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Janice Bryant Howroyd

lines on the record: 57
first: 2018-12-03
most recent: 2018-12-03
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Now see, print media was really the thing that taught me so much and books print period. My mom bought encyclopedias and then she paid them off over time. She also had periodicals that came to our house. There was a magazine called Scipia. There was Ebony was popular, Jet Magazine was popular back then. And so I knew a lot about the world and I knew a lot about what black people were doing and so I had role models who fulfilled thoughts about what I might do when I grew up. But as a very young child, I remember admiring my mom so much, which I continued to do to this day. She even then I could sense, even though I couldn't put label to it was quite an efficient person. And she ran our home like a business.”
2018-12-03 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“None at all we always had enough for us and some to share, and that meant clothing, that meant food, and that also meant emotional support.”
2018-12-03 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Guy, I remember sitting in a class and I had what Oprah later coined a ha moment, and I remember sitting in class and thinking wow We're poor had no concept of poverty growing up.”
2018-12-03 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my no, you don't know my mom and dad if you thought there was chaos going on in the Bryant household. As a matter of fact, we had a system where the older siblings would take care of the younger ones, and when I say take care, I mean they were responsible that we did chores appropriately, we had personal grooming taken care of, they checked us for and helped us with, and that homework was done. And so Sandy got me. She was first born, I was fourth born. And when she went all the way off to Greensboro, North Carolina, which by drive time is about four hours, It felt like the end of the world had happened for me. Everything just felt so empty to me, yet there were still twelve people left in the house every day if we had no gas come over.”
2018-12-03 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I grew up on the other side of the tracks, and that's literally the case because we did have a train that ran through our town. We were a town that was incorporated in the 1700s. So train track in the middle of the town did indicate some level of prosperity. Now, we were segregated, make no mistake about that, but we had that southern etiquette that went along with it. So there was a politeness that occurred amongst people. But we also were very aware of the injustices.”
2018-12-03 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A rug shop in Beverly Hills, and she started an employment agency. At the time, Janice was a young African American woman starting out in an industry dominated by older white men. Now today, her company, Act One Group, does an estimated billion dollars a year in sales. Act One handles hiring and recruiting for all kinds of industries, and it also provides a lot of back-end services like employee screening and payroll. But when it began, it was just one office, one phone, and Janice. She barely knew when she first arrived to LA in her mid twenties. Janice had spent most of her life in a very different place from Hollywood. She grew up in the nineteen fifties and sixties in a big family in the small town of Tarborough, North Carolina.”
2018-12-03 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Tell you can'tly, and I'm not proud of it. There were times when I would gift my intelligence to other members of my team and have them go in and make a presentation or them make the pitch so that the client wouldn't have to interact directly with me as an African-American or as a female.”
2018-12-03 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · ActOne Group: Janice Bryant Howroyd · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT