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They wrote Lyda Newman out of history. And some of you are letting the market write you out in real time. Every time you pick up a modern hairbrush, you’re using technology redesigned and patented by a Black woman in 1898. And most people don’t even know her name. Lyda D. Newman. She was a hairdresser. She saw a problem. She engineered a better solution. And then she did what many brilliant women refuse to do. She protected it. She secured a U.S. patent. In 1898. As a Black woman. That wasn’t just innovation. That was ownership. Because without ownership… Your brilliance becomes someone else’s revenue stream. And I need you to hear me clearly. Some of you are creating proprietary frameworks. You are getting your clients results. You are building methodologies that actually work. But you’re not naming them. You’re not positioning them. You’re not protecting them. And then you’re shocked when someone repackages your ideas with better marketing and calls it revolutionary. Lyda understood something most experts still don’t. Innovation gives you leverage. Protection gives you power. Positioning gives you influence. And influence opens doors that talent alone never will. She didn’t just invent a brush. She built credibility. She leveraged that credibility into leadership in the suffrage movement. She turned expertise into platform. That’s the move. Not just working hard. Not just being brilliant. Not just being visible. Ownership. Some of you don’t need another certification. You need to formalize what you’ve already created. You don’t need more followers. You need to claim your methodology publicly. You don’t need more applause. You need intellectual property. Innovation without ownership is exposure without protection. Ownership creates authority. Authority creates wealth. P.S. If you’re ready to stop playing small and start positioning your brilliance at the level it deserves, get on the waitlist for Black Women Sell Live 2026. The room is different. The energy is different. The results are different.

A room full of church men told her it couldn’t be done. “Black Washingtonians aren’t going to fund a whole school for poor girls. You’re dreaming too big.” The worst part? Some of the doubt came from her own people. Nannie Helen Burroughs had no degree, no job in the D.C. school system that had already rejected her, and no wealthy backers. But she had a vision: a school for Black women and girls that taught academics, trades, and leadership. So she did something they did not expect. She got the National Baptist Convention to purchase six acres of land in Washington, D.C., then raised the funds not from rich white donors, but from Black churches, Black women, and Black children—nickels, dimes, and crumpled dollar bills. In 1909, those “small” gifts opened the National Training School for Women and Girls, drawing students from across the country. Welcome to Day 13 of Deleted History: Black Women Entrepreneurs They Prayed You’d Never Learn About. What Black women entrepreneurs can steal from her playbook: Turn “no” into infrastructure: She didn’t just move past rejection—she built the institution that would have hired her. Let your people be your investors: She proved a community others dismissed could bankroll a vision that outlived her. Build institutions, not just income: Her name is still on buildings and in records more than a century later. If Nannie Helen Burroughs could build a school from nickels in 1909, you can learn to sell your brilliance in 2026. That’s why Black Women Sell Live 2026 exists—to help Black women turn story, skill, and strategy into sales, clients, and legacy. Your next “institution” might start with one decision. Join the waitlist for Black Women Sell Live here: www.blackwomensellevent.com

Ida B. Wells proved something America still doesn’t want to admit. The “reason” they gave for lynching wasn’t the real reason. So she did what truth-tellers do She investigated. She read the white newspapers. She dug into the data. She followed the money. And what she found was horrifying. Black people weren’t being lynched only because of lies about “crime.” They were being lynched because they were building power. Opening grocery stores. Buying land. Starting businesses white folks couldn’t control. Economic competition was a death sentence. So Ida picked up her pen and went to war. Not with vibes. With receipts. She ran the numbers. Named names. Published the truth in pamphlets like Southern Horrors and The Red Record. Cold detail. No comfort. No softening. Then she took that truth on the road. Boats. Trains. Packed rooms. In the 1890s, she toured the U.S. and Britain, speaking about lynching and Black economic terror. And here’s the part people skip: She made money doing it Those lectures and publications earned her what could arguably be worth over seven figures in today’s dollars across her career. A Black woman. Talking about racist violence. Getting paid to tell the truth. In the 1890s. And she did it while raising a family in Chicago. Building with her husband Ferdinand L. Barnett — a prominent Black lawyer, journalist, and later the first Black assistant state’s attorney in Illinois. Chicago roots. Law. Media. Money. Movement work. Ida was doing all of that before any of us. But the part that really sits in my chest? She traveled with help. She organized her life so she could mother, write, travel, and speak. She brought support with her when she hit the road. Long before anybody had language like “traveling nanny,” she was living the truth: Black women do not have to do everything alone. Now let me make this personal. I’m from Chicago. I’m a lawyer. I’m a speaker. I travel with a nanny so I can do my work and raise my baby without burning out. And yes—people have told me:

This year, we will honor our Cashlete Angels by having them on the walls of the hotel at Speak Your Way To Cash Live 2025. Both of these incredible women exhibited grace, love, and a joy for life. I’m so honored to have known them, coached them, and watched them thrive. They were well-loved, and their legacy will live on through the impact they made in our community. ❤️❤️ Please join me in keeping their families in prayer. At this year’s event, we’ll not only be building businesses, we’ll also be celebrating the lives and light of those who showed us what it means to truly live. Sabrina and Theresa you are missed. 🙏