I didn't realize how many people that have become quote-unquote successful in society.

Some of them started really late or some of them started and they had like seven million dollars in debt or they had disabilities.

I just didn't realize I was like, oh, this is not impossible.

This is actually a possible thing. So through that I experienced that, but the push for me was,

Adidas had gone through this moment where this article came out and essentially it said that they were stifling, intentionally

stifling the careers of black professionals like me.

I was like, whoa.

I was like, I felt resistance, but I didn't know it was systemic and lo and behold all this

information will come out and that would be the case and it inspired me to say hey

maybe this is an opportunity for me to just try something that's for me in my community because I'd spend so much time and I think you find a lot of creatives that work with in corporate organizations, right?

We're like, oh, how can I lead the brand to this way

to help this community, but it also will help its business?

And you spend so much time trying to convince people

that aren't from that community,

that this is good for business.

This feels like I'm just smashing my head against the wall.

But what happens if I just try to try it outside of this system?

And that's what I started to do and it started to gain traction.

But it came from all of those things and all those feelings and all those experiences

but it was hard because I didn't know a lot of people that were doing

entrepreneurial things.

Hey friend, welcome back to the Light Watkins Show.

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