EP: 236 - Beautiful Bill Or Bull****?

Black Wealth Renaissance

Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

What happens when survival comes at the cost of progress? In this episode, David and Jalen react to a viral clip of a mother discouraging her son from getting a job to protect her Section 8 housing—exposing the real psychological weight of poverty mindsets. They unpack how systems meant to help can sometimes keep us stuck, and why financial literacy is a necessary tool for breaking free. The conversation expands to the passing of the Big Beautiful Bill, shifts in social safety nets, and what these changes mean for Black families across America. The hosts also dive deep into the rise of AI, cybersecurity, and the future of crypto and tokenized stocks, revealing both the risks and opportunities these technologies present for building generational wealth. Whether you're trying to protect your digital bag or shift your mindset from survival to strategy, this episode is for you. 🔥 Tap in, take notes, and leave us a 5-star review! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Key Takeaways: 00:00 | Opening Thoughts & The Mindset Holding Us Back 09:01 | From Struggle to Strategy: Wealth Building in Our Communities 18:03 | Policy Update: The Big Beautiful Bill & Its Real-World Impact 26:11 | Real Talk on Building Black Wealth 26:48 | Industry Shakeups & What’s Coming Next 30:09 | How AI Is Changing the Game for Jobs & Skills 33:03 | Can You Really Trust AI? Cautionary Tales & Tech Talk 44:17 | Protecting Your Bag: Cybersecurity in a Digital World 49:34 | Digital Defense: Simple Safety Moves You Need Now 50:07 | Money Habits That Keep Us Broke: Breaking the Cycle 57:41 | Crypto & Regulation: What You Should Know 01:02:33 | Tokenized Stocks? Robinhood Just Shifted the Game 01:07:07 | Fatherhood, Sacrifice & Acts of Courage that Inspire Connect with the Hosts: David Bellard 📸 Instagram 🐦 Twitter Jalen Clark 📸 Instagram 🐦 Twitter

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0:00.0	I wake up, hit a hundred push-ups, then I'm at my route.
0:03.4	Check on my stocks.
0:04.4	See how they looking.
0:05.2	Then I'm sliding out. When you start seeing your progression, you stop having doubts. And what's the point I have a clout if you can't cash it out. True to this game and I'm a life, hey, feel like we're fin to change the cycle, eh. Welcome back. Welcome back. Wealthy people. It is your boy, David Bellard, one half of the Blackwell Renaissance crew.
0:03.7	You already know we back in here to do.
0:05.5	I'm here. Welcome back, welcome back wealthy people. It is your boy, David Bellard, one half of the Black
0:21.6	wealth Renaissance crew. You already know what we're back in here to do. I'm here with my brother from another. Jailan, how you living? Whoa, whoa, whoa, what's up with it? My brother, I'm living great. I feel bad because I just look back and I realize I forgot my quote. So I'm kind of sad now. Dang.
0:17.6	It's all good, man.
0:18.6	Every now and again, we're going to let the pod speak for itself. We're going to have a quote come from the pod. You know what I'm saying? It's going to be next week, quote of the week. I'm doing great, though, man. Feeling blessed, blessed highly favored. I really, I ain't got nothing else to say on that. All right, man. My boy ain't blacktastic, so I'm blacktastic, blessed and highly favored, you know what I'm saying, doing good. Today's been a great day and we back for another great episode, man. So I'm always willing, able, and ready to come with that fire for the people. So y'all know what we need, man.
1:11.1	Before we get into today's episode, we need y'all to leave us that five star rating in
1:17.4	review.
1:18.6	We need that.
1:20.0	Yes, sir.
1:20.8	Give us that feedback.
1:22.1	We love to hear from you guys.
1:23.8	What topics you want to hear, all that stuff, y'all get with us.
1:27.4	We always are receptive to everything that you guys want to share with us and how we can
1:31.2	continue to push the culture forward.
1:33.4	So, man, before we get into it today, you know, we like to start it off a little light, man.
1:38.0	We got a little clip that we wanted to share with y'all with something that really i think it's crucial to share
1:47.8	right now like giving the mindset and the current economic and political environment we in
1:54.2	like this is a mindset we got to divorce ourselves from as a culture i'm gonna let my brother
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