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Is financial stability a prerequisite for good health, or is good health the foundation for building wealth? Examining the intricate relationship between economic well-being and physical wellness in Black communities and how community-driven models of care can reshape accessibility, affordability, and outcomes.
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00:00All right, how's everybody doing?
00:24Oh, no, you got to do better than that.
00:25How's everybody doing?
00:27All right, all right.
00:28Well, we appreciate your time.
00:30Thank you for coming out.
00:31We have an amazing panel for you.
00:32By the way, this is going to be the best panel you've had today.
00:36All right.
00:37And we're going to talk about something that I think we all have in different conversations
00:41been talked about, which is health is wealth and wealth is health.
00:46And, you know, it's the chicken and egg kind of concept here, right, as far as, you know,
00:49think about it.
00:50If you're not healthy, it doesn't matter how much money you have.
00:54But on the other side of it, if you are wealthy, you might have access to health.
00:59That other people don't have.
01:01We can think with the recent law that's been passed.
01:03We know how many Medicare and Medicaid lives are going to be infected, almost affected,
01:08almost 17 million people.
01:10So health and wealth are linked.
01:12And today we're going to talk about that with an amazing panel.
01:16Maybe I'll start with introductions here.
01:19Master P, if you could just introduce yourself and let us know why you're here.
01:23How y'all doing?
01:24I'm Percy Miller, Master P, also known as Coach P.
01:29And for me, health and wealth, it all go together.
01:33Because if you don't have your health, there's no need for wealth.
01:37Because think about all the money you have, you'll be chasing trying to pay for sickness,
01:42pay for all these different bills, right, for your health.
01:45But I want you guys to know, as you lead on this journey, let God lead you on it.
01:52And that's the most important thing.
01:54When you have God, nothing is impossible.
01:56Put your trust and faith in him.
01:58But your health is so important.
02:00And I love that.
02:01Y'all, look, so we talk about health.
02:03He had a drink up here called King Kong, and it's an energy drink.
02:06This is a black-owned company, and I love that we're able to help market and promote people
02:13that look like us.
02:14But what I love about this drink, read the back of it, what we were saying, how.
02:19Okay, so let me try to work with my glasses here.
02:24Yeah, so it is the most, I can't read it there.
02:31Pass it to her.
02:31Okay, you read it?
02:33Sorry.
02:34Oh, she ain't got a glass.
02:36You know what?
02:36But what I want y'all to know.
02:39It's the clean energy.
02:40It's the clean.
02:41I've actually had it.
02:42Oh, he's had it.
02:43It's the cleanest energy drink in the marketplace, black-owned.
02:46Black-owned.
02:47Give him a round of applause.
02:48For us.
02:49And so what I want to tell you guys about health that's so important, because I'm here from
02:56New Orleans, and I grew up here, and a lot of people think that they're going to be these
02:59great athletes, and they think they're going to go to the pros, and they think they're going
03:03to be so successful.
03:05I'm just telling y'all, 99% of that chance is not going to happen, right?
03:10And if we have our help, because we don't understand how important health is until we get injured,
03:17or something happened to us to where we're like, what am I going to do with myself?
03:22Now that I always say the man with no shoes always cry until he see the man with no feet.
03:30And the man with no feet, he cries until he sees the man with no legs.
03:34And so I want to change that mindset and be like, be thankful every day, and really put
03:39the right things in your body, because you know that you want to get the best.
03:43Because I feel like once I have the right things, and I wake up in the morning, and I feel good,
03:49I can actually go out there and chase my dreams.
03:52I can actually go out there and do the things that I need to do.
03:55And so I feel like health is so important, and I know people get up in the morning and
03:59say, hey, I want to feel good.
04:01If I feel good, everything else doesn't matter, right?
04:04Even when we have a bad day, but if you feel good, I feel good when I'm ready to go.
04:10And so that's been the, people say, Pete, why you don't stop?
04:13I say, cuz, there's no limit.
04:16There's no limit to my health, y'all, because I think that being a coach has taught me that
04:25if I'm teaching other people, then I have to do the right things for myself.
04:29So everybody that's out here, it's a blessing to get up, but take care of your body.
04:33The more we take care of our body, the longer we will last.
04:36Yes, absolutely.
04:37Hand for that, hand for that.
04:38Well, my two other distinguished panelists, Naisha, why don't you explain, give a little
04:44introduction.
04:45So hello, everyone.
04:46I'm Naisha Foster, and I have the privilege.
04:50That's my people.
04:53I'm vice president of global health and social impact at Pfizer.
04:58And what that means is I have the pleasure of closing the health equity gap around the
05:03globe by donating our products to those people who can't afford them.
05:07And to organizations like the World Health Organization, partnering with them in countries
05:13where they need access to our medicines.
05:15At Pfizer, we're not just about discovering and marketing.
05:19We're about making sure that everyone, everywhere, gets access to our medicines.
05:24I'm originally from Brownsville, Brooklyn.
05:26Yeah, that's right.
05:28And I grew up in a single-family household.
05:32My mother worked at Rikers.
05:33She did all that she could to get me here today.
05:37And so every morning, I get to wake up and give back.
05:39And that's why I'm here today.
05:41I left my family back in Boston for a few days so I can come here and talk to you about
05:45the importance of your health, honoring yourself, and thinking about health beyond just what
05:51happens in the doctor's office.
05:52As we know, 80% of what your health happens outside of a doctor's visit.
05:58So prevention, watching what you put in your body, exercising is of the utmost importance.
06:04And so thank you all for being here today.
06:10How are you guys doing today?
06:12Good.
06:13You know how I'm doing today?
06:14It's the best day of my life.
06:16Every day when people ask me how I'm doing, I tell them it's the best day of my life.
06:19So I'm going to ask you again, how are you guys doing today?
06:23Did you know around the world, every night, over 50,000 people go to bed and don't wake
06:28up the next day?
06:29So the fact that I'm here, you're here, we're already winning.
06:32Right?
06:33My name is Asilfi Taylor.
06:34I'm the founder of Taylor Insurance Financial Services.
06:37I'm headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
06:39I've spent two and a half decades in financial services.
06:43I started when I was 12.
06:44I started my career with this pursuit to make a lot of money.
06:49I wanted to be successful.
06:51This gentleman over here wanted to make a lot of money.
06:53And I achieved a certain level of success.
06:55And then I realized, where's the balance?
06:57And I created a reality series that's actually out on Amazon called Mind, Body, Money.
07:02Positive mindset, right?
07:04Those that think they can do something and those that think they cannot do something are both
07:07usually right.
07:08Your body, health, and wellness.
07:10No one was ever on their deathbed wishing they had more money.
07:13Right?
07:13And then obviously you have to be a good steward of your money.
07:15But it's the balance amongst those three things that's so important.
07:18Right?
07:18So I love this message.
07:20We all come with our different, you know, strengths and backgrounds.
07:23But together, you know, I think we'll provide some good insights today.
07:27Yeah, that's awesome.
07:28And so many of you, this is an amazing panel.
07:30I'd just like to, I'm blessed to be the one moderating this panel.
07:34My name is Imamu Tomlinson.
07:36I'm the CEO of Vituity.
07:37We care for about 12 million patients just last year.
07:39We also provide free health care for people through Vituity Cares.
07:43And lastly, I'd say one of the things about me is I'm very disagreeable.
07:47If you want to check out, I'm at the, we're at a booth back there.
07:50You can check out my book, Less Than 1%.
07:53But the idea of being disagreeable, right?
07:56You know, for black people in this health care environment, considering that this is a system
08:01not built for us, how does health play into that?
08:04And Coach P, we were talking backstage about the fact that we are looking to try to build
08:10things with them, but maybe we should build with each other.
08:13Well, so think about it, right?
08:14When the COVID first came, a lot of us took the COVID shots.
08:19A lot of us didn't because we was confused, right?
08:23We never really got to the bottom of it.
08:25And then as time went by, we started realizing, should I took that or shouldn't have I?
08:31And so my thing is, is the educational piece is so important, but we have to educate us
08:37and we have to stick together because we are so busy trying to outdo each other that we,
08:44we're not investing back into us.
08:46And so we can educate our people and give them the game and give them knowledge because
08:50wisdom is the most important thing.
08:52You need to know what you're putting into your bodies.
08:54And so what I love what you said too is how we connect together and then we start actually
09:02reading these things.
09:03I love that what you said was on that can.
09:05We start reading what's only, because guess what?
09:08You guys challenged me.
09:10I had made cereal and I got mad because my people was like, well, you got sugar in your cereal.
09:15And I said, the other cereals got sugar in it too.
09:19Nobody said nothing.
09:20But you guys challenged me.
09:23And then that's when I created Miller Family Foods and I made cereal with no sugar in it.
09:29And then I started thinking about the things and thinking about the products and brands.
09:33So we also got to think about each other because at the end of the day, if we don't think about
09:37each other, we can't grow and we can't create these things.
09:40And my, my, my motto is the more I make, the more I give.
09:43And so you can't give nothing if you don't make it, right?
09:47But when we support each other, and one thing I want you guys to know, as we're talking about
09:53health, we also got to stop just creating black brands.
09:57I love that we're creating black owned brands, but we got to create products for everybody.
10:01And so when we create vitamins or we create all these nutritional things, it shouldn't just
10:07be for us because they don't make product for them.
10:11They make it for everybody.
10:13That's why we buy it.
10:15And so we start thinking out, changing our mindset, saying that I want to create something
10:19big.
10:19When you look at Nike, Nike didn't make a pair of shoes.
10:23They made it for the world.
10:24And they started out their garage.
10:26And so imagine us changing that mindset and making sure that we program our minds till
10:31we want to have a long lasting life.
10:34When you want to have a long lasting life, then that mean that you got to put the right
10:38things in your body.
10:39Awesome.
10:39Can I jump in on one thing he said around the system not being designed for us?
10:44Yes.
10:45Let's not be fooled.
10:46The system is working exactly as it was designed to do, to leave us on the outside.
10:52But that is not where our story ends.
10:54Each of us are individually capable and responsible for lifting ourselves up, lifting up our communities
11:02and changing the world.
11:03So we can change the system and make sure that it's designed for us.
11:07We don't vote every four years.
11:09We vote every two years.
11:11We're involved in school systems and organizations.
11:14And by our continuing being involved in the four blocks just around our neighborhoods,
11:19things will change.
11:20Wow, that's impressive, impressive.
11:22You know, one of the things that we talk about for health, is there, you know, one word that
11:28you can leave this panel feeling like, hey, I found out about health is wealth.
11:32And I would say it's empowerment, right?
11:35It's empowerment.
11:35So it's easy for me to say I lead a big, you know, healthcare company, you know, Coach P.
11:41We all are in the field, but if you empower people, no matter who you are, where you're
11:46from, what you look like, to empower yourself to take ownership of your health, I think that's
11:50what, you know, so you're identifying.
11:52Selfie, I'm interested because you, I consume you on Instagram like you don't even know all
11:58the time.
11:59And you really talk about that empowerment.
12:01So can you talk a little bit about how somebody who isn't the CEO of a healthcare company or
12:06isn't Coach P, how did they empower themselves to make themselves more healthy?
12:11I mean, it starts again with mindset.
12:13It's your choice.
12:14So many of us are waiting to be given a chance in this life.
12:17And I've got bad news for you.
12:18We're never going to be given a chance.
12:20In this life, you have to take chances, right?
12:23I love the quote Milton Burrell said, if opportunity does not come knocking, then you go build a
12:28door, right?
12:30So we're waiting to be saved.
12:32But again, it starts with you, these decisions with you, right?
12:35And so my whole thing, as again, it's the best day of my life, every night when you put
12:40your head on the pillow, you have to ask yourself, have I done everything that I can do today
12:44to better my life, right?
12:46To help other people.
12:47Because make no mistake about it, in this life, you are green or you are brown.
12:51You are growing or you are dying.
12:52You are getting better or you are getting worse.
12:54But there's no staying the same.
12:56And as it relates to health, you have a choice.
12:58Because you can pay the farmer now, we're talking about what you're putting in your
13:02body.
13:02You can pay the farmer now or you can pay the doctor tomorrow, right?
13:07So you want to be proactive, not reactive.
13:10And I think as a people, we're always saying, this is what's happened to us.
13:14And to your point, P, let's be proactive and make things happen.
13:17Well, for me, y'all, I look at it like the door is going to close on you, but I'm going
13:23through the window.
13:24Like, I'm not stopping.
13:26Like, for real.
13:26Like, they're not going to stop me.
13:28And we're going to have challenges.
13:30We're going to have conditions.
13:33We're going to have adversity, right?
13:35The difference is we give up too quick.
13:39And we beat ourself.
13:40Like he said, it's mental.
13:42But you got to look in that mirror and say, how can I better myself?
13:45You can't better yourself if you're not healthy.
13:47Because you're not going to want to get up.
13:49You're not going to want to go nowhere.
13:50You can have all the money in the world.
13:51I mean, the guy who created the iPhone, right?
13:55The guy who created the iPhone, he didn't even get a chance to finish the boat that he
13:59made.
14:00And so that's what's scary to me.
14:02We have a lot to do.
14:04And so we have to take care of ourselves because everybody else thinks it's about money.
14:08So you have to be passionate and have a purpose.
14:12And if you have a passion, you have a purpose, you have a why.
14:15Like, think about if all of us have kids.
14:17We want to live for our kids.
14:19We want to do better for our kids because they watch it.
14:23And so as I grow and I evolve, I just keep figuring out because none of us is perfect.
14:27But like, how can I get better?
14:29How can I eat better?
14:30How can I do better?
14:31Right?
14:32You bring up something.
14:33Here's a question for the audience.
14:35Show of hands.
14:36Who in this room wants $100 million?
14:38Show of hands.
14:39$100 million.
14:40Okay.
14:41Okay, right.
14:41Now, now, if I said, I will give you $100 million, but the tradeoff is you have stage
14:48four cancer.
14:49Who still wants the money?
14:51Nobody.
14:52Nobody.
14:52See, so we make it about money.
14:55Yes.
14:55But it's not about the money.
14:57That's why I said, because think about this.
14:59How many people want a billion dollars?
15:01Put your hand up.
15:03But what if you died tomorrow?
15:06Would you want that billion dollars?
15:09You wouldn't.
15:10Doesn't matter.
15:11At all.
15:12It doesn't matter.
15:13So I tell people all the time, right, the same corner with the same plastic bag come
15:20to every hood, whether you live in a multi-million dollar hood or whether you live in a $10 hood.
15:25Let's be honest.
15:27Whether you live in the bottom of the poorest or the poorest place, that same corner come
15:31picks up everybody.
15:33So you can't think about the temporary stuff, even though we all know that we can be successful
15:38while we own this planet, right?
15:40And so at the same time, if you want to be on this planet longer, then you need to take
15:44care of yourself.
15:45And I just think that a lot of us don't look at life like that.
15:48We look at it like, oh, I just want this temporary success.
15:51I want it overnight.
15:52But you don't realize the dedication and the sacrifices that you have to make to be successful.
15:59Yeah.
16:00You know, Coach P talked earlier about partnerships.
16:02Now, I want to go there a little bit.
16:04You have a lot of partnerships to be able to achieve it.
16:07We can't do it on our own.
16:09So tell me about that.
16:10So at Pfizer, for over the last 10 years, we have worked with about 40 different not-for-profit
16:18organizations in the U.S. under an auspices called the Multicultural Health Equity Collective.
16:24Wow.
16:24And it's because we know that, one, we can't do it alone, and two, there are people who
16:30know a lot more about grassroots organizing than we do on the corner of 34th and 10th
16:36Avenue in Manhattan.
16:37And so we work with these organizations to understand the gaps in different communities
16:41and then figure out how we can support them, either through our financial resources, giving
16:46them access to our physicians, or helping them with policy priorities.
16:51A lot of people talk about, oh, I don't want to be in politics.
16:55But everything that we do, from the time we check in at work to the time we go to bed
17:01at night, is about policy.
17:03And you don't want someone who does not have your best interests in mind to set those policies
17:08for you.
17:08So we work with organizations that are advancing policies that are providing better access
17:14to medicines and access to health outcomes.
17:17Organizations like the National Urban League.
17:19Organizations like Dia de la Meje Latina, which is an organization that supports community
17:25health workers in Texas and across the country.
17:28And so I'm so proud of this work that we get to do with others and through others.
17:33And through that, that's how we build relationships with organizations that are going to impact good
17:38health around the world.
17:39That's amazing.
17:40Give her a round of applause for that.
17:41Amazing.
17:42You know, I want to change gears a little bit.
17:46And we talked about sort of the personal aspect of health.
17:49We talked about the professional aspect of health.
17:52What about the future?
17:53What does the future hold?
17:54Maybe, Selfie, I'll start with you and end with Coach P.
17:57Yeah, of course.
17:59So, you know, your energy is infectious.
18:02But what do you think is the future of health care?
18:05What do people leave here today to say, this is what I need to be healthy and wealthy?
18:09Yeah, there's two things, right, that dictate success.
18:13And we talked a lot preliminarily about mindset.
18:16But then the second is we actually need to work.
18:18You have to do things, right?
18:20You have to act.
18:22I love this quote because some of you guys are sitting here and maybe things haven't gone
18:26the way you anticipated in your life.
18:27Maybe you feel defeated.
18:29But I love this quote.
18:30Winners are just losers that tried one more time.
18:34Yeah.
18:36Winners are just losers that tried one more time, right?
18:39So just don't quit.
18:40Don't stop, like you're saying.
18:42So it starts, the road to walk a mile begins with a single step, right?
18:46So it's health and wellness.
18:49What are you fueling your body with?
18:50Now, let me challenge this idea because we talk a lot about diet.
18:54We think about diet only being what we eat.
18:57But I challenge this.
18:58Your diet is more than what you eat.
18:59Your diet is what you watch.
19:01Your diet is what you listen to.
19:02Your diet is who you hang around.
19:04Your diet is what you read.
19:05So feed yourself with healthy food.
19:08Is it going to uplift you or is it going to take you down?
19:11And things that don't uplift you, get them out of your life, right?
19:15So that's my thing.
19:16Mindset first, the belief.
19:17And then second, the act.
19:19But it doesn't require a lot of money.
19:21No one can stop you from getting up in the morning and walking around the neighborhood, right?
19:25No one can stop you from eating vegetables and drinking water.
19:27These are all of your choices, right?
19:30And so mindset first, then act.
19:32Well, I'm going to tell you all one thing.
19:34King Kong, you got to go drink it because a selfie took a sip.
19:40And, man, this dude is healthy.
19:43It's healthy, ain't he?
19:45Maybe you started doing handstands.
19:46No, I appreciate that.
19:47So nice.
19:48Future of health and wealth.
19:50Yeah, so one of the quotes that I live by is life is short, but death is certain.
19:56And the only thing that matters is what happens in the middle there.
20:00And so in the future, I think the world is browning, as they call it, right?
20:05And so it's going to look more like us who are in these decision-making positions that are going to be remembering where they came from, Brownsville, Brooklyn,
20:13remembering their auntie who said, oh, I don't know if I trust that.
20:16I'm not going to do it.
20:17And then had an adverse outcome.
20:19It's going to be more people making decisions that are in the benefit of our communities.
20:23That's what's going to happen.
20:24But it's not going to happen if we just sit down.
20:27We have to take actions.
20:28And I think thinking about your community, thinking about your children, and instilling in them the importance of not being consumers all the time
20:37and not letting people separate them from their dollar, but investing that money in themselves and in their health.
20:45Awesome.
20:46And to close us out, Coach P.
20:47For me, I mean, you guys did amazing.
20:51I want to go with spiritual health because if we don't have our spiritual health together, there's nothing else really matter.
20:58And I feel like if spiritually we could get alone and look in that mirror, we could do anything.
21:08Then once you have that together and you got the mind together and you know that God has given you an opportunity to get up every morning and do something with yourself.
21:19And because think about it, they say, right, we're really not successful if we don't leave something on this planet.
21:26And it's not about money.
21:27We're just saying it could be you giving back to the community.
21:31It could be you helping some kid.
21:33Everybody think they need millions and millions of dollars.
21:35Like I started my business with $10,000.
21:38So I didn't start my business with millions of dollars.
21:40People always come to me, P, I need $10 million to help me put this product.
21:44I'm like, I started with $10,000.
21:47So think about it.
21:49Don't be afraid to start small.
21:51Even in your exercise, if you know you can't run, walk.
21:55If you can't walk, crawl.
21:57If you can't pick up big old weights, start with the little small 10, 15 pounds.
22:01You don't have to do what everybody else is doing.
22:05Look at what you can do for yourself to better yourself.
22:08You need to know your conditions.
22:09And how you better your conditions, you look in that mirror and figure out how to fix yourself.
22:13And I think that a lot of people don't want to look in that mirror and say, hey, what's wrong with me?
22:21What's wrong with me?
22:22I had to look in that mirror and say, what's wrong with me?
22:24I need to get myself together.
22:25You know, sometimes you wake up in the morning, man, maybe I ate too much food last night.
22:30I got to stop that.
22:32And then you got to tell yourself no sometime, right?
22:35Because all the people, we from New Orleans, they come, they bring all kind of cookies and pies and all kind of food.
22:42Y'all know how it go.
22:43And guess what?
22:44You'll be like, I don't really want to mess with that today.
22:46But it's like the family, okay, we cool, bring it in.
22:49You got to say no sometime.
22:51I'm going to end it with that.
22:53Don't be afraid to tell yourself no sometime when you know it is not what you need, right?
22:58Give yourself a round of applause.
23:00I love y'all, man.
23:02If I may, move.
23:04Appreciate you guys.
23:05This has been an amazing panel.
23:06I want to leave you with one more thing.
23:08Remember, as black people, me being a physician and being in health care, we often forget about leading in health care.
23:15And that's the thing is we need more faces in health care to be able to change it.
23:18I'd say three rules that you leave with is disagree, disagree with everything, be disagreeable, challenge everything.
23:25Every box that you've ever heard about you as a black person, about your health, challenge it.
23:29Be optimistic, know that if you do the right things, you can take over the world.
23:33And lastly, be relentless, no limit, never, ever stop.
23:37With that, thank you for this amazing opportunity to speak to you about health and wealth.
23:41Thank y'all.
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