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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: This is something that is dope to see because before
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Speaker 3: the pandemic, I believe in twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 2: I believe, yeah, yep, I think of like the fall.
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Speaker 3: The fall of twenty nineteen, we were on a campaign
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Speaker 2: They actually mobile home investors, virus.
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Speaker 4: Yep, yep.
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Speaker 2: And then but we also met Ian. So at the time,
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Speaker 2: how old were you at that time?
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Speaker 5: I was just turned fifteen, So I was a sophomore
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Speaker 5: high school.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so you eighteen.
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Speaker 5: L seventeen, just graduated high school.
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Speaker 6: So graduations, thank.
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Speaker 5: You, thank you.
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Speaker 3: So when we met him, you know, he was fifteen
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Speaker 3: years old and we met him with his parents and
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Speaker 3: he was telling us about he had a program to
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Speaker 3: teach kids stem and technology and he was actually doing
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Speaker 3: that and it accelerated during the pandemic when everybody was
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Speaker 3: at home and the kids was at home from school
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Speaker 3: and they had developed like a whole program curriculum, and
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Speaker 3: then we interviewed them again during the pandemic and that
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Speaker 3: was obviously in twenty twenty. So now fast forward two years,
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, and he just said, seventeen years old,
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Speaker 3: graduated high school, and it's about to take over the world.
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Speaker 3: So this is going to be a dope conversation. It's
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Speaker 3: a you know, tracking the journey of a young superstar.
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Speaker 3: So first and foremot thank you for joining us.
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Speaker 5: Appreciate it, brother, Thank you so much for having me.
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Speaker 5: It's crazy because the first time I met you guys,
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Speaker 5: I was a sophomore. I didn't really know anything about
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Speaker 5: what was going on. I didn't know what direction I
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Speaker 5: wanted to go into. And so now I blink two
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Speaker 5: years later, I'm an adult now, and so I'm just
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Speaker 5: glad to be here. I appreciate shout out Earn your leisure.
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Speaker 5: You guys have done so much for our community through
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Speaker 5: market Mondays, through the podcast, through everything else. You've taught
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Speaker 5: me a lot, right, and so I'm still continuing to learn,
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Speaker 5: and I just appreciate you guys for taking the time
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Speaker 5: to have me on today.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, man, and our first conversation we had, you know,
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Speaker 6: we were early in the stages of doing our podcast.
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Speaker 6: I think we had maybe forty forty episodes at the time,
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Speaker 6: we're going to continue to that. So congratulate to you,
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Speaker 6: and congratulation to your parents or who I know who
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Speaker 4: So sleut to you, my man.
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Speaker 2: All right, So before we get this started, I gave
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Speaker 2: you the backstory. What's it golled again, Future twenty two?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, before we get this started, I gave
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Speaker 3: you the backstory. But I just want to give you
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Speaker 3: some kudos because you're not only doing your thing in
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Speaker 3: the tech world with your website, but you also are
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Speaker 3: working with McDonald's with their Future twenty two programs.
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Speaker 4: He's one of the rare people that selected.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's that's super super dope, and I'm sure
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Speaker 3: we'll talk about that during the conversation. But you know,
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Speaker 3: to work with a fortune five hundred company like McDonald's,
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Speaker 3: the golden arches is you know, it's an accomplishment within itself.
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Speaker 3: And you know, you think of McDonald's, you think of
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Speaker 3: a household name when it comes to food. But to
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Speaker 3: see them in the tech world and to see them
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Speaker 3: embrace young entrepreneurs such as yourself, I think it's really dope.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm sure we'll have that conversation, but just
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Speaker 3: wanted to congratulate you on that because I saw that,
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Speaker 3: and that's that's that's big dream Hustle Code.
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Speaker 2: That's your program.
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Speaker 3: We spoke about that during the pandemic and correct me
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Speaker 3: if I'm wrong, but that's the program that you started
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Speaker 3: to tease kids how to colde right.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, So Dream Hustle Code. The whole focus in the
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Speaker 5: beginning was to inspire kids and show them the possibilities
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Speaker 5: in technology and show them that they don't just have
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Speaker 5: to become an athlete, an actor and entertainer or rapper
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Speaker 5: to be successful. But now we're most so focused on
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Speaker 5: training kids to pipeline them and the job opportunities in
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Speaker 5: the tech space.
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Speaker 3: So talk about that. What how is it currently? How's
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Speaker 3: it scale? Since the last time that we spoke to you.
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Speaker 3: And what is the curriculum that Dream Hustle Code encompasses
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Speaker 3: right now.
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Speaker 5: So when we first started, when we first talked, we
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Speaker 5: had just started our Computer science and Personal development after
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Speaker 5: school program. Now, the first class we ever had was
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Speaker 5: eleven kids, and it was because of the pandemic, but
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Speaker 5: it really gave us the opportunity to see if everything
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Speaker 5: that we had done previously in person would work in
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Speaker 5: a virtual space. So since then we've been continuing that
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Speaker 5: after school program. In the summer of twenty twenty, we
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Speaker 5: ended up hosting our summer program for free when partnership
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Speaker 5: with McDonald's to on board three hundred students into that program.
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Speaker 5: And so on top of that. One of the three
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Speaker 5: one of in our curriculum and everything that we do
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Speaker 5: is broken down in the three phases. The first one
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Speaker 5: is inspired, the second one is the basic training like
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Speaker 5: introductory training, and then the third one is a training
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Speaker 5: to pipeline into job opportunities. One of the key ways
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Speaker 5: that we use to inspire kids is through one of
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Speaker 5: our events called teen Tech Live. So teen Tech Live
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Speaker 5: think of it is a combination of Coachella cees, a
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Speaker 5: massive gaming tournament all in one. There's entrepreneurship, technology, motivational speakers,
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Speaker 5: gaming sports. And our first one we hosted it was
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Speaker 5: during Black History Month in twenty twenty one February. We
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Speaker 5: had over seven five hundred student participants with large corporations
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Speaker 5: and guest speakers such as two time Super Bowl champ
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Speaker 5: mister Ray Lewis Board. And then our second one we
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Speaker 5: did during Black or during Computer Science Education Week in
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Speaker 5: December of twenty twenty one. We had over sixteen thousand,
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Speaker 5: five hundred students. We had Kyrie Irving come on board
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Speaker 5: and that was just an amazing experience because I got
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Speaker 5: to meet one of my idols. I grew up watching Kyrie.
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Speaker 5: Then we had Phase Clan, We have McDonald's come on
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Speaker 5: board as well, and other companies and some tech billionaires,
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Speaker 5: tech entrepreneurs come on board and share their experiences. And
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Speaker 5: so what we're working on right now is also a
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Speaker 5: multi million dollar project which will revolutionize the way technology
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Speaker 5: is being taught to kids, especially in my generation generation
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Speaker 5: Z to them popeline them into those corporations into the
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Speaker 5: tech space. So it's a lot going on right now.
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Speaker 5: We've been able to scale up drastically and now we're
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Speaker 5: looking to take it to the next step to impact
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Speaker 5: thousands and tens of thousands of kids' lives directly.
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Speaker 6: You know, one of your courterstones you talk about is
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Speaker 6: building wealth through technology, and so I'm wondering, at what
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Speaker 6: point in your life did you realize that was possible
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Speaker 6: and what has been the reception when you're teaching these students.
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Speaker 6: I mean, that's a lot of kids that you're talking
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Speaker 6: about teaching, So what's the reception that you get from
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Speaker 6: this this generation that you're teaching or is it a
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Speaker 6: mix of gen z gen y and I guess, well,
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Speaker 6: I don't even know what generation we are, but what
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Speaker 6: is it like when you when you teach to different populations?
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Speaker 5: So I realized, I mean, the only one I knew
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Speaker 5: because I'm a numbers guy, right, So I like looking
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Speaker 5: at the numbers. And when I looked at what were
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Speaker 5: the top ten wealthiest people on the planet, I saw
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Speaker 5: that at least seven of them made their wealth through technology.
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Speaker 5: Also most of them had investments, but it was all
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Speaker 5: through technology for the most part. And so that's what
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Speaker 5: really allowed me and gave me the opportunity to have
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Speaker 5: a vision of Okay, technology is a pathway that I
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Speaker 5: can grow wealth. But you talked about how what was
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Speaker 5: some of the impact and how was it received. The
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Speaker 5: thing is, technology is self sometimes can't be born to
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Speaker 5: people that come from our community because the only thing
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Speaker 5: that we care about is sports, music and entertainment and
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Speaker 5: video games. That's like one of the key stone that
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Speaker 5: get kids on board. And so what we found is
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Speaker 5: that finding a way to combine their interest and culminate
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Speaker 5: or combining that with technology, that's what grabs their attention. Now,
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Speaker 5: I've had stories of kids who came into our program
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Speaker 5: where it just changed her life forever. Like, for example,
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Speaker 5: I had this student named Xavia. She came in to
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Speaker 5: our program in the beginning of the pandemic. I think
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Speaker 5: it was our third week, and so during that she
9:24
Speaker 5: had a brere a bunch of kids that were already
9:26
Speaker 5: further along than her in our program. But she came in,
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Speaker 5: was super excited, came in the chat, was talking, was
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Speaker 5: doing her work outside of class, and she was doing
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Speaker 5: so much work that she ended up surpassing the kids
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Speaker 5: that had started three weeks before her. Come to find out,
9:41
Speaker 5: because of her excitement, she ended up inspiring her own
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Speaker 5: dad to switch careers. Learned computer science and then going
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Speaker 5: to the tech space, and then on top of that.
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Speaker 5: I was just talking to her yesterday. She's fifteen, turning sixteen.
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Speaker 5: She's now working on a self paced certification for coding
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Speaker 5: so that she can get an internship at MIKE herself
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Speaker 5: by the time she turned sixteen. I have other kids,
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Speaker 5: or I had other parents out there, not just Generation
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Speaker 5: ZEB or Millennials, but I had there was a family
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Speaker 5: friend or a friend of the family. He was heard
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Speaker 5: about the work I was doing, heard about all this
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Speaker 5: computer science work, and so he decided to take into
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Speaker 5: his own hands, him and his wife to learn computer science,
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Speaker 5: and now he's getting a job into the tech space himself.
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Speaker 5: So I've seen not only impact in kids my age,
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Speaker 5: younger than me, but also adults who didn't even go
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Speaker 5: through our program but heard about the work that we
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Speaker 5: were doing. So it just it is, honestly, it's an
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Speaker 5: honor to be able to touch people's lives and the
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Speaker 5: way that we do or the way that I do,
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Speaker 5: because it shows that the work that I'm doing is important.
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Speaker 2: What areas of tech, you say, tech?
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Speaker 3: What areas of tech do you think are most beneficial
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Speaker 3: for young people to learn or what areas of tech
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Speaker 3: are you is your program focusing on, because you know,
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Speaker 3: we talked about like cybersecurity is something that's very big
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Speaker 3: different things, so what's your thoughts on that.
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Speaker 5: So in the beginning, we justocused on web development because
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Speaker 5: that's just the easiest learning how to build a website.
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Speaker 5: But a couple week months ago, we actually had a
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Speaker 5: chance the cybersecurity director from the White House actually reached
11:11
Speaker 5: out to us and asked to meet with us, and
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Speaker 5: so we had a chance to discuss with them at
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Speaker 5: a round table with some of the kids that were
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Speaker 5: part of our program and also some other administrators, talking
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Speaker 5: about the need for cybersecurity because they said that during
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Speaker 5: the pandemic there were about five hundred thousand jobs that
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Speaker 5: went unfilled in that space. And so that's another thing
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Speaker 5: that we're adding into our curriculum cybersecurity, because I mean,
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Speaker 5: there have been a lot of hacks recently that we've
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Speaker 5: seen in major corporations, and so that's a huge need
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Speaker 5: that needs to be filled. We've seen that countries like
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Speaker 5: China and Russia, they have their own people that are
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Speaker 5: hacking into our own systems, but we need to be
11:47
Speaker 5: able to defend our own systems as well. And so
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Speaker 5: another thing that a lot of people and I love
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Speaker 5: talking about this is web three point zero blockchain that
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Speaker 5: to me is definitely the future. Now I'm not saying
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Speaker 5: that it'll take over everything within the next ten years,
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Speaker 5: but you definitely have to be abreast of what's happening
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Speaker 5: in the future, because if you don't prepare for the future,
12:04
Speaker 5: you'll get left behind.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you talked about your partnerships and corporations.
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Speaker 6: I know you're part of the McDonald's Future twenty two
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Speaker 6: So tell me how did that come about.
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Speaker 4: What's experience has been like for you.
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Speaker 5: So I've had a relationship with McDonald's. As I mentioned earlier,
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Speaker 5: they partnered with us during the summer of twenty twenty
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Speaker 5: to onboard kids into our program for free. And honestly,
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Speaker 5: it's an honor because like as kids, we dream about
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Speaker 5: the fame and the spotlight and working with stars and
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Speaker 5: working with these big companies like McDonald's. But to actually
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Speaker 5: sit here and say I got a commercial within with
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Speaker 5: two campaign, I mean, that's really just it's shocking to me,
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Speaker 5: and it's kind of like an out of body experience, Like, man,
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Speaker 5: I'm only seventeen years old, I'm really doing this with McDonald's.
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Speaker 5: But at the same time, it's really just a stepping
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Speaker 5: stone that tells me the work that I'm doing is important,
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Speaker 5: but now it's take time to take it to the
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Speaker 5: next level to impact more. So it's an honor. I'm
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Speaker 5: glad I'm a part of it, and I want to
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Speaker 5: I should say it because I've heard a lot from
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Speaker 5: your podcast and your ideas and thoughts of going to college,
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Speaker 5: so I wouldn't say that played the influence, but I'm
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Speaker 5: definitely taking a gap year this year because there are
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Speaker 5: a lot of different projects that we're working on, a
16:22
Speaker 5: multimillion dollar projects that I'm working on this far. I'm
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Speaker 5: taking a HBCU Systems for Success tour where I'm going
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Speaker 5: to be going to four to seven different HBCUs and
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Speaker 5: sharing with students some of the strategies that were for me.
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Speaker 5: Because the crazy thing about this, when I was doing research,
16:37
Speaker 5: they say that after freshman year, a large percentage of
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Speaker 5: black students drop out of college, and it's even higher
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Speaker 5: at HBCUs. Part of that is many of those kids
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Speaker 5: are first generation college students, just like my dad was
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Speaker 5: when he went to FAM. You, but they don't necessarily
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Speaker 5: have the strategies to deal with all the stress not
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Speaker 5: HBCU to with as far is important. That's what we're
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Speaker 5: working on, and on that multimillion dollar project. Again, we're
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Speaker 5: working on board tens of thousands of kids into our program,
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Speaker 5: train them not only with computer science, but also personal
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Speaker 5: development and financial literacy, because once you make money, you
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Speaker 5: have to know how to make sure that it lasts
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Speaker 5: long and know how to invest it and to save
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Speaker 5: it wisely. And so those are the big things that
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Speaker 5: we got that I have going on for the next year.
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Speaker 5: But that whole college thing, I'm not going to put
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Speaker 5: my ideas out there. I think that, you know, go
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Speaker 5: to college if it's for you. If you have something else,
17:31
Speaker 5: pursue that dream and idea. But that's what I have
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Speaker 5: going on for myself.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 6: You know, being in the space, you know, one of
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Speaker 6: the things that comes with it is that you have
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Speaker 6: the ability to impact lives. So you kind of talked
17:41
Speaker 6: about how earn your leision has you know, played in
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Speaker 6: some of the decisions that you're going to make about college.
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Speaker 6: I wonder what it feels like from your end, knowing
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Speaker 6: that you are now impacting lives and you know the
17:51
Speaker 6: future aspirations, you know, So tell me what that's felt
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Speaker 6: like for you.
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Speaker 4: Being at seventeen years old, I.
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Speaker 5: Feel like there's always been a part of me because
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Speaker 5: when I was like two years old, my dad told
18:03
Speaker 5: me this. I was helping my sister raise money to
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Speaker 5: build water wells in Africa. So we were standing outside
18:10
Speaker 5: in the summer, He's selling brownies. When I was four
18:13
Speaker 5: years old, I would take toys that I got for
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Speaker 5: Christmas and for my birthday that I didn't use and
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Speaker 5: give it to kids at the nearest hospital near me
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Speaker 5: I think it was Saint Jue's Hospital in Chicago. And so, like,
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Speaker 5: helping others has always been a part of my life.
18:26
Speaker 5: I'm a selfless person. I'm not selfish. I love giving
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Speaker 5: what I have, and so like giving back to my community.
18:32
Speaker 5: I think it's important. Look, I got big ideas, right,
18:34
Speaker 5: I'm like Dame Dash I have big ideas that I'm
18:36
Speaker 5: trying to bring to impact the community. And so I
18:39
Speaker 5: know for a fact that you have through partnerships, through collaborations,
18:42
Speaker 5: and through some of the mentals I have, I will
18:45
Speaker 5: be able to take that to the next level because
18:47
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, it's not about me.
18:49
Speaker 5: I interviewed mss Oprah Winfrey one time. She said that
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Speaker 5: your life is just a piece of the puzzle of
18:54
Speaker 5: the greater universe. So every single decision that you make
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Speaker 5: could potentially touch thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands,
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Speaker 5: or even millions. So when she said that, that stuck
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Speaker 5: with me even to this day. And so knowing that
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Speaker 5: every single decision I'm making this moment could touch somebody
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Speaker 5: that I'll never meet. That's powerful to me, and so
19:15
Speaker 5: I keep that at the back burner and keep that
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Speaker 5: in the back of my mind and every decision I'm making.
19:18
Speaker 5: So that's why I move with the sense of purpose
19:21
Speaker 5: of focus on helping others.
19:23
Speaker 3: So let's talk about like the business formation, like how
19:26
Speaker 3: is it starting your business? How much help did you
19:29
Speaker 3: get and where are.
19:32
Speaker 2: You at now?
19:32
Speaker 3: As far as like the employees, what's your day to
19:35
Speaker 3: day like business. Do you have like a CFO that
19:38
Speaker 3: you talk to or what's your official try.
19:41
Speaker 5: To get a CEO, CEO and co founder?
19:43
Speaker 2: So what's what's the business structure that you have in
19:45
Speaker 2: place right now?
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Speaker 5: So in the beginning, it's funny because we had a
19:49
Speaker 5: three man team. It's me, my mom, and my father,
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Speaker 5: my dad. And so what we've been able to do
19:55
Speaker 5: is we've been able to actually take some of the
19:56
Speaker 5: students that have gone through our program and employ them
19:59
Speaker 5: to some of the mentors that we have. And so
20:02
Speaker 5: one of the things, like it's challenging as a starter
20:05
Speaker 5: because not having necessarily the resources or the funding. It's
20:09
Speaker 5: always tough. I mean, obviously you need money to grow
20:12
Speaker 5: a business, but from day to day. We're always working
20:15
Speaker 5: on different projects. For this summer, we have different one
20:18
Speaker 5: weekend person programs that we're working on and travel to
20:21
Speaker 5: different states to teach our programs. This fall or no,
20:24
Speaker 5: this winner, we're working on Team tech Live three point
20:27
Speaker 5: zero to onboard fifty thousand kids virtually for that program.
20:31
Speaker 5: Also the personal brand like my personal brand and Dream
20:34
Speaker 5: Hustle Code and so having a team around me with
20:37
Speaker 5: my parents and also some of the team members that
20:39
Speaker 5: have gone through our program at Dream Hustle Code that
20:42
Speaker 5: we employed. That's really it. But it's a small team.
20:45
Speaker 5: It's not as big as you would think. We have
20:47
Speaker 5: like five to seven members on board. But in terms
20:50
Speaker 5: of everything that we do, I'm responsible for everything marketing,
20:53
Speaker 5: building the program, making sure that I teach the students
20:56
Speaker 5: as well, and everything else. That's a part of what
20:58
Speaker 5: my job requirement is that Dream with Hustle Code.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
21:02
Speaker 6: So one of the pieces that you have added to it,
21:04
Speaker 6: and I don't know if you had this last time,
21:05
Speaker 6: was a Dream Hustle colde book. What inspired that and
21:08
Speaker 6: how did people how were they receiving it thus far?
21:12
Speaker 5: So okay, this project started in twenty seven, twenty sixteen,
21:19
Speaker 5: and the idea for that came when we were doing
21:23
Speaker 5: in person program. See one of the things that we
21:26
Speaker 5: noticed was that whenever a kid came across a challenge,
21:30
Speaker 5: or they came across a problem that just looked too
21:33
Speaker 5: hard and difficult, they wanted to give up and quick.
21:37
Speaker 5: And so I've been learning personal development since i was
21:39
Speaker 5: four years old. Like yesterday or yeah, yesterday, I had
21:42
Speaker 5: the chance to interview or to be on a podcast
21:45
Speaker 5: with doctor Eric Thomas, my favorite motivational speaker, and so
21:49
Speaker 5: I've been listening to motivational speak speakers motivational videos since
21:53
Speaker 5: I was four. And so we came up with the idea,
21:56
Speaker 5: what if I interviewed different highly successful people, took the
22:01
Speaker 5: lessons that they learned from their stories, and then write
22:04
Speaker 5: it in the book through the voice of a kid.
22:06
Speaker 5: So in the beginning, we came up with a list
22:08
Speaker 5: of three hundred highly successful individuals. We just put everybody down. Billionaires, millionaires,
22:13
Speaker 5: famous people, businessmen and women, entrepreneurs, you name it. And
22:17
Speaker 5: so to this day, I've interviewed fifty plus a highly
22:20
Speaker 5: successful people, from Miss Oprah Winfrey to missus Steve Harvey
22:23
Speaker 5: to even the founder of BT mister Bob Johnson, a
22:27
Speaker 5: real estate mogul, mister r Donna Hue Peebles, and a
22:30
Speaker 5: bunch of other amazing individuals that have allowed me to
22:33
Speaker 5: interview them and take their lessons. But from those experiences,
22:37
Speaker 5: I mean, it's still a journey that I'm working on now.
22:40
Speaker 5: There's still other interviews I'm working on from mister Magic Johnson,
22:43
Speaker 5: so mister Robert F. Smith and others. But that book,
22:47
Speaker 5: I mean, it all stemmed from really just again, it
22:49
Speaker 5: comes back with trying to help others with the mindset
22:52
Speaker 5: development because as you know this, if you don't believe
22:55
Speaker 5: that you can do something, it's never going to happen.
22:57
Speaker 5: So it started with just trying to reshape the mindset
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Speaker 5: from kids in my generation and to believing that technology
23:03
Speaker 5: is for them and to believing in themselves as well.
23:07
Speaker 2: So after somebody is finished with your how long is
23:11
Speaker 2: your program?
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Speaker 5: So we have actually different programs. So we have our
23:15
Speaker 5: after school program which runs from the fall all the
23:17
Speaker 5: way to the spring. That we have our summer program
23:20
Speaker 5: which is six to eight weeks. That is all virtually
23:23
Speaker 5: now we do. Because of the pandemic, I mean, we're
23:25
Speaker 5: now opening it up and we're now going back in person,
23:28
Speaker 5: but we actually have one week intensive programs of eight
23:31
Speaker 5: hours a day, and so that operates in one week
23:34
Speaker 5: programs in different cities. So we got one in Florida
23:37
Speaker 5: coming up, we might have one in Chicago this summer,
23:40
Speaker 5: and then the final program that we're working on is
23:42
Speaker 5: a one to two year program that will take kids
23:44
Speaker 5: literally from the beginning to educating with them with all
23:47
Speaker 5: the skill sets needed to be popelined in the cybersecurity
23:50
Speaker 5: jobs or jobs generally and just the tech space. So
23:53
Speaker 5: it's not just one program, it's like four different programs
23:57
Speaker 5: individually depending on how old you are in and how
24:00
Speaker 5: deep you actually want to go.
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Speaker 3: So what would you say in an ideal world after
24:06
Speaker 3: somebody is finished with your program, what kind of skills
24:08
Speaker 3: will they have or what what will they be able
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Speaker 3: to do?
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Speaker 5: So, going through our six to eight week virtual program,
24:17
Speaker 5: they will be able to build their own websites and
24:20
Speaker 5: web development, and they will also be able to have
24:24
Speaker 5: an introductory into creating their own video games because a
24:27
Speaker 5: lot of kids they like video games. I love Minecraft Fortnite,
24:30
Speaker 5: I love two K myself, I handle anybody on the
24:32
Speaker 5: sticks if you want to play men get to but
24:36
Speaker 5: you know, having those introductories into building a website as
24:39
Speaker 5: well as video games and so far a two year program,
24:42
Speaker 5: that program is based off of connecting with those companies
24:46
Speaker 5: who need that employment, right who need that employment in cybersecurity.
24:49
Speaker 5: They'll be able to be workforced ready when they come
24:53
Speaker 5: out of that two year program to come into a job.
24:55
Speaker 5: Because again, not every kid is not going to college.
24:58
Speaker 5: I'm taking a gap year. Not every kid sees college
25:01
Speaker 5: is of value or seese college is an opportunity for them,
25:05
Speaker 5: but they still want to go get a well paying job.
25:07
Speaker 5: And so that's what I want. A two year program
25:09
Speaker 5: or program and project that I'm working on will give
25:12
Speaker 5: them into that opportunity to be able to be placed
25:14
Speaker 5: into the workforce.
25:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, I want to go back for two seconds, because
25:18
Speaker 6: now I think about it, Yeah, you did have a
25:19
Speaker 6: partnership with McDonald's early then you had the commercial for
25:22
Speaker 6: the Future twenty two program, and so I wonder, is
25:24
Speaker 6: there a long term relationship here with McDonald's where they're
25:27
Speaker 6: aligned with your mission for the future, And if so,
25:30
Speaker 6: how do we learn more about Future twenty two Because
25:32
Speaker 6: I'm sure that somebody out there right now is like, hey,
25:34
Speaker 6: I want to be part.
25:35
Speaker 5: Of this absolutely. So McDonald's they're definitely in live. They're
25:39
Speaker 5: like family over here. I've been working with them for
25:41
Speaker 5: the last two years. So we always want to build
25:43
Speaker 5: those long term relationships, and so McDonald's is one of
25:46
Speaker 5: our own long term relationships. And so for those of
25:49
Speaker 5: you who are interested in Future twenty two. For more
25:52
Speaker 5: information on McDonald's Future twenty two, you can follow We
25:55
Speaker 5: are Golden on Instagram as well as check out the
25:58
Speaker 5: remaining Future twenty two specialists are on the Reason on
26:01
Speaker 5: McDonald's YouTube channel as well well.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate it, brother. Before we leave, what would be
26:07
Speaker 3: your words of encouragement to young people? A lot of people,
26:13
Speaker 3: you know, might not be able to figure it out.
26:16
Speaker 3: We headed towards economic you know, uncertainty. A lot of
26:20
Speaker 3: people are unemployed, Like you said, they might not be
26:22
Speaker 3: in school and a lot of times that leads to crime,
26:26
Speaker 3: that leads to you know, making bad decisions. So you,
26:30
Speaker 3: as a young man that's on the right path, what's
26:33
Speaker 3: your message to the youth?
26:36
Speaker 5: Let me say this you all you guys always say
26:38
Speaker 5: this every week, but I am not a financial advisor.
26:41
Speaker 5: Make sure that you do your own research. Okay, but
26:45
Speaker 5: I will say this, make sure that you get your
26:48
Speaker 5: mindset right, because if your mind isn't right, then it
26:52
Speaker 5: doesn't matter how skill, how many skills you have, it
26:54
Speaker 5: doesn't matter how many opportunities you have, you won't be
26:57
Speaker 5: able to succeed. So during these times of uncertainty, obviously
27:03
Speaker 5: watch earn your leisure, learn how to invest, learn how
27:06
Speaker 5: to save your money. But find a skill set, whether
27:10
Speaker 5: it's computer science, whether it's building something, whatever it is,
27:14
Speaker 5: find your own skill set or even marketing on social media.
27:18
Speaker 5: Find the skill set you're really good at it, and
27:20
Speaker 5: then find a way to bring value to those around you.
27:23
Speaker 5: And so also try and keep a positive mindset because
27:27
Speaker 5: again we are going through tough times right now around
27:29
Speaker 5: the world, around the country. Stick take time to spend
27:33
Speaker 5: time with your loved ones because you never know when
27:35
Speaker 5: they'll be gone. But again, find a way to create
27:40
Speaker 5: a skill set and bring value to others. Invest your money,
27:43
Speaker 5: watch earn your leisure, make sure you do your own
27:45
Speaker 5: research on the financial advice has given to you. Of course,
27:49
Speaker 5: but yeah, I will say that, and keep your head
27:51
Speaker 5: up because look, if you keep going even in the
27:54
Speaker 5: midst of adversity, if you keep going on the end.
27:56
Speaker 5: At the end of the tunnel, you will see some
27:58
Speaker 5: success that you're looking for. You will look for the
28:01
Speaker 5: light and you will see the light that you were
28:03
Speaker 5: looking for in the beginning. So just keep on going,
28:05
Speaker 5: keep your head up, and just know you can always
28:07
Speaker 5: reach out to me on Instagram, on YouTube, discord wherever
28:10
Speaker 5: if you need help as well, and shout out to
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Speaker 5: the earn your leisure folks, shout out to McDonald's. It's
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Speaker 5: always a pleasure being here. I appreciate you guys for
28:17
Speaker 5: having me on board.
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Speaker 4: Special young man love his love man, appreciate you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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