you here today.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Thank you. I really appreciate it. Amasis gives me a
chance to take a break.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Oh okay, that's a good time, everybody, you're not disturbed
right now, I'm on this good show.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
The Kip Jacobs Show.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Right that part, that part.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
That part right there. Listen, everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I want to make sure as I introduce my special guest.
It is a long so I'm not going to say
every piece of the bio, but I do want to
let you all know that Christy Ray was born in
Saint Thomas, Us, Virgin Islands, and has spent formidable years
in Spring Lake, North Carolina. He graduated from high school

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as a track and field All American, attended East Carolina
University on a full athletic scholarship and as a student leader.
He was known for taking the initiative of addressing racial
inequality at a young age, y'all. So this started early on.
He's often recognized by university leaders for working to make
the campus a more open and diverse, epic center of learning.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
And he has had military experience, you name it.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
He studied with William and Mary's School of Law. He's
been elected as the youngest member of the Virginia delegation
to the United States Electoral College. And I'm skipping through,
but I'm telling you. He has been elected as the
thirty sixth International President of Phive Beta Sigma Eternity, Incorporated.
And he has also been tapped by the Board of

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Trustees of Barber Scotia College as the twentieth president to
lead the resurgence of one of America's oldest historical black colleges.
And he's also somebody daddy, y'all. So he is definitely
a family man. Also, so glad to have you here,
Chris v Ray.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
Thank you, thank you so very much.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Yeah, you know, whenever whenever someone says all of those things,
and I hear it whenever I'm around or speaking, or
whenever I'm being introduced, you know, I really sit back.
Sometimes I say, man, all god, ah God, I don't
say I mean that nothing but God, and just thank you,

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just thank you.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
I'm glad to be here.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
I see the work that you're doing and telling these stories,
and I love I love the conversations around balance in life,
and you know, it's it's not easy. It is absolutely
not easy. So just a different that you're doing it matters.
So thank you, thank.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
You, thank you. Okay, so now we've done all of
our I love you, love you, love you back, love you,
like all of that. We're going to get into some
conversation here because it's so much and it's a robust
discussion that we can have. But I wanted to kind
of start with the fact that your upbringing really probably
helped shape the man and the leader that you are today.

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So if you could just take us back on where
it all began for you, back in Saint Thomas and
then Spring Lake as well.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah, So my grandmother raised me. My grandmother raised me.
My mom left me with my grandmother. I was like
four months old or five months old, and I was
with her very very early, and I was with her
until I walked out of her house at eighteen years
old to go to college. And my grandmother had eight kids,

(04:58):
so I like to think that I was her ninth child. Uh,
she treated me as such. She had six boys, two girls,
and and uh just add me into the mix, and
as they say, the rest is history.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
But my grandmother played no games, was very very serious.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
She had a lot of practice with her own kids,
and so by the time she got to me, she
knew what to say and what to do and how
to you know, throw up that backhand if you need be.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
And she was just an amazing human.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
She gave me my grounding in my faith, you know,
of course being in the church and growing up and
understanding that that's the base.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
But then I also saw her heart of service.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Uh. My great grandmother, her mother, my grandmother, was her
caregiver in her latter years of her life, and so
I was a part of that. You know, my great
grandmother had she had Alzheimer's, so but she was bed ridden.
So it was so you know, we were able to
It wasn't as difficult as someone who's able to move

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around who have a memory loss. But there were a
lot of things that we had to do for my
great grandmother in her last in her latter years, and
so that required that you had to have a harder
service to do it because, as all of us may
have you know, we have family members, and some family
members don't want that responsibility of the engaging parent, that's

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just truth. But my grandmother took that on. But I
also saw my grandmother step up for her kids, the
ones who the ones who did was doing well and
those who weren't doing well. She you know, So I
just was an observer of seeing her heart of service.
And I think that that, you know, when I think
back to my life and when people say, well, why,
you know, why do you have such a big heart,

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why do you do so much?

Speaker 4 (06:51):
That was my example, my first example.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
So wow, And you know, I'm interested in knowing because
I had the opportunity of having some time with my
great grandmother, and I believe that that.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Really helped shape who I am today as well. Chris.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
And so I wonder with you having that experience of
watching your grandmother care for your great grandmother, which meant
that both your grandmother and your great grandmother were alive
under your while you've been here on this earth, and
you had the blessing of spending that quality time, What
was that like for you?

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Because I would like to hear your taking.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
A man well, you know, as a you know, as
a male, right and growing up in a home full
of women.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
I will tell you that it was I learned a
lot about women.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
I learned a lot about the challenges that they that
they were experiencing. I mean, you had to think, my
grandmother was born in the thirties, and so my great
grandmother well, of course was born, you know, in the
early nineteen hundreds or like writing about eighteen ninety nine,
you know, very time, nineteen oh four, I think is

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where my grandmother was born. My great grandmother was born,
and so you know, so you know, we have these stories, right,
and and and just you know, a lot of wisdom,
you know. I used to love the saying that my
great grandmother used to tell me, you know more, I
don't forgot more than you'll ever learn, right and she
you know, and she ain't never lied. But then it

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was the sense of connection with the family and the
importance of connecting.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
And passing down and.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
You know, but then there was the lessons of someone
in the family got to get it right so that
we can change the trajectory of the family, you know.
And so that was always a messaging because you know,
I had a couple of uncles. They didn't do what
they were supposed to do, right, and so that means
that the family was stuck. And so it didn't come

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until until I came along. And you know, it was
one of the first ones to go to college and
the family to kind of really move the needle. And
then there was my you know, my my my uncle
who's not a three star general, who was my grandmother's
last son, who really just took it to a whole
other level of engagement. But you know, those women poured

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inside of me more than I could, you know. And
of course when you're in when you're in the midst
of it, you don't realize right until later on. And
but it was watching how they navigated life and and
and and and and knew what the limitations were, but

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understood that we could still push the boundaries of those
limitations if you just if you just believe. And and
so that's why I got this whole theme about believing
and believing in what could be next, believing in what
is possible, believing in the you know, those those.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Women, man, they were they were they were amazing.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
And so that helped you, because you went on to
wear a lot of different hats. So though that base
of the leadership and just having that good foundation probably
helped catapult you into some of the other areas that
you decided to say, there are no limits to what
I can do. Oh yes, because in my opinion, based
on what I was reading and learning about you is

(10:17):
You've been an athlete, a soldier, You've been a lawyer,
a mayor, now president of Barbara Scotia College. So I
would like to know how you feel their leadership has
been able to help mold you into into shape you
into who you are today. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
So my grandmother, my grandmother used to tell me stories
about my great grandmother, how she used, how she was
the So we grew up in was you know, from
the Caribbean, So we uh my grandmother's uh and my
great grandmother we're from an island called Anguilla, Okay in
the Caribbean, right, And so she was telling me stories
about how uh and not just her, but other people

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in the family was talking about how smart my great
grandmother was and she would be the person that people
would come to on the island to make a decision,
like she was like like.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Solomon, right, like, this is happening? What do you think?

Speaker 3 (11:15):
And she would give advice or I mean she said
that people would come from all over the island for
her to arbitrate things for them because of just the
way her mind worked. She was the first woman to
drive a car on the island, right, just my great grandmother,
first woman to drive a car on the island. So,
you know, so there was this, there was this belief

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that you know, really we can do we.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Can do things right, we can make things happen.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
And she was able to.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Put that inside of me as a as a as
a seed. And of course, you know so cliche, Chris.
You could be anything you put your mind to. You
know that all the time. But I messed around and
actually believed it. I messed around and believed it. Uh,
And so at some point in my life I realized that,

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oh man, if I really put my mind to anything,
I can really, I can really do anything that I
want to do. And I and if you do it
well enough, people will give you the opportunity to either
keep on doing it or do something else.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
And that is exactly what has happened for me.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
But it was those stories of her and then my grandmother.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
You know, this was an amazing woman.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Who ended up and in her end of her years,
I mean she ended up raising eight children basically really
on her own, right.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, you know you go up in the mix, right
and and and.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
It took leadership, you know, to continue to run that household,
to show up for her kids, to address the issues
of the day, even though she was walking that road
by herself. Right, I just got a I got a
different found respect for her and that strength that it
takes to be able to do that.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Right.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
That's so when you you know, so, I always admire
women who you know, who don't allow life to even
though life be life and they don't let life life
do That's.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Good, right, Yeah, y'all y'all should be typing some of
these things in the common section, just because life be
life and don't let life life you. That's right, Come on,
that is profound, Yeah, because life really does be lifeing.
But when you have the opportunity to see this beautiful
island that you're beautiful island, and imagine there are a

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lot of people there, but your grandmother, you said, your
grand grandmother was the person that started driving a car.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, she was the first. She was the first woman
to drive a car on the island of Anguilla.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, that is and that's Anguilla, y'all. I just I
found that picture.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
I was like that that right there speaks volumes when
you're able to put a picture to what you're saying,
because it could have been anybody else that was a
trailblazer in that situation, but.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Here she was and it was her, and so she
he was this you know that my grandmother used to
always say, even my great grandmother said that if she
had opportunities in life, she would have been a lawyer
because she you know, she just had that mind. And
then her husband, he was a businessman, right, owned a
lot of property, bought a lot of the property on
the island. So for a very long time, my family

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was very influential on the island. Real estate was a
big deal for us. And uh, and everyone knew, you know,
the websters, that that's that's our family's name and uh.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
And so I believe that that's where the mindset of.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Being a business person came from, right because I I
knew that there were examples out there of folks in
the family.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
And he he had passed away, he got struck by lightning.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Ironically, my great grandfather did and had got struck by lightning.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
And but he was a he was a scion of
a businessman.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Uh, And everyone knew who he was on the on
the island and just was huge business figure. And so
I like to think that some of those traits, you know,
I'm carrying on, uh, you know, in the what I've
done as far as you know, as how I've moved
in life thus far.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Now, all of the all of the different roles that
you have held in great leadership, which one would you
say you enjoyed the most? I know that's a good one, right, Oh, no,
say that they all have a special place. You're gonna
say that, I know have a special.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Place, you know, like you know on the political side, right,
I mean, if I ever ran for public office again,
I don't think that I will always love being being
the mayor, right because when you're the mayor, you are
the closest to the people. And if if if a

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citizen calls and says you know him, you know, and
I remember stories, you know distinctly. Uh, the garbage truck
had picked up this lady's trash can, and when they
put it down, they crushed it or something like that,
and she devastated. She called me, you know, call the
mayor uh and I said, don't worry, we got you.

(16:14):
And they went and delivered her, uh, you know, a
new can. And she called back and she said, thank you, mayor.
We appreciate it so much. You know, like that's the
closest the people. When you start moving up the chain,
you know, and then you're in the legislature, you know,
you gotta wait for the bill to pass, and you
gotta figure out what you're gonna do, who you're gonna
you know, what you're gonna come, you know, all before
you before the policy eventually trickles down to impact the

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people that you need, right and that and I mean,
and even though we've had some amazing legislators throughout history
that have you know, the person who came up with
Social Security, Medicare, Medicare you know, thank you, thank you
for those individuals that with programs that have helped millions
of people.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Uh, But that lady needed her trash can fix right
then and there.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Bottom line, I need this kind of help the way
I need this kind of her.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
It's just so I love I loved being the mayor
in that regard, and of course, you know, being in
the national president five minutes stigma had its had its thing.
And and now I'm I'm learning I love being in
the military. I mean, it was a whole nother that
was the whole of the world, home of the life
that I lived. And then taking soldiers to war and

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bringing them all back safely and you know it just
back here.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
That was a great day when I when I turned
in all my stuff at C I.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
S And and was like, this is it. I am retiring.
I was like, I have done. But I loved that
time period of my life. And you know it was
you know, and now this whole new.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Role as being the president of a.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
College, It's like everything that I've done has prepared me
for this moment. Everything everything, let me.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Let me, I know, I just interrupted ahead finished up everything. No,
the reason I'm asking is because I'm wondering if everything,
as it was happening along your journey, was it, really,
in your opinion, preparing you for where you are today?

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh my god, No, No, I didn't even this wasn't
even on my things to do list. It wasn't even
on my This was not on my things to do list, right. Uh,
you know, I would say, you know, I I no,
I would, I wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (18:26):
I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say that.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Well, one time, a long time ago, I thought about
a college presidency.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
But you know, it was just one of those.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
Like ha, that will never happen. But you know, I
think I said, well, I said I could run a
college if that you know. You know, but it wasn't
like this was a master plan that was hatched in
the halls of power. Uh, you know to one day
that I would No, it was I was not thinking
about being the mayor, I mean, being the being a

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college president.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
And I just remember one time there was a there
was an opening.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
At an HBCU and I was like, you know, I
was like, I would, I wouldn't mind. I should apply,
you know, I would, you know, But that was years ago,
and you know I wasn't even you know, and then
you know, but I will say now when I look
back on my life, right and all the things that

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encompasses what this college.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Needs in its current state, Yes, you need it.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
You need someone who has government experience because we have
issues and challenges with the government and I have relationships
that to be able to navigate through this. Yes, we
have some legal things that we need to address, and
so having a legal mind helps in that regard. Yes,
having a business background mattered because you know, there's a
lot of business opportunities and deals that we have to

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connect when you're talking about building a company. And Yes,
being in the military was the right thing to do
because the military decision making process has allowed me to
build an organization to be able to secute a mission
that I know that so many people before me have
attempted to do but just couldn't put the building pieces together.
It all came together based off of, you know, my

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background in time for the college.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
That's interesting because then basically you're pulling bits and pieces
from each piece of your journey that makes you even
more effective and more efficient and even a better leader
as a result of your discipline. You're knowing how to
lead people because of your being a mayor all of
these things.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Having run this race and make sure we really run
in there.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
And so I always say to people, you know, when
you think about where you are in your life right
now and you're like, this is a mess, there is
blessings in the mess. Actually a lot of people don't
realize that because it's within the mess, right you are,

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that you are learning about yourself, your strength, your depth,
your you know or your or your inability to deal
with certain things. It's in your mess that you are
able to look at other people and look at their
characteristics and what they're all about. It's in your mess
that your eyes are actually the most wide open because

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it's about survival. And so when you're when you're surviving,
you you look like you know that when you're in
your mess. But because when you're in the blessing state
and the blessings are happening, you know, you kind of
like you know, you know, I'm good, I'm you know,
you know, just I'm not paying attention to what's going
on because you're being blessed and the blessings are allowing
you to do your things.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
So it's in your mess that.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
You know you're you're you're getting forged for whatever it
is that actually is the true assignment.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
That's good, that's good, and so anybody it sounds like
in my opinion and hearing your story because it's not
so necessary orchestrated. And this was my major plan. Anybody
can have the ability to dream. Oh, so, what what
advice would you give someone that may be watching today

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that's like, I don't know where I'm going in life?

Speaker 4 (22:14):
What direction?

Speaker 1 (22:16):
What advice would you give them?

Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yeah, you know, because number one, we've all been there
right questioning the road, questioning this road that we're on,
you know. Number one, I would I tell I tell
my mentees this, and I tell anyone who will listen.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
First of all, you got to stay on the road.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
You know, it's.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
Easy to get off the road.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
I'm typing that stay on the road, somebody type.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, it's easy to get off the road. It's easy
to say, you know what, I'm gonna pull over right here.
I'm just gonna sit right here. Whatever will be will
be right. But you got to stay on the road,
and you got to keep moving forward because you literally
do not know what's over the horizon if you don't
keep moving forward.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
So had I had I had I have stopped.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Had I stopped when the first major disappointment came in
my life.

Speaker 4 (23:06):
I wouldn't be on that.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
I wouldn't be on here with you right now, right
because I still be on the side of.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
The road back in that chapter of my life.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
And so my always my advice to folks is is
you got to keep moving. You got to keep moving forward,
uh and and allow the and and allow the process
to take to take shape.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Man, if you just.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Don't give up. Man, if you just don't give up,
the journey would be more extraordinary than you can imagine.
It's just that we allow life to beat us up
so much, and we allow so many outside influences to

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dictate our emotional capacity. You know what they think about me,
what they're hearing about me. You know how I got
to know. You know, you're you're more concerned about someone
who's literally in their own mess, thinking about they concerned
about your mess. They're literally worrying about your mess right
now because they don't want to think about their mess.

(24:12):
Right But you have made all these moves in your life,
You made all these moves in your life to appease
of somebody else who's literally going through some of their
own mess.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
You just can't see it.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
You know, I just that's why you gotta you just
gotta keep moving forward. So you know when I sit,
when I sit here today and I tell you I
don't worry about what people say about me when I say,
I give zero cares.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
What I do care about is making sure that I
am constantly moving towards the mark of where I.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Know that God is.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
You know where God has and I don't know where
He's gonna take me. You know, people, everybody has all
these big dreams for me. You know, I don't know
where I'm going.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
But what I do maig dreams for you too, President
Chris v Ray. Everybody's cheering you on behind the scenes,
even whether you know them personally or not. I know,
I had the opportunity of meeting you at Bishop jen
Wright's church when you spoke and I sat beside you,
I was like, this, right here is a special young man.
I don't know how young you are.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
I feel like, listen, you know, I feel like the
older I get, the younger I get, because every time
I tell someone baby, oh, you're just a baby, I'm like,
wait a minute now, I mean, I ain't fit the yeah,
but I'm almost there.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
I'm almost There'll be like, but I'm proud of you,
and even even in not even knowing you at that level,
just the if anybody's ever in your presence and this
is what I'll say to everybody. If you ever get
the opportunity to be in Chris v Ray's presence, you're
going to feel a connection as if you are his

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best friend and he.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Doesn't even know you.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
That's a big deal for somebody to feel like that
when they're just sitting next to you in a moment
in time.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
That's the God in me.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
That is God. And I don't want to apologetic.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
You know, everybody, I love God because I know I'm
here because of God.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
I don't care all the crazy stuff I've done in
my life or whatever I've gone through.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
And I went back and I repent, and I said, Lord,
I need to do better.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
I gotta get pleased.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Don't let don't leave me have a side of the road.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
That's God. That's a God in me, that.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
God in you.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
And when you recognize that you are not your own
that changes everything. As far as every role that you're in,
you act very differently because you're not representing yourself.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
Huh that part?

Speaker 1 (26:37):
That part?

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Okay, Okay, well we go, We're gonna.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Keep on moving. I feel like, you know what, I
really wanted people to get a chance to know you.
We always know about a person's titles and what they
do in the earth, but what about the person that's
behind all of the titles. So that's really what I
wanted this opportunity bus to have our discussion. You can
come back on to Kim Jacobs Show and talk about
any any area of life that you choose. But I

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really wanted people to just unmask Chris v Ray today.
That's really what I wanted.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Okay, you know I'm unmasked.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
You're doing it. You're doing it, listen.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
I think also it's important to just talk from the
perspective of when you're balancing all of the roles and
roles and responsibilities, you have some some people behind the
scenes that's also under the iceberg pushing you up. And
I believe that that is family. So feel free to
just talk about from whatever angle you'd like about how
important it is to have family, faith and leadership. Can

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I emerge it together?

Speaker 3 (27:38):
You know, I will tell you number one, it's not easy.
Right when you truly have been tapped to lead people,
it is truly a sacrifice. And you know you're your

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partner has to understand, Uh, your family got to understand,
and it's not and it's not because it's something that oh,
you could stop if you want to. It's this is
me breathing. That's right, this is me breathing. This is

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this is the air I'm breathing. This is this is
this is the God that's in me that I said,
this is your assignment.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
And so.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
You know, I will say throughout my life, you know,
my family has been they have you know, they've endoed
a lot. They have had to share, you know, Christ
with with the world, whole world, and it's not and
it's not easy something you know, some will say, well,
it's not fair. But I also know that these these
are my assignments, and uh and but but but but

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this is what I do though, because I think this
is where the balance comes in. Yes, I tell my
kids this all the time. And number one, I'll tell
them now, this is me making fun. So I don't
want people to take this the wrong way. But you know,
there's there's there's there's a level.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
You have a comedic side to you too, right, absolutely, now, absolutely,
But I tell my kids, I say, hey, look, your daddy
is famous.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
Now, you don't got to be famous, you know, you don't.
You don't got to be famous. You know, you don't have.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
To be famous.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
I want you to be famous if you want to
be famous, but I'm gonna do me.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
I got mine. Now you got to go and get yours.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
And what yours and what yours is may not be
you know, like you have some parents that will say, well,
maybe I want you to do better than what I did.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
You know, now, now, I don't want my child out
on the road.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
I don't want them to be homeless, you know, I
don't want them, you know, to be out there, you know,
if they don't.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Need be I don't. I don't want that for my child. Right.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
But if but if my child decides that they want
to live a quiet, simple life on the coast of wherever,
and that's success.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
For them, right And that's.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Okay and I and I and and you know, as
long as they can pay their bills and they don't
call me for no you know, for the money, you know,
that is success. That is all the way success, right
right right, that is all the way success. You know,
you don't you don't have to be googleble, you don't
have to be some famous you don't.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Now your daddy was the mayor. Now you need to
be a US senator.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
You know, I don't know because that may not because
this is what I do know. God has created everyone
for their own path of life. And so you as
a parent, that's good, or you as a sibling or
a friend, you got to know that your friend or
you're you're the person you're connected with.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
That their their path isn't your path.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
And their path doesn't require them to be the president
of a college, the president of an MPHC, of a
divine non organization, the mayor of a city.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Their path doesn't require that.

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Their path may require them to be the person who
owns the plumbing company, and we want to thank the
person who owns the plumbing company. Yes, right, you know
that may be what their path is and they will
still be doing well, they still will be impacting lives.
You know, you have to be comfortable with who you
know God has set you out to be once you

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have found out. And I don't put that kind of
pressure on my on my on my on my family,
because you know this is who I am.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Well intentionally, just so you know, because I do know
that you're a world famous I intentionally did not pop
everybody up on the screen, right now just because people
will be like, hey, why don't put the game. Don't
worry about all of that. The thing is, I wanted
to make sure that I give you space to talk
about the family, but then also be respectful of the
fact that when you're out there and you're a public figure,

(31:47):
exactly what you just said I thought you were going
to say, and so I just wanted to be respectful.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
I appreciate that because you know, they do have their
own lives, and you know, sometimes they'll send to me like,
you know, oh my friends.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
You know, they'll they you know, they they.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Found you on on Google and then you're following you
on Instagram and you know, and they're just like, gosh.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
Dad, I'm like, my fault.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
It's right, It's like this is what.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
But I do everything that I can to protect them
because that's important.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
So yes, and that's all. That's all.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
I'm proud.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
I'm proud of I'm proud of the direction that you're
going in and the fact that.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
You're not like you need my endorsement or anything.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
But I love the fact that you're saying be whoever
God created you to be. And that's perfectly fine. It
does not have to be that you're following in my footsteps,
trying for you to be considered great, because what greatness
looks like for me it may be totally different as
to what greatness looks like for you. And so yeah,
this is this is a good conversation, y'all. I hope

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you all are benefiting from And I see a lot
of you all over on Instagram as well, and I
may not get to see everybody's names. I see you
Sadie Jones, I see you Q Paradise s Kinsey.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
You know my glasses on. So I'm just gonna not
even because I'd be set all.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
Your nicknames, y'all.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
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Speaker 2 (33:09):
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Speaker 1 (33:40):
Listen, when I think about the fact that you served
in Iraq and Afghanistan, again, these are things that we
can't just brush over. And then you retired after twenty
two years of dedicated service. How has your military background
influenced even the way that you lead today as a
president at Barbara Social College.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
Oh man, let me tell you.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
So what I've learned about, you know, being in higher education,
it can be very.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
Very glass tower ish.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
You know.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Well, when you take a group of soldiers to the desert,
you get a different perspective about life and leadership and
connecting with people.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
And where you are.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Even even though the chain of command matters.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
I don't take.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Myself so seriously because I know that in the instant
I can.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
Be gone right. And I think that.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
That experience of how precious life is and how operation
is truly the key to whatever the abundance is that
you have been assigned. You got to be prepared, and
nothing prepares you more than when you getting ready to

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go to war. Making sure you know, you check, you
double check, you triple check, and you check one more
time before you execute anything that is supposed to happen.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
You take you take.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
That, you know that learning that experience with you when
you come to an organization like this, because there's a
lot of checking and double checking we have to do.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
And you you literally have to have your brothers back.
And I'm gonna put this image up because it just yeah, yeah, yeah, teamwork, teamwork.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Teamwork is critical and uh and I will tell you
in this experience here, I had to build a team.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
The success that Barber Scotia is experiencing right now is
because of the team and me building a team that
they got my back, I got theirs and their laser
focused on one mission, and that's to get this college accredited.

Speaker 4 (36:09):
Plain as simple as that, you can't teach that.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
I just know how important every one of my team
has to be and how they all have to be
trained properly and they have to they have to step
up in such a way in order to execute what
it is that we need to execute. And they got
to see the bigger picture in the mission and they
got to have to buy in and they got to
know what we're doing.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
And that's leadership, that's right.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
That's right. And being being in this role with Barbara
Scotia College, I really I was trying to, you know,
deep dive just some of the history, but I think
it probably come better from you. But I know that
it's the second oldest historically black college in North Carolina,
seventeenth oldest in America. And I was looking through the

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timeline of how this whole thing is evolved. Would you
like to just I don't want to put you on
the spot, but you want to talk? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (37:04):
That yeah, So, I mean Barbi Scotia is one hundred
and fifty eight years old. It was the first institution
founded in the South to educate black women after slavery.
I mean so that before there was Spellmen, before that,
there was Scotia Seminary in Concord.

Speaker 4 (37:19):
North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
And Luke Dorlin, the first president of this institution, would
go to the fields and find black women and say
there's a place where we will educate you. Come be educated,
and uh and and and and change the trajectory of
your family.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
You know.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
This was like three years after the Emancipation Proclamation, right,
I mean this is I mean, this is like this
is new, new, new, new, new, and so you think
about the skepticism of eighteen sixty seven and folks you
know under you know, taking that path. But the reality
is is that they did and and and then you

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you fast forward in two thousand and four, unfortunately the
college you know, lost its accreditation. For twenty one years,
we've been trying to find our way back.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Now.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
What is extraordinary about Barber Scotia College is that the
doors never closed, right, There was always at least one student,
you know, or at least one So it lets you
know that the prayers that has happened on these grounds
were strong enough to sustain the college even while we

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were in our desert period.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Right, So prayers make a difference, the prayers of the
righteous literally a gale up much absolutely how it's all
going to play out.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
But right, that's right, you know, is present.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
I always tell I always tell people, man, my grandmother,
you know, she's no longer with us, But if you
don't think that her prayers are still sustaining me today, right,
I mean them, things are still them, things are still
making their way to heaven, you know.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
And then God is still coming and.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
Smiling back down on on on me and blessing me
and and somebody thousands of years ago along this family line, right,
because you know, the word says, the word says.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
You know, who God blessed no one can curse, and
who God cursed.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
No one can bless, right, Right, So when I think
about the journey that I've been on, oh, this ain't
nothing but blessings.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
But what I do know is that somebody did something.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Right a long long time ago, and there and that
and that blessing is still running in disaligned right here, right.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
I know that for a fact, there's no question about it.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
And so when I think about Barbara Scotim, the mere
fact that it's still here, that means it's been a lot.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
It was a lot of prayers on the town.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
And so it's just that and I and I want
to thank you know, I acknowledge all the leaders in
between when we lost our accreditation in four and to
where we are today, because some way, somehow they did
their part. They you know, every board of trustee member,
every alumni, every person who said to check everything mattered.

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And then in two thousand and three, on July seventeenth,
I got the keys to the institution and we ain't
looked back since. Right, So and so what it was.
But I know that I couldn't do it right, not
the people who you know, So even though they're in
the eyes of some people, in the eyes of some people, their.

Speaker 4 (40:33):
Work did not look plenty.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
But the mere fact that we're still here means that
every move that they made, every step that they made,
mattered for July seventeenth, twenty twenty three to happen.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
And once I got the keys and.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Understood what the assignment was, you know, so we went
from no students to one hundred plus students and where
we're going now. I mean, I know there's some people
in the community's like, oh, we didn't think that was
We didn't think that was gonna happen. The reality is
is that it did because it was supposed to and

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that and that's all God, all God, all God.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
I put this picture up on purpose because I was like,
this picture is, in my opinion, symbolic of the fact
that you cannot put somebody in a box and determine
what the outcome of their destiny is going.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
You're gonna have me crying.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Chris v Ray, You sure that you sure that preaching
is not in your future, because that might be one
of the other things military, teacher, athlete, mayor preacher. Because
you are God is really using you as a vehicle
for change, and you're changing things from the inside out.
It makes a huge difference when people just say I

(41:55):
don't believe in it, I don't agree with that, I'm leaving. No,
you're changing things from the inside out. And when I
saw this picture, I don't even know that's what it
just spoke to in my spirit when I saw this.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
Well, listen, let me let me tell you why that
picture is super special. Right, that's the chancellor of East
Carolina University.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Right.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
East Carolina University is where I went to where you
know where I went to college at. You know, they
were the ones who gave me a chance.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
The coach came sat in my living room and said,
you know, we're gonna give him a full scholarship to
go to college.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
It was East Carolina.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
That gave you know, I could officially say that I
was the first person to go to college in my family.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
That was the institution.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
And then to be a president standing next to the
president of the institution that gave me a chance.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
Man, Come on, man, And I didn't even know I.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Had no idea that that was the story behind this
picture picture. I went.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
I went to the investger service of to Kerry Dixon
over at North Carolina UH Central, uh and the president
of ECUs there and I went to him and you know,
introduced myself and told him how you know, I was
a pirate and uh. But it's all the symbolic, the
symbolism behind the fact that it was that school that

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gave me the opportunity I needed.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Use.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
My grandmother was like, you know, we don't have no money.
You know, you know, you got to go to school somehow.
I wanted to deep downside, I wanted to go to
an HBCU as an undergrad, but you know, I had
to go where Whoever's gonna give me the money and
uh and at the time, UH East Carolina offered the
full ride and I went and uh so so to
to stand next to the president as a president.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
I mean, you just can't make this stuff.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Up, man, You just can literally making a lot.

Speaker 4 (43:50):
You can't make this stuff up.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Wow, this this interview.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
I don't know how you feel about this interview versus
others that you've had, but I just hope that it's
really opening up some some good memories.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
And it is it is, it is it really.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
And I wore blue, by the way, even though I
am Sigma Theta. So I see the red. I see
I see that. I see the red chair man.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Now yeah, really, you.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Know, but but I understand I was trying to, you know,
honor you today with the blue.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Okay, So that was just one picture. I'm gonna pull
up another picture and see what this might speak to.
There's a new book that that you've been a part of.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
Talked to us about that.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Yes, yes, so you know, you know doctor doctor Danielle
Green and doctor Kelly Dixon uh reached out to me
and asked if I would, you know, collaborate with them
on this book about disruptive leadership, and they you know,
and there was like, you know, you're a disruptor. You've
been every space that you've gone into. And you know

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what I love about the book is is that sometimes
when people hear a disruptive leader, you're thinking it's all negative.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
Hm.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
This book teaches you that, you know, disruptive leadership is necessary,
but there but there are qualities that you have to
recognize in a destructive leader that allows you to see
how the disruption is actually allows for progression.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
That it's needed.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
But what are the qualities that is needed to be
and considered a disruptive leader? Uh So I thought it
was fascinating. Of course I had to be a part
of it. And and because of that opportunity, now, you know,
I've had, you know, a couple of other folks who
have asked me to collaborate with them on some books.
So you know, we'll, you know, we'll see where this goes.
You know, Look, I am open, I'm over there.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
There's no limit to what President Christy Ray is gonna be.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
You might think that you know what his future looks like,
but really it's really unlimited possibilities.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
And I want people and you know, I think, if anything,
I want people when they when they see me, or
they think about me, or they you know, think about
what they want to do. I want them to be
able to I want to be that example in life man,
that like when whenever the Good Lord calls me home
to glory.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
And I'm hoping to be.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
About one hundred and six and about one o six
is who I'm trying to be at right. I want
people to say, man, this dude right here used everything
that was given to him, everything that was given to
him before he closed his eyes. Because you know, the

(46:38):
word says all things pass away, all things right, and
so you cannot be doing all of these blessing all
these things that whatever the assignment is, only God can
choose specific individuals that will be remembered forever. You literally

(46:59):
have people who are trying to be remembered forever.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
Right, m.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
All things pass away, which means that at some point
in the history of the world they will stop saying
your name. At some point, you know, long after there
will come a time where no one will say your
name ever again, right, because all things pass away. So

(47:29):
why not when you have the opportunity, do what you
got to do now?

Speaker 4 (47:35):
Yes, do what you got to do now, right, Don't.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
Don't be worrying about well, if I'm trying to build
a you know, now building legacy in terms of yes,
I want to you know, leave a financial future and
do all this certin I don't want to be when
I get to one hundred and six. I'm trying to
make sure you know, I can afford it, because I
ain't really you know, I ain't laying nothing to these kids.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
You know, I don't know what they're gonna do with
their life.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
You know, they may all want to play the band
jo on the side of the road, and that ain't
gonna help me, right, I canna help me.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
So I got to work hard to make sure I
have a little self for you.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Have my nurses take care of me just in case,
you know.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Don't worry.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
They gonna have you.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
They gonna have I don't know, so just in case. Right.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
But the but, the but, the thing is is that
you got to make sure that you are doing the
work now and that you.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Be focused on the now.

Speaker 4 (48:21):
Don't be focused on trying to be remembered.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
People who try to focus on trying to be remembered
normally they want to be messing it up, you know.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Because you ain't trying to do this work. You ain't.
First of all, you ain't doing the work.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
You're not doing the work for the right reasons because
you trying to be remembered.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Let me tell you something.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
If I'm remembered, great, If I'm not remembered, great, you
know what, But the work that I'm doing right now
is impacting the lives of the people right now. I
was sitting on the I was on the steps with
a couple of young men, a couple this morning, some
of the student athletes, and they were just saying how
grateful they were to be here and how you know
their lives have just changed.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
Now, let me tell you something.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
They'll remember President Raing, right, They'll remember President Ray. They will,
you know, and they may or they may not tell
their children about President Ray, but their children will not
understand when they when they walk across the stage and
they have that degree and their their father goes off
and gets a job and has the capacity to send

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on the band camp and do all of it, will
have all started from sitting on the stairs that six
months ago, there were no students that have the ability
to sit on the stairs at this institution.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
God right, So you got to be focused on the now.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Now that the fact that you know, because they will
come a time where those kids will be enjoying going
to band camp and not know that it was a
time where their fathers struggled on the stairs to try
to come to a college that you know that gave.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
Him a chance. That's why you got to be focused
on the now.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Focus on the now. Somebody type that focus on the now.
Something in the comments section here.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Yeah, we're too busy trying to be remembered when you
you know, when you need to be doing the work
right now.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Do the work now. Don't focus on trying to be
remembered because that may or may not happen, but on
what you can.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
Guarantee you that it's not gonna happen. I can about
guarantee you. I mean, you know, think about how many
founding fathers we have in just America, in the nation, right,
you know, I mean there's a few that you call
the names of anyway, right, there was a whole room
full of them, but there's only a few.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
Names we call. And you know, it's just focused on now.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
Well, one of the things that's going to happen.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
I don't know. This young man was interviewing you, and
I screenshot this because I loved his interview with that.
That interview went, that interview went viral.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Actually, so many individuals hit me up about that.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
But that's my that's my that's my vision for the
institution building.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
The largest online HBCU. Because I know you're saying people
may not remember, but everybody's gonna remember.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Chris V.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
Ray I can tell you that. So tell us about
your vision of building the largest online hbc Yeah.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
So, you know, I think online instruction is the future.

Speaker 3 (51:12):
It is, that's not even the future, it's the now,
and I think that many of our HBCUs have been
very slow to engage in.

Speaker 4 (51:19):
It for a whole host of reasons.

Speaker 3 (51:21):
Right, it requires infrastructure, You got to follow the right policies.
You have to have the right team in place. When
you're connected with the Department of Education when it comes
to continuing education online, you know their rules and restrictions
are very very serious. So you got to have the
right team in place. And because we're already lacking in
a lot of resources that men of our HBCUs, a

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lot of them don't invest in that, so they more
focus on a more in person on the in person engagement.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
The reality is that it is.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Tough and the reason why HBCU struggle today. It's tough
to run a college with eight hundred students, five hundred students,
twelve hundred students and you're charging them thirty thousand dollars
a year to go. I mean, it's just it's it's
that's tough. I don't think that should be the case.
I think that we can still have some in person
an in person cohort right to create a hybrid model.

(52:14):
But you know, hear me when I say this today
that they will come in time where we're going to
have thirty thousand students online registered to Barbara Scotia College
and speak.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
It into existence.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
I mean, I believe that with everything inside of me,
because there is a market for it. Uh, there's a
desire for it, uh, and I believe that we could
be a big part of it.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
And then then the beautiful thing is it doesn't have
to just be us.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
I mean, you know, I want to work with my
other HBCU cohorts and counterparts, and you know we could,
but you gotta you gotta move in that direction. And
the beautiful thing about Barbara Scotia is that because we
are starting from literally nothing, we could you know, we could,
we can.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
Grow into that.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
So I don't want us to come back how we left, okay.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Because that you know.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
So I'm trying to take an institution that was founded
in the nineteenth century, reimagine it in the twenty first century,
and leave all of our bad habits in the twentieth century.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
That's good. Leave all of our bad habits back there,
back there, that's right back there. Leave on. Wow. So
thirty thousand students online is the goal. And one of
the questions that just came in, I want to make
sure I pop it up Sean Hall.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
I don't know if you all are familiar with Sean
Are you are?

Speaker 1 (53:30):
You? Do you know Sean Hall? If you don't, let me,
I'm not trying to put you on the spot. She's
somebody to know. She all wrote, come.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
On, what come on Sean Hall?

Speaker 1 (53:39):
Yeah, come through Sean Hall. Right. Sean Hall is with
All Roads education, and what she does is she actually
helps young people get scholarships to colleges and universities pretty
much debt free, and she has a proven track record.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Yeah that's that's what that musten. And that's what I
want to do with Barbierschotio. So we've lowered the cost. Right,
So to come to barbar Scotchi is twenty five hundred
dollars a semester, okay, five thousand dollars a year because
why because I do not believe that you should take
a child or a student from.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
Rural anywhere or urban anywhere.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
You bring them to your institution, you tell them that
I'm selling them the dream of this is the this
is the culture. You saddle them with a bunch of debt,
and then you send them out into the world to
go and be the best and brightest. But the job
that they're getting doesn't coalate to the cost of the

(54:43):
education that you just gave them. Right, you know, because
because it goes back to what I said earlier, if
God put inside of me to be a social worker,
that's my life force.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
That's my life force.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
That's my job is to is to be a to
work with individuals. Well, the reality social workers don't get paid.
They don't get paid a lot of money. Let me
just say they get paid, They get a pay check
and they the service. But the reality you know then,
but you're not going in it to be like I'm

(55:17):
about to be a millionaire, of course, but you graduated
from a school that you got forty fifty thousand dollars
in debt, but you're getting paid thirty thousand dollars thirty
five thousand dollars at you at your job. Right, Students
like that shouldn't have debt when they graduate, because we
need good social workers we need good teachers.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
So what we need is affordable education.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
Right And the only way that you can have true
affordable education is by number one, not being greedy as
an institution, right, number one, not being greedy as an institution,
but increasing the volume.

Speaker 4 (55:53):
Right.

Speaker 3 (55:55):
I know that at HBCUs we want to touch and
you know, and make sure that we taking care of
our you know, I got to touch touch our students.
Right this market. We're in a nation of almost four
hundred million people. Right, there's a group of people who
don't want to be touched. They just want to learn.

Speaker 4 (56:12):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
I want you to come to Barbierschoti and College for
five thousand dollars a year, right, that's what I want.
And you know, and one and once we are credited
and we do.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
Have access to federal financial aid.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
Now, imagine being a student that may qualify for pale
and now because back in my day, you know, you
get your pale you know, you get your scholarship, but
you still have a little change in your pocket. Today
kids are they're getting whatever scholarship dollars they are from
the school. Got to give up all their pale money
and still get a bill and still got to take
out a student loan, you know, to make it happen,

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you know. And the reality is is that you can
build a quality infrastructure. You can even though you have volume,
it could still be there's you know, you know why
you can do it right brain and we're smart, that's right.
And if you truly care about people, you can create
an infrastructure that gives a quality education to online individual.

(57:09):
I still have in person instruction that is online. I
mean that's that's in person instruction. That's also quality. Quality
isn't just in person, right, you know, there's ways to
do it. I don't have all the answers. Well, that's
why you hire very very smart people. Then that's how
come you build a team.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Well that's what one of the people on your team.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
I don't know. I'm not trying to put be her
agent or anything.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
Sean Hall.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
She helped my son get over thirty thousand dollars in scholarships,
and I mean all he had to do was just
listen to what the woman was saying, do meet the deadlines.
And she's now working with my daughter who's a senior
in high school, straight a student, and I already know,
I'm like, I'm almost like relaxed, like girl. John.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
That's right, that's right with Sean. I need I need
to talk to you, Sean, I need to talk with you.
Let's let's get together and you are on.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
You are now. You know you now work for Barbara
Scochia colleg You heard it right here on the Kim Jacobshan.
I don't just bring on this.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
People some jobs.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
Now she's now, she's over special projects in scholarships for
Barbiaschocial College.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
And we just want to say thank you, Sean. Welcome
to the team.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Save a pride, all right, listen. She also said that
in July that pale is dropping more.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
See see that's right.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
So that's even you know, so you know that lets
you know right there that now that's even less resources
that students are going to have. Right, I can't I
if you're going, if you're going to be in this
space to be transformative in the space right, be transformative.

(58:44):
And so I know there's I know this isn't going
to be popular for everybody and people, but I know
that's what we're doing here Barbia Scotia College. We believe
in affordable and accessible education. And I mean that not
as a talking point, not as a talking point, right
that this is truly that this is who we are,
that we educate the world and we change our communities.

(59:07):
That's what I want people to come in. I want
us to educate the world, and I just want us
to go back out and change our community.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
So that's more like your vision is to educate the world,
change the community, and that's going to help with the
resurgence of this historically black college.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
And everyone absolutely, I mean, I mean, this is the thing.
I don't want us to lose the history of who
we are. But you know, but I always want to
make sure folks know lost. We're here to educate everybody
because right there's poor Black kids, with poor Hispanic kids,
and poor White kids and poor Asians. You know, there
are families that are still you know, generations. Here we

(59:46):
are twenty twenty five. The majority of my students that
are here, they're still first generation college twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
Twenty twenty five, and the first ones to represent their family.
This has to I mean, the trajectory of our history
has to change, and it has to start with somebody.
So thank god that you're opening up the doors to
allow people to be their first within their family. I
see Phyllis said, hey, Saber Pride, Phyllis. I love Phyllis, Phyllis.

(01:00:16):
Let me tell you something. Phillis plays no games. She is.

Speaker 4 (01:00:20):
She's all about Barbi Scochiow.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
I love her. Well. We are so glad that you're
in the studio audience, Phyllis, so glad to have you
here today.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
I see a lot of you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
I see s and Kinsey, I see q P Paradise,
all of these Zadi, I see all of y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
On Instagram everywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
I may not call your name, and I can tell
you one thing that's happening is that Sean H.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Hall, Sean A. Hall is over here taking over the comments.

Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
Second on that campus. Oh she grew up on our campus.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
Her mom, Yes, she went one of the previous comments.
She said something about her mom. I'm trying to manage
this broadcast. Let's see, let's you just all of it.
I'm doing the most over here when that's what I do.
A training, just so y'all know, on teaching people how
to start their own shows from scratch. And so it's
very important that I believe that the whole world gets
a chance to experience your gifts and talents, and if

(01:01:08):
you are sincerely interested in starting your own show, make
sure that you reach out to me. I do a
six week training once per week. It's five students that
I take, and everybody should unanimously agree that Chris b
Ray needs to have some kind of show because we
can't cram everything into this hour with him.

Speaker 4 (01:01:26):
I've heard that a few times.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
I've heard a few times, and.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
You're very comfortable over there.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
So all you have to do is just let me
train you and get you going so you can have
a way for people to stay connected with you.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
Okay, all right, I might have to take you up
on that. I'm serious. I might have to take you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
Up on that, and you can get ten percent off
just saying that you heard about the show. I heard
about the show, So I heard about the show. So
you've got four more students to go now because I've
heard it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
All right, y'all, loo, we're being silly over here.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
But at the end of the day, too, I do
want you to know that this gentleman is the thirty
six international president of five Beta Sigma Incorporated.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
And what does that mean to you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
To lead one of the largest oldest historically black fraternities.
Not only are you leading a historically black college, but
historically black fraternity as well.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
Man, I you know, you could not have told me
when I joined five Beta Sigma in nineteen ninety six
that I would end up being the international president of
the Origin.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
I mean you and I say that that you could
not tell me.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
In nineteen ninety six that you know and you know,
And this is the thing that's so special about this.
You know, we have initiated you know, well over three
four hundred thousand members and out of that, only one
individual served twice. Only now thirty six individuals have served
as national president. Out of three four hundred thousand men,

(01:02:58):
can you believe in?

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
And you are one of them? One of them? God
is like just It's like he done just anointed you.
It's like listen if you ain't paying attention, why you know?

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
But when I say that, it was truly the honor
of my life to serve as international president of my brothers,
because I really believe that when people come together, you know,
loo can be there in a mental good low it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
Look at this, I mean this is right here again.
I went online and found all these pictures I saw
this conclave.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
I said, look at look at Chris v.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
Ray out here, just out here. Man.

Speaker 4 (01:03:38):
But when I but when I tell you that these
brothers are.

Speaker 3 (01:03:45):
I fundamentally believe that, you know, people with brains could
come together and make a difference if you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
Truly are genuine about making a difference.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
You know, people got agendas, and I don't even know
why you have an agenda unless the agenda is to
make life better for somebody else.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
I don't even know what.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
I don't even know what we're doing here right.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
But the mayth I remember when.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
I ran for national president, and you know, we talked
about continuing the legs we had when I was Social
Action Direct National Social Action Director, we had began the
process of talking about building an affordable housing complex and
and people kind of chuckled about it, like bi affordable, boy,
we don't do that, you know, come on, man.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
And then as vice president, we took up steam.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
And then by the time I was president, you know, uh,
next month, if everything goes right, we'll be closing on
a on the on the construction of a four story.

Speaker 4 (01:04:44):
Affordable housing apartment complex in Washington, d C.

Speaker 3 (01:04:48):
Get here, and if we and if the Brotherhood does
it right, we will replicate this model in multiple cities
across the country. So now you're talking about creating a
safe place for a family to be able to grow,
to be nurtured, and then go out into the world
and do whatever, because you first got to start with
some good.

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
Housing, safe housing, clean housing. And I was a part
of that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
I mean, you know, it's just I think that it's
just like, why not wake up in the morning and
just let's just do some big stuff. Man, there's something
This is just some big you know, because why because
if you and me and another person get together, why
can't we do this?

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:05:28):
But I think what has happened is that we are
so focused on chasing the dollar, and we're so focused
on you know, I just feel like, man, if you
just if you really just take care of God's children, man,
he gonna keep on blessing you, won't.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
You ain't gonna never be hungry.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
That's so good, Chris, that's so you ain't gonna never
be hungry.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
You know, you just gotta keep on just use the
talents because literally He has given you your talents for
you to help others. They are not they're not for you.
They're not they're what He has given you is not
for you. They are literally for the world, you know,
just like I tell like I told my students, your
degree is not for you. Your degree is for the world.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
And so when people start waking up and understanding that
we are literally all connected as human beings and that
we have a responsibility and an obligation to support one another,
it's only when you will see the elevation in your life.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
So when people say, man, I can't believe you're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
I guess when I go back, this is God is
God because I recognize that the assignment, the gifts that
He's given me is not for me as in a sacrifice.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
Yes, right when you because it it's easier to focus.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
On me and me make this money and me for
you know, me, take care of just my family. And yeah,
I mean that's very easy. When you talk about serving
God's people, it's never easy. It's frustrating, it's it's long hours,
it's you know, fo get on my nerves and you know,
but then I realize that this is my assignment.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
And I just said I went a little bit of
a little bit of extra spoke get them a nerve.

Speaker 4 (01:07:05):
Sometimes they get them a nerves, you know, nerves.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
But at the end of the day, you're making a difference.
And here in the brotherhood. I put this picture up
too because I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
Yes, yes, yes, I love the Oh oh my gosh,
this is such a special picture.

Speaker 1 (01:07:18):
This is this is These are.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
The brothers in spring Lake, North Carolina, because that's where
I was the mayor at I you know, I activated
the chapter there, and of course, you know, I'm not
in the chapter there anymore. But they were having an
event and I went down there and oh, they were
so gracious, they were so nice, and they were so
excited and to watch the chapter still thriving.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
And let me tell you what's so beautiful.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
They have this.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
They have a Signal Bator Club, which is our youth
mentoring program that mentors boys from eight to eighteen.

Speaker 4 (01:07:45):
And they just got recognized the Similevator Club.

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
Of the Year.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
So once again, now I ain't even there, but my
boys down in spring Lake, North Carolina is out there
just giving them the whole business. Mothers at our single
moms that are raising you know, black boys, my brothers
are putting their arms around them and making sure that
they're good to go. All because when I went back
home to be the mayor, I said, I need to

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bring a chapter here.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
And aren't you glad?

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
God, God is just really putting some things in your spirit.
And because you have said, yes, you're just executed on everything.

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
And listen and let me tell you what. Let me
tell you how, let me tell you how just powerful
God is. Because I was obedient and I listened. Right,
the lives that are being impacted today, it's all because
I was just obedient and I ain't even so when
you when so, when you when we make the statement,
God has a plan. His plan was for another group
of individuals. Because when I when I left there, we

(01:08:46):
didn't have a Sigma Beta club. Right I left in
twenty seventeen, we didn't have a Samle Beta club.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
But today they do.

Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
God knew that that mother needed to have, you know,
some men to mentor her child, right all before that
child was even born. When I started a chapter in
twenty eleven, So these boys weren't even born. They weren't
even born yet. Wow, But God knew that what was
got That's when we say.

Speaker 4 (01:09:13):
He man, he's so dope, he's so dope, so dope, man.
But this is how I live. This is just how
I am.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
I just you're getting all into my message on Sunday.
Just so you know, when you just said that, I
was like, Okay, I'm gonna have to get him off
this sugar. Hes gonna start and prophetically and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
Let me get president Chris righty.

Speaker 1 (01:09:35):
Chris.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
I want to make sure that I let people know
too that not only is he on the Kim Jacob
Show today, but he is going to be one of
our guest speakers on this Sunday coming up on September
twenty first, and it is Unity Sunday. So you can
come and you can rep your organization, whatever fraternity, sorority
of the Divine Nine that you may be affiliated with,

(01:09:58):
Eastern Stars, Jack and Top Ladies of Distinction, if you
are in a soroar, if you're at a college or university,
you can just rep your HBC. Whatever it is that
you want to do. Come on out on Unity Sunday.
We are going to be at Promised Fellowship Church at
Brownstone Signature Events which is one two zero eight zero
University City Boulevard in Harrisburg, North Carolina. We have hip

(01:10:20):
hop gospel rap artist Greg H. Jackson from He's a
founder of Hell Charlotte. And we also have doctor Sharonda Vinks,
the owner of Intentional Step Services, and so we are
excited about you coming out.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
What does unity mean to you?

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
Oh man?

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
Unity means you know, unity means two things for me.
First of all, unity means power. I mean if you unified,
oh man, I mean that's a power far beyond what
anyone could ever imagine or try to destroy. The second

(01:10:57):
thing that unity means to me is progress, because if
you're unified, if you're truly are unified, then.

Speaker 1 (01:11:04):
We're able to move.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
You know, we're able to move.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
If you don't.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
If you don't, if you don't understand that, then you
don't understand where unity is, then you're just talking. And
I don't believe in Hollywood talk. That's why you know,
you know, I mean, you don't.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
Say that much about Hollywood because you might be on
somebody's film one day.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
You got that acting capability.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
So I'm like, oh no, I don't tell for grandma.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
Yeah, but then my grand's like a baby, you don't
need to go to Hollywood. They the devil O Lord.

Speaker 4 (01:11:40):
Yes, ma'am, and I never win.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
That's funny.

Speaker 2 (01:11:43):
But Grandma and Grandma and watching is one of your
cloud of witnesses.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
Now she's like, baby, I changed my mind because you
might be able to go ahead and do some great
things in Hollywood. Okay, listen, make sure y'all join us.
We will be at Promised Fellowship on Sunday at ten
o'clock am. And it's in the NAPO Auto Parts Plas,
a beautiful event venue space back there and that's the
Brownstone Signature Events. So this is the interior of where

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we're beholding our service on this up Sunday. So I'm
excited about having Chris b Ray there with us. All right.
I also want to let you all know that we
have the Gabes Heart Foundation in honor of my son
that transitioned from this earth due to sudden cardiac arrest.
So my desire is to always make sure that we

(01:12:30):
raise funds but defibrillators to be put in public spaces.
So please have Barbara Scotia, students and parents and staff.
We have other high schools, sport organizations, churches, everybody, come out,
please come out. On October eighteenth at eight am, we
will have our tenth annual five K walk and it's

(01:12:53):
again in honor of Gabriel Michael Jacobs Gabe's Heart Foundation.
We're going to be giving away a defibrillator, one that
talks so that you can have it in your organization.
And we're asking everyone that will to just do a
one minute video. And when you do that one minute video,
make sure you tag at Gabe's Heart Foundation. When you

(01:13:15):
tag us, we're going to see the video and we
will be giving a defibrillator away at the event. It
doesn't matter whether you're present or not, because sometimes it's
like with egg you have to be present. Some people
are doing videos in Africa. It doesn't matter because this
show is in one hundred and forty countries. Do a video,
tag at Gabe's Heart Foundation and we will see your

(01:13:36):
video and we will be announcing the winner at the
five K walk. All right, any extra comments you want
to say, I see a lot of comments that came in,
so let's see come out, get your community service in.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
Grandma knew what she was talking about, you know what.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
Speaking of viral, this young lady also has some viral videos.
She teaches so much about about fun and scholarships and
different opportunities. So you'll have somebody viral on your team,
because she's been doing a lot of viral TikTok.

Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
Stuff over there. I love it, I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
See come support the walk. I saw your mama worked somewhere.
I'm Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Get it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
How you live it? You're over there wrapping Sean. Okay,
let's see.

Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
I love her.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
Okay, Wait, what other final thing you said?

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
You said? So I want to make sure I put
the comment up about your mom, but I cannot find it.
Gracious you know black men leading well, black men that
are educated and serving. Come on, God, what about that vision? Yes, okay,
my mom, here's a comment I wanted my mom taught
there in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
That's what she said.

Speaker 4 (01:14:41):
Wow at Barbara Scotia, I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:45):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
Okay, that's all I that's all. That's a walk. Will
Barbara Scotia participate in a walk run next month? Building
in community service? That's a question. Any question question that
she had? All right? Any closing comment from you. It's
been so much that's been said. We got a diclosure
that was a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:15:01):
Now I'm just grateful for the opportunity, you know, just
to tell our story what we have going on here
at Barbara Scotia College. I love this institution. I'm looking
forward to us being fully accredited one day. I look
forward towards growing and being one of the leading institutions
in this country, you know, and watching God do what

(01:15:23):
he do. I said, and I'm gonna keep on saying
it loud and proud, and you know, it's all This
is all God.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
This is all God. And you're gonna get to express
that more on Unity Sunday. So come ready to just
give a word that God has given you. And we're
excited about hosting you at Promised Fellowship Church on Sunday.
I believe you've expressed already how important your faith is,
and that seems to be interwoven between everything that you're doing.
So any comments about your faith that you want to share,

(01:15:50):
I don't want to deprive you of that opportunity. No.
I love God, You love God. You love God all right, everybody,
So based on everything that's been shared, I do hope
that you all will take a moment too.

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
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Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
M All right, close and comment, Chris, just thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
I'm excited.

Speaker 3 (01:17:11):
I can't wait to get my own show now since
I'm you know, since we now and then I mean
so now.

Speaker 1 (01:17:17):
I gotta, I gotta.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
I got a show, and I got a new employee.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
This, this Kim Jacobs show is a blessing. Y'all. Get
on it, get it, get it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
All right, everybody?

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
All right, Tony Bennett and Morris Brown can do it.
So can Scotia. Hey, I know that's right. I'm jumping.
Have y'allwn private meeting. Okay, Praise the Lord. Good evening
to all of God's children. Tony Perkins got to have
you and all of you, whether I mentioned your name
or not. My mom was on here and I dare not.
My mom is in her seventies, and she'd be like,
I know you what Jalen said, blue Fie, Oh you

(01:17:53):
know you know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
I see some of your phive Beta Sigma brothers on here.
My mom was on here.

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
Wait a minute, and Stephen said, a true leader. I
am honored to charge the heel with you, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
Oh man, he is a great guy. Stephen Westbrook. That's
a good man right there.

Speaker 1 (01:18:11):
That's what I'm saying. I can't I don't want to
close what out going back through and I'm the only
one over here working the podcast, and I'm like, oh man,
I miss somebody's comment, They're gonna be like, I know
she saw my comments.

Speaker 4 (01:18:20):
Oh no, no, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
Thing people be texting me.

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
But anyway, Mom, I saw your comments somewhere in here
as well. Here she said, focus on the now. My
mom is Ellis Bradley, and I'm so honored to have
my mom here on this earth with me, especially with
so much death across the land. So I thank God
that I'm able to have my mom with me here
on this earth.

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
All right, did we go through everything you felt like
we could go through in a given show?

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
You had a great experience. I did. I did.

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you?

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
And how can people stay connected with you? And that's
the final thing we'll say, and we'll go to disconnect.

Speaker 3 (01:18:57):
Oh, social media, of course, you know I'm on Instagram.
Uh you know President Underscore Ray and that's R. E. Y.
And then of course I got a Facebook page, just
Chris Ray.

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
Chris Now, I got a couple of pages out there,
but Chris Ray R E Y.

Speaker 3 (01:19:14):
Just just search it. That's where you can find out
all the stuff that I'm doing.

Speaker 4 (01:19:18):
And I'm on LinkedIn as well.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
And yes, yes, Council of Presidents, Yes I can't wait
for that. Next week, I'll be turning over the chairmanship
to the new president that I wanted to.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
Make sure I acknowledge that I see doctor Stacy Grant.

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
Yeah, yeah, yep, she will be the new incoming chairman chairwoman,
and I will be all my way out of the
don't thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:19:42):
And let's add future Preacher to your list, or future
Hollywood future something, but definitely future talk show hos.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Right, we can add.

Speaker 4 (01:19:49):
That boom boom the Chris Ray Show about to be
out here.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
Chris Ray Show. All right, all right, everybody, you heard
it right here on The Kim Jacobs Show. Listen.

Speaker 1 (01:19:57):
Thank you all for tuning in to this episode The
Kim Jacob Show where we're bringing balance to the world,
one house at a time. And guess what, our lives
have been truly enriched because of your presence today, Chris
the Ray, President Chris b Ray.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
Let's give honor where honors do.

Speaker 1 (01:20:13):
President Chris b Ray, thank you so much and you
have truly blessed my soul.

Speaker 4 (01:20:18):
I'm grateful.

Speaker 1 (01:20:19):
Thank you all in the studio, audience, everybody on Instagram, iHeartRadio,
Roku everywhere wherever y'all watching. Thank you thank you, Thank
you Sean Ahaul always showing up. I appreciate you and
looking forward to yeah, seeing you tomorrow. And tomorrow we're
going to have doctor Sharanda Banks on. She's going to
be talking to thanks. Yes, you are in for a treat.

(01:20:40):
She's going to be talking to us about reimagining resilience
and how important it us us to think differently about resilience.
I cannot wait to host her tomorrow. See you all
eleven o'clock am right here on The Kim Jacob Show.

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
God bless you all. Bye, Oh, I said past to.

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
See Oh, hang up on this note, y'all bye, pastor
cast the President.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
Okay, God bless.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
You sayt Thank you for tuning in to today's episode
of The Kim Jacobs Show and for being in the
virtual studio audience. Your presence truly does make a difference,
and I look forward to you bringing your friends and
family to join you in the virtual studio audience Monday
through Friday at eleven o'clock am Eastern Standard Time. I
look forward to seeing you and make it a great day.

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