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314: How Monique Little Grew Her Natural Hair Accessory Brand into a Multimillion Dollar Company REWIND Aug 24, 2022

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This week I chat with Monique Little, CEO & Founder of You Go Natural, one of the nation’s fastest growing natural hair accessory brands. Little founded the company to address the need for easy styling options for women who opt to wear their hair in its natural state. Having started with just a sewing machine, some remnant fabric from her mother’s stash and an idea, in just five years Little has successfully grown a multimillion dollar brand.

In this episode you will learn:

How wanting more freedom in her schedule led to the start of You Go Natural
How she got her product to grow in the first six months to a point where she was making more than her full time job’s salary
How she went from working with contractors to opening up a facility and hiring full time employee
When she decided to raise capital and how she had to explain the black women’s beauty experience to people who didn’t understand the need for her product
Her marketing strategy for scaling the business, when she knew it was time to bring in an external team, & how being in your own target market helps with knowing what to say to your audience + much more!

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313: How Ericka Chambers is Building Her Brand, Puzzles of Color, While Working Full Time REWIND Aug 17, 2022

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Today in the guest chair we have Ericka Chambers, CEO and Co-Founder of Puzzles of Color. Ericka and her brother founded this business in the middle of the pandemic. She used that idle time to really think through something that her and her family has done for years, which is build puzzles together. And the one thing they realized was lacking was puzzles featuring people of color. After unsuccessfully trying to convince other people to launch this business, Ericka and her brother finally realized it was up to them to solve this problem.

In this episode we discuss:

How they started, how they’re growing, how they’re learning what to delegate
Working with artists of color to license their pieces and turn them into puzzles
Juggling the business and parenting while side hustling

And so much more! Check out this episode and others on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud, and YouTube

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PuzzlesofColor.com

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312: How Gia Peppers is Forging Her Own Path In Media Aug 10, 2022

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This week in the guest chair we have Gia Peppers, an award-winning on-air talent, entertainment journalist, content creator, and podcaster who is most known for her work as a contributor on NBC's primetime morning show, "Today Show," her nationally syndicated Urban One Radio show and podcast, "More Than That with Gia Peppers," and as 1/5th of the wildly popular podcast, "Black Girl Pod."

She shares with us how with each piece of content she creates or participates in, she hopes to remind everyone that the greatness that inspires us in others also lives in each one of us.

In this episode we discuss:

How she found a way to do what she loved at a time where there weren’t many opportunities in the entertainment industry
How her father inspired her love for journalism
How all of her experiences helped her get to where she is now
How she taps into the little daily joys of life for happiness rather than focusing so much on the big accomplishments + so much more..

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311: How I’m Managing Life, Motherhood and Business Aug 03, 2022

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This week I am back with a solo episode where I am sharing:

How moving back to NY has been life changing & what I’ve learned from my entry into motherhood
How I am focusing on my mindset and systems this quarter
What I am hiring for in my life & the book that inspired these ideas + so much more

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310: How Erica McAfee Grew The Sisters In Loss Podcast With Lessons Learned in Podcast Moguls Jul 27, 2022

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Today in the guest chair we have Erica McAfee, one of my Podcast Moguls students who's here to share her journey of growing her podcast, Sisters in Loss, through the lessons learned inside of the Podcast Moguls accelerator program.

Erica is the Founder and CEO of Sisters in Loss, a maternal child health hub that helps Black women replace silence with storytelling around pregnancy and infant loss and infertility. Sisters in Loss provides pregnancy, birth, postpartum, bereavement doula, and grief services to help women step beyond anxiety and fear and into trust and peace after loss. Its self-titled podcast spotlights resilient Black mothers who share intimate details of their journey to motherhood through painful, but inspirational loss and infertility stories. Sisters in Loss has been featured in Forbes, BBC News, Black Enterprise, Women's Health, The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and The White House.

In this episode she shares:

How her interest in alternate methods of growing a family inspired her to start podcasting
What attracted her to join Podcast Moguls and her journey within the program
Her top lessons learned from Podcast Moguls + so much more!

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309: How Ashley Reynolds Created The Most Sought After Stationery Brand, Cloth & Paper Jul 20, 2022

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This week in the guest chair we have Ashley Reynolds, Founder of Cloth & Paper. Established in 2015, Cloth & Paper was birthed from necessity! Ashley left her corporate finance job of 9 years and needed to devise a plan on what her next career move would be, while fulfilling her dream of being an entrepreneur. While on the hunt for a new planner, she noticed that there weren't any on the market that quite fit her minimal aesthetic or needs. It was at that point her journey down the paper trail began.

She then spent endless hours and days designing planner inserts from scratch with no previous background or education in graphic design. Shortly after, a stationery business blossomed and the line grew to offer leather planners, luxury pens, and more quintessential styles. She ran C&P alone for the first year and a half, testing her true abilities as an entrepreneur. Today, she is still head designer, AKA mastermind, behind it all, growing Cloth & Paper into a brand with over 40 employees, 100K Instagram followers, and thousands of passionate customers.

In this episode she shares:

What inspired her to start Cloth & Paper
How she created her first planner insert on Microsoft Word!
How her organic approach to marketing supported the growth of her business & so much more!

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308: Play Pits Founder Chantel Powell Talks Growing Her Company From Her Kitchen To Target Shelves Jul 13, 2022

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This week in the guest chair we have an update episode with Chantel Powell, the CEO of Play Pits. Play Pits is a mother's solution to providing a kid-friendly, all-natural hygiene option for youth with active lifestyles. It is a 100% all natural deodorant, free of aluminum, parabens, synthetic fragrances and other harsh chemicals.

Play Pits has been featured on Good Morning America, in Essence, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, in Beyoncé’s Black Parade and more. In March 2022, Play Pits launched in 364 Target stores nationwide.

In this episode Chantel shares:

How she grew Play Pits from the kitchen to Target shelves
How the launch in Target has exceeded expectations and how the product is actually selling out on the shelves!
What she's learned from working with a major retailer and navigating growing her company
And so much more!

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307: How Felicia Jackson Created The CPR Wrap—A Pocket-Sized Guide for CPR Jul 06, 2022

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Felicia Jackson is the CEO and inventor of CPRWrap, a patented, award-winning CPR template that protects and guides any non-medical responders during respiratory and cardiac emergencies that require CPR. Felicia herself was CPR certified and worked in a hospital when her 2-year-old experienced a near death event. While she froze with fear, unable to render aid to her son, her husband stepped in and saved their son’s life. That experience inspired her to develop a CPR aid for those frantic and scary moments when every second counts.In today’s episode Felicia shares:

How she was able to find a manufacturer and create her prototype
How a viral tik tok video led to a 2000% increase in monthly sales
How she navigates finding the right trade shows, business partners, and investors for her business & so much more

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Cprwrap.com

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306: Latched and Hooked Founder Tiffini Gatlin Is Pioneering Synthetic Hair Without Scalp Irritation Jun 29, 2022

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This week in the guest chair we have Tiffini Gatlin, CEO and Founder of Latched and Hooked Beauty. Tiffini is an innovator with over 15 years of experience in direct to consumer sales. Latched and Hooked Beauty has a scalp-first approach to textured hair care with a mission to diversify the hair extension space with high-performance synthetic hair fibers and clean formulas that don't irritate or cause inflammation of the scalp.

Since her business launch five years ago,Tiffini has garnered the support of companies like Visa, Paypal and Google for Startups who awarded the brand with a $100k non-dilutive cash award to support her company’s vision to make beauty simple and accessible for Black women.

In this episode she shares:

The ups and downs of her entrepreneurship journey
Why she started Latched and Hooked
Why she wasn’t afraid to reinvent herself over and over again and so much more!

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latchedandhooked.com

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305: How Storyteller Renae Bluitt Amplifies Black Women Entrepreneurs with her Documentary & Brand, She Did That. Jun 22, 2022

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This week in the guest chair we have Renae L. Bluitt, a Los Angeles and New York City-based storyteller who serves as an advocate for Black women’s accurate representation in the media. With over a decade of experience, Renae has gained valuable insight into Black women entrepreneurs' narratives — a passion that she channeled into her first film as Creator and Executive Producer of the documentary, “She Did That.” In episode 305 Renae shares:

How she knew when it was time to turn her side hustle into a full time hustle
Her 4 year journey of producing the She Did That film to premiering it on Netflix in February of 2020
How she expanded the She Did That brand into a podcast +so much more!

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SheDidThat.co

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Renae Bluitt: @IAmRenaeBluitt

She Did That: @SheDidThatPodcast

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