I cant write about FREEDOM without making the Journey to GHANA.. Angela RYE

[Music] it's a privilege and an honor to be standing or walking with angela rye she's a commentator a political advocate she is a force to be reckoned with a business mogul and i have the honor to be interviewing her not in america right here on ghana soil in a brief with the scenery and everything angela you were named after one of the biggest black panther activists angela davis have you lived up to the name uh no i think you have no not at all she is um she's quite the force to be reckoned with and um what i think i owe her is to live fully in my purpose and on my mission um and that's what i plan to do yeah i think i'm doing a good job at being me but i definitely could never meet the standards of dr angela ivanka and i know and i think that that's okay yeah but don't you think that sometimes when we are named by somebody when somebody names you a particular name there's some it's kind of spiritual there is some type of force that's in you that you you have to live up to something yeah and i think all i'm saying is um from the standpoint of like becoming her that shouldn't be my goal the goal is to become the best angela for me um and what i can tell you is i had the opportunity to meet her a couple years ago wow which was incredible and it felt like you know kind of a missing piece was put in place just like coming to ghana and um meeting her when she told me she knew who i was and she was proud of me i was like oh my god so from that standpoint it feels like a certain type of fulfillment our name means bringer of truth wow a messenger of god and i think that uh i do a pretty good job of that and i'm proud of that you mentioned about what your name means how important is it to have good names for your children that have good meaning oh i think that's so important you know it's kind of like um an opportunity for parents to um set their children on the right course initially you know like this is what i see for you from the mom like this is what i was feeling for me carrying you in my womb um or even parents who adopt like knowing you know intuitively what that child is supposed to be to the world um and it's so interesting because i feel like i've evolved even so much from five years ago but trying to just set the type of um intention like what kind of person do you want them to be is a beautiful way to start with the name absolutely so what type of person was angela wright growing up as a child oh my gosh um i was a very my mom said i was a very strong-willed child i also was very kind of to myself i had an older brother but he was 14 years i have he's 14 years older than me and so i kind of grew up like both with only child syndrome and the baby okay so i had like a play room and i would play with play alone by myself a lot i made up friends my dogs could talk if you asked me i loved reading the encyclopedia books period and just like a very curious mind i think that's consistent now too so um with my parents my dad you know was and still is an activist at home my mom was a college administrator vice president of community college and so learning to her was very very important like foundation and with my dad you know his activism was in preschool they asked me what my parents did i said my mom goes to work and my dad goes to meetings right like he was always in organizing meetings and so i went too and so there are things about activism and social justice and what is right for black folks across the diaspora that i was raised in so there's just is no other way of life you know and so do you think that you you will ever properly enter politics like what do you mean liberally like i mean like be a politician like go go and stand and be a president one day or b no no i think my i think there are people that matter just in as much in politics and in government as the elected officials themselves those folks are staff i worked on the hill for six years those folks are the strategists who people who they call who you know members of congress presidents and vice presidents call that y'all may never know about but strategizing and helping ensure the message is right the narrative is right that they're protected and when they're trying to do the right thing for the people that they have some allyship in the way they're thinking about things some folks who can help them coalition build and ensure they have the right people connected to championing whatever the issue is i love that that's my role what do you think has made you achieve so many things in such a short space of time you know it's so interesting i don't see it that way we see it but i mean i feel like um it hasn't been a short amount of time i feel like it's been a grueling not a painful but a very um hard-worked journey like i feel like um any success that i've achieved like sure god's favor absolutely don't want to take anything away from that but i absolutely have put in the work for it and i feel like you know i started right out of law school um and i'm 41. you know what i mean so it's like i've been doing this for a while and in fact in some instances when i wake up in the morning i'm like i haven't done enough i have to do this i have to do this book now i have to do this i need this show you know like there are other things that i really want to do so yeah i think it's um i got more words to do so i don't see it that way so what what's the what's the vision what what plans you said you've got more work to do what is it that you really want to achieve and want to do yeah so i think what it really boils down to is i was really raised around if the community is not successful it doesn't matter if i am so for me it's about every door that i walk through i have a whole crew of folks that are coming into and they are on their path and on their mission and living out their god-given gifts and talents so that's what's important to me now it's like how what do i need to do to ensure there's an empire like where everybody is in and then they have people they can bring on and put on not just for our economic viability but also so that our message is out there the way that we create and give back to the world is out there you know on our terms working on cnn how did that start that journey yeah so actually before cnn when i was still on capitol hill i did um a couple couple of television appearances um when i was a congressional black caucus executive director our boss and our chairman at the time said he thought more young people should see our team because we were the youngest team that caucus had ever had and so i did a couple of interviews and one of them was with reverend al sharpton and a special they had on tv one the guy that produced that special um was also roland martin's um executive producer for a show he had then called washington watch so i started doing washington watch every friday um probably partially while i was still on the hill and then also when i left and so after that there was a producer or an executive at msnbc who was like do you want to do more television i was like sure i guess right and so i started doing msnbc coverage hey rooster started doing msnbc coverage and was filling in on shows there and all of that and then it just it wasn't like panning out into anything more permanent so cnn came up and they signed me you know shortly after doing a few appearances so i started doing that and a little bit after that my podcast and the breakfast club which people may be more familiar with who watch this show so from from there just a bunch of other opportunities started opening us and so i'm now i'm just focused on okay now where what's the show platform what is our production company going to do next we've done some specials on bt um we did a big campaign with uh nike the jordan brand over the summer um which was incredible four-part short series um and just developing a lot of content we're ready to kind of take the ownership in it of it into our own hands and create some more opportunities yes which one do you love more the being on the screen or the podcast oh it depends like i've done a podcast cooking with patti labelle learning how to act from will smith wow on the podcast so when i was on cnn it was more like wherever they booked you that's where you are yeah so it kind of removes the creativity and the ownership of the content you're producing so i like being able to decide what i'm going to do a little more there are moments like on breakfast club to me it's not like a combative segment necessarily so i like teaching our people like here's how the process works this is what this means i love that and so um i'd say the one thing that's a little bit different too like going back now to msnbc and doing more hits there again um that part feels good because my friends have shows now there so i'm on basically talking to my friends wow which is fun absolutely absolutely we're going to talk about ghana yes yes i'm going to talk about 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early access this summer at www.odanaconnect.com i'm still the amazing angela ryan and for me right angela you sit on so many boards you consult for governments right before we talk about ghana how do you manage to do everything that you do honestly don't think about it like i'll um and i will remember how busy i was working on capitol hill and it still pales in comparison to that really yeah it would be 15 hour days easily easily every single day a lot of days i won't say every single day but there were most days i was there at least 12 hours at least at least so this to me now is like i could do this it's fine it's fine and then some stuff you'd like you know there is a quote about when you um are doing work that you love or when you have a job that you love or whatever it is you never work a day in your life it feels like that in a lot of instances whether it's community service or the podcast like i was saying like people who i would love to meet and love to fellowship with and talk to that doesn't feel like real work you know because you're passionate about that you enjoy doing it and so you don't feel as if you are actually working but you're just doing what you love that's right and i think that that's what sometimes people are missing in their lives that's true you know that they feel that as if they're overworking they're tired and they can't yeah and they feel like you know they they're doing what they need to do to help their families or to support their families it's a privilege to be able to do what we love and to get paid for it it really is yeah so ghana yes here we are the motherland the motherland yes what made you come to ghana so um you know first of all this is something that i think most african americans talk about like wanting to do needing to do so all my life has been like oh i need to do that i've always waited for like the perfect opportunity and as a result of waiting for the perfect opportunity it results in a lot of missed opportunities so i think with the reality of you know living in a pandemic and knowing how tomorrow is not promised i think that there's something about the mindset shift that it caused in so many of us globally where it's like when something comes up now you take full advantage of that opportunity so queen and i did her um her book release with the press like on zoom we wrapped the zoom and she called me to say thank you and then she was telling me how she's a secret woman the sacred woman 20th anniversary edition yeah so this is just just a couple weeks ago and she said um you know i'm gonna do a two-week silent retreat i was like oh i need to do that and then she was like but before that i'm going to ghana and i was like i want to go and true baby only child fashion and she was like come and i was like what so she was like calm and i was like maybe we should pray about it or something first but so she was like well let's do it right now let's figure it out and we sat there and it was just like she was like you need to go and i was like i think that improv it wasn't even planned like it wasn't something that you discussed months ago after it religious time and i knew it like i could feel it and part of it is like i am um i have a book manuscript that's supposed to be due in october um yeah and the book is on freedom so i was like i can't write on freedom and i haven't made this journey myself i've gotten a lot of like i've written so much here have you oh my god there's something new every single day that i'm like you know it makes me feel closer to freedom just landing like we were descending on the plane and i started crying wow it's like there was something that felt familiar and i can't explain why i've never been here but you know when something is resonant within your dna you know our ancestors live in our body in a lot of ways right we share the same genes and the genetic makeup so it was a memory for them so tapping back in felt like i brought y'all home yeah absolutely and then everybody tells you welcome home yes and i'm like i know right you know it's like yes actually so it's incredible and then what about the journey through cape cod the dungeon the last bath how was that journey so emotional and it's it's um it's the dichotomy of emotion where you are experiencing this supreme sadness but you also feel this like sense of gratitude because they survived it all you know and then there's like this oh i'm even more thankful because i could come back for y'all because you never thought you'd be back but we're here and we're still standing and hopefully standing stronger and hopefully you're proud you know it's so it's all of those emotions which i was crying basically non-stop and then after the last bath like i just touched the water and broke i was fine the whole walk up it was sad and i felt somber but like as soon as i touched the water i was weeping and when i um part of what i was experiencing was that was their last bath but for me it was a rebirth and i was coming back to something that they would never see again and that's some pain that i can't even imagine so i felt a little guilt like i know when i get out of this i know where i'm going yeah when you got out of this you had no idea you were about to walk 35 miles to lay in the belly of a ship chained up for months until you went to a foreign land to help somebody for free build an entire country i have a shirt that says we built this joint for free yeah and still haven't been properly compensated or even acknowledged like oh that this again that shifted emotion is just like it'll bring some stuff up for you yeah yeah so how important do you think it is for other african americans your people out there in america to really come back home we say all the time and like you said you were saying all the time i need to go back home yeah to actually make that bold step and reconnect yeah you know what i'ma say i think that it's important for um native ghanaians to lead the way like i think what i mean by that is there are so many people here who haven't even been who don't understand that history and i think that once they start going it's going to open up some opportunity and space spiritually for black people throughout the diaspora not just in america there are more slave enslaved people that were shipped to brazil yeah you know there are people who were shipped to the caribbean like it'll open up an opportunity for people to be like something is calling me and it's going to be their their kin folk as we say you know in the states so that's what i think but no matter what everybody should go it's not just black folks who should go and it's not like people just would say like oh i read about it i know uh-uh like i'm a scholar on slavery slavery practices on how much is owed to us on the companies governments federal state and local that benefited from slavery i did not feel this this way and know this this way so if that is my k and i chose to study that there are so many more people who need to get it you know here and there yeah and have you seen the culture how do you see ghanaian culture oh my god i love it so you know one of the things i was talking about what we carry in our dna jollof rice and the symbol similarities to jambalaya yeah and you know my mom's side of the family is from um southern louisiana so that's one of like my favorite dishes to make so i'm sitting here i'm like this is the same thing y'all so it's that it's um you know thinking about what we do with spices and flavors and um you know what we know intuitively in terms of healing our bodies with herbs and when i was like um i wanted to balance out like i brought loose ginger tea and put in bags and when i went downstairs and even in the hotel i was like um you have mit uh like mint tea and they were like yeah and they brought out just the mint leaves and i was like yes you know it's just like you it's just you can't replace it and then i don't know like you see every like everybody and it just feels like familial yeah you know it feels like a family we went to um a restaurant at one africa coast yep yep and there are people who are of course expats there that hook that up but there are also folks who are native to ghana there and it felt like a family reunion cookout like in the south like in houston that we had back in the day with the mccall side of my family or you know the the southern louisiana we were in lafayette it felt just like that and so you enjoyed the kanye oh yes oh yes like everything everything has been good we had some black eyed peas for breakfast at coconut grove what it was like i was like i've never thought about putting curry with black eyed peas i'm about to do this you know and then the hibiscus like we'll have like what's called hamika in the states that's a latinx way of making hibiscus tea yeah and here it's like when they said this is in the caribbean too i'm mad i've never had it there but like with the pineapple pills the cinnamon cloves ginger i'm like i'm learning how to make this it's so good i'm glad you're enjoying it but what do you think about the beyond the return so you know last year we celebrated the year of return 2019 was a year we're skipping a whole year because of cold everybody's doing it yeah um 400 years gone okay and now we are doing beyond the return what does beyond the return mean to you so much i think again it goes back to this idea of um for those of us who were whose ancestors were stolen from this land there's a there's a um a brokenness that we carry with us spiritually but also almost quite literally there's a missing link and the only way to prepare that missing link is to return right there's no other way to complete the circle but to make sure you make that journey and so you can you know pray about it and try to tap in that way and i promise you it's nothing like being here and i felt it almost instantly so you've enjoyed ghana do you see yourself going to any other african i'd love to so most of my um african ancestry is actually in nigeria yeah nigeria there's senegal we have one ancestor i only know of one by name that they trace back um to the continent um on my mom's side and her name her given name was marie from senegal from senegal so i would love to do that you love to go to senegal senegal nigeria south africa um ethiopia yeah mm-hmm egypt yeah yeah i love to just be all around here how spiritual life oh deep good yeah i feel like um when i'm a christian but i always joke i'm like i'm a sage-burning christian because i definitely believe like there are things that we can do to clear energy people will get mad by that but here's how we know that it's real if you go to church they start with praise and worship there's something upbeat because they want people up and happy right like if music changes energy if the food that we eat shifts energy if um the way that we enter a room can change energy yeah right if somebody comes in like this everybody's down hey everybody you're like right so there are things that we do and i think um learning how to reconnect your spiritual body with your physical body is imminently important um queen afua is brilliant at that and i think that there is a safe space for um religious practicing people and folks who are holistic practitioners to dwell peacefully together and that's something that i'm doing in my own life every day working on that yeah so with your busy life right do you get time to date is there anybody yes there yes i have a wonderful wonderful boyfriend um he says partner because we're kind of old to be saying boyfriend girlfriend like i said i'm 41. but he is um extraordinary like great business mind super supportive fun funny funny yeah good people in in in africa right if you're 41 and you weren't married yeah no children they would be haggering you yeah to get married do you get that in the u.s yeah i think it happens i was more concerned about that like 36 37 and now it's just like you know whatever will be will be um there are times where i'm like really like well i like kids but i'm not pressed because i froze my eggs so it's like you know whatever's supposed to happen what happened there are times where i'm like i could not have kids right now i'm way too busy for this right you know i love my god sons i love y'all but sometimes when they come over i'm like oh i need are you going are you going yeah yeah let me call your mama right like it's it's all of that so there are times and i just think with me now you know there are a lot of people i know who are married who are miserable miserable so i'd rather have a really good relationship before i go into that and not have a miserable marriage i want it to be fun i don't want to like be alone but i'm also like i don't want to be so pressed that i run into something where we're not processed and fully healed people this trip was a part of my healing so maybe i'm on my journey now absolutely but do you think your workload the lifestyle the way you were so busy kind of hindered you from entering a good relationship earlier on do you think so well i think the truth is um sometimes young girls are trained so much that like you know cinderella right like you go bring all your baggage all your stuff and then prince charming who will be perfect with no flaws and fine will come and swoop you off your feet and you'll live happily ever after somebody tell me where it has to be right and so what really happens is you start building your life on a timeline that's not real so i used to say i remember in law school i was like by the time i'm 24 which would a man still in law school by time of 24 i might have four kids and be married what girl where and how right and then it's like okay definitely by the time i'm 30 and i buy my house i bought my house but it was like you know i was in an off and on relationship for so long but i was like i'm gonna stay with him because we've been doing this so long so this will be the person yeah why we're miserable yeah you know so it's like if i could tell anything to a younger i would say focus on doing the things that make you happy on having the experiences you want to have not on some artificial timeline that somebody put on you because if you ask them how they really feel in their relationship they're probably miserable so get your happiness get your joy get your healing and your wholeness and then do that yeah yeah to young women out there right that are trying to go into politics okay a lot of them feel like politics is dirty um they feel that you know maybe as a woman they won't be heard what would your advice be to them i would say anywhere there are human beings present is dirty um anywhere uh you know men are um the patriarchy is there and so you may not be heard um you may have to fight and so you should right i have this harriet tubman necklace on and to me this is my constant reminder every day that there's nothing that i'm doing that can't be overcome you know we are resilient strong amazingly brilliant people we can do anything we set our minds to but we have to set our minds to it like set your intention this is what i want to do this is how i want to do it if you think politics politics is dirty go in and change it you know you have to start somewhere and so for me my experience in politics wasn't dirty the people that didn't play by the rules or played unfair i didn't deal with them okay you know i didn't that would i didn't have to all of my bosses were incredible wow yeah so and did what they needed to do for the people especially in the us right now um where you know we've gone from trump we've had obama yes we've gone to trump and now we've got biodin and we've got pamela here yes how important is it for the black youth the black people the black girls the black boys to see representation well let me tell you this i came into the hotel here in ghana and walking towards me was this tall man and he had on a kh-20 shirt and on the back it's kamala's face it's a shirt we did with jerry lorenzo who runs the fear of god brandon in the states and i was so pumped because to me it demonstrated that representation isn't just important for us there it's also important here so i stopped and i was like i need to take a picture of your shirt we worked on this shirt and so um i think the other thing that's really important for us to know i know how i felt growing up in the house with black art on the walls and black books on the shelves and black dolls and coming here almost everybody on the billboard is black i was like look at it like you know we're everywhere and so to me that is super important where you see yourself you know on the ad you know getting going to buy a nice apartment in this building or being the star of all the shows that is a you know remarkable difference and it marks difference from what we have in the united states where we even have to fight for that that's a privilege um but it's deserved yeah and so i'd like to see that balance out because in the united states our culture is often appropriated with no credit right it's taken you know people come start showing up with cornrows or trying to figure out how they can bronze their face a little more or you know wearing our clothes or you know whatever it is and um taking our style and often without attribution or pay it sounds really familiar they've been doing it for 400 plus years what do you think about black panther the movie and what do you think about coming to america coming to america is um a classic like a legendary classic i love the first one better i'll be honest um yeah but i love that um i still think in so many ways it tastefully showed aspects of african and african american cultures there's some things that were you know ridiculous like even the first one jaffee joffer and the lionhead like you know it's over the top but there are some things like even in the hotel we're standing right now they're a little you know over the top so it just is what it is um and that's not just here i feel like that's in dna like black folks are gonna be like i'm here and you gonna see me i'ma have on all the gold all the bling all the you know and do all of it at the same dark on time right um whereas with black panther you know there was something about that where it was like oh no you're going to put some respect on our culture yes so the fact that like when the movie premiered people were going to the theater in african garb and went back to see it with their kids and their families five and six times and the fact that the movie did better than every other marvel movie was like we've been trying to tell y'all yeah that's it right and it was all black like it wasn't even a yellow person yeah honestly i was kind of mad about that i was like it was no light-skinned people and one of my friends said okay stop because it's a lot of brown-skinned people that could never be cast in movies because i was like that is true but in the in the second one can i go to wakanda even if it's just for 10 seconds like i didn't even see any light-skinned people when they went to oakland okay i'm just saying they did go to oakland there's a lot of nice team people in oakland can i be in oakland okay i think part two i'm sure they'll actually put me in oakland yeah but no it's it was it was beautiful and i hate that um chadwick bozeman isn't here to be in the second one because what you could sense through the screen not just in black panther but in every place every you know film every appearance he made he was always himself in this beautiful magnetic soul so i just i wish that he was still here for the next one yeah me too and ten more after that i know i know he's such a great actor you could tell that he's he's loving because i remember i saw something on social media where somebody was like people were coming out from like the curtain and coming to meet him yeah and he was just so friendly and loving come and give me a hug you know very warm we've lost definitely a legend but we're gonna come back from a short commercial break [Music] imperial homes ghana in great britain has carved a niche for itself within the real estate industry as the premier provider of luxury homes in ghana in england with a mission to provide safe good value modern housing and personalized estate management services to its clients and customers all our homes meet the lifetime home standard as well as the highest standards of engineering excellence safety environmental sustainability and cost efficiency imperial homes a signature of luxury [Music] goober card welcomes you to the land of gold ghana the gooper card is a unique loyalty card which gives you the opportunity to enjoy discounts of up to 40 on goods and services you enjoy discounts of the best of hotels amazing restaurants beauty lounges spas health centers fashion houses 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join our waitlist for early access this summer at [Music] are you going to www.odanaconnect.com back in august yes yep and she's coming i'm coming and i'm going to try to come sooner than that i was like i'm on my parents cam i'm my boyfriend account everybody yeah do you think you'd ever buy property here in ghana yes yes absolutely i would absolutely i would what has been some of the monumental things that you've really cherished within your journey so far i would say the relationship how close my family is like growing up with my cousins and having the parents i have like the fact that my parents aren't just like the people who raised me i also think they're my friends like i love them um my best friends i've been close to a group of girlfriends since the seventh eighth and ninth grade well my best friend didn't like me till we were sophomores in high school but we'll save that for the next time we sit down wow leonetta i'm talking about you uh but we're back why does she like you she had she made assumptions she made some she thought i thought i was all that i was like oh well you thought i was all that then anyway that's a joke it's a joke man i love you but um yeah i think that there there's so much goodness my grandparents are like incred we're incredible people my grandmother is 103. wow she's still living and having her and um all of that is amazing there's so many good things that have happened in life where i'm like god really had his hand on me being able to work intern my first internship was with maxine waters congresswoman maxine waters who is a legend and a rock star and still my mentor um just been so much so many elders who reached out to help me for every elder that was a hater and didn't help open the door it was 30 more who did wow you know like just really went above and beyond to help me as a young professional and still right now as so many of them i can call and that's why i try to do that with our young people like how can i help you how can i serve you you've mentioned something really important which is you've still got friends from seventh grade yeah but usually when you're growing into your journey when you're getting bigger and bigger you tend to sometimes lose some of those friends because one you're not able to speak to them as much as often have you felt that that has happened to a few friends or none of them at all you know i one number one my my friends i think really are here because they're like we're just gonna keep you real grounded those feet are gonna be real stuck to this earth you're not gonna get too big for yourself right um but i don't i don't feel like i've lost a lot of friends i do think that there are people where you part ways peacefully and peaceably along the way and that's cool too because there have been new people that have come in you know there are people friends that i've made on this journey here and um i think that we'll be lifelong friends because of how spiritual this experience is and so i think the openness to grow in new relationship is just as valuable as a friend that you know maybe the journey ended and that's okay it's still all love absolutely so you believe in destiny helpers oh yeah and i think there are people who are there for a season there was something specific they were in your life for and then it's oh it's done it's complete and then there are people who are supposed to be there for life as your soul tribe will say right and uh i'm just so fortunate and grateful to have the people here who are already here now and the people who will come absolutely yes and lastly you haven't i i did ask you the question how did you meet queen of water oh yeah so queen um i was just looking for so let me tell you the truth tell me the truth danger at the beginning of covet you know how i was just like what is happening so i was cooking up all this comfort food girl it wasn't my jeans that didn't fit it was my stretch pants so you know you have a whole problem if the stretch pants don't stretch they wish they said listen we're tired we're done we're finished we have nothing left to give literally so i was like let me do some of my holistic stuff so i i was very familiar with dr sebi had um like had some of the you know the herbs and stuff from dr semi and i i was looking up like who's the woman dr sebi and she like was somewhere saying that dr sebby was like a brother to her so i was like let me dm her on instagram and just see so she never dm me back but i was talking to erica badu and i was like i'm trying to purge some stuff like i'm getting bigger my body's all out of whack like what am i going to do so she had mentioned queen afua and i was like i just sent her a dm she was like oh i know how i used to live with her and i was like what so around the same time erica was supposed to introduce me they dm'd saying that they would love to have because i was like i want her on my podcast and i need some of these this detox stuff and all that so she did my podcast and when i met her it was like love of a mother at first sight i was like i love you you need to be my mom like you're amazing so i started ordering my friends on the books i was like y'all need this book mommy you need this book like and it's just ever since then i'm like i feel better i felt like i never felt more at home in my body and to me that meant like my spirit settled in like okay we are here we're one and it felt like that it didn't feel like my spirit is out here somewhere and my body was here it felt like we've come together and i think that's absolutely her doing her work her practices i'm so glad that you come to ghana um and i will be definitely expecting you in august okay i'll be expecting that house for you to buy okay because we're going to give you one yes yes high five high five to leave that and obviously setting up a business here you know what i always say to a diaspora is that look you might not live in ghana but you can either mentor somebody in ghana or you can invest in ghana so one of those three things we're gonna do it we're gonna do some media stuff together yeah i love that you got it guys you've seen her you've heard her story she's shared so much i'm sure she hasn't even opened up too much to anybody i hope that you've enjoyed the show i will see you next week

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Id: 7rSx3159d24

Length: 41min 54sec (2514 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 04 2021