Transform in small business development creating soloponores and micro businesses all in efforts of circulating the black dollar among black businesses that is the mission of Dr.

Lekesha Holman, CEO of Village Retail,

will dive in all of that and more for our journey,

the Force B OK series right now. And we are here with Dr Hallman, Dr. Keith. I'm going to call you Dr. Keith.

Throughout this whole interview here in Atlanta at the village retail.

Thank you so much for inviting us into your space. This store is wonderful.

Thank you and thank you for having me.

Y'all are always welcome to come back.

Yeah, absolutely. but I'm excited

for this conversation well listen when I leave I'm gonna have to buy a whole bunch of

stuff in here too so when I come back it might be broke right so don't be broke

but but buy a lot of things okay so how's your

2024 been what's going on with the business before we dive in all of that stuff

your background so much to talk about here as we lead up to our journey to

force be okay serious in June.

How's 2024 been for you?

2024 has been busy.

Yeah.

That is entrepreneurship.

That's owning businesses.

And so I will say that we continue to grow

and because of that we're being stretched as a company as an organization

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