Crystal Swain-Bates, prime youngsters’s guide creator and proprietor of Goldest Karat Publishing, has introduced her thrilling upcoming characteristic on the brand new TNT docu-series “The Recreation Plan with Shaquille O’Neal.”
The six-part documentary collection follows Atlanta-based entrepreneurs as they obtain enterprise recommendation from Shaq and his extremely profitable movie star mates. Viewers will get a front-row seat to Crystal’s story and Shaq’s assist of her present pursuits in her upcoming episode of “The Recreation Plan,” which can air this Thursday, Feb. 24 at 7p.m. ET on TNT.
“Being a part of ‘The Recreation Plan’ was such an thrilling, once-in-a-lifetime expertise to deal with considered one of my largest enterprise challenges: visibility,” shares Crystal.
“Having a enterprise mogul like Shaq take the time to hearken to my story, study all about my enterprise and share his recommendation was an absolute dream for me!”
In just some brief years, Crystal has written and printed 12 youngsters’s books by means of her firm, Goldest Karat Publishing. Her mission to encourage variety and erase the invisibility of Black youngsters in youngsters’s literature has been game-changing within the publishing trade. Her guide “Massive Hair, Don’t Care” is considered one of Amazon’s most extremely reviewed Black youngsters’s books available on the market. It, together with different titles, has been seen on platforms together with Forbes, ESSENCE, CNN and Huffington Publish, has been used as props for hit tv exhibits corresponding to BET’s Being Mary Jane and The Recreation and has been featured in quite a few Amazon commercials.
Identified for his larger-than-life character, philanthropic endeavors and legendary basketball profession, Shaquille O’Neal will use his enterprise acumen to information and mentor small enterprise house owners by means of “The Recreation Plan.”
Whereas followers have seen Shaq in numerous sorts of roles, this new docu-series will present viewers a singular have a look at him being entrenched within the Atlanta group, pushing entrepreneurs to imagine of their instincts as they take their manufacturers to the following stage and construct confidence — by means of the ups and downs — to make their mark on this planet.
Crystal’s episode debuts in week two of the collection and can present how she empowers Black youth by filling variety gaps in youngsters’s literature.
