Non-financial wealth enables and stabilizes financial wealth. Gwendolyn Brooks is an example of how much can be accomplished when the people around you celebrate your successes and encourage your growth.

Sometimes, something that is glaringly obvious to an outsider might not be noticeable to the person who is absorbed by an overwhelming situation. Sticky family dynamics can be like this. Sometimes we don’t know what to do to make our family relationships better. The problems seem intractable.

Michael Render — known better as his stage name, Killer Mike — has been using his professional platform to help elevate others for more than a decade. In June 2020 after George Floyd’s murder, he was asked by the mayor of Atlanta to speak to demonstrators, imploring them to be peaceful. The empathy and emotion that he demonstrated as he spoke was arresting.

American rapper, Michael “Killer Mike” Render, is aiming to revive Black Wall Street with Greenwood, a digital banking platform inspired by the early 1900’s Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma.