Entrepreneurial Appetite

In this special live recording, Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions partners with the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum (SAAACAM) for a conversation with Mario Salas, author of The Alamo: A Cradle of Lies, Slavery and White Supremacy.

About the book: This book reveals the hidden history, the untold story of the Alamo, and its relationship to myth, lies, slavery, and white supremacy. The author presents academic knowledge and simple language to understand better the facts about the Alamo that have been erased.

In this bonus edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black book discussions, we bring you a conversation between Natalie Braszile, author of We Are Each Other's Harvest and  Queen Sugar, which inspired the critically acclaimed show,  and Stephen Lucke, founder and CEO of Gardopia Gardens.

About Natalie: Natalie is the author of the novel Queen Sugar, which is being adapted for a seventh television season by writer/director Ava DuVernay, and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey. Queen Sugar was named one of the San Francisco Chronicle's Best Books of 2014, was long-listed for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize, and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. In addition, her new non-fiction book, We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land & Legacy, was named an Amazon Editors Pick and a Wall Street Journal "Favorite Book of the Year." In We Are Each Other's Harvest, Natalie brings together essays, poems, conversations, portraits, and first-person narratives to tell the story of Black people's connection to the land from Emancipation to the present. Her other non-fiction work has appeared in National Geographic, The Bitter Southerner, O, The Oprah Magazine, and several anthologies. Natalie lives in San Francisco.

About Stephen: Stephen Lucke holds a Bachelors of Science in Biochemistry from the University of the Incarnate Word and a Masters of Arts in Nutrition from the University of the Incarnate Word. During his undergraduate years, he became enamored with health and wellness, first starting a student & employee wellness program and then a community garden on campus. It wasn't long before Stephen started Gardopia to address obesity and climate change a few years later.

Stephen is a native San Antonian who also enjoys spending time in civic engagement and physical fitness. He has manifested these other passions by becoming a certified strength and conditioning specialist in 2015 and running for Mayor of San Antonio in 2017. In addition, Stephen earned his Organic Farmer Certification in the Spring of 2019 and is currently a NASA Community College Aerospace Scholar. Stephen looks forward to continued growth with Gardopia in our 7th year of operations.

In this edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions, we bring you a conversation with Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope, author of Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion Dollar Fraud Industry.

About the book: A riveting look at the perpetrators, victims, and whistleblowers behind financial crimes, from forensic accounting expert and documentarian Kelly Richmond Pope. Have you ever wondered why Bernie Madoff thought he could brazenly steal his clients' money? Or why investors were so easily duped by Elizabeth Holmes? Or how courageous people like Jeffrey Wigand are willing to become whistleblowers and put their careers on the line? Fraud is everywhere, from Nigerian "princes," embezzlers, and Ponzi schemers to corporate giants like Enron and Volkswagen. And fraud is costly. Each year, consumers, small businesses, governments, and corporations lose trillions of dollars to financial crime. We're so accustomed to hearing about fraud that our abilities to identify it and speak about it are limited. No more. In "Fool Me Once," renowned forensic accounting expert Kelly Richmond Pope shows fraud in action, uncovering what makes perps tick, victims so gullible, and whistleblowers so morally righteous, while also encouraging us to look at our own behaviors and motivations in the hope of protecting ourselves and our companies. By the time you finish this book, you'll have a better understanding of--and perhaps even compassion for--perpetrators, a renewed connection to victims, and an appreciation for those who blow the whistle. Filled with fascinating stories and insightful analysis, "Fool Me Once" will open your eyes and challenge your thinking. It will inspire you to question your own preconceived notions about fraud. It will challenge your beliefs about yourself and other people. And it will help you understand a phenomenon that most of us fail to grasp--until it's too late.

About the author: Kelly Richmond Pope is the Dr. Barry Jay Epstein Endowed Professor of Forensic Accounting at DePaul University. Pope is a nationally recognized expert in risk, forensic accounting and white-collar crime research, and an award-winning educator, researcher, author and documentary filmmaker. She teaches managerial and forensic accounting to undergraduate and graduate students. She's the author of "Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry" (Harvard Business Review Press, March 2023), which was named one of the "40 Nonfiction Books to Watch Out for in 2023" by the Next Big Idea Book Club.

In this edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions, we partner with The Buddy Pass Podcast to bring you a  conversation with Mia Bay, Ph.D., author of Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance. Our special guest host is Leroy Adams, founder of the Buddy Pass Travel Brands.  

About the Book: Why have white supremacists and Black activists been so focused on Black mobility? From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought for over a century to move freely around the United States. Curious as to why so many cases contesting the doctrine of "separate but equal" involved trains and buses, Mia Bay went back to the sources with some basic questions: How did travel segregation begin? Why were so many of those who challenged it in court women? How did it move from one form of transport to another, and what was it like to be caught up in this web of contradictory rules?

In the special bonus episode of the Movement Outdoors miniseries, we bring you a conversation with Ariel Seidman,  co-founder and CEO of Hivemapper,  and Sonya Staples, on half of Staples In Tents.  Learn about how Hivemapper is decentralizing the mapping industry, and you can earn the Honey Token through decentralized mapping. 

In this episode of the Entrepreneurial Appetite,  we continue our special series, the Movement Outdoors,  in a conversation with Sierra Taliaferro, a bird enthusiast who is the founder of  The Green Obsidian,  A platform designed to amplify and acknowledge the work of African Americans in Environmental Conservation --both past and present-- to share their stories that we hope inspire you, and the next generation of environmental leaders.

In our final episode of the Movement Outdoors, we bring you a conversation with Brittany Coleman, founder of Tough Cutie,  a sock brand meant to support and uplift women in the outdoors.

In this edition, we feature our third episode in special series featuring Black outdoor activists, adventures, and entrepreneurs in a conversation with Tiffany Blount, founder of Black Girls Boulder. 

In this special edition, we continue our special series, The Movement Outdoors, in a conversation with Keith Cradle,  founder of Camping with Cradle. 

In this special edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite, we bring you the first of several episodes called The Movement Outdoors, highlighting Black outdoors, adventures, activists, and entrepreneurs.   In our first episode of the series, we feature a conversation with Sonya and Necota Staples, two overlanders who founded Staples in Tents.

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In this special Black History Month edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions, we bring you a conversation with Dr. William Darity, Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, author of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century.


About the book:

Today's black-white wealth gap originated with the unfulfilled promise of 40 acres in 1865. The payment of this debt in the 21st century is feasible—and at least 156 years overdue. In their award-winning book, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen advance a general definition of reparations as a program of acknowledgment, redress, and closure. Acknowledgment constitutes the culpable party's admission of responsibility for the atrocity; admission should include recognition of the damages inflicted upon the enslaved and their descendants and the advantages gained by the culpable party. Redress constitutes the acts of restitution; the steps taken to "heal the wound." In this context, it means the erasure of the black-white wealth gap. Finally, closure constitutes an agreement by both the victims and the perpetrators that the account is settled.

For more information about reparations check out the following sources:

The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
The Black Reparations Project
Sundown Towns
America Needs a Better Reparations Plan
Queen Mother Audley Moore

In this special Black history month episode of Entrepreneurial Appetite,  we bring you a conversation with Javier Wallace, PhD, the inaugural Race & Sport Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University and founder of Black Austin Tours.

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In this special Black History Month episode, we bring you a conversation with Henri Rivers, president of the National Brotherhood Skiers. The mission of NBS is to “To identify, develop and support athletes of color who will win International and Olympic winter sports competitions representing the United States and to increase participation in winter sports”.

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In this special Dreamweek edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite, we feature a conversation with Tavonia Evans, founder of Guapcoin, the first publicly launched decentralized cryptocurrency that addresses the economic and financial concerns of the Global African Diaspora community. Tavonia is also the author of the book Crypto For My People, which argues that cryptocurrency can serve as a new form of money and suggests that the Black Community should consider adopting their own cryptocurrency.

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In this special DreamWeek edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite, we bring you a conversation with Tonya Evans, Professor of Law at The Penn State Dickinson Law School. Professor Evans has substantial expertise in the areas of intellectual property, new technologies (including blockchain and distributed ledger technology), entrepreneurship & innovation, entertainment law, trusts & estates, and municipal finance. She writes, speaks, and teaches primarily about the intersections of copyright and new technologies and estate law issues.

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In this special pre-Dreamweek, presentation of Entrepreneurial Appetite, we bring you a conversation about the role of Black people in cryptocurrency with Cleve Mesidor, the Executive Director of the Blockchain Foundation, an industry-wide crypto education platform. She is also an Advisor to the Blockchain Association.

In this season of Entrepreneurial Appetite, we are intentionally focusing more on Black innovators and entrepreneurs.  Each month we will provide listeners with a series highlighting Black entrepreneurs in specific industries.  Keeping with our origins as a book club, once a month, listeners will have the chance to join the live recordings of our book discussions as members of our founding 55 patrons. 

In this edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussions, we discuss with Laura Morgan Robert, Ph.D., co-editor of Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience.


About the Author: Laura Morgan Roberts is a Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School's Gender Initiative. A thought leader in diversity, inclusion, authenticity, and identity development, she is the co-editor of Positive Identities and Organizations and Positive Organizing in and Positive Organizing in a Global Society, and the author of numerous research articles, teaching cases, and practitioner-oriented tools, including influential Harvard Business Review articles.

About the Book: Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and vital compilation of essays examining how race matters in people's work and leadership experience. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations changing? How do we build inclusive organizations?

Inspired by and developed in conjunction with the research and programming for Harvard Business School's commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the HBS African American Student Union, this groundbreaking book shines new light on these and other timely questions to illuminate the present-day dynamics of race in the workplace. Contributions from top scholars, researchers, and practitioners in leadership, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, and education test the relevance of long-held assumptions and reconsider the research approaches and interventions needed to understand and advance African Americans in work settings and leadership roles.

At a time when--following a peak in 2002--there are fewer African American men and women in corporate leadership roles, Race, Work, and Leadership will stimulate new scholarship and dialogue on the organizational and leadership challenges of African Americans and become the indispensable reference for anyone committed to understanding, studying, and acting on the challenges facing leaders who are building inclusive organizations.

In this edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book discussions, we feature a conversation with Aria S. Halliday, author of Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed U.S. Pop Culture.

About the author: Aria S. Halliday, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies and program in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Halliday specializes in cultural constructions of black girlhood and womanhood in material, visual, and digital culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her interdisciplinary interests include sexuality, Black feminism, and radicalism in Black popular culture in the United States and the Caribbean. She is the editor of The Black Girlhood Studies Collection (Women's Press, 2019) and co-editor of a special issue on hip-hop feminism in the Journal of Hip-Hop Studies (2020). Her articles are featured in Cultural Studies, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Girlhood Studies, Palimpsest, and SOULS. Her book, Buy Black: How Black Women Transformed U.S. Pop Culture, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. Dr. Halliday served as co-chair of the Girls' and Girls' Studies Caucus at the National Women's Studies Association 2016-2019; she is currently Chair of the Girls' and Girls' Studies Caucus. She is also co-founder of Digital Black Girls, a digital humanities archive celebrating Black girls' cultural production and innovation.

About the Book: Buy Black examines American Black women's role in Black consumption in the U.S. and worldwide, focusing on their pivotal role in packaging Black feminine identity since the 1960s. Through an exploration of the dolls, princesses, and rags-to-riches stories that represent Black girlhood and womanhood in everything from haircare to Nicki Minaj's hip-hop, Aria S. Halliday spotlights how the products created by Black women have furthered Black women's position as the moral compass and arbiter of Black racial progress.

Far-ranging and bold, Buy Black reveals what attitudes inform a contemporary Black sensibility based on representation and consumerism. It also traces the parameters of Black symbolic power, mapping the sites where intraracial ideals of blackness, womanhood, beauty, play, and sexuality meet and mix in consumer and popular culture.

In this edition of Entrepreneurial Appetite's Black Book Discussion, we bring you a conversation with Steven S. Rogers, retired professor of business at Harvard Business School and author of Successful Black Entrepreneurs: Hidden Histories, Inspirational Stories, and Extraordinary Business Achievements.

About the book:

Successful Black Entrepreneurs is an insightful collection of Harvard Business School case studies about Black entrepreneurs succeeding in various industries and through different routes, including start-ups, franchising, and acquisitions. The book also recognizes and celebrates Black entrepreneurial excellence as it takes the reader through the stages of entrepreneurship, including ideation, raising capital, growing the company, and taking it public. In addition to identifying the positive aspects of Black entrepreneurship, the book also uses data, research, and anecdotes to highlight the challenges faced by Black entrepreneurs, including: 

1. An inability to access capital from traditional financial institutions like banks and private equity firms
2. The requirement to practice “racial concealment” in the company of White customers to achieve success 

Perfect for students, aspiring entrepreneurs, and established business leaders, Successful Black Entrepreneurs provides practical perspectives from Black entrepreneurs about what it takes to succeed in business. 

About the author:

Steven Rogers retired from Harvard Business School (HBS) in 2019, where he was the “MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer” in General Management.

He taught Entrepreneurial Finance and a new course that he created titled “Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship.”

A 1985 graduate of the school, Professor Rogers holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College. Before HBS, Professor Rogers taught in the MBA and Ph.D. programs at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He received the Outstanding Professor Award for the Executive MBA Program 26 times and the daytime program twice. Both are records.