And welcome to a

to a new one.

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

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

And welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. Like many episodes, I get a chance to interview my friends and brothers.

You know, Morehouse men always kind of find themselves on the other side of me on this show.

I see him now representing the University of Houston, you can tell somebody running for mayor,

but shout out to a candidate for the city of Houston, Texas,

former clerk, former Democratic Party leader,

lawyer, father, husband,

none other than my good friends,

Chris Hollins, what's going on, brother?

What's happening, Bicari, how you doing?

Oh, man, I'm good.

You know, we start each one of our episodes,

and it's kind of funny because we've, in our recent

episodes, we've interviewed a young lady who is a deputy executive director for the DGA.

We've interviewed the executive director or leader of the African American Mayors Association and everybody talks about the import of black mayors and local mayors, but you've been a consultant, a lawyer, an entrepreneur, a public servant,

and now you're seeking public office.

Walk us through your career stops since finishing Harvard and Yale and Morehouse, and what have you learned in each of your career stops that now prepares you to run for the mayor of Houston, Texas.

Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, my first job out of college and one that I maintain for the majority of my career was as a business consultant at McKinsey and company.

And at McKinsey, what I did was I helped large organizations,

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