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cottontales' podcast

Cottontales' Podcast, telling the stories of African Americans that are creating our history and sharing their life journey's.  Our story, our way.

Dec 15, 2021

Mr. Sylvester Mack, formerly a
sales engineer who headed up a leverage buy out
that landed him a company to run. Mr. Mack shares his
entrepreneurial experience in Silicon Valley. Sometimes I
have to convince my interviewees that they are part of
the history of Silicon Valley.


Nov 18, 2021

June Fleming is the first African American woman to become a city manager in California.  Mrs. Fleming's is responsible for extending Sand HIll Road into Palo Alto and universal internet services to name a few of her improvements to the commumity known as the heart of Silicon Valley.


Nov 8, 2021

Mr. Raymond Newsome retired Engineer for Shell Oil. Ray's Unique journey from his high school drafting class to Senior engineer for one of the largest oil companies in the world is one that would probably never happen today.


Oct 23, 2021

Cassandra Durkin is a musical phenom that toured the world singing and playing in 5 star hotels and luxury liners.  Cassandra honors us with the  story of her life in the world of music.  


Oct 12, 2021

Maynard Holliday is a senior engineer working in Robotics and Artificial intelligence.  Since this interview Maynard has joined the Biden-Harris administration to work in the Pentagon as the Director of Research and Engineering for Modernization.