hello and welcome to our show conversations with the lady where we bring a guest on our show to talk about issues and topics that matter today we have a new segment positive black images the purpose of the show is i saw too many negative images in the media reality shows but trying the black culture in such a negative light so the show is going to highlight all the positive ness the beauty all the great things that we're doing in the community and how we're raising our families and just four day trip to howard university where we got to experience student life so we'll see when we can that we went and it was with the new jersey club and that experience really really kind of helped me so to really wanted to go to howard although i had already had in my mind that i was going to go there because of the finances and the financial situation and the scholarship they provided me with but i think that experience of being able to be a student feel like i was in a home environment that w was the freshman leadership academy or university i joined last year and it's been an amazing experience it's definitely about leadership academic and richmond learning how to  application program that's a rule which i bet proctor a question and answer session for students like myself to ask corporate executives questions about that are related to their industry and allow them to get that my life but on the five to ten point one thing to each person i'd say i'm from my mom she taught me how to think critically but also concisely being a shia lawyer i had to make sure that when i whenever i was discussing things with her i wanted to do something i had to make sure that information i presented was on both back sure it contained a lot of content but it was also given in a form where it was concise enough to get the job done and still keep her attention so i do she did influence me on the way that i carry myself in that department i'm from my dad he really evelyn's me and show me how to dream when i when i think of my dad story coming from nigeria and working hard to make sure they get education comes to america and then becomes a principal of a firm and now he started his own all that all started from him really having a dream and just following suit and making sure he prepared to do that work so he showed me that my grandparents my grandmother showed me the chords of networking and how you can really benefit and how much you can really power there isn't really speaking to people getting to know them and then asking for favorite t v surprise what people are willing to do for you after they realize how genuine the person you are as a child that i feel like my parents were hard i mean i could easily answer that yes  because i feel like it was harder for me more so than my siblings because of the fact that i was oldest so a lot of the the things that they were able to do i was what i had to break those periods and allow that to be done i remember being younger and coming up are other parts of my life like i always had to make sure that i presented my kids well and me showed them that i really cared not only just cared about it but that i brought up information to support what i was saying in order to win them over so they  high school program deca because that was the first time where i was competing on a national scale over first reason and i placed there and i realized that oh i can i do this i went on to states and it had never been