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 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 John Bryant | May 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
She was born from the fight to end slavery. The chains are still there — if you know where to look. I was standing on Ellis Island last night, celebrating friends who were receiving the 2026 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and I could not stop looking at her. Lady...
by Louis Deas | May 15, 2026 | Bryant Announcement, Uncategorized
The United States Senate confirmed Kevin Warsh as the 17th Chair of the Federal Reserve, and I want to be among the first to offer my sincere congratulations. I’ve had the pleasure to know Chairman Warsh for many years, dating back to my time as Vice Chair of the...
by Louis Deas | May 14, 2026 | Money and Wealth Podcast, Uncategorized
The most powerful people I know are also the most decent. Wait until you meet the one I sat down with this week. Steve Steinour runs one of the largest banks in America. He has the kind of access most people only read about — Republican governors, Democratic...
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