Black business is big business – and if you’re not “buying Black,” as the saying goes, you’re shortchanging your local community and the larger economy.

That’s the message of the BlaQue Resource Network and its founder, entrepreneur extraordinaire Aleeia Abraham, who’s on a mission to elevate and support her fellow Black business owners. Through popular events, shared promotions and other progressive positivity, the Queens College graduate has already rallied 25,000 networkers to this noble socioeconomic cause – and has big ideas about expanding her Queens-based efforts into Nassau and Suffolk.

In today’s episode, Aleeia joins Spark host Gregory Zeller to discuss her ambitious goals, her innovative methods, the $141 billion reality of Black-owned U.S. businesses – and how her stint as a circus ringmaster helped her find her voice.