What's going on everyone, Welcome to another edition of Confessions of a Native Son, I'm your host Mike Steadman. I'm a Marine Corps Veteran, Entrepreneur, and Aspiring author, who enjoys thought-provoking and engaging dialogue about race, culture, and business.

In this episode, I chop it up with another brother from another mother, Mr. Nate Jester. Nate is an African-American Naval Academy Graduate and Marine Infantry Officer, who recently graduated from Harvard Law School. Nate relocated to his hometown of Atlanta Georgia, in order to leverage his human capital in the community that raised him. Nate's passion is to uplift oppressed people in the United States and utilize his newly acquired legal knowledge as a force for good. Harvard Law school has given Nate the words to describe the issues of education, crime, and poverty he witnessed growing up and an understanding of the legal and political systems that perpetuate those issues. To be quite frank, Nate is one of the smartest people I know. He double-majored at the Naval Academy in Political Science and Economics, maintaining nearly a 4.0 average the entire time. I brought Nate on the platform to better understand his experience of being young, black and educated. He shares insight into how his giftedness was almost overlooked an early age due to culturally bias aptitude testing, growing up in all black school system, the challenge of maintaining his blackness at the Naval Academy and in the Marines, and why it's problematic when black people let other determine our value and worth. Nate is done dumbing down his greatness and is comfortable fully expressing himself as an unapologetic black man. As always, I truly appreciate you for sharing your time with me, and I hope you enjoy today's show.