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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Kenneth Kelly on the Importance of Financial Wellness

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by CEO of First Independence Bank Kenneth Kelly to discuss the challenges facing minority-owned banks (3:58, his book ‘Prepared Before I Let Go’, and the importance of last will and testaments (8:01). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Kenneth Kelly Producer: Donnie Beacham Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And welcome to another episode of the

0:15.4

to a Bicari Sellers podcast. Today we have a great guest. This is gonna be an

0:18.2

interesting dope show. We have Kenneth Kelly on the show with us. What's going on

0:21.9

man? How are you? Hey brother

0:23.4

McCarrie, I'm glad to be here with you. Thanks so much for having me. It's been a

0:26.7

couple of years since we've been together with Bishop Jakes. Yes, it has been and

0:31.3

you know building wealth is something

0:34.3

that we talk about on this show often,

0:35.8

and I'm glad that we have some money

0:36.9

with your level of expertise.

0:39.1

You know, we start each show the same way,

0:40.8

and our listeners are very used to it. We like to start each of our

0:44.4

episodes by having our guest walk us through the arc of their career and yours

0:48.8

has spanned energy in corporate America to now being a bank CEO of Minority Own Bank.

0:54.0

Walk us through the arc of your career from the moment you left Auburn to your work now,

0:58.0

both the CEO of First Independence Bank in Detroit,

1:01.0

to now your work as an author helping black families understand the value of

1:04.8

a state planning. Well, Bakari, it is one I can only tell you that I was not

1:10.3

smart enough to plan out and is but the grace of God that we sit where we are today.

1:16.7

But to your point I started out in electoral engineering there at Auburn University and worked for

1:20.6

Alabama Power Company, got the opportunity of Bacar to work across many facets of the business

1:26.0

from marketing and corporate finance, human resources, supply chain,

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