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Senegalese musician, entrepreneur and statesman Youssou N’Dour loves nothing more than to quote his deceased compatriot, the caliph general Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy: ‘It’s good to resemble one’s father, but it’s better to resemble one’s era.’
The Senegalese singer is known for his extraordinary vocal range and for introducing international audiences to mbalax—a Senegalese popular music style that blends Wolof traditional instrumental and vocal forms primarily with Cuban and other Latin American popular genres.

According to Forbes, Youssou N'Dour is the richest African musician in the world in 2022, with a net worth of $145 million.  His enormous net worth arose from the use of his distinct voice and the popularization of the well-known Senegalese style of music known as Mbalax. On October 1, 1959, he was born in Dakar, Senegal. He served as Senegal’s Minister of Tourism from April 2012 to September 2013. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine maintained that N’Dour is “perhaps the most famous singer alive” in Senegal and much of Africa.

"Africa has no cultural frontiers.  It mixes genres effortlessly.   That's the future for me."  Youssou N'Dour
Show Guest:  Youssou N'Dour 
Show Host and Creator:  Patrick A.  Howell 
Executive Producer and co-host: Tori Reid 
Executive Producer: Amobe Mvegue
Executive Producer: Patrick Abanda
Voice Over Artist:  Maleiva 
Production: WAN and Afrobiz
Pre-production: We Edit Productions 
Post Productions: We Edit Productions 
GDD Intro and Outro:  Youssou N'Dour, Miss, Joko (2020) 
Song, Introduction:   Youssou N'Dour, Dem, Leaving, wommat (1994)
Song, Outro: Youssou N'Dour, Burima, Joko (2020)

Special thank you to: World African Network 
photo of Youssou N'Dour: Youri Lenquette 
Getting Deals Done is a show about doing business, changing power, changing systems and making the world a better place one deal at a time. Host, veteran banker and entrepreneur Patrick A. Howell, speaks with leading and successful innovators, mavericks and captains of industry about making big things happen in the world.

It is said that excellence is a habit rather than a destination.  Also, that you are what you do consistently.   If that is true, then Ruth Carter who just won her second academy award for Best Costume Design for the film "Wakanda, Forever", is the epitome of excellence.  She won the first award in 2018 with Wakanda's predecessor, "Black Panther".  She was also nominated for Spike Lee's Malcolm X in 1993 and Steven Speilberg's "Amistad" in 1998.   To hear Ruth tell it, however?   She is as humble, passionate and focused as an intern looking for her big break.   Sure, she's comfortable.   But she's leaning in and her focus is poignant.    And perhaps, that's where her true magic lays - her consistency and effervescence.    Ruth Carter is the first black woman in American history to win the Oscar on her sartorial splendor, the basis of technically astute work, timeless art and the storytelling legacy of her ancestors.    Yes, she looks at costume design as storytelling and takes her griot cues from sheroes including Nikki Giovanni, Lorraine Hansberry and Sonia Sanchez.

"My favorite part about costume designing is the artistry of the job...
I begin with understanding the intentions of the story."
                                                                                                                         Ruth Carter


Guest:  Ruth Carter
Host:  Patrick A. Howell
Creator and Producer:  Patrick A. Howell
Executive Producer:  Tori Reid
Writer:  Patrick A. Howell
Post Production:  WeEdit Podcasts
Post Production Assistant:  Alana Coleman
Intern School Affiliation:  Norfolk State University
Premier Advertising Sponsor:  Vivreau Water Systems
Advertising Sponsor:  Hilton Sacramento Arden West
Ad Voiceover Artist:  Ginger Levert

Special Thank You - Sterfon Demings

More Information on Ruth Carter:
The Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, from Do the Right Thing to Black PantherGetting Deals Done is a show about doing business, changing power, changing systems and making the world a better place one deal at a time. Host, veteran banker and entrepreneur Patrick A. Howell, speaks with leading and successful innovators, mavericks and captains of industry about making big things happen in the world.

Bob Unnold has led several startups, including two in Stamford: Axxun, which created a platform for software developers to compress the amount of time needed to delivery applications; and I3 Mobile, which created a subscription-based service delivering news to mobile phones. I3 Mobile held an $82 million initial public offering of stock in 2000.

His newest endeavor is Atendit which sells wireless tags that, when linked to an accompanying Apple IOS app, allow users to get reminders on specific things at set times and days when walking by a sensor.   Memory scientists have a name — the event horizon model — for the tendency of people forgetting things as they move through the house and out the door.  The starter package is selling on Amazon for $30 and an Android version is in the works.

Bob Unnold has over the decades developed the pitch perfect acumen of an entrepreneur. 

“In colleges today, there are majors in entrepreneurship. I don’t really personally believe that you can teach entrepreneurship. It’s something that’s in a person. It’s an aggressive approach in a person and you don’t know if you’re an entrepreneur until it’s Wednesday, and you’ve got a $30,000 payroll on Friday with no money in the bank; then you have to figure out how to actually get that money and how to do it- otherwise you’re going to have a lot of unhappy employees.”


Guest: Bob Unnold
Affiliate Company:  Did You Remember To, LLC
Host: Patrick A. Howell
Creator and Producer:  Patrick A. Howell
Executive Producer: Alan Stone
Executive Producer: Bob Unnold
Producer:  Tori Reid
Writer:  Patrick A. Howell
Audio Recording:  Emerging Media Partners
Post Production:  We Edit Productions
Vodcast Post Production:  Emerging Media Partners
Premier Advertising Sponsor:  Vivreau Water Systems
Advertising Sponsor:  Hilton Sacramento Arden West
Ad Voiceover Artist:  Ginger Levert 
Marketing Partner and Sponsor:  Wall Street Research
Location Sponsor:  Ash Cigar Lounge in Los Angeles, CA 
Getting Deals Done is a show about doing business, changing power, changing systems and making the world a better place one deal at a time. Host, veteran banker and entrepreneur Patrick A. Howell, speaks with leading and successful innovators, mavericks and captains of industry about making big things happen in the world.

Dennis Ngyen is the CEO of Society Pass - an e-commerce company, traded on the NASDAQ, headquartered in Orange County and offices in 7 cities including Singapore, Ho Chi Mihn, Bangkok, Hanoi and Jakarta.  Society Pass is building the next generation of loyalty and data-focused marketing.   It is an ecosystem of technology-enabled companies working together to change how consumer and merchants interact with one another.  Think of it like going to the mall in Southeast Asia from the comfort of your laptop anywhere in the world.

From UC Irvine to John Hopkins University to the top business program at the University of Chicago, Dennis has 5 degrees including an MBA, Law degree and MA in international studies.  His blueprint for success? Dream.  Plan and here is his form fitting handle on success – Execute. As Dennis considers Society Pass his legacy project after such highlights, makes me very intrigued.   It seems as if anything he sets his mind to, he will accomplish.

Guest: Dennis Nguyen
Affiliate Company:  Society Pass 
Host: Patrick A. Howell 
Creator and Producer:  Patrick A. Howell
Executive Producer: Alan Stone
Executive Producer:  Tori Reid
Writer:  Patrick A. Howell
Audio Recording:  Emerging Media Partners
Postproduction:  We Edit Productions
Additional Postproduction: We Edit Productions 
Additional Vodcast Postproduction:  Emerging Media Partners
Premier Advertising Sponsor:  Vivreau Water Systems
Advertising Sponsor:  Hilton Sacramento Arden West
Ad Voiceover Artist:  Ginger Levert
 



Getting Deals Done is a show about doing business, changing power, changing systems and making the world a better place one deal at a time. Host, veteran banker and entrepreneur Patrick A. Howell, speaks with leading and successful innovators, mavericks and captains of industry about making big things happen in the world.

"Social Responsibility" is all but a catch phrase in American corporate lingo.  In this Part II episode, PepsiCo's Derek Lewis, President of Multicultural Business and Equity Development for PepsiCo Beverages North America, provides insight into a first-rate business IQ, and spells out how profit-driven corporations will not propel transformational change with money alone.  He uniquely understands that it will take not only billions in financial commitment from corporations, but an attendant will power for sustained change from within the system.  He explains how diversity and inclusion fundamentally impact the Fortune 500 bottom line and P&L. 

Derek Lewis recently retired as the President of PepsiCo's Multicultural Business and Equity Development after a total of nearly 35 years with PepsiCo Beverages.  During his career at PepsiCo, he strived to live by what he calls "the 3 Rs": Results - delivering solid and consistent performance the right way matters; Relationships - personal, professional, and spiritual; nurture these relationships and always be a great teammate. Reputation - be mindful of your actions. To live purposefully to create a positive legacy that generations will remember.  He is the embodiment of this integrity.  He understands how these strategies deployed with authenticity and boldness determine the future of community, but the bottom line of business.  Bottom line?  Do business the right way, now.  Derek Lewis is a corporate titan of Community.

"As I close one chapter, a new one opens. There is still work to do. And I'm not done. I will always be committed to making a difference." - Derek Lewis

CREDITS:

Guest:  Derek Lewis
Guest Host:  Tori Reid
Producer:  Patrick A. Howell
Producer:  James Parker 
Executive Producer:  Tori Reid
Writer:  Patrick A. Howell
Post Production:  Cutting Edge Editing 
Audio Recording:  Franklin Fitzgerald
Sound / Music Mixing:  Tori Scorsese 
Advertising Sponsor:  Hilton Sacramento Arden West
Ad Voiceover Artist:  Ginger Levert
Photo Credit for Derek Lewis:  Unknown

Music:
Episode Intro:  Earth (Light It Up)/Tilden Parc, Xavy Rusan
Introduction:  Swag On/Mary Riddle
Commentaries:  Take 2/Pro Reese
Outro:  A United Nation/Mary Riddle

Background music:  DJ Envy (PepsiCo stage at Hampton University Homecoming)

a Victory & Noble production
@ 2022 Victory & Noble LLC  All Rights Reserved 
Connect with the Guest:
Derek Lewis on LinkedIn
Derek Lewis on Instagram

More about PepsiCo's Initiative

More about Hampton University - The Standard of Excellence
Getting Deals Done is a show about doing business, changing power, changing systems and making the world a better place one deal at a time. Host, veteran banker and entrepreneur Patrick A. Howell, speaks with leading and successful innovators, mavericks and captains of industry about making big things happen in the world.

The first African American PepsiCo employees were hired in the 1940s.  Maryann Bond and Allen McKellar, Jr. were hired by PepsiCo's CEO Walter S. Mack to market Pepsi Cola to African American communities.  In 2021, Derek Lewis was promoted from within the ranks of PepsiCo to President of Multicultural Business and Equity Development for PepsiCo Beverages North America.  A Pepsi tradition of corporate social responsibility results in bottom line results nearly 100 years later. 

In the wake of George Floyd's death and the international Black Lives Matter marches of nearly 26 million, countless Fortune 500 companies pledged nearly $50 billion dollars to social justice.  PepsiCo was one of those companies.  In this very special episode on the campus of Hampton University at a hallmark homecoming, PepsiCo’s North American President Derek Lewis and guest host Tori Reid discuss sustainable, long-lasting change, his dedicated leadership, and PepsiCo's central role in multicultural communities.

"Success in my mind is the bar is always moving... The consumer landscape is moving. America is changing.  How do you continue to stay ahead of the curve?"  - Derek Lewis
CREDITS:
Guest:  Derek Lewis
Guest Host:  Tori Reid
Producer:  Patrick A. Howell
Producer:  James Parker
Executive Producer:  Tori Reid
Writers:  Patrick A. Howell with Tori Reid and James Parker
Post Production:  Cutting Edge Editing
Audio Recording:  Franklin Fitzgerald
Sound / Music Mixing:  Tori Scorsese
Advertising Sponsor:  Hilton Sacramento Arden West
Ad Voiceover Artist:  Ginger Levert
Photo Credit for Derek Lewis:  Unknown

Music:
Episode Intro:  Earth (Light It Up)/Tilden Parc, Xavy Rusan
Introduction:  Talkin (Neck)/The Hampton University Marching Force
Commentaries:  The Ace/Ballpoint, Cushy, _91nova
Outro:  Grizzlies/Mary Riddle

Background music:  DJ Envy (PepsiCo stage at Hampton University Homecoming)

a Victory & Noble production
@ 2022 Victory & Noble LLC  All Rights Reserved

Connect with the Guest:
Derek Lewis on LinkedIn
Derek Lewis on Instagram

More about PepsiCo's Initiative

More about Hampton University - The Standard of Excellence
Getting Deals Done is a show about doing business, changing power, changing systems and making the world a better place one deal at a time. Host, veteran banker and entrepreneur Patrick A. Howell, speaks with leading and successful innovators, mavericks and captains of industry about making big things happen in the world.