Brandon M. Frame is the founder of The Black Man Can. #theblackmancan While attending Morehouse College he observed there was a need for mentorship for young boys of color attending middle school. He created a youth males mentorship group called, Voice. He led this group and fostered the educational growth of young boys of color while attending college. This group met once a week and focused on fostering and building positive self-identity of young men and boys of color. Almost as if written destiny, Brandon’s life has always been on a path to be a leader and trailblazer for boys and men of color. Born and raised in Hartford, CT and the eldest to his five siblings, Brandon has a natural tendency to care and look out for others. After graduating Morehouse College, he began teaching and coaching at a private school in MA. There, he became a mentor to his students. Brandon realized he had an impact on the younger generation and became a male figure that young men looked up to. Growing up most of his life without his father, he had to learn certain things about becoming a man on his own. One thing he learned was how common it is for other young men of color to be without their fathers. Brandon wanted to create a place for young men of color to express themselves and be able to see positive images of other males of color. In 2010, Brandon created a blog called #theblackmancan to congratulate, educate, and inspire young boys and men of color. The blog set up a platform for boys and men of color to express themselves and share positive life stories. Using social media as a place for these young boys and men of color to have a voice and show the world positive images, this blog experienced tremendous growth over the next few years. In 2013 Brandon decided to take this movement to the next level and wrote a guided journal entitled, Define Yourself: Redefine the World. The journal was used as a tool in his educational institute. Since its inception, Brandon began to be recognized and awarded for his movement. Some of the notable awards include, the Boston Globe magazine cover, Jet magazine’s Men of Honor, BET Honors: Next in Class Awards, and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. award from Morehouse College. Throughout the decade he launched his own YouTube TV series “Building Minds Forever” which lasted for two years and hosted over 150 guests. He created 1000 T.I.E.S (Transforming Identities 2 Empower Society), and the Blackmancan Institute which is now called ‘Building a Better Brother’ Summit, which has experienced huge success with over 7,000 young men attending since its inception in 2013. Brandon is the creative visionary for several innovative events and platforms which include, #FallingBlackinLove Power Couple Brunch, #BlackManWinningWednesdays featuring young boys of color recognizing successful men of color, and #BlackMenMondays. This young man has a God given path to lead and pave the way for other boys and men of color to succeed and be seen as the kings they are made to be. To learn more about Brandon M. Frame and his program, The Black Man Can, please follow him on Facebook and Instragram by putting Brandon M. Frame in your search box.&nbsp; You may also follow #theblackmancan on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter by putting theblackmancan in your search box. You may also follow them online at www.theblackmancan.com and  &nbsp; For more information about Huami Magazine, please visit www.mykelmedia.com &nbsp;

Episode Three

Elliott C. Washington is a resident of Greenville, South Carolina.&nbsp; He is also the owner of PatriotOwners.com and Co-Owner of Pretty Credit Consultants. &nbsp;   &nbsp;   As co-owner and Chief Operations Officer of Pretty Credit Consultants, Elliott aids his wife, Pretty, in growing their company and handling the commercial side of things. This often includes business credit education, business credit establishment, and consulting business owners.  &nbsp;  Elliott  also specializes in getting our footprint out there with banks, realtors, dealerships, and anyone that needs credit to make a sale. &nbsp;   His ultimate goal for the consumer side of the business is to heavily represent the middle class.   &nbsp;    Established in 2016, Pretty Credit Consultants officially launched on April 25, 2017 as a credit restoration company located in the heart of Greenville, South Carolina.&nbsp; Its primary mission is to help everyone achieve their finance and credit goals.&nbsp;  To service the business owners he counsels, Elliott has recently established First Merchants Financial Service. &nbsp;  &nbsp;   Recently, Elliott added another branch to his business tree, Patriot Owners.com.&nbsp; He became licensed to complete mortgages in December 2018, but was so busy with his other two that he sat on this one for over a month. In February&nbsp; 2019, PatriotOwners.com was born and it has been rapidly growing.&nbsp; Patriot Owners.com strives to help veterans become home owners by assisting them with utilizing their benefits and becoming credit worthy.  &nbsp;   When he was studying the lending program, Elliott realized, that across the board, he could do every form of lending, like, conventional, FHA, USDA, VA, and even manufactured homes, with a minimum 500 credit score. Because he is a veteran, retired Navy and disabled, he thought, why not target his own and help them get into a home.&nbsp; This is something close to Elliot's heart mainly because he's one of them.&nbsp;  &nbsp;   It’s evident that Elliott and his band of brothers are determined to make an impact on those who keep us free.&nbsp; If you have a service to offer or are a real estate agent, don’t hesitate to contact Elliott.&nbsp; He’ll welcome you with open arms.  &nbsp;  For more information about PatriotOwners.com please visit their website at   &nbsp;  For more information about Pretty Credit Consultants LLC, please visit their website at   &nbsp;  To learn more about Huami Magazine and to learn more about way to market your products and services in Huami Magazine, please visit   &nbsp;  To advertise your products and services on This Is Who I Am podcast, please send a detailed email to   &nbsp;   --

Episode Four

For the gentleman who take value and pride in having a good timepiece, this one is for you. Shanayla Sweat of Nashville, TN has launched a watch company that is quite unique but very brawn. A Few Wood Men.  Shanayla describes herself as a creative, technology advocate, world traveler, and consultant who is dedicated to serving others through training, education, and representation. She also happens to be the owner and creator of A Few Wood Men. Shanayla has a Master’s in Organizational Leadership, a Bachelor’s in Human Resources and Management, is a Certified ScrumMaster in the technology spectrum.  A Few Wood Men is a wooden watch collection designed and created for Men of Distinction. It was created as a sounding board for black men who are striving to break down barriers, break curses, push boundaries, overcome strongholds, discover strength, come into self-love, and maintain peace while becoming fathers, husbands, leaders, commanders, and pillars within their community.  A Few Wood Men wants black men to remember that they are needed, wanted, are attractive, are desirable, and are worthy.  A Few Wood Men started as early as 2017.&nbsp; A Few Wood Men provides wooden watches and accessories for men. Every watch contains a wooden element, hence the name A Few Wood Men. Their accessories are also unisex and, in most cases, compliment the wooden watches that accompany them.  Shanayla says her inspiration comes from the strong belief of being a lifelong learner and always having the opportunity to grow and expand.&nbsp; Her goal is to have her products in retail stores, airports, and many wholesale locations.&nbsp;  To learn more about A Few Wood Men please follow them on Facebook and Instagram @afewwoodmen  You may also stay abreast with their moves by visiting their website at   &nbsp;  To learn more about Huami Magazine, please visit our website at www.mykelmedia.com

Episode Five:  Shanayla Sweat

&nbsp;           He is something like a homegrown talent that hails from Spartanburg, S.C. Moody Black is the face and founder of Moody Black Enterprises. He is also a TEDx performer that brings a whole lot more to the table. He is a national Award-Winning Poet and host, a Smart Arts Teaching Artist, Motivational Speaker, Spoken-Word and Visual Artist, Actor/Voice Over Artist, Chess Instructor, Storyteller, and Comedian. &nbsp;  Moody Black has been a performing artist since the age of eleven. &nbsp; He found a book on his mother's shelf in the hallway of their house entitled “This Time Called Life” by Walter Rinder. It was about being young and free. The book spoke to me. It allowed him to go back and appreciate the greats (Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, etc). After that, he began writing more in school and entering contests. In junior high school, the students would ridicule him for reading out loud and sharing poems. However, by high school poetry all sudden became cool. Guys would ask Moody to write poems for their girlfriends. That’s how he learned to enterprise.&nbsp; He would charge money to write poems and felt like he had won in the end. And here he is now, doing poetry for a living. &nbsp;   He has become a prominent force across the nation through his enthusiastic live shows and strong work ethic.  Currently residing in Greenville, S.C. Moody Black focus is to electrify audiences across the country with his original poems and energetic performances. Fusing a blend of Hip-Hop, Soul, and Poetry, the talented artist delivers a unique rhythmic message in which each new listener finds common ground.   Moody Black has performed at several elementary, junior and senior high schools, universities, and colleges. He is a Poetry Slam Master and Coach Poem with works published in Still Home (Book of Spartanburg Poets). He has been a featured artist at dozens of festivals including the Travelers Rest Arts Commission annual Arts Festival, North Charleston Arts Festival, Stone Soup Story Telling Festival in Woodruff, S.C., the Annual Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the Peace Day Festival in Charleston, S.C., the annual  Chautaugua Festival, and the 3rd Annual Millican Festival in Sumter, S.C. Even more, Moody Black has opened for multi-platinum recording artists Trey Songz and Lyfe Jennings.    In the future, Moody has plans is to apply his arts integration across the globe. In addition, he wants to perform his art everywhere. He also hopes to finish his Hip-Hop project “Manifest”, a compilation of personal stories and inspiration and eventually establish a business where I can make money while I sleep. And not to mention his aspirations to serve as a professor at a university, teaching poetry.    To learn more about Moody Black, please visit his website at     You can also follow him on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter by putting Moody Black in your search box.    You can learn more information about Huami Magazine by visiting www.mykelmedia.com

Episode Six:  Moody Black

Ashley Gladney of Memphis, TN is a mother, daughter, and loyal sister. She is also a college graduate, entrepreneur and the visionary of Mobile Mommy, a mobile child care agency that provides temporary and comprehensive childcare to exclusive clientele.  While combining over 17 years of experience in providing quality childcare to families in need with her professional experience in the healthcare industry, Ashley is able to offer a high quality experience for families while supporting the progressive nurturing of children.   &nbsp;   Mobile Mommy began on May 1, 2018 and now offers in-home babysitting and nanny services.&nbsp;&nbsp;  With clientele sprinkled throughout the Greater Memphis area, Ashley lists even former Memphis Grizzlies players as references.   &nbsp;   While Ashley continues to grow her business, she is faced with the challenge of finding quality sitters that are fit to join the Mobile Mommy team. There is a certain type that she looks for such as retired grandmothers, mainly because they are experienced. However, Ashley is shaping her team with those who are passionate about being a Mobile Mommy.  &nbsp;   To provide her clients with a added level of security and ease, all of Mobile Mommy team members must be pre-qualified. This includes a full background check, they must be legally authorized to work in the United States, possess a high school diploma, have valid CPR certifications and First-Aid certifications, have babysitting and childcare experience, certified professional references and/or letters of recommendations, successfully complete a thorough screening, and pass a drug test. Once those requirements are met, each applicant will be personally interviewed by Ashley.   &nbsp;   The services offered by Mobile Mommy are for special events, special occasions, professional sporting events, teenager chaperoning, house sitting, homework assistance, and Parent Vision (which allows the parents to look in on the session via body cams and cameras). They also offer after-school, evening, groups, and last minute services.   &nbsp;   In the near future, Ashley plans to open another location in Dallas, TX and share the Mobile Mommy experience with many others.  &nbsp;   To learn more about Mobile Mommy, please visit their website at   &nbsp;   You can also follow them on Facebook and Instagram.  &nbsp;   To learn more about Huami Magazine, please visit   &nbsp;   You can also follow them on Facebook and Instagram by putting Huami Magazine in the search box.&nbsp; You can also follow This Is Who I Am on Facebook.

Episode Seven: Ashley Gladney is The Mobile Mommy

Some may wonder how one man finds time to run an outpatient counseling clinic five days a week and still manage to write, direct, and produce his own series of films and books, but Dr. Terrence Graham does it.  As the co-founder and owner of Graham, Moore &amp; Clark LLC, Addiction, Behavioral and Biblical Counseling, Dr. Graham provides individual and group therapy for adolescents and adults from 12 years old to the elderly. Some of his services include providing clinical supervision at Level III residential homes, opioid treatment, and substance abuse assessments and treatment for the NC Department of Transportation and the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).  He started his private practice counseling service in his hometown of Kenansville, NC in 2008. He debuted practice with two other counselors who are based outside of North Carolina, but as the company grew, he decided to move forward on his own. Dr. Graham holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in Agency Counseling from NC A&amp;T State University, and a doctorate in Biblical Counseling from Andersonville Theology Seminary. He says that psychology was a natural passion for him.  &nbsp;   He was also a Wake County school-based mental health therapist for 13 years where he provided addiction and behavioral counseling for adolescents. He notes that therapy can also help address conflict resolutions, anger management, anxiety disorders, depression, PTSD, and more. Dr. Graham is also a licensed clinical addiction specialist, national certified addiction counselor, masters addiction counselor, distance credentialed counselor, substance abuse professional, certified bariatric treatment specialist, and clinical certified sex offender treatment specialist.  &nbsp;   Dr. Graham is currently working on expanding his biblical counseling services by connecting with churches to be a liaison to promote mental health awareness and be a resource for pastors. Biblical counseling is the process in which the Bible is used to treat addictions, behaviors and mental health.  &nbsp;   A longtime lover of drawing and creating, Dr. Graham initially dreamt up his film production company, 5Ft Productions as a third grader in Rose-Hill Magnolia Elementary School, in Duplin County, NC. Dr. Graham now uses his established film company to produce movies that can be used as teaching tools in his counseling practice. Each film produced is organized around a behavioral concept that he treats as a counselor.   &nbsp;    5ft Productions is Dr. Graham’s multi-media production company that produces independent films, publishes books, video, music, and curriculum writing. The company’s body of work currently consists of five movies, three published books, an album and an anti-bullying curriculum manual.  &nbsp;   To learn more about Dr. Terrence Graham, please visit his website at   &nbsp;   To learn more about Huami Magazine, please visit our website at   &nbsp;   Please follow Huami Magazine on Facebook and Instagram  &nbsp;