National Black Business Month: Celebrating Black Businesses

3 million Black-owned businesses. Only 194,500 with a single paid employee. That gap is the whole story."There's living in the business, and there's building the business. We tend to live in the business."Abe and Ms. B break down why access to capital — not effort — built the gap, how $211 billion becomes $600 billion, and the local owners proving it's possible: from renting 1,500 square feet to owning 6,000. Plus breaking news on a major Black-owned expansion — and if nuns can open a bank, what's our excuse?Nobody's coming to save us. We save ourselves.Amplify. Empower. Elevate. New episodes Mon–Thu — follow the Inner Circle Podcast.