BE A BALLER -"Building a lifelong legacy"
On Be a Baller Podcast, host Coach Tim Brown and his guest will talk about how to be intentional about building a lifelong legacy for your family, your community, and the world. Guest include individuals who have through the years have built a legacy in ministry, business, sports, and community service. BAB Podcast guest are committed to the "Wisdom Pledge" of paying forward and sharing wisdom to empower the next generation.
BE A BALLER -"Building a lifelong legacy"
Kenny and Chris Crump, Entrepreneurial Success Story From Dreams to Reality: Building Successful Businesses and Leaving a Legacy
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Join us on Be A Baller podcast Live Event Baller's Edge as we hear from Kenny and Chris Crump entrepreneurial powerhouses who passionately discuss the role of mentorship in building a lifelong legacy. They share their inspiring journeys of successes in the beauty and fitness industries serves as powerful examples of what can be achieved.
We then dive into the real-world challenges faced by entrepreneurs, from the struggle to secure capital to the importance of leveraging networks. The Crump's foundation, We Elevate You Foundation is a local non-profit organization, designed to bolster black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) entrepreneurs in their journeys to build successful businesses and establish generational wealth. We Elevate You Foundation, steps in to support BIPOC entrepreneurs with essential resources like graphic design, website building, and access to capital. Don’t miss out on their stories and their mission to uplift future leaders and entrepreneurs.
I'm Tim Brown and I'm the host of a Be A Baller podcast, a podcast about legacy. I'm at age now where I begin thinking about what's my legacy going to be and I begin to recognize that you all in this room young people, you're my legacy and my job is to pour into you and all these adults. Our job is to pour into you and prepare you to take your rightful place in this whole legacy deal.
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Speaker 1:Good morning, good morning. Good morning, good morning. Give yourselves a hand, Give yourselves a hand. Give yourselves a hand. Give yourselves a hand. Lord, the blessing is if you students can look at somebody or find that person who brought you. I want you to look them in the eye and tell them thank you for bringing me. I want you to find that. I see this whole table over here. Somebody should be looking at Miss Scott for arranging that bus for you and thanking her. Mr Davis, Mr Baker is over there. I know all the business, I know who brought who and we want to thank them for giving up their time, giving up their time to be here today. This is going to be a great day. It's going to be a great day. It's a day that the Lord has made and we're truly going to rejoice and be glad in it. We're waiting on one more bus. The kids from Northland are coming. They have the farthest to come Northland and Beechcroft. They'll be here and we're excited that you're here. I'm going to pray and then we'll get started.
Speaker 1:Lord, we just thank you for this day. We thank you for this great and wondrous day that you created. Thank you for the bright minds that are in this room. I thank you for the great things that they are already doing, but they'll do even greater things. We look at our president's election, all that stuff going on, but these are the real game changers that's in this room, this group of young people, you all are the real difference makers, and so I want to encourage you on today to be attentive to those things that will happen today as you begin to develop the vision that God has given to you and that you live out your purpose. And so we thank you for our time today. In Jesus' name, we pray Amen, amen and amen, amen and amen amen, amen.
Speaker 3:So, before we go any further, I want to introduce to you the pastor of this church. This is where we're at First Church of God. I want to introduce you everybody to Bishop Timothy Clark.
Speaker 4:Thank you, sir. Well, good, what time is it? Good morning, come on, you can do better than that, not for me. Give God some praise. Come on, no matter who you are, put your hands together. Don't patty cake him. Come on, do real good. Give God some praise. Good morning, I'm delighted to be here. Where's brother Tim Brown? Hey, tim, let me borrow you. I hate to excuse me for interrupting. Come real quick.
Speaker 4:I have to go next door to our sanctuary to do a funeral in about 30 minutes, but I didn't want you to be in this room, in this building, and I not take a few moments to just come to say hey to you, to let you know how proud I am of you, to let you know that I'm praying for you, this church prays for you, and to let you know how much you mean and matter to all of us. I also want you to help me give one of the strongest brothers on the block a big round of applause. Celebrate, tim Brown. Celebrate it, my man. I love you with all my heart. Well, listen, whatever you do today, just know that I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you're a part of our ministry today. Hope you feel welcome.
Speaker 4:Let me say this After what happened in Georgia last week. Please, please, please, be careful. Look out for each other, take care of one another, love one another. Life is short. It's uncertain, so please make the most of your lives and the most of your time together. I love you. Thanks for letting me interrupt. Where's my little son here? I'm glad to see you. I love you. Thanks for letting me interrupt. Where's my little son here? I'm glad to see you. I love you, buddy. All right, tell a neighbor Say neighbor, be a baller. All right, shot caller. I'll see you later, all right.
Speaker 3:Welcome. Welcome to the Be a Baller podcast, where we discuss how to build a lifelong legacy. I'm your host, of course, chris Stevens. Today's episode is coming from the Ballers Edge event. All right, listen, and I am beyond excited. I am beyond excited to interview two entrepreneurial powerhouses. I have the honor of working with one of them for the longest good friend of mine. I get to interview his wife as well today, so this is really cool. So, without further ado, I want to introduce you all to the husband and wife team of Kenny and Chris Crump. Give him a hand, give him a hand, give him a hand. What's going on? Y'all how, y'all doing Good, good.
Speaker 5:Feeling great, excited to be here. How's everybody doing?
Speaker 3:Good morning. So, like I said, I've known Kenny. For how long have we known each other? We've known each other for a while. It's been some years. It's been some years. We used to do some mentoring at a little elementary school called South Mifflin Elementary. We used to do a few little mentorship things for a couple of years and got to grow to know the Crump family, both Crump Junior and Crump Senior, but get to meet the rest of the family today and she's got a pretty cool name because I got the name same name, chris too. So that's pretty cool. So, hey, glad you guys are here. I want to start off with this question. Tell us both your story, kenny. I want you to start this off for me. Tell us your story about how you got into internship.
Speaker 5:I mean entrepreneurship, I'm sorry, yeah. So I think you know, naturally I kind of always had an entrepreneur spirit. Some might call it like that hustler spirit. You know, just always want to grind, you know, and get it. So at an early age, when I was your age and I'm guessing most everybody's in high school, so from like the age of 14, I kind of started doing.
Speaker 5:Well, back then the way music was put out was CDs and everything. So I remember going to get a package of blank CDs and you could burn CDs back then. So I know most of you probably don't know what that is, but it was like Napster and all this stuff that would come out. So I would make my own CDs and I would come out. So I would make my own CDs and I would sell them, you know. So I might buy them for, I don't know, $2 a CD and I would sell them for $10. So that was kind of my way to make a little money. And then you know just always figuring out ways to, you know, just make money. So that was my thing, you know, always having that entrepreneur spirit.
Speaker 5:And the first job I had when I was 14, I worked at a grocery store. So I grew up in the Linden area. Anybody from Linden area? Yeah, all right, good, good, let's clap it up for Lyndon. So there was a grocery store I worked at there and the owner of the store, he really took to me and showed me the ropes of how that that operation was ran. You know from everything from the cashiers to the baggers to you know the deli area, and I just really appreciated him doing that. So that that was really my first introduction to like how our businesses ran.
Speaker 6:It's good, chris um, is anyone in here any of the ladies into beauty? Yes, so for me, um, I always was a hairstylist. So I grew up my is I grew up with a single mom and I went to Columbus City Schools. I was the first entrepreneur in my family, but I went to. I always did hair. So I have done hair since I was about 12 or 13 in middle school. And when I got to high school I was introduced to a girl that was actually going into the vocational school program and I just told my mom you know, no one in our family had graduated from college, no one had went to college. And I told my mom I never felt that I was going to be into the collegiate route and so I told her, like man, you know, I think I'm gonna go to the career center and I just believed in the talent that I had and I loved it so much and that's how I started my entrepreneurial journey. It's awesome.
Speaker 3:Give him a hand. Give him a hand and we'll get into a little bit more of that in just a little bit. I have another question for you and Chris, I'm gonna have you start this one why did nights your passion for both mentoring and entrepreneurship? Because I do know when we'll talk about you guys as a foundation in just a little bit, but I wanted I know you guys are both mentors and entrepreneurs. Of course you know, kenny, I do that all the time. But, chris, starting with you, what ignites your passion for that?
Speaker 6:Really what ignites my passion is because I never had those things and I feel like if I was able to have that mentorship at a very young age someone just guiding me it would have helped me so much on my journey. So, just looking back over the years it's been 23 years in the beauty industry here in Columbus and I really just want to give back in any way. Even seeing younger girls you know like that may be in middle school or high school that are thinking about it, just giving them that encouragement, I feel like that goes a long way with your confidence and the different decisions that you make, as well when it comes to your entrepreneurship. So and entrepreneurship is hard so I feel like if I had that, you know, a lot of things would be different within my journey. So I just want to give back in that way.
Speaker 5:Good Kenny. Yeah, so kind of the same thing. You know, I heard a saying, you know, some years ago you can't be what you can't see. So for me, being a black male, and just being an example for a lot of you out here, that's always important to me. So, you know, growing up wanting to be an entrepreneur and to go back, I actually thought I was going to be a dentist. Coming out of high school that's what I wanted to do, but obviously it didn't work out. But I really so when I think about, you know, being a mentor, just really be an example for you all and also a man of faith, you know that's a big part of my journey as well. So, so, yeah, that's what really drives me and motivates me to, you know, mentor and just just be a good example for for the youth.
Speaker 3:All right, good, give me a hand, all right good, give him a hand.
Speaker 5:Give him a hand.
Speaker 3:Chris. So, as you guys heard, she does hair care, she does own a salon called the Strand Cafe. One of the things because I did my research, because again got to know before I do the interview, one of the words that I saw that really stuck out to me was the word innovative. My question for you is you know, with owning a salon, what does that word innovative mean and what are some innovative things that you're doing?
Speaker 6:So for me, you know, when I was doing hair so I mean, I started in a professional manner I used to work in a salon illegally when I was about 15. So I was very well versed in the industry and in Columbus, you know, I just knew like the trends and I had been in the industry for so long before I got my license. And so when I opened my salon in the short north which that's another story, you know, I got a lot of people that kind of felt like I shouldn't do that. You know there wasn't a lot of black salons in the short north. But you know, I just really had confidence in my clientele and what I wanted to do.
Speaker 6:I really wanted to be innovative. You know I wanted to bring a different feel to the salon. You know I had worked in a lot of different types of salons, you know, from the smallest, you know, that may be in the hood, to like the nicest downtown. So I had a wide variety and I kind of just found my own way. So I think that's kind of how I kind of did my entrepreneurial and the beauty industry. Beauty is extremely competitive so I just wanted to, you know, stay up in front of those trends and just kind of innovate different things and how I do things and not being afraid to do those things.
Speaker 3:That's good Another hand, give them a hand, Give her a hand, All right. So this next question is for both of you Whoever wants to start? I'm not going to tell you. Whoever wants to start, you can. This next question is what do you believe are some challenges that come to entrepreneurship and this is for anybody who is like at a crossroads right now where they feel as if their things aren't moving or people aren't getting a hold of that. What are some challenges in your mind?
Speaker 5:Yeah. So no matter what type of business you're looking to do, you know some of the biggest challenges typically is money, you know. So having the money to grow your business, having the money to buy whatever it is so, say, you want to have a t-shirt line, you know, if you're into design, or if you're into fashion, shoes or whatever, so you have to be able to buy the product, you know, so you can sell it. So where do you get the money from? You know so most businesses, that's the biggest challenge, this capital. And then after that it's also just having a network. So what I mean by that is you know, if you have a network of like right now, right, so we're in this room.
Speaker 5:I don't know if everybody knows everyone, but if you're starting a clothing line, you know, if you start telling people about what you're going to do, the word spreads quickly. So, again, utilizing your network. So that can also be a challenge for someone who may not be as outgoing. So it's important that in business you have to get uncomfortable. You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable. So, and that's really just life, you know. So you may not, you may have to do things that you're not comfortable doing, but the more comfortable you get with that, the further you're going to go. Good, good Chris.
Speaker 6:Okay, going back to the challenges, there's more challenges than not. So when you're in entrepreneurships, you know you have challenges every day. You know you may have challenges that come up within your business before you even wake up in the morning. You know you always just have to know how to pivot and kind of just think how you can, you know, work these challenges. But the biggest challenge I would say for most businesses, even from small to big, it would be help. You know, just having the employees and people that you know honor the brand that you're building and you know they respect you as their leader and you know just really wanted to get on board and they believe in your brand. I think that's you know. You can't do everything on your own. I think a lot of people now realize that. You know you always need help when you're building your business and at every stage you just need help and sometimes that could be the biggest challenge is finding the help that is willing to just see you through and help the business grow.
Speaker 3:All right, good, all right. Just because we're going to wrap up really quickly, I want to ask you two questions. Want to ask you two questions. The first one is about your organization, elevate you. Elevate you is a really great thing. I'm going to let them explain it a little bit more, but please get locked into it. After we get done, once we get to the next segment, please ask questions if possible. All right, um, but I want you guys to just briefly just talk about what it is, share with us about it and how's it impact? Impacted entrepreneurs.
Speaker 5:Yeah, absolutely so. Um, we elevate you foundation is something that, uh, I've always wanted to do, so, um, what it is is our it's Chris and I our foundation we started a couple of years ago. Uh, we focus on helping, uh, bipoc entrepreneurs with resources to help them grow their businesses. So that can be, you know, youth like yourself to adults, whatever you need. So if you need help, you know, say, with graphic design, you know we can connect you with a graphic designer. If you need help building your website, we can connect you with people that can help you with that. You're looking for capital. Capital is money. You know we can help you, you know, find money to help you grow your business. So it's really a passion thing for us, where we just love to, you know, help people with growing their business Because, again, we didn't have a lot of help and we didn't have examples of people that had successful businesses. So it's really something that we enjoy doing and it's a lot of work, but, again, we're happy to help where we can. Here we go, good.
Speaker 3:Chris, do you have anything? All right, that pretty much sums it up right there. Listen, can we please, please give a big hand for our guest today, kenny and Chris Crump. Come on, you can do better than that yeah Can you give the website to them.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so if anybody is interested in being an entrepreneur and you're looking to, you need help, you can go to our website. It's elevateuorg. So E-L, the letter V, the number eight, the letter U, dot org. So you go there and you can learn a lot about it. You can reach out to us. Oh, yeah, yeah, go to IG, social media. You can find E-L-V-V8U. You'll find us there as well. So, chris, she's Strand Cafe at her salon. So the girls that are looking to you know be in the beauty industry. And then gym skills. I didn't mention it, but that's the main business I do.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, All right, One last time for Kenny and Chris Crump. That wraps up our show today. Please, please. We appreciate your support and we thank you, as always, for listening to Be A Baller.
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