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Today’s guest is Mactar Mbaye of HGTV Canada's Hoarder House Flippers. He traveled from Montreal to sit down with Myra at Vermont Public Studios and shares the story of the most jarring experience of racial profiling he’s ever faced — when police assumed he was something he wasn’t.
It’s a story of how Mactar flipped the script on that experience of racial profiling, and transformed it into the practice of trusting the process and reaching for his dreams.
“I have goals that I want to achieve, right? And to be able to achieve those goals, I have to always look in the front. I cannot look back. You cannot let anything, and I say anything, make you look in the back and slow the process down. Not even racism.”Mactar Mbaye
Credits
This episode was hosted and reported by executive producer, Myra Flynn and mixed by Sarah Baik. Our video director is Mike Dunn and Emmanuel Dzotsi is our editor. Myra composed the theme music with other music by Blue Dot Sessions. Kyle Ambusk is the graphic artist behind this episode’s Homegoings portrait.
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