NEW YORK – February 8, 2021 – Financial experts Rashad Bilal, a skilled financial advisor, and Troy Millings, a respected educator and innovator, announced today that their popular financial literacy podcast, Earn Your Leisure, will partner with renowned Radio Hall of Fame inductee, bestselling author, multimedia mogul, and cultural architect Charlamagne Tha God’s and iHeartMedia’s The Black Effect Podcast Network. The podcast, which has amassed more than five million downloads, applies an in-depth lens on the role money plays in sports, entertainment, and business. Earn Your Leisure broadcasts each Tuesday on iHeartRadio and everywhere podcasts are heard.
The podcast series, hosted Bilal and Millings, a dynamic duo who have been friends for over 25 years, provides listeners with behind-the-scenes financial knowledge across entertainment and sports industries, highlighting entrepreneurs’ backstories, breaking down business models, and examining the latest trends in finance. The podcast blends insights from a typical college business class with current popular culture, offering listeners a unique and exciting look into the world of business in a fresh new way. Listeners can binge classic episodes from the show’s archives which feature an array of notable guests, including business mogul Mark Cuban, hip-hop mogul and activist Killer Mike, NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal, DJ Envy, co-host of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, retired professional basketball player Dwyane Wade, NBA Hall of Famer Dr. J, and more.
“We are proud to be a part of a network that shares our belief and vision of empowering the next generation of leaders in the world of business," said Troy and Rashad. "‘Earn Your Leisure’ is a college business class mixed with pop culture, offering listeners a unique perspective into the work of business and finance. “We pride ourselves on being a transparent business outlet, discussing complex topics broken down so that the average listener can comprehend. We are extremely excited to be joining The Black Effect Podcast Network, where the voices of our community can be authentically heard from a range of different leaders. Together, we will continue to expand the conversation of financial literacy while educating the world.”
Listen to Earn Your Leisure now and follow the podcast on iHeartRadio to be alerted when new episodes are available.
About The Black Effect Podcast Network
The Black Effect Podcast Network is a transformative network founded by renowned Radio Hall of Fame inductee, bestselling author, multimedia mogul, and cultural architect Charlamagne Tha God. In a historic joint venture with the world’s number one commercial podcast publisher, iHeartMedia, Charlamagne and iHeartMedia created the groundbreaking first-ever Black Effect Podcast Network, celebrating the most important Black culture-shapers on the planet—in education, politics, entertainment, sports, and pop culture. The Black Effect Podcast Network gives rise to emerging and established content creators and storytellers whose perspective and creative vision have been marginalized and overlooked while serving an audience that has been underserved. The Black Effect Podcast Network helps its partners define their place in culture through influence, ideas, and experiences that engage, inspire, inform, and empower.