Today’s guest is the Dallas-based indie music artist/songwriter and creative entrepreneur, Sha'Lil. This artist transfers her southern upbringing into her music. Sha'Lil meets scripture with southern slang and rhetoric. Yet, Sha'Lil's voice carries a tone of passion, authenticity, and belief. In a world of over-sexualized leading ladies in hip-hop, Sha'Lil is a role model for women & youth, preaching entrepreneurial leadership, individuality, and divinity while sharing her story. Her liberal arts and business undergraduate/graduate education are responsible for her ability to transition across industries and sectors effectively. As a real estate activist for eight years, she brings entrepreneurial experience, hustle, business strategy, and leadership to entertainment and art. Sha'Lil's first album, SHINE, started as an outlet & means of self-stretching and is now a multifaceted project with film, unique art installation experiences, digital courses, NFTs, and web3 components. Her creative works intend to bring Kingdom influence to hip-hop culture to reshape, reimagine and re-identify leadership and influence in a way that changes the behavior of society. SHINE will debut in 2023, followed by her second completed album in 2024-2025, another multifaceted project with an even sharper

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Akeem Shannon is the creator of our favorite cell phone accessory Flipstik and today is the last day to support their Kickstarter campaign. Akeem has upgraded this already amazing accessory and added products to the Flipstik family. We can’t wait to get our new Flipstik Pro!!! Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity! Click this link to make your pledge https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flipstik/flipstik-pro-phone-accessory-mount-stand-and-grip

Here’s a brief overview of Akeem’s story:

After losing his full scholarship to Howard University to study chemical engineering, Akeem Shannon was determined to out-earn his friends, who would graduate from university in less than 3 years. Akeem found great success as a salesperson at two large telecom companies before being recruited into one of the large fintech companies, Square. As he worked with 100's of small businesses, that entrepreneurial itch kept growing inside him. 

In the fall of 2017 while on a late-night call with his Uncle, a NASA engineer, he learned of a reusable adhesive NASA had researched in the 70s. Within a few short months, he created the Flipstik, taught himself to write a patent and trademarks, and launched his business on Kickstarter in 2018. Flipstik has seen incredible growth in 2 years, with over $300k in sales, winning 1st place at the 2019 CES Retail Pitch competition by TechStars, Impressing Sean “Diddy” Combs & Snoop Dogg with our technology, and content creators nationwide after appearing on Shark Tank.

Happy 1st day of Black History Month!!! On today’s episode I’m going to tell you all about the guest that I would like to have on the podcast. My list is extremely long but I narrowed it down to discuss a few people I want to interview. I’m manifesting this lineup by saying it out loud that I want them on the podcast. If you have a way for me to connect with any of them people let me know.

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