Rachid Bilal and Troy Millings, founders and co-CEOs of business, education, and podcast platform Earn Your Leisure (EYL), will give the keynote address at the 14th edition of The One Club for Creativity’s hybrid Where Are All The Black People (WAATBP) diversity conference and career fair, taking place September 26-27, 2024 at Convene at Brookfield Place in New York.
Bilal and Millings, who will speak in the morning of WAATBP’s second day, started EYL in 2018 as a media platform which gives rise to emerging and established content creators from the world of business, finance, and entrepreneurship whose perspective, expertise and in-depth insight have been undervalued and overlooked.
The platform has three top 100 podcasts including “Earn Your Leisure”, which has amassed over 50 million downloads and is consistently ranked in the top 20 business podcasts in the U.S. EYL has over two million followers across social media, 900,000 YouTube subscribers, and hosts live events across the globe including “Invest Fest,” the world’s largest financial literacy festival with over 14,000 attendees in 2022.
The platform also includes EYL University, an online educational platform and interactive community with over 12,000 active members and more than 200 archived webinars covering a range of business, finance, and entrepreneurial topics, making it one of the fastest growing private business education communities.
WAATBP is an annual gathering to address and correct the lack of diversity within the ad industry, bringing together Black voices from across the ad community–from students to C-suite leaders–to celebrate successes, examine challenges, and assert their rightful place at the table alongside their allies. Virtual panels, portfolio reviews, and recruiting sessions will happen online on September 26. The next day consists of in-person proceedings, kicking off with the keynote address, followed by additional presentations, crowdsourced panels, recruiting booths, and portfolio reviews.
In order to make the event as accessible as possible, WAATBP is free for job seekers and students to attend. Initial confirmed sponsors to date include Giant Spoon, Klick Health, Ogilvy, Team One, Verizon, and We Are Social, with more to come. Partnership opportunities are available for agencies and brands looking to help promote industry diversity.
Local school staple “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” from 1939 hits the big screen nationwide
Most Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week in 1939 after climbing the state's tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S. is getting in on the story.
Opening in 650 movie theaters on Friday, "Lost on a Mountain in Maine" tells the harrowing tale of 12-year-old Donn Fendler, who spent nine days on Mount Katahdin and the surrounding wilderness before being rescued. The gripping story of survival commanded the nation's attention in the days before World War II and the boy's grit earned an award from the president.
For decades, Fendler and Joseph B. Egan's book, published the same year as the rescue, has been required reading in many Maine classrooms, like third-grade teacher Kimberly Nielsen's.
"I love that the overarching theme is that Donn never gave up. He just never quits. He goes and goes," said Nielsen, a teacher at Crooked River Elementary School in Casco, who also read the book multiple times with her own kids.
Separated from his hiking group in bad weather atop Mount Katahdin, Fendler used techniques learned as a Boy Scout to survive. He made his way through the woods to the east branch of the Penobscot River, where he was found more than 30 miles (48 kilometers) from where he started. Bruised and cut, starved and without pants or shoes, he survived nine days by eating berries and lost 15 pounds (7 kilograms).
The boy's peril sparked a massive search and was the focus of newspaper headlines and nightly radio broadcasts. Hundreds of volunteers streamed into the region to help.
The movie builds on the children's book, as told by Fendler to Egan, by drawing upon additional interviews and archival footage to reinforce the importance of family, faith and community during difficult times,... Read More