# Financial Motivator: Born in a small Alabama town didn't stop her from founding The Financial Literacy Institute, Inc., Jasmine Young

An episode of [Money Making Conversations Master Class](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1264705641), 15 Jun 2024, 25 min.

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Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Jasmine Young. Founder and President of the Financial Literacy Institute, joins Rushion McDonald to discuss her journey from a small rural town in Alabama to becoming a financial literacy advocate, entrepreneur, and community leader. The conversation focuses on education, financial empowerment, HBCUs, generational wealth, entrepreneurship, and the role economic power plays in creating social change. Purpose of the Interview The interview was designed to: • Share Jasmine Young's personal story and professional journey. • Highlight the importance of financial literacy and financial education. • Promote entrepreneurship and wealth-building within underserved communities. • Discuss the value and impact of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). • Raise awareness about the Black Wall Street Black Business Expo and its mission. • Encourage individuals and families to build financial independence and generational wealth. Key Takeaways 1. Education Was Her Path to Opportunity Young grew up in rural Alabama and saw education as her pathway to a different future. She earned a full scholarship to Alabama A&M University and knew as early as high school that she wanted to become a CPA. Quote: "I knew that I was getting out, and I was going to use financial literacy as a way to do it." Her story demonstrates how education can create opportunities regardless of where someone begins. 2. HBCUs Build Confidence and Leadership Young credits Alabama A&M University with shaping her personally and professionally. She explains that being surrounded by Black excellence helped develop her confidence and prepared her for challenges she would face in the broader workforce. Quote: "Going to an HBCU was the best thing I ever did." She argues that HBCUs provide not only academic preparation but also practical life and leadership skills. 3. Financial Literacy Starts at Home One of the most compelling parts of the interview is Young's description of how her parents taught financial responsibility. Although her family lived in a rural area and did not appear wealthy by traditional standards, they taught budgeting, discipline, accountability, and long-term thinking. Examples included: • Managing a weekly allowance. • Paying for personal expenses. • Learning to budget before adulthood. • Understanding the value of money early. She believes these lessons created the foundation for her success. 4. Wealth Is More Than Appearances As a child, Young was embarrassed by her rural upbringing. Later, she realized her family possessed something far more valuable than appearances: land ownership, self-sufficiency, and financial wisdom. Her family owned more than 78 acres of land and lived off resources available on their property. She learned that true wealth is often found in assets, knowledge, and long-term planning rather than outward displays of success. 5. Financial Literacy Is Her Purpose Young explains that her passion for numbers eventually became her life mission. Through the Financial Literacy Institute, she works to increase financial knowledge and help families improve their economic outcomes. Quote: "My passion for financial literacy was actually my purpose." Her goal is to spread financial literacy one family at a time. 6. Economic Power Creates Social Change A major theme of the interview is that financial…

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[0:56] Speaker 1: because if you keep winning for yourself an eventually you're
[0:58] Speaker 1: going to help other people to win. It's kind of like,
[1:01] Speaker 1: you know, motivation has to have a core point. Once
[1:04] Speaker 1: you develop that core point, then you can spread They
[1:08] Speaker 1: call it love. I call it information. My guess. Next
[1:11] Speaker 1: guest is full of information. She's a founder and president
[1:14] Speaker 1: of the Financial Literacy Institute, and she will be discussing
[1:18] Speaker 1: the one hundred and third anniversary of the Tulsa massacre
[1:22] Speaker 1: and the destruction of the Black Wall Street in Oklahoma.
[1:24] Speaker 1: Plus you'll be telling us how we can participate. Please
[1:27] Speaker 1: welcome the Money Making Conversation Master Class. Jasmine Young. How
[1:32] Speaker 1: you doing, Jasmine?
[1:33] Speaker 2: I'm doing well.
[1:34] Speaker 1: How are you pretty good? First of all, where are
[1:36] Speaker 1: you based? Just get that out the way.
[1:39] Speaker 2: Based out of Atlanta, Georgia?
[1:41] Speaker 1: Are you are you? Are you born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia?
[1:44] Speaker 1: Are you relocated?
[1:46] Speaker 2: Actually no, I'm not in an Atlanta native. I was
[1:48] Speaker 2: born in Jackson, Alabama and raised in Indian Reeds. It's
[1:51] Speaker 2: about an hour above Mobile, Alabama.
[1:54] Speaker 1: Now Jackson, Alabama. Now you know, I'm from a big city. Okay,
[1:59] Speaker 1: So I have a different point of view versus what
[2:02] Speaker 1: your might be. So tell us about life in Jackson, Alabama.
[2:06] Speaker 2: Oh, it's very small. Everybody knows everybody. It's just a
[2:11] Speaker 2: very close knit community. We had we do have a Walmart.
[2:16] Speaker 2: That's one of the things that everybody has. We do
[2:20] Speaker 2: have a Walmart. We do have traffic lights, but most most,
[2:24] Speaker 2: most of us grew up and lived on our own land.
[2:28] Speaker 2: Dirt roads, had farms, you know, things of that native
[2:32] Speaker 2: very very country, very country.
[2:35] Speaker 1: Now now, and how did you get out of Jackson?
[2:38] Speaker 1: Was it education and broachrador Jackson? Job opportunities? How did
[2:42] Speaker 1: you get out of Jackson? What motivated you get out
[2:44] Speaker 1: of Jackson?
[2:45] Speaker 2: It was definitely education. I left. I left my hometown
[2:50] Speaker 2: on a full scholarship to Alabama and m University in Huntsville, Alabama.
[2:55] Speaker 2: And I knew that I was going to leave and
[2:58] Speaker 2: actually go to college and be a c PA as
[3:00] Speaker 2: early as the eleventh grade. So I knew that I
[3:04] Speaker 2: was getting out and I was gonna use financial literacy
[3:08] Speaker 2: as a way to do it. And that's exactly what
[3:10] Speaker 2: I did. So I left Jackson, Alabama, and I haven't
[3:13] Speaker 2: looked back.
[3:14] Speaker 1: I love it. First of all, you still got that accent.
[3:17] Speaker 1: Now you're not getting rid of that accent. Now You're
[3:19] Speaker 1: not going to go to New York and act like
[3:21] Speaker 1: you're in New Yorker, not with this accent.
[3:23] Speaker 2: Astely not. I am a country girl born and braided.
[3:27] Speaker 1: I love it. I love it.
[3:28] Speaker 3: Now.
[3:28] Speaker 1: You went to the HBCU, you know, Alabama, And did
[3:31] Speaker 1: that have an impact in your life? Tell us about
[3:33] Speaker 1: that black excellence that they're teaching academically, and Uh, these hbc.
[3:37] Speaker 2: Youths absolutely in a world where we are the minority,
[3:42] Speaker 2: going to a place where we were the majority and
[3:44] Speaker 2: we were treated as such really helped, I would say,
[3:49] Speaker 2: my self esteem. And it also helped how I looked
[3:53] Speaker 2: at myself when it when it came to a professional
[3:56] Speaker 2: in this big world outside of an HBCU, it kind
[3:59] Speaker 2: of it kind of built me for what was to come.
[4:04] Speaker 2: And especially with the teachers that were there, they prepared
[4:08] Speaker 2: us in a way that I feel like I would
[4:11] Speaker 2: not have been prepared had I not gone to an HBCU.
[4:16] Speaker 2: So there were things that were taught to us, like
[4:18] Speaker 2: survival skills that I don't think I would have gotten
[4:22] Speaker 2: had I went to a had I chosen a different school.
[4:25] Speaker 2: And when I say survival skills, I'm not just talking
[4:28] Speaker 2: about you know, how to provide for yourself for things
[4:30] Speaker 2: of that nature. No, they taught us how to operate
[4:33] Speaker 2: in a world where we aren't the majority, where systemic
[4:37] Speaker 2: racism still exists. They taught us how to, you know,
[4:40] Speaker 2: always be prepared to over deliver an underpromise so that
[4:45] Speaker 2: you're always on the mark or better. And it definitely shows.
[4:50] Speaker 2: I came out in twenty thirteen and to say, I'm
[4:54] Speaker 2: proud of my classmates and even those before me and
[4:57] Speaker 2: after me have done some amazing things coming from an HBCU.
[5:02] Speaker 2: Whereas when I expressed that I would be going to
[5:04] Speaker 2: an HBCU, I was met with comments such as, You're
[5:08] Speaker 2: so much better than that, Why would you go there?
[5:10] Speaker 2: Why would you limit yourself? When in actuality, going to
[5:13] Speaker 2: an hbc YOU was the best thing I ever did,
[5:15] Speaker 2: and it didn't limit me. It actually catapulted me into
[5:20] Speaker 2: my career and where I am today, and I wouldn't
[5:22] Speaker 2: change the thing.
[5:23] Speaker 1: Yeah, you are a motivator. I'm telling you. You know, they
[5:27] Speaker 1: need to put your on tape. You know, they need
[5:28] Speaker 1: to put you like on the billboard right outside of Alabama.
[5:31] Speaker 1: A and M.
[5:32] Speaker 2: Yes, sir, listen to jazz when young.
[5:35] Speaker 1: She will teach you right because you know a lot
[5:37] Speaker 1: of people stereotypes, you know, will stop you from being
[5:43] Speaker 1: reaching great heights. Because always that's why I always talk
[5:46] Speaker 1: about you know where you came from, because a lot
[5:49] Speaker 1: of people say, you know, they put people a certain
[5:53] Speaker 1: educational reach because it's the same thing small towns in
[5:56] Speaker 1: inner city because I came from in the city fifth Ward,
[5:59] Speaker 1: that's where I was born to raise, So people like
[6:01] Speaker 1: me weren't supposed to get out accord to them, you know,
[6:04] Speaker 1: people like me, you know. And when I met people
[6:07] Speaker 1: that go, oh you different, you know, I never knew
[6:09] Speaker 1: how to take that when they said that, oh you're different,
[6:11] Speaker 1: you know, because because you know, it was always like,
[6:14] Speaker 1: what do you mean different? You know, because my teachers
[6:17] Speaker 1: prepared me to be this way. They told me what
[6:20] Speaker 1: I could be in high school. Because if they didn't
[6:23] Speaker 1: tell me these things, like your teachers told you at
[6:26] Speaker 1: Alabama and m I'll tell you, I would not be
[6:28] Speaker 1: the person I am today. But they saw something in me,
[6:32] Speaker 1: Jazz Whine, that allowed me to be able to sit
[6:35] Speaker 1: on this microphone and talk to motivating people like you,
[6:38] Speaker 1: because that's the story that you want to be able
[6:40] Speaker 1: to put out there. And what inspired me to do
[6:43] Speaker 1: this interview was that your drive about financial literacy spread
[6:47] Speaker 1: financial literacy around the world. One family at the time
[6:51] Speaker 1: talk to us about.
[6:51] Speaker 2: That absolutely, So I learned early on that my passion
[6:58] Speaker 2: for financial literacy was actually was actually my purpose, and
[7:02] Speaker 2: I'm blessed that both my passion and my purpose aligned
[7:05] Speaker 2: because I had a knack for numbers growing up. I
[7:07] Speaker 2: counted everything, even my food particles, my steps. When I
[7:12] Speaker 2: would repeat things to myself, I had to say, I'm
[7:14] Speaker 2: a certain amount of times, just really really big on numbers.
[7:18] Speaker 2: I didn't know that I had a great uncle who
[7:20] Speaker 2: was a math Jeanius, and apparently it was it passed
[7:24] Speaker 2: down to me, so I knew. Back in high school
[7:28] Speaker 2: when I was met with the comment that everybody wasn't
[7:31] Speaker 2: fed with a silver spoone like me, it infuriated me.
[7:34] Speaker 2: But it infuriated me to make a difference because in
[7:38] Speaker 2: all actuality, I don't believe I was fed with a
[7:40] Speaker 2: silver spoone. My mom and dad they grew up poor.
[7:43] Speaker 2: I mean, we're already in the country, but my mom
[7:45] Speaker 2: was one of eight, my dad is the baby bo
[7:47] Speaker 2: was seventeen. They were poor and they didn't have a
[7:49] Speaker 2: lot growing up. But one thing, one thing they did
[7:52] Speaker 2: for my brother and I is they worked very very hard.
[7:56] Speaker 1: So they came from they came from eight to seventeen,
[7:58] Speaker 1: and it is a two cats.
[8:01] Speaker 2: That's it.
[8:08] Speaker 1: The baby continue what just throw. I just had to
[8:11] Speaker 1: stop that when you said seventeen and then only just
[8:14] Speaker 1: two of y'all and they all on the farm.
[8:18] Speaker 2: But yeah, but we had a lot of cousins, and
[8:20] Speaker 2: we grew up on our own land. And I'll be honest,
[8:23] Speaker 2: back then, I was ashamed of where I came from
[8:26] Speaker 2: because I was. I lived on a dirt road, there
[8:28] Speaker 2: was no through traffic. Everybody knew everybody. It was farm
[8:31] Speaker 2: animals everywhere, trees, gullies, all types of things. And it
[8:36] Speaker 2: wasn't until I actually went to my HBCU and got
[8:39] Speaker 2: into my career that I realized that I really did,
[8:43] Speaker 2: I really did come from a rich heritage, not only
[8:48] Speaker 2: not only the place that I lived. It's called Indian Ridge,
[8:51] Speaker 2: but I'm an eighth Indian. I had no idea that
[8:54] Speaker 2: my grandparents were Cherokee Indians had no idea. So we
[8:59] Speaker 2: lived on on over seventy eight plus acres of our
[9:02] Speaker 2: own land. Back then, as a child, I didn't realize
[9:06] Speaker 2: that that was something to be proud of us. All
[9:10] Speaker 2: of these roads we walked the roads and ate from
[9:12] Speaker 2: eight from the fruit of the trees, plums, mustardized apples, pears,
[9:18] Speaker 2: pigs like we farmed, we had animals, pigs, horses, chickens,
[9:22] Speaker 2: like we had it. But from my standpoint, because I
[9:27] Speaker 2: had never left Jackson, Alabama before I went to college,
[9:30] Speaker 2: was this is country, Like, why can't we live in
[9:32] Speaker 2: the city we have, you know, a big house, we
[9:35] Speaker 2: don't have we don't have cable like, we don't have
[9:38] Speaker 2: a pool. You know, our rolls are dirt roads. But
[9:42] Speaker 2: I realized that what my parents gave my brother and
[9:44] Speaker 2: I was a basic foundation of how to be a
[9:47] Speaker 2: responsible financial adult. And they surrounded themselves with people that
[9:53] Speaker 2: had the financial education that they wanted to have, and
[9:56] Speaker 2: then they also held each other accountable for the finances
[9:59] Speaker 2: in the household, even down to me and my brother.
[10:02] Speaker 2: My dad would give us two people. My dad was
[10:04] Speaker 2: always gone before we got up to go to school
[10:07] Speaker 2: because he was already at work, but he would leave
[10:09] Speaker 2: two twenty dollars bills, two twenty dollars bills on the table,
[10:12] Speaker 2: and my brother and I knew that outside of any
[10:15] Speaker 2: school requirement, if we wanted to buy anything, whether it
[10:21] Speaker 2: was gas for the car, to get the band, practice,
[10:23] Speaker 2: basketball practice, softball practice, whatever snacks, anything, we had to
[10:28] Speaker 2: make that twenty dollars work. Because we weren't getting in
[10:30] Speaker 2: this and it was it was actually that budget that
[10:34] Speaker 2: my dad gave us. To this day, my parents have
[10:36] Speaker 2: never purchased a cell phone for me. Every minute I
[10:39] Speaker 2: had on my cell phone back then, and I'm dating
[10:41] Speaker 2: myself was a bit. But the minutes that I had
[10:44] Speaker 2: on my phone back then, I purchased them because my
[10:47] Speaker 2: dad taught me, hey, look this is how you get
[10:49] Speaker 2: You got to figure out how to make it work.
[10:51] Speaker 2: And it was that example that allowed us to be
[10:54] Speaker 2: able to have the things that we wanted to have.
[10:58] Speaker 2: And to my peers, because they weren't getting that, it
[11:00] Speaker 2: looked as if I was privileged or if I was
[11:03] Speaker 2: sped with a silver sponge, when in actuality, my parents
[11:06] Speaker 2: gave my brother an example and that was it, and
[11:10] Speaker 2: I realized that I wanted to That's that's actually when
[11:13] Speaker 2: I decided that I wasn't gonna gonna become a professional singer.
[11:16] Speaker 2: Mayor Michael Jackson. I was asked, it gonna be a
[11:19] Speaker 2: c P A.
[11:19] Speaker 1: Okay, though, can you sing those Jasmine?
[11:23] Speaker 2: You know I can hold the tune. You know all
[11:27] Speaker 2: those others will say different, but you know I've been
[11:31] Speaker 2: seeing since I was five years old. It's not something
[11:33] Speaker 2: that I do often anymore. I did sing a lot
[11:36] Speaker 2: in Hunt for You.
[11:38] Speaker 1: You know, you're a kid. They let you sing. As
[11:40] Speaker 1: you get older, they'll tell you the truth. Okay.
[11:46] Speaker 2: I sung, and I sung in college. And I also
[11:49] Speaker 2: sang on a praise team at my church.
[11:51] Speaker 1: Now, praise a lot of people now and there's a
[11:53] Speaker 1: lot of energy. Okay.
[11:55] Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know that's when I decided. And I
[11:58] Speaker 2: come from a music queen client familys Okay, now.
[12:01] Speaker 1: They got the musical in class family and then mathematically
[12:04] Speaker 1: inclas family, and you one eighth with your one age Cherokee. Yes, sir,
[12:08] Speaker 1: you're you're working it. You're working it. First of all.
[12:11] Speaker 1: First of all, Jasmin, Yo, this is an incredible interview
[12:15] Speaker 1: from an authentic tone. You know, because of the fact
[12:18] Speaker 1: that you were telling me who you are. You're honestly
[12:22] Speaker 1: breaking down with I think coming folk talk, coming folks talk,
[12:26] Speaker 1: because that's all I was offered, you know. And I
[12:30] Speaker 1: would complain. I would complain about the clothes I wear.
[12:32] Speaker 1: I would complain about everything, not realizing that my parents
[12:36] Speaker 1: did not allow anybody in our house to curse. We
[12:40] Speaker 1: couldn't curse. I didn't I tell people today I did
[12:43] Speaker 1: not utter a curse word till I was nineteen years old.
[12:47] Speaker 1: Nineteen years old because my parents raised me that way.
[12:51] Speaker 1: But I thought, oh my god, this is the worst.
[12:54] Speaker 1: But in the process of raising me that way, I
[12:57] Speaker 1: had to speak correctly. I had this No, I had
[13:00] Speaker 1: to have a vernacular because I always tell people you
[13:03] Speaker 1: curse you use you like using five words with a fireword,
[13:07] Speaker 1: because it just shortcuts your your intellect and shortcuts your
[13:10] Speaker 1: ability to communicate. And so when I hear your story,
[13:14] Speaker 1: and I remember going because I'm from Houston, Texas, and
[13:17] Speaker 1: we'd go with to Bowisier and Shreetpoint louis Ella and
[13:19] Speaker 1: we see black people on the farm and they had
[13:22] Speaker 1: little you know, the outhouses and the little pain by
[13:26] Speaker 1: the bed, and I would go, what the heck is
[13:28] Speaker 1: going on here? I can't get away from here. But
[13:30] Speaker 1: I realize now all my life I've been trying to
[13:33] Speaker 1: get back to that.
[13:34] Speaker 2: Jazmine, Absolutely, yes, yes, And it's like now when I
[13:38] Speaker 2: go home, I get the best sleep. Is so peaceful there. Wow,
[13:44] Speaker 2: it's so peaceful.
[13:45] Speaker 1: There, Jasmin. I gotta go to break here. Don't go nowhere,
[13:48] Speaker 1: because you got a lot to talk about. On the
[13:49] Speaker 1: other side because we want to talk about Black Wall Street,
[13:52] Speaker 1: want to talk about you because you motivated us to
[13:54] Speaker 1: stick around to hear the other side of the story
[13:57] Speaker 1: with jazzmin Yo Financial Literacy US at Financial Literacy Institute,
[14:02] Speaker 1: and she does a lot more than that, and she's
[14:04] Speaker 1: gonna tell you that because y'all can hear. She got
[14:06] Speaker 1: that country twang down.
[14:07] Speaker 3: Pack.
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[14:44] Speaker 1: This is Rashan mcdonald're listening to Money Making Conversation Masterclass
[14:47] Speaker 1: and I'm speaking to Jasmineyoung. Great story come from Jackson,
[14:52] Speaker 1: Alabama with the Alabama A and M. She knew in
[14:56] Speaker 1: the eleventh grade she was gonna be a CPA. She
[14:58] Speaker 1: just knew numbers talk numbers, Talk to numbers game. And
[15:02] Speaker 1: I always admire that because when I came out of
[15:04] Speaker 1: high school. All I wanted to be was a truck
[15:06] Speaker 1: was a forklift driver. That's what I wanted to be.
[15:09] Speaker 1: I didn't have any aspiration to be nothing more than
[15:12] Speaker 1: a forklift driver. Well, she's taking that financial literacy to
[15:15] Speaker 1: the next level. She has events coming up that we
[15:17] Speaker 1: wanted to talk about. The event called the third annual
[15:21] Speaker 1: Black Wall Street Black Business Expo. Tell us what that
[15:24] Speaker 1: is all about, Miss Jasmine Young.
[15:27] Speaker 2: Absolutely so, the Black Wall Street Black Business Expo is
[15:31] Speaker 2: a twofold event. Of course, we want to honor the
[15:36] Speaker 2: excellence that existed in the Greenwood District commonly known as
[15:42] Speaker 2: Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, back in the nineteen hundred. Unfortunately,
[15:47] Speaker 2: due to racism, that community was burned down and in
[15:51] Speaker 2: Black Wall Street. In the time of Black Wall Street,
[15:54] Speaker 2: that was actually a time where African Americans exemplified exceptional
[16:01] Speaker 2: amounts of wealth. However, since then, the wealth gap has
[16:06] Speaker 2: increased due to the demise of Black Wall Street. So
[16:09] Speaker 2: our event pays homage to our ancestors who exemplify Black
[16:14] Speaker 2: excellence through entrepreneurship, but it also is a call to
[16:18] Speaker 2: action for today's entrepreneurs to use that spirit of Black
[16:23] Speaker 2: Wall Street, one to recreate the generational wealth that existed
[16:28] Speaker 2: back then, but also to create social change and use
[16:32] Speaker 2: the black dollar to actually get legislators to make bills
[16:38] Speaker 2: and laws that will allow us the equity and the
[16:42] Speaker 2: social justice that we are. So it's long overdue for
[16:47] Speaker 2: us to receive. So we're using this event.
[16:50] Speaker 1: Go ahead, Now, why aren't you running for public office?
[16:56] Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm just hearing you. You you're talking
[17:00] Speaker 1: about social change, nin you just mentioned politics. You out here,
[17:03] Speaker 1: you have a good sense, you have a very very
[17:07] Speaker 1: marketable personality. You have an engaging tone of how you are,
[17:13] Speaker 1: your background, and how you're gonna move the community for
[17:16] Speaker 1: Why aren't you running for public office?
[17:19] Speaker 2: Well, I'll be honest with you. Going through school, I
[17:22] Speaker 2: actually hated politics. I hated government, which doesn't make sense
[17:27] Speaker 2: because I spent eleven and a half years of my
[17:28] Speaker 2: life as a government employee. But I have come to
[17:35] Speaker 2: have a passion for social action and making a difference.
[17:40] Speaker 2: And I realized that for our community, the way for
[17:47] Speaker 2: us to make I guess you could say move the needle.
[17:52] Speaker 2: And where we need to be economically is we have
[17:54] Speaker 2: to be civically engaged. The two are are synonymous. You
[17:58] Speaker 2: cannot have one without the other. And it just goes
[18:01] Speaker 2: back to the Black Wall Street store, which was one
[18:04] Speaker 2: of my inspirations. And you know, I'm actually toying with
[18:08] Speaker 2: the idea of actually going to law school. I've ordered
[18:11] Speaker 2: my Elsat book and I'm thinking that's the way I
[18:13] Speaker 2: want to go. But I would do not. I don't
[18:16] Speaker 2: want to sit for the bar because it's literally like
[18:18] Speaker 2: Seeta for the CPA exam, of course without numbers. But
[18:23] Speaker 2: I do want to see us in a better place.
[18:24] Speaker 2: And I believe as a community we can be in
[18:27] Speaker 2: a better place because we've done it before and Black
[18:30] Speaker 2: Wall Street is an example of it.
[18:32] Speaker 1: Now, when you thought of this idea, what motive did
[18:35] Speaker 1: you have? A did you pitch it to somebody and
[18:37] Speaker 1: they go, what are you talking about? What did you think?
[18:41] Speaker 2: I did not. I'll tell you what. What sparked this.
[18:45] Speaker 2: I actually wanted to do the event in twenty twenty,
[18:48] Speaker 2: but COVID hit so I killed the idea. I tabled it,
[18:54] Speaker 2: and then the murder of George Floyd happened in twenty
[18:57] Speaker 2: twenty one. Actually this past was the four years ago
[19:03] Speaker 2: when he was murdered, and I remember it like it
[19:05] Speaker 2: was yesterday, because this is what sparked me wanting to
[19:08] Speaker 2: do this event again, And what sparked it was, you know,
[19:12] Speaker 2: corporations start to state their claims whether they back the
[19:15] Speaker 2: blue or whether Black lives matter, and for those that
[19:18] Speaker 2: said they backed the Blue, our community said, okay, well,
[19:22] Speaker 2: if you back the blue, we're not gonna support you.
[19:24] Speaker 2: And some of those corporations actually changed their stans because
[19:28] Speaker 2: we decided we weren't going to spend money with them. Now,
[19:31] Speaker 2: if you're familiar with the financial industry and the African
[19:35] Speaker 2: American buying power, we are the largest group of consumers
[19:38] Speaker 2: in the world. So for a corporation to decide, you
[19:42] Speaker 2: know what, if this group of people are not going
[19:44] Speaker 2: to support us because we don't support what their social justice,
[19:48] Speaker 2: we got to change our stans. And it was at
[19:50] Speaker 2: that moment that I knew this is the answer to
[19:53] Speaker 2: all our social injustice issues is recirculating the black dollar
[19:58] Speaker 2: in our community and making the those that want our
[20:01] Speaker 2: money play by our rules. And that's why I started
[20:04] Speaker 2: the Black Wall Street.
[20:05] Speaker 1: We at business expos Congratulations, Powerful, Powerful Outlook. Powerful Outlook.
[20:12] Speaker 1: Now tell us how we can find out more information
[20:15] Speaker 1: about this and also get in touch with you, and
[20:17] Speaker 1: I'm speaking to Jasmine Young absolutely.
[20:20] Speaker 2: So you can go to Blackwall Street Atlanta dot org
[20:24] Speaker 2: and if you want to buy tickets, if you want
[20:26] Speaker 2: to be a vendor, or if you want to participate
[20:29] Speaker 2: in the parade that's going to happen before the event,
[20:32] Speaker 2: you can sign up literally right there on the website.
[20:35] Speaker 2: We're going to be having mother Vola Ford Fletcher at
[20:38] Speaker 2: our special guest this year. For those that don't know her,
[20:41] Speaker 2: she is one hundred and ten years old. She just
[20:43] Speaker 2: turned one hundred and ten and they tent and she
[20:46] Speaker 2: is the oldest living survival of the Tulsa race Master
[20:48] Speaker 2: that destroyed Blackwall Street. I was able to meet her
[20:52] Speaker 2: last year at form a relationship with relationship with her
[20:55] Speaker 2: and now I currently serve as her CPA and I
[20:57] Speaker 2: sit on the board of her foundation. So I'm bringing
[21:00] Speaker 2: her to the event this year, of course, to pay
[21:02] Speaker 2: Homas to her, to pay Homas to black Wall Street
[21:05] Speaker 2: and connect my inspiration with with a piece of the
[21:09] Speaker 2: actual Black Wall Street. So we're gonna be having a
[21:11] Speaker 2: parade for her this Saturday, June first, at eight am
[21:15] Speaker 2: down Main Street in College Park, where she's gonna be
[21:19] Speaker 2: the Grand Marshall, so you can come out to the parade.
[21:21] Speaker 2: You can be in the parade and help us welcome
[21:25] Speaker 2: her to the city of Atlanta. And then you can
[21:27] Speaker 2: come out to the expo that will be at Essence Venue,
[21:30] Speaker 2: which is at fifty four to thirty nine Riverdale Road, Atlanta, Georgia,
[21:33] Speaker 2: three zero three four nine from twelve pm to five pm.
[21:37] Speaker 2: You can be a vendor, you can just attend. And
[21:41] Speaker 2: also we're giving out three thousand dollars in Krowger gift
[21:44] Speaker 2: cards to feed children to help fight food in security.
[21:47] Speaker 2: You know, school is out and kids turn their in
[21:49] Speaker 2: school stomachs off once they get out of school, so
[21:53] Speaker 2: we want to help parents feed the children. We're giving
[21:55] Speaker 2: away three thousand dollars in Krowger gift cards to do that.
[21:58] Speaker 2: And all you have to do is show up. So
[22:00] Speaker 2: all you have to do is literally go to Black
[22:02] Speaker 2: Wall Street, Atlanta dot org. Whether you want to buy
[22:05] Speaker 2: a ticket, be in the even be in the parade,
[22:08] Speaker 2: or be a vendor, you can do all of that
[22:09] Speaker 2: on the website. And then of course if you're just
[22:11] Speaker 2: interested in the Financial Literacy Institute and the programming that
[22:15] Speaker 2: we have, you can go to tf l I Inc.
[22:19] Speaker 2: Dot org and you will see all of the programming
[22:22] Speaker 2: that we offer in order to spread financial literacy into
[22:24] Speaker 2: underserved and underprivileged communities.
[22:26] Speaker 1: Wow, you know, this is an amazing interview. I want
[22:30] Speaker 1: to tell you this. I'm a fan, just me. I
[22:33] Speaker 1: am a srien. I am sold on your personality. I'm
[22:37] Speaker 1: served on your vision, I am sold on you. I
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[22:45] Speaker 1: Please bring your bar on board early for the fourth
[22:48] Speaker 1: annual because anything I can do to be a part
[22:52] Speaker 1: of this, you know. Unfortunately, I'm flying out of town
[22:55] Speaker 1: this weekend and I won't be back in time. I
[22:58] Speaker 1: may be back in time. What do you say, twelve
[23:00] Speaker 1: to win?
[23:01] Speaker 2: It's from twelve to five. I'm actually gonna fight.
[23:03] Speaker 1: You should come out, yep. I'm gonna see if I
[23:05] Speaker 1: can change my flight to get back a little bit
[23:07] Speaker 1: early because I would love to just meet you to
[23:09] Speaker 1: just let you know that the person you're talking to
[23:12] Speaker 1: is a person who speaks walks what he says he does.
[23:16] Speaker 1: And I'm telling you that Raushan McDonald is in your life, okay,
[23:20] Speaker 1: And I'm in your life for real because I can't
[23:23] Speaker 1: I cannot tell you in words how inspiring you are
[23:27] Speaker 1: as an individual, and anything I can do to help
[23:30] Speaker 1: spread the word like I'm doing today right now, I
[23:33] Speaker 1: will continue and I will continue to tell people you
[23:36] Speaker 1: are a blessing. Thank you for coming on Money Making
[23:38] Speaker 1: Conversation master Class.
[23:39] Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I appreciate you, looking forward to
[23:42] Speaker 2: connecting with you.
[23:43] Speaker 1: Oh, you will connect. She's she's the beast. She a beast.
[23:46] Speaker 1: Let's go and put it out there and tell everybody correctly.
[23:48] Speaker 1: She is the truth and the truth needs to be
[23:51] Speaker 1: told everybody. And thank you for coming on Money Making
[23:53] Speaker 1: Conversation Master Class.
[23:54] Speaker 2: Okay, thank you.
[23:56] Speaker 1: This has been another edition of Money Making Conversation Master
[23:58] Speaker 1: Class hosted by me McDonald. Thank you to all my
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