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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Black Real Estate and Intergenerational Wealth With Mavis Gragg

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by attorney and CEO of HeirShares Mavis Gragg to discuss her career fighting for Black land ownership (3:03), the systemic racism of property law (5:54), and actionable tools and steps to take when owning land (16:01). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Mavis Gragg Producer: Donnie Beacham Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And welcome to that it's going to be okay.

0:17.0

And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. Today we got one of them educational episodes coming on and we have an episode with somebody who is definitely,

0:23.0

I mean that's a low bar, so don't be offended,

0:24.7

but definitely smarter than I.

0:26.1

But we are excited to have Mavis Gregg on the show.

0:29.7

What's going on?

0:30.1

How you feeling?

0:31.6

I'm feeling great, how are you? I'm good, I'm good. You know just bouncing back from the weekend as we always do

0:37.6

We need four or five day weekends is never long enough, but it is what it is

0:42.3

We start each one of our episodes out by having our guest enough, but it is what it is.

0:42.6

We start each one of our episodes out

0:44.1

by having our guest walk us through the arc of their careers

0:46.9

and you've had a unique and diverse career in the law.

0:50.0

Walk us through the arc of your career

0:51.8

from finishing Pepperdine law to the work you do now.

0:55.2

Yeah, I will say that most of my career has been centered around real estate, particularly family

1:01.0

owned real estate when I started my law practice or when I started

1:04.0

practicing law I worked with a small practice that did a state planning a state administration and

1:10.8

also a lot of real estate closing and then I went into the big

1:15.4

firm life and worked with a large firm that represented a lot of the lenders

1:20.0

engaged in the foreclosure crisis of the 20s and then or 2000s rather and then decided

1:28.1

that my work should focus on people who need it the, meaning I saw that most people

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