FALL 2024 ISSUE - Flipbook - Page 13
The Most Influential
Person in My Life
Glenn: I9d say it was my grandmother,
a praying woman who had to join my
mother in her pursuit to wellness,
coming out of mental illness and
homelessness, who was the most
innuential. My grandmother was
right there with us. Her conodence,
her faith in God was unshakable. Her
strength, her courage, and conodence
was unimaginable.
My baby sister, who was born into
a nice stable life, was one of the most
innuential people in my life. When
my baby sister was born, it motivated
me to work harder and focus on my
future. I have siblings from my father9s
side and I9ve also had the privilege of
meeting my siblings on my fathers side.
My sister, Denise is as close to me as if
we grew up together and you couldn9t
ask for a better niece and nephew. But
more so, my grandmother was my main
innuence.
Cassandra: Exactly how did you
transition into the business role?
Glenn: That happened by working
with Mike and Dave. My brother and
I were always entrepreneurial. We were
born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
We moved from St. Albans, Cambria
Heights, Laurelton area into Queens
Village. Later, as a recording artist, I
went into South Jamaica, Southside.
We deonitely didn9t want to sell drugs
during a time when everyone
beneoted from the crack trade.
Everyone has beneoted from
illicit trade, from politicians
who were bootleggers using
liquid instead of powder, right?
So we didn9t trade in that, but
many of our friends did.
As educated entrepreneurs,
my brother and I believed
in systems. We had creative
thinking mechanisms that
we used in order to look at
businesses, in general. I think
my 8driving force9 was in the
stock market. I always did
really well in that area and
it9s the reason I stayed at a
certain economic bracket all
my adult life, from 17 years old
to now, because of saving and
leveraging instruments. I took
that business part of it, and put
it with the art part.
The art part wasn9t always
the smart part, but it was either
a vehicle to get somewhere or
something I could commoditize
as an asset. However, it stayed
in the business format. When I
was on stage, I dwelled on stage
until the job got of, to focus on
performing and being on stage
until the show was over, and then I
went back to focusing on business.
A lot of recording artists still live
on stage when they get of, whether
they9re getting high, not handling
their business, not pursuing other
opportunities, and not their art form.
It9s hindering their personal and
spiritual development. Mine continued
to thrive. My arts were not the only
thing I looked to. It was just an
expression of communication; it was a
tool, but not one that was controlling
me. With a lot of people9s gifts, they
need cocaine, or weed, or other sorts of
things to get the artistic thing out or to
control the demons. Some people want
to be stars and they9ll sacrioce anything
on this planet. They9re people pleasers.
I came in as a boss. A boss that had
responsibility, using hard work and
my gifts, but accepting my limits and
never living in the fantasy world.
International
DealMaker, Talent and
Sports Consultant
Cassandra: So you9ve acquired some
NFL sports clients as well. Can you tell
us how that came about?
Dr. Glenn: I met a gentleman by
the name of Alonzo Schavers who
was a young agent at the time. He
saw what I was doing with David
Banner, LL Cool J, diferent artists I
worked with in my history. He liked
my business acumen. I told him I9d
invest 8x9 amount of money if I could
move the company up by 10 times - and
then own a percentage of it. I did it!
Over a decade, we had unimaginable
success. Everybody from rookies who
were great, to other veterans that came
back. We really did well by doing
marketing, personal development,
personal onance, and taking the NFL
to leverage it to work for the client.
We did 350 million dollars in contract
business over a period of time. I bought
into that company.
W
e broke the record with
Asante Samuel. I did
62 million for that.
From there, I exited and
went into small stage,
early stage investing,
equities, stocks, sophisticated debt
ofering, raising money for technology
companies, real estate, innovative ideas,
entertainment, science, and medical.
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