ORLANDO, Fla. – This week on “Black Men Sundays,” host Corie Murray shares part two of his interview with Marvin Wilson, aka Meta Marvin, CEO of the financial education company Funding Credit.
During part one of the conversation, Wilson and Murray got to talking about the importance of maintaining a good credit score if you’re planning to start your own business. Wilson advised starting said business with a bank loan instead of using your own cash at first, and good credit is among the first things you should attain to make the bank play ball.
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However, what if you’re living paycheck to paycheck and can’t seem to improve your credit score?
“The first thing that I would tell someone that would say that to me, I would tell them to change their language. That’s the first thing that I would tell him, because whatever you’re saying, you believe that. I know what you’re looking at, but the dynamics of Meta Marvin — ‘meta’ is beyond the physical — I have to see it the way I see it, I have to start saying it how I want it to show up,” Wilson said. “(...) You just got to be able to get into looking at, ‘How can I look at my situation,’ rather it be me getting a little bit more information about how I can change it. Having the will to want to change it and affirming to yourself that it will go and change. Like I said, there’s not nothing that happens overnight, but I just tell people, it has to start from somewhere.”
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Now then, let’s say you’re a business owner with an established gig, yet you’re spending more money than you’re making. What then?
“I say, stay in the game as long as you can, man. Like I said, try not to go out there and use your money. For one, don’t exhaust your money. Don’t, like, quit your job altogether. I mean, I did it, but one thing about my story — when I put my resignation in, they was about to fire me. (...) I was already moving my feet, so I had outgrew my place,” Wilson said.
Whatever happens, you’ve got to make it work best for you, ideally on your terms. If one plan falls through, you’ve got to have another one ready to go, if not already in motion.
“You got to whittle it, little bit by little bit; but for the business, and I’d say this man, I’m different. I know that everybody’s not here to be built to be a business owner but I would definitely challenge people to look at something that you like, man. I’m just pro-entrepreneur, you know what I’m saying?” Wilson said. “A lot of people, just like what Corie doing right now, gotten probably one of the best jobs you could ever have. I mean, look at where he works at, but on the side, he still has the skill set that he could put in a business model and the same thing he do for them people he could be doing for other people.”
Hear the rest of interview and more in Season 4, Episode 27 of “Black Men Sundays.”
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