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According to a recent article written by Aerica Banks in Technical.ly DC, 2019 will be the year of women of color in tech. Aerica shares her journey across cultures and continents to working at Google, founding BEACON, and creating a better ecosystem for women entrepreneurs.

Angel investing can be a daunting space for new or aspiring angels. Score 3 Angels founder and Managing Partner Rashad Moore joins the hosts to help demystify angel investing and explores ways to invest safely and build your portfolio.

Join us for the inaugural episode of the Mckeever Moment where Mac talks to Former NFL Player Trevor Pryce. As the CEO of the Outlook Company, Trevor talks about being a music writer, comic book author, and writer of a Netflix animated series Kulipari (http://www.jointhekulipari.com/) which all started while he was in the NFL. Trevor and Mac do a deep dive into all these things in more as Trevor talks about being an athlete and a creative.

September is Infant Mortality Awareness Month! Founder Arion Long of Femly Box talks with and Dr. Joia Perry National Birth Equity Collaborative with her own personal experience and her own desire to help women navigate the issues we have as women around women’s health and including child birth, fertility, infant mortality and health. Arion discusses the loss of her child and hosts share personal stories of their own.

Imagine getting paid to stick to your goals and solve social problems in your community. That's what the highly anticipated app WeUp will do when it launches in 2019. Hear from co-founder and CEO Ramona Wright share some of their alternative fundraising strategies, including an international crowdfunding marketing tour called #WEUPWOMEN targeting 50 people in each market to give $100 toward WeUp's $50,000 goal. To learn more about @WeUpWomen visit www.weuptheworld.com.

The hosts meet with Steven A. Rodriguez to discuss the why he launched DC Startup Week, a week dedicated to celebrating startups and entrepreneurship in the area.

The growth of the eSports industries have created opportunities for a whole new and emerging classes of gamers. Today we will talk about the growing eSports industry and specifically hear how one entrepreneur is using this global phenomenon to encourage interest in STEM fields, bring together communities and families, and give young gamers access to interesting career fields they may not have considered pipelining talent into the gaming industry. Hear from CEO EliteGamingLIVE Kerwin Rent on how his platform is changing the industry. Guest expert Gayatri Sarkar, a General Partner at SportVest, joins the conversation.

Shizu Okusa, founder of Jrink, and Anne Mahlum, founder of solidcore, discuss how to scale and maintain the right level of intimacy with customers, audiences and the business team.

And we are back after taking some time off for summer vacations and breaks. We are kicking off this week’s #podcast with #Facebook! Hear from the public policy research manager on the helpful tools small business owners can use to grow their businesses. There are more than 10 million small businesses in the US out of 80 million globally. Facebook has FREE and inexpensive tools you can use to make your business stand out. Check it out on SoundCloud,Blis.fm and iTunes. #podcasting #podcastmovement #smallbusiness #smallbiz #entrepreneur #founder #research #investor #angelinvestor #venturecapitalist