Black Fridays

What Up Doe?! Everybody wants funding for their business, but are you actually prepared to receive it? This week on Black Fridays, we're tapping in with Warren Galloway, founder of the National Microloan Conference, to break down how entrepreneurs can access capital and make smarter moves with their money. With decades of experience in financial services, Warren shares how microloans help small businesses grow, why relying on grants can slow down your progress, and how capital stacking can help you secure the funding you need. We also get into building relationships with lenders, preparing your business plan and financial projections, securing sponsorships, and creating opportunities that bring money back into our neighborhoods. If you're trying to launch, grow, or scale your business, this conversation will help you understand what lenders are looking for and how to build a strategy around your next move. Tap in!

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What Up Doe?! This episode is a little different because we’re sitting down with Jasmyn, one of the first interns in Black Fridays Podcast history and a film student at Howard University who is already putting real work behind her creative goals. Jasmyn shares how missing out on Howard’s acting program pushed her toward film production, what she learned directing her passion project Free, and how working behind the scenes with Black Fridays expanded her skills in podcast production, outreach, editing, and creative collaboration. We also get into navigating college as a creative, building community, keeping your creativity active, and one of the biggest lessons she took from the internship: send the email, make the post, ask the question, and give yourself a chance to create the opportunity. If you’re a student, young creative, filmmaker, content creator, or anybody waiting for permission to start building your portfolio, tap in.

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What Up Doe?! This week on the Black Fridays Podcast, we’re tapping in with Detroit educator, STEM advocate, robotics coach, and Michigan Regional Teacher of the Year Calvin Nellum. Calvin’s journey took him from earning a physics degree and imagining a future in research to realizing that his real impact would come from helping the next generation understand science, engineering, and what is possible for their lives. We get into the importance of Black representation in STEM and education, creating learning environments that actually connect with students, the role robotics can play in building confidence and problem-solving skills, and what it means to use your gifts to serve your community. Tap in for a conversation about education, representation, purpose, and preparing Detroit’s young people to build the future.

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What Up Doe?! Amber Lewis of Social N The City is back on Black Fridays, and this time we’re digging deeper into what it takes to turn creativity into a real economy in Detroit. Amber breaks down what she learned traveling through creator ecosystems across the country, teaching the business of influence at Michigan State, building a coalition of Detroit creator organizations, and producing the first Detroit Creator Weekend. We get into creator pricing, building multiple income streams, creating your own products before depending on brand deals, designing events people can actually learn from, building systems that allow you to step out of the weeds, and why Detroit creators deserve more opportunities to build profitable careers without constantly leaving the city to find them. If you’re a creator, entrepreneur, community builder, or somebody sitting on an idea that needs to become real, tap in.

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What Up Doe?! This week on the Black Fridays Podcast, we sit down with legendary Detroit architect and entrepreneur Rainy Hamilton Jr., President of Hamilton Anderson Associates, for a conversation about building businesses, building wealth, and literally helping build the city of Detroit. Rainy takes us from discovering architecture as a kid at Cass Tech to growing a practice that has spent more than three decades leaving its fingerprints across Detroit through major projects, neighborhoods, schools, entertainment spaces, and community development. We get into the reality of running an architecture firm, the lack of Black representation in the profession, what Detroit still needs to reach its full potential, and why Rainy believes property ownership can create leverage and generational opportunity. If you care about Detroit, entrepreneurship, real estate, Black ownership, design, or leaving something behind that outlives you, tap in.

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What Up Doe?! This week on the Black Fridays Podcast, we sit down with Sam White, founder and artistic director of Shakespeare in Detroit, for a powerful conversation about creativity, entrepreneurship, community, and the Detroit spirit that keeps builders moving forward. Sam shares how Shakespeare went from childhood punishment to a lifelong calling, why she intentionally learned startup strategy outside of the traditional arts world, and how Shakespeare in Detroit has remained standing for more than a decade by combining artistic vision with real business infrastructure. This one is for every entrepreneur, creative, and community builder trying to create something that lasts.

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What Up Doe?! This week on the Black Fridays Podcast, we’re sitting down with Dr. Madeline Walker Miller, scientist, entrepreneur, and Founder & CEO of NexTiles, a Detroit-based textile recycling company giving new life to waste from the fashion, automotive, and aviation industries. Madeline breaks down how studying environmental issues led her into entrepreneurship, how she built NexTiles through grants and startup programs, and why founders do not have to follow one blueprint for raising money or building a company. We also get into Detroit’s place in the clean energy economy, why Black communities need a seat at the table when major developments are planned, the importance of exposing young people to STEM careers early, and the work happening through Walker-Miller Energy Services and the RECESS conference.

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What Up Doe?! It’s back-to-school season, but this conversation asks a question we don’t hear nearly enough: who is taking care of the teachers? This week, we sit down with the educators behind Teachers Supporting Teachers Everywhere Inc. for an honest conversation about teacher burnout, mental wellness, classroom culture, student relationships, and what happens when the people responsible for pouring into our young people are running on empty themselves. We also get into classroom management, building relationships with challenging students, parent involvement, protecting your personal time, and why a healthy teacher is ultimately a better teacher.

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What Up Doe?! This week we’re tapping in with Rebekah, better known as Black Owned With Becks, to talk about what happens when a passion project grows into something much bigger than an Instagram page. Becks breaks down how her journey started with simply sharing Black-owned products she loved, why she walked away from the platform for two years, the unexpected message that pushed her to come back, and how she eventually turned content into events, partnerships, consulting, community experiences, and even activations at Essence Fest. We also get into making buying Black a lifestyle, building a business without losing the mission behind it, balancing entrepreneurship with a 9-to-5, creating experiences that actually drive customers into businesses, and her vision of making Black Owned With Becks a household name. If you’re trying to build a brand rooted in purpose without letting social media define the entire vision, this conversation is for you.

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What Up Doe?! We got Emmy Award-winning journalist and Detroit native Orlando Bailey joining Black Fridays for a conversation about media, community, leadership, and what it really means to serve the city you come from. Orlando shares how growing up on Detroit’s East Side shaped his love for journalism, how his grandmother inspired his commitment to community, and how that journey eventually led him to becoming Executive Director of Outlier Media. We get into why trust in traditional media has eroded, how Outlier lets Detroiters help shape the stories that matter, the realities of funding independent journalism, classism and elitism within Detroit, and why supporting other people costs you nothing. Orlando also breaks down the mission driving his work: creating platforms where Black people can express the power and expertise they already have. This one is bigger than journalism. It’s a conversation about building stronger institutions, stronger relationships, and a stronger Detroit. Outlier identifies Bailey as its current Executive Director and describes his work as rooted in Detroit-centered local journalism.

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