Conversations Are Key with Key Will Voice unlocks authentic, behind-the-scenes conversations with innovators, creators, and culture-shapers from entertainment, business, and beyond. Hosted by Emmy-nominated producer, award-winning editor, and celebrated voice actor Keyon Williams — whose voice you’ve heard on Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy, across BET, WEtv, VH1, NBC, iHeartRadio, and more — the show blends truth, humor, and perspective to reveal the human stories that inspire, entertain, and connect us all. Recorded at iHeartRadio, each episode goes beyond headlines to deliver the keys you didn’t know you needed.
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EP # 24 - Mario Payne: When Trust, Money & Reputation Collide
Certified Financial Planner, Army veteran, entrepreneur, and TOAMS Financial founder Mario Payne joins Conversations Are Key for a candid conversation about wealth, risk, reputation, and what happens when trust is tested.
Mario shares his journey from being expelled from school and attending Tennessee State University to serving in the Army, entering financial services, and eventually building his own advisory firm.
He also addresses the public scrutiny surrounding his work, reflects on client losses during difficult market conditions, and explains what the experience taught him about communication, accountability, and maintaining trust.
The conversation goes beyond the controversy as Mario breaks down his approach to leverage, real estate, investing, debt, financial planning, and what he believes everyday people should know before trusting someone with their money.
It’s a conversation about building wealth—but also about what happens when your reputation becomes part of the investment.
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25 Sept 2026
EP # 23 - He Faced 7 Years In Prison—Then the Judge Gave Him a Second Chance | Kie Fair
Kie Fair was already trying to leave the streets behind when federal agents arrived at his mother’s home and arrested him as part of a conspiracy involving 11 people. Facing years behind bars, Kie prepared to lose his freedom—until a judge gave him something he couldn’t purchase: a second chance.
In this episode of Conversations Are Key, Kie opens up about his early introduction to entrepreneurship, becoming addicted to money and validation, and repeatedly returning to the streets whenever his legitimate businesses struggled. He takes us inside the arrest that changed his life, the humiliation of incarceration and the courtroom moment that gave him another opportunity.
Freedom didn’t erase the consequences. Kie walked away with $90,000 in restitution, 160 hours of community service and the responsibility of rebuilding his life from the ground up. He discusses returning to work as a window tinter after once owning his own shops, earning back his family’s trust and transforming his experience into a mission to help others break destructive cycles.
Today, Kie is the author of Undefined Evidence, a transformational speaker and an entrepreneur behind BWI Motorsports and Halo Highline. He and Keyon also have an honest conversation about faith, business ownership, envy, supporting Black businesses and why visible success means nothing without the internal work required to sustain it.
This isn’t a story about escaping consequences. It’s about accepting responsibility—and understanding what a second chance demands from you.
CHAPTERS
00:00 $90,000 in restitution—and a daughter waiting
00:45 Meet Kie Fair
01:44 His first hustle started with candy
04:24 Becoming addicted to money and validation
09:05 The morning federal agents arrested him
11:11 Facing years behind bars
14:59 The responsibility of a second chance
16:51 Finding faith through the Book of Job
19:30 Rebuilding after incarceration
21:31 Earning his family’s trust again
22:41 What legitimate success feels like
23:41 Building BWI Motorsports and Halo Highline
25:14 What the streets couldn’t teach him about business
26:26 Faith requires action
28:02 Success, envy and protecting your vision
30:02 Playing your position and supporting Black businesses
36:38 Why he named the book Undefined Evidence
37:31 His warning to young people chasing street money
38:34 What parents need to teach their children
39:52 Kie Fair’s Key to the Street
40:57 Where to follow Kie
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11 Sept 2026
EP #22 - When Your Vision Changes: Taquiela Wright on Reinvention, Glaucoma & Building Delisa Rose
What happens when the vision you have for your life is suddenly challenged by your physical vision?
Key Will Voice sits down with Taquiela Wright, engineer and founder of Delisa Rose Luxury Lingerie, for a candid conversation about reinvention, resilience, entrepreneurship and purpose.
After more than two decades in engineering, Taquiela took an unexpected leap into luxury fashion, ultimately showcasing her designs at New York Fashion Week and in Paris. But at the height of that momentum, an advanced glaucoma diagnosis forced her to confront the possibility of losing her sight—and reconsider what success, health and her future would look like.
Taquiela opens up about the fear and depression that followed her diagnosis, losing her mother, the family roots behind Delisa Rose, self-funding a luxury brand while continuing her engineering career, and why she now says she is “designing from a purpose standpoint.”
She also gets candid about being a Black woman navigating both engineering and luxury fashion, the realities of manufacturing lingerie, and what it actually takes to turn fashion visibility into a sustainable business.
Then things lighten up for Keys to the Street, as Taquiela gives the men a crash course in buying lingerie for their significant other—from sizing and choosing the right pieces to the one rule every man should remember: know your woman.
It’s a conversation about losing sight of the life you expected—and discovering a bigger vision for what comes next.
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