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JOHN HOPE BRYANT: On Oprah Winfrey, the Forbes Self-Made 250, and What It Really Means to Come from Nothing

by John Bryant | Jul 6, 2026 | BG Digital Media LLC, Bryant Group Digital Media LLC, Bryant on Good Capitalism, Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Bryant on the Move, Bryant Thought Leadership, Bryant Traveling Man, Financial Literacy, Hope Is On The Way, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights, Uncategorized

In Philadelphia, at the birthplace of American democracy, the woman who started with nothing stood as America’s greatest self-made success story. That is not coincidence. That is proof. I have spent my life talking about the distance between poverty and...

Tomorrow on Money and Wealth: Dr. Sanjay Gupta

by Louis Deas | Jun 26, 2026 | Uncategorized

Your zip code is a bigger predictor of how long you’ll live than your DNA. That’s not me talking. That’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta—practicing neurosurgeon at Emory, Emmy-winning chief medical correspondent for CNN, best-selling author, and one of the most...

He Runs the Physical Machine Behind the World’s Largest Retailer. He Showed Up in a Vest.

by Louis Deas | Jun 18, 2026 | Uncategorized

Coming Friday to Money & Wealth with John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE When John Hope Bryant says he only reaches outside himself for “the best of the best,” he means it. This Friday, that means a household name you know —...

Three Times Wealth Knocked — And the Door Stayed Closed

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...

Why I Believe Culture Is the Key to Closing the Financial Literacy Gap

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...

From Compton to the C-Suite: The Blueprint for Black Excellence

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...