Scaling Together Through Adversity
april 11, 2026
Bringing together founders, investors, and ecosystem builders to foster community around profitable entrepreneurship
Opening reception
Friday, April 11th, 2026
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Note: Registering for the 2026 Opening Reception Coming Soon!
2026 YALE BLACK VENTURE SUMMIT
2026 YALE BLACK VENTURE SUMMIT
2026 AGENDA:
registration & breakfast
TBD
OPENING KEYNOTE
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Earn Your Leisure
Earn Your Leisure
Earn Your Leisure is a premier financial literacy media company reshaping how wealth-building education is delivered to modern audiences. Founded by Rashad Bilal, a former financial advisor and wealth strategist, and Troy Millings, a former educator with more than sixteen years of experience, Earn Your Leisure blends finance, culture, and storytelling to make complex financial concepts accessible, engaging, and actionable.
What began as a mission to bring “barbershop conversations” to Wall Street has grown into a global media and education platform reaching millions. Through a portfolio of top-ranked podcasts, digital learning experiences, and live events, Earn Your Leisure equips audiences with practical tools to build generational wealth through investing, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy. The platform’s flagship podcast, Earn Your Leisure, along with Market Mondays and Assets Over Liabilities on REVOLT, consistently ranks among the top business podcasts worldwide.
Rashad Bilal serves as the platform’s financial strategist, leveraging his background in wealth management and investing to break down markets, asset classes, and financial systems with clarity and precision. Troy Millings brings an educator’s lens and a storyteller’s voice, translating financial theory into culturally relevant conversations that resonate across generations and communities. Together, they create a balance of technical rigor and relatability that defines the Earn Your Leisure brand.
Beyond digital media, Earn Your Leisure is the creator of Invest Fest, a large-scale annual conference in Atlanta that merges finance, entrepreneurship, music, food, and culture. Invest Fest convenes investors, founders, creatives, and industry leaders for immersive education and community building, positioning financial literacy as both empowering and aspirational.
Earn Your Leisure has featured conversations with influential leaders and cultural icons, including Shaquille O’Neal, Magic Johnson, Steve Harvey, and Rick Ross, and has partnered with major institutions such as Ally Bank and the NBA G League. With more than 50 million downloads and consistent top-20 rankings across business podcast charts, the platform has become one of the most influential voices in modern financial education.
At its core, Earn Your Leisure is driven by a mission to democratize financial knowledge, particularly for underserved communities, by providing access, education, and representation in spaces where wealth is created and sustained.
LAST YEAR’S pitch competition finalists
The Location - yale school of management
The Yale School of Management (SOM) is the graduate business school of Yale University located in New Haven, Connecticut
41.3153° N
72.9206° W
2025 conference RECAP
