This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. I want us to focus on creating the life, the community, the world we want to live in,

and it really starts with being intentional and having vision.

So for the last several podcasts, I've been talking about this book Black Fortunes because

it's on our book club list and we're going to actually have a deeper dive into it, but I've been picking

little pieces from this book

to kind of illustrate a larger point.

And this is the point today.

So I want to talk about Hannah Elias,

one of the six African Americans who survived slavery

and became a millionaire.

And her story is kind of tragic a little bit,

but what she was was a woman with intense vision.

So after she was demonized and vilified

and accused of all kinds of things because that's what

will happen.

And Shimari Wills says that that's what all of these millionaires had in common.

Not only did they have intestinal fortitude, but they also were heavily demonized and heavily criticized and some of them,

all of them actually had threats on their lives because how dare you, how dare you have the audacity to do better than me?

How dare you have the audacity to have butlers and maids and beautiful homes and cars and

and have all of the money that you could possibly need? how dare you Negro out of slavery do all of this

when I'm eating boiled potatoes every night.

Do better.

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