Hello Hello good evening everyone I am Stephen Jackson the chief example officer of trance Reupped it incorporated

we are transforming disrupting the state of entrepreneurship and before I get in a lot of

things I am here live at the 2022 power networking conference here in one of

my favorite cities Houston texas and I'll talk a little bit more about that later

on I got my favorite co host back in the house with me number one

business extraordinary Natalie price what's going on Hello everybody I hope you all have been enjoying

your summer We have a great show for you tonight while steven is in Houston at

the Power Network we're gonna bring a little bit of that to you Um we're just excited

to be here so let's get this thing going Yeah so I'm in Houston texas and what I really

like about being back here in Houston texas this is where I first experienced entrepreneur I mean leadership training

uh I took my first leadership courses here in 2006 been part of leadership training teams Actually

was asking is that one of my favorite restaurants we used to go and celebrate every time we've had

a successful team but I'm really really excited to be here at Power networking con This is

the 21st year of power networking conference and this is this I mean seriously network goes

on here seriously black money exchanges hands businesses grow were pointed to one another there's been some

tremendous speakers I got one of them with me tonight was actually our first guest

I'm gonna talk a little bit about more but do you know I almost did not come

Oh and I'm gonna talk about it because I am releasing a new book next later

on this month called Wannabe a Preneurs I'm not gonna talk about about about the book but we

talked about in that book I talk about the conversation that you have with yourself that

prevent you from becoming an entrepreneur prevention doing other things in life So because I had Covid last

month I started having this conversation with myself about not coming to the conference is gonna

pay for pay for airline tickets hotel all that's been paid for and my brain is still having

this conversation with you Well because it's number one job is to keep me safe

So my brain is telling me Stephen let's not go let's be safe we wanna

wanna catch Covid again I literally stand in front of the mirror on monday morning

and talk myself and say I am an entrepreneur this is my company I gotta get

out into the networks and do what I have to do you know So I

am here I'm glad I'm here I I've seen some old friends people I lost you know I've not been

in contact with a number of years Newark new people I met with and of course

this is actually the for first time that brother Beth and I have met face to face I met

him last year at the virtual conference uh you know we was on the internet and you

know decided to work with him But this is actually our first face to face meeting was yesterday early afternoon

and I'm so happy to have him on this evening So we're gonna jump right into

tonight's program How you doing So great So let me explain I told I told he just did a workshop

for masterminding upstairs I told the group there exactly what I'm gonna say here tonight I met this brother at

this at this power networking conference where it's amazing stuff is going on Uh but what I really like

about what he has done is that master Money has allowed me to create a company that I

never thought I would create and that has been such a great thing So the end of the people we

have on with us tonight who will also bring into a part of the you know part of

the family we're all family now But what I love about having them all here is

what they have poured into me and what I've been able to also pour back into

others you know So Brother Bedford man is this show is going to be more about you and Natalie you

know I got this a lot I could say but I will I will stick on the sideline

and that's gonna ask all the questions but let's get the rest of the group on let's get

these other amazing women on who I get to spend every thursday and every other and

last saturday of the month with Uh so first uh we're gonna we're gonna have

the Lynette tell us about yourself Who are you what you do Hi thank you for having me

steven and alone without mala We call it master business organization here we call ourselves family and

we are So my name of my company is I care technology geeks and we are I'm

the ceo and founder And what we do is we focus on cybersecurity helping our clients with

a cyber security I T Firm Thank you Lynette So the next person I want to talk about

herself she's actually been amused to me She has given me some great ideas Uh actually she

is the co author of my about transcript first white paper entrepreneurship as a career path for people

of color That whole concept came from me hearing the idea that she put out so I need

to tell us who you are and what you do My mic don't wanna work

Hey everybody complain And I am I am I am the ceo of a construction management and I

provide back office support services to our Mhm Uh Anitra went mute did I go here it again

Okay okay I'm I'm back y'all I'm back I'm back that news of Yeah so anyway I provide

back office support services boss services to entrepreneurs women who are in business who want to

make an impact and need help with their back office stuff Thank you Anitra And finally uh I got someone

who keeps me accountable about building trance ruptured because she's been really excited but she has a great business

as Melanie Tell us what you do Hi my name is Melanie I'm from charleston south Carolina I am the

owner of Williams appraisal and a broker at the same place And I'm also now affiliate and I changed

my name to entrepreneur business zones because I am an affiliate of transfer Thank you

ladies and gentlemen So Natalie So um a couple of weeks ago maybe about a couple weeks ago Stevie

called me were like what do we want to discuss for our show this week What do we

want to bring to the table And he mentioned that he would be in Houston with this

group of phenomenal people Um go that he's in his mastermind with and I said let's talk about a

mastermind So what I want to talk about tonight is get clarity around what is

a mastermind and I'm gonna start off with brother Bedford since you are the master of

the mind leader feels like right so I want you know Covid has even with Covid has brought on

everybody's a coach everybody's an adviser everybody's a strategist you know those nice words Everybody wants to

do a mastermind over weekend with wine Right But what really is a mastermind Sure sure

Thank you so much Natalie we we miss you we wish you were here with us Um We're having such

a great time Today is officially the first day of the power networking conference Um but

the bonus day was yesterday and Stephen was in yesterday and we had a chance to talk

about some things and have some fun Uh Lynette was in yesterday um Melanie and Anitra I

just saw for the first time today for the official opening but we're really enjoying ourselves

and the whole premise of a mastermind it's really displayed first you said like I'm

the master of the master and the beautiful thing about a mastermind is that it allows everyone

to evolve and grow and work on mastering And so I'm looking at myself as a person who

is in the process of working and developing on mastering this principle of masterminding which is simply when one mind

comes together with another mind Those two minds produced a third and energetic mind that produces new ideas

new thoughts new concepts and it solves a myriad of problems through questioning and discussion And so a lot

of people get masterminding wrong and they think it's more like a coaching program In fact Stephen and

I had a great conversation that a couple of weeks ago I actually wrote a post about

I think Stephen shared some things through his blog about it where people confuse coaching or coaching groups

with masterminding where people come to a mastermind anticipating learning something from the person who's facilitating But

the key word there is facilitating and as Stephen first started out in this conversation

it is through the facilitation and the conversations and the dialogue within the group that allowed him to launch his

new company that allowed him to connect with Anitra and those two came together and they co authored

something and then you just heard Melanie saying that she's in a affiliate and a cohort So if you notice

that whole process has nothing to do with me I'm just the facilitator and that's what

a good facilitator should strive to do is create the environment where everyone can learn grow and

develop together And that is the purest form of a mastermind Thank you thank you

So I heard for every two people in a mastermind is really three Yes Yes absolutely In fact

I don't know I guess you were here today because you must have heard my talk from the stage

because it's literally scriptural there's a passage in the bible that says where two or more are gathered there

I am in the midst of you Even if you study the Quran the Quran says where there

are two God is the third where there are three God is the fourth So to your

point when two people come together or three or four you're literally producing or inviting another power another mind

into the equation and here's the key Natalie that's where all of the great ideas all of the great

concepts come from because you literally have to get out of your own way and let the power of

the mastermind do its work Natalie can I just interrupt for one quick second I

want to give a shout out to K P Crayon who's on with us tonight She

was supposed to yes K P Was supposed she's a member of the mastermind group She was supposed to be

with us here in Houston that in fact she was on her way here Unfortunately she was at

her family reunion and she caught Covid so she can also K P We wish you to get well

very quickly We hope hope this is not a bad thing and we look forward to

meeting with you So thank you for being on with us tonight Okay now get back to you

Alright so I do have some questions and I'm gonna open it up to reflect

to answer you know because I wanna I dr Bedford told me about the about about what the mastermind

is but now I want a little bit of your experience in it All right

So the question how has being a part of a master mind help me personally

and professionally I'll answer that question for you Well why me being in in the mastermind I was stuck

in a position where I did not know where to go And the answers came as we met

up every thursday thursday and I figured if I got around like minded people that I would follow

in information that I didn't necessarily would get from any place else so that's what I got

from being in the mastermind thank you Anitra I know you were saying something as

well I was getting ready to say I've been in the mastermind for probably almost four years

and I was the quietest person in the very beginning of the mastermind and what it did

was it helped me to gain another level of confidence that I have lost at some

point and then being in business I kept saying brother but for what is this language I speak

english you keep saying the language the language I thought I spoke the language but learning the word

that needed to be said to capture the people that are meant to work with me and that I'm meant

to work with that has been phenomenal when it's coming from the mob and being able to just be open

and share with my other mobsters and talk to them about the things that are going on in

my business that might not be so great we've just been able to just go

around in circles and even with Stephen I just said you know I've had a multitude

of businesses and entrepreneurship it's just a career that's what I I saw it being And so

that was just a conversation I didn't realize it was gonna take off as great as it

has with steven Great Lynette Okay so when I first came in I was too quiet as

well and everybody decided to tell me okay Lynette speak up and it made me come out

from you So I talk now more and Melanie also was extremely quiet but now she's talking

more as well And what we decided the other day is that when I was in office hours that

when we are together what goes on in the mob stays in the mob So that's one great

thing we like about it you know you have your confidentiality and we talk about

a lot we talk about you know our personal issues we talk about our business

you know challenges and then um recently I will let y'all in on a little secret I

was recently on the last thursday we were in office hours and everybody was telling me hey get it

together get it together get it together we need to do that you need to do

this So I was excited about that because they push you to the next level

and being a part of a mastermind Uh if you were stuck in a certain area

personally or professionally um in this particular time it was business wise they were telling me some suggestions

and I challenge steven the other day as well I said okay you're telling me

these are the things I need to do How do I do it And he walked me through

everything piece by piece So it is actually you know a masterful mind meeting and

we we go and we try and then we come back So um it's always

good to come back each week to say okay well this is I got this

accomplished I didn't get this accomplished I need your help on this and we reach out

to each other and even when we're not on office hours and help each other out So I

love it in defense of Stephen I don't tell anyone what to do I make suggestions I ask questions but

I just got to do one very quick thing uh here in Houston texas We had our guests our guests

last month with dr Stacy N C Grant She is here with us Um not here she's upstairs

M C And uh this this week she is actually the emcee for the whole conference and also will

let everyone know that she's attitude her title so she's not just dr Stacy and see Grant She's also Madam

International President uh Zeta phi beta Sorority Incorporated Okay so she is president elect and we've been celebrating

that with her all these last couple of days as as well I just want anyone know she was

a guest on the show last month she's with us today This week here in Houston

Fc in And she also led a conference You'll see the Power Network power conference as well as a

presenter Okay back to you Natalie She also has an event coming up in august thank you Yeah

so next next week begins faith Preneurs conference So you go to faith preneurs dot com is spelled just like

it sounds Faith Preneurs dot com and go to the website If if she works

with creating faith based businesses Doctor Grant runs about 56 companies say she's truly Jamaican Uh but

she has multiple sources Well she says to herself I'm not saying anything that she doesn't say she'll

let you know that she's truly to make along with her husband and two sons They

all run companies Everybody everybody run a company Okay That's what you got that's that's your contribution to

the household is to run a business Um but dr Grant is an amazing person We're so happy that she

that she won the election to represent 100 and 25,000 women around the world Uh Zeta

phi beta Uh she has a tremendous voice and she's there to be of service

Okay And that's the most great thing about her and we're so glad to have on last week and

I would be at her conference uh next week as well I was one of her first supporters and

I'm gonna I will continue to support her and everything that she does go ahead Okay

thank you Daddy back to you Alright so there's another thing I want to bring

up your in a mastermind full of people that look like you right How important

do you think that is I think sometimes we say we don't we don't want to talk about color But

to me it's it's it's the top of the topic for me most especially when we're doing business and

we're building relationships Um I'm not sure about everybody else but our relationship differently especially um you know since you

know some of our elections in the United States to be relationship differently I'm not ashamed

to say that So how how does it feel to be a part of a mastermind group where you

have people that look like you and we're being vulnerable with each other emotionally vulnerable That's

not something that we're always taught to do or do before Before everyone chimes in that I

believe that is a very not just good question I mean that is a an excellent question because that

probably becomes the roadblock for people blowing down this road right You and you ask the question

uh and everyone answered about their experience and if you notice Melanie Lynette and a nature they all talk

about a part of their entrepreneurial journey where they weren't as confident or they weren't as shy Oh they were

shy or they weren't speaking And so a mastermind environment with like minded people people who

understand you and have shared experiences allow allows you the time to now I don't want to

say it in a crude way but you ain't gonna shut neither one of them

up now because because now they've grown into their own voices Uh so that to me as

someone who's facilitating the group that is such a proud moment for me to watch the transformation of

individuals in the group going from not knowing what they're gonna do in business not knowing if they can get

on can look at I mean look at everybody's on camera today that these are interviews

that is a part of their development And so that leads to the next part about your

question about color For me I'm just like you Natalie I mean it's it's all

about our people and this literally shows us that we don't have the same experiences as other

groups by being here There's talking in today's groups or today to today's audience So many people were

kind of familiar with masterminding but not so familiar with masterminding However if you talk about this concept in other

communities where thinking grow rich is on the bookshelf of a lot of their home Yeah but but

it's rare on our bookshelves right So in other communities they have these experiences where this is the fifth grade

talk right Talking about masterminding and network working and the power of thought where for us it doesn't happen

until we get an environment like this and to have each other accountable and patient to allow us

to develop in this process I think it's critically important and you won't get that type of um latitude

and longitude except from people who look like you and love you the way that you love them So

that's why it's critically important What you said about not just the experience that they've

had but also the race component I just want to add one thing This entire conference

is about okay this entire conference is about raising us to the next level creating

relationships that get us to the next level pour into each other to get us and all

of this We're all this weekend the deal will do one thing get better as

black people Okay Some may not look black but we're all black We got a

few light skinned people gotta keep telling them Yeah I'm black But this whole conference is really

about us pulling into each other and about race It's about understanding who we are as a people

we are a great people right We got we got a history lesson and proved that to us this

morning Uh just a lot of great things that's been going on that shows that we

are really a great people We are great entrepreneurs were great business people and as long as

we keep doing and striving to be better That's what we're going to be and this is one component of

it is the mastermind Yeah can I say one more thing uh Natalie before uh Anitra

and everyone else chimes in is that steven just made a very great point I made that point from the

power talk stage today Is that a mastermind is just the next extension of what we're really

doing here but when you're masterminding instead of us just networking like this could just be a networking group but

it turns into a mastermind when we're deliberately coming together to have deeper conversations and solve problems and

create new things such as what steven has done so that's the next step up from

just having someone's business card or I know dr fraser I know someone else when you

deliberately come into a setting like this and now you begin to have deliberate intentional conversations about what makes

me better Right Stephen because Stephen is in the group it makes me better because Melanie is

in the group it makes me better I'm not looking at nobody else but they forced me

to go and study they forced me to do what we're doing here to kind of

be my best representation that none of them will be proud talking about I'm in the mob

if I'm right around here looking like an idiot so it forces me to be on my

best as a representative of them and I think it also uh feels that way for

them when they're doing their work as well So great point Stephen I just wanted to kind of have that

thank you Dimitra I'm gonna jump in and share Um I was born and raised in des Moines

Iowa So yes I knew my skin color was black but I was raised almost white So

to me I was like I was scared of my own people Now I'm in a place and in

a space over you know years that it's not like that for me and so

being in the mob being able to say Stephen we we've been to be married for like the next 10

years you know we've kind of relationship right right That's what we're doing right you know um it was it

was an empowering feeling to know that I had a safe space a safe place We all have our traumas

and things that we go through but being in a place where I'm not in competition with Melanie I'm

not in competition with steven or Lynette these are my people right So I'm not afraid of them

we can be vulnerable we can talk about whatever is going on sometimes it's personal you know life changing

things but ultimately we're able to talk to each other we're able to have those conversations that are

the first thing that came to my mind was we always talk about crabs in a bucket

but that's not how it is in the mob like we're always trying to think of

how do I help that next person that looks just like me get to the next level no matter

where they started I love it Let's stop Melanie lynette Do you want to share Okay Could

you repeat the question I want to I want to understand how it feels to be a

part of a mastermind with people that look like and how is that How has

that can and let me let me give you guys let me give you all the understanding I set

up a lot of tables where I'm the maybe there's a few but they don't really stay long I have

a longer goal I just want everybody's information So I have a longer strategy than they do But for the

most part it's just me and if I didn't know that I was gonna be hosting transfer up to sitting

on here with you guys and my extended network it could really bother you It could really prevent

you from growing because they're like and shared experiences do not align with what you've

gone through what you know what I mean And it's not you can't it's not their fault It's

just not their lived experience right Um and no matter how much you trying to

shape it it's they're not gonna understand it And I live in a community where they make the

decisions for the community they don't live in But I live there right So being a being in

a room or a table where everybody where everybody looks like you and not just looks like you but

you're able to have open audible emotional conversations right Um I like the idea that you

that language language is important The power of words right Sometimes we attach the wrong

feeling to the wrong word and we've been going around saying this word and not really really realizing you're

projecting it and you're getting all of that So how does that feel being being able to get access

to all that Because that is not common It's definitely not common in Connecticut Okay thank

you for the clarification Well it feels awesome and that's the best word I can explain because I look forward

each two hour meeting Um There's been times where being an I T Company on site on various projects

for various clients and even though I may not be able to show my face I will still be

listening And so it's just getting the information I want to get it at the

time when it's being delivered Yes sure we can go back to you know get the recording at any time

But it's different when you're actually on you know the actual call when it's live because I'm

I can chat but I mean can talk so that in and of itself says a lot and me being

an I T Professional um and being an owner of I T Business and it being predominantly a male dominated

industry coming in here in our group we can understand little things that others can't write

So for example if I say okay I need more clients everybody says that right but then if I

say I need more clients now so that I can make sure that we keep the lights on

then we can give examples and we can relate at some point because everybody here in

the group has you know with with Brother Bedford and especially Stephen we I don't

know how many years they've been in business but I can only imagine if we calculated it has to be

at least you know let's just say probably 50 to 75 years Yes yes yes

I figured as much Brother Bedford I was wondering if he was gonna chime in on that

So so with that being said you know you're able to collaborate with others who

look like us and they can relate on different levels in the aspects where we need help

most So that has been I know words can't describe how well and how much

it's appreciated Hey J J hey april people chiming in at the bottom JJ Hernandez in

april hey and for me this has been like therapy for me this is almost like

a religion for me I go to church every sunday and nothing is gonna keep me away from

being at the mob on thursday I don't care what I have to do I'm coming to the mob So

it's just like I gotta be there because if I'm not there it's like I'm missing

a beat or something because I just got to make it I just want to add to that too

because I make a commitment to media every Thursday regardless of whatever I think I will

not do any appointments Thursday from 12-2 That that's that time is already blocked Uh and

I make those appointments because I don't want to miss an opportunity to have an experience to learn something

to help me improve what I'm doing okay It's kind of like the way that Anitra gave me her idea

I was sitting in my daughter's rental vehicle outside the hotel where we get ready to book

into but I make sure that my flight landed just before 12 o'clock and I'm in the rental car going

to the hotel listening to the Mastermind group and we got there you know I just sat in

the car and just listen because it was just before two o'clock and it was

just at that time that Anitra said what she said that sparked my mind and like whoa this is a

great idea you don't know what I mean The wheels just turned so it's a commitment It's not

just us showing up we all commit to this and I think that there's gotta be some

really serious work to stop us from not showing up Yeah real quick Natalie if I

may on that point again steven and I kind of like feed off of each other

with with certain things that we talked about and what's so profound about what Stephen just shared

and actually what everyone else is shared I really want you to kind of if I can give the

listeners and those who watch the recording of visual the commitment to being a mastermind

Of course we're talking about the mob because that's our experience but just think about this

Natalie you mentioned the color component So here we are we're all black we're in there we're committed we have

shared experiences we know what it's like and and we are willing to give that type of advice or or

sharing of knowledge but then what Stephen just said the commitment to be in the

room to be on something like this I want you to think about this this

has fostered the commitment all of us are at the PNC in Houston So you see so that commitment

on thursday led to us saying well let's be at so we took the mastermind

now we're at the power networking conference and we have the likes of dr Julianne Malveaux upstairs

Tavis smiley doctor Boyce Watkins all types of professional high level black people going back to your

point about race but now for the next two days my mission is to think about Okay who else

can I introduce Stephen to here We have 500 to 1000 black professionals and every profession here right upstairs right

now we're down in the lobby but there's somebody up there who needs uh I t I've

got to go through my mental rolodex and meeting and say you know what I need you to meet

Lynette So we've taken the commitment from thursday's the mastermind and now we're out in the field were working when

networking and masterminding all the way down in Houston and the rewards that can come

from this the relationships even though I can't wait I still don't know if Lynette and

then got a chance to take pictures with George so I'm a guy corral him these

are shared experiences that add to our entrepreneurial experience that makes us better that makes us

smarter and so now the Net can go into all the places based upon the experiences that she's having

right now in the mob and here at the power network I love this I'm like this

much jealous so I'm not gonna lie I'm trying I'm trying to I'm trying to make you

jealous because you said it was yeah a little bit jealous but there's something there's a couple of things

that I want to bring to the attention to those that are viewing and if you want to be an

entrepreneur if you if you are an entrepreneur everybody here made a commitment to be somewhere that they're not from

right And they invested in a plane ticket The Uber ride food to get there a

hotel plus the admission to get inside Right I'm gonna put that over here Number

two they meet on Thursdays from 12 to 2 This is their full time work right I really want us

to think about where we are as an entrepreneur and where we want to be as an entrepreneur right

Because to steven's point um black businesses need to start becoming more entrepreneurial so they can start hiring

more black people study show we hire within each other Right So I think those are two big big

points to bring up because you guys are full fledged businesses You're not going to work monday

through friday leaving than doing this on the side this is the business There's a

there's a difference You love it hug it sleep with it differently Right Right Catch

planes in the middle of the week to come to it right That's what we're doing right And you made

you made that investment so I cannot find it But the other day I was listening to T D Jakes

as I do I'm get ready get ready get ready One of his one of his sermons he talked

about we have to move forward We got to keep investing in ourselves and he

brought up you have to keep educating yourself you cannot not know how to use the computer right You have

to keep putting investing in in your professional development as entrepreneurs as professionals right Because

it is your career career roadmap no matter which direction you go So I think I brought t d

jakes in so that there's some there's a spiritual proof that it should be done right there

He signed sealed delivered it for me on that one right So I think it's really important that

our audience realizes that there's a commitment that you've made as entrepreneurs and that you are full time

entrepreneurs right And there there was a goal to become that Um so I just want to point that

out and I think it's also important to add for the listening orders and I'd love to everybody else chime

in on this but it's it's different levels of entrepreneurship and business to that that's the key to to

come together We're not in the mob to judge each other to criticize each other we're in the mob to

to kind of meet each other where we are and what can we do to help again The biggest

benefit that I see for myself from the mastermind or let's just say the proud moments

that I receive is to be able to see the transformation of the other members where I really have

nothing to do with it and I mean I can't wait to see Anitra shining this weekend right She's

going to meet people and do deals right I mean we're here taking a break and having this conversation but

after this Melanie gotta go and do a deal She got to go meet some people the neck gotta go

meet some people And then what we're gonna do next thursday we're gonna talk about all of this Who did

you what happened What did you learn What workshops did you attend How did it benefit you Did you get

this picture Right so we're able to help hold each other accountable But more importantly

like I said we're out here implementing the same things that you talked about because without that action

we're really just talking entrepreneurship we don't begin to take these steps to develop ourselves I just

got I just got to jump in and say this because yesterday won the power

speakers from yesterday actually owned a black title company and brother and I said the

exact same thing he need to meet that he needed to meet Melody We both said at the same

time to each other So we were both on the same track to understand that this is

what we're here to do you know And I got my photo with dr Frasier

already I yeah I was I just want I just want to just add one more thing

I said I want I want to talk a lot but what I really have enjoyed

about this is this group created trance rup Ting when I joined the mastermind group my focus was not about

starting a company it was about creating a mastermind group for WebO graduates but listening and meeting every

week with this group sparked new ideas and showed me that I was coming up short on what I

was doing I wasn't playing the game full out and that is what led me to launching transfer up

So they are these young ladies here actually was a catalyst in me saying that I don't want you all

to be a part of Weibo I'm gonna build something different and new that I know

the way it should be done and that would not have happened if I didn't attend this mastermind

group I could have learned about starting to mastermind and you know implemented that with the workshop which was my

original plan but a lot more of it came out and once I actually started actually participating and made a

commitment to show up every week and got feedback and hear all this other stuff so what the mastermind

group can do is show you your path so the path that you really should be on because the path

that I was on was not my path I had to learn to help me learn about where where we

going to the next step Natalie you and I've been on this journey for a while you know

we know what we did with the workshop but think about the path we're going on now

think about what you're also able to do when we got something that you can now

customize and make fit your audience We couldn't have done that with the past here we are

today because of these young ladies here and we got something really special I just had to

add good stuff good stuff so you are part of this mastermind what what I wanna know is we

know that mastermind is a part of the networking from the net from being in the mastermind what else

have you joined as a way to leverage your work Like has it influenced you

to say maybe I do need to invest in this organization of this professional group or

get this certification or maybe that's not the mind frame you had before Oh man that's next I need I

need to copy that the great shape round is over here taking pictures of me that that's the

thing about all types of celebrities walking around and people doing things with the obvious he's taking pictures

of me here while I'm on the computer showing great pictures by the way Um

but that's what this type of environment does and something that you just asked Natalie

about that investment you literally can't get away from investing either your time or your resources

into developing yourself Again the bottleneck for our people as it relates to entrepreneurship is

not realizing that you have to expose yourself to this type of process whether it's whether it's

in a mastermind or whether it's going to conferences or whether it's just saying you know what I'm gonna start

my business you're gonna have to learn a lot of these things that you can learn from the community either

you do it on your own you know that rugged individualist mindset but you have to go through but here's

the thing that we've discovered you literally hurt yourself more doing it that way instead of just submitting to

a process to where you can there's not a question that we can't ask each other in the group

and if I don't know that steven don't know if we go and find people again I'll pour Shay

over here there Trevor axes over there I mean there's all types of people here

that we can invite two masterminds and so I think it's critically important Natalie for people to

engage in these types of things that it doesn't have to be the mob but you

have to get into this process of connecting and masterminding with like minded people So that just like what happened

with steven is not to think about it it's not like Stephen didn't know what

to do it's not like he didn't have experience but it was the environment where seeds

were planted that allowed him to take a whole new approach and I think that's happening with all

of us even myself the mastermind is growing and evolving daily a nitro do something She created a phenomenal

infographic off of something that I shared really some months ago and she's created an infographic

off of it that she now use and we share on social media but goes

back to a language a common language that we're beginning to use in the group about building confidence but

now this becomes a tool and a resource not just for me this is Melanie's resource this is a necessary

source this is Stephen So now we're creating uh intellectual property that we can use So again whether you do

it in this environment or not this is a process you have to go through So you want to do

it willingly instead of being forced into you know the story of most of us entrepreneurs you know we

go into bankruptcy we're home you know you hear all of the stories about you

know what we've done to get to a level of success but there is a

way to do it better we can learn and you know kind of network with some people

so that they can shortcut are learning girl sometimes we Yeah absolutely yeah and the

struggle struggle is gonna be there Either way it's really about heightening and that's why it's called a

mastermind right You literally you know I learned this language from other masterminds and I've

shared it in this group and and it's become one of the nature's favorite things but

it's so true entrepreneurs in the business of thinking about our thinking and when we're doing business outside of

this type of environment we never really give ourselves a chance to think or communicate like this and when

you don't think about what your motives are why you're doing something you know what's uh compelling you to

do this instead of this why you don't want to learn that in this environment And

I believe Lynette said it so beautifully earlier it allows you to share your flaws and now it's

not a condemnation of you it's not a death sentence It's an environment that allows you to begin to grow

and develop So I would recommend everybody even if it's you know if you don't have to join the mob

but you should start a and we use the term mastermind because it's easier to wrap your mind around I

could easily just say you need to get a group of people together but we do

want to add some structure to it so that you can grow and develop So you should join a mastermind

or even just start your own and start having these types of meetings These types of conversation These types of

trips together to engage with other people because that's going to be uh your self education in terms

of you developing as an entrepreneur and the key thing that you said to was facilitated one

quick second So come here company this is one of the power speakers you're not gonna really talk this

is Shane Shane Shane brown and he teaches how to make how to build a seven figure

sales team Okay this is the type of talent that we have and what he's actually been doing for the

last 15 minutes and walk around uh amateur photography taking 40 starts pleasure meeting you man I love what

you're doing man keep doing you're doing taking this information as entrepreneurs We always want

to get better and we never stop learning Thanks a lot You got the one

and only brother Bedford and the building I don't know how you got him out of here but he's

here He's like my brother now okay brother and other family members and they are not the

ones that borrow money These are good good ones You want to have a rap Okay thank you brother That

is just real quick Something that that she just said about that again just the environment to be able

to take pictures He's an entrepreneur to teachers sales but as steven was just joking with him he's

literally around here practicing his hobby because he's an entrepreneur that does sales and does

it well but he's around here taking pictures and that's what a good entrepreneur eventually grows to where you're

able to master your business but now you've got all of these other interesting things that you can do

to me That's a great lesson because Stephen is right you've been walking around here taking pictures of every following

The official photographer taking pictures of everybody but he can afford to do that You want

to hang around people like that and you know what else So Natalie what I

love about this mob we started to funnel our money We don't take our money outside and

give it to other people will use the people in the mob that got to

know how in the skill set that can help us grow our business And that's a plus because a lot

of people don't like to do that I like that That's a part of that That's that's

about keeping the dollar in the community 1.5 cycles right We wanted to stay at least seven cycles in

a community So that's important No this is great this is this is good You've

given me really good insight on a on a mastermind until your point Better Brother

Bedford You said anybody can start a group and meet consistently and create structure around it right And

then all of a sudden and all of a sudden next year meet up with you guys at

the power conference right I'm just saying anybody can do that right No the challenge for us Natalie you make

a very valid point and I'll say this because one of the principles we we talked

about it in the mob but we haven't had a need for me to kind of address it to

where it's an issue But you make a very valid point The reason some people don't

do that And the reason a lot of people get into their silos is because they're constantly comparing and

competing with each other when you come into the mob One of the first things that we're not

competing with each other but more importantly we want to make sure that we set the standard

that that's not even our issue So we're here with the power network conference with people who

do similar things who have I mean we had a networking conference George has a

network So you have networks of networks and they're all coming assistance for sisters now They have

about 20 they have amassed So they got about 25 women It's here I could probably name about 4-5 other

groups But the point now is that that's the objective If we can build these

groups and then we can come together not as competitors but using collaboration as a way

to take all of us to the next level There won't be anything that we can't do now

like this Good work So what are your plans for the rest of the what do

you guys have plans I know you're three hours for three hours behind us So it's like what is it

like We just think we're just too I think we just central time All the way go

Where did go She Yeah she's working to get back on Hmm Okay So before we go five

minutes No no let's go Let's go No no no If you got some more good questions to get

them out of the program upstairs is running behind time The congresswoman hasn't arrived yet So we got

congresswoman Sheila Jackson gonna be part of the town hall We have a conversation about what's

up the democrats and remember Malcolm X speech the bullet or the ballot That's what they're going to have the

discussion the town hall meeting tonight So but they're actually running behind So we got a few more minutes

You got some good questions now let's go So I didn't know any other any

other joined since being a part of this Has there been anything that you realized being a part of the

association as a joke as a joke My clan my clan nomination was rejected Anyway

I can say I I stopped going to some groups because it was a waste of

time and I started attending this more and then obviously there was some I T Groups that

I'm a part of and I'm still a part of those as well because you get some

different uh different nuggets but they are not they do not look like us either So I understand this is

home Yes yes yes It's actually a family We we we we joke and you know I'm hoping that everybody

know we say mob we're not really a mob meaning we are business mob okay

but what we want you know everyone to know is that we really you know you can

say you know feel like family but then truly when you show up for each other

like Anita and I late at night you know we awake working on business cards trying to get

ready for the conference you know you know we're just doing what we need to do with each

other to get ready for what we need to do you know So it's just like just

like about those business cards obviously but but see but think about this though now we

think about what they just see that's the process right to to get prepared for the

conference and have people who can help you and you know you may have to run the

I mean we've been at conferences like this I've been here you know years ago you'd

have to run to Kinko's to get your order form printed up just before you run into your

work I mean that's just the nature of entrepreneurship and it's wonderful to be able

to have people in it with you that can kind of help you go ahead and

I know you want to say something on that for for me this is home right The mob

is home but I have joined um other let me say facebook groups not mastermind because

this is it for me like this is where I come to I send in some other Justin

I've been here and listening and everything and I'm like yep I'm staying in the mob

I'm good Um this is where home is and some of the other groups that I

have joined on the social media platforms from being in the mob it's allowed me to share with them

in ways of how to grow and I've been able to facilitate Brother Bedford I've been to Brother

Bedford for a few minutes been able to facilitate some changes even in those groups by the way

people think and how we're revealing ourselves and they're predominantly black groups black women that look like me um that

I know have had those moments of fear frustration and just not meaningfully into who

they are and what they bring to the table and being able to be in those

groups because I have the mob mentality and the mob knowledge and the love makes me

be very open with them and showing them how they can have that kind of relationship build relationships more

than just the transaction the money will come But the relationship is the most important to me

Can I add something to that real quick Natalie uh because we encourage if there's a

way for you to go out and help others whatever we're doing Um that's the whole design not to think

of competition and so I've never uh once talked to anybody that's in the mob about being competitors

with some other groups or anything like that we want How do we work with them

In fact you can think of what Stephen is doing what trans reupped it now

with a silly mentality Some of us to think well that's competition Stephen teaching entrepreneurship and we talk

about entrepreneurs it is the perfect marriage and collaboration and I would tell people who are coming

in and I ready if they're not ready for the commit for this mastermind you need

to go to transfer uptick we need more places to refer people to And it's it should never

be this or that for us It should be both Why not If you're ready to study up

under dr George C fraser and you're ready to join Les Brown why not You don't have to choose

And I think that's a challenge with us Our community were always forced to choose Have you

just decided to do more Right Because I feel that often we were forced to choose Don't

Right So you know being in this group it's it's this is home right at home you learn what

you need to do to survive outside So you might learn at home that you need

to join your local chamber because there's a A R P One coming down there and only members get access

to that that's what we learned at home So that could be an extension of what you

decided to do which is what I learned from the group We don't join enough chambers or networking or things

like that And then that leaves that First of all we don't join enough and then we

wish you wash you off the board so that when we do get on the board and we're not

always taken seriously we're not there long enough And I understand that we don't always our

needs are always served But there's a key that those networks have that we need to figure out

how we can and real quick on that Stephen before you say something before you say something because

I want you to kind of answer this too because to your point Natalie I want

you to think about that's really what we want to do is kind of help

each other to develop the skill right Cause it takes skill to be a part of multiple

groups and support people and navigate things And so I wanted to think about Stephen

is an excellent example So he didn't get on here and just talk about the mob He's talked about

dr Stacy and grant how he supported her how he's going to be a part of

that next week And so learning the skill from someone like us Stephen again uh this situation should prepare us

to be able to go into other organizations not with a competitive spirit but how

do I come in here and help this growing So steven I want you to speak to

that because again steven kind of displayed that at the very beginning talking about Doctor CNC Brandt we brought

over Shea just a network of people to collaborate with but it takes a skill

where you're not intimidated you don't feel bad about joining another group or trying to be a

part of something else And I think Stephen kind of exemplifies that Yeah So what I

really want to say this power network confidence unlike any other conference in the world because this

number one job is about collaboration Okay so every these speakers don't compete against one another they collaborate So a

couple years ago I was introduced to Dr Cheryl Woods and Dr Cheryl Woods do speak

she does a speaker con conference and bring other speakers who get paid to speak

on her conference She shares her stage with what you would call her competitors But she also understands the value

of what comes out of that And I've been a sponsor speaker Con as well and one of the

reason I became a sponsor keeps because I met her right here at the PNC network

and got the opportunity to work with her I got the opportunity to do a presentation and I

would really like what she's doing and I decided well we're gonna sponsor you as well So this is

not about competition I think too often Yes we always think we gotta compete and that's what I

talk about in my book that scarcity mentality there's abundance in this world And I will tell

you that if you think that you've got to fight for a piece of a pie

you have been setting misled There's no such thing as a fighting for a piece of pie You

have a whole pie multiple pie have some cake Eat it too as well I put that

in my book as well I'm quoting my book now because it's so much a part of

me but the whole thing you don't have to be a part of the mastermind to choose something to

be part of the master making part of the Chamber of Commerce part of Faith Preneurs could be part

of Speaker Connie Frazier net we could be part of all these different entities and know that

we're not competing against one another This is all about collaboration This is all about helping us

get to the next step because we're going to learn something from each one of these

individuals that take us to the next step My involvement with Face Preneurs opens up some doors that I didn't

actually don't see it gives me opportunity to meet some people I would not have met

being a part of Speaker Con gives me an entire also different audience and knowing that

when I had 10 Speaker Con I'm gonna have not just from dr Cheryl Woods as an

expert in the field but other experts She brings on Delano She brings on people He brings

she brings on some some some heavy hitters speakers who are charging 25 grand to speak

for five minutes and you want to do the same thing And she don't mind you sharing

it because she also realized what she do is not for everybody if what she does not with

then here's something else and that's what makes this work So if you have this mentality

of sharing and don't feel it has to be either or you can really go far

in life Okay And that's what I that's what we get through the mastermind groups and that's what we get

from being here at P N P N C Networking conference That's all that's that's all

we're talking about Every speaker comes up It's talking about collaboration They ain't talking about you gotta do my program

No they say find what fits for you and think about this Natalie just real quick now just Justice stevens

point real quick Dr Stacy and see Grant and Dr Cheryl would have come and spoken inside

of the masters of business That's the type So they come in and speak and we

go out and support them It just opens up so many opportunities for you to stevens point the

point about fast food restaurants are so true Mcdonald's burger king chick fil a talk

about they're all the same same road right And they all they all actually when they're

looking for space want to be near each other right Because it draws people and somebody

doesn't like Mcdonald's once talked about So they all all evens out and they all win in the end Right

So if they can do it we can too All right I want to know what what

do you guys do What I'm not there So I feel left out Your background suggests

that you're there This is just home to me What do you what's what's going on next Oh

it's the town This right This is a fortunate part for us Stephen's show actually

failed right after the workshops and before the town hall meeting And so we've had this window where

people were upstairs you know this is really like a dinner break and then going

into the town hall meeting Okay And that time whole topic seems really intense Oh it's going

to be because even the speakers are going to be intense who are gonna really uh presenting this topic It's

a it's a seriously important black topic for these elections coming up We've just seen some of the midterm Republican

uh results that's coming out And I'll be honest with you if you're an entrepreneur

you need to be in the politics You know you need to be supporting the politicians that

you feel is gonna be best for your community because I believe there's a group of individuals

similar to the clan that really would want to see us back on the plantation Okay they think that we

don't got too uppity Well we got we had lunch today and I was actually telling how

radical my mother was a militant basically and she I told him the story My

mother would not let me watch the old Tarzan movie with johnny Weissmuller because she said that

if you believe that this one white man control all these so called tribes in africa She said you're really

stupid and I was like 89 years old So uh you know I do have that

ability background in me and you know I have been involved as entre doing politics not just voting but

supporting with my dollars Those individual I think on the best represent our community and my goal is to tell

every black person who starts a business who has run your business you need to grow to the

point where you can really impact your community and turn some things around hire some people and that's what

transcript is all about We're here to help you learn how to hire create a staff build and scale

of growing a business that's gonna support your community because if you don't support your community right We

got a group of people that was going to give us some support but it

ain't gonna look like what we look like You know they already were in the

state right now where they have ready to limit the word slavery and replace it with some

uh no first they said we came over here or like something like a cruise ship But they

are they they want to rewrite the history that we experience to fit their narrative This is what so you

know they say the easiest way to to really cripple a person if you take away All right and

they don't complain you take away another right And they don't complain And another one and another one The next

thing you find out you don't know and you don't have any rights It began

when they took civics out of classrooms So civics is no longer So you don't even know

your rights as a citizen here because they took it out of the classroom So

we're at this point now So this town hall meeting is about Malcolm X speech which was the

bullet or the ballot that he delivered talking to these democrats because sometimes they don't do the right They they're

not doing some of the right things either But it was very clear you show up every four

years while vote but for the three years in between we don't see or hear from you

But here you are again wanting our vote and what's gonna happen So we had a

very important crossroad in this country and here we are at this conference fighting to go to

the next level to be excellence right Watching okay K P We hear you You're

gonna be here next year with us Okay we're gonna we're gonna isolate you So you don't be

around No family member to catch Covid okay Or anything else But this conference is really about

despite the systemic racism despite the history of what's been done to us we can still rise become successful

as entrepreneurs and give back and help our communities because what we're here to do is to learn

right to implement and to also give back dr George fraser is telling us that we're here of service We're

here to be of service and being of service means that we should be here to give back to them

to one another Not just take and take and take so and that's what we we've all

learned the mob So that's where we had the opportunity to really love and experience those things as well That's

why I'm glad to be a part That's why I'm so glad that this worked out that we

could all be here tonight and do this show like this You know I have my family here with me

I'm deeply indebted to all of you all I really enjoyed the thursday Yes I do write some

of y'all I'm a jokester I'm always prank I would always tell jokes but in all seriousness Uh I would

not be where I'm at today without all of you all Okay thank you for that Go ahead Natalie

So I think no I I wanted to share with you It's just been a pleasure just being able because

I know we met um in Harlem that day when we went up there we were all together

that day for the right um and I'm glad that I was able to hear more about

your business just right Um because in Connecticut I you know you know working with steven between trans

erupted I'm building out a nonprofit arm to my co work space that I own Uh and then that space

is going to be my fiduciary for money to be able to because listen the rule says you've

got to be a nonprofit we will be a non profit right So you know starting the board and

then led by us which is my partner organization which you know my partner is hispanic

on black So it's led by us we feel like that's really important and we're always gonna be looking

for affiliates people that it looks like us that have certain products and services And I just met three

people that got products and services So I'm excited to add that to my um led led by US affiliate

network because what we're really trying to do is my biggest concern is there's no consulting firms that do

a lot of economic development work in urban and if there is the representation of

a black or brown person is very very little very small and and and their

role is not very big to make a decision I know this because I wrote my city plan I

was on that team So I know how that selection process is Um we need a consortium of black consultants

that when big projects come come we can like a Hollywood movie set come together

do the work get paid go back Right And I think being able to have access to that allows

for anybody that makes you look at our FPs differently if you feel that you have the capacity um

to be able to meet the needs of the client So I'm excited to be able to add

you onto my neck work in that capacity as we are starting to open back up my collab

exchange in Connecticut and doing some workshops So definitely will be reaching out to you Well I mean first of

all you're going to be meeting them on a regular basis They're also transfer uptick affiliate partners as well

There we go We're gonna we're gonna be getting together on a on a monthly basis and

doing our version affiliate version of the think tank as well Uh there's no you know we want no way

we're going to do that So uh I want to give a big thanks to you Brother Bedford for everything

If you have done bringing us all together Um and your years of service Uh there's no one

here at this conference will not speak highly of you Brother Bedford I mean we saw we saw

dr Wendy Mohammed in your room testimonial You right off the bat you know Yeah she's built multi

million dollar companies were going to the list goes on everything you have done for

all of us and continue to do I'm I'm honored that you was our one of our first guests

I'm honored to uh to to know you and have your part of this Uh

it's an honor to have these women with us here tonight who have been very instrumental in where

I'm at today which would not have been possible if I was in a group with them

you know there's a lot to to go and I just want to say for anyone who's on the show

tonight I may be doing something that's not allowed but I'm gonna do it anyway

Uh if you want to be a part of the 2023 powered networking conference right I would say uh

definitely get in touch with me because dr George fraser always has a special a special price that no

one that you would not normally get that price I think only last until august

I would say that would be one of the best investment you can make business wise I'll tell you

the level the level of people that are here that's gonna present can give you million dollar ideas a

million dollar ways to implement Not just give you an idea but give you a

path to implementation It's like I just told Shay Shay Brown who is he helps people

build seven I mean build multi million dollar sales team he's been doing this for a number

of years he has a track record he has a lot of success Everyone in that We've

got a gentleman who's been doing teaching brandy for 37 years he has done you know once again major

corporate clients a good friend of mine Reginald Davis who has been teaching supply diversity

He was my first mentor when I first joined my first got my company certified I learned from him

how to go after corporate contracts He's here tonight I was actually shocked to see him I looked

at him like I know this guy and then I realized who he is I actually got to go

over and how come and thank him once again for everything he had pointed to me uh

and everything that he said on that screen is true about how corporations will take our money but don't

want to do business with us right So we giving you 40% of our for you

you're making 40% margins off of us right But then when you come to us

when we want to provide services to you saying no we want to provide raw goods you

say no and that's so true You know I've I've seen it So he has told us

that if the supply if the corporation doesn't buy from the C suite don't join their

supply diversity network don't waste your time If it's if it's if supply diversity is brought in from

the corporate C suite then you have an opportunity to work That billion dollar round table is

also real coke And Pepsi are part of that along with along with ERnst and

Young and some other corporations So they all corporations are doing more than a billion dollars worth of

business with me businesses and that's what I learned from from Reginald Davis many years

ago But that's the type of talent that dr fred this is Dr Frasier has said

this is that's his mastermind group Those are the people he hang with that's those his homies he's bringing that

talent to you every year So here's an opportunity for you those who are listening to

the show If you're really serious about 1 to 10 this conference and you put your name

on that list you need to be ready to pay whatever a couple $100 it's going to be when dr

fraser contacts you then contact me uh a curse through my email address up there

one more time for the for the people to see get my email address they can send me an email

and I'll make sure they get the link to to tell and I'll go tell dr George

Frazier that I promoted his conference next year on my show So he won't beat

up on you brother Bedford I'm gonna take I'm gonna take that one on my own I thank

you all for tuning in tonight I hope that this girl was beneficial to you all This is what we

do every month We're all about and power and helping entrepreneurs get to the next level trance

Reupped ID Our cohort will be launching next our first cohort will be launching next

month We have a 12 week program uh in which we're gonna help you scale and

operate a corporate your own small business or help you grow an existing business We also have a

track that's gonna be doing financial literacy So you understand how budgeting works how credit

works our business credit works as well And then on top of that you get to

join once you graduate you get to join that's it Yeah there you go steven dot

Jackson transcript dot com But once you graduate the 12 week program you get to join our one year mastermind

group Do exactly what I do with these women on a monthly basis as well So there'll be

a lot there'll be more information about that as well Information about my new book and my five day challenge

for those people have an issue and are having problems making it come on We're gonna

work with you on that as well I thank you all for joining tonight Thank you to

my guest I'm humbled humbled by your presence this evening I really really appreciate this that you

decided to spend some time with me tonight Uh you know and Natalie you got any final

words for us Yes go master your mindset Yeah mindset I got I got one final

thing to say y'all need to come and get some of this fire Stephen on fire boy he's gonna light

somebody up just to be close to steven is enough Well it's coming because of where

I happen to be at you know it's been a number of years and I actually

haven't physically been at a fraser net since 2016 Uh so I missed you know he started he

has started happening on some weekends just weeks where I really couldn't be available Uh actually remember being at the

first one you know that's how I met Dr George fraser in 1990 for around 94 95

at a symposium called marketing opportunities for black Entertainment in black entrepreneurs Moby is called Moby

for short and Allison was a sponsor of at one time and that's where I met dr fraser

we did a panel together as well over time and then I remember we came up with

the success uh directory that we had to success director and other things So it

feels I feel like I returned home you know for the last the last two years was

virtual which was not the same but to be here this year with my good my good friend dr

Stacy instagram and other friends who have not seen like Dr Cheryl would so good to

see her again I feel like I'm at home and me being me being home especially in a

special city like Houston where I begin a pivotal part of my career and leadership training

brings this all together It's like I'm really blessed to be here in this moment and I'm yes I'm

all right I'm on fire and I'm on fire because of what I experienced and well look at look

at look at this way the fire that's burning now makes trance reupped it even better And Natalie we

still got two more days of Stephen is like that Imagine how it's gonna feel on side We

got two more days of this Actually actually I actually fly out tomorrow night I'm actually flying out I won't

be here for the end of it And I just I so the good news

is that we are starting the team project I'm gonna have 20 younger 2020 teenagers between 16 and 20 that

we're gonna be taking to this whole trans rustic experience as well Uh that is

going to begin very soon So I need to get back and start to prepare for that

I'm excited about that as well And uh you know just all the other things that

we're all doing together So everyone I have a great amazing evening I will leave

you with this do something every day to best your best no matter how small it is just do

something every day read another book listen to listen to an inspirational message do something for yourself Thank you all

have a great night