The Global I AM Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Roots & Vines: Growing Beauty, Business & Belonging Some businesses sell products. Others cultivate experiences. For entrepreneur Ena Jones , founder of Roots & Vines , every bouquet tells a story, every customer interaction is an opportunity to serve, and every business is ultimately about nurturing people. In this heartfelt archival Global I AM Conversations , Ms. Jo...

Send us Fan Mail What makes a moment sacred? How do memory, ancestry, and spirit converge in a single image? In Part II of our extraordinary conversation with acclaimed photographer and visual historian Chester Higgins Jr. , we journey deeper into the spiritual and emotional dimensions of photography and human experience. A longtime photographer for The New York Times and one of the most important...

Send us Fan Mail Chester Higgins Jr. is not simply a photographer. He is one of the great visual historians of the Black world — a man whose lens transformed memory into sacred text. A longtime staff photographer for The New York Times for nearly four decades, Higgins captured the spiritual architecture of Black life with extraordinary dignity and force. His photographs of Muhammad Ali, Maya Angel...

Send us Fan Mail The Global I Am's Max Rodriguez welcomes PBS NewsHour anchor and acclaimed author Geoff Bennett for a candid conversation about his memoir Black Out Loud , the power of storytelling, and the role of journalism in strengthening democracy. Bennett reflects on the mentors, experiences, and defining moments that shaped his remarkable journey, offering insights on leadership, repr...

Send us Fan Mail Global I Am -  Episode 4: Dr. Dennis Kimbro “Think and Grow Rich: The African Choice” In this powerful conversation, renowned author, educator, and economic thinker Dr. Dennis Kimbro joins culturalist Max Rodriguez for a far-reaching discussion on wealth, legacy, vision, and the future of Black economic consciousness. Best known for his groundbreaking adaptation of Napoleon Hill’s...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to the full season of The Global I AM Podcast at the Nexus of THE Culture and Our Capital.   After our first 2 beta-episodes as well as episodes from our vaults earlier this year,  Global I Am will resume every Friday to share information from around the worlds of culture and finance.  For our first episode back, we lean into the wisdom of the Pacific Ocean at Point L...

Send us Fan Mail Hollywood icon Bill Duke joins the Global I Am Archive in a conversation that examines the intersection of capital and culture . At Global I Am we operate from a simple premise: culture is not separate from markets — culture is markets. Across films in which Duke has acted, directed, or produced, the combined box office impact exceeds $1.6 billion , including projects such as Pred...

Send us Fan Mail In this powerful archival episode of Global I Am — At the Nexus of Culture & Our Capital , we sit with Ruth E. Carter, one of the most influential costume designers in cinema history. Originally recorded for our legacy Victory and Noble series Getting Deals Done , this conversation explores Carter’s extraordinary ability to translate cultural memory into visual language — a gi...

Send us Fan Mail In this archival episode of Getting Deals Done, the Mastermind Forum, we look at a larger cosmic picture and identify  opportunities based upon information gleaned from past episodes.  In this case, we note trends by Fortune 500 companies as Viasat Satellite Communications and Newport Beach's Alhambra Technologies with manufacturing in Bahir, Ethiopia.  The Africa insurance m...

Send us Fan Mail “It is true that we do not recognize greatness among us. Our measurements of importance are generally faulty and speak mainly to the superficialities of life…”   — Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti , Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? In Episode 2 of Global I Am , hosts Sebastien Celestine , Bill Huston , and Patrick A. Howell convene a transatlantic conversation on legacy, sovereignty,...

Send us Fan Mail After the Bridge George Floyd, Congressman John Lewis, and the Rise of the Digital Nomad GLOBAL I AM ARCHIVES Recorded in 2020, this archival conversation returns us to one of the most consequential years of the twenty-first century—a moment when pandemic, protest, technology, and cultural transformation converged to reshape the global imagination. Hosted by Tori L. Reid , this ea...

Send us Fan Mail In this inaugural episode of Global I Am , Patrick A. Howell, Bill Huston, Kate Washington, and Max Rodriguez come together for a conversation about identity, culture, creativity, and capital—and how these forces shape the future of our communities and our shared humanity. Together, they explore the stories that define us, the institutions that sustain us, and the opportunities be...