"But we have these young people from all walks of life, all backgrounds, all religions, all colors, everything which is absolutely amazing. But they're fighting for the same basic civil rights that we fought for back in the sixties. That's just seems unfair— to have to fight for the same thing all these many years later. But that's what we have to do. And I'm proud of them for doing it, and we're still participating."

"It could actually be cheaper in the long run for you to use crypto to move money to people across the world."

"What crypto does is provide instant settlement,"

"If you are using your debit card or your credit card, it's really not instant settlement."

"In plan participants, reaching over 15,000 plan sponsors and millions of their employees."

"They make it look like it, but it's not that's why people can file chargebacks or have pending transactions."

"That’s one of the things that differentiates it from paper money."

"There are games that actually have virtual currency that have real value in the real world, Second Life’s in game currency, Linden dollar, is trading in the real world against other currencies."

"People have created value with those things."

"I would describe it as digital money or virtual currency."

"Blockchain resources are scarce in our industry because technology is evolving at a fast pace."

"I had to hire offshore resources on a shoestring budget."

"I found myself managing hundreds of servers and also having to provide tech support all while running an organization for some time."

"My final challenge was finding blockchain talent and resources to support our project."

"If they want them and there is a demand, then it will naturally have value."

"This was my second startup, it was during my first startup, a company called 'Safe2meet', a P2P verification platform, that I discovered that Black women get less than 1% of VC or capital funding for their companies."

"It's very, very close to the virtual currencies we use in gaming."

"It was disheartening that my partner and I despite being two successful black women in tech could not raise the money we needed to scale our MVP."

"The biggest challenge I faced was one of the exact adversaries I was attempting to solve."

"It is the access to funding for founders of colors."

"Cryptocurrency is peer to peer, so you're not having all of these middle processors like banks involved, and transactions are faster."

"This led me to launch Guapcoin, which I felt could eventually open up more capital and more options for people like me."

"Only together can we create real, lasting change. None of us can do it alone."

"Thanks in part to the wonderful education I received from Kellogg, I’m making a difference in the lives of incredible people and changing the future of retirement, one client at a time,"

"Once you send it, that's it, unless they send it back to you."

"After all crypto Guapcoin is essentially money, and as the days go by, it becomes closer and closer to becoming accepted as legal tender everywhere."

"It is usually distributed through a blockchain, which is referred to as decentralized."

"They have a value that's consistent across the world, across markets."

"We have to design ways to decrease people’s fear and increase their trust to have conversations that’ll allow us to do business with each other and drive results. D&I isn’t a problem business has to solve, but rather a conversation that business needs to facilitate. If we’re going to get sustainable solutions to D&I, we have to address it at the societal level."

"Leaders need to build an army of believers at every level in every function who have a D&I mindset to reshape the norms.”"

"“If I’m not there to understand, define, and share what I’m learning, the opportunity for those behind me would not be possible.”"

"“You’re not only working for yourself and your family, but for others who follow you that you may never meet.”"

"You can only change the parts of the world you can touch, so focus on what’s right next to you. If we’re all doing that, it’ll spread.” Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) was the part of the world McCann touched, so that’s what she set out to change."

"When at a fork in the road, pick the most interesting one"

"Fear is the root of all forms of exclusion, just as trust is the root of inclusion.”"

"There were all kinds of organizations in the Black community who were glad to accept me."

"I used to make calls to magazines all the time. I wasn’t discovered. I made them discover me,”"

"Martha Stewart has presented herself doing the things domestics and African Americans have done for years...We were always expected to redo the chairs and use everything in the garden. This is the legacy that I was left. Martha just got there first"

"I’m still myself. I just can’t remember things as well as I once did"

"I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes"

"“It is really important to have people around you, family, friends, or someone in your life, who can back you up against the naysayers.”"

"“You have so much more agency than you realise. There will always be people saying you can’t do this, you are too old or too young, but you have a lot of power if you choose to own it.”"

"“I don’t really understand how anybody cannot be an activist in this time and age. We all have an opportunity to be who we want to be, to encourage our children to be what they want to be, and to provide for them so they can become the people they want to be."

"Consulting is an excellent way to learn management and strategy skills,"

"“Think about the other side of your brain, the side that’s not about business, the side that is more creative … Through my characters, I can explore issues about women, race, ethnicity and all kinds of interesting things in a completely different way. But also, [writing] is fun.”"

"“The secret to success is being nimble, and light on your feet,”"

"“Most of my pivots come through conversations,” she said. “Maybe it is because they are giving voice to something I have already been thinking about.”"