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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

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I was traveling on business and planning to open a new franchise in the area, I said. As a Black professional, he had been through his own set of uncomfortable interactions traveling on business and was all too familiar with the array of characters you meet and the variety of tactics used to wiggle out of uncomfortable environments.

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The Power of Hope: How I Qualified for the Paralympic Games

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Instead, I started playing sports with my friends again and started regaining my confidence. They placed me in a group with people learning how to jog. He told me I’d be able to get paid to compete and travel the world. I traveled to Florida for my first Paralympic Nationals. I had purpose. I was excited.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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She yelled at me across the entire airport as she was sprinting to her gate, ‘Spanx and wheels on luggage, the two greatest inventions in the last 50 years!’” In the show, a group of budding entrepreneurs traveled the world tackling a series of challenges. “Everywhere I go with him, he gets flashed, too!”

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