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Covid-19 is our reality, whether we like it or not. Today I had the opportunity to sit down with an ICU nurse who continues to help the world fight the virus despite having small kids at home. Nurse Lin and I dive deep into the realities of living and working through a pandemic of the likes we have never seen before. We hope that you take a moment to listen and learn from a frontline worker who puts her life on the line every day for every one of us. 

James C Byers II spent the first half of his childhood in Queens, NY. At the age of 9, his family relocated to Washington DC. James was raised in a musical family and sharpened his skills in high school at Duke Ellington School of the Arts. After graduating, he attended North Carolina A&T (Aggie Pride!), ​where he earned a BS in Accounting. Upon graduating in 2003, he started his career in financial services as a branch manager with Wachovia Bank (now Wells Fargo). However, James' passion for helping people make well informed financial decisions led him to pursue the Licensed Financial Specialist role in 2005. After 17 years in the industry, James is still helping small businesses and families traverse the financially tumultuous road towards retirement. James has had the opportunity to learn from some of the sharpest minds in the financial services industry and takes the lifetime student approach to learning. His ability to connect with clients and their goals paired with his knack for making complex information digestible to any client is what people who work with him appreciate most about him. James has been married for 17 years. He and his amazing wife have two children; a young man of age 14 and a little lady of age 10. When he is not helping people plan for their financial futures, you may find James on the keyboard or the drums in a band, studying biblical history, or working on a project in his pursuit of an MBA in Financial Services, for which he is set to complete in the spring of 2021. He is passionate about what he does because he knows that there are many whose futures depend on it.Link with James Here: https://www.facebook.com/ByersWealthStrategies/Link with Darrian Here: darriandouglas.com

BioPianist, organist, and composer Willerm Delisfort is a versatile musician and a go-to bandmate across jazz, gospel, R&B, hip hop, soul, and all sorts of fusions. In addition to leading the Willerm Delisfort Project, Delisfort’s stylistic breadth has led him to work with artists such as Fareed Haque, T-Pain, Lauryn Hill, Kirk Whalum, Louis Bellson, Lew Soloff, Calvin Newborne, Corey Wilkes, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Heath, David Sanchez, Jennifer Holiday, George Freeman, Red Holloway, and many more. His band tonight features a group of similarly openminded musicians: Alexa Barchini, Philip Dizack, Brent Birckhead, Luke Carlos O’Reilly, Jonathan Michel, Jonathan Barber, and Cedric Easton. Enjoy new arrangements of modern standards and a vast array of original repertoire with the Willerm Delisfort Project.Connect with Willerm here: https://www.instagram.com/wdelisfort/Help Willerm record his first album here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/birthday-recording-sessionDelisfort Project live performances featured on this podcastArbitrary Enforcement - Live at SmallsAlexa BarchiniPhilip Dizack Godwin LouisWillerm DelisfortJonathan MichelJohn DavisRainbow Ruby - Young Gifted and Black Series - Williamsburg Music CenterJeanette BerryJosh EvansBrent BirckheadWillerm DelisfortJonathan MichelJonathan Barber

Listen to Christin's podcast Bitch No Filter on all the platforms!Link with her on insta here: @ohnightdevineChristin Devine is the Beyonce of live production consulting. Getting us together with her seamless management and executing it in unapologetic form.  She is a New York City-based producer, singer, and podcaster. Having produced, managed, and designed live music productions including, In the Pocket Live at Nublu, The Matthew Hurdle Memorial Concert, Is it Kwanzaa Yet, and Black Wonders of the World. Since 2013 Christin has served as Worship leader and lead vocalist at the historic Cornerstone Baptist Church in Brooklyn, for the past 3 years she’s served also as Production Manager for Sunday Worship.Growing up in a gifted musical environment, Christin began performing at a young age in Los Angeles and Little Rock, Arkansas singing at church and acting in children’s productions. She studied theatre at AMDA in NYC discovering a love of production as much as the performance. Turning her sights to that end, Christin dove right in, directing, managing, and assisting for theatre productions including, Giving Up the Ghost, When Divas Were Divas and At Buffalo the Musical.Christin is the creator of the Brooklyn concert series, Young Gifted & Black. She is co-creator and editor of the uncensored podcast, Bitch No Filter, where she and her co-hosts tell it like it is while discussing all the things you wish you could say about life, sex, and everything in between.

In this episode of The Late Set, Christopher McBride and I explore the importance of community as well as the effects of police brutality on the American psyche.Links: www.crmcbridemusic.comwww.facebook.com/crmcbridemusicwww.twitter.com/crmcbridemusicwww.instagram.com/crmcbridemusicChristopher McBrideChristopher McBride has been a professional musician since 2007, performing all around the world with many different artists of all genres including Pete Rock & The Soul Brothers, The New Power Generation, Winard Harper, Roy Hargrove, Talib Kweli, Lupe Fiasco, Solange, Jennifer Hudson, Jason Marshall, Bobby Broom, Alice Smith, Brandon Flowers, Ne-Yo, Marquis Hill, Milton Suggs, and others. His group Christopher McBride & The Whole Proof has played some great music venues around the Midwest such as Andy's Jazz Club & The Green Mill in Chicago and Jazz at the Bistro in St. Louis. Since moving to New York in 2013 The Whole Proof has performed in venues around New York including Smalls Jazz Club, SMOKE Jazz Club, Fat Cat, Ginny's Supper Club & Minton's Playhouse in Harlem. Christopher continually writes new music for the band and recorded his second project in December 2018. He also is the host of Hidden Gems Podcast, and a partner with Forbes Ignite.