I'm very privileged I live in a penthouse in Covent Garden.

In the center of London I've done all right.

This is John Amici.

He is a very long list of accomplishments.

He's a New York Times bestselling author, the CEO of his own consulting advising and

training company, APS, and a recipient of an OBE, a prestigious honor awarded by members

of the British Royal family for extraordinary achievements and contributions to society.

I also get stopped in the search three times a year, like I'm a criminal.

I also walk to the gym in the morning at five o'clock and I don't put my hood up because

it's dark and I walk past a police checkpoint and I have to make sure they can see me smiling

with my eyes and with my face so that I don't get stopped as I walk past them.

John happens to be a six foot nine black man and that's the nature of it.

It doesn't take away from the fact that I don't worry about how much a pint of milk costs

but the privileges, they're not this thing where there's a kind of a zero sum game.

They create a landscape that describes my experience and that landscape is different

than for somebody else.

First of all, John, I'm sorry that you have to go through that.

One of the things that reminds me of that one kind of privilege doesn't always offset

another kind of disadvantage.

It's interesting to me also that you have the privilege of a British accent, which I

would estimate adds at least 20 IQ points, if not more.

Do you have completely different professional interactions with people when your camera

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