John’s Blog
Roland Martin Unfiltered: Reopening, and Getting Your PPP Money
May 19, 2020I joined Roland Martin to talk about what reopening would mean for small businesses: the legal questions, and the need for a COVID-compliant workplace. We also talked about the Paycheck Protection Program. My message to Black business owners was blunt. Stop complaining about the process and go get y
Climate Action News: What the Corona Crisis Can Teach Us
May 8, 2020We Don’t Have Time asked me to open its Climate Action News One-on-One series with a question that was on everyone’s mind that spring: what can the coronavirus crisis teach us about facing the climate crisis? Both are tests of whether we prepare before the storm or pay for it after. And
John Hope Bryant Recognized in 2020 Notable Georgians Listing
January 7, 2020From the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Operation HOPE, John Hope Bryant. ATLANTA – January 7, 2020 – John Hope Bryant, founder, chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Operation HOPE, Inc., has …
Squawk Box: Americans Hate a Gamed System, Not Rich People
December 10, 2019With the 2020 race heating up, CNBC’s Squawk Box asked me what investors and voters were really looking for. Americans don’t hate rich people. They hate a gamed system. Show people a fair path to the middle class and to ownership, and the anger goes away. Source: CNBC Squawk Box, Decembe
Squawk Box: A Stronger Economic Model at HOPE Global Forum 2019
May 31, 2019CNBC’s Squawk Box asked me about the 2019 HOPE Global Forum, where business leaders gathered to work on a stronger, more sustainable economic model. The goal is simple to say and hard to do: an economy where rising prosperity reaches more people. When it does, everybody, including the people a
Keynote at ULI Memphis RegionSmart 2018
June 28, 2018The Urban Land Institute’s Memphis chapter invited me to keynote RegionSmart 2018, its annual gathering of developers, planners and civic leaders. I told the room that a city’s real infrastructure is its people: their credit scores, their savings and their small businesses. Build that, a
Roland Martin at HOPE Global Forums: Raise Your Credit Score
March 28, 2018Roland Martin covered HOPE Global Forums 2018, and he sat down with me between sessions to talk about the one number our community keeps ignoring. We brought together the largest bank meeting in the world for the empowerment of the poor. And one statistic sums up the challenge: almost half of all Bl
Money Matters Podcast: The Memo
February 6, 2018The Money Matters podcast had me on to talk about my book The Memo: Five Rules for Your Economic Liberation. Once you have satisfied your basic needs of food, water, health and a roof over your head, poverty has more to do with your head than your wallet. Most people in the invisible class, and [&he
Conscious Capitalism CEO Summit: Jobs and Wealth for Those Who Need It Most
January 25, 2018At the Conscious Capitalism CEO Summit in Austin, I laid out my plan for changing the world with two things: jobs and wealth creation for the people who need them most. I talked about Operation HOPE and about The Promise Homes Company, which buys and renovates single-family homes so working families
Speaking at the CARE Global Leadership Conference
October 26, 2017Michelle Nunn and CARE invited me to speak at the CARE Global Leadership Conference in 2017. My message to the room: stay woke, embrace your failures, laugh often and lean in. And get the memo on how money really works, because dignity and opportunity go together everywhere in the world. Source: CAR