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BLACK ENTREPRENEUR BLUEPRINT

Black Entrepreneur Blueprint: 92 - Richelle Shaw - The Million Dollar Equation

BLACK ENTREPRENEUR BLUEPRINT

Jay Jones

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4.8673 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

"The Million Dollar Equation"

Ms. Richelle Shaw was the first Black women to own a public utility in the United States when she owned a Las Vegas telephone company and grew it from 300K to 36 Million dollars. After the 9/11 tragedy, Ms. Shaw lost her business and had to file bankruptcy. But with grit and determination she rebuilt her company to over 1 million dollars within five months. Join us as Ms. Shaw takes us on her entrepreneurial journey and discusses her book, "The Million Dollar Equation". Learn how to build your million dollar business.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Black Entrepreneur Blueprint Show.

0:21.5

I am your host, Jay Jones.

0:24.5

Black Entrepreneur Blueprint was created specifically to educate and inspire black entrepreneurs to launch, build, and grow successful businesses.

0:35.7

Join us as we help build an economic power base in the black community by promoting

0:40.8

business ownership.

0:42.8

If you are currently an entrepreneur, we will want to be an entrepreneur.

0:47.7

We invite you to join us every week here at Black Entrepreneur Blueprint.

0:59.0

Thank you. at Black Entrepreneur Blueprint. Welcome to the Black Entrepreneur Blueprint, episode number 92.

1:04.3

I'm your host Jay Jones, and today we have another outstanding show for you.

1:08.5

Today we're going to be listening to an interview with Miss Rochelle Shaw.

1:13.9

Miss Rochelle Shaw is an African-American woman who was the first black utility company

1:20.2

owner in the United States.

1:22.4

She actually owned a telecom company in Las Vegas, Nevada, which she built from $300,000 up to $36 million.

1:31.0

During the 9 or after the 9-11 tragedy, she lost her business and had to file bankruptcy.

1:37.7

But within five months, she rebuilt that company to over a million dollars.

1:43.4

Ms. Shaw has a book out called the million

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dollar equation where she teaches business owners and entrepreneurs how to build a million

1:51.6

dollar business. It's an excellent interview. I cannot take credit for this interview. I've been

1:56.7

trying to get in touch with Ms. Shaw for several months now to get her on live.

2:01.2

But this is an interview that she did with Ms. Lolita Sherryow that we're replaying right now.

2:06.8

And it was done, I believe, a couple years ago.

2:09.8

But it's still very relevant today.

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