How do you turn an $800 investment into a multimillion-dollar hair empire—and what happens when success, business loans, partnerships, and internal disagreements begin to threaten everything you’ve built?

In this episode of Six Weeks to Fitness, Vince Ferguson sits down with Marcus Bowers, Navy veteran, entrepreneur, business leader, and co-founder of She’s Happy Hair, to discuss his remarkable journey from military service to building a nationally recognized hair and beauty brand.

Marcus shares how She’s Happy Hair started with just $800 and no business loans, eventually generating millions in sales. He also opens up about what happened after the company began taking on substantial business loans during the COVID era, the disagreements that followed, and the hard lessons he learned about money, leadership, business partners, education, and protecting what you’ve built.

But this conversation goes far beyond business.

Marcus discusses how serving in the U.S. Navy shaped his discipline and entrepreneurial mindset, his commitment to giving back to the community, and the extraordinary moment when he jumped into a swimming pool and saved a baby trapped in a stroller—exactly 25 years to the day after he enlisted in the Navy.

You’ll also hear how She’s Happy Hair grew during the pandemic, with Marcus saying sales increased from $11 million to $16 million during COVID, as well as his thoughts on entrepreneurship, creating opportunities for veterans, building wealth, real estate, education, health, longevity, and creating a legacy for the next generation.

Marcus says his goal isn’t simply to become wealthier—it’s about creating more millionaires and creating opportunities for other people.

If you’re interested in entrepreneurship, veteran success stories, business partnerships, building a business from scratch, the hair and beauty industry, wealth creation, leadership, resilience, or learning from business mistakes, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss.

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Full Episode Transcript

Interview with Marcus Bowers

Meet Marcus Bowers

Opening: From Military Service to Entrepreneurship

Vince Ferguson: Hello, everyone, and welcome to Six Weeks to Fitness. I’m your host Vince Ferguson. My guest today is Marcus Bowers, a Navy veteran, entrepreneur, actually a global entrepreneur, business leader, and co-founder of She’s Happy Hair, a company that began with an $800 investment and grew into a nationally recognized brand. Marcus’s journey caught my attention not only because of what he accomplished in business, but because of what he said about military service. He has spoken about how the Navy helped shape his discipline, direction, and approach to opportunity. As a fellow Navy veteran, that that really resonated with me personally. And today we’re going beyond the story of building a successful business. We’re going to talk about preparation, discipline, reinvention, wealth creation, health, purpose, what Marcus is building next, and the legacy he hopes to leave. Marcus, welcome to Six Weeks to Fitness, my brother. How are you?

Marcus Bowers: Man, I’m doing amazing. Thank you for the intro. Thank you for having me. Any time I get a chance to talk to any fellow military men or women, about the time in service or, the decisions of why and when and the experiences inside and all the benefits outside, man, I always tap in. So I’m glad to be here on Six Weeks, and good to see another veteran on the other side of this camera.

Vince Ferguson: Thank you, my brother. I appreciate you. I appreciate your service, man. I really truly do. Now, before we begin, let me tell you, I was on the USS Nimitz. I was on the air squadron that’s basically out of San Diego. Naval Air Station Miramar.

Marcus Bowers: No, I love, I love San Diego, man. I love, just Dago. That’s what we call it, Dago.

Vince Ferguson: You call it Dago.

Marcus Bowers: San Diego, Dago.

A Life Saved: The Baby in the Stroller

Vince Ferguson: Ah, nice, man. Nice. But before we talk about your successes, I did some research on you, man, and I heard about a story where you saved a young child’s life in the pool. Man, please talk about that.

Marcus Bowers: I’m so glad you brought that up because I’m a swimmer. So when I was growing up my mom used to, have us outside in the swimming pool in the apartment complexes that we was in, ’cause there’s a lot, a lot of kids, right? So she like, “Just go outside and play.” And in the summertime we found ourselves playing in the pool for hours at a time. You had your wrinkle fingers and wrinkle toes and so, the entire time that I was growing up I stayed in the water quite often, so I’m a, I’m a great swimmer. Went to the military. Went to special warfare, SWCC training. Did a lot of swimming in the ocean and, everything that some people just feel like they can’t do I’ve done with my body. And so over the years I’ve seen summer times come and go and, kids and families crying and babies dying because of drowning and all these different things. So when I started having kids one of the first things I knew was that I wanted my kids, one of their, lifesaving skills that they would have would be the ability to swim. So, we started taking lessons this past, summer. And while we were at summer training, believe it or not, in the swimming pool, this big swimming pool area, got some people training over here, some people just, casually swimming in other areas. And there was a mom, with a bunch of kids hanging out on the pool deck, man. She was just sitting there, kinda overwhelmed. You could tell when, Daddy’s supposed to be there too, he’s probably at work or something and so she’s still trying to be supermom. And so she had kids running around and one kid in the actual stroller strapped in. And, I think she had another kid that was actually in the swim class. So she had a lot of eyes. Didn’t have a lot of eyes to look a lot of places. So me and my daughter, we in the swimming pool, getting it in while my son is in training. I’m over there swimming with my daughter, having fun, and next thing I know, man, I just saw the stroller roll into the swimming pool. So I don’t know if she took her foot off the stroller or hand or her eyes off the stroller, but the stroller rolled into the swimming pool and I was.

Vince Ferguson: Oh, my God.

Marcus Bowers: Sitting there. And they got lifeguards in there too, but they didn’t see it. Nobody really saw it happen. So the stroller rolled into the swimming pool and, I just immediately realized, okay, it’s a stroller. Not what’s in it, but hey, somebody’s stroller or somebody’s stuff just accidentally rolled into the swimming pool. So I’m trying to jump over there and save the stuff only to find out and realize that it’s an actual baby trapped in the baby stroller. So she was strapped in, man. I think it was a little boy matter of fact. So I don’t remember the name, of the little boy or the little girl, but I was able to jump into action and save the child. Now, I’m, I’ve always been a hero. I’ve done a lot of heroic things. So. It’s not something that I’ve been going around telling everybody but I want people to know, like, get some swim lessons. Or these things can happen. Or get some swim lessons so you can prevent these things from happening. But either way, somebody has to get some swim lessons. We have to have some Michael Phelps in our, in our family tree somewhere, right? What I realized was that it happened on June 15th. June 15th is the day I enlisted in the military. I enlisted on June 15, 2001, and on June 15, 2026, exactly 25 years later, I saved that little baby from the swimming pool.

Vince Ferguson: Wow. I love that.

Marcus Bowers: To me, it speaks to God and purpose. God just, put me in a place where I was to enlist and, go and protect and serve the country, and then 25 years later- on the same day of my I’m back at it, still protecting the people. So- It actually gave me a lot of energy and, got me back on track to, my purpose. ‘Cause a part of my purpose is doing what I’ve been doing, which is, talking about the blueprint, my time in service, education, the stepping stones, the benefits, all that, man. I feel like we don’t have enough people going back to the neighborhoods, telling the people how we got out the neighborhoods. And so, this is my underground railroad, man. I got away from it for a little while, but I’m, I’m trying to get back to it. And when I was telling that story on that podcast about saving the baby, it was really because right now my brand has a lot of, drama to it, with some of the things that I’m dealing with in business, with my disputes and everything. I just got tased, on April 7th, this past, this past year, right? So April 7th I got tased, and since then there was a viral video. And so people, they been seeing me out in town, and see me out in public and, everybody’s like, “Oh, I’m so sorry. What happened to you?” “I’m praying for you,” and it’s kind of like I’m, like I’m a victim, and I’ve never been that way, right? And I’m not a victim now. But I’ve always wanted people to know that, there’s other things that I’ve done. There’s other, highlights and qualities about me. It’s not just, that’s not the biggest thing in my life, me getting tased by a police officer, unarmed, in front of my store after I called them for help. That’s not, my rights being violated and all that. That’s not the biggest thing that happened to me. Saving this baby is huge.

Service Beyond the Uniform: Hurricane Harvey

Vince Ferguson: That’s huge.

Marcus Bowers: If no one knows, then they just know what they remember. They know the last thing you posted. So I think even after this call, you asking me about that, I think I’m gonna go clip that podcast part and post that out so people can, move on to the next thing, the next great thing. Because that’s, that’s not, that’s not who I am. I’m not the taser guy. I’m the, I’m the baby-saving guy.

Vince Ferguson: You’re the baby-saving guy. But you also did something during, I think it was, Hurricane Harvey?

Marcus Bowers: Oh, yeah. Yeah, man. So that’s, that’s just, again, that goes back to service. It’s like you serve in uniform all over the globe. But then you come home, you’re supposed to stop serving because you don’t have a uniform on. You should serve even more, because now better. And so that’s what I’ve been doing. When Hurricane Harvey hit and the whole world shut down, or at least Texas and Houston and so forth, right?

Vince Ferguson: Yes, it did. Yeah.

Marcus Bowers: Everything was flooded. Everything was flooded, man. And I sat around for a little while, a couple hours maybe, and, watching the news and seeing how everybody was struggling and flooded in. And so I got a big lifted truck. I got one of them big white boy trucks. And so I immediately knew, like, where some people can’t go, I can. With my truck. And so I was all over the city, man, helping people out, driving people to stores, rescuing people. I was in Sugar Land, Humble, Texas, in Pearland. I was in all the lands during Hurricane Harvey while everybody else was stuck.’Cause what I remember most was it was so much water that when you think about Pearland and 518 in the Houston area, a lot of people know that area. The water was as high as the actual freeway- Underpass. So the underpass and then the water was higher than that, like to the freeway.

Marcus Bowers: And so I remember seeing just the top of some grocery stores or some retail stores on top of the freeway on 288. And so I was off I-10 by Seed King, the northeast side, which got it really bad. The freeways were flooded. People were going wrong directions on freeways. You couldn’t really go anywhere unless you had a truck and a boat. So some people had boats where, you could go a little bit, but you can’t go a lot of bit because now you need, tires now, aside from, floating devices. My truck was just the right size where I can fight through some water, break some water open. I got videos and stuff where I’m passing by 18-wheelers that were stranded. In my truck. I’m passing. I’m passing by the 18-wheeler like, vroom. They flooded in. I’m just driving through the water,.

Community, Responsibility and Giving Back

Marcus Bowers: I had people out in the back of the truck. Yeah, it it was an exciting time, and it just brought Houston together. It showed everybody that you need everybody. A lot of times we think that you can do things by yourself, but you can’t survive by yourself. You need, you need everybody.

Vince Ferguson: You need community. You need community. So your life has been about service even when you left the service.

Marcus Bowers: Yeah. Social responsibility, man. Like my, even before I went to the service, I grew up in the neighborhoods where people would come serve us. I’m a young kid, young as I was six. So we had people in the community helping us out, helping my mom out, helping the single parent out, showing up with the clothes for back to school season, taking the kids somewhere other than just outside. Doing those small things and showing us how big the world really is. And shout out to Troy Finner. He’s a chief, of Missouri City Police Department right now. He played a big part, in my upbringing and a lot of us. A lot of the great success stories that you see around the Houston area, they stem from, a lot of great men and women that were serving us. And so when we get served in that way, we know that we gotta pay it back. You gotta pay it back. You gotta pay it back tenfold. So, once I got in the, in the military, started learning a little bit more about a different type of service. And then once you get out, you go to college. They teach you, I went to school for business, University of Houston-Downtown. Man, shout out to them. They actually, the books that I read in school taught me a lot about social responsibility. And social responsibility just stems right back to service. You’re an entrepreneur, you’re a business owner, you gotta be responsible, be socially responsible to the people that you’re serving. And so, whether it’s business whether it’s community or a family reunion. Or customer service in the stores, right, where she’s at. It’s all about service at the end of the day.

Vince Ferguson: Mm. So but that, you learned that even before you went into the service.

Marcus Bowers: Yeah. Because again, I just experienced what it’s like to be served. When you grow up, with little to nothing, I used to I tell people I used to wear hand-me-down drawers. I don’t know. A lot of people don’t know what hand-me-down drawers is, right? I try and get you straight to the point like, look, let me tell you about something where I come from, right? I used to wear hand-me-down drawers so people know, like, oh, snap. Okay. You can come from nothing. You can catch the bus from your situation and start flying to work or start doing things different. But service definitely started many moons ago. My mom taught me all that, man. Like, she was always looking out for the kids in the neighborhood, the people in the neighborhood. Always, doing something to put a smile on somebody’s face. And that’s who I am now. I get that from my mom. So once you start serving, and then you go to the military, you get that compiled on, serving your brothers, your sisters, people that you don’t even know. Now you have to depend on them, they have to depend on as if their lives are, your life is on the line. So it’s like you learn how to serve each other and look out and share. Like, then, once you get out the military, you go to college, get the business degrees, you start a business, you still gotta continue serving because, again, you want the customers to love your brand. You want the customers to know, like, that you care about them. You don’t care just about their money. You care about their kids’ future. ‘Cause I really do. I really do care about us. So, it’s all about service, man. And so we got a calendar of events with She’s Happy Hair where we just serve the people year round. Whether it’s.

Vince Ferguson: Year round.

Marcus Bowers: At the school, backpacks and haircuts and stuff, or, just random acts of kindness at the schools or universities and, institutions, high schools, whatever, right? We’re always doing something to serve the people. I remember, like two years ago for Christmas, we linked up with this, furniture company and was able to drop off sofas to a lot of, families that just wanted new furniture. It ain’t like they had old furniture. They wanted new furniture. With the lining and the buttons and stuff. So we was able to deliver that. So it was always small things, always big things. And then even in the midst of COVID, 2020, we won Shout out to the She’s Happy, She’s Happy Foundation. We won, the Humanitarian of the Year Award for Houston. For Houston, Texas. So in the midst of COVID of course, just like you brought up Hurricane Harvey, right? I wasn’t sitting at home. I was out, helping the folks, helping the people. ‘Cause even the police and the first responders couldn’t get to some of the places that I could get to, right? So. So even during COVID, that’s just another time period where everything shut down, the world stopped, everything shuttered, and we actually went from $11 million in sales to $16 million in sales in the midst of COVID. Because of our online strategies and the things that we had in place, the automations, all the systems and software and things like that, and just the team as a whole. So seeing that, you also saw that everybody needed to be served ’cause no money was coming in, the food bank lines were long, people were struggling. And, COVID was COVID, so that was a big deal. So we were still able to get out in the midst of everybody else staying in, and looking out for the people, man. We went, did so many things, from the masks to, clothes, donations. With COVID being as big as it was, one of the things I remember was the masks were hard to come by. Everybody couldn’t, couldn’t find masks. You were making masks out of socks and shirts and all that. And me having suppliers overseas, we were able to reach out to some of our, China suppliers, some of the, suppliers just overseas as a whole, and they were able to ship us a lot of masks. Lots of masks. So in the midst of, the 2020 COVID time period, George Floyd had taken place. And that was downtown in Houston at Discovery Green. So that’s where the protests took out, took place. They had a Blackout Tuesday or something like that. And I remember that’s how angry everybody was. Everybody was so angry at what had happened to George Floyd, that video, that we were looking to go downtown to protest without the mask. Like nobody worried about social distancing anymore. It was like, “No, to hell with all that,” We can This is what’s happening. Black Lives Matter and,. So the whole city went and just congregated right there downtown at Discovery Green and was gonna march from Discovery Green to downtown Houston City Hall and protest. So I showed up with masks. I had masks that I got from, my overseas suppliers. They sent boxes of masks. And so that’s what we ended up doing. We went downtown, and while everybody was, walking in to go protest, we were still able to hand out, a couple of masks that people wanted and needed, but they just didn’t know where to find them. They didn’t, they didn’t know where to order them. Nothing was coming in, everything had stopped. The mailing had stopped, the shipping and receiving had stopped. I, Now that I think about how crazy COVID was, I’m just glad to still be here, with everybody that is still here. ‘Cause I went to so many Zoom funerals. I went to so many Zoom funerals, man.

From $800 to Millions: Building She’s Happy Hair

Vince Ferguson: Oh my.

Marcus Bowers: Everybody saying like how fake COVID was and fake this, and fa I’m like, “Man, these Zoom funerals are not fake.” I heard.

Vince Ferguson: They’re not. Yes. Yeah.

Marcus Bowers: These are real funerals, man.

Vince Ferguson: Yes. Wow, man. But that’s amazing to me, man. But where did you get the intestinal fortitude to do all this, man? Because it seems like you’re a godsend to so many people. Where’d you get them. Where’d that come from?

Marcus Bowers: I just care about the people around me. Even when I say my prayers, I’m not just praying for myself. I’m praying for myself and everybody else. So it’s, it’s not, it’s just not, it’s having a selfless attitude, I guess. Like people need each other? That’s just how it is. And, I don’t like doing anything by myself. I don’t like seeing people struggle. I don’t like bullies. I don’t like anything where, I can stand up for us- And do something for us, I’m gonna do it. And so I have the ability to do it, I got the resources to do it, I’m, I’m gonna continue doing. I’m, I’m happy to be the lender.

Vince Ferguson: The lender? Yes. Not the borrower, the lender.

Marcus Bowers: I’ve been there. I’ve been there. I know you ain’t gotta stay the borrower. You can become the lender. I know that I could be the borrower again, and that’s why we in this business dispute that we in, man, because we shouldn’t be borrowing nothing. We started She’s Happy Hair with $800 and made millions.

Vince Ferguson: Yeah. Talk about that.

Marcus Bowers: COVID, when COVID hit, that’s when we started getting loans. My team, we started applying for business loans. When I don’t think we needed to, man. I just think we needed to secure what we already had, put guardrails and boundaries on the spending, and then just continue being great. But instead, we started getting all these loans, and it’s been downhill ever since.

Vince Ferguson: Really. Really, sometimes getting all these loans could be, can not work out in your favor. ‘Cause it was easy for you to get because you guys had great business credit, I’m sure, so they’re throwing money at you, but that doesn’t mean you have to take it. Right.

Marcus Bowers: Well, what happens is not only do you not have to take it, you gotta be smart with it. You gotta be smart about it. Again, we started She’s Happy Hair with $800, no loans. And made millions.

Vince Ferguson: That’s amazing.

Marcus Bowers: So, when you get loans for hundreds of thousands of dollars, for what?

Loans, Growth and Business Lessons

Marcus Bowers: What do you need it for? And if you need that, what happened to the money you already had? If you can’t tell me what happened to the money we already had or where it went, then we’re not gonna be as happy and quickly to sign off on the new money that’s gonna come in, ’cause you ain’t tell us what happened to the other money. So, if you gonna get a new loan, well, before you do, let’s talk about the old money before we get this new money so when the new money come in, we have a understand- a better understanding. And so that’s where the dispute comes in, somebody wanna get loans and other people don’t. And so when we get the loans in the company name, the person that got the loan in the company name spends the loan like it’s theirs.

Vince Ferguson: No. This is a business. It’s a business, Marcus. But listen, let me ask you this, Marcus, because sounds like you had, you have the business education. And the business experience. Your partners, are they as equal with you in, when it comes to business?

Marcus Bowers: Man, hell nah, man. So my partners.

Vince Ferguson: No, they’re not.

Marcus Bowers: My partners, everybody on my team that I started She’s Happy Hair with are great at what they’re great at.

Vince Ferguson: Yes. Great. Okay.

Marcus Bowers: But no one person can do everything. And so as far as business, I have the business degree. I had the product. I brought the product to everybody. I brought the infrastructure, the operations to everyone. I brought the policies, the handbook. I’m the HR guy. I brought all that, all these things to the company, right? And so when I built the team, after I, after building the team and the infrastructure and, getting a partner to come in and be me when I’m not there, or me be him when he’s not there, and then we start, expanding across the US, some people wasn’t big on education. So much so to where we would have debates and conversations where it’s like, “You don’t have to have a degree to get this money,” or, “You don’t have to be educated to this.” And I’m like, “Well, I know what you’re saying, but I think that we should hire people with degrees on our team going forward.”. Along with other qualified people. We’re just reaching low.

Vince Ferguson: No.

Marcus Bowers: And we gonna get low result. Apple.

Vince Ferguson: Thank you.

Marcus Bowers: And Google are not reaching for hourly employees.

Vince Ferguson: Thank you. No, they’re going high, man.

Marcus Bowers: So I tried hard trying to get the team years ago to start reaching high, but because I was the only one with the degree on the team, everybody else was looking at me like, “You don’t have to have a degree to do, to be successful,” and all that. So I’m like, “Hey, let’s start hiring people with degrees,” and they like, “No, we don’t have to,” because they didn’t want people smarter than them on the team at the time.

Vince Ferguson: Oh, no. You need to have people smarter than you on the team.

Marcus Bowers: And so over the years, over the years we’re have conversations about degrees and education and bettering yourself, and the team starts getting better. Everybody start getting better. Some people on my team couldn’t read out loud.

Vince Ferguson: Oh, no. No.

Marcus Bowers: Yeah, this is when we, this is when we first started, brother. I’m not making this up. Some people on my team couldn’t spell.

Vince Ferguson: Oh, no.

Marcus Bowers: It was so I got screenshots in my phone, from captions on Instagram and social media. Details where I’m like, where I’m talking to my team like, “Hey, be, from now on, before you post this caption, run it by me first. Let me proofread it.”

Vince Ferguson: Yes. Yes, man.

Marcus Bowers: There’s too many misspelled words, and you representing the brand and the company, right? So to answer your question, no, everybody’s not as degreed up or educated. They gotten educated over time. Like, some of my, business partners that were anti-education and anti-degree, they began going to seminars, conferences, getting some gems and some tools, and they’re coming back and implementing them in the company and, appreciative of all, of all that. But as far as, like, overall experience and life and degrees and No, it’s not, it’s not We’re not even close as far as like, me and my team goes, right? I mean my core team, the shareholders. That’s what I say my team, the shareholders.

Vince Ferguson: Okay, so my question, Marcus, is who chose the team? I’m so- I had to ask.

Marcus Bowers: Yeah. So the, and let me, let me continue on the education side. So one guy, he started taking these leadership classes, so, that’s why he’s the CEO. And then you got another guy, he, graduated with his finance degree, probably like.

Vince Ferguson: Yeah, good.

Marcus Bowers: A couple years ago from University of Houston.

Vince Ferguson: Good.

Marcus Bowers: He’s chief financial officer.

Building the Team and Navigating Business Relationships

Marcus Bowers: Yeah. I’m like, “Come on, baby. We were just cool the other day.” We were just cool. What I mean? Now you got a little title, now you don’t wanna talk. And so that’s what I went through in business- Oh Real time, bro. Wow. Even though I’m the founder and I’m, — Yeah I’m who, I’m who I am, I don’t, I never let titles, make me. I’m, a title doesn’t make me who I am. I’m, I’m Marcus. And so, over the years while we running She’s Happy Hair, they would always ask, like, “Man, what are you doing.”? I’m, my job is to oversee you guys. My job is to I got, I know what I’m doing. Y’all do y’all job. Don’t worry about what I got going on? Yeah. They found themselves constantly worried about what I had going on even though they’re just the chiefs of something. They have a role, right? They got roles, but they worried- Right About what I got going on. So- Wow At the same time, you have a self-proclaimed CEO ’cause nobody ever voted on none of this, right? It’s just people show up, start calling- Themselves the chief of something. Yeah. And what happen in business when you add certain people to the team and they have a role, they forget that they’re doing it for the team. I’ll give you an example. If me and you in business- Right And a part of our marketing budget is Radio One. Okay. We spend money on the radio, right? We got ads on the radio. We have to be- Yeah Heard on the radio. Right. Okay. And then, you take the money that we say we gonna give to Radio One, the $30,000- Yeah For the radio spots. Right. You take that money to Radio One. What happens is when you take the money to Radio One, because they don’t see me, you the man. Exactly. You the guy with the money. The man. You walking in with that $30,000 duffle bag. Thank you. Thank you. Got your ankle showing and shit? Yeah. Man? Yeah. So when you walk in, “Yo, hey brother,” they happy to see you? Yeah, man, you better believe- Now- The money man. Now what also happens is, when they see me, they be happy to see me too because of what you’ve done for us. Right. But in his mind, it’s just him that gets- Yeah The clout and get the influence and get the,. So he don’t want any, he don’t wanna share. He don’t, yeah. If you’re out, if you’re out in the city, you don’t have to do all the lifting and the work for people to know that you were a part of the work. That’s right. So people know that I’m a part of the work. Yeah. And it’s, it’s eating him up knowing that he’s not getting all of the influence that he’s paying for, if that makes sense. Those accolades, yes. Yeah. And so when I show up and I get the accolades that he been paying for, all this money for, that he done walk around, duffle bag, he paying for, it eats him up on the inside because I really did the work. Yeah. I’m really doing the work. You get what I’m saying? Like, I’m not paying for a relationship. I’m really out here in the mix, in the community while- Yes he may, pay a wage for a platform or, an award or some type of recognition. Right. I’m just doing the work. And so it always comes back. Now, with that, when you are, let’s say, when you are the CEO of a company, you’re the face, the forward-facing person of the company. You’re the face of it, yeah. Yeah. We do content days. We do content days, right? So let’s say Amazon had a commercial. Right. And they shooting a commercial in Idaho. Yeah. But Jeff Bezos don’t show up to the commercial. Whoever is in charge of that commercial that day- Yeah They the man. Yeah. They in charge,. And so whoever- Yeah Came out on behalf of Amazon for that day, the representation of Amazon, whoever that person was, whoever that chief or whatever that title was- Right They are the face of the company that day. Exactly. Sure. What happens, I’m Jeff Bezos. I’m not at every commercial shoot. I’m not at every content day. Right. But because he is, he becomes the face. Right. It goes to his head and it also changes the public opinion about who’s doing what work in the company- Even though there’s so many other things to do digitally and online and across the globe and operationally that- That you’re doing They see. And so- That’s what I deal with in business. Wow. And just in life because people see me and not really see, like, who I am. They just see what they see, and they, it’s always a misjudgment. It’s always some type of misjudgment or something. Right. Right. But when it come to building a team, man, you gotta, build a team of people that will be you when you’re not there. I started She’s Happy Hair with owner managers. We were able to expand across the US. Would I grow the team the way I did, this last time? I will. I would do it again, and I plan on doing it again. I plan on getting back out here, giving a lot of veterans an opportunity- Yeah To jump into the hair industry. So you’ll see some marketing- Some posts, some promotion. Hey, if you are a veteran and you- Yeah Are looking to jump into the hair industry- Wow Come on, follow this blueprint, and we gonna get this money. It’s it’s too easy not to. Really? That’s amazing. So because you have She’s Happy Hair. You still have that. Yeah. You’re looking to build another company on top of that. Yeah. So She’s Happy Hair or something, anything. I can come up with any kind of name. The thing is, we’re in this business dispute, and we knee-deep in it. We’ve been in court since 2018. Oh, wow. I didn’t know that. This ain’t no small potatoes and stuff. Yeah. There’s a lot of money being wasted.

Innovation, Franchising and the Next Blueprint

Marcus Bowers: We might be on receivership sometime soon. And so I’m just looking to continue moving forward fast- Wow As far as the hair industry. So I created the forecast in the hair industry. A lot of people don’t know that. Without Marcus Bowers, there wouldn’t be a forecast in the hair industry. Really? I’m Marcus Bowers, and She’s Happy Hair are doing Black Friday sales and Cyber Monday sales. Yeah. ‘Cause let’s say five years ago, five years ago, companies in the hair industry and beauty supply, they didn’t do Cyber Monday sales. Really? Yeah. For whatever reason, they just didn’t. They didn’t do- Really?. Prom, no prom and graduation sales. No back to school sales. No beauty supply hair stores were doing, back to school give backs 15 years ago. Really? I’ve been in business since 2012, so, a lot of things that we brought to the industry, everybody started- What No one else is doing it? Nah, even financing. We finance hair extensions. When we first started- I heard, I heard that People was shocked. They was like, “How, what? You guys finance hair extensions?”

Vince Ferguson: Thank you.

Marcus Bowers: We were the first hair company to sell hair inside a Walmart. We sell Yeah, inside of Walmart. So it’s a lot of historical moments within the company that some people know about, some people don’t. But like you said, it’s just the beginning. So I’m not even interested in telling everybody everything right now because there’s so much more work to do. With the hair industry, you can actually put a store location in any city and state across the world. You don’t have to sell the product where you at. You can sell a lot of products from where you at to a lot of people. So I’ve been teaching people all these AI tools that I’m using and the software, and just how to make money online like the billionaires. The billionaires are not talking to us one by one. They talking to a lot of us at one time.

Vince Ferguson: Right. So can can someone run this business online with the hair?

Marcus Bowers: Yes. So the way I do it is, the, you have one online, website. And then you have a bunch of brick-and-mortar locations across the US. So, as a franchisee, you would own the brick-and-mortar location, the physical location. Each of those locations are gonna make like $2, $3 million apiece. So you own that physical location, and what happens is even though you own that physical location, the city and the marketing that we’re doing in that area, it brings about online customers as well that don’t wanna drive to the store. They trust the brand enough to order online. They trust the brand enough to order via curbside or do, order online, pick up in store, the BOPIS, right? But with that, you put it in any city and state, and you get your percentage, you get your shares, you get your distributions as a franchisee, and you get your millions because that’s what happens. It’s too easy. Remember I started this with no loan, made over $100 million, and, we can do it again. Now, what happens is after you open up your location in your city and state and you’re the owner-manager, you stay there and work that store location while building team members under you. Once you build them up under you, now you got the ability to go find another location on the opposite side of town. Or go find another location in another city and state. And so that’s the blueprint for my franchisees. It’s like, come on board. Come with your couple dollars, come with your military training, come with your education, your experience, and, follow this blueprint, and we gonna get this money. We gonna go being in the black to being in the green. Or being in the red to being in black, and then just keep doing that blueprint without taking out any loans, man.

Vince Ferguson: Wow, that’s amazing. And you’re extending this offer, this opportunity to veterans.

Marcus Bowers: For sure. Again, I just love working with vets. I know we work hard.

Vince Ferguson: We work hard.

Marcus Bowers: We understand, what it takes. We, with the sleepless nights, the entrepreneurial mindset. And then, the teamwork, that mentality, that brotherhood, that sisterhood. That working with strangers, right? Because you end up meeting people from all over the city, all over the US that you gotta work with. ‘Cause we’re having Zoom calls like this with people in different cities and states that’s representing they, their store locations. And so, yeah, it’s, it’s a big kumbaya, man, and I definitely can’t wait to give this offer to veterans because I know that, we gonna, we gonna hit the ground running like we did the first time.

Vince Ferguson: Wow, man. So this, experience with She’s Happy Hair has taught you a lot. But you.

Marcus Bowers: Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure. I’m, I’m still learning something new every day. I’m trying to learn what to do in some situations still, but I’m, I’m definitely learning.

Vince Ferguson: Right. And when it comes to these locations for the new, the new company you’re gonna You’re building, these locations can cost money.

Marcus Bowers: Yeah, but I don’t know what you consider a lot of money.

Vince Ferguson: Yeah. Well, my dis- my, idea of a lot of money may not be the same as yours but, ’cause you basically making some good money there. But I’m saying basically let’s say if a store costs like 10,000 a month, would that be considered a lot of money to you if a store.

Marcus Bowers: Yeah, I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t open up a store that.

Vince Ferguson: That much, yeah.

Marcus Bowers: Yeah. So I, my, lease agreement, it would be something that would be comparable, 3 to $5,000 a month on the lease. Anything above that I probably wouldn’t even be looking to do it. Because it’s, it’s The way to do business today is not the way that we did business on yesterday.

Vince Ferguson: Back in the day, okay.

Marcus Bowers: Yeah. So back in the day, in order to consider yourself a businessman or woman, you had to have a location or a physical address. Now you can have a website, with no location and physical address. But the thing is, in order to touch everybody and grow and scale, yeah, you gotta have some type of online presence. But, as far as locations go, we put all our locations off the freeway.

Vince Ferguson: Off the freeway?

Marcus Bowers: Yeah. So it’s just a strategy with the locations.

Vince Ferguson: Huh.

Marcus Bowers: You put them out You had a specific question. What was your question?

Vince Ferguson: Well, yeah. My thought was because I know when it comes to franchisees.

Marcus Bowers: Oh, the cost, the cost. Okay. Yeah.

Vince Ferguson: The cost, right.

Marcus Bowers: So when it comes to franchising, one of my original franchisees put in like 12 to 16,000 to start. And that was it.

Vince Ferguson: And that was it.

Marcus Bowers: Another group of, franchisee put in just 8,000 to start. Now this is, this is back in 2014.

Vince Ferguson: Back in 2014. Yeah. Prices going up. That’s it.

Marcus Bowers: And also the brand wasn’t as strong as it is now. The brand was just, “Hey, let’s just get some, get the product out there and we can grow the brand when we get there.” Now the brand is already the brand, and so you wanna start off stronger than what we probably used to. So I would say like, over $100,000 or right at that number. But I could do it with cheaper. Again, you can start a hair company with a, with a couple hundred. I did it. So. You’re starting to build a brand that’s already built And you wanna start off right, then, yeah, it’s gonna cost X amount of dollars to get the floor mats customized with the logo on it. To get the storefront, the sign on it. Like, all that stuff does add up, so I would say somewhere between 75 to 100,000 would be, how we can jump into the franchising. And then from there, the bundles start coming in and the customers start coming in, and then we just start to win, time by. That’s it.

Vince Ferguson: Now, would you be able to use the same name?

Marcus Bowers: I hope so, man. Again, I got other names in mind if, my brand doesn’t make it for whatever reason. But think about this, man, I’m, I’m a young Black man, 40 years old. Just think about this. Phil Knight from Nike.

Vince Ferguson: Nike.

Marcus Bowers: It’s Yeah. It’s the founder of Nike, right? It’s Phil Knight.

Vince Ferguson: Right. Phil Knight.

Marcus Bowers: Founder of Nike. Phil Knight is not thinking about some of his shareholders dissolving Nike. That’s not a thing.

Vince Ferguson: No.

Marcus Bowers: Why should I be thinking about that? Why am I, why am I, a young Black man, veteran, and fought for the country did everything right? Turned jobs around and you where it’s Got a bunch of degrees, socially responsible. Why am I sitting here thinking about my company being dissolved because somebody woke up and said, “We don’t like something that’s going on, and we thinking about dissolving”? That’s not It just don’t make sense to me. It’s like somebody waking up telling Jeff Bezos, “Hey, answer your phone.” He answer the phone, “Yeah, man, you gotta come to court, to fight to keep someone from dissolving Amazon.” It just don’t make sense to me, and I’m fighting through this, and I’m going through the courts, and I’m It’s just me and God, man.

Money, Impact and Creating Millionaires

Marcus Bowers: So pray for me, man. Add my name to the prayer list at church.

Vince Ferguson: Oh, you got that. Most definitely, man. But you’re doing some wonderful things, and what you’ve accomplished, man, I don’t know anyone else who That has accomplished that. Turning $800 into 100 million? Come on. If you did it once, they say you can do it again.

Marcus Bowers: Yeah. And the thing is, it’s not even about the money, man. Like I love the opportunity to create for others, and just to create, for legacy. It’s The 100 million, I don- I never thought I would be a millionaire. That wasn’t my goal, and it’s still not my goal. My goal is not to keep making as much money as possible. No, that’s not my goal. My goal is open up more stores. It’s not about the money,. I don’t I’m not caring about being a billionaire. If I open up more stores then we open up more stores. I’m putting other people on and creating other millionaires. It’s not about, being the billionaire on the team, it’s about creating millionaires on the team. And so I want to create millionaires, man. Like, that’s what I’m on. You can only spend so much money, bro. I don’t even shop now. I don’t make it rain nowhere in no strip clubs or nothing, so it’s like, — Well, it When you, when you reach a certain level you realize that we all drive the same cars and eat the same steaks and put our pants on the same way and it’s like you only need so much money, man. Like,. But I Hey, if as long as God keep blessing me and giving it to me, I’m definitely not gonna turn it away,. But I’m telling you that the goal is never money, it’s always impact.

Vince Ferguson: Impact. Most definitely, man. So where do you see yourself in the next five years, Marcus?

Marcus Bowers: Man, the next five years I’ll probably go be, on a boat somewhere.

More Than Just Hair: An Entrepreneurial Mindset

Vince Ferguson: Oh my goodness.

Marcus Bowers: Having fun. Yeah. ’cause I’m already living my life purpose, so it’s more of the same. I don’t plan on changing too much up. That’s why I’m, saying just hair. More than just hair has always been one of my hashtags. If you go on Instagram and you type in more than just hair, it’ll be a bunch of She’s Happy Hair stuff that pops up, because we are more than just hair. So even though hair has been my focal point, and will always be I’ve always jumped into other industries. During COVID, during COVID 2020 while everything was closed, I opened up a kolache shack in Colorado Springs.

Vince Ferguson: I heard that.

Marcus Bowers: So, yes, we started selling kolaches there.

Vince Ferguson: Huh.

Marcus Bowers: We took the idea to a state where people had never heard of kolaches. Do what a kolache is?

Vince Ferguson: Exactly. Explain for my listeners who may not even heard of it.

Marcus Bowers: So kolache is sweet dough bread with meat and cheese on the inside.

Vince Ferguson: With meat and cheese.

Marcus Bowers: Yeah. It’s like, it’s, it’s like the best, handheld dish you could get in the morning or? And so in Houston there’s a lot of kolache spots, a lot of places to get kolaches from, a lot of donut spots sell kolaches.

Vince Ferguson: Yeah. Huh.

Marcus Bowers: A lot of shitty donuts. They even got a spot called Kolache Factory. So what I, what I did was I went to, the maps on my phone and looked up Kolache Factory, and I saw at that time it was 50 to 75 Kolache Factories, — In Houston, in Houston alone. So I took that idea. I went and subscribed to kolachefactory.com, the newsletters and the emails, because I wanted to see what Kolache Factory was saying to the people of Houston to get them to wake up every day to come get some kolaches, right?

Vince Ferguson: Kolaches, yes.

Marcus Bowers: I wanted to see, like, what is the email marketing like? What the welcome series like? What the flow like? What are the text messages like? And so I took that idea with me, and the product, to Colorado Springs, where they never heard of kola- they never heard of kolaches. And.

Vince Ferguson: Yeah. Oh.

Marcus Bowers: We opened up a kolache shack. It was open for two years. I understood Now, I understand now how hard it is to run a restaurant business.

Vince Ferguson: Oh, it’s hard. It’s hard. Yeah, man.

Marcus Bowers: Type of fast food and, hot turnover and all that is It gets, it gets crucial, right? And then, we started Anything Cream. I got this company called Hanging Gang. We got Cinema Anywhere. 2020, COVID, George Floyd, that same time period we were able to start LifeFlats Global. LifeFlats Global. So if you look that up, it’s a actual house shoe company, where we sell house shoes to people online that we’ve never met. But it’s on a slipper subscription service. So you order house shoes today- In three months, six months, or a year, you get brand new house shoes delivered to your doorstep automatically. And so that’s another business, another stream. And I learned that from the billionaires, man. I got on Clubhouse during COVID, and they started talking about, all the strategies, and the billionaires on there giving up the game. I’m like, “Okay, well, if you wanna be a billionaire, you gotta do what the billionaires are doing.”

Vince Ferguson: Yeah. Yeah, man.

Marcus Bowers: Billionaires have subscriptions. I gotta do something to get me a subscription, man. And so. We started doing the house shoe slipper subscription service with LifeFlats Global, and, it’s been working out. So five years from now, man, I’ll probably have my son will be in entrepreneurship. It Again, it’s just more of the same, man. Like, I don’t plan on.

Vince Ferguson: More of the same.

Marcus Bowers: I do not plan on doing anything different outside of business, community, veterans and education.

Vince Ferguson: Excellent. I have a couple more questions, man. I know you’re probably pressed for time, but how do you prevent ambition from consuming the other important parts of your life? Because you a very ambitious guy.

Ambition, Family and Staying Focused

Vince Ferguson: How do you stay grounded?

Marcus Bowers: Well, it’s not, it’s, it’s not about being grounded. You It’s not about being grounded. Stay up. Let them come up to you. Don’t go back down there.

Vince Ferguson: Mm, I like that.

Marcus Bowers: Don’t, don’t stay grounded. Stay high.

Vince Ferguson: I was thinking that, stay high.

Marcus Bowers: You can be Stay high. So now, where the way that you mix in the time and, your calendar and, what’s really important to you is you add them into what you’re doing. My givebacks, the entrepreneurial panels. You bring your son, your family. You out there, you’re feeding the homeless. You’re doing, something with the Hoodies For Healing downtown. Whatever it is that you’re doing, you’re including, the most important people around you as well. You’re not leaving them behind, and that was something I had to learn, bro. It took me a while to learn, to start living like that because you want them to be a part of, what you got going on, just like, they want you to be a part of what they got going on. So you support them, they support you. But if you’re leaving them behind and always going to follow your dreams or, be ambitious, then, you kinda miss out on what’s most important to your life and your legacy.

Vince Ferguson: Oh, yeah. Man, that’s, that’s so true. And I remember the words when I first saw your interview, and you mentioned how we Most veterans, they leave the military, they leave without a plan, and that struck me ’cause I left without a plan. I just said, “I’m leaving.” But if you could speak directly to someone preparing to leave the military today, what are the three things you would tell that person to do before taking off the uniform?

Advice for Veterans: Don’t Wait to Be Great

Marcus Bowers: Man.

Vince Ferguson: That’s a serious question, man.

Marcus Bowers: Yeah, man.

Vince Ferguson: What’s.

Marcus Bowers: Well- I think while you’re in active duty, there’s no reason why you can’t be great during active duty. A lot of people feel like you gotta wait till after, before you become great, and a lot of people feel like you gotta wait till you graduate. But I feel like you can be great now. And so what would you be doing now? Whatever your dreams are, you should be, you should be it now. Like, if you are in the military right now and you’re like, “I wanna be this when I get out” be it now.

Vince Ferguson: Start being it now.

Marcus Bowers: Be now what you are now. Ain’t nothing stopping you from being it, reading it, studying it, YouTube-ing it. So be it right now. And I talk to kids especially. They’re, “I When I graduate, I wanna do this.” Well, what’s stopping you from doing it now? What’s stopping you? You gonna let a little certificate stop you- From being what you wanna be? You gonna let somebody else tell you can’t be what you wanna be until they say so?

Vince Ferguson: Yes. Weird, isn’t it?

Marcus Bowers: If you’re in the military, again, man, there’s so many things that you can do. I guess one thing I would say is keep your eyes open. I was able to see how big the world was and see all the different opportunity while I was in. So.

Vince Ferguson: Man.

Marcus Bowers: I would say definitely, be it now. That’s one thing. Be it now. Whatever it is you wanna be it now. Savor the moments, the relationships, the photos the videos. Those things are timeless.

Vince Ferguson: Especially now to me, man. Yeah.

Marcus Bowers: Yeah, man. If you could If I could go back in time, if I had some type of content from my Thailand days and Singapore days and the Philippine days. Malaysia days and.

Vince Ferguson: Malaysia. Yeah, man.

Marcus Bowers: It would be great. Nobody would believe they ha- they had monkeys running around like birds and squirrels there. Just free monkeys just running around. It’s just, “Ooh, when you come out the store” type stuff. Like, I want people to see this and experience this with me, right? So I would savor the moments and the relationships, because the relationships that you build in the military, some of those are lifelong. You think the friends that you met in elementary are your, are your homeboys and homegirls? Nah, man, it’s the ones you met in the military that you gonna be stuck with, the ones that’ll die for you and you’ll die for them. Y’all are already connected mentally there, right? So y’all stay connected mentally forever. Savor those moments. Be whatever you wanna be right now. Don’t wait. And then, man, oh my God, the next thing I would say, man, when I was growing up, I never wanted to be a thing. Man, I’d be in school and people would be asking me, like, “Hey, what you wanna be when you grow up?” I’m like, “Man, I just wanna be great.” I ne- it was never like I wanna be a this thing or a that thing or a doctor or a lawyer. I never I just wanna be great. If you- Don’t wanna be a thing, I want you to know that because you are in the military, even though you don’t wanna be a thing, one of the things that you better find yourself doing at some point in time in your life is real estate.

Vince Ferguson: Real estate.

Marcus Bowers: Some point in time in your life. It’s too easy not to. I know millionaires and billionaires and everybody that’s winning that’s in real estate, and some of them used their veteran benefits.

Vince Ferguson: I use mine.

Marcus Bowers: Even before they got out.

Vince Ferguson: Oh, really?

Marcus Bowers: Even before they got out. So you don’t have to wait to be great. Remember that. Even if you don’t wanna be a thing, you don’t know what you wanna be when you grow up, you don’t, hey, you can jump You can do real estate. You can buy property. You can- change your family tree. And again, you don’t have to wait on that. You can do it right now. Now, the last thing is this education is so important.

Vince Ferguson: Yes. Yes, it is.

Marcus Bowers: It’s actually the most important. The most important education or the best education I got was during my time in service. That gave me that foundation. I got everything else later. So I want, if you are in the service, right? Take the opportunity seriously. That’s a foundation that you’re creating. That’s a foundation that you’re about to leave. So keep adding to that foundation while you’re there. Go to the training. Go to the classes. Go to the free school. People pay for education. So if you have the opportunity to get all this education while you in, get it, and then get the rest of it when you get out. The last thing I wanna see is people that are in the military get out and don’t go exercise their educational benefits. What are you doing with your life? What else is there to do other than get smarter?

Vince Ferguson: Yeah, man, you’re right. It’s all right. You’re so right, man. I wish I had that advice before I got out, but you’re so right, man. Marcus, this has been great, man. But I have one more question for you. If someone watching or listening today could change one thing this week to add more life to their years, what would you tell them to do? They can change one thing this week to add more life and purpose to their years, what would you tell them to do?

Health, Longevity and Looking Five Years Ahead

Marcus Bowers: Man, just care about what you look like five years from now. Yeah, care about what you look like five years from now. No matter what you do, use AI too. And, all the money’s online, man. Don’t spend the rest of your life waking up going to get the bag.

Vince Ferguson: Yeah. Well.

Marcus Bowers: You can make, create, and generate it online with the palm of your hands.

Vince Ferguson: Wow. Perfect, man. This has been great. And one last thing that I didn’t ask you, Marcus, but it’s so important ’cause my company’s all about health and wellness. What do you do to take care of your health? Because you’re doing so much, but without your health, man, nothing else matters.

Marcus Bowers: No, I’m working out, as often as I need to. Eating right, sleeping. I think as far as your health goes, you gotta be self-motivated. You can’t be waiting on a personal trainer. You can’t be waiting on a homeboy or homegirl. You can’t wait on somebody to call you fat. You gotta learn from other people mistakes. I look around and I see, and I’m like, “I don’t want that to be me.” And so you do the opposite of what they’re doing to get the results that they’re not getting. So that’s.

Vince Ferguson: Yes. I like saying, “Do what others won’t do, so you get what others don’t get, don’t have.”

Marcus Bowers: Yeah. Yeah. Health is, health is important, man. Again, you wanna be around for the kids. You wanna be around for the grandkids. You wanna be around and able to do these things. So yeah, it’s super. Nothing more important than your health.

Vince Ferguson: Oh, thank you so much. On behalf of Body Sculpt of New York and Six Weeks to Fitness and VINCE Magazine, Marcus, I wanna thank you for joining me and sharing your journey, experience, and wisdom with my audience.

How to Connect With Marcus Bowers

Marcus Bowers: Yes, sir. Now, look, if you can hear the sound of my voice, man, you want more of Marcus, I got this thing called a short code. We ain’t talked a lot about the strategies of how to make this money in business, but I got a lot of that, right? And I want you to tap in with me, and all you gotta do is text the word Marcus, M-A-R-C-U-S, to 888-111. Text the word Marcus to 888-111, and, you’ll receive the automations where we can stay connected.

Vince Ferguson: Nice. Love that, man. I wrote that down, but I’m also gonna share it in my show notes as well.

Marcus Bowers: I do have some photos too. I don’t know how you do your interviews and stuff, but I don’t know if you edit.

Vince Ferguson: Oh, yeah.

Marcus Bowers: Just like.

Vince Ferguson: If you have some photos.

Marcus Bowers: I got all type of stuff we can add all through the mix, but I would definitely love a copy of the show as well if we do have it.

Vince Ferguson: Oh, you’ll definitely get that. I’m gonna have, in the October issue of the magazine, I’m gonna have a layout with you, and I would need, definitely need the photos for the October issue. But I’m also gonna get this out before then on YouTube and podcast and newsletter, all that good stuff. I’ll send you all the information, all the copy, the links that I get. But in October, yo, this interview itself will be in my magazine. Okay? So that’s gonna be great, man. So again, to everyone watching this podcast, I truly hope you enjoyed it and that you will share it. Like, subscribe, and I look forward.

Veterans and Family Field Day

Marcus Bowers: Oh.

Vince Ferguson: To seeing you guys.

Marcus Bowers: Look, I cannot let us go without telling you that this Veterans Day weekend in Houston, Texas, we’ll be at Emancipation Park for our first Veterans and Family Field Day. So it’s November 8th. November 7th is the business conferences with Black Wall Street. We got almost a million followers on Instagram. Which took so many entrepreneurs and community leaders to join forces with us, and we’re doing a lot in the community. And so, one of our major events is this year, November 8th, it’s a Sunday, and it’s at Emancipation Park, and it’s our first time doing a Veterans and Family Field Day. So a lot of families could be out, a lot of kids. It’ll be a lot of fun in the sun. A lot of field day activities, a lot of vets, competing and stuff. So it’s gonna be a lot of fun, man. So I want to share that. Anybody, if you are in Houston, again, looking for something to do, ’cause they don’t have a lot of veteran initiatives for us. So I wanted to bring that for us, for our community, so I’m glad to be able to do it. And I need some help. Need some help. Sponsors, donations, volunteers. We need some help, man. Can’t wait to see y’all, in the building or on the call as we lead up to, Veterans and Family Field Day presented by Black Wall Street.

Vince Ferguson: That is awesome. And November 8th is a Sunday?

Marcus Bowers: It is.

Vince Ferguson: That’s good. Okay.

Marcus Bowers: So yep, it’s the weekend before Veterans Day. Veterans Day is that Wednesday, I think, on the 11th.

Vince Ferguson: Right. It’s that Wednesday. And what is your Black Wall Street, what is that? Do you have a website?

Marcus Bowers: Yeah. So you can go to, on Instagram, you can go to blackwall.st and then, blackwallstreet.net. So yeah, you go check out the social media, check out the website. You can even text BWS to 888-111 to stay connected as far as those events and things as well. So, we got so much going on, man. A lot of motion, but, my heart is with the vets, man. Always has been, always will be.

Closing: Service, Community and Legacy

Marcus Bowers: I feel like the community needs more of us to go back and teach the Underground Railroad as a stepping stone. And the more of us that are successful that go back, then we can, have more of them following us instead of everybody else.

Vince Ferguson: Exactly. Oh, man, very well said. This has been really great, my brother. And I’ll definitely make sure we get this out and more people will see it. And for those listening, don’t forget to like, comment, subscribe. And stay healthy, stay strong, and keep adding more life to your years. God bless.