What Up Doe?! We wrap up our Black Business Month series at The Lip Bar Detroit with Part 3, spotlighting three trailblazing Detroit creatives and strategists:
Gail Perry-Mason – Founder of Money Matters for Youth, bestselling author, and financial literacy champion who empowers Detroit youth through summer investment camps and programs that teach economics as community power.
Erica Banks – Managing Partner of Bankable Marketing Strategies, a Detroit-based MARCOM and PR agency transforming brands with strategic storytelling and compelling visibility.
Dr. Germaine Pentsil – Founder of G. Pentsil Consulting, serving non-traditional entrepreneurs in Detroit with business consulting, HR guidance, and organizational development.
We're talking:
- Financial literacy as legacy-building – how Gail Perry-Mason teaches wealth as a tool for freedom and intergenerational empowerment.
- Marketing with purpose – Erica Banks’s approach to defining brand voices and crafting campaigns that amplify Black-owned businesses in Detroit.
- Consulting with conscience – Dr. Germaine Pentsil’s journey to guiding the “non-traditional entrepreneur” through strategy, structure, and support.
- Balancing creativity and strategy – how each woman builds and sustains her business while nurturing community and culture.
Tap in for a powerful finale to our series—packed with practical inspiration, bold leadership, and stories that prove another Detroit is possible.
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