Black Entrepreneur Blueprint 408 - Melvin Graham - Making His Dream To Become A Hollywood Film Producer Come True
BLACK ENTREPRENEUR BLUEPRINT
Jay Jones
4.8 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Many people have dreams of becoming successful entrepreneurs, but a large percentage fail, or never even try to make their entrepreneurial dreams come true. Melvin Graham successfully fought against the odds to make his dream to become a filmmaker come true.
Join Jay as he talks to filmmaker Melvin Graham, producer of the upcoming Amazon Prime documentary series "Black Business LA" as they discuss Melvin's amazing entrepreneurial journey to becoming a successful filmmaker and the importance of Black-owned businesses.
This is the video interview from the recent live event, "Black Entrepreneur Blueprint Live In LA."
WATCH THE INITIAL INTERVIEW ON YOUTUBE - EPISODE # 408 https://youtu.be/AgSgP4RfjJU
WATCH THE Q & A SESSION AFTER THE INITIAL INTERVIEW
LISTEN TO THE Q & A SESSION AFTER THE INITIAL INTERVIEW
Watch or Listen to this amazing Q & A session with Black Entrepreneur Blueprint founder Jay Jones, Director and Executive Producer Melvin Graham, and Executive Producer Sherman Perryman as they take questions from the audience after the recent "Black Entrepreneur Blueprint Live In LA" event.
This session took place right after Jay interviewed filmmaker Melvin Graham, producer of the upcoming Amazon Prime documentary series "Black Business LA."
There are many gems in this Q & A session as the audience asks some very interesting questions about:
- Entrepreneurship
- How to navigate entrepreneurship as a Black-owned company
- Creating partnerships with major players in the entertainment industry
- Getting a seat at the table
- Following your dreams
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Black Entrepreneur Blueprint, the number one podcast and resource for Black |
| 0:18.3 | Entrepreneurs. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm your host Jay Jones, and Black Entrepreneur Blueprint was created specifically to educate |
| 0:25.5 | and inspire black entrepreneurs to launch, build, and grow successful, sustainable businesses. |
| 0:33.0 | Join us as we help build an economic power base in the worldwide black community by building and |
| 0:39.0 | supporting black owned businesses. |
| 0:41.8 | If you're currently an entrepreneur or want to be an entrepreneur, you're invited to join us |
| 0:47.0 | each and every week here at Black Entrepreneur Blueprint. |
| 0:50.6 | Welcome to the BEB family and get ready to elevate your entrepreneur IQ. |
| 1:00.6 | Welcome to the Black Entrepreneur Blueprint, episode number of 408. I'm your host Jay Jones and today |
| 1:09.5 | we have another outstanding and informative show installed for you. |
| 1:13.6 | Today we're going to be talking to Mr. Melvin Graham, documentary film producer of the upcoming |
| 1:19.6 | documentary series on Amazon Prime, titled Black Business LA. |
| 1:25.3 | Now, if you heard me talk about B-E BEB in LA, my live event several weeks ago, |
| 1:30.7 | this is actually the event. So feel free to watch it on YouTube or listen to it on all your |
| 1:37.6 | major podcast platforms. So if you missed it, you guys can actually see it here. And we had a dynamic |
| 1:43.7 | conversation with Melvin and his team |
| 1:45.9 | about black entrepreneurship his entrepreneurial journey and why he felt it necessary to highlight black |
| 1:53.4 | businesses in l.A now before we get to today's show i just want to share a few things with the |
| 1:58.8 | be eb family first and foremost i want to share a few things with the B.E.B. Family. First and foremost, I'm going to |
| 2:01.8 | welcome all first time listeners to Black Entrepreneur Blueprint. Welcome to the B.E.B. Family. |
| 2:07.3 | Please stick around until the end of today's broadcast, and I'm going to share all my social |
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