The World's Mayor Experience’s Post

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And it as being someone that's been sexually abused, I'm sensitive to certain topics, but there's things that go way past that, that that's what I'm not going into. So those experiences and then. Realizing that I'm on the streets right now talking to people who've been in the trenches, who have truly been victimized, that who truly know what it's like to be taken advantage of, to truly know what it's like to have their voices taken from them. And one of the prime examples of that is some of the elected leaders or the chosen leaders for certain communities that actually do nothing for the community. Except take for themselves while shutting up the community that they're supposed to be supporting. Yes, learning about all of that is what ignited my spirit for the way that I use media to not just be a voice for the voiceless and elevate the voices for the voiceless, but to equip them. It all was born in that moment, the full vision of what I was going to do with media, media literacy in the power of independent media. So to answer your question again is that I was inspired by those events because I knew that media controlled the narrative and right now the people that were controlling the narrative. In media where people who did not want the truth to get out. And so I wanted to take the power that lied in the hands of a few and splinter it into millions of pieces into the hands of the people who were ready to start speaking the truth. Yes, and this is and what you're saying is actually really key. I'm I'm glad you went through and gave us a little bit of context and background here, because that's a thing that makes the makes it even very clear on on why you do what you do. That's one of the reasons why we, we set up a Teller woman campaign, Banana Crystal, for the same reason. Just if you look at it, you, you, you share a lot of the experiences that women go through on a daily basis in most developing countries in Africa, Southeast Asia, Women are constantly abused, sexually raped, and there are all kinds of things going on in those places. Yeah. Disfigure pedophilia around super earrings. It's reign supreme over there. It's just a lot of. Stuff happens out there. You know, I remember once I was visiting Africa and I was kind of shocked because I, I've been away for a while. And then on the streets, you see kids begging, doing St. ******* you know, they should be in school. This is a Monday morning. Why are they out on the streets? And, you know, and that's just normal. And some of those girls are nine years old, ten years old, They get raped, they get. So there's all kinds of atrocities going on. So when, when we looked at it, we were saying, OK, what can we do to help women? Because women are the bedrock. The, the family, right, if you can, the women are the ones that will send their kids out there because they have no choice or the ones put in that position where they have no other choice but to do that. So if we can get, you know, set up a program for women, then that will kind of spill over because then you have minority groups, you have disenfranchised people, you know, you have all kinds of people all around the world that have been different, disenfranchised all on the on a daily basis. But where do we start? We have to pick somewhere. And as I'm glad that you have your experiences sharing your. You know, you can really, really connect with what's happening on a daily basis all around the world, even though, you know, like you said, you grew up in the more privileged background, you somehow got to experience the worst of the worst. And the other side of it, people, typically people would joke and a background never get exposed to that. So they have no context. They have no idea what's happening. They've never seen a jail cell before. They've never seen all the atrocities. They've never been to Rio. They've never seen one. You know, they just have no idea. And it's kind of hard for them to explain. Why don't you just go there and. Hey, Joe, why don't you just go? And this is like, you know, they're all these other restrictions and some of these results mental, but it's it's but it's out there. So this this is really this is really great what you're doing and just being able to. You know, Share your story. I think this would really help people. And one other question I have for you there is just how, how can you share your approach? To teaching and mentoring future generations of people so that they are well prepared for the challenges and opportunities of this fourth industrial revolution that we're just. Entering right now because we're in the industrial revolution and you know what, what would you say? How would you, how would say your show your approach to teaching and mentoring this new generation? It's it's really not about me at all. I'm, I'm fortunate that I, God gave me the vision for the philosophy, the strategy. But it's customized. What I teach is customized to the individuals own gifts, talents, and intellectual property. I know the systems like I'm media literate. Not just in the sense of knowing how to decipher if something's fake news or not. I'm media literate, meaning that I know all of the available media tools. I know how to use them to make money. But also to get our stories out. I know I, I, I'm just aware of all of the different ways to use media and use media actually, that's free. To be able to monetize or gifts, talents and intellectual property, but it's truly customized. To the, it's it to tell you how much customization is in it? What's your budget? I'm not saying you're, I'm not asking you that question literally now, but I'm really like that is one of the questions. If your budget zero, we have a strategy. If your budget is $100, I have a strategy. If your budget is $200,000, guess what? I've got a really great strategy for you. And and and so.