Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I am Karen Hunter and this is my birthday week and it is allowing me to think

about my life, my life and in the life that I'm living. And I can't really think about my life without

thinking about how I got here. So today I want to honor my mother. I spent a lot of time talking

about my dad, but my mother has been so instrumental. And I want to thank Terry Williams from One United

Bank. They're not sponsoring this podcast, by the way, but I just want to thank her for inviting me

to her podcast because

she forced me to think about who really influenced me to be who I am. And it's not just that my mom

gave birth to me, which she did. But all along the way, this woman has been a force of nature

that I don't think I quite appreciated or told her that I appreciate her. As we get older,

we sometimes don't have an

opportunity to, we miss the opportunity. I never want to miss that opportunity. I want to say thank

you to my mother publicly. And I want to share with you a conversation I had recently with Terry

Williams, where I honor her. So up next, my discussion with Terry Williams and company. Her podcast is, Who's Your Ma Honey?

Her My Honey was her grandmother who influenced her, and my mom, honey, is my mother.

Margie Hunter Perry.

I've spent most of my young life being wildly delusional because I never would walk in a room being ashamed of anything

or feeling less than anyone. I always thought, matter of fact, that I was probably smarter than

everyone and I was very mischievous. So what you see today is kind of how I've always been, but you may reflect on why.

So I spent most of my life thinking I was like this because of my father, who, you know,

born in New York, one of eight, very poor.

His mother got him up at five, he and his brothers at 5 a.m. they would have to collect bottles.

His father died at an early age and left them a store, which my grandmother fed the family out of,

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