The Taste of Wealth is a celebration and an opportunity to share some time with those that have chosen to thrive rather than just survive.
We have all been taught to be survivors, as many of us are descendants of immigrants, many of us have battled poverty and many other struggles. In that we are all faced with a choice whether to dwell in that or rise above.
As survivors there are some questions that we must stop and ask ourselves if we want to thrive.
What have I really been taught about money?
Am I financially literate to make changes that will affect not only my life, but that of future generations?
What do I know about the principles of financial planning?
The mission of this collaboration between BPMG Inc and the Tastemakers is to break bread together and build strategic partnerships that are based on financial literacy, community, capital investment, and utilization of our resources.
BPMG Inc mobilizes our member resources – their experience, time and influence – to create jobs, spur new business creation and to expand opportunities. We want our guests and members to get a “Taste” of what real wealth looks like, what it feels like to be wealthy through a series of dining experiences where we explore how to thrive not only financially, but in other aspects of your life.
Wealth is not the acquisition of valuable things as we have been led to believe, but rather having the things in life that really have the most value- -time and people that you love. We want to show you how to build financially in order to leverage more time with the ones you love.
Come join us at our table!!
The Taste of Wealth is a celebration and an opportunity to share some time with those that have chosen to thrive rather than just survive.
We have all been taught to be survivors, as many of us are descendants of immigrants, many of us have battled poverty and many other struggles. In that we are all faced with a choice whether to dwell in that or rise above.
As survivors there are some questions that we must stop and ask ourselves if we want to thrive.
What have I really been taught about money?
Am I financially literate to make changes that will affect not only my life, but that of future generations?
What do I know about the principles of financial planning?
The mission of this collaboration between BPMG Inc and the Tastemakers is to break bread together and build strategic partnerships that are based on financial literacy, community, capital investment, and utilization of our resources.
BPMG Inc mobilizes our member resources – their experience, time and influence – to create jobs, spur new business creation and to expand opportunities. We want our guests and members to get a “Taste” of what real wealth looks like, what it feels like to be wealthy through a series of dining experiences where we explore how to thrive not only financially, but in other aspects of your life.
Wealth is not the acquisition of valuable things as we have been led to believe, but rather having the things in life that really have the most value- -time and people that you love. We want to show you how to build financially in order to leverage more time with the ones you love.
Come join us at our table!!
Creative Director : Executive Producer : Writer : Development Executive
Crystal Whaley is a multiple EMMY Award winning creative producer and
development executive in film/TV/digital offering a unique combination of
cross-functional skills with over 20 years of experience with a specialized
expertise in content development and acquisition, strategic brand
initiatives and creative direction.
Crystal is responsible for the overall financial sustainability and creative
integrity of multiple shows/projects, including the oversight of all logistics
necessary to meet creative mandates, broadcast standards and brand
recognition. She’s developed, produced, directed and supervised
produced award winning scripted and non-scripted TV series,
commercials, music videos and nationally syndicated and Peabody
nominated documentaries, TLC, Showtime, MSNBC, Discovery +, Netflix
and 2022 EMMY award winning digital series, for Frontlines/PBS.
Owner and Creative Director of Plan C Media Group, she’s also former VP
of Development and Production of Pixel Media LLC / Lionsgate, former
senior producer for Sesame Workshop, former Director of Video
Production for Arista Records and former executive producer of Free Spirit
Films Inc, where she produced a myriad of innovative commercials and
music videos for award-winning artists.
A lover of the arts, Crystal is a published photographer and an
accomplished curator of the annual “For Us, By Us” at The Long Gallery
Harlem in February 2017- 20, ALTAR: Prayer, Ritual, Offering at Photoville
NYC in Sept. 2018 & Photoville Los Angeles April 2019 as well as curator for
the HBCU’s Art Talk/Date: Kerry James Marshall at the MET Breuer.
She’s the producer & deputy editor of critically acclaimed photo books;
Black Joy and Resistance in 2018 and MFON: Woman Photographers of
the African Diaspora in 2017 as well as the founder of the forthcoming
curatorial project, The M’Dear at the Museum of Contemporary African
Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) Summer 2023.
Crystal made her directorial debut with her feature length documentary
film, The Sound She Saw that currently is being screened in multiple film
festivals.
Crystal is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and a
member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc, this Los Angeles native &
honorary New Yorker holds a Journalism degree from Howard University
and a Film Production Certificate from New York University.