137-The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America with Shawn Rochester
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Shawn is the CEO of Good Steward, LLC and author of The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America. In his book and presentations at Google, and several universities across the United States, Shawn examines the true cost of being Black in America. He outlines what factors impact the Black community and explains how you can help close the wealth gap.
Everyone must listen to this episode. I hope this interview sparks powerful conversations, deep thought, and inspires you to build black wealth and make strides to level the economic playing field.
In this episode you will learn:
- What is the Black Tax and how it's impacting your wealth
- How to identify unconscious vs. conscious bias
- Why hard work is not the key to success and what resources you really need
- Concrete ways you can close the wealth gap
- How to apply Shawn's PHD strategy to create jobs, capital, and thriving black communities, and so much more
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast, The Cost of Being Black in America, with |
| 0:08.2 | Sean Rochester. |
| 0:09.7 | T-minus. Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host Janila Sufrant as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:19.0 | She helps brave journeys like you, get out of debt save invest and build real well. |
| 0:26.0 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five four three |
| 0:32.4 | two one Five, four, three, two, one. |
| 0:39.0 | Hey, hey, journeyers. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | Now, before we hop into this episode, because let me tell you something, |
| 0:50.0 | this episode will be, I believe believe one of my most important episodes that I've ever done today |
| 0:57.0 | but before we hop into that I want to say thank you for tuning in this episode 137 if you want to get any of the show |
| 1:04.8 | notes want to find out more what we're talking about go to journey to launch |
| 1:08.4 | dot com slash episode 137 but as I saying, I've done a lot of episodes before this one and I really |
| 1:16.7 | believe this is the most important conversation that I've had on the podcast ever to date and it's something that you need to hear and |
| 1:26.1 | so if you heard the title of it it's called The Cost of Being Black in America and |
| 1:31.2 | while my guest Sean and I will be discussing that just that right |
| 1:35.4 | being black and American the cost of it this episode is not only for black |
| 1:40.3 | people everyone needs to hear this. |
| 1:43.0 | So regardless of if you're black or white |
| 1:45.8 | or a person of color that is not black, |
| 1:48.4 | you need to hear this. |
| 1:49.6 | And you need to hear it because what we'll talk about today |
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