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Description: In this episode of Blacklights (link is below), we're joined by the industry powerhouse, ERIC SHAKE JAMES. This episode is packed with inspiration, gems, and the clear love and passion Shake has for empowering youth and building stronger communities. Tune in to hear how he's shaping the future alongside hosts Dion Walcott and LaShae McCray, Executive MBA! Watch now at https://lnkd.in/gW3Y-STh

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In this episode of Blacklights (link is below), we're joined by the industry powerhouse, ERIC SHAKE JAMES. This episode is packed with inspiration, gems, and the clear love and passion Shake has for empowering youth and building stronger communities. Tune in to hear how he's shaping the future alongside hosts Dion Walcott and LaShae McCray, Executive MBA! Watch now at https://lnkd.in/gW3Y-STh

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How does your why drive your decisions? The community, The culture? How does that influence how you make your decision and what you do? I just feel like it's, it's a, it's a need out here so much, you know, I feel like it's a need out here. I feel like I think we all can do more, of course, you know, to kind of like pave the way for the, for the next generation. It's a big disconnect between. It's just a big disconnect between US and the youth, so to speak. You know, and I think, you know, like all the kids know that their parents love them, right? They might, regardless of whatever it is, they know their parents love them, but they need to know that we love them too. You know, I'm saying so they look at us as an asset and, you know, not, not not action, right. Like today, when I when they see me, I want to look at me like, oh, that's the big homie. He be looking out. He trying to he's giving me game, right. Yeah, yeah, man, Like I gotta, I gotta store, man. It's called black market. Sidebar if your question a little bit, but I got a store called black market and I like fixed it up right. It's like in the hood, like dead smack in the hood like gangs. It's it's really it's like just middle St. gangs on this side, gangs on this side. They are they both weren't right and the stores right in the middle of that. And so I started remodeling the building because of the whole George Floyd thing. I just felt like the scales are so imbalanced, right, just so imbalanced and so I was like, man, I want to do something to try to help that balance and so I started. I had to build it was a Barber shop. It had closed. It had been closed probably about 5 months. George Floyd happens. I said, OK, I'm gonna make this into a store, right? So I put a store over there and then they had another small pot this probably little bit bigger than this office. And I was like, I'm going to make, I called that study hall, right? Because we all had study hall back. I don't know if they still got that now, but we call it the study hall. And so I wanted to create a space because I was, I was watching the news and I was reading so much about how like kids don't have Wi-Fi. You know, they don't got food. Like I'm talking, this is during the pandemic too. So they like they don't got Wi-Fi, they don't got. Who computers, Yeah, it'll got computers. So all of these stuff was going on. So I went and got, I went and bought like 3 Chromebooks. I put like, you know, like couch fridge in there. So then we, I had a couple teachers that was local. So we started setting up like like on site tutoring. So anybody could come like, so if you wanted to, you know, you wanted, you wanted to work on your ACT, you wanted to know how to fill out a proper job application, whatever it is, you could sign up, come and study hall and then you could do it, you know, and we had the free Wi-Fi we had, you know. All of that because I always wanted to. I I never wanted to. I see so much of companies. Come to our neighborhoods, take the resources, and we never benefit off of any of it. So I wanted to be different than I wanted to be a resource.

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