# Community Uplift: They bridge the technology skills gap for 9-12th grade students with creative aspirations.

An episode of [Money Making Conversations Master Class](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1264705641), 16 Jan 2025, 28 min.

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[1:04] Speaker 2: an accomplished and experienced executive passions lie and incorporating diversity,
[1:09] Speaker 2: equity and inclusion as an integral component of business strategy.
[1:13] Speaker 2: She currently serves on the board of Directors of the
[1:16] Speaker 2: ant Siphas Family Fund Corporation, whose mission is to embrace, inspire,
[1:21] Speaker 2: and motivate young creatives to propel them into successful careers.
[1:26] Speaker 2: Please welcome to the Money Making Conversations Masterclass, Doctor Glennis Lee.
[1:31] Speaker 2: How are you doing, Doctor Lee?
[1:32] Speaker 3: I'm great, Thank you, Thank you so much for having
[1:35] Speaker 3: me today.
[1:37] Speaker 1: I got a chance to meet you.
[1:38] Speaker 2: I was a named Man of the Year at the
[1:41] Speaker 2: by the Stemalanta Women Program and I was.
[1:46] Speaker 1: Thank you.
[1:46] Speaker 2: And you know, you get these honors and you don't.
[1:50] Speaker 1: Work for that.
[1:51] Speaker 2: You work to change the community, change individuals, moving people
[1:56] Speaker 2: forward and forward. And I look at your background, that
[1:59] Speaker 2: is you, doctor Lee. Why are you so engaged in
[2:03] Speaker 2: community uplift?
[2:05] Speaker 3: I just honestly believe in giving back. I think one
[2:08] Speaker 3: of the biggest lessons I've learned in my corporate career
[2:12] Speaker 3: that it's not just what you know and what you
[2:14] Speaker 3: can do, but it's who you know and who you
[2:18] Speaker 3: can network and how you learn from others. And so
[2:21] Speaker 3: that's just been one of my personal passions throughout my career.
[2:26] Speaker 3: How can I help others. I do a lot of
[2:28] Speaker 3: work in mentoring young people and mentoring and just supporting
[2:32] Speaker 3: through various foundations and most recently through the Antsifhast Family Fund,
[2:37] Speaker 3: which is as a musician, I grew up playing the
[2:41] Speaker 3: piano in church and singing and then got into the
[2:45] Speaker 3: field of technology, and all of these things are interrelated
[2:49] Speaker 3: and connect and help to build not only individuals, but
[2:52] Speaker 3: have a tremendous impact on our society and in our
[2:57] Speaker 3: industries and just in being successful in individuals. So it's
[3:01] Speaker 3: just something that's always been a part of me.
[3:03] Speaker 2: And so when you talk about the reason I got
[3:05] Speaker 2: you on the show, because you're on the board of
[3:07] Speaker 2: directors of the Anne Seifa's Family Fund Corporation, give us
[3:10] Speaker 2: a little background in history under Anne Sifha's Family Fund Corporation,
[3:14] Speaker 2: which is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and serves the Greater
[3:19] Speaker 2: Gwyne Gwinett County.
[3:22] Speaker 3: Yeset County students.
[3:24] Speaker 1: Yes, yes, ninth to the twelfth grade.
[3:26] Speaker 3: Correct, yes, yes, you're high school age students. So the
[3:31] Speaker 3: organization was founded back in twenty twenty three. It was
[3:36] Speaker 3: founded by Miss Latavio Woodward, who was also one of
[3:38] Speaker 3: the stem Atlanta Whim honorees and her family, her husband
[3:42] Speaker 3: and her five children, and the organization was founded in
[3:46] Speaker 3: memory and in honor of her mother, An Cephas, for
[3:49] Speaker 3: whom the organization is named. Miss Cephus's journey, as many
[3:54] Speaker 3: in that generation, was her dreams and aspirations were interrupt
[4:00] Speaker 3: it just by life's challenges, and she found herself having
[4:03] Speaker 3: to stop her education at age sixteen. But she had
[4:07] Speaker 3: a tremendous passion for technology. She wanted to work with computers,
[4:12] Speaker 3: and she did not get that opportunity at that time,
[4:17] Speaker 3: but she never lost that passion and that understanding for
[4:20] Speaker 3: how important education and having an education was. And you
[4:25] Speaker 3: couple that with her watching her grandson, one of Miss
[4:27] Speaker 3: Woodward's children we know as Offset, who's an accomplished artist today,
[4:32] Speaker 3: watching his journey and the challenges and the opportunities that
[4:37] Speaker 3: he faced as he began to build his musical career.
[4:41] Speaker 3: And so the family got together and they thought, in
[4:44] Speaker 3: honoring her, they would establish an organization that brought together
[4:49] Speaker 3: the desire for education and making sure that creatives got educations,
[4:53] Speaker 3: but embracing those creatives, helping them embrace their passion, but
[4:58] Speaker 3: to do so in a way that help them really graduate,
[5:03] Speaker 3: first of all from high school, to train them and
[5:06] Speaker 3: help them build those skills, not only from a creative perspective,
[5:10] Speaker 3: but to build those supportive skills that they needed to
[5:12] Speaker 3: be successful in industry, whether they selected music as their
[5:16] Speaker 3: final goal or even in other industries. To build those
[5:20] Speaker 3: supportive skills, those soft skills as well as our skills,
[5:23] Speaker 3: and help them to establish sustainable creative careers.
[5:26] Speaker 2: Cool, and we're talking about the ant Sefhast Family Fund Corporation.
[5:31] Speaker 2: My degree is in mathematics, which is directly aligned with STEM,
[5:34] Speaker 2: and this is what we're talking about STEM. You know,
[5:36] Speaker 2: we're talking about AI. We're talking about the next level
[5:39] Speaker 2: of opportunities that are being made available where you start
[5:44] Speaker 2: seeing electric cars, you start seeing these commercials, people are
[5:47] Speaker 2: actually having conversations with their cell.
[5:50] Speaker 1: Phones and general conversations. You going to see.
[5:54] Speaker 2: You go in stores and you see robots making pies
[5:58] Speaker 2: and service. I made this restaurant our pastors and the
[6:02] Speaker 2: server was not a human being. My food was brought
[6:05] Speaker 2: out on the cart by a robot. And so that's
[6:09] Speaker 2: the part of this conversation that we're talking about. And
[6:11] Speaker 2: that's why I was excited about bringing you on the show,
[6:15] Speaker 2: because you are looking at from a visionary perspective. You're
[6:19] Speaker 2: not looking at what has happened, but what will happen.
[6:22] Speaker 2: Continue the conversation, doctor Lee.
[6:25] Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, we find that this is the digital age
[6:31] Speaker 3: and technology is disrupting every aspect of our lives. I remember,
[6:36] Speaker 3: and I'm up dating myself, but when I went to college,
[6:40] Speaker 3: debit cards were just being introduced, and now people really
[6:43] Speaker 3: carry cash. Not only did they not carry cash, they're
[6:46] Speaker 3: using their phones to pay for things. So we see
[6:50] Speaker 3: where technology is really disrupting and taking over every aspect
[6:55] Speaker 3: of our society. And it's the same within the music industry.
[7:00] Speaker 3: Musicians can use AI to help with their songwriting process,
[7:04] Speaker 3: to expedite it, to provide more opportunities, more insights, more perspectives.
[7:10] Speaker 3: We use project management tools and you'll find this in
[7:13] Speaker 3: our programs where we actually go back we use We
[7:16] Speaker 3: introduce our students to Trello to help manage their projects.
[7:20] Speaker 3: So they're managing the creative process, their production processes, their
[7:26] Speaker 3: marketing processes, all using technologies. They use chat, GPT, they
[7:31] Speaker 3: use mid Journey, we're using Adobe. We're using all of
[7:34] Speaker 3: these emerging tools to teach them how to apply them
[7:37] Speaker 3: in their creative journeys. And I think that's so important
[7:42] Speaker 3: when we think about technology and our youth, we think
[7:45] Speaker 3: of just social media, but that's only one small portion
[7:49] Speaker 3: of what technology is and what technology can be used for.
[7:53] Speaker 3: So we want to make sure that they're exposed to
[7:54] Speaker 3: these tools so that they can go into a production
[7:57] Speaker 3: studio so that they can apply these in order to
[8:00] Speaker 3: produce their music and to help refine and expand and
[8:04] Speaker 3: grow in their creative side as well as as well
[8:07] Speaker 3: as embracing and cultivating the natural talent that they have.
[8:13] Speaker 2: Okay, cool, now, it's great to hear this because of
[8:15] Speaker 2: the fact that as a minority, as I am and
[8:18] Speaker 2: as you are, you know, we all all the last
[8:21] Speaker 2: to the table because no one wants to give us
[8:24] Speaker 2: the information and then all of a sudden, when they
[8:26] Speaker 2: provide us with the information, is like a handout, like
[8:29] Speaker 2: you know, you really don't deserve it. Here's something and
[8:31] Speaker 2: you get half of the information. That is why I
[8:34] Speaker 2: feel that diversity equit inclusion, which is about diversify and
[8:39] Speaker 2: sharing opportunities, has been beat up because it's been changed
[8:45] Speaker 2: in the way it's being presented.
[8:47] Speaker 1: It makes a handout and it's never been a handout.
[8:51] Speaker 2: It's just cutting up the pie because you still got
[8:53] Speaker 2: to qualify, you still got to pull out the PaperWorks.
[8:56] Speaker 2: If you're not qualified, you don't get to participate. But
[9:00] Speaker 2: politically it has been politicized. And so how do you
[9:03] Speaker 2: avoid a program like this The an Cephuss Family Fund Corporation,
[9:08] Speaker 2: which is the Dynamics of Educating ninth through twelfth, a
[9:12] Speaker 2: pilot program that runs simultaneously with the school period, from
[9:17] Speaker 2: becoming politicized The lead, You.
[9:20] Speaker 3: Know, that's an excellent and excellent question. I think that
[9:25] Speaker 3: no one can dispute the fact that technology is disrupting
[9:30] Speaker 3: our society, and therefore, in order to succeed in society,
[9:37] Speaker 3: you have to understand technology, and especially technology and how
[9:42] Speaker 3: it's used in whatever industry you plan to pursue. So
[9:45] Speaker 3: what we aim to do is we're going to give
[9:48] Speaker 3: our kids what they need and as well as make
[9:51] Speaker 3: sure that they also follow through with those fundamental aspects.
[9:56] Speaker 3: We're not saying you don't have to go to high school.
[10:00] Speaker 3: You have to go to school. We want you to
[10:01] Speaker 3: go to school. This is an important piece of your
[10:05] Speaker 3: of your training, and of your development. So we are
[10:09] Speaker 3: really looking to help incorporate those things and as a
[10:13] Speaker 3: as an organization, we're providing what they may not get
[10:16] Speaker 3: in a mainstream environment. Many of our schools don't have
[10:20] Speaker 3: these types of programs, but there are many of our
[10:23] Speaker 3: high schools that do. I know Atlanta Public Schools they
[10:26] Speaker 3: have a full blown music production studio in one of
[10:31] Speaker 3: their high schools. So, but again, all of our students
[10:35] Speaker 3: may not get the opportunity to participate in those programs
[10:39] Speaker 3: because they have to have the grades. Yes, it's all
[10:41] Speaker 3: about inclusion. It's all about providing them that opportunity, but
[10:46] Speaker 3: we also have to make sure that our youth understand
[10:49] Speaker 3: the importance of those opportunities.
[10:51] Speaker 1: Before we go any further ins interview, how do they
[10:53] Speaker 1: get in touch with you? How is their website?
[10:55] Speaker 2: Because I want people to start, we're doing their research,
[10:58] Speaker 2: start in this process of writing down the right contact information,
[11:02] Speaker 2: because that's what happens as well. It's so many great
[11:05] Speaker 2: programs of our programs out there, but nobody knows how
[11:08] Speaker 2: to participate because guess what, they don't have the right
[11:10] Speaker 2: contact information. How does one if they're listening to this interview,
[11:15] Speaker 2: how does one participate or get their child involved?
[11:18] Speaker 3: They can go directly to the ANCIPHAST website. It's an
[11:21] Speaker 3: a n n ceph us ff dot org.
[11:28] Speaker 1: Cool. Now that's great.
[11:30] Speaker 2: Now, what are the goals for twenty twenty five with
[11:34] Speaker 2: the foundation and the kids nine through twelve, ninth through
[11:38] Speaker 2: twelfth grade.
[11:39] Speaker 3: So we ran a pilot program last school year where
[11:42] Speaker 3: we service nine students in Gwinnett High School in the
[11:45] Speaker 3: Gwenette County High School System, and we've refined the program
[11:51] Speaker 3: a bit so students can go on right now register
[11:55] Speaker 3: and even for the remainder of the remaining months of
[11:58] Speaker 3: the school year, we provide them with the exposure, with
[12:02] Speaker 3: the instruction to participate in the program. So let me
[12:07] Speaker 3: step back and explain our flagship program. It's called the
[12:11] Speaker 3: three R nine in program. It stands for three roles
[12:15] Speaker 3: in nine months. So typically we expose our students to
[12:20] Speaker 3: the creative side songwriting, composing, recording, then the business side,
[12:26] Speaker 3: the marketing, the management, the operations, and then the technology
[12:31] Speaker 3: side how insect the intersection of music and technology, so
[12:34] Speaker 3: they get they get an opportunity to experience all of
[12:38] Speaker 3: the aspects. So if you're an artist, and yes you're creative,
[12:41] Speaker 3: you're going to focus on your craft, but you need
[12:44] Speaker 3: to know all of the pieces behind the scenes that
[12:47] Speaker 3: help you to become that artist, that help you in
[12:50] Speaker 3: a performance. One of our students last year got an
[12:53] Speaker 3: opportunity to attend the Drake Concert and to see the
[12:56] Speaker 3: set production that has to go on, how that has
[12:59] Speaker 3: to online, the music. So this program exposes our students
[13:04] Speaker 3: to all of that. So it's not that we're teaching
[13:06] Speaker 3: them their craft. They are incredibly talented, incredibly talented youth.
[13:13] Speaker 3: We had one student that actually played nine different instruments
[13:17] Speaker 3: and wrote songs. So you have these children that have
[13:20] Speaker 3: this natural talent that we want to cultivate, that we
[13:23] Speaker 3: want to expose. So this program gives them an opportunity
[13:27] Speaker 3: to have hands on experience doing that. So we have
[13:30] Speaker 3: virtual classes, we introduce them to experts in the industry,
[13:34] Speaker 3: they are able to ask questions, they were able to learn,
[13:38] Speaker 3: and then we have these networking opportunities that they have.
[13:41] Speaker 3: But we also visit studios so they can get some
[13:43] Speaker 3: of that hands on experience and then they are able
[13:46] Speaker 3: to collaborate not only with their peers that may have
[13:48] Speaker 3: different skill sets, they can showcase their skills with one another.
[13:53] Speaker 3: They are able to showcase at the end of the
[13:55] Speaker 3: school year those skills and just getting them an opportunity
[14:00] Speaker 3: unity to build their technology skills, to refine to accelerate
[14:05] Speaker 3: and just and to just improve how they can deliver
[14:09] Speaker 3: their talent.
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[14:39] Speaker 1: I'm talking to doctor Glennis Lee.
[14:42] Speaker 2: She is on the board of the Ann Sifas Family
[14:45] Speaker 2: Fund Corporation. We mentioned Offset earlier, you know, just letting
[14:48] Speaker 2: everybody know it's not about meeting Offset. She said three things.
[14:53] Speaker 2: There are three things you have to do. Not meet
[14:55] Speaker 2: him and get the linograph for herself. You know you
[14:58] Speaker 2: might you might not show up to graduation. So just
[15:01] Speaker 2: know this is a nine month program, so you got
[15:04] Speaker 2: a period of time. You have to accomplish some tasks
[15:07] Speaker 2: before you even meet him. There's no guarantee. The guarantee
[15:10] Speaker 2: is this is a STEM based organization. There's about creative,
[15:14] Speaker 2: technology and business those three levels. Now, being my background,
[15:18] Speaker 2: you know I want in the stand up comic I
[15:20] Speaker 2: managed a superstar talent like Steve Harvey, currently manages Steven
[15:25] Speaker 2: A Smith Sherry Shepard.
[15:27] Speaker 1: Talk show host. So I know I met a lot
[15:31] Speaker 1: of Beyonce.
[15:31] Speaker 2: I introduced her on stage back in Houston a law
[15:34] Speaker 2: Whence she was a member of the Destiny's Child alow
[15:36] Speaker 2: with Kelly Rowland Michelle Weavers. So I can speak of
[15:41] Speaker 2: a lot of famous people that I've been involved with.
[15:43] Speaker 2: But in the process, that's the creative side I'm introducing you.
[15:47] Speaker 2: You've seen them do stand up, You've seen them sing,
[15:50] Speaker 2: You've seen these people act, you see them on TV.
[15:53] Speaker 2: But it's the business side that creates the longevity of it.
[15:57] Speaker 2: Having the right lawyer, making sure that your music is copyrting,
[16:02] Speaker 2: making sure that you're not playing using music that needs
[16:06] Speaker 2: to be licensed, and they come back and say you
[16:07] Speaker 2: owe it? Is this amount of money that's the business now?
[16:10] Speaker 2: Because you know in this business, doctor Lee, is that
[16:14] Speaker 2: so many of these kids probably showed up with tapes.
[16:17] Speaker 2: You know, I got my mill, They ready to go.
[16:20] Speaker 2: They just want you to here's my tape. Where can
[16:22] Speaker 2: I get it played? Can I get it in the radio?
[16:24] Speaker 1: And all that stuff?
[16:25] Speaker 2: How do you slow down those individuals but still keep
[16:29] Speaker 2: them focused on doing it right.
[16:34] Speaker 3: It's funny you asked that question, But I think a
[16:36] Speaker 3: lot of the incentive is the money that they can
[16:39] Speaker 3: make and understanding, understanding that. If you don't understand these things,
[16:45] Speaker 3: you sign away your rights to your own creative license.
[16:49] Speaker 3: So you're signing your name away, you're signing your ability
[16:53] Speaker 3: to have sustainable, recurring passive income because you don't understand
[16:58] Speaker 3: how royalties work in the end history. You don't understand
[17:01] Speaker 3: that if you sign and that line says you do
[17:04] Speaker 3: X y Z. You mentioned having a great lawyer, that
[17:07] Speaker 3: this line says I have this this recording company or
[17:11] Speaker 3: this agency now owns your music. That means that you
[17:16] Speaker 3: don't own it anymore. So how do you protect your
[17:20] Speaker 3: your your your intellectual property? Yes, you are your asset
[17:25] Speaker 3: and how do you protect that? And I think when
[17:27] Speaker 3: you when you really get them, when they really understand
[17:30] Speaker 3: that piece, they become more open to Yes, let me
[17:35] Speaker 3: understand how this business is operating. And you will hear
[17:38] Speaker 3: many say I just want to write the music. Well,
[17:40] Speaker 3: you also want to live. You also want to make
[17:42] Speaker 3: the money. You also want to have income. You don't
[17:45] Speaker 3: you want you don't want to have to file bankruptcy
[17:47] Speaker 3: three years after you get your first big contract. You
[17:50] Speaker 3: want to be able. You want to learn how to
[17:52] Speaker 3: live and how to manage that money, even from a
[17:54] Speaker 3: personal aspect, as you, as you, as you progress in
[17:58] Speaker 3: the industry, as you grow, and.
[18:00] Speaker 1: Doctor Lee, I want to share this story. I want
[18:03] Speaker 1: to share the story what you're about.
[18:04] Speaker 2: Why is important to have the business side straight. I
[18:08] Speaker 2: was interviewing Jermaine Dupree and it was right around the
[18:11] Speaker 2: whole COVID side when the world was shut down, and
[18:15] Speaker 2: that's when he realized the business side that he locked down.
[18:19] Speaker 2: We call it mailbox money. It means that he didn't
[18:22] Speaker 2: do anything. He didn't write a song, he didn't perform,
[18:26] Speaker 2: and checks were coming in because he did the business right.
[18:30] Speaker 2: That means songs were still being played, songs will still
[18:33] Speaker 2: being streaming, and he was getting paid for that. And
[18:36] Speaker 2: that's what they need to understand. And that's what you're
[18:39] Speaker 2: telling these jungk people.
[18:40] Speaker 1: Yes, yes, if you do it.
[18:41] Speaker 2: Right, when you think the whole world is you retired,
[18:45] Speaker 2: you still get these checks.
[18:47] Speaker 1: You can get these checks to you.
[18:48] Speaker 2: You can actually pass these checks to your children if
[18:52] Speaker 2: you do it right business wise, correct.
[18:55] Speaker 3: Correct, correct, absolutely, and then that big hit becomes a
[18:59] Speaker 3: hit for the rest of your life. Even you know,
[19:03] Speaker 3: you know, I often you know, we often laugh about
[19:05] Speaker 3: Frankly Frankie Beverly amazed that they had that one or
[19:09] Speaker 3: two good albums and they.
[19:11] Speaker 1: Would before I let go come on, like they.
[19:17] Speaker 3: Never let go, They never let go down.
[19:23] Speaker 5: So them boys is seventy seven girl nineteen seventy seven,
[19:29] Speaker 5: since that doesn't happen music and maybe millions of dollars,
[19:34] Speaker 5: you know, and these songs have been read song and
[19:37] Speaker 5: they owned the rights to them. Every time somebody play
[19:39] Speaker 5: that song, or somebody redoes that song or puts a
[19:42] Speaker 5: rap on the bites, the.
[19:44] Speaker 3: Covers, the beats, everything.
[19:47] Speaker 1: We were talking that it's a legacy. That's what it's
[19:50] Speaker 1: really about.
[19:51] Speaker 2: It because what we discovered was that, you know, especially
[19:55] Speaker 2: a lot of songs and artists who were just singers,
[19:58] Speaker 2: you know, from the sounds of music, the Philadelphia sound,
[20:01] Speaker 2: the Motown sounds, a lot of sounds out of Memphis.
[20:05] Speaker 2: They were just artists. And so when the songs were played,
[20:08] Speaker 2: even though their voce was on.
[20:09] Speaker 1: It, they didn't get a check. They didn't get a check.
[20:12] Speaker 2: They were just performing. They got paid and guess what
[20:15] Speaker 2: got paid for their services. But the longevity of being
[20:18] Speaker 2: able to own the rights to that music they didn't
[20:20] Speaker 2: get to participate in and that as a publisher. And
[20:23] Speaker 2: that is what we're talking about. We're talking about what
[20:26] Speaker 2: the ant Sipho's Family Fund Corporation does. They're engaging kids
[20:32] Speaker 2: ninth through twelfth grade with a program.
[20:34] Speaker 1: This is the second year of the program. They're the
[20:36] Speaker 1: pilot program with nine young students. And these nine young
[20:39] Speaker 1: students are now aware of the creative process.
[20:43] Speaker 2: That's what introduced them into the program, the ant Siphas's
[20:46] Speaker 2: Family Fund Corporation program. But what they realized and what
[20:50] Speaker 2: doctor Lee realizes that if we don't teach these kids
[20:53] Speaker 2: about business, then they will not be aware of all
[20:56] Speaker 2: their technology advantages that are out there, like you said,
[20:59] Speaker 2: Chad Ai using music, to using AI to write music,
[21:05] Speaker 2: to be created with lyrics and all these different things.
[21:08] Speaker 2: Because that's where we are headed. As we close this
[21:10] Speaker 2: interview out and now I want to thank you for
[21:12] Speaker 2: taking time to do this. Let's make sure people know
[21:15] Speaker 2: how to get in touch with you and the organization again,
[21:18] Speaker 2: the organization is and Cphless Family Find Corporation.
[21:23] Speaker 3: Yes, you can go to our website. It's and cphis
[21:26] Speaker 3: FF dot org. It's spelled A n n ce p
[21:31] Speaker 3: h U s f F dot org. And of course
[21:36] Speaker 3: our call to action, we definitely need your support. We
[21:39] Speaker 3: are a nonprofit organization, so there is a big pink
[21:43] Speaker 3: donate button right there on the website, so please feel free.
[21:48] Speaker 1: Yes pink ka pink is it aka pink?
[21:53] Speaker 3: Well, our founder is a Delta, so it's just sisterhood
[21:55] Speaker 3: it at this point.
[21:58] Speaker 1: Your father being the o't they got a pink button? Ache? Kids?
[22:02] Speaker 3: See that's okay, We just that's that's all right because
[22:04] Speaker 3: she knows, she knows, freaking the buddy.
[22:09] Speaker 2: Yes, you know that's beautiful because you know, like I said,
[22:12] Speaker 2: I just want to let you know that it was
[22:13] Speaker 2: the first time I heard of this program and that's
[22:15] Speaker 2: not a bad thing.
[22:17] Speaker 1: It's that. But you need volunteers.
[22:18] Speaker 2: You need people like me who are willing to come
[22:21] Speaker 2: in and speak, who have a resume that will get
[22:24] Speaker 2: these kids attention.
[22:25] Speaker 1: They'll make sure they understand. But I guess I also
[22:28] Speaker 1: want to.
[22:28] Speaker 2: Know is the type of students that you are are
[22:32] Speaker 2: you that benefits of this type of program? Are they
[22:34] Speaker 2: at risk students? Are they students celebrated students? How do
[22:38] Speaker 2: these students find out about the program and who are
[22:41] Speaker 2: you targeting, doctor Lee.
[22:43] Speaker 3: Yes, we are really targeting those at risk creatives. Many times,
[22:47] Speaker 3: are you feel that if they want to pursue, particularly
[22:50] Speaker 3: your music career, and we often see this in the
[22:52] Speaker 3: sports arena too, that they let their academics slide. So
[22:57] Speaker 3: one of our first goals is to help contribute to
[23:00] Speaker 3: increasing our graduation rate in Gwinnett County among our young
[23:04] Speaker 3: among our at risk uths. So we want to help
[23:08] Speaker 3: motivate and inspire them to continue their high school education.
[23:12] Speaker 3: But in doing so in parallel and in conjunction with
[23:16] Speaker 3: also helping to refine and build and cultivate their creative aspirations.
[23:21] Speaker 3: So helping them see that it's it's not it's not
[23:24] Speaker 3: a zerosome game. It's not that you either do this
[23:27] Speaker 3: or do that. You do them together and if you
[23:29] Speaker 3: do it together well, you can propel your success even further.
[23:33] Speaker 3: So that's really that's really what we aim for. So
[23:37] Speaker 3: most of our students are average students, they're students that
[23:41] Speaker 3: have lost interest in school, So we really want to
[23:43] Speaker 3: help inspire them and motivate them to regain that understanding. Like, hey,
[23:49] Speaker 3: if you want to make money and if you want
[23:51] Speaker 3: to have money, you need to know your math.
[23:53] Speaker 1: You know, you have to know math.
[23:55] Speaker 3: So it kind of inspires them and gives them a
[23:58] Speaker 3: different perspective on how they view their high school education.
[24:02] Speaker 3: So that's who we're targeting now. We work directly with
[24:06] Speaker 3: our high school. So we go and we talk to counselors,
[24:08] Speaker 3: we talk to principles. Sometimes they identify students that say, hey,
[24:12] Speaker 3: this may be a great person for your program. But
[24:15] Speaker 3: we also communicated out to parents, We communicate it out
[24:19] Speaker 3: to the churches here in the great and then when
[24:22] Speaker 3: that county area. We want everyone to know about the program,
[24:26] Speaker 3: and to be honest, we haven't turned anyone away that
[24:29] Speaker 3: has expressed interest. We are willing as well as much
[24:33] Speaker 3: as our capacity allows us to to work with whomever
[24:37] Speaker 3: is interested because we are so committed to helping our
[24:40] Speaker 3: youth and helping our young creatives be successful and have
[24:44] Speaker 3: and establish sustainable creative careers.
[24:48] Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna tell you that, doctor Lee, I'm a
[24:50] Speaker 1: fan of yours. Thank you for.
[24:52] Speaker 2: Coming over the show, you know, and spreading that denied
[24:55] Speaker 2: divine nine love.
[25:02] Speaker 1: But like I told you earlier, I'm gonna make a man.
[25:04] Speaker 1: So I've been good, I'd have been good. And now
[25:10] Speaker 1: come on, now, come on, now you ski we a can't.
[25:14] Speaker 2: We're gonna have a lot of thought in this life
[25:16] Speaker 2: AND's and this year is just the start of a
[25:18] Speaker 2: long term relationship. Anything I can bring to the table
[25:21] Speaker 2: Money Making Conversations master Class. We're using the tool of
[25:24] Speaker 2: my voice and your interview of being able to promote
[25:28] Speaker 2: what you are doing in the community, because as we
[25:30] Speaker 2: go into this upcoming administration, their number one goal is
[25:35] Speaker 2: to stop, as they say, government participation.
[25:39] Speaker 1: And community oriented events.
[25:41] Speaker 2: And what we're talking about what she's what they're doing
[25:44] Speaker 2: over the Ant Siphast Family Fund Corporation is a community
[25:47] Speaker 2: oriented event. What we're saying public to everybody is that
[25:52] Speaker 2: if they're gonna stop helping us, that we need to
[25:55] Speaker 2: start helping ourselvesselves. And that is the number one takeaway
[25:59] Speaker 2: that you're getting this interview, and doctor Lee, thank you
[26:02] Speaker 2: for taking the time to allow me to have fun
[26:04] Speaker 2: with you, but also are powerful information that you guys
[26:09] Speaker 2: are doing in the community. And I love the fact
[26:11] Speaker 2: that when you see when I grew up, rappers was
[26:15] Speaker 2: just rapping.
[26:16] Speaker 1: They're just in the industry. Now you see rappers as
[26:18] Speaker 1: business people. You know clothing lines.
[26:22] Speaker 2: You know you saw Snoop Dogg. He sponsored a bull
[26:26] Speaker 2: game this last year or this year. And then you
[26:29] Speaker 2: see some of the richest people, they are billionaires. So
[26:32] Speaker 2: now the conversation of these wanted to be an entertainer,
[26:37] Speaker 2: Now you want to be a business person, Now you
[26:40] Speaker 2: want to own property. I feel with telling a better
[26:43] Speaker 2: story than when I was growing.
[26:45] Speaker 1: Up because it was just music.
[26:47] Speaker 2: Now twenty years later, you see the results of these
[26:50] Speaker 2: young people that I hope that you are building in
[26:54] Speaker 2: this organization will be twenty years from that. Their names
[26:58] Speaker 2: will be on Bowl games, their names will be on buildings,
[27:02] Speaker 2: their names will be changing lives of the next generation.
[27:06] Speaker 2: And I know the importance of what you guys are
[27:08] Speaker 2: trying to do. And again I want to thank you
[27:10] Speaker 2: and commend you for your efforts.
[27:12] Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Thank you for having us, and
[27:14] Speaker 3: thank you for giving us this opportunity to talk about
[27:17] Speaker 3: our organization and what we're doing. So again, go to
[27:20] Speaker 3: our website. We will be thrilled to have your support
[27:24] Speaker 3: both financially and if you know of a student in
[27:27] Speaker 3: the Gwenett County area that would love to participate, we
[27:30] Speaker 3: would love to have them.
[27:32] Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
[27:33] Speaker 2: Then, thank you for coming on money Making Conversation Masterclass.
[27:35] Speaker 1: You are wonderful.
[27:37] Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you so much.
[27:39] Speaker 2: This has been another edition of Money Making Conversation Masterclass
[27:42] Speaker 2: hosted by me Rashaun McDonald. Thank you to our guests
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[28:01] Speaker 1: Keep winning. Mm hmmm.
[28:07] Speaker 4: Mm hm hm

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