Superior Shelby, happy Saturday. I didn't want this entire week to go by without you guys, you know, continuing to apply to grants. I want to go over just a couple, a sprinkle of new grants in here. And obviously we're going to talk more about that $10,000 fast break grant to give you more clarity and reassurance on how you qualify for a $10,000 grant opportunity to kickstart your business and also how you can get $500 in credit in LegalZoom to get a free LLC. Okay.
So If this is your first time meeting me, welcome in friend. I am a 71% successful grant writer and grants is debt-free money that we can get from either like the government, like the U.S. Treasury, or we can get free money from like non-profit organizations like Hello Alice and Hello Skip.
And then we can also get some of this free money from different entities like Walmart and Uber and Amazon. This is debt-free money that we don't have to pay back. No credit checks.
No personal information needed like your date of birth or social. So imagine getting $10,000 and being able to, you know, reinvest that into your business. Getting some supplies, equipment, or possibly using that $10,000 towards some ad campaigns and helping you scale your business and creating awareness around your service or product. That is the purpose of these grant opportunities.
Now hold on, homie. I know we're so programmed to believe that the loans, lines of credit, and credit cards are opportunities that we could just simply apply to. as long as we have an LLC and EIN.
But in 2024, that is not what's going on friend. Right now, what's going on with the loans, lines of credit, and credit card side is that the banks are not giving out that money that easy, especially if you have a service or product that hasn't even made any money yet. So these grant opportunities are solely here for us as startups, innovators, small business owners, or even seasoned business owners, so we can take advantage of these working capital opportunities. Now, There are grants out here for every business industry, no matter what business you want to start or you are currently into.
Industry, which means you can be into real estate, you can be into banking and finance, you can be into medical and be like a nurse or a doctor. You can also be into tech, okay? No matter what industry you're in, there will always be a grant opportunity that you can simply apply to and possibly win. Now these grant opportunities are like competitions. They don't work like loans, lines of credit, and credit cards.
On those guaranteed opportunities like loans and credit cards, you must simply have good personal credit and you also have to make sure you show proof of income. Either that's personal income or your business needs to make income. It makes sense, right? If you go to a loan or you go to ask for a credit card, you're simply lending.
You're borrowing money. So the banks need to make sure that you personally make the income or your business is profitable enough to be able to pay back those debts with grants. we don't have to stress ourselves out and worry about it.
And I'm going to let you know right now, friend, it is not fun trying to pay back a $100,000 SBA loan because I'm currently doing that right now from the pandemic. It was all cool and fun when we was like getting the money, but that money left in less than six months. If you know how to run an operator business, you know $100,000 ain't nothing.
So what I'm saying is let's be consistent in applying to these grant opportunities, which will increase our chances of approvals. All right, so we got a question. Nikisha says, How do I get started? Hey friend, welcome in. I'm your business bestie.
I'm gonna tell you what you need to know. Now there's grants out here solely for us as women business owners and as entrepreneurs, like black entrepreneurs. So say you come across an Amazon grant specifically for black women-owned businesses or black entrepreneurs.
Just because you are a black woman entrepreneur and you do qualify for that grant opportunity and you submit the application, that does not mean you are 100% guaranteed that opportunity. Because it's a competition, Frank. There's four different ways that you can actually get picked or choose or, you know, approve for a grant. One way is simply through like a random raffle.
And with the $10,000 Fast Break Grant through AOFund.org, Sports Highlights, visit AOFund.org. That's the grant that we're pretty much talking about. So with this particular grant, they randomly select.
150 small business owners get a chance at getting $10,000. And whoever's application is completed in its entirety, pretty much gets the opportunity. It's a random selection. So that's one way you can win a grant.
Another way is through a pitch competition. Have you guys ever seen the video or the show Shark Tank with Mark Cuban and Dame Dash and all those other amazing top high earning investors? Yeah, so Shark Tank is pretty much when you are talking about your service or product or your business in front of a panel of judges or an audience. And then the audience or the judges determine whether or not you get that opportunity.
That's a pitch competition. A third way you can win a grant is simply through a first-come, first-served opportunity. You guys are truly into those first-come, first-served opportunities.
We saw these with the pandemic PPP funds or the small business relief funds from COVID. As long as you had an LLC, EIN, and you were able to fill out the 1040 Schedule C, you pretty much had first dibs or, you know, grabs on those opportunities. Well, yes, those are out as well.
Those are government-funded grants. You can visit grants.gov. to search for those grant opportunities. But in order for you to qualify for those type of seasoned high ticket grants, you got to be a seasoned business owner.
You got to show proof in loss and income, which means your business must have already been making some money and you got to show that your business is going through a financial hardship in order to get those guaranteed government grant opportunities. And then last but not least, you could simply win by judgment. And this is when you want to make sure the answers on those applications are very thorough. A lot of you guys are asking questions like, what are they asking for? What do I need for these grants, right?
Sometimes, friend, you don't even need to have an LLC, an EIN, or even a business bank account to qualify for a grant. There are grants out here specifically for startup businesses who don't have their business formations together, who don't have their business set up. But you need to have these three things to really get your point across on why you are deserving of this free money to start your business. One.
You need to have what's called a business plan. A business plan has all of the key indicating factors in it that clearly defines and gives the third party reassurance and clarity on what your mission, vision, and value is. It explains what your company is, what your service or product is about, all of that good stuff, okay?
So you want to have a business plan. Second, you want to have what's called a pitch deck, okay? A pitch deck. A pitch deck is pretty much the PowerPoint version of your business plan, all right? You need to have that because that's like the aesthetically appealing piece for your particular, you know, business plan.
All right. It lets them know like, all right, this is straightforward. This is how much money we're requesting.
This is what our business is about. All that good stuff. It's like a PowerPoint presentation, eight to 10 slides, some information about you. And that last but not least, what you need to have is a 90 second pitch video. A 90 second pitch video would simply be you sitting in a chair like this and you're talking about your service or product.
And you're just talking about the purpose of why you started your business and why you just simply need that one opportunity to scale and how you scaling will drive impact to your customers. Okay, cool. So yeah, let's get down to it.
So those are the three things that I highly advise that you guys actually have before you decide to apply to grants. Now, with this particular $10,000 grant opportunity, you can visit aofund.org. Sports Highlights wants me to go ahead and put the link in here. The link already in the description, but yeah, all right. Let's go ahead and put it down here, and let's see if our friend is actually going to apply.
So, AOfund.org is a $10,000 grant. In order for you to qualify for the $10,000 grant opportunity on that side, in order for you to get the $10,000, you have to already be in active business for at least three months. Okay? And if you are a startup, let me backtrack. Let me reset the room because I want to actually put the link in the chat for you guys right now.
And then I will go into the grant. So let's let's hold on one second. Aofund.com.
All right, there you go. All right. So Aofund.org.
A as in Apple, O as in October. Fund, F-U-N-D.org. All right.
I mean,.com. Sorry..com, not.org. Okay. Y'all got it? I just put the link in the chat for y'all.
I'm gonna bring it up here on my iPad. Absolutely. Alright, so I just wanted you guys to get the actual link to the grant so that way you can go and apply to it. Now I know what your next question is going to be. What do I need to have for this grant?
You asked me for the link. You're not even going to visit the link to figure out what you need. You're going to wait until I tell you. One moment.
Okay, hold on one second. What was it? Alright.
How to connect to some Wi-Fi. All right, so we reset in room, reset in the room. So everybody who's just coming in, we are going to go into the $10,000 grant opportunity I've been talking about this week.
We'll talk about what you need to have for it. And then we're also going to go some new grant opportunities that you can actually apply to. Okay, so I've actually been applying to this grant for everyone all week, you know, everyone who's been joining my lives and who just simply don't have the time to apply to this $10,000 grant.
This grant requires you to have three documentation. You must have your LLC, you have to have your business bank account, and you must have a picture of your ID. All right, front and back a copy of it. Okay, that's what's required for this grant.
So let's visit AOfund.org. Oh, this is it, the Corporate Transparency Act. We might need to talk about that another day because I don't want y'all to sleep on that.
Hey, just really quick, because I don't want you guys to forget about this. Don't forget about the CTA, the Corporate Transparency Act. The Corporate Transparency Act, I just have to say this because we're actually embarking up on... the start of 2025. All right, the Corporate Transparency Act, this has been in effect since the beginning of this year, and this is when you need to file that Beneficial Ownership Information Report, all right? So you need to file that paperwork.
You need to file... yourself as a beneficial owner of your company by the start of 2025 if you don't you will be fined 500 a day as an active business okay so in order for you to be able to uh to do that You must visit FinCEN, so it's F-I-N-C-E-N, all right? You can visit FinCEN.
You can actually Google that, and it's like an online portal where you will upload that information, okay? So that's the Corporate Transparency Act. This is something that we've talked about at the beginning of the year.
I just so happened to get on it when I opened up my thing, and I'm like, okay, maybe that's a sign. Let me just let y'all know one more time. Don't forget.
to file your BOI report, which is the Beneficial Ownership Information Report, okay, to the Corporate Transparency Act, you would do that online. I have a full video on how you would actually execute that. So yeah, I already did that video at the beginning of the year, but I just had to say that all over again because, yeah, we are getting closer to that time.
All right, so let's get to AOfund.org. AOfund.org. I keep saying.org, but.com. Or is it.org?
Oh, it's aofund.org. I put the wrong thing in here. Hold on one second.
It's aofund.org. Let me see. Aofund.org.
A-O-Fund.org. Okay, I'm putting it in the chat for y'all. Okay? Cool. All right, so this is it, AOfund.org.
Okay. All right, so pretty much here in AOfund.org, this is, AOfund is pretty much, or ASEAN Opportunity Fund is a nonprofit organization that actually helps us with getting these grants. opportunities all right and also some other funding opportunities like loans as a credit and credit cards now you can visit aofund.org and you can apply to this grant okay so i want you to go to the website right now okay hopefully you guys got your ipad or your second handheld device and we are actually going to go over this grant together okay we're going to go over all of your frequently asked questions because I know you're going to ask me Shelby what I need to have for this grant even though I did a whole live stream yesterday about what's needed I know you're going to ask me how do I get started or how do I apply and how you get started is simply visiting the website Okay. All right. So let's go.
Alright, so when you first come to AOfund.org, you will actually see in the top, you'll see it in blue, it'll say apply to the 10K grant. Alright, you pretty much want to apply. Click that.
Alright. and once you click that it's going to bring you here to the actual fast break grant let's actually read through how it works all right this is the ten thousand dollar fast break grant okay it's all the stuff you need all right so let's go over it okay How it works, okay? 150 small businesses will receive $10,000 grants and a legal zone product of their choosing valued up to $500.
That's what they'll be able to do. That's what it says. And then it says... 3,000 emerging entrepreneurs, so 3,000 startups who haven't yet launched their businesses will get the $500 LegalZoom credit.
Now let me explain to you why this is very important. If you are an already LLC business bank, account holding EIN holding business owner then yes you qualify for the 10k if you do not have your LLC EIN in your business bank account then you don't get the 10k but you get $500 credit in LegalZoom which means you get a free LLC friend Yeah, LegalZoom is a business resource tool that we can use to help us set up our business and also get all of those other business credentials that we need, like business contracts and all kinds of stuff. So with that being said, even if you haven't even started the business, even if you don't have the money to get your supplies and equipment, even if you're just at the start-up phase, you just thought about this idea last night, get the LegalZoom $500 credit and get a free LLC.
Okay? There's so many people out here that want to start a business, but they simply are at a standstill because... life is life and right now you don't know you know you don't have the the means or the opportunity to save extra money to be able to get your LLC okay so this is the perfect opportunity for you to be able to get your LLC okay for free and then it's not even just the LLC is the L of the whole entire business formations it's $500 in credit LegalZoom credit and on average how much it costs through LegalZoom to do like the business setup and stuff it costs you not even 300 bucks all right so you will still have some leftover you know money off of this credit or some leftover credit after getting your LLC.
Okay? So if you know somebody who does not have their LLC, who does not have an EIN, who wants to start a business and doesn't know how to start a business, things like that, this will be the perfect grant for them. This will be the perfect opportunity for them to, like, learn the steps.
Okay? So don't gatekeep this information. Share this information. All right?
Share this live at least and let them get in contact with me so they can understand about grants. You don't want to hold on to this information because... You don't want somebody to do that to you. Okay? All right.
So, all right. So, and you said before you leave, could you give the information on reporting before 2025? That's called the CTA, the Corporate Transparency Act.
Google it. All right? Because there is. like no if there's no I have a whole entire video I'm not about to just corporate transparency act okay I have a whole YouTube video in detail step by step on how to actually file yourself as a beneficial owner owner by 2025. Okay, I have a whole video on that. So go watch that video.
I did that video February, 2024. All right, so I'm so ahead of the game. I just think that y'all be just learning, as time goes by, but I've been had that video a long time ago. All right, so yeah, but it's called the Corporate Transparency Act.
Good morning, everybody. Good morning, good morning. Brenda, everything that I talk about is all for small businesses, okay?
Everything that I talk about on this YouTube channel is for small businesses only, okay? I love for-profit businesses, that's just that. Yes, I have to pay for mines, I haven't done that yet. The BIO, yeah, the beneficiary.
Yeah, y'all gotta do that, okay? Y'all gotta do that. Y'all will have to do that.
I know it's going to be so many people. It's going to be so many black business owners that that's literally going to go over your head. You know how many small black business owners are going to be affected behind that? Yeah.
All right, let's move forward. So 150 small business owners will get the $10,000 grant opportunity as long as you have an LLC, EIN, and a business bank account. Now let's move forward.
Now in order for you, like I said, to qualify, you need to upload on this application how it works. Let me log in so I can show you the application. Let me log in for y'all so I can show you what it looks like. At the top half, I actually went over this yesterday, so don't even worry about it.
On the top half of the grant application, it asks for your first and last name, your email address, and some demographic information. Are you a male or female? Are you LGBTQ plus IA?
You know, are you black, indigenous, like what's your race, all that good stuff, right? So it asks all of that. And then the second half is like your business information.
So what's your business name, business email address, business phone number, business address, business website, and any social media handles. Anywhere that you see that there's a red star or it says required in red, that means you have no choice but to answer that question. That is needed information in order to process your application.
All right. So. You want to do that. Now once you have completed that, all right, then once you go to the bottom towards the end, you're going to actually see that they're going to ask you to upload your LLC.
You're going to have to upload a picture of your ID, front and back, color, and then you're also going to have to upload three bank statements. You have to be an active business in order for you to qualify for the $10,000 fast break grant opportunity. And in order for you to show proof that you have been an active business, I talked about this yesterday.
But the day you start banking is the day that your business becomes active. So I know y'all believe that, hey, the day that I got my LLC or purchased my LLC, that's the day I became active. But in the business banking world, that's not how it works.
In the business banking world, the day that you start banking is the day that your business becomes active. So with that being said, you know, if you have three bank statements, then that shows that proof that your business has been active for at least three months. which qualifies you for the Fast Break Grant $10,000 grant, $10,000 opportunity. Now, if you don't have, if you don't have your LLC, EIN, and a business bank account, if you got a friend, sister, brother, cousin, co-worker, I don't give a fuck.
Share this information because they can get a free LLC just by simply applying to this Fast Break Grant. They will receive a $500 legal Zoom credit on September 30th. Yeah, so everybody in their emails.
will get a LegalZoom credit. Everybody on this live right now that applies to the AOfund.org, who applies to this grant or has me apply to it for you, if you want me to apply to it for you, I'll put my number here in the chat. It's $47.
I'll get it done in less than two hours. Okay. I will write your grant right now.
Okay. If you submit the application live on YouTube. But with this particular opportunity, okay, this is one that everybody gets $500 LegalZoom credit.
LegalZoom is a business resource tool that we can't sleep on. Alright, it helps us with setting up our businesses, it helps us with getting business contracts, it helps us with business consulting and coaching. All of those things that we are saying that we need assistance in in those in-kind services, you get $500 free credit towards that. So if you need a free LLC and if you have a great idea, right, and you haven't been able to get the means or the funds to get an LLC and get the EIA and all that stuff, Visit AOfund.org and apply to this grant so when September 30th comes on in the next 30 days you can get your code your product code sent to your email and you will use that product code on LegalZoom.com to set your business up.
Come on y'all we got it we got it we got to work together we gotta do something okay because because I don't know if y'all feeling it because business owners we feeling it the big the big corporations feeling it and I know I know y'all feeling it I know y'all feeling it, but for real, you really got to like, this is a thing where it's like you have no choice. Even working a job is no longer one job or even two jobs now is not even cutting anymore. So like this is a thing where it's like people have no choice but to get into entrepreneurship as like a side hustle or extra stream of income.
So you might as well make sure yourself, make sure you are properly set up so you won't, you know, have any issues from Uncle Sam or none of those folks because you don't want to come into none of those problems. Okay, I don't care if you selling plates out of your kitchen. I don't care if you doing hair braiding on the side I don't care if you cut hair only during back-to-school time I don't care if you clean shoes and you paint shoes and that's your creative hobby, bro Get an LLC get an LLC if there's one thing that you learn from this life get an LLC Protect yourself protect your business protect your assets getting the LLC is going to protect everything that you are building you're developing It ain't going to be in your personal name, especially if you have bad personal credit. You don't have to worry about that.
That's why I love LLCs. That's why I love business credit. I love business banking because it's like a second life. It's like a second life.
It's like a second chance at credit. It's like a second chance at banking opportunities. It's a second chance at just everything.
So give yourself that second chance financially, and you need to get that LLC. And this is a way that you can get the LLC and EIN and all that stuff for free. Okay? So. Now let's move forward about this grant opportunity.
Now you can have me apply to it for you. I'm a 71% successful grant writer. I've been applying to this grant for at least 50 people within the last seven days.
All right, so y'all ain't playing. Y'all love when I apply to these quick, you know, one-time grants for you. So I'm going to drop my information down here below, okay, inside of the chat, and all you have to do is text the word FAST to 855-731-1487.
Once you text me, I'm going to send you the $47 link to make the payment. and then I'll email you the Google form so you can fill out the form so I'll have the information I need to apply to this grant for you, okay? All right, let me go over the steps again. You text FAST, I'm putting it here in the chat for y'all, to 855-731-1487.
All right, there's the number. You can text the word FAST to 855-731-1487. Now when you text the word FAST, I'm going to send you the link, you make the payment. It costs $47 to have me apply to this $10,000 grant.
How are they selecting people? They are randomly selecting. So you can literally flip $47 right now into $10,000.
Now once you text me, I am going to send you the link to make the $47 payment. This grant actually ends September 13th. So friend, I get it, but we need to get this.
You never know. Oh, also I want to let you know. you will get awarded the $10,000 in September. So even if it's a thing where it's like, damn, I got $47 and I know rent due, I could use this $47 and by the end of it, I could say, fuck that rent, forget it.
And by the end of this month, I could have 10 rats. I might need to go ahead on and give myself a chance. You know, it all depends on how you look at it. I'm not trying to influence you to gamble or nothing like that, but you know, it's... you do get awarded the grant by September 30th.
Okay. So I just wanted you all to be aware of that just in case you do have some sort of sense of urgency or something like that. Yeah, that that's how this works. Okay. Remember they are randomly selecting folks.
Okay. They randomly select y'all out of a raffle, how you get selected. All right.
So let me, we're going to get into that, but let me make sure y'all have all the information. I'm texting y'all back right now. Once I will send you this link, you make the payment, then I'll go ahead and send you.
the email, all right? Make sure the email that you make the payment with, make sure the email is a good email for you or at least text me your email, okay? At least text fast and your email, okay?
Whatever email works for you and then once you send it to me, then I will email you the Google form link and I need for you to complete that information on that link so I can go ahead and apply to the grant for you, okay? All right, perfect. Perfect. All right, so you guys are texting. I'm just texting you back.
All right, and then we're going to go dive deeper into like how to get it, like how they choose people, okay, for this grant, because I know you guys are probably like, okay, but yes, you do get funded. I know you're probably figuring, trying to figure out, do I get this money? Like, when do I get the money? When do I know? We're going to go over that in just a minute, okay, friend?
Let me tell you, I'm texting y'all back right now. All right, okay, okay. All right, so...
That is sent over. We're all good. Okay, y'all are texting.
I love this. I love this for y'all. Oh, because we're knocking these grants out today. I'm not going to waste any time. I don't like to pile up work.
at all. So, you know, I'm the type that I'm going to, once you send this information, I'm going to knock it out today. Also, so let me explain to you as well. So you'll text FAST, I'll send you the link to make the payment, and then I'll send you an email to go ahead and submit the grant, the Google form. This is the information I need to complete the grant.
Once you submit the form, I'll go ahead and apply to the grant. When I'm done with the grant today, today, I will send you an email and I'll say, okay, your grant is complete. It'll be in the subject. Your grant is complete.
I have a screenshot showing you proof that the... the application is submitted and also your login information. This particular grant, you will log in right after me or log in right behind me and you will be able to check my answers and you will also be able to possibly submit for other opportunities through the AEOfund.org.
Okay? All right. Perfect. All right. So let's see.
What questions do you all have really quick and then we're going to dive deep into this. Is it one of them sites where they don't stop calling my phone all day? No, I don't know what type of traumatic experience have you went through? You need to stop applying to shit.
You just be randomly applying to stuff. You need to be reading. That's your, read before you apply, okay?
Because if you getting all that spam calls and stuff you need to read and you need to stop checking them boxes all right them little boxes that say check here for you to receive any type of email text notifications regarding any new promotions or any new things you need to stop checking that box you need to read like you need to read because what dramatic experience did you go through Please and thank you, of course. Does the LegalZoom credit work if you already made an account last week? Yep, it does.
I have LegalZoom, and I've had LegalZoom for years. So they just give you a product code, friend, okay? So they'll give you a product code to your email, and you'll just, when you get ready to check out on any LegalZoom product, you will use that product code, kind of like a coupon code.
Can they help sign up a new business if you have a business already? Can they, okay, y'all listen to this. Can they help sign up a new business if you have a business already?
If you got a business already, how you need a new business signed up? Like what? Are you talking about gaining two businesses? Then you need your grammar and how to correctly comprehend that. What you need to say is, I already have a business, an LLC, I would like to open up another company.
Can I use this legal Zoom credit to open up a brand new LLC? Correct your grammar in this business world. Absolutely, you could use it towards other products on the site. Absolutely. Thank you.
Thank you friend Good morning. Good morning. All right, so let's get into it.
Let's get into it. Yeah, I'm serious about it You got to tighten up that grammar. Okay, cuz I know what you was talking about May I have the LegalZoom credit? Absolutely.
You can go ahead and visit aofund.org and apply. How do you get the LegalZoom credit? Because you just came in. So let's go ahead and go over this. Let's reset the room.
We got new people coming in. They are looking at this title. They're trying to find out how they can get a new...
LLC how they can get a free LLC so let's go over this grant for them okay for the ones that's been in here shout out to y'all make sure y'all help them out we're helping each other out on this live stream so answer any questions we're going to help each other out okay for those of you who are just coming in we are talking about the fast break grant this is a $10,000 grant opportunity that you can win and also you can get 500 legal zoom credit okay so how do you qualify for the $10,000 in order for you to get the $10,000 grant opportunity, you must have been an active business and have an active business bank account with the actual active business bank debit card and a bank account routing number for at least three months, okay? If you don't have an LLC, EIN, or a business bank account for at least three months that has been active and open for three months, then you do not qualify for the $10,000. However, you qualify to get a free LLC.
You qualify to get your business set up for free. You qualify for what's called the $500. LegalZoom Credit.
LegalZoom is a business resource tool that helps us with setting up our business. So you know all of the business formation stuff that you don't like to do yourself, but you might not have clarity or reassurance on whether or not you're doing it correctly? Well, LegalZoom will do all of that stuff for you.
Setting up your business LLC, EIN, business address, phone number, getting your domain, a professional email address, and all of your business setup formations that you need to have to be an active LLC in the United States. of America, you can use this free LegalZoom $500 credit that you will receive in your email on September 30th. On September 30th. Okay, it will come September 30th in your email, a product code, and you will use this like four or six digit code as when you are in the process of setting up your business on LegalZoom. Okay, so in order for you to get this credit, in order for you to receive that email on September 30th, you need to visit A as in Apple, O as in October, fund, that's F-U-N-D.org and apply to the Fast Break Grant.
Yes. It will ask you to upload your LLC, EIN, and your business bank account information. But for you, because you don't have that information, you will skip that.
You will skip that and simply submit the application without uploading that information. The system and the judges will automatically pull your account and will automatically know that you don't have all of the, you know, you don't qualify for the 10K. So it will put you in the category of those other startups, 3,000 startups. who will get the $500 credit, your legal Zoom credit, okay? Cool?
So that's how that works. If you are here and you are looking to get a free LLC, you got a side hustle and you're trying to turn that side hustle into a real business, you can get a free LLC by visiting aofund.org, and you can apply to this grant so they can give you the $500 legal Zoom credit so you can use that to start your business, okay? You can visit A as in Apple, O as in October. I'm not pinning shit because that's so easy. A-O Fund.
A-O Fund. I'm on A-O Fund. A-O Fund. A-O Fund.
A-O Fund.org. A-O Fund.org. A-O Fund.org. A-O Fund.org.
Like, there's no way you could, like, forget that. A-O Fund.org. A-O Fund. If you actually scroll through, we actually been pinned the thing. AOfund.org.
AOfund.org. I know, exactly. I did it earlier.
AOfund.org. Got it. Thank you.
AOfund.org. I know y'all just joining in. AOfund.org.
Thank you, Stephanie. Amen. Shout out to Stephanie. We gonna pin. Yeah.
There we go. AOfund. Aofund.org.
You can't miss it. You simply can't miss it. Okay? There y'all go. Aofund.org.
Thank you. Thank you so much, Stephanie. God. Thank you, friend. Okay?
That's what I'm talking about. Alright, so let's see. You're spinning all the game. I wish I can hear you.
You're spinning all the game. Okay, you can't hear me? Try leaving and coming back in.
That would be me because I do not have any of that. I would not qualify for the 10k. I appreciate your tireless work for us hugs.
Oh thank you friend. I don't have an LLC that's amazing you're great I appreciate you. Absolutely thank you so much friend.
Yeah so for sure aofund.org if you don't have an LLC if you don't have an EIN if you don't have a business bank account you can get a free LLC. Now if you do got all of that you qualify for the 10k. Yeah go ahead and visit aofund.org friend or you can have me apply to it for you.
And I can apply to the grant for you, okay? So this is what it looks like, so we make sure you're in the correct place. You'll see NBA Champ, I forgot, GA on here, okay? This is the Fast Break Grant. It's called the Fast Break Small Business Grant, okay?
You see that up there? Okay? All right, so that's it. Perfect. Okay, so if you do have your LLC, EIN, and your business bank account, you qualify for the $10,000 grant opportunity.
If you want me to apply to it for you, all you have to do is simply text FAST to 855-731-1487. I'm applying to everybody today. I've already applied to this grant to over 50 businesses within the last seven days, so you might as well be one of the 150 that can potentially get this opportunity, okay? So how they pick.
So once you submit the application, Alright, once you submit the application, you, um, I'll open the floor for questions, so I'll answer your question in a minute, okay? But once you submit the application. Then what they do is they have a system that will automatically pick, automatically randomly pick candidates, okay, randomly pick applicants.
And what the system will do is the system, all right, will scan your application. Once it's pulled your application, it will scan. So it's going to pull your application. Boom.
All right, cool. We got Stephanie. All right, we got Stephanie application.
Now what it's going to do is it's going to go through all of it. Okay, boom. Let's see if Stephanie put everything in here.
Did Stephanie fill out her first and last name? Did she fill out her business name? Did she fill out her business website?
How much information did Stephanie give us? Did she give us enough information for us to clearly understand what her service and product is and all that good stuff? There's two questions on this application. One question, the first question it asks you, or the first question aside from, you know, your general business information.
It says, describe your service or product and who are your customers, pretty much. The second question, why did you start your business? Okay? So with that being said, with those two questions, they want to make sure you answer those questions, those two questions.
You have a carrot to count. For the first question, describe your product or service and who is your client. And, like, how are you meeting your customer needs?
That's a 100-word limit. The second question is a 200-word limit. All right?
Why did you start your business? They're going to pull your application, friend. They're going to scan your application. and what they're looking for is they're not looking for correct answers, they're not looking for who has the most sweetest answer of those two questions, they're not looking for that shit.
They're simply looking to see if you have completed this application in its entirety. I'll say it again, did you submit the application like completed, fully completed? Did you answer every question on here? Right?
And so whoever has the most completed application, you pretty much get the $10,000 grant opportunity. ASEAN Opportunity Fund dedicate over six million dollars annually to this particular this one grant program that they do and they've been doing this since 2020 okay so don't sleep on this program yes I have experience in helping somebody get approved for this grant yes I have experience in helping well over 30 businesses get this grant opportunity not the 10k but also the 500 500 K 500 legal zoom credit too so then I'm telling you guys this don't if you got somebody and you know somebody who need to get an LLC at least they can apply to this grant you know for that if you're trying to get the 10k make sure you have your business bank account make sure you have an LLC make sure you have an EIN okay cool all right so I'm opening up the floor for questions I know y'all got questions so let's go ahead and answer questions if you want me and my team to apply to this grant for you it's only $47 what you'll do is you'll text the word FAST to 855-731-1487 or you can visit aofund.org yourself and apply yourself you have by september 13th to apply all right cool um Drop your questions. That's why I'm giving you time right now.
It's $47. Drop your grant questions right now. That's why I'm giving y'all time.
I'm giving y'all time to write y'all questions out and to write them out thoroughly because y'all be texting real fast. I'll be trying to. Okay.
Okay. All right. Let's see what questions you have. Aman says, I just arrived. Do they run your credit?
No. So, or EIN number? No. What the fuck? Aman, what have you been through?
Do they run your credit or EIN number? No, they don't. Grants are, grants is actually, I was like.
What made me question that is because like what? Have you ever had somebody run your EIN number? That's crazy.
What have you been through? I'd be wanting to know what funding journey, like what y'all funding journey. That's why I'd be like book a one-on-one consultation. with me because I really be wanting to know.
I say book a one-on-one consultation with me because I really want to know what strategies or funding strategies have you executed and have you failed at? Because like I gotta know what have y'all tried to get? Like what have y'all tried to do already? Have you tried to go for a loan line accredited credit card?
And what do those folks say? Like I be wanting to know. I be wanting to know what they said and I be wanting to know if you comprehend what they said.
You know, I really want to know, like, what have y'all done? What have y'all done to try to get some money for your business? But, no, they don't run your credit.
Grants are debt-free opportunities, so you don't have to worry about credit checks or none of that stuff, okay? How they verify you and how they make sure that you are a good-standing business owner or that you are... business that is not selfish and that is that kind of community that is community driven how they know that is by you having a business plan a pitch deck and a pitch video all right that business plan will kind of serve as a that credit I guess If you go over the limit, does that deem you? I've been applying for grants and most say A-Max of.
No, it doesn't, Brenda. It doesn't at all. This grant, they're randomly selected, so they're not even reading your answer for real.
Um, funny, I was applying for it yesterday, but for some reason, I decided to wait because it's not due until September 13th, not September 30th. I don't know where you get that from. But now I can have you do it. So I'm glad I saw your short reel that led me to this. Absolutely.
For sure. Or you can just apply to it, right? Because it does ask for your ID front and back.
It does ask for all of that stuff, right? So you can apply to it. If you already was in the process, you might as well do it. Maybe you.
you came to this lab to get more information to learn more right because September 30th is not the deadline date September 13th 13th okay which is only a couple days from away is the deadline date on September 30th is the day that you will receive notification if you were selected for the grant okay so September 30th is the day that you will receive an email that says hey you are selected for the grant opportunity check your bank account in seven days okay so that's pretty much how this works what questions y'all got let's go It says business must be at least three months old. Is that a big deal? I have everything else already. Business only one month old though.
So B feels yes that is a big deal. You have to upload three bank statements in order to show that your business has been active for at least three months. You just joined so let's go over the eligibility requirements again.
So in order for you to qualify for the Fastbreak $10,000 grant opportunity, you must have an LLC EIN in a business bank account of at least three months. You have to have been active for at least three months. On the application, it actually asks you to upload three bank statements.
It asks you to upload a picture of your ID front and back, and it also asks you to upload your LLC. Uploading three bank statements shows proof that your business has been active for at least three months. In the business banking world, the day that you start banking is the day that your business becomes active. I know that in the regular world, we believe that the day that we purchase our LLC is the day that our business becomes active.
But but that is not how it works in the business banking world. In the business banking world, your actual business active date is the date that your business started banking. So the reasons for why you have to upload those three bank statements is that it shows proof that your business has been active for at least three months. You have to be an active business of at least three months to qualify for the $10,000 grant. However, if you know somebody, I know yourself, you already have your LLC and stuff, but you still qualify for the $500 legal.
Zoom credit. So even though you are already a business and you've been, you know, in operation or you've already started at least one month, you can use the $500 LegalZoom credit to, you know, do things or gain contracts, right? Or to use that as like a resource through LegalZoom. LegalZoom not only helps you set up your business, but they have so many other resources that you can simply use, like getting your business contracts and stuff done.
You might need to do an NDC, a non-disclosure, non-complete calls for your business, right? So you can get that done for free through LegalZoom by using the $500 credit. So I still advise that you apply to this grant. You're not wasting your time, you're not wasting your energy, or you're not wasting any of your money at all.
This is a grant where it's literally a win-win situation. Okay, perfect. What's the next question? How can I book a 101 with you?
Text the word grants to my phone number. I'm scared to apply for business credit. I don't want to be denied.
I don't want to be I don't want to be denied. Okay, Sarah. I understand that. But scared money don't make no money. And if you afraid of denial, then and you might not want to get into this entrepreneurial world.
Okay? This shit is not no fucking stand-alot. And the reason why I'm talking to you like that is because you need some tough love with your scary ass.
Oh, I'm scared to get denied. So guess what? You're going to get a hundred no's in... in this world. Especially if you in a situation where you trying to get some investment capital.
Oh my gosh, I wonder what, how you gonna be strong enough to go through something like that? There's people out here that I literally have an amazing idea that are trying to create apps and shit. Black entrepreneurs who are trying to create apps. And guess what?
They out here doing pitches and stuff to all these high ticket investors who are white males and of different ethnic groups and they getting denials every day. You think they crying, you think they are scared, or you think they are afraid? know they're persevering. They're showing grit and determination. They don't give a damn about no denial because can't nobody tell them about their service or product and can't nobody tell them that their service or product is not good.
So what I want you to do is don't be afraid of no denials. Build those business banking relationships. You're going to need business credit. You're going to need business credit opportunities or those guaranteed opportunities because they serve as safety nets for your business.
Just because I talk about grants all the time don't mean I don't have business credit cards and loans. I already told y'all I have a 100k loan that I'm paying back right now from the SBA. And I have business credit cards that I use on a revolving basis every month that pays my business bills that gives me, that actually pays, gives me time.
Honestly, it gives me time to be able to pay those things back. So what I'm saying is, yes, I love talking about grants and preaching about grants, but I'm making you guys aware of these opportunities. But you also need to start developing your business mindset. on how you are going to take on other alternatives and how you're going to make those opportunities work for you.
Sometimes you got to move your money, sometimes you got to readjust, sometimes you just got to move yourself, you got to relocate. It's the same thing. It's a circle of life, friend.
Okay? So I want you to be aware of that. Don't be afraid of no denials.
Develop that business banking relationship, get those business credit cards and use that as a safety net. Okay? You got it. What we got?
Come on here talking about you scared. I ain't got no scary subscribers on here. Everybody in here 10 toes down about their business.
Y'all 10 toes down about y'all business. If you 10 toes down about your business and you standing on business, I want you to write right now, hashtag superior. Yeah. If you 10 toes down behind your business, you ain't scared. I want you to write superior right there in the comment.
And go ahead and comment. I want to see how serious you about your business. I'm so serious about my business that literally this weekend I'm gonna go outside I'm gonna sit outside with my little lawn chair and I'm gonna put a sign and say ask a 71% successful grant writer because I'm so serious about my business and I'm so serious about creating awareness about grants so you can't be afraid You can't be afraid.
Hey, in this business world, friend, this shit is like the jungle. It's lions, tigers, and bears. You give me your idea if you want to, I'm the person that got the network to go tell them about your idea, who has the money to go ahead and put behind it.
It's like, bro, you can't be afraid. You can't be afraid, okay? You can't be afraid. I got you, friend. I'm going to hold your hand through this thing, but you got to be willing to take constructive criticism.
And you also got to be willing to understand, like open your mind about certain things too. Remember, you programmed and shit. You know, remember, you programmed to believe certain shit.
So when you start leaving that nine to five or when you really start scaling your entrepreneurship in this world, it's a different type of thing, okay? It's a different life. But I'm willing to hold your hand and understand that there's people out here that need that.
That's why I do this. I've been doing this for eight years, okay? I got you, friend. All right, come on.
I see y'all wrote superior. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about.
Okay, so to be clear, LLC, but application will gain me $500 credit, legal zoom credit to use towards LLC. This is absolutely square one for me. Absolutely, Brayden.
So if you don't have an LLC, okay, that's fine. You're going to use this $500 legal zoom credit to get the LLC, okay? Visit alfund.org or you can pay me $47 to apply to it for you. All you got to do is simply text fast to 855-731-1487.
Okay, friend? All right, perfect. So yeah, absolutely, Brayden.
You're welcome. Y'all are so welcome. Okay, hold on.
Bye, bye, bye. Yeah, I get back to the top here. I'm applying for, okay, hold on, I want to make sure I get it.
All right, so if I apply, does it affect my personal credit? No, it doesn't, Sarah. How long does it take for you to get the code from LegalZoom to start working on your business?
September 30th, Alicia, or Alicia. I hope I'm saying Alicia because my middle name is kind of spelled this way. So Alicia, yeah, you get the LegalZoom credit September 30th.
All right, so you apply to the grant today. You submit the application. You'll be in line to get that LegalZoom credit, $500 credit, okay?
And they are sending out the product code on September 30th to your email. LaShawn says, well, I know from applying for my business loans, it's my credit. That's another thing I've been working on is credit score.
I found codes to remove things. Now I self-teach to remove negative items off. Absolutely.
Lashawn this is what's up and if anybody here would like some Lashawn credit repair help y'all hit up Lashawn Duncan she our friend in here cuz she over here self teaching herself about fixing her credit and she got all these new consumer law codes that she put in her dispute letters so you might want to get in with our cousin that's in the in the chat right now Okay, because if you need some credit help, you might need to go ahead on to see if our friend, LaShawn, you got an Instagram or something somebody can reach out? Do you want to do a little Zoom with us one day and you want to hop on the Zoom with us and show us some of these consumer law codes, you know, help us out? Because absolutely, I'm so happy that you shared your experience. LaShawn, our friend here just said that she, you know, she went for some opportunities, but she understood that it's her personal credit, so she fixing her personal credit.
That's good. I like that. Stephanie says, so it starts with business banking. Yep, absolutely.
LaShawn says, without paying a lot of money for things that can be removed for free just with the codes. Absolutely, LaShawn. We need some assistance. Help us out. So I'm applying for grants for now until I get approved.
Okay, I got a denial letter already. Okay, no problem. Keep applying.
Right? Even if you get denials, keep applying. The ratio for these grants, you can apply to 30 grants and only get two out of the 30. Okay, so if you apply to 100 grants, you'll probably get five to six opportunities. You know what I mean?
So just keep that in mind. These are like lottoes. These are like random opportunities, right? So you still want to be consistent in applying. Apply to one grant a day.
That is truly going to help you be consistent and it's also going to help you with not being so burnt out. Okay, a lot of business owners get burnt out. So you want to apply to one grant a day.
Keep the business debts away Okay, shout out to stormy banks for that. Alright, so let's move forward. I'm gonna keep Say it sure is but there is yes somewhere for you. Absolutely. Absolutely Alright, I'm gonna keep going.
Do you charge a fee for a 101 besides the $400 grant help? Yes $47 for a 101 Yes, I love it. Okay, so I can't tell you a lot.
Not enough time trying to get it plugged in. I got a business account and LLC and a non-profit business plan. I'm working on two different businesses. Alright, LaShawn, let's do it.
71's number here for a reason. Yep, let's do it. You're here for a reason.
God don't bring me, God don't be bringing y'all for no, here for no reason, okay? All right. Hey Shelby, I want to pay now the $47.
I want to know if you can, you and I can connect tomorrow or when you say. we can connect. I'm a hairstylist. I'm not off today until 7 p.m. Let me know if you, okay, so yeah, Renee.
Renee, you got to text FAST to my number, and I'll send you the link, and then, or I don't know if you want to do a one-on-one consultation. On Saturdays or on Sundays, I don't do one-on-one consultations. I don't work on Sundays. Yeah. Yep, I got a question.
Can a billing and coding consultant apply to this grant? Yep. If it's a business, yeah. Don't start asking me that question. Can my business apply to this?
Can my medical business? Can my trucking business? Yes.
Yes. Yes, it's for all businesses. The title says start as a small business owner. It don't matter what business industry you're into, OK?
Yes. Yes, you could. Yes, you could.
Okay, I don't want y'all to start asking me that question. Is there a grant for my particular business industry? Because there is always going to be a grant out here for you.
I say that all the time. Matter of fact, I say that on my pitch video when you first come on my YouTube. YouTube. Okay, so there's always going to be a grant out here.
It's all about the game that I drop on this YouTube is free. Like if you really use all this information that I'm giving you, you really won't need me. You won't need me. You ain't going to have to hire me.
You ain't going to have to hire no other grant writer. You ain't going to have to, you ain't even going to have to, you ain't going to have to do, just apply to your own grants. For real, for real, if you take your time and even if you just, you know, if you take your time and you just watch just even my, just a one week worth of my videos, my last seven live streams, you will pick up everything you need to know on how to create a grant execution strategy, on where I search and apply to grants. on how to get approved for a grant. You will learn everything on, you know, different grant opportunities and different websites you can go to.
You will learn some grant searching and grant tips, you know, on how to keep track of everything if you just simply take the time. I drop all the grant gems on this YouTube channel for free. But the hustle is sold separately, okay? It's all on here.
Can I still use you to help me navigate? I need to hear that thank you love absolutely I'm trying to leave my nine to five less than a year I'm already trying to complete my mission absolutely let's do it yes I'm trying to put in with you let's go yes please share yes I have to sell teach myself Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely, y'all.
It is the luck of the draw. Yeah, LaShawn, we need that information. Can you provide a list of grant sites? So, yeah, like I said, Sarah, if you take a look at... All of my other live streams, it will give you all of the game that you need.
All the game that you need, like all the game that you need, okay? All the game that you need. You know what's going to happen, Sarah?
I'm going to give you the list of grants. Matter of fact, I'll put them in right now. But guess what? You're still going to ask yourself, all right, so now that I got the links, how do I, like, apply to these grants?
You're still going to ask yourself that. And then you might click on a link, and when you go to the link, you might be a little confused and be like, okay, where do I start? And then if you figure it out from that point on, you're going to find a grant.
And then you're either going to come across a question that might be a little bit challenging for you. And so if you don't have things like your business plan, your pitch deck, and your pitch video, then it's going to be a challenge for you to answer these grant questions. Because the business plan can serve as the answer key.
So. I'm gonna give you these list of grants and I'm gonna drop them right here. What you gonna do with it?
Okay, cool. Renee, it came back as service not available. I don't know, refresh your screen because everybody else is, they've been texting me.
They texting FAST to 855-731-1487. Make sure you got the right number in there. Okay, make sure you have the right number in there. Alright, so we're going to drop these, the thing here.
I will watch your other live streams for nuggets. Absolutely. Grants.gov, grantwatch.com, and HelloSkip. Alright, those are places that you can actually go to and you can search and apply to grants.
Okay, so with that being said, take those sites, visit those sites, and you know what, before you decide, and I know, let me help you all answer this question. How do I get started with applying to a grant? Let me help you always answer this question. Visit the website and go through the application first.
Okay? Anytime you get ready to, anytime you see me, a short or you see me on any social media and you're like, oh, I want to apply to that grant and you about to get ready to ask me in the comments, how do I apply? Click the link that I'm talking about. All right.
I usually have the link in all the descriptions of my videos. I provide the link in the actual video that I'm talking about. I'm usually like, hey, there's a $10,000 grant opportunity out here. Visit AOfund.org.
You can apply today and get a $500 legal Zoom credit. Or you can have me apply to the grant for you by texting the word FAST to 855-731-1487. My reels and my shorts, they're pretty much scripted in that way.
So that way I'm making sure I'm delivering thorough information to you so you understand everything you need to know about this grant. Now the thing about the video is sometimes you'll be watching the video and it'll be muted, right? So you might be reading the captions and the captions might be going too fast and you're not even...
catching on to it. So take your time, visit the link that I'm talking about in the video, and then go through the application first and then prepare yourself like you know before you apply. So like with this $10,000 fast break grant, if you visit the website aofund.org and you sign yourself up to get ready to apply, you'll find out that you can actually save this entire application as a draft and come back and complete it.
But you won't know that until you've actually visited the website and you've went through the application first to see what they're asking for. Also, going through the application first, friends, will really give you reassurance on whether or not you want to use some of your time or energy on that. Most people who hire me for my grant writing services, I charge $420 to apply to five grants for you.
Okay? I charge, I, I'm a 71% successful grant writer. I charge $420.
to apply to five grants for you, okay? For those five grants, most of my clients who hire me for that service, they're already applying to grants. And what they do is, they're doing exactly what I'm telling you to do.
They go through the grant application first, right? Once they click on a grant that they're interested in, they go through the application. Once they scroll through the application, they see it's too many questions or they're asking for too much or it's too time consuming.
They actually set that grant aside for me and they create a list of at least five grants. And once they get five grants that they set aside that they, you know, they know they're not going to spend their time on or it might be too much to, you know, fill out for them. Then that's when they hire me to apply to those five grants for them.
OK, so that's how this works with me. OK, grants and the way that you increase your chances of approvals, the way that you consistently get grant opportunities, the way that you keep getting this free money is by consistently applying. Those winners and those people that you see on those that be having testimonials and that be saying, oh I just won a FedEx grant, I just won a $60,000 Barclays grant. Well honey, they've been applying to that grant probably for, you know, since the beginning of this year or last year. You know what I mean?
You never know how long they've been applying to grants. And that's not even just that particular grant, they probably applied to a hundred other grants and this is probably their first one for the year that they actually got approved of. So you have to be consistent in applying.
Alright, and that is really the key to this grant world and to this entire thing. Okay, so one grant a day, you can apply to one grant a day, that's 365 grants. Okay, you can apply to as many grants as you want to, but if you, if you, you don't want to burn yourself out. You know what I mean?
You will definitely burn yourself out if you say, oh okay, I can apply to 20 grants or 100 grants in a day. Because in your mind it's like, oh Shelby said that I can apply to 30 grants and I'll probably get two. No, stupid. Apply to one grant a day because if you apply to 30 grants in a day, think about how burnt out and how burnt out your answers are going to be when you are answering those questions on the application.
After about five applications, by the time you hit your sixth application, your answers are going to sound like shit. Do not do that. One grant a day, okay?
So you don't burn yourself out. And then you're going to burn yourself out. You're going to apply to 30 grants in one day. And then two weeks from now, you're going to say, well, I applied to 30 grants.
What the hell is going on? Like, why haven't I received any sort of like, you know, correspondence? Well, that's because you don't watch my videos or you don't, you didn't take the time to really understand how this entire process works, right? You want to create a spreadsheet.
You want to keep looking at the spreadsheet. I went over those things actually on my live stream yesterday. All right.
Creating a spreadsheet and creating a grant specific email to help you keep track of things and of what's going on. Okay. Don't trip yourself out. Don't have so much anxiety when you are applying to grants.
This is not your freaking plan A. Grants is not your dependable strategy. Grants is not your dependable strategy.
Grants is not something that you depend on. Grants is not an opportunity for you to depend on. This is not a 100% guarantee.
It is a lotto, it is a random raffle, it is a random, you know what I mean? It's a gamble. So with these grant opportunities, this will be like your plan C.
People who actually get approved for grants or who are like companies, and especially these big companies and these artist grants, these people that get approved to these grants, These businesses, they actually have a grant writer on their team on their payroll. So imagine having someone like myself, a 71% successful grant writer, consistently applying to grants every day for you for the entire year, and you have me on your payroll. Your chances of getting a grant with me being on your team are so much higher. You will at least get five grants within a year.
That could be five, like, $100,000 opportunities. One of them could be a million dollar grant, you know? So like most people who do this, because grants is an extra stream of income for your business.
Grants is an actual income. It's an income for your business. When you file your business taxes, they actually ask you, have you received some sort of charitable reward or grant?
You have to say yes, and you have to tell them how much you've received because that is taxable income, okay? So. Think of it like an extra stream. You have to apply to it.
It's just another job. It's another way. It's another way.
You know, some people like, for example, for my business, right, I have a full consultancy firm, right? This is what we do. Small business consultancy, grant writing, writing business plans, all this good stuff.
But I'm also a content creator. I've been a YouTuber for about five, six years. So I also make this YouTube content bag, too, right? So this YouTube content bag. It's an extra stream of income.
It's one of my 10 streams of income that I have under my business. My business makes money from digital products, from content, from blogs, from classes, from grant writing, business plan writing, from consulting. My business also makes money from merch. My business makes money. From business formations and development, that's, I did already name, that's nine streams of income.
And last but not least, my business makes money every time that we get called to do some sort of collaboration. I got 10 streams of income with my business. So, with that being said, oh, and then grants.
There you go, 11. Because I make money off grants too. So that's 11 streams of income. that I have for my business.
So it's the same thing for you, okay? Grants is another stream of income. You got to do the same thing, okay?
That's what I'm trying to tell you, all right? All right, y'all. Y'all got a cool three more minutes because I have to go on my Audit August crew. Today is our last day of August, so I have to, you know, go into our Audit August crew.
Audit August is an annual exercise that I do every year on... in the month of August and I'm so happy to announce that you know I have a collective 37 people that you know they've all signed up they've been consistent and you know they just are here showing up so I'm going to go into that zoom in a minute. So any last questions y'all can drop them real quick before I get out of here before I let you go and apply to the grant or you have me apply to it for you.
For you. Alright. Ooh.
Okay. All right, let me see what y'all got, what y'all saying before I get up out of here. All right, so it looks like, it's like get the right mindset and look at the denial, rejection is not the end of the day.
Exactly, it's not the end of the day, friend. Absolutely. One great day is a great way to go.
Absolutely. Thank you. Shelby for this you're welcome Stephanie absolutely Alicia talk heavy exactly Nunez I'm trying to tell you you gotta gotta do it I would definitely be hiring you once I have the capital to do so absolutely and God says we need to have a minimum of seven streams of income hmm I'm proud of you sis blessings thank you so much yeah what I ain't know the Lord said that I didn't know the Lord said that I didn't know the Lord said we need seven streams of income I know one thing you know what I live by And I'm not like, you know, super religious or anything like that.
I'm just like a spiritual person. I just go by, I follow God with my heart, my mind, my body and soul. Just off of that, okay? But. Two things that really helped me go through life.
Two things. God said, all you need is the faith of a mustard seed. I've heard that. And that right there is something that I've heard since I was about 9 or 10 years old, and I've stuck with that. All you need is the faith of a mustard seed.
A mustard seed is like puny. It's like sus minute. All right.
And then. But I operate so, some people might even think I'm delusional because my faith is as great as Mount Everest. I'm so serious, okay? So that, and then the second scripture, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
So when I go through my emotional battles, when I go through my mental anxiety, I'm not 100% a robot. I'm not perfect. You know what I mean?
I have a smart mouth. I can be slick. Y'all see it? I can be spicy, okay?
I'm from South Florida. That's just what it is. And I do try to be mindful of that and things like that.
But I always go back to that scripture, even when I get upset or whatever. I can do all things through Christ. Like, it ain't nothing I can't do.
God ain't put me in this position for no reason. You know what I mean? So, like, I got to figure it out.
What's the little window of opportunity? Where that's at? So that's how I operate. Okay, so I hope that motivates you. And I hope that gives you clarity on, you know, like, how you should move.
But I move like that. Even when I only have like, even if my account is negative, God will provide. I literally said it just like that.
I said, okay, the Lord will provide, God will provide. Bills are due, God will provide. My storage has been due. I got a whole storage full of stuff.
I have not paid that storage, I ain't gonna lie, in like a month. It's due. God will provide.
All right, I'm not gonna stress myself out about something that I don't even own. Like, you know, I own that stuff, but it's like, I don't even care about that stuff, right? It's materials. So... We're all going through our own stuff in life, okay?
So persevere through it. All you need is faith of the mustard seed to believe in your idea. And then remember that you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you.
So what makes you think that you don't have the ability to, you know, come out here and do your product and service, right? Okay, cool. Let me hop into my Audit August group. Text the word FAST to 855-731-1487, or you can text GRANTS to the same number.
and you can book a one-on-one consultation with me, okay? If you text the word grants, I will send you the one-on-one consultation link. It's $47.
It's all $47 either way, okay? All right, I'll see y'all soon. Peace and blessings, okay? I love y'all.
I love y'all. I love that scripture as well, exactly. I love y'all.
Bye. I'll see y'all later.