Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.

Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Lewis Carr, and our topic, A Day in the Life,

what's it really like to be a television media sales expert? Welcome, Lewis.

Thank you so much, Don. Glad to be here. It's our pleasure, sir. Lewis Carr has been

with BET Networks, Black Entertainment Television Networks, for 35 years, serving as the president

of media sales for the last 19 years. During his tenure with the company, he's transformed

the multicultural space for some of the world's biggest brands.

He founded the Lewis Carr Internship Foundation, LCIF, 18 years ago, to help improve diversity in corporate America through paid internships.

The foundation has provided 188 paid internships in which 50 alumni now have full-time jobs within the industry.

Staying true to his commitment of giving back, he launched his latest brand called Waymaker.

He purposed this initiative to help provide direction, wisdom, and inspiration to people wanting to grow their life and change the world.

Well, Lewis, first of all, congratulations on an amazing career.

You've done some remarkable things, and we look forward to sharing the highlights of that with listeners.

As we've discussed, everyone's life is about turning points or passages from the day we're born

until we leave this plane of existence.

So please take us into the backstory, the backstory of Lewis Carr,

where it all began, family of origin,

and tell us about the people and choices and changes that have gotten you where you are today.

Thank you for the introduction, Don.

I would say that when I look back, there were some critical moments in my life that I recognized were critical and knew that the decisions and the choices that I make would sort of impact me for the rest of my life. So I'll go back to, I was born on the west side of

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