Oh, welcome back, Welcome back. It is a money Monday.
CEO of Global Empowerment, Art Cartwright joins us now as
we talk about not only the founder of Subway,
but for so many people who are just on the
cusp of wanting to start something on their own.
But they say, how can I do this?
You walk people through this day after day after day.
Absolutely a Global empowerment. We help people start their businesses
and move forward.
We give them mentorship from start to finish,
helping them become Tier 1 suppliers,
Tier 2 suppliers, helping them become government contractors,
suppliers, major retail stores, the whole 9 and we teach
it for free.
I wanted to come here also to talk about Fred
DeLuca.
Now I want to always give an example about someone
who started with nothing and built a multi billion dollar
business to give encouragement to everyone out there to let
them know you can do it.
This is possible. He started with nothing,
grew up in the Bronx,
NY projects projects. Now the founder of Subway,
Billion Dollar founder of Subway started with nothing and he
had a dream to have a sandwich shop.
So he borrowed a little bit of money.
Started with virtually nothing, had
$1000 he bought borrowed from his friend Peter Buck and
now they're both multi billionaires.
But he had failure after failure after failure,
but ended up making it work.
And now they're doing $16 billion a year,
16410 thousand employees, 4 and 10,000 employees.
This is amazing. Anybody can do it.
OK, So you have people from all walks of life
who say this is something that I want to do.
My grandmother makes the best pie
and I have the family recipe.
That's something you can help people with as well.
Absolutely. We have over 400 people that have their products
on the shelves,
major retail stores, their cakes and pies and Kroger,
Meyer. And they started right there at Global.
Yeah, right at Global Parliament.
Can you talk also a lot about the Billion Dollar
Roundtable?
I want to talk a little bit more about that
today.
What is that? Well, it's for minorities and women of
all color.
There's almost $2 trillion that's been set aside for business
owners that are minorities and women of all color.
And the billion Dollar roundtable sets aside,
they show the corporations. It's the billion
dollarroundtable.org and it shows all of the corporations that set
aside not a minimum of a billion dollars a year
to do business with
minorities. And if the money is not you,
I mean, does the money just sit there on you?
Sometimes it does. It does,
unfortunately, because people have to get certified.
And we also offer free certification training at Global Empowerment.
OK, so there's a grant that's available today for people
who want to start a business.
Yes, the Black History Makers
Black History Month grant for
$5000 and you have to have a corporation.
You must be 18 years of age or older and
have a mission to help your community and it's
$5000. They can go and get it.
Information is on the screen.
One of the other things I love about global empowerment,
something that I'm working to overcome right now,
is in the most respectful way,
like to elevate my circle,
I
need to be surrounded by more people who are starting
businesses and,
you know, people who have actually done it.
And that's another great way to get involved with global
empowerment is the networking opportunities there.
Absolutely. You'll meet people that started just like everyone else,
started like some of the success stories I talked about
here,
and now they have successful businesses and they still come.
They're there to offer mentorship as well and everybody kind
of works together.
How how long do you tell people that?
It typically takes. It's a process.
It takes years. I mean it's is it up?
Is it about the person?
It's it's a dedication piece.
You know it's diligence to handle.
The diligent shall bear ruled and the diligent make it
rich.
You can you you must be diligent in this piece.
There's no other way to get around it.
But the environment helps with that.
So as always says association brings a simulation,
so you have to get around other entrepreneurs.
What kind of a game changer is it to add
another stream of income?
Oh my goodness, it changes everything.
It's like a weight that's lifted off of you that
you didn't even know existed until you
make your first $1,000,000 in business.
Now speak it now. Your first million.
Did you hear that? No excuses.
OK, where can we find you?
Global empowerment. We actually have a a meeting tonight at
7:00 on the corner of Seven Mile and Loser.
Right there. Big Gray building with Red Stripe.
Tonight, 7:00, we're teaching how to get certified as minority
owned business government contracts.
It's good. All right, you heard it here.
First information right there on your screen.
We'll put it on our website,
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