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Send us Fan Mail GLOBAL I AM CONVERSATIONS (ARCHIVE SERIES)Ana Guerrero Power with Purpose: From the Fields to the Halls of City Hall What is power? For Ana Guerrero, power isn't about titles, prestige, or privilege. It is the opportunity—and responsibility—to improve the lives of others. In this remarkable archival conversation, Ana Guerrero, former Chief of Staff to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, offers a rare look behind the curtain of one of America's largest and most influential cities...

Send us Fan Mail In this archive conversation, we examine the creative origins and cultural vision of Ruth E. Carter, whose work has helped redefine the visual language of Black cinema and global storytelling. Long before “Afrofuturism” entered the mainstream lexicon, Carter was constructing worlds — drawing from history, diaspora, imagination, and memory — to articulate identities too often left unseen. Together with our Global I Am hosts, they explore the discipline behind her craft, the in...

Send us Fan Mail Archive Episode | Solomon Tedla For decades, investors looked to Brazil, Russia, India, and China as the world's next great growth story. Today, many of those economies have matured into global economic powers. Increasingly, the world's attention is turning toward a new frontier—Africa. In this compelling archival conversation, Global I AM welcomes Solomon Tedla—impact investor, entrepreneur, technology executive, and renewable energy pioneer—whose work is helping redefine ...

Send us Fan Mail History is rarely made in public. Before the headlines, before the announcements, before the deals are signed, there are conversations—quiet exchanges between people who see the future before the rest of the world does. These are the conversations where ideas become movements, relationships become institutions, and vision becomes reality. Welcome to The Manifestors, a new series from the Global I Am podcast that takes listeners behind the scenes with the builders, power broke...

Send us Fan Mail This Week on Global I AM Conversations Why Africa's greatest investment opportunity may already exist in its global diaspora Understanding the $100+ billion remittance economy Building financial systems that empower entrepreneurs instead of excluding them Healthcare finance, venture capital, and economic diversification in Botswana Why SMEs remain the engine of Africa's future prosperity Connecting institutional inv...

Send us Fan Mail GLOBAL I AM CONVERSATIONS (ARCHIVE SERIES) Clifton L. Taulbert From the Mississippi Delta to Black Wall Street: Building Communities That Endure Long before "purpose-driven leadership" became fashionable, Clifton L. Taulbert was living it. Born in the Mississippi Delta during the era of segregation, Taulbert transformed the lessons of a small rural community into a global philosophy of leadership, entrepreneurship, and human dignity. His Pulitzer Prize-nominated memoir, Once ...

Send us Fan Mail Roots & Vines: Growing Beauty, Business & Belonging Some businesses sell products. Others cultivate experiences. For entrepreneur Ena Jones, founder of Roots & Vines, every bouquet tells a story, every customer interaction is an opportunity to serve, and every business is ultimately about nurturing people. In this heartfelt archival Global I AM Conversations, Ms. Jones shares the remarkable journey of building a purpose-driven business rooted in beauty, wellness, ...

Send us Fan Mail What makes a moment sacred? How do memory, ancestry, and spirit converge in a single image? In Part II of our extraordinary conversation with acclaimed photographer and visual historian Chester Higgins Jr., we journey deeper into the spiritual and emotional dimensions of photography and human experience. A longtime photographer for The New York Times and one of the most important chroniclers of the African diaspora, Higgins has spent more than five decades documenting the bea...

Send us Fan Mail Chester Higgins Jr. is not simply a photographer. He is one of the great visual historians of the Black world — a man whose lens transformed memory into sacred text. A longtime staff photographer for The New York Times for nearly four decades, Higgins captured the spiritual architecture of Black life with extraordinary dignity and force. His photographs of Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, and Amiri Baraka at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture remain among the most ...

Send us Fan Mail The Global I Am's Max Rodriguez welcomes PBS NewsHour anchor and acclaimed author Geoff Bennett for a candid conversation about his memoir Black Out Loud, the power of storytelling, and the role of journalism in strengthening democracy. Bennett reflects on the mentors, experiences, and defining moments that shaped his remarkable journey, offering insights on leadership, representation, and the importance of finding—and using—your voice. Topics Include: • The inspiration behin...

Send us Fan Mail Global I Am - Episode 4: Dr. Dennis Kimbro “Think and Grow Rich: The African Choice” In this powerful conversation, renowned author, educator, and economic thinker Dr. Dennis Kimbro joins culturalist Max Rodriguez for a far-reaching discussion on wealth, legacy, vision, and the future of Black economic consciousness. Best known for his groundbreaking adaptation of Napoleon Hill’s philosophy through works such as Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice, Dr. Kimbro has spent ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the full season of The Global I AM Podcast at the Nexus of THE Culture and Our Capital. After our first 2 beta-episodes as well as episodes from our vaults earlier this year, Global I Am will resume every Friday to share information from around the worlds of culture and finance. For our first episode back, we lean into the wisdom of the Pacific Ocean at Point Loma University, a Christian liberal arts university in San Diego, California...

Send us Fan Mail Hollywood icon Bill Duke joins the Global I Am Archive in a conversation that examines the intersection of capital and culture. At Global I Am we operate from a simple premise: culture is not separate from markets — culture is markets. Across films in which Duke has acted, directed, or produced, the combined box office impact exceeds $1.6 billion, including projects such as Predator, Sister Act II, Payback, Red Dragon, and X-Men: The Last Stand. Nearly 80% of these films are ...

Send us Fan Mail In this powerful archival episode of Global I Am — At the Nexus of Culture & Our Capital, we sit with Ruth E. Carter, one of the most influential costume designers in cinema history. Originally recorded for our legacy Victory and Noble series Getting Deals Done, this conversation explores Carter’s extraordinary ability to translate cultural memory into visual language — a gift inspired in part by Black Arts Movement icons Sonia Sanchez and Nikki Giovanni. Ruth Carter has ...

Send us Fan Mail In this archival episode of Getting Deals Done, the Mastermind Forum, we look at a larger cosmic picture and identify opportunities based upon information gleaned from past episodes. In this case, we note trends by Fortune 500 companies as Viasat Satellite Communications and Newport Beach's Alhambra Technologies with manufacturing in Bahir, Ethiopia. The Africa insurance market reached a value of US $70 billion in 2020. Revenue in the eCommerce market is pr...

Send us Fan Mail “It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life…” — Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti, Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? In Episode 2 of Global I Am, hosts Sebastien Celestine, Bill Huston, and Patrick A. Howell convene a transatlantic conversation on legacy, sovereignty, capital, and the evolving architecture of African prosperity and wealth. From the enduring pol...

Send us Fan Mail After the BridgeGeorge Floyd, Congressman John Lewis, and the Rise of the Digital Nomad GLOBAL I AM ARCHIVES Recorded in 2020, this archival conversation returns us to one of the most consequential years of the twenty-first century—a moment when pandemic, protest, technology, and cultural transformation converged to reshape the global imagination. Hosted by Tori L. Reid, this early Global I Am conversation (then known as the Global International African Arts Movement) explore...

Send us Fan Mail In this inaugural episode of Global I Am, Patrick A. Howell, Bill Huston, Kate Washington, and Max Rodriguez come together for a conversation about identity, culture, creativity, and capital—and how these forces shape the future of our communities and our shared humanity. Together, they explore the stories that define us, the institutions that sustain us, and the opportunities before us as artists, entrepreneurs, investors, educators, and cultural stewards. Executive Produced...