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Bishop T.D. Jakes interviews Co-CEO & President of Ariel Investments; Vice-Chair of Starbucks; Director at JPMorgan Chase, Mellody Hobson.
As Co-CEO of Ariel Investments, Mellody is responsible for management, strategic planning, and growth for all areas of Ariel Investments outside of research and portfolio management. Additionally, she serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ariel Investment Trust—the company’s publicly traded mutual funds. Prior to being named Co-CEO, Mellody spent nearly two decades as the firm’s President. Outside of Ariel, Mellody is a nationally recognized voice on financial literacy. She has conducted extensive research on minority investing patterns and pens a column for Black Enterprise Magazine. Her leadership has also been invaluable to corporate boardrooms across the nation. She currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Starbucks Corporation; a director of JPMorgan Chase; and a director of Quibi, a short-form video content company. She previously served as Chairman of the Board of DreamWorks Animation until the company’s sale and was also a long-standing board member of the Estée Lauder Companies. Mellody’s community outreach includes her role as Chairman of After School Matters, a Chicago non-profit that provides area teens with high-quality after school and summer programs. Additionally, she is vice-chair of World Business Chicago; co-chair of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art; and a board member of the George Lucas Education Foundation. She also serves on the board at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Mellody is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation Board of Trustees, and serves on the executive committee of the Investment Company Institute. Mellody earned her AB from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Relations and Public Policy. In 2019, she was awarded the University’s highest honor, the Woodrow Wilson Award, presented annually to a Princeton graduate whose career embodies a commitment to national service. She has also received honorary doctorate degrees from Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, St. Mary’s College, and the University of Southern California. In 2015, Time Magazine named her one of the “100 Most Influential People” in the world.
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I respect Mellody Hobson but I know Biblical you can ”Time the market.” I've created a course that will be launched July 2020.
Love her comment on ”Just Read.” That's a great way to be mentored. That's how I created my financial course, and currently writing detective novels featuring a black American woman raised in London and heads up a Scotland Yard unit.
This was so DOPE! inspired more even in a time such as this! I considered myself as a mutant too! Wow! I'm a fan! Thank you, Bishop!
Thank you for having Melody on. I have been following her for six years. I admire her so much.
I enjoyed this conversation so much. Melody seems to be down to earth and a person you'd want to learn from and be around. What I call, "Good People".
I have a question why the churches don't preach the Revelations why they didn't prepare these people in churches and were are preaches why no one is standing up and fight the evil word we are living
This is a very smart and wise woman. She was born to do what she does.
She is so refreshing to listen to Bishop! Thanks for putting this interview on!
I need this Bishoo Jakes, thanks for this powerful woman's teaching and lessons!!!
She married George Lucas.
Always loved her spirit.
Thank you for this word. I have shared similar biblical principles, hearing it from someone else is amazing.
Mellody looks so beautiful without makeup. So intelligent, so smart. I know it's redundant but go figure.
This was an awesome interview as I love Melody. I'm even a bigger fan of hers now as she is so genuine and humble but she knows who she is and is unapologetically comfortable with herself.
Loved this. Thank you Bishop and thank you Melody.
THANK YOU!
This interview was information and necessary. I love the practical tips she laid out for people. I have shared with my girls.
Can we get some practicals on how to start investing, finding purpose and choosing a job as she stated throughout the video please?
This was an incredible interview Bishop with Mellody. This is not the first time I have heard her speak. She is such an inspiration to me and to black women. I have knowledge of what she talks about and my work ethic is very similar to hers. I don’t care what you give me to do I am going to be the best at it. I love to challenge myself to see just how far I can strive! And always looking for a way to make more money especially when I was a single mother raising my son. I am now trying to invest in my retirement and my next phase in life. I am not happy with what I am doing at my job. My end has come. Waiting on direction from God on how to begin what he has placed in my spirit. Thank you for the time with Mellody! God bless you!
Melody Hobson. Awesome interview. Thanks Bishop Jakes……..
I will not give up my purpose for a man….that's profound. Women really don't understand this in marriage. We have destiny and purpose too. Awesome.
Excellent interview! Thank you.
We need a series with mellody on investing, walking in purpose, business practices, how to be indispensable
Wow, Thank you for this interview and for introducing us to Mellody Hobson. Love her, and learnt so much. Bishop you are right, her articulation of profound truths is just wooooooo (for luck of better word). I have learnt a lot and thank you once again. God bless.
I help people with personal finance. I was born into poverty, never knew my father, had three brothers close in age, and was raised by a single mom. The LORD helped me understand I could do far more with my life and did not have to continue living in poverty into adulthood.
We became millionaires in our late forties and multi-millionaires not many years thereafter and retired from public servant jobs (government and university) at 55 years of age by following the steps below. We also help other people utilize the same pattern of good stewardship to free them from financial bondage and help them build wealth. We had gotten ourselves into $135,000 of debt and had a negative $35,000 net worth at the time we started finally making sense of life financially by paying attention to lessons learned. We employed the following process / system to move forward in a constructive way.
1) We utilized a giving / saving / spending plan (budget) looking out over 6 months to a year (and more especially with the help of a computer) to budget our income and ensure our expenses were less than we earned each month. This showed us (a) whether we would have a surplus or deficit, (b) whether we needed to find additional income via second jobs or no cost / low cost entrepreneurial endeavors (which we did and continue to engage), and (c) which bill to put surplus funds toward to help eliminate them faster. We mostly used the debt snowball method of payment along the way.
2) We tithed and gave to our local Church and gave additional donations to worthwhile charitable organizations to allow the heavenly supernatural floodgates to open over our finances so we had more than our human power working on our behalf.
3) We maintained a small emergency fund until we paid off all non-mortgage debt ($1,000 or so).
4) We became constructively debt-free within six years and totally debt-free (including mortgage within 12 years) and remain debt-free since then.
5) We refuse to cosign for anybody else's debt.
6) We built our emergency fund to $10,000+ after paying of all non-mortgage debt and now our surplus funds are enormous.
7) Starting at about 28 years of age, we invested at least 10 percent of our gross in our retirement and Roth IRA accounts. In latter years our investment percentage was about 35% of gross income. We put our money mostly in no-load low-expense stock index mutual funds. We also diversify our investments in at least 7 or 8 different brokerages and funds.
Now we help people follow a system that helps them gain the same type of benefits. Unfortunately, many people misinterpret the bible and are blind to the fact that its guidance helps people prosper economically. Scripture instructs us to work and engage entrepreneurial / investment endeavors and to (1) plan (including budget), (2) establish reasonable savings for emergencies, (3) eliminate debt, (4) refuse to cosign, (5) invest for wealth building, and (6) diversify assets (which generally provides multiple passive streams of income at some point in life).
I hope this helps. May the LORD bless you richly as you seek His guidance, stop listening to the nay-sayers, and follow His plan into your purpose!
WOW, WOW, WOW, THAT WAS INSPIRATIONAL!!! LOVED WHAT BOTH SHARED TODAY!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU MEL & BISHOP!!!!! SHALOM SHALOM
Jaw dropper discussion! Thank you.
She is soooooo inspiring.
I absolutely LOVE & Adore Mellody Hobson and have listened to just about everyone of her interviews. I must say that this one is the best one yet …. Bishop Jakes has a way of reaching deep into the Spirit and Soul and discretely gives permission for the interviewee to bare all w/ out their own control. It was so beautiful to see Mellody moved with not just her intellect but her emotions. Interview is Epic! Loved it! ❣️
Powerful don’t blame anyone for the life you choose!
This was profound. Always like her.
This is powerful!!!! We need more of this to help us working women, wife and mothers. Thank you Bishop and Ms. Melody.
37:27 – Read. Just read! Whew, that was a whole sermon right there. Reading is fundamental.
To have a spiritual live rather poor or rich is extremely important. We sometimes forget that we are nothing without God. He is the center of vevy thing we do.
The was an awesome amazing and very informative interview.
I could watch their interviews all day
She's TRULY AMAZING!!!! Great one sir T!!!
Awesome. Been following Mellody Hobson /Ariel Investments for a while. Great collaboration for you two.
Thank you Bishop T.D. Jakes. Mellody is a phenomenal woman. Thank you for sharing this video.
Incredible Mellody Hobson and Bishop Jakes! I gained so much valuable information…Thank you Mellody and Bishop Jakes and most of all thank God for this awesome Interview!
Such an incredible interview. Thank you
I just loved hearing her story and was so glad to hear her talk about the importance of having a financial advisor. The fundamentals of investing it so important.
I'm a true fan of Mellody Hopson. She's a powerful speaker on finance. I have learned a lot.
Some people aren't successful and don't want to get promoted they just get by.