158- Black Lives Matter & The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America w/ Shawn Rochester

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

Investing, Business

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

With everything going on right now, I wanted to replay one of the most important and impactful conversations that I've had on the podcast, The Black Tax & The Cost of Being Black in America with guest Shawn Rochester. In the beginning of the episode, I also share my thoughts on why I will continue to use my platform to educate and amplify Black voices while giving you the tools to reach your Financial Freedom & Independence goals. I encourage everyone to listen to this episode and share it with someone who needs to hear more of how we as a nation got to a place where Black Americans own only 2% of wealth and what we can do to change it .

In this episode you will learn:

- Why I'm so committed to amplifying Black voices and stories
- 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

You can watch the original interview with Shawn Rochester on youtube by clicking here.

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Check out Shawn's talk at Google, which has had over 200,000 views and sparked a lot of conversations about the real cost of being Black in America.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast.
0:04.0	Black Lives Matter and a replay of the Black Tax,
0:08.0	the cost of being black in America with Sean Rochester.
0:11.0	T-minous 10 seconds. Rochester. She helps brave journeyers like you get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well.
0:27.0	Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five four three two one
0:37.0	hey hey journeyers okay so know, normally I come to you every Wednesday with a brand new episode,
0:48.0	but with the state of things right now,
0:50.0	so if you're listening to this episode in real time, it's the first week of June, particularly
0:56.0	it's June 3rd, 2020, if you're listening to this in real time.
1:00.3	And there is a lot going on in our world, in our society, in America.
1:05.0	And while I usually have a brand new episode, I actually had something scheduled to come out.
1:09.0	I thought it would be better if I replayed a very important episode, I believe is one of the most important
1:15.8	episodes that I've done on the podcast to date and that was episode 137 the
1:22.0	black tax the cost of being Black in America with Sean Rochester.
1:26.0	So I'm going to replay that episode or that interview with Sean Rochester.
1:31.2	But before I do that, I do want to just address some things here. Now first
1:36.2	and foremost if you have not noticed I'm a black woman and I'm very proud of that.
1:42.2	One of the reasons I started journey to long. And I'm very proud of that.
1:43.0	One of the reasons I started a journey to launch,
1:45.8	apart from personally at first just chronicling
1:49.6	how I was going to reach financial independence.
1:51.4	It was because I saw a lack of representation in this
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