The Story Behind Calculated Steps.
This Podcast was created out of necessity. Founder and Host Wilford Clark, seen the unfair advantage a mile away. As a youngster in 1985 one of my grandmothers summoned my little brother and I to the front of the house. She walked us over to Ms. Emmas house. Another lady a little older than she an knew her for years, prior to my brothers and my own existence. This day we would learn about service for money. Gram took us over to Ms. Emma and told us to get her trash and take it to the curb trash. It’s trash night. We did as we were told. Next day Ms. Imma call motioned for my brother and I to come back over. Again, we did as we were told. But this time Ms. Emma had this little purse in her hand with a clasp on it. She twisted that clasp open and dumped shiny Quarters, Nickles and Dimes into her hand and divided it equally into our little patiently little dirty hands. We ran to the steps in front of our grandmothers’ house, we looked at each other smiled and instinctively looked up and down Decatur St. and plotted on the next garbage night for the entire street. We would make a killing. After being incarcerated for a laundry list of bad decision making throughout his younger years leading to a 5, then a ten-year prison sentence. The 1st sentence, Wilford was introduced to the education department. In that building he was invited to the Business Development Class. Then Business Math and English. Understanding the Stock Market. I then began to devoir book after book, on personal finance, Real Estate books, Newspapers, Wal Street Journal, Pink Sheets from London, Barrons, you name it. For good measure I would sit in the law library with the people fighting for their life reading up on Corporate Law. Before bringing in the digital library. That had me creating my own By-Laws Articles of Incorporation.
My second trip away. I left when my space was popular. When I came back home. Social was the craze. When I got my real phone and I say real, because we could not have camera phone in the halfway house. I was scrolling on You Tube and kept seeing all these people talking come get rich with me. All of the reels were people standing in front of Jets Lamborghini’s, Bentleys all kinds of toys the average person couldn’t obtain. So, Boom Calculated Steps was born. Personal Finance is the primary focus here. We post labor statistics for motivational re-enforcement for our visitors to apply with caution what they may have learned from an episode discussion.
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