And if properly managed and pardon use of the word manipulated, it puts people of color in the position to open doors that have been closed for decades to black folks. And finally in our spice of life, we serve up some creative cookery with a program that provides scholarships to turn students into chefs. We provide scholarships education and Career Opportunities in the culinary arts to throughout the nation. All that and more coming up in our world up next. . . . . . . Style lets you stand out from the herd. The cadillac escalade. Enjoy our best offers of the year. Welcome back to our world with black enterprise for years weve watched Steve Harveys empire expand before our eyes from television, film, radio, our correspondent sat down with him to unveil the secrets to his suck set. Take a look. Mr. Harvey, thank you so much for joining us today on our world im excited to have the conversation with you. Thank you very much. Im glad to be here. You are easily one of the most inspirational successful business moguls. I think primarily because you focus on not just how you execute daytoday work ethic but you also talk quite a bit about your faith. In this business were told not to talk television, in print interviews. Because its not considered professional, right . You dont want to offend anyone. Sure. Im not saying it to offend anyone. But im not going to not give credit and thanks to a huge reason for me being here. Do i work hard . Yeah. Yeah. I work pretty hard. But man, no faith . I dont care how hard you work. Without the faith part youre missing it. I dont care how much faith part you got without the work part but its primarily the faith that keeps me going through the difficult moments. If youre trying to be successful theres going to be a lot of difficult moments. One thing they found particularly interesting is that you manage your time so effectively that you can account for every minute of your day. Absolutely. How exactly do you do that . People ask me all the time. How do you do what you do . Tv show, game show, another show coming out. Doing this, writing books. Well, i care about every minute of the theres not a minute that i dont account for my philosophy is, i spend all my time building my dreams so when i get some time i can live my dreams steve harvey is also helping others live out their dreams. Gerald washington, the president of two harvey companies, began in a very different position. I actually started off making his green drinks. Opportunity to work on one of his first tv shows coproduced. From there open the doors get in give me the opportunity to read the contract. Once i read the first one i was it. How do you get from reading that first contract, impressing him on clearly a significant level to ultimately running steve harvey world being the president . How does that work . Consistency. Determination. I still wake up. I still carry his bags if he need me to. Hes very successful. He runs 112th street production but also the president of my company. Thats a lot of responsibility. A lot of responsibility. But hes up for the task. Because he is very much like calhoun he dont sleep. Hes referring to alabama businessman greg calhoun, the groups. In addition to all of what youre doing in media and the ore holdings that you have, youve also launched an Investment Group with your best friend. Talk to me about that partnership that you have with greg calhoun. Greg and i care about people. Greg and i are trying to build a legacy. What better way to do that than opening up manufacturing right here in the United States of america . Specifically in the south, you launched two facilities in tennessee and alabama for bake and ameritech. Why that region of the country . That place gets overlooked. A lot of our jobs are created in rural america. Did not our great president , president barack obama, say we need to start taking care of the jobs in america and they got programs where they will assist you if you can bring jobs to rural america. And paying it forward. Thats what its supposed to be about. Were into creating opportunity business. Thats the vision. Its to help thousands of people. Hopefully one day millions of people. Tell me how you stay sharp. You are clearly not someone whos deterred by failure. You are continually inspirational with different audiences and markets. Whats been your greatest teacher . First of all, failure is a wonderful teacher. Ive learned a lot. Secondly, failure is a part of the process. You cant be successful without failing. Whats you tripping beus failed for . Do you understand thats a part of the process . You have to fail in order to succeed. My legacy, i think it will be fine. I dont think this father will leave me. I think hes going to show me some other things, things i dont know yet. Its about changing lives. I got to do something to get these africanamerican boys lives together there is got to be a way to rally men to stop black boys. A big part of what youve noted with young black men in this country is that they dont have someone just saying i believe in you. Something as simple as looking at them and seeing their value. You think tran be transformative. I cant tell you how many young men have my number that ive men toward, i give advice to the semipitchers when they graduate. In the military send me their grades. All i got to do is just text them say n, man. Let me know how that went. Sometimes when they get in a real jam, give me a call, man. Let me know. Hold on. Im busy today can we talk tomorrow. I just give them an ear. If all of us black men did that we could change the direction of these young black kids. I have to say, mr. Harvey, its been a pleasure speaking to you. And we look forward to seeing all that you look to create and benefit the world with moving forward. Thank you very much. Thank you. When your skin is feeling rough and dry. Soften up with gold bond softening lotion. Now with 2x the shea butter. Skin is soft, smooth, silky. Gold bond. Welcome back. Greg calhoun is a Business Partner with steve harvey in a from Humble Beginnings to the Million DollarGrocery Store chain, calhoun says Family Matters the most in the art of entrepreneurship. Mr. Calhoun, thank you so much for joining us today on our world. Thanks for having me, patricia. My pleasure. I wanted to get a sense of your experience starting out working at a supermarket and at some point having the notion that you i as a package clerk had to tell myself something. I used to say i was the best package clerk that ever was going to be in the supermarket. Thats the way i came to work. Then when i got promoted to stock clerk i was the best stock clerk in the world. When i became a cashier i was the best cashier. And into produce and into management. I became the first black owner of supermarket in 1984 in the whole entire south. So from that, ive started developing other things. And i created enterprise. And calhoun enterprise not just owns supermarket we have a marketing company. We represent kraft foods, frito lay, cocacola, we went throughout the world representing major companies. Thats how i met mr. Harvey. You founded an Investment Group called harcal. Yes. Its been an interesting journey. He moves people, i move he cass move people like nobody else in the world. Were going to test in georgia, we cant keep it on the shelf. Its flying off the shelf. What are your projected revenues for 2016 . We look at doing 20 million in the easy bacon business. Thats pretty big in the bacon category. Youre also launching the only latex plant in the u. S. Called ameritech, correct . Thats correct. In alabama 400 people got laid off work. We had a plant there. Buying latex gloves from china and abroad, malaysia, nothing against those countries but we need to put our people back to work in the u. S. So i went to see the governor of the state of alabama and asked him what opportunities were for developing a business presence especially minority business presence. I wanted to expand my Retail Grocery business. He said they was more into manufacturing. So i went out and found a Manufacturing Business and brought it back to him and said, i think we can get behind it, steve and i, and launch the only latex glove in the United States. So we went to walmart and talked to the chairman of walmart, doug mcmillan. He bought into it. He saw the great opportunity to put people back to work. What do you anticipate for 2016 revenue with ameritech . First year if we can get 50 million well be very satisfied with it. So steve is really big on having his family involved in the business. And i know that y tell me more about that. My three kids work with me in the business ever since they came out of florida a m college they came right back into the business. My daughter got a masters in h. R. My son got a mar teres in marketing. My youngest son has a degree of accounting. My wife of 45 years is working with me daily. So im very family oriented along with other 4 or 500 other employees we have. So having family to me means Amazing Companies you also sit on a number of boards. Bose is there in part because thats where the decision power was made. Kind of run the operation of the companies having the right talented people can mean the success or failure of both. So when you just look one way youre just like a oneeyed quarterback. But if you look both and cover the whole field your potential success is going to be much better. One of the boards that you actually sit on is a bank that you had a previous where you had initially where you were launching your first supermarket you needed the capital to be able to actually launch it effectively. And you were rejected. Yes. Now that you sit on that particular board of that particular bank, what does that feel like . Thats an awesome feeling to be rejected because of the fact that some people think your abilities dont exceed what they think qualify for banking. Feeling of a person that really makes you susceptible. I didnt accuse them or being racial or nothing like that. I just thought that they just thought that because the store was not prosperous they didnt want to take the risk with me. Lets say it that way. I took the same Business Plan to new york, chase morgan gave me 1 million. Within six months we were prospering. Within one profit in a business they had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in. I took that same store and went out and bought 15 other supermarkets from that particular supermarket. Thank you so much for your time, mr. Calhoun. It was a true pleasure to speak to you. Thank you, patricia i really enjoyed the interview. Thank you. Thanks, trish. Up next, our push to get more minorities on the board of our nations top corporations. Stay with us. . A just be calm side. . . You got a, i never thought id get married at 65 side. . . Hey im just looking side. . . Man, you better buy that ride, whooo . . Thats why theres nationwide. . . They help to know, protect and grow your many sides. . . Yeeeahhh . Welcome back. Black enterprises annual report reveals a lack of minorities on corporate boards. We take an inside look with the director who has a unique perspective. Bruce gordon serves on three corporate boards. Cvs, Northrup Grumman and adt. As a member of the black enterprise Corporate Directors hes also a small group o corporations that affect everyday americans. The average person in my opinion doesnt even recognize that corporate boards exist. Or if theyve heard about boards, they dont fully understand what boards do. Boards set policy for corporations. So if you believe that Corporate America is one of the major sources of power and influence in this country, i believe that, what happens inside the board room. What they simply need to recognize is that when we, people of color, have a seat at that table, it provides us the opportunity to influence policy, to effect issues around hiring, developing, retaining and promoting. It puts us at the table where we can decide who gets to be the next chief executive officer. The corporate board. And if properly managed and pardon use of the word manipulated it puts people of color in a position to open doors that have been closed for decades to blake folks. Gordon has seen an increase in the number of black directors but admits more needs to be done. After all, minority directors often ensure that funds go to areas where its needed. Get into having conversations about spending. When you talk about spending, you talk about with whom are you spending. It provides me, as a black director, the opportunity to raise the question for the of the billions of dollars that said institution, said corporation, is going to spend in a planned year, how much of that spend is going to be with minorityowned companies . Gordon is aow to any board, having served as a Top Executive at verizon and at ceo of the naacp. To this former b. E. Executive of the year, the key to attaining a seat on the board of a Major Corporation is a matter of performance. Its hard work. And hard work. And hard work. Ive always believed and im confident that this is the case that you have to outwork everybody whos around you. Good as your peers. Its being better than your peers. Its being the best person in the organization at the job that you do. 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We have as our executive pastry chef a ccap graduate she is senegal. Gifted, extraordinarily talented. At the two restaurants has been a unique and rewarding and warm experience. Shes amazing in the kitchen. She contributes so much to the flavor profile of our culinary experience here. And all of that comes out of the support and the education she got working with ccap who provided full tuition scholarships and support, opened doors, gave her and oth come and compete in a first class restaurant. Thats special. My role here for both restaurants is to as the pastry chef come up with the desserts, work closely with chef alexander, chef k. J. And teach my staffs how to do it and just keep them motivated and going. It gets pretty hectic here at restaurants. But i always just have to make sure that it goes out 100 perfect every time. And that does it for this edition of our world with black enterprise be sure to visit us on the web at blackenterprise. Com ourworld. 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