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Today, Carlos Benjamin, Founder of High Profile Lifestyle and The Assembly Global, joins A Black Executive Perspective Podcast for a powerful conversation about Black entrepreneurship, ownership, mindset, and the hidden infrastructure behind culture.

Carlos shares his journey from Selma, Alabama, to New York City, from corporate America to homelessness, from film production to experiential marketing, and from working inside someone else’s system to building his own.

This episode explores faith, fear, personal development, Black founder confidence, experiential marketing, and Carlos’s mission to build an ecosystem for independent professionals who deserve community, opportunity, protection, and support.

What you will learn

• How Carlos transformed setbacks into entrepreneurial clarity

• Why personal development helped him remove self-imposed limits

• How major brand activations depend on unseen cultural labor

• Why independent professionals need infrastructure, not just inspiration

▶︎ In This Episode

00:00 Opening, mindset, faith, and vision

01:00 Welcome to A Black Executive Perspective

02:00 The hidden labor behind culture and major brands

06:30 From Selma to self-discovery

17:00 Speaking success into existence

22:00 Fear, faith, and the mindset shift

30:00 Leaving corporate ceilings behind

40:00 New York, film production, and reinvention

46:30 The pivot into experiential marketing

54:30 Building High Profile Lifestyle

58:00 Navigating success as a Black founder

01:02:00 Creating infrastructure for independent professionals

01:06:00 Final message, Tony’s Tidbit, and L.E.S.S.

01:15:00 Closing thoughts

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