REPLAY from 09/17/18: Descendant of Madam CJ Walker On The Show

Our guest, Ms. Bundles, will be joining us to speak about the documentary she has developed for Netflix about noted African American entrepreneur CJ Walker that will air on Netflix. Ms. Bundles is a direct descendant of America's first African American woman millionaire but also a accomplished journalist and Public speaker. in her own right.

Ms. Bundles says she can remember the smells of hair pomades in the factory, where women stirred ointment in hand in grea, black vats...And, she also remembers her mother taking her to Madam C.J. Walker's beauty school in Indianapolis in the 1960s to have her hair styled in an Afro...And, of course, she remembers growing up with the remants of the black wealth created b Walker, who built an empire in the early 1900s selling hair scalp ointments...A'Lelia Bundles wrote the Biography "On Her Own Ground, The Life and Times of Madame C.J. Walker."

The cloth napkins placed on her childhood dining room table were stitched with Walker's monogram, the baby grand piano on wich Bundles learned to read music had belonged to Walker's only daughter, A'Lelia Walker, a wealthy patron of the arts who threw lavish parties in her mansion in Harlem and Walker's 20,000 square foot estate, Villa Lewaro, in Irvington, N.Y. 

Langston Hughes once called Walker, the "Joy Goddess of the Harlem Renaissance."

“The saying was that Madam Walker made the money, and her daughter, my great-grandmother, spent it,” says Bundles, 64, a former producer and Washington bureau chief for ABC News.   

Also on the show is Gabriel Godwin, The Founder of Moovn, a Competitor to Uber, which is hoping to vitalize business both here in the U.S. and in Africa.  And Cliff Latshaw, the Inventor of a New Bass Preamp.   Both are great guests..Both of these guests share what entrepreneurship has been like for them, and lessons learned.