Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

JUST

This episode of the JUST podcast features Keith Daniel & Tom Droege. As co-founders of Resilient Ventures, their mission is to close the wealth gap by expanding access to capital, networks, and opportunity to Black entrepreneurs. Tune in to hear your more about Resilient Ventures, the problem they are aiming to solve, and the importance of relational friendships over transactional relationships.

0:00 Episode starts

0:43 Personal check-ins start

1:37 Rob encourages people to go listen to the first episode

2:40 Jes talks about reading Best of Enemies and enjoys all of the history being brought to life

3:56 Rob talks about how the sunshine is affecting his mental health in positive ways after all the rain

7:06 Keith Daniels and Tom Droege with Resilient Ventures joins the conversation

8:03 Rob introduces the mission of Resilient Ventures and Keith and Tom

10:41 Rob asks about the history of Resilievent Ventures, the problem they are aiming to solve, how it is unique, and why the name

12:16 Tom talks about asking questions being a foundation to come up with solutions

14:37 Jes talks about the creativity that comes out of black communities that are not able to grow their dreams

16:36 Keith talks about resilient being a loaded word for the city of Durham and being inspired by a Biblical motivation and their own lives being marked by resilient

22:03 Jes asks what they have seen and the successes they’ve watched

22:32 Keith talks about being involved in leadership that encouraged him to care about this work

26:02 Keith talks about the tension of how money is being deployed and how it is being used

26:36 Rob asks about a specific story that encapsulates the spirit of Resilient Ventures

31:29 Jes talks about differentiating between charity versus funding

35:09 Keith talks about the world being a better place if we can work along the color line in integrated ways

37:30 Interlude

39:50 Jes asks how listeners can show up both personally and with Resilient Ventures

40:11 Tom talks about Keith teaching him about relational friendships, not transactional relationships

47:01 Tom and Keith sign off the conversation

48:29 Jes feels encouraged by how much impact Resilient Ventures has because of how different Tom and Keith are

53:04 Rob talks about the educational part that Resilient Ventures engages in and how he wants to be involved in that

56:16 Conversation ends

56:17 Outro

Thank you to DJ Pdogg and Producer Lo Key for our awesome music throughout the show!

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Our sponsors:

• ReCity Network
• Coastal Credit Union

Our hosts:

• Jes Averhart, cofounder of Black Wallstreet Homecoming
• Rob Shields, executive director of the Recity Network.

Our Producer:

• Ben Azevedo, owner of Bear Cave Audio

Our Editor

• Chris Pappalardo