The 7209 Show MarLan Parker & Ebi Okiyefa

This episode features a special guest: Obinna Okwara, Founder and Owner of Hiddensole. Obinna chats with the fellas about how he got into the game of entrepreneurship right out of college! A little over 20 years now, Obinna has invested in many ventures to help other entrepreneurs get their start ups off the ground and of course laid the ground work/foundation to get his sneakerhead store up and running successfully! Now closing on opening up his 4th sneaker store in Las Vegas; Obinna discusses what it took to get there from ground zero! This episode is filled with many gems, of course. Tune in on this one for sure!

The fellas were able to chop it up with Rayquan Smith, a collegiate athlete from Norfolk State University in Richmond, Virginia. Ray is a highly recognized student athlete who plays football and track for his university. As an athlete, Ray drops gems on his 70 NIL deals with other branded companies and/or businesses where he generates revenue from them by promoting their products! This show was very informative for Marlan and Ebi and hopefully will provide the same value for the listeners! Tune in and enjoy the #kingofnil on this show!

Marlan and Ebi connected with a special guest today: Fredo Cervantes. Fredo is a sports/media broadcaster in So. California and has his own show "Monday Night Fredo" on Infanity TV. 

Fredo blessed us with his story of how he managed to get to where he is today and the innovated steps of getting himself out there as an entrepreneur of constantly being an omnipresence public figure in his respective industry! The game was definitely shared in this episode and we were able to have some fun as well with multiple sports trivia questions laid upon Fredo to answer. Tune in!

Marlan and Ebi connect with an old time brother from their Alma Mater (CSU, San Bernardino) Yonathan Elias! Yonathan discusses hangs out with the bros to reminiscences on old times at Cal State and his journey into the entertainment & acting industry post college days leading up to now. Yonathan's signature road path includes his tenure as a former correspondent for BET, hosted 106 & Park via Howard University and is currently now the correspondent for Ebony Magazine. Many more accomplishments and the grind to get to where yonathan is today is discussed in this episode. Tap in and listen to the gems discussed amongst these brothers torn from the same cloth!

In this episode we have a conversation with Shannon Parks, the CEO of Syntrix Logistics (a subsidiary of Amazon's DSP Program). Shannon is an old college friend of Ebi and MarLan so there are definitely some collegiate stories shared. Shannon touches on how he built his business, the obstacles he faced and his goal moving forward within that space. His dreams and aspirations are delivered in an amazing way as he accurately describes the economic environment of the time period and how he managed to overcome that adversity to build his financial position. Stock tips, business ideas, must-read books and much more can be found here...so grab a pen and a notepad so you do not miss anything.

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Ebi and MarLan had a dynamic conversation with the one and only Charles Oglesby, Mr. Featured In Forbes, Mr. Todd Billi, Mr. Get Started and Get Fancy Later! We discuss business building, how to pivot when obstacles arise, entrepreneur values, inspiration and Charles' work-life balance. The conversation touches on our collegiate experience that we all shared, being from the same fraternity, and how that has shaped and guided our work thus far.

Charles is truly a boss as shown by his ability to amass a phenomenal digital course portfolio aimed on wealth building, numerous real estate ventures, multiple podcasts, hundreds of thousands of followers on social media and a community of masterminds aimed at creating a legacy that we can pass down to our kids. You. Don't. Want. To. Miss. This. One.

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