Develop, manage, market, and produce internet radio station that uniquely infuses spoken word, conscious Hip Hop, and soul music with artist, business, community, and youth development programming. • Have produced over 540 podcast episodes that are syndicated on Blogtalk Radio, iTunes, iHeart Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, Castbox, TuneIn, PlayerFM, Mixcloud, Spreaker, Soundcloud, Stitcher Radio and more. • Also co-host Soul Purpose Tuesday: Your Mid-Morning Lunchtime Wellness Groove, Music and Spoken Word Review shows, and host of the Marketing Pop-up Podcast and Beyond Talk: Businesses Take Tourism 2 Profit • Shows produced include Beyond Talk with Faith Moore-McKinney (the official radio broadcast of the BEED Conference), The Flip Side: Our Young Men Take The Mic and Beyond the Word (the Master Griot Radio signature series aka Industry Mondays: The Business of Spoken Word and Spoken Word Poetry, The Art, The Industry, The Viability.

Master Griot Radio began as a show on channel 13 of NBBTA (National Black Business Trade Association) Radio and later in 2008 headed up the live version on NBBTA Radio on Blogtalk Radio.

The Master Griot Project™ is a unique strategic marketing initiative I've developed to support viability within the spoken word industry. In other words, the goal is to create a demand for spoken word artists, identify opportunities, and develop revenue streams and new markets within the entertainment sub-industry of spoken word performance poetry. Our measurement will be the increased revenue generated by spoken word artists and an increased number of artists able to allow spoken word to be the main source of income.

This artist and industry development project consists of five core properties:

• Database
• Marketing for Recording Spoken Word Poetry Artists w. Pay Us No Mind™ & Impacc NOW
• Grioism™ television series
• Top 40 charts for spoken word poetry
• The Master Griot™ Awards (the Oscars of spoken word)

• been integral in establishing a more diverse view of spoken word
• produced over 550 internet radio podcasts
• established the Master Griot™ brand, master level poet, of which some of the nation's top spoken word artist leverage this branding: Greg (Just Greg) Corbin, Perry (Vision), Tommy Bottoms, Lois Moses, Lyrispect, Brothas Keepa, Amun Miraaj
• produced compilation, Purpose Driven Words
• produced performance collective which performances included the Underground Storm (PHL), NYC Black Expo at Jacob Javitz Center, and opening for J. Ivey at the Philadelphia Convention Center and for Fat Joe at Loews Paradise Theater in New York
• produced contracted programming for One Book; One Philadelphia
• produced live Black Love Day event at the former Arts Garage

As creator and manager I:

• have crafted a concise unique hybrid multi-genre multi-purpose tour experience, a movement where the attendees are the real celebrities... we call it Purple Fandom.
• have developed an experience that brings measurable value to host cities, sponsors, and participating visual and performance artists, authors, brand and tech vendors
• foster meaningful collaboration among artists, small businesses, and community organizations.
• established an independent media and distribution network of salons and barbershops in 23 cities
• develop a profitable strategy
• acquire and manage sponsorship
• have crafted the tour as a measurable growth platform for emerging independent artists
• coordinate hands-on community service in each city
• also leverage the tour as talent acquisition for The Master Griot Project's reality competition series, Grioism™