The Story of Nissim Black | Meaningful People #56
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oh boy do we have a good episode for you guys this week we sat down with nissim barak black oh formerly damian jamal black born in seattle washington his journey is insane it's incredible you probably maybe have heard pieces of it but we were able to sit down with him and just hear it all from a to z he's not our first gear that we had on this show but he's definitely someone who's super famous that's your first guy amari oh i forgot about that one yeah mario's listening to this and he's like what the heck how do you forget about me yeah at me so uh yeah nissan was great and you should know i i i always you know i didn't know that much about him like okay it's obvi like i heard in the news you know he used to be a rapper now he's a singer and i'm like okay nice story but i i was really personally very moved by this conversation that we had with him yeah he's an open book and enjoy this episode welcome to the meaningful people podcast the podcast where we talk to people who are meaningful yeah that sounds good we have the honor the pleasure of sitting here with nissan black thank you so much thank you for coming in and came all the way from meredith sterl for this podcast which is we appreciate that that's like that's real dedication yeah making all our other guests who like can't come from like you know 50 miles away look back so we want to talk to you
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