by Louis Deas | Jun 12, 2026 | Uncategorized
This week on Money & Wealth, John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, sits down with his friend and brother, Dr. Jamal Bryant — Senior Pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church — for a conversation that goes places neither of them...
by Louis Deas | Jun 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
For more than three decades, I’ve believed one simple truth: you cannot have a rainbow without a storm first. Operation HOPE was born out of that conviction—that the underserved deserve not charity, but access. Not a handout, but a hand up. And today, I’m...
by Louis Deas | May 29, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast
I’ll be honest with you: a few years back, I was ready not to like the Koch family. You think you know somebody by their last name, their family’s headlines, your perception of the politics. Then you take time to actually listen. You sit across from them...
by Louis Deas | May 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
Compton made me, so when I tell you Kristy Fercho came up out of those same streets and climbed all the way to the first Black woman ever on Wells Fargo’s operating committee, you understand what that distance really means. She helped run one of the biggest...
by Louis Deas | May 15, 2026 | Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Bryant on Meaning, Financial Literacy, Operation HOPE, Press Release
As Jerome Powell concludes his tenure as Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, I want to take a moment to honor a man who served this country with uncommon grace. I had the pleasure of meeting with Chair Powell recently, and I can tell you — he is a good man. Decent,...
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