A Black Queer Man Can Look Like This - J. Albert Nicklos

06/17/22 • 46 min

In this episode, Jha interviews our second LGBTQ+ guest for our Pride campaign, J. Albert Nicklos. J has an extremely dynamic background experience having been a top salesman at Bath & Body Works to an engineering career building rockets to now running a business development agency.
J has been building and managing multiple businesses for over 20 years. When he is interested in a job, topic or experience, J goes ALL in. He is full of passion, excellent at everything he does and hilarious all the while. From his experiences counterbalancing his business journeys, identity and even relationship with his mother, J has finally found himself in a place where he doesn’t have a problem allowing his queerness to come out in whatever capacity it needs to. Happy Pride Month to all.
00:45- Please introduce yourself
3:49 - What led you to focus on the Black community
15: 20 - So putting lower ticket items in the front of a store baits people into the store?
25:50 - So you’re really close to your mom?
36:22 - How have you been able to build your brand and be who you are without hindering your identity as queer?
37:24 - What do you mean by cist?
45:20 -Where can we connect with you?
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Eliminating Stigmas in The Black Queer Community - Ian L. Haddock

In this episode, Jha interviews our first LGBTQ+ guest to kick off our Pride campaign, Ian L. Haddock. Ian is the Founder of The Normal Anamoly, and he shares his incredible journey to where he is today.

The Normal Anomaly Initiative began in 2016 in Houston as a blog to tell the stories of people at the margins. Throughout the span of 3 years, Ian and his team have worked with Huffington Post, Unites States Conference on HIV/ AIDS (USCHA) and Prime Video. As the platform grew, Ian had amassed a team of nontraditional activists that began to expand the trajectory in which the group was going. In 2020, after the pandemic, the group shifted its lens from telling the story of Black, queer plus persons to changing their story through advocacy, direct services and technical assistance.

Ian shares his personal story of how he struggled as a troubled young man after being kicked out of his home at 16 for being queer. After being taken under the wing of new mentors who supported Ian, his life changed forever. Ian is now on the mission to support and transform the lives of Black LGBTQ+ peoples. Tune in and Happy Pride Month!

1:04 - Ian, take it over! Introduce yourself.

2:15 - What does normanality mean?

3:37 - Who wrote your first blogs?

3:44 - How did you write your blogs?

6:35 - What are some of the tangible things that you are doing and how can we get involved?

9:10 - What got you into the work you do? How did you start?

11:46 - Which organization did you start with?

14:44 - What are all the ways to bring in money for a non-profit?

15:40 - Do you get paid from your non-profit?

19:40 - Tell us about some of your past events

21:00 - How were you able to raise so much money from sponsors?

23:10 - What do you mean when you say “de-stigmatizing certain stigmas” and what types of stigmas did you have to overcome?

23:45 - Please clarify what trans-identifying is

29:15 - Where can we connect with you?

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A Lesbian Killing It In Real Estate - Chase Sloan

In this interview, Jha Allen interviews the following guest of our Pride campaign series, Chase Sloan. Chase is a Businesswoman and Speaker from Houston empowering high schools, college students, and communities to build wealth via real estate and business ownership.

Chase shares her story about getting into the real estate game at a pivotal moment in her career and how she has overcome some of the challenges and hurdles as a well-dressed, Black Lesbian woman. Chase is a real estate expert and gives sound advice for buying a house during this current economical climate. She plays all of her moves like chess, making strategic moves toward a successful career in real estate. Chase wants to empower the people of our local communities to generate and maintain wealth through real estate. If you’ve been looking to either purchase a home or get into the real estate game yourself.

00:40 - Please introduce yourself

3:58 - How did you feel when you had to leave your job after your boss didn’t accept the take-back of your resignation?

5:48 - When did you take the full leap into focusing solely on real estate?

8:04 - How did you come to that point of making real estate a priority over the rest of the jobs and work you did?

8:52 - What’s the difference between being entrepreneurial and purposeful?

10:56 - At what point did you become stricter with sticking to your calendar?

13:31 - Were you already full-time at the point where you were recovering from health and lifestyle management?

15:36 - What are the mistakes you see first-timers in real estate do that they can avoid?

16:38 - What do you learn after you get your real estate license?

18:15 - What’s the real value in being number 2 if we’ve always known being number 1 as being the best?

20:31 - What environments are open for people in the real estate industry to hang out and connect with role models?

23:55 - When it comes to being in the LGBTQ community, how was it getting into real estate and being in the community?

30:16 - How can someone lean into and become confident in who you are?

37:15 - What should we be doing when it comes to real estate in this current climate?

40:30 - How does real estate help build wealth?

41:18 - Equity: What’s that?

46:50 - Can you break down the debt-to-income ratio?

49:20 - Are there any particular areas we should be looking to buy in?

49:40 - What are the top 3 things we should look for when buying a house?
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