Casey Gerald on Winning the Culture Wars | BoF VOICES
The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
From growing up “on the wrong side of the river” in Dallas, to studying at Ivy League schools and taking on the trials and tribulations of both Wall Street and entrepreneurship, Casey Gerald has lived an extraordinary life at the ripe age of thirty-two.
Now, he has documented it all in his new memoir, “There Will Be No Miracles Here," which informed the emotional and inspiring talk he gave to conclude VOICES 2018, with a deeply personal glimpse into his thoughts on identity, courage and spirituality.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and this week we have a very special talk from Voices 2018. |
| 0:11.0 | I was happy to introduce my friend Casey Gerald to the Voices community this year. |
| 0:15.0 | A few years back, a friend sent me a YouTube link to a video of a young man speaking at the graduation ceremony of Harvard Business School. |
| 0:23.7 | I clicked to watch and then watch the video over and over again several times. |
| 0:29.0 | There was something mesmerizing about his oratory skills and the way he crafted his narratives and messages. |
| 0:35.3 | And then magically, a few days later, I received a notification. |
| 0:40.3 | Casey Gerald is now following you on Twitter. |
| 0:43.3 | I said, what? The Casey Gerald? |
| 0:46.3 | I dropped Casey a direct message and we arranged to meet up. |
| 0:49.3 | And from there, a very special friendship was born. |
| 0:52.3 | We were so lucky to have Casey with us at Voices 2018. |
| 0:56.7 | This was his call to action on how we can change the world. |
| 1:00.4 | Here's Casey Gerald at Voices 2018. |
| 1:05.5 | I'm not going to talk about the culture wars as the title |
| 1:08.1 | because Imron censored the title that I had for this talk |
| 1:11.4 | rightfully so I want to talk about my mother she called this summer to stage and intervention of sorts |
| 1:23.7 | she had come across some snippets of my book, which was not even out yet, and she was |
| 1:31.6 | concerned. And it wasn't the sex. It was the language that disturbed her. For example, |
| 1:41.5 | from the introduction, for those of you have not read the free book you have, |
| 1:47.0 | I have been so many things along my curious journey. |
| 1:55.0 | A poor boy, a nigger, a Yale man, a Harvard man, a faggot, a Christian, a crack baby, alleged, |
| 2:04.8 | the spawn of Satan, the second coming, Casey. |
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