Sponsorship / Product Placement: acquisition / brokering • property asset development, valuation, strategic activation, sponsorship program management, reporting • Business and marketing coaching and consultation • media buying • brand development • strategic website development ▪ Public Relations: press release writing and distribution, press conferences, media interviews ▪ Strategic systems development

SPECIALTIES: Idea generation • Innovative strategic collaboration among independent artists, businesses, and communities • 3X+ ROI creative competitive sponsorship ▪ Preparing entrepreneurs and small businesses to maximize profit • PRODUCTS: B2B podcast series Christmas In July, Starting Sunday Group Coaching, and Shop 96 Hours Buy Black TV Marathon

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Develop, manage, market, and produce internet radio station that uniquely infuses spoken word, conscious Hip Hop, and soul music with artist, business, community, and youth development programming. • Have produced over 540 episodes that are syndicated on Blogtalk Radio, iTunes, TuneIn, PlayerFM, Mixcloud, Spreaker, Soundcloud, and Stitcher Radio. • Also co-host Soul Purpose Tuesday: Your Mid-Morning Lunchtime Wellness Groove and host Christmas In July B2B Series and marketing pop-up podcast • Shows produced include Beyond Talk with Faith Moore-McKinney (the official radio broadcast of the BEED Conference) and Beyond the Word (the Master Griot Radio signature series aka Industry Mondays: The Business of Spoken Word and Spoken Word Poetry, The Art, The Industry, The Viability).

Master Griot Radio began as a show on channel 13 of NBBTA (National Black Business Trade Association) Radio and later in 2008 headed up the live version on NBBTA Radio on Blogtalk Radio.

As creator and manager I:

• have crafted a concise unique hybrid multi-genre multi-purpose tour experience, a movement where the attendees are the real celebrities... we call it Purple Fandom.
• have developed an experience that brings measurable value to host cities, sponsors, and participating visual and performance artists, authors, brand and tech vendors
• foster meaningful collaboration among artists, small businesses, and community organizations.
• established an independent media and distribution network of salons and barbershops in 23 cities
• develop a profitable strategy
• acquire and manage sponsorship
• have crafted the tour as a measurable growth platform for emerging independent artists
• coordinate hands-on community service in each city
• also leverage the tour as talent acquisition for The Master Griot Project's reality competition series, Grioism™