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The Hustle Lounge

by Hustle Smarter

The Hustle Lounge is centered around financial literacy and financial topics that are often overlooked but contribute to the wealth gap between black America and the rest of the world and also business tips, ideas and more wisdom is shared.

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Episodes

  1. HLP #58 The Money Professional Part 2

    It's the Hustle Lounge Podcast and in today's episode, we have an exceptional guest for the second time! Raven Symone-Simon, CPA of Simon Accounting, discussed her journey to becoming a millionaire in episode 54 which turned into a financial therapy session. So we decided to split the…

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  2. HLP #57 Males vs Men

    It's the Hustle Lounge Podcast, and today we brought in a throwback live video we hosted over a year ago! This live podcast episode spoke on the lack of men in the African American community. This conversation includes various topics: Family first, being a positive role model, taking care of your...

  3. HLP #55 House Buying Pt.2 Ft. Sean Love

    It's the Hustle Lounge Podcast, and we had an exceptional guest in today's episode! Sean Love is a real estate agent out of the DMV area. He decided to stop by and give insight into the current housing market. This conversation includes various topics: How he helps first-time…

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  4. HLP #54 Featuring The Money Professional

    It's the Hustle Lounge Podcast and in today's episode, we had a very special guest! Raven Symone-Simon, CPA of Simon Accounting discussed her journey on the way to becoming a millionaire. This conversation includes various topics: How she paid off over 200K in debt, self-value, her real estate...

  5. HLP #53 Graham's interview with Jay George about Mentality

    On this week's episode, while setting up for the "Life After Death" and "Mental Health" episodes, while doing an equipment check, our good friend Jamathon George sat down with Graham and asked him a few candid questions. They talked about free game, how instant gratification and social media has...

  6. HLP #52 How To Provide Value

    It's the Hustle Lounge Podcast and in today's episode, we discussed the importance of being valuable. This conversation includes various topics: How to provide value, self- importance, being knowledgable of your self-worth, avoiding activities and actions that will decrease your value, always...

  7. HLP #51 Boundaries Part 2

    Welcome back to The Hustle Lounge! On today's episode, Graham, Kris and Colin spoke on boundaries. This is part two of boundaries, as Kris and Graham spoke on episode #9 of The Hustle Lounge. In that episode, they touched the surface of the boundaries, exploiting how it could potentially affect...

  8. HLP #50 The Value of Your Circle

    It's the Hustle Lounge Podcast and on today's episode, Graham, Kris, and Colin have an honest conversation about friendship and its importance in their lives. How important are friends for you? Do you think you are a good friend? Can you rely on friends for support? They give advice on staying in...

  9. HLP #49 K. Madison Interview

    In today’s episode, we had the privilege of interviewing the one and only K. Maidson. A successful entrepreneur who has been in the game for well over a decade. We spoke on the following topics: ✨ Business Ventures before K.Madison Designs ✨ What we learned from those previous ventures ✨ How...

  10. HLP #48 Aaron Donald & LeBillionaire James

    It's the Hustle Lounge Podcast and on this week's episode, we discussed Aaron Donald and Lebron James's success not only on the court/field but off of the court/field, specifically their money moves. This conversation includes various topics to include the following: being a great leader, making...

  11. HLP #47 Delayed Gratification

    It's the Hustle Lounge Podcast and on today's episode we discussed delayed gratification. This conversation includes various topics: how to be patient, how to effectively prepare yourself for success, following your own path, being an active parent, being intentional, keys to lifelong success,...

  12. HLP #46 The Diary of LaTanya Coleman Carter

    It's The Hustle Lounge Podcast x LaTanya Coleman Carter. We are honored to have such a special guest on our platform. This episode's topics include: How to effectively homeschool your child, entrepreneurship, how to manage your child's education, how to pick the right college for your child…

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  13. HLP #45 Recession Proof

    Happy Juneteenth Hustlas! We hope everyone enjoyed the holiday along with Father’s day and reflected upon the reason and meaning of Juneteenth! We also hope you can build off that momentum to break the chains of generational curses and build generational wealth. Organisms best adjusted to their...

  14. HLP #44 The Truth Hurts

    In this week’s episode, the team discussed how modern society struggle with ingesting the truth. Graham had an incident with delivering the truth to a family member about a financial decision. The family member felt some kind of way because ultimately the truth hurts. The team then paid their...

  15. HLP #42 Family Business

    In today's episode, the team discussed the dynamics of mixing family and business. In chemistry class, you have to investigate which properties would have good or bad reactions when they interact with each other. This is comparable to doing business with family. The only difference is chemistry...

  16. HLP #41 Coach Parker

    Coach Carter brought the Richmond High Oilers a perspective they’d never seen before. He also demonstrated the characteristics of a great leader. Honesty, toughness/grit and he demanded respect. He set expectations so high that the player's parents were upset! Most importantly he held his team...

  17. HLP #40 Relationships & Money

    On this classic episode of SOULfood Sunday, Graham and his wife Brianna talked about how they handle finances within their household. As with all episodes, one must do what works for them. They have been together almost 10 years, so they have had a lot of trail and error when it comes to the...

  18. HLP #39 Wedding Day

    On this episode, Colin and G talked about getting married at the courthouse versus having a big wedding. Both of them wasn’t in position to fund a big wedding and didn’t want to get in debt behind it. G believes not having wedding debt attributes to the financial freedom that him and his wife…

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  19. HLP #38 1 Million

    On this episode, the team was having a conversation on the “what if.” Colin posed the question of what would you do if got handed a million dollars cash? Now, we at Hustle Smarter know and preach that no one is going to knock at your door and drop off a bag, but it was fun conversation. There was...

  20. HLP #37 The Green Scene Interview with Graham

    On this episode, Raven Symone Simon, CPA aka The Money Professional invited Graham to her inaugural episode of her weekly live, “The Green Scene” in which she asked several questions about what Hustle Smarter offers and entails. They got into a deep discussion on the importance of money and...

  21. HLP #36 Ready to Die: Mental Health Matters

    In this week’s episode, the team follows up from the previous week about Life Insurance. The team did a mental health check, to make sure everyone was in stable condition. They were alarmed at the level that G claimed and told him he was at high risk. G then went into his transparent mode and…

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  22. HLP #35 Life After Death

    In this episode, the team spoke on the importance of life insurance. When this episode was recorded, G lost 4 family members within a 3-week span to include his grandfather. Through the pain, G tried to explain the importance of having at least 4x your income in life insurance to leave your…

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  23. HLP #34 Cleared to Close Ft. The Millennial Loan Officer

    Hello everyone! We are back, and a little late on our regular episodes but we had the pleasure of ending Women’s History Month with Florence South Carolina’s very own, Shakeita Price aka The Millennial Loan Officer! We held the episode LIVE on YouTube and FB and we had a great interactive…

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  24. HLP #33 No Validation Necessary

    In this episode, the team had a discussion that started out about support or lack thereof from friends and family members while entrepreneurs are struggling to start their business. The conversation then turned to the debacle with Jim Jones at the Gucci store and how he was treated. The team…

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  25. HLP #32 Rags to Riches with Akila Marie

    Once again, Hustle Smarter has brought the people one for the history books. To continue with our celebration of Women's History Month we interviewed Dr. Akila Marie Roberts, DNP. This conversation was an open book full of transparency about her successes and failures on the way to becoming to a...

  26. HLP #31 Connors For Your Honor - Women's History Month Special

    On this week's episode, the team interviewed Cara Connors. Cara Connors is a wife and mother of 2, successful entrepreneur, lawyer and is currently running for 12th Divisional Judicial candidate for Pulaski County Circuit Court. Her hometown is Memphis, Tennessee and she resides with her family…

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  27. HLP #30 Black History Month

    Hello everyone, we are back! This week's episode is a recap of the team's personal feelings on Black History Month and their stance on it. This episode is a little different from our regular episodes as we are now filming in person for Youtube and with that, our approach is a lot more relaxed and...

  28. HLP #29 Air BNB's & Turo with Krispy_Ken

    Wassup world! On this episode, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Krispy Ken, an Air Force veteran and aspiring entrepreneur. Ken started out his ventures when he left the Air Force, starting with Turo. He then turned his focus and intentionality on Air BNB, where he partnered up and found…

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  29. HLP #28 Retirement Side B

    In this episode, to follow up the previous short conversation about retirement, Graham and Kris discussed their different views of investing and how they like to get invest in whichever Avenue they like to invest in. Graham prefers true entrepreneurship and Kris likes conservative investing in…

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  30. HLP #27 Retirement Side A

    On this short yet effective episode, Graham and Kris discussed their different views on retirement. Graham doesn't believe that he will truly ever retire, as he knows that he will always something going on that will involve him to still hustle, but he doesn't necessarily consider it work. Kris...

  31. HLP #26 Auto Loans 102 - Lease or Finance?

    On this episode, The Hustle Smarter team spoke on the differences between auto loans and leases. Colin, also known as CO Chill, an original member of the Hustle Smarter team is now back locked in and here to stay. It was a great conversation, as Colin is a big fan of leasing and Graham doesn't...

  32. HLP #25 Leveraging Credit

    On this episode, The team talked about leveraging credit to follow up on the previous episode of being debt free. They talked about numerous avenues where society can get burnt from attempting to leverage credit and not being aware of the potential pitfalls. They discussed the positives of...

  33. HLP #24 Free At Last

    In this episode, the team talked about the beauty of being debt free and how it feels to break the chains of modern day slavery. Kris asked some great questions to dig into the mind of how Graham thinks and the big question of what keeps him out of debt. This episode is coming off of the team’s...

  34. HLP #23 Change the Game

    In this episode, the brothers started talking about instead of playing defense our entire life - working till we 65, only investing in 401K, not being exposed to other things. Graham went into storytelling mode about his experiences as a kid which ultimately led him into the hustler and…

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  35. HLP #22 Modern Day Slavery

    Happy New Year Hustlas!!!! We wanted to start of 2022 with a bang! This episode follows up Financial PTSD, and try to decipher what’s the root cause of financial PTSD. This led us to discuss debt, consumer debt and reckless spending habits. There was some facts stated in here regarding real…

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  36. HLP #21 Financial PTSD

    Happy Holidays! Financial PTSD is defined as the result of living at least three months when one's income is not adequate to meet one's expenses. The effects of this stem from a disruption in the home, irritability, isolation and self-destructive behavior such as alcoholism, misuse of…

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  37. HLP #20 Accountability

    On this episode, Hustle Smarter spoke on the importance of accountability and how they feel about people who are always complaining and passing the blame on to someone else due to their lack of bad decisions. This episode was the prelude to Hustlin' Backwards, but the team felt that Hustlin'...

  38. HLP #19 Hustlin’ Backwards

    On this episode, the Hustle Smarter team talks about the opposite of Hustlin’ Smarter, and spoke on Hustlin’ Backwards. You know, going out of your way to pay for overpriced Jordan’s but don’t have a vehicle or don’t know anything about investments. I mean, it’s cool but don’t complain when the...

  39. HLP #18 Graham's Guest Appearance on Just Pennies Podcast

    For this week episode, we kept bringing up the episode where the stock whisper gave Graham the opportunity to speak on his first podcast! This episode was EPIC as they spoke on topics that should become the norm in the household! We enjoyed the interview and blessed to have the Stock whisper on…

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  40. HLP #17 Stock Market interview with The Stock Whisperer

    On this highly anticipated episode, The Stock whisper hung out today and we talked about investing and the stock market. The stock whisper is a successful investor and has his own podcasts, “It’s Just Pennies” The Stock Whisper is heavy in the OTC market, where most shares will be under 1 penny.…

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  41. HLP #16 All Money Ain't Good Money

    Happy Thanksgiving! This episode touches a few topics. With everyone eager to invest and find a way to generate more income, Hustle warns the world to be careful and tread lightly when looking at making these moves. This is not to discourage you from chasing a dream or a goal, but do the proper...

  42. HLP #15 Distractions

    On this episode, Hustle Smarter spoke on distractions! With the recent events that had social media in a frenzy, this episode was right on time to discuss how distractions can pull you away from what you are working. Distractions can come in all types of forms, with the most obvious form being…

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  43. HLP #14 SOULFood Sunday - Overspending for the Holidays

    On this special edition of SOULfood Sunday, Hustle Smarter talked about the overspending for the holidays that occurs in the culture! Not only did they speak on the marketing techniques used by the big companies to reel the consumers in annually, they also spoke about the latter effects of…

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  44. HLP #13 Interview with Mr. Ernest Sanders

    In today's episode we had a special guest, Mr. Ernest Sanders. Mr. Sanders is a lawyer and a judge representing Kris's hometown, Little Rock Arkansas. I know most of you are wondering when did Kris and G get into politics, but trust me this isn't that. This is a run of intense dialogue between...

  45. HLP #12 Networkin’

    In this episode, it went away from the usual talks that we have. Kris brought up a recent social media post about $50,000 or dinner with Jay-Z…. Even though it’s a funny topic and a pipe dream, Hustle explained on why he would take the money and sitting at the table would be unnecessary if you...

  46. HLP #11 Labor Pains

    Welcome Back to another episode at The Hustle Lounge Podcast! During today's episode Kris and G discuss the recurrent pains that you will have to endure to become successful. Tonight's show is dedicated to Big Hustle as this topic was dear to G's heart... Tonight he was as transparent and...

  47. HLP #10 Financial Literacy is the New Hustle

    On this episode, we ended the three-part series on Financial Literacy that stared on our FB Live event SOULfood Sunday on the Hustle Smarter FB page. We started giving out gems on how a parent can set their child up for generational wealth and give them a head start on adulthood, and then we...

  48. HLP #9 Boundaries

    Welcome back! On this episode of the Hustle Lounge we went over boundaries. Boundaries have no limitations as they vary from emotional, to physical and FINANCIAL boundaries. Many are not comfortable enough to actually build and sustain whatever boundaries they may chose, but we’re here to tell…

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  49. HLP #8 Survivor's Remorse

    On this episode, a very unpopular but needed topic was spoken about when Hustle and Kris dived into this conversation. They spoke on the importance of being apologetic and not worrying about what people think when you put in the work to elevate to the next level. Every level that you elevate, you...

  50. HLP #7 All Hustle No Luck

    On this episode, Hustle and Kris continue where they left off from the previous episode of "Don't Quit Your 9-5" and the SOULfood Sunday FB live session on Kids and Money. In this episode, Hustle goes into detail about the sacrifice and the effort that he has put in to achieve his goals and...

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The Hustle Lounge is centered around financial literacy and financial topics that are often overlooked but contribute to the wealth gap between black America and the rest of the world and also business tips, ideas and more wisdom is shared.

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