Perseverance: Kier "Junior" Spates is changing how we view people with Sickle Cell.

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Kier "Junior" Spates.

Co-Host of Steve Harvey Morning Show and founded Kier's Hope to provide underprivileged individuals who suffer from Sickle Cell Disease to ensure they receive the medical, physical, and emotional attention they deserve.

Suffering from sickle cell disease in silence is not uncommon in the African-American Community as there is a lack of knowledge of the disease. So, he created the Kier's Hope Foundation. The annual Kier's Hope 5K Fun Run and Walk and Junior Claus is an opportunity for families and those with sickle cell disease to gather and learn more about new treatments, spread awareness, and increase community engagement. Sickle Cell Disease is misunderstood as being contagious, an automatic death sentence, and that people with SCD can't do what "normal" people do! Kier is changing that narrative.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show. I am Rishon McDonnell, the host of Money Making Conversations Masterclass,
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0:16.0	Listen up as I interview entrepreneurs from around the country, talk to celebrities, and ask them how they're running their companies, and speak with nonprofits who are making a difference in their local communities.
0:27.7	Now sit back and listen as we unlock the secrets to their success on Money Making Conversations Masterclass.
0:35.4	Welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. I'm your host of the show,
0:38.9	Rashan McDonnell. We're down here in Atlanta to meet the one and only Keir Jr. Spates.
0:44.3	One of the stars of the popular radio show called Steve Harvey Morning Show. Here's a plan down here,
0:51.0	a plan to change the lives of people who are affected by sickle cell disease.
0:55.3	He has the disease, but he wants to let you know it can't stop you from dreaming.
1:00.1	He is a podcast.
1:01.4	He is a foundation called Keer's Hope.
1:03.8	Now, you'll be able to hear his story and while he's changing the game and while the community is being impacted by his personal efforts.
1:11.7	Please, don't go to where.
1:12.9	We're about to meet the one and only Keir Jr. Spates.
1:16.2	I'm Keir Jr. Spates, founder of Keir's Hope Foundation.
1:20.0	I'm here in Atlanta, Georgia, with the one-only Keir Jr. Spates.
1:25.0	How you doing, my brother?
1:26.2	I know.
1:26.3	I know.
1:26.5	You get up, man.
1:27.5	Yeah, dude. I get up. Steve Harper Morning Show. Every morning, dude.
1:31.2	Well, good. How did it feel to be a part of an engine like that has been, it changes the community?
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