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In this archival episode of Getting Deals Done, the Mastermind Forum, we look at a larger cosmic picture and identify opportunities based upon information gleaned from past episodes. In this case, we note trends by Fortune 500 companies as Viasat Satellite Communications and Newport Beach's Alhambra Technologies with manufacturing in Bahir, Ethiopia.

The Africa insurance market reached a value of US $70 billion in 2020. Revenue in the eCommerce market is projected to reach US $43,885 million in 2022. Agriculture takes up 15 percent ($100 billion annually) of the whole continent's GDP and is also the largest economic sector. African infrastructure saw a raise in compound annual rate at 17%. Banking, Oil and Gas, and Telecommunication also showcase markets with astronomical potential. The new BRIC are centrally located on the continent where all civilization, technology and visions began.

We trace Africa’s rise from informal ingenuity to investable scale, with Nigeria’s momentum, Senegal’s smart-city vision, and a people-first ethos that powers real markets. Along the way, we frame Afrofuturism as practical design for dignity, trust, and growth.

• Nigeria’s scale, GDP context, and entrepreneurial tribes
• Why informal markets are the infrastructure of daily life
• Startup capital growth and Fortune 500 attention
• Senegal’s smart sustainable city and crypto-enabled services
• Afrofuturism as a blueprint for practical innovation
• Integrity, purpose, and human potential as market drivers
• Partnerships across media, water stewardship, and hospitality
• Invitation to our virtual mastermind forum

Be sure to join us for our virtual mastermind forum at the Global I Am

Prosperity is a state of being, not a ledger line on your bank account.

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In Episode 2 of Global I Am, hosts Sebastien Celestine, Bill Huston, and Patrick A. Howell convene a transatlantic conversation on legacy, sovereignty, capital, and the evolving architecture of African prosperity and wealth.

From the enduring political fire of H. Rap Brown - the 1960s Black Power activist, SNCC chairman, and advocate for armed resistance against white oppression - to the cultural revolution ignited by Hip Hop, the dialogue honors movements that insisted upon dignity while reshaping global consciousness and finance.

The conversation moves across oceans with Mr. Sebastien Celestine to the GUBA Awards in Barbados and emerging corridors of transatlantic trade, positioning the Caribbean as a modern gateway between Africa and the West. Under the leadership of Mia "Amour" Mottley, Barbados signals a future defined by digital infrastructure, finance enterprise, capital market formation and direct diasporic flight paths linking Nairobi, Accra, and Bridgetown.

Community crowdfunder Bill Huston reflects on the intellectual and economic legacy of the Black Panther era in Cincinnati. Two years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a young Huston entered school with the Black Panther's Head Start programs and helped launch a journey toward national leadership in equity and sovereignty through capital formation.

Mr. Howell reflects that under Barack Obama, the U.S. economy contracted about 2.6% in 2009 during the Great Recession before returning to growth (roughly 2–2.5% in 2010), while the global economy fell around 2.2% and rebounded near 2.7%, supported by the approximately $831B American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, stabilizing financial systems and demand. His presidency also served as the model for his successor, President Joe Biden's economic recovery from the Pandemic - a $1.9T American Rescue Plan. So, rather than merely the first black president, Obama is the greatest economic steward of American and global financial markets.

Ultimately, Episode 2 is the story of a people engineering their return home - to Peace, Joy, and our Prosperity.

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In this archival return to the early formation of Global I Am, we revisit a pivotal conversation recorded in 2020 — a year that fundamentally reoriented global consciousness.

Host Tori L. Reid convenes voices from what was then known as the Global International African Arts Movement, reflecting on the cultural, political, and spiritual convergence that followed the murder of George Floyd, the enduring moral courage of Congressman John Lewis, and a worldwide reckoning with race, justice, and human dignity. As Lewis urged, this was a moment for “good trouble” — not merely protest, but principled disruption in service of a more expansive democracy.

Moving fluidly across borders and ideas, the conversation considers the emergence of the digital nomad as a defining figure of a new generation — globally mobile, culturally literate, technologically fluent, and increasingly unbound by geography. This posture reflected a reality long understood within the African diaspora: that Black identity, African identity, and cultural influence have always operated on a global plane.

Tori is joined in dialogue with the author of Dispatches from the Vanguard, published by London’s Repeater Books — a work now regarded as both timely and quietly prophetic in capturing the emotional, cultural, and political temperature of the era. Some observers drew parallels between COVID-19 and the influenza pandemic of the early twentieth century. Yet the deeper inquiry explored here is civilizational: if the Harlem Renaissance gave rise to the Black Arts Movement, and later Hip Hop, what new renaissance was being gestated in 2020?

This episode traces the energetic roots of Global I Am — not merely as a platform, but as an emerging intellectual and cultural movement grounded in Pan-African consciousness and the enduring human impulse to create meaning in moments of rupture. The discussion touches on living life as art, building global movements, ancestral presence and healing — including reflections on Patrick Howell’s father, Dr. Bing P. Howell — and the responsibility inherent in cultural stewardship.

What ultimately emerges is a portrait of an idea before it fully declared itself: Global I Am — an understanding that culture, capital, entrepreneurship, spirit, and creativity are inseparable, and that the African diaspora has long stood at the generative center of world culture.

Both time capsule and foundation stone, this archival conversation reminds us where the signal first gathered strength — why it mattered then, and why its resonance continues to expand now.