Black Entrepreneur Blueprint: 63 - Dr. Umar Johnson - Why We Spend So Much Money On Nonsense And Are Still Broke

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🗓️ 28 September 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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"Why We Spend So Much Money On Nonsense And Are Still Broke"

Join us as we listen to Dr. Umar Johnson; an educator, psychologist, political scientist and Pan-Africanist, as he delves into the psychological reasons why we spend money on nonsense and don't have anything to show for it. Dr. Johnson breaks it down and reinforces the fact that we need to become better stewards of our money and start spending money in our own community. Dr. Johnson is a world renowned speaker and advocate for Black empowerment.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Black Entrepreneur Blueprint Show.
0:21.4	I am your host, Jay Jones.
0:24.4	Black Entrepreneur Blueprint was created specifically to educate and inspire black entrepreneurs to launch, build, and grow successful businesses.
0:35.6	Join us as we help build an economic power base in the black community by promoting business
0:41.4	ownership.
0:42.8	If you are currently an entrepreneur or want to be an entrepreneur, we invite you to join
0:48.6	us every week here at Black Entrepreneur Blueprint.
0:59.3	Thank you. Black Entrepreneur Blueprint. Welcome to the Black Entrepreneur Blueprint, episode number 63.
1:04.7	I'm your host Jay Jones, and today we have another great show installed for you.
1:09.4	Today, actually, we're going to be touching on two things.
1:13.1	First, we're going to be listening to a recorded interview, or not interview, but a recorded speech from Dr. Umar Johnson.
1:22.7	And I don't know if you guys are familiar with Dr. Johnson, a strong young brother who's an educator,
1:29.8	psychologist, political scientist, and pan-Africanist, and he's a certified school psychologist
1:36.9	who practices privately throughout Pennsylvania and does tremendous lectures throughout the country.
1:43.2	Dr. Johnson is actually a blood relative of Frederick Douglass.
1:48.8	So we're going to listen to brother Umar Johnson today and his topic, which is right on point,
1:56.2	is why black people spend so much money on nonsense but are still broke and once again guys that gets
2:03.1	back to our own economics you know spending money on nonsense but what dr johnson does is he delves
2:10.8	into another side of it because he's he's a trained psychologist he goes into the psychology of why we do this.
2:19.8	So if you don't understand why you do something, it's hard for you to correct it.
2:24.7	So this is very important as we talk about economics.
2:28.3	So it's not just all about building businesses, but it's also about how we think about each other.
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