Earn Your Leisure Founders to Keynote 2024 "Where are All The Black People" Conference

Jul. 22, 2024

Rachid Bilal and Troy Millings, founders and co-CEOs of popular business, education, and podcast platform Earn Your Leisure (EYL), will give the keynote address at the 14th edition of The One Club for Creativity's hybrid Where Are All The Black People (WAATBP) diversity conference and career fair, taking place September 26-27, 2024 at Convene at Brookfield Place in New York.  

Bilal and Millings, who will speak in the morning of WAATBP’s second day, started EYL in 2018 as a media platform which gives rise to emerging and established content creators from the world of business, finance, and entrepreneurship whose perspective, expertise and in-depth insight has been undervalued and overlooked. 

The platform has three top 100 podcasts including “Earn Your Leisure”, which has amassed over 50 million downloads and is consistently ranked in the top 20 business podcasts in the US.  EYL has over two million followers across social media, 900,000 YouTube subscribers, and hosts live events across the globe including “Invest Fest”, the world’s largest financial literacy festival with over 14,000 attendees in 2022.  

The platform also includes EYL University, an online educational platform and interactive community with over 12,000 active members and more than 200 archived webinars covering a range of business, finance, and entrepreneurial topics, making it one of the fastest growing private business education communities.

WAATBP is the leading annual gathering to address and correct the lack of diversity within the ad industry, bringing together Black voices from across the ad community – from students to C-suite leaders – to celebrate successes, examine challenges, and assert their rightful place at the table alongside their allies. 

The conference is a hybrid event on September 26-27, 2024, with the first day taking place online and the second in person at Convene at Brookfield Place, 225 Liberty St. in downtown New York.  

In order to make the event as accessible as possible, WAATBP is free for job seekers and students to attend.  

Initial confirmed sponsors to date include Giant Spoon, Klick Health, Ogilvy, Team One, Verizon, and We Are Social, with more to come.  Partnership opportunities are available for agencies and brands looking to help promote industry diversity. 

Virtual panels, portfolio reviews, and recruiting sessions will happen online on September 26.  The next day kicks off with the keynote address, followed by additional presentations, crowdsourced panels, recruiting booths, and portfolio reviews.  

WAATBP branding was developed by Nicole Cousins and Dante Carlos at COLLINS New York.