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Topic : Black Business Week July 24-30, 2023.

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89.9 KMOJ FM and KMOJ HD1 Minneapolis 8 ball, bringing.

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Unity to the community.

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89.9 KMOJ the people's station. What's.

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Up Twin Cities: it's your girl, Glam life, Kim and sitting to my right. It's my favorite brother in the Twin Cities Mr Anthony, Taylor favorite.

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My favorite is how you doing sis you know what I am blessed.

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I know you're blessed too I'm trying to be I'm counting my blessings.

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It's good to see you, you got to think about the.

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Was a good one yeah, that's a good song, Everything Is Beautiful in the world. The sun is shining gorgeous things.

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Out right here on West Broadway, so I'm feeling it man I've, been enjoying the sunshine.

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I hope it doesn't go anywhere forever.

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It's always good to see you, you.

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As well, we got a good show today.

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We got a good show that time of year again, it's that time of year, where it's a lot of community celebrations and community events and people outside a whole lot: more kids out of school and one of the things Kim we're going to talk about black business week. Right.

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Year we talk about black business week uh to have folks coming and and celebrate our vendors and our local businesses. You know we we don't uh always have to make. You know these billionaires more billions.

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Right, let's help.

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Out our small businesses, especially a small black business, exactly you know, I mean like you know, we got, we got billionaires going in rockets and stuff. We don't need all of that y'all. We.

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Don't need eat all that y'all. Let's keep the money right.

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Here opportunity, that's right: y'all, hey uh I am so excited. My name is Anthony Taylor with the City of Minneapolis. Coming to you live Minneapolis 360. your host, my partner riding shotgun Glam life. Kim, always a pleasure on this beautiful July day, such a beautiful day outside to.

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Doing something it's going to be a beautiful day, y'all for black business weekend I'll get into that I got a great guest coming on I talked to this sister earlier uh today, she's going to come on and drop all that knowledge about black business. Gyms gyms.

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Before I get on my my soapbox, just you know, listen when I give you all this information, please take advantage of it. You know me and Kim was talking when we're serious about supporting our local businesses. We don't need billionaires to be more billionaires and going into space, and all this other.

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Stuff and submersibles.

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And stuff and all that.

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I mean all you gotta.

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Do is just you know, being community and spend that money and I think it's super important, so I'm going to have her. You know she's new to the city, we're gonna get into her history a little bit of her business too. She don't know it, but we're.

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Gonna, you know we got a little chips.

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You know so she's gonna, let us know who she is and where she from, but uh let's just a couple of things y'all that I want to just get off here. Real quick before we get started. Y'all know if y'all been walking around these last couple eight the weeks air quality is bad. We've got all of that stuff. Kim coming from.

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All the smoking things like that towards it, making the air quality really bad, but just really y'all protect yourself. Please do you know when you got to stay inside, use a mask or something like that. Just make sure that you are carpooling if necessary, Kim just really I mean.

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It's especially if you have breathing problems already, or you know, asthma and all of.

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That, above right.

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You definitely want to be careful. You.

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Know so please do that and if you can avoid driving do so, you know avoid using the gas lawn mowers. If you got something else, you know my grandpa used to get them old, blade.

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I wonder you know: they're somewhere, I gotta mention that on back in the day.

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It took you hours to do it. You.

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Know nobody's about to do that. Bro I know, but you.

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Know I'm trying to have some helpful information.

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Right, everybody do something to.

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Protect yourself when it comes uh to that, so just really watch it and and take care of yourself protect yourself uh y'all. There is a registration now open for a team summer, media Camp. So representing you stories and experience summer. Medium Camp is a free two-week program for high school students interested in media technology. Storytelling registration is open, now, y'all, listen, it provides teams with an immersed creative and career development. Opportunity and tools have develop short documentaries, and we know the young people, love, documentaries and love telling.

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Stories being creative.

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You know Kim young people are always the one that drive all of this stuff.

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Right, they are right.

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Now you know they.

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Are very tech, savvy.

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And doing it big and doing it big y'all. So if you want your students to participate, they can bring their stories and a passion to life. uh There's two cohorts that'll be happening. They run from 10 a.m, to 4 Monday through Friday cohort one begins on the 31st of July and the second one August 14th, so listen write. This uh website down is speak. Minneapolis.Com, r-y-s-e, 23, again speak minneapolis.com, r-y-s-e 23 for your young people to get this really uh cool media, Camp experience and honestly I mean they they more savvy.

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So they might be teaching this classes.

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They will be, you know they so good at that, but make sure you share that information.

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Youth out here that's ready to Showcase and.

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Show off they're amazing, absolutely yeah, and they can get us to work. Our phones too, at.

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The same time, because I'm.

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Still, learning who you telling uh so yeah, that's all I wanted to do. Y'all want to I want to get. This show started. Listen. This is started Kim. This is black business week, I got a personal from the Civil Rights Department Shalonda, uh Shalonda Clark uh civil rights uh Department in the city is her first time on KMOJ welcome.

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Thank you see the thing about it. When you come with that energy, you got an open path to come back anytime right so.

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Love that appreciate it. Let's do I mean it's you're. You both were saying it's a gorgeous day, I feel like we get so few. We get so few of them. We also have the day off right.

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To be outside and just lay in the grass and all of that good stuff.

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We're gonna have to make a day off yeah day off day, just.

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Because, yes, just.

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Because, just because they and welcome Shalonda I know you're new to the city, let's just tell people a.

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Little bit about you, man, where you from you.

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Know your interest, what's going on with you.

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Wonderful well I, like a lot of people, am a transplant to Minnesota, born and raised in Virginia and I. Tell people I, went to college and never left so I worked for a very long time in higher education was up in New Jersey at Rutgers was down in North Carolina at NC, State and then I decided warm weather and sunshine was I had enough and I moved to Minnesota.

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For the last 11 years and now have made my transition into the city landed in the Civil, Rights Department started in April hit the ground running and it has been fantastic and it's wonderful to be here.

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Congratulations: yeah.

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Welcome to the city, yes, you're different, though, because you came to the snow I think most people run from.

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The snow told me we could have what you know when you came here. I could have went there. We.

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Could yeah we could have done a little a little trade-off right. The biggest thing you know I had to learn was lotion and layers.

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You got the right motion, yes in layers, and you can you can make it happen, 11 winter strong at this point. Okay,.

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Okay, that that's part of the black people tool kit right.

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Loosen and legs, because this water is.

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Definitely hard hey Shalonda, so listen I know you talking about black business week. What is what is black business week? Talk about some of the the the the um the Innovative things, or at least give us some information on why we having this.

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Wonderful, so black business week for those of you who may be hearing about it for the first time number one. This is a kickoff that we have in Minnesota here in Minneapolis to black business month, so August is actually black business month, and this is something that we do. That is National, so you will see events in Boston, Atlanta Memphis, all over the country right here in the Twin Cities.

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We start by kicking things off the last week in July, so this year is going to run from July 24th through July 30th, and that will Usher us into black business months, which is August and really. The purpose of this event is to shine some light on the hard-working folks from our community who have businesses or are thinking about starting businesses for our young people who are interested in careers and Entrepreneurship. It's really our time to say we want to give you some love. We want to give you some shine.

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We want to give you some customers and the theme for this year is actually building generational wealth. So we're really thinking about not just how do I pay my bills for this Saturday night, but how do I set my family up so that my great-grandkids don't even have to worry about money and we have events throughout the week. That's really going to I think be good for networking for Community for opportunities just to support one another, so we're really excited about it. Yeah.

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And I I love it and I love how you frame that right like come and support us bring some customers have some conversation, make some contacts. That's one of the the beautiful thing about black business week is right how we get together. We support each other and that's always a beautiful thing uh thing, especially in our community right.

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Absolutely- and it's it's one of those things where I think we think about you know. We know we're conscious folks that we want to support one another, and we know that black businesses tend to be the largest employers of black people, so the more businesses we have, the more successful businesses that we have, the more it's going to benefit our community. So it's just we hear all the time. How do we keep our money? How do we keep our wealth within our communities to make sure we support one another?

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Here's a way that you can do that yeah.

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Absolutely and it just always, when I hear about uh black business meet uh week, it just reminds me of Tulsa right and Black Wall Street, and how all of that money stayed in community and passed over many many times before it left their community and and one of the things that I think is important about black business weeks is there's so many events, that's happening for people that can be able to participate so kind of just talk to us about what kind of events are going to be happening. That week.

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Yes, so we have a lot of things: I I call it a little something for everyone. We will be kicking things off on Monday, the 24th we're going to be at 56. Drawing is the name of the business. We will be there for a happy hour. Some building generational wealth talking a welcome from some folks from Council, so we will be doing that to to get things started, but throughout the week we actually for our young people.

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So if you are a young person listening or you have a young person in your life, Ward 5 is hosting a job fair on the 25th. So if you're looking for work, you're like hey I need to get a little something going on. That's for our young people, our youth job, fair on the 25th, then for business owners who are thinking hey. How do I get connected with the city? How do I become a vendor? How do I grow my business?

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There are going to be a couple sessions for you all one we'll have a session on getting certified so making sure that you have all your ducks in a row. Your LLC is together. Your incorporation is together all of that good stuff. We I want to highlight that one of my colleagues in the Civil Rights departments on Thursday the 27th. If you want to do business with the City of Minneapolis, we have uh pretty big budgets across the city and why shouldn't your business benefit from that.

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So if you want to do business with the city, Thursday July 27th is the session for you. So it's going to range from happy hours to opportunities to meet vendors and do a little shopping. So I know. Amazon Prime is coming up, save some of your money from Amazon Prime, just say those that need to fly on fly to Mars off of our money. We can put that money right back into our own community, so you can do some shopping. You can learn how to grow your business.

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All sorts of things happening during that week talking.

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With Shalonda Clark from the Civil Rights Department about black business week, starting July 24th kickoff events are all week. You get more information at Minneapolis, mn.gov black business, and you talked about it a lot and Kim and I talked about it too right. This is this is so important and, and one of the things that I think is important about it- is that we can amplify or amplify our strength. We can celebrate our people, the creativity that we uh we always bring to this entire country in the world.

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So when we talk about the importance of black business week, why is that important to you, Shalonda.

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It's important to me because I know that especially the economics in America business ownership or ownership in general, whether that be real estate, whether that be the building that you live in, is one of the ways to build wealth and for our community. As you know, we think about. Let's use the Tulsa example. It's not that we haven't done this, but there is a history of US building things up and then watching them sometimes be violently taken away.

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And so, when I think about black this week, I want to focus on now is the time let's lift up. Let's celebrate, let's talk about what good things are happening when we think of how do I want to spend my money in a responsible way. This gives us an opportunity to be mindful about it, so it's like, if I'm going to spend it anyway. What is my, what is my opportunity to pass it along to someone in the community to support them? So then they can hire other folks from within the community.

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So it's important to me because I want to see us flourish. I want to see us grow. I want to see us live out our dreams. The way we want to- and this is one way we can do it talking.

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With Shalonda Clark civil rights Department black business week, you are a hundred percent right. There are so many brilliant businessmen and women and young people out there. Today in our community, I mean I, just even over the last couple of months, with a lot of things.

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uh Events in the summer, I just see so many beautiful things out there that they're from their clothes to the artwork to the food like a lot of this, is just so good, and just so many talented people like we have to be able to celebrate that right, because systemic racism is still prevalent in this nation right.

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We have to acknowledge the the struggle and the strength that we have come through over the the centuries that we've been here and then, when we talk about generational wealth right, we talk about and I think a lot of people necessarily don't understand what that means right. When people hear well to.

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Not wealthy, well, you know we're talking about generational wealth and how to build that and and I'm glad you brought the Tulsa example up as well, but talk more about this theme right talk more about this theme about black uh building, generational wealth.

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Well, this is a extraordinarily important and one of the one of the reasons why it was chosen to be. The theme is really we realize we've had centuries of policies and redlining, as we know, uh the highway 94 going through Rondo, destroying the neighborhood, destroying the businesses there so really thinking about for us. How can our community level fit and part of how we can do that is really thinking about again what kind of world what kind of experience? What kind of things do I want to?

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Not just leave my children, but my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren, so a lot of the week is going to be focused on helping entrepreneurs start their businesses. So if you have an idea and folks have told you hey, you are really great at X, Y and Z. If you are a designer, if you are a stylist, if you have an idea for a financial firm or you want to start a bank, this is your opportunity to learn. Okay, how do I, how do I get started? What are the steps if you already have a business?

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We want to highlight you, we want to give you some light, we'll give you some love.

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We want to give you some new clients, and so that will all be a part of how we build that wealth, because successful businesses get to be passed along to the Next Generation and the Next Generation and the Next Generation, and that's what we're hoping to be able to start we're also going to have an event highlighting ways that entrepreneurs can develop and own real estate, which we we talked a little bit about, because ownership is going to be very important, so, whether it's a building where you're, where you own the building where your business is or how you can develop rental property, we're going to have a legal Workshop.

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So we can support you all in protecting your legacy. So if you have something going on and you're thinking, all right, I want to make sure if, for some reason, I'm not here tomorrow, that my family is set up they're ready to go, we have the proper paperwork in place, don't be like Auntie Aretha Franklin. She got the will and the sofa and the family is fighting one another we're going to have it all straight, so you so everybody knows what your intentions are and we're going to assist you with that.

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So we're not just going to tell you. This is what you need to do. We are going to provide the resources so that we can. We can get her done if you will yeah.

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Yeah and I mean that that's those are a beautiful uh talking points and I'm I'm glad you said that, because a lot of times we just not prepared for our future anything about it and I hear this all the time it's like you know we were. We were brought to this country and enslaved right. So, if you think about generational wealth, imagine you were playing a basketball game against me and you and and I spotted you 200 points right off.

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The top I mean you, you I've already had a head start in building generational wealth and then how do we actually understand that and and protect ourselves in the future within I? Think this is so vital and so important that you, you said that uh Shalonda and one of the things I I want to talk to you too about is as well. Excuse me is that you know a lot of times.

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We have these events and we have these events and he's he's meetings and these celebrations, but there's a lot of stuff that doesn't like needs to be done, follow up after the fact right. So so talk about correct, like how do we stay connected as far as after this right right.

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That is a wonderful question because you're right, we don't want to start something and then it's like hey wait what happened and and then next then it's next July.

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It's really for us about one helping folks build their network, but also helping folks get connected to offices throughout the city that are here to serve like we have a small business office. I, don't know if folks out, there know that, but we do and those are folks who can help you one. Is this a business? How do I get things set up? How do I get payroll set up? How do I make sure you know I'm checking all the boxes.

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As I mentioned, we have a compliance office within the Civil Rights department, where we can help you get things going, so you can become a vendor with the city, so it is really thinking about using next week as the beginning. So next week is, if you've been thinking, okay, I need to start this or I need to do this or I need to regroup next week is a wonderful time to start.

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You can pretend it is your wealthy New Year and you will start doing those things you're going to meet people and then you're going to follow up because we are going to stay connected, we're going to stay connected because you're going to go to the website. Minneapolis mmn.gov backslash black business week, you're going to go there you're going to register for things and we're going to keep in touch we're going to keep in touch because you're going to be at events, you're going to meet us and you're going to you.

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Listen to this you're going to share this interview. If you're listening- and you know someone who's like- oh hey- they should they should go to this- make sure that you pass this information along. Let's just let's, let's spread this word of mouth like like the cookout. Let's, let's go.

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And and Shalon I want to ask like Kim a question because she's a businesswoman, an entrepreneur like how important is getting information and knowing what you're doing right like or was it even hard for you to access that information?.

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Really hard and I get a lot of people who even ask me questions.

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They don't know where.

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And, like even I'm so happy that you announced about this today, because I had no clue that it was even happening, and so I want to be like I was writing down. Notes like okay I'll, be there every day.

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But but it's that important in Sharing, like I, said sharing the information him, but it is important that I mean like the whole building generational wealth, like anybody can start a business, especially after um covet. You know, hit everybody was sitting at home. Had all these brilliant ideas and they're, like you know, hey creating llc's.

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Them to use, but now what do you do after that? And that's why I think a lot of people? You know just how to build business. Credit like these are a lot of the questions that I get all of the time, and so I'm excited to go on my pages and share this information as soon as I get off. This show and I hope that, like you say it spreads like wildfire right.

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We want everybody to tell a friend to tell a friend to tell a friend, because absolutely and and as you said, the relationships right meeting the people following up hanging around people who are doing similar or you know something like you're doing, but maybe on a higher or better larger scale. So that way, you're able to you know, stay motivated, absolutely right and to take your business to the next level. So 100.

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And I'm gonna say this and I'm gonna give you the last word like when you are able to be in spaces with like-minded people. It helps out quite a bit because what you can do is you can share your story like. Oh, this happened to me. This is what happened and guess what this is. What I did, who I connected with, like that's the most important thing in the world, because us as a people are always trying to support each other right.

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You know we want to give people the the information they need, because we want you to succeed, because if you succeed I succeed, my community could succeed so.

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That's the most important don't be that person holding on to information we gotta share correct yes and.

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I'm gonna give you the last word: Miss Clark like to you like one of the things I think and for me, I would say, is most important is just being in community and how important is that to you? I mean you've been here for over 10 years now, just how important it is is being in community and sharing information to you.

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To me, this is what is vital. That's why I'm so I'm excited to be here. If you all could see me, I have a smile on my face because I know what is happening. I live here too, like all of us are here we're not somewhere else, and so we know the growing pains. We know what we've been through. We know our experience and this is an opportunity for us to do something awesome. This is an opportunity for us to start fulfilling the the dreams that we have.

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This is an opportunity for us to really just find out. Hey the city you're here you're paying taxes, we have resources for you. We are here to serve you in City, Hall, City Hall is the people's Hall, and so everything that we are doing is supposed to be benefiting all the people of the city, and so I just want that word to be out there and spread that to the community of.

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If there's an issue, let us know there's somebody or some office or some division, that their whole purpose is to be there to help you and so, like I said we have the small business department right there in the city, so everything that you're thinking about if you're like I, don't even know where to start. You can start there start with these events next week and we're going to be excited to meet you and to see black businesses for us and grow.

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Yeah, that's that's a beautiful thing! Listen I, I, appreciate you uh coming on talking about uh black business week. It starts off July, 24th uh and the events are week long and uh for a first timer you did a great job. I'm gonna give you about 10 seconds. To get your shout outs. All who you want to shout out to I ain't did that in a while, but I want to welcome you.

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Yourself, some shots.

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I, do I want to give a shout out to my colleagues in the Civil Rights Department, my parents, who are listening in Richmond Virginia and to all the black business owners out there. uh We love you, we support you. We are here to serve you and we hope to see you next week or.

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Black this this week, yes I'm.

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Gonna come looking for you Shalonda.

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Thank you, sister I appreciate you have a blessed uh rest of.

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Your day, yes, will do you two uh do the same. Thank.

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You listen black Biz this weekend. Man.

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It's going down.

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It's going down everywhere this month, yeah there's a lot of stuff going.

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On it is so much going on and so I'm just here, for it all.

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Yeah man, yeah I'm,.

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Here for it all, but I'm excited about this, because you know hey, there's so many people who are listening if they haven't started a business and maybe they're considering starting one, then you still want to.

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On down- and they.

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Want to come shake hands, go.

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Some questions this is the.

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Perfect place to start it's perfect, so it's always a pleasure to.

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See you right until the next two weeks. That's right. One love kings and queens hey before we go. There is so much that is happening. July 27th, it's the South Side Community cookout and they are look looking for register. So if you want to be a part of the three on three basketball tournament, yes, oh bro, what you gonna do I'm a referee.

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Hey you know, all of this is free, so just you know come on be a part of it, whether you just want to come out for the bouncy houses for the good foods to shake hand and meet people of the community, but also, if you want to be a part of this basketball tournament, go to DS, don't shoot guns shoot hoops.

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Right, yeah, sh, dot, org again, that's DSG, sh, dot, org, one love, kings and queens until next time.