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Inspo Repeat – Business Builders ⭐ Roundtable Discussion
This is a special episode, my first roundtable discussion and I had the best guests!
My guests share their business building experiences, starting with how they planned their exits from employment to entrepreneurship. We discuss choosing a business structure, landlords (including free build-outs & rent), HR issues, available business resources, MBAs and how sometimes bias, negativity and even tragedy can be a motivating factor in meeting goals (or personal freedom!).
We cover it all!
Here my roundtable guests:
Monique Jackson – Clutch and Curl
Monique The Stylist is a Salon Proprietor, Master Stylist and Professional Development Educator. She left a thriving commission based career behind to start her own beauty enterprise. She does this by not only providing outstanding hair care services, but also educating the next generation via her The Microlinks Academy.
Lola Elzein – Venture Title Company
Lola Elzein aka “The Title Lady(TM)” founded Venture Title in 2014. Despite folks in the industry telling her she would never make it -due to her young age- she went on to built her business from a one person show working out of a tiny office in Detroit, to becoming the owner of her own office building in Dearborn, MI with a staff of now 20.
Lee Padgett – Busted Bra Shop
Lee, a U.S. Navy veteran and serial entrepreneur opened her first Busted Bra Shop store in 2013 to offer a better lingerie experience in the city of Detroit. Now with six stores, spanning from Metro Detroit to Chicago and an online shop, we all have access to beautiful, fitting bras!
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MGG INSPO REPEAT – Chat with Career Acceleration Coach
⚡LASER FOCUSED is how I would describe this episode’s guest Andrea Martin. As the founder of Andrea Martin Consulting, Andrea has quickly become the go-to coach for high performing women. Andrea has extensive experience navigating the corporate world making a name for herself. As an immigrant, a mother of two, wife, people leader, and coach, she understands the dynamic of what it takes to wear many hats while still moving towards your goals.
Andrea holds a Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering, Masters in Business. Andrea is a Certified Leadership Coach, DISC Behavioral Analysis Trainer, with training at Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching. She combines her experience leading multi-billion dollar projects, large organizations, coaching credentials and delivers a straightforward coaching perspective for her clients.
She shares with us how her business started from her passion of helping women succeed in their careers. Soon, she noticed she was leaving money on the table, and since her business offered her the flexibility that her employment simply couldn’t, she took the leap of working her business full-time. Meanwhile she is also the owner of a 4EVERYOUNG Medical Spa.
If you are still working full time, while building your business on the side, you especially will appreciate this episode → so much insight!!
https://www.andreamartinconsulting.org
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MGG INSPO REPEAT – Chat with a vegan Culinary Innovator
Cooking with Que is the all-embracing experience of wholesome unity delivered from the kindred vision, spirit, and hands of Culinary Innovator, Executive Chef, and Founder, Quiana “Que” Broden. Founder of Detroit's Only Demonstration Kitchen and Culinary Shared Space, The Kitchen by Cooking with Que serves as Cafe experience by Day & Event Space by night — where Que delivers dishes of zestful and earth-conscious substance in a way that…mindfully immerses vegan and meat eaters into blissful co-existence.
Keenly originative in plant based meal introduction, preparation, education, and balanced eating, Cooking with Que is the healthful haven urging people to eat to live. It is the home of nuanced nutrition allowing all to discover life’s greatest gifts through the thought-provoking engagement, empowerment and elevation of our everyday plates.
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MGG Bonus Episode: Find & Finance your Investment Property
In this bonus episode you have a loan officer, realtor and investor answering questions about finding and financing your investment project. We discuss flips, traditional and short term rentals and options on how to finance them.
We may be serving the Detroit and Metro area, but the discussion covers general questions that anyone that is thinking about buying investment property may benefit from.
This is not a sales pitch, nor legal advice, just three ladies discussing their experiences and what they see in the current real estate market.
Enjoy and let me know your thoughts! Are you thinking of investing? If so, where in your journey are you?Participants:
Shil Miller – Sr. Mortgage Consultant
CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC
https://mortgageshilutions.comErica Coleman – Broker / Investor
Moving Forward Realty
www.movingforwardrealtymi.comMichelle Small – Realtor
Moving Forward Realty
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MGG INSPO REPEAT – Chat with a magazine founder & editor-in-chief
My guest on this episode is Erikka Yvonne, founder & editor-in-chief of Strut in her Shoes magazine. As founder of Strut In Her Shoes, she is always advocating for women and young girls. The platform provides a safe space for women to share their authentic journeys and experience the priceless gift of healing through the sharing of their stories and timeless connection with like-minded women.
Erikka proudly wears many hats. For over 10 years, she has dedicated herself to design and creative direction.She is a graphic designer, brand manager and creative director, you may call her your Creative Bestie™️. She's committed to amplifying the black voice and strives to create opportunities for underrepresented narratives.
During this episode we discuss her journey of publishing her magazine online and in print, her team, the emotional journey of entrepreneurship, failure, naps, passion, how important a support system is and how fear should not hold you back, but how we should use it to push us towards our goals. One of her five year old goals: Starting a publishing house. I cannot wait to see what she will publish!
Erikka is a proud member of Sigma Gamma Rho, Sorority, Inc. and Alpha Kappa Psi, Inc. Also, Alpha Phi Omega National Service. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Advertising and Public Relationships from Grand Valley State University.
https://strutinhershoes.org/
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MGG INSPO REPEAT – Chat with a D’VINE Cookie manufacturer 🍪
If you are afraid to start your own business, your friends and family are telling you that you are crazy for your dreams…📢 this is your episode!
Rebecca Abel-Buick is the CEO & founder of D’VINE Cookies, a seemingly fearless and determined financial planner, who set out to make something not only delicious but also beautiful. She describes herself as always having big dreams and aspirations.
When she first decided to start D’VINE Cookies, she told her parents that it will be a multi-million dollar business and she’s well on her way.
The idea of her own luxury cookie brand came to her, while she was going through a divorce, she needed a challenge. A challenge it was, as she is not a baker nor does she have a food manufacturing background. This was in September and she started taking orders in December, a 10k revenue first month!
Rebecca credits her career in financial planning as a valuable backdrop to develop many of the skills she needed for this journey.
We discussed it all, being a single parent while building a new business, finding space(s), food truck, staff, licensing, financing, how wholesaling can be expensive, google university and everything that goes into building a food manufacturing business and what her end goal is!
https://dvinecookies.com
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MGG EP# 33 – 🏠Final Check-In episode of 2022
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MGG INSPO REPEAT – Chat with the founder of a political marketing agency
My guest today is Adrienne Pickett, founder of The Guerilla Politic.
Adrienne opened up The Guerrilla Politic in 2017. After graduating from the University of Michigan’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design, she spent more than 15 years in art direction and design, branding products, and creating viral content for some of the biggest brands in the world.
Since founding The Guerrilla Politic, she has helped more than 100 candidates with their marketing and communications and aided several PACs, non-profits, and progressive organizations so they too can achieve their goals and reach new audiences.
“My goal was to create a creative marketing agency driven by data, strategy, and a passion for advancing progressive values,” added Pickett. “We work with political candidates, nonprofits, and non-governmental organizations to raise awareness, attract supporters and make a difference in the lives of the people and communities around us.”
Adrienne shares how she has grown her team from two copywriters and a project manager to a team of 14. We talk about becoming a pro in Excel, setting pricing, co-working spaces, hate mail, helpful resources such as BUILD institute and the Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program and how she almost went back to a W2 job. All the high and lows that come with building a business.
🖌️ She’s also an accomplished artist, illustrator, and muralist putting her talents to use in SE Michigan.
https://www.theguerrillapolitic.com/
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MGG INSPO REPEAT – Founder of a Women’s Collective
My guest on this episode is Ursula Adams, MSPOD, a business leader, certified leadership coach and Organizational Development consultant on a mission to say “stuff” out loud first as a means to create comfort for – and give permission to – others craving to do the same.
As the Founder of the SheHive -a women’s empowerment center-, Ursula helps women seeking social connection and self-empowerment discover “life on the other side of should” through classes, coaching and community.
She is also currently contracted to an international automotive company where she serves as the Chief of Staff within the IT organization.
Ursula holds a Masters of Science in Positive Organizational Development and Change, as well as certificates in Executive Coaching and Emotionally Intelligent Leadership from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.
Ursula loves telling a good story, lunching with the ladies, road trips, pigeon pose, cherry cordial ice cream and an abundance mindset.
My favorite quote from this episode: “release small pieces of your goals”…with “comfort, connection & curiosity” -her core values- being a close second!❤️
What was your favorite part?
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MGG INSPO REPEAT – Chat with a Behavior Analyst
My guest on this episode is Ms. Tammy R. McCrory is a clinically behavioral trained leader and public maternal and infant health specialist. In addition, Ms. McCrory is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, (BCBA), and practicing Licensed Behavior Analyst (LBA) in the State of Michigan.
In 2012, Ms. McCrory launched Social Care Administrators, (now known as the McCrory center) where she lead a team of Clinical Professionals in an effort to improve the overall health outcomes of pregnant women and infants in the State of Michigan.
Drawing on the 10+ years of professional services to at-risk and vulnerable populations, Ms. McCrory's primary focus is on early identification of behavioral disorders and developmental delays. This is reflected in her business endeavors.
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MGG INSPO REPEAT – Chat with a tv producer / author / YouTuber
My guest this week is a multi-faceted entrepreneur: Miss Charlotte Burley!
Charlotte is an award winning tv producer, published author, tv host, course creator and so much more, presently building her YouTube channel with her weekly show “Talking Ish” where love, life, sex and relationship issues are discussed. And she is the creator of the “Seasoned Tees” shirt line.
She lets us know that even if you come from a small town, you can do big things! Her entrepreneurship journey started out of not getting fair opportunities in a white male dominated environment. She stepped out in faith and her skills landed her a show on BET as executive producer and host. She continued to build on this success, building her production company.
She shares with us her victories and failures that followed, such as her attempt of her own network, the TOS network.
She cautions to keep that entrepreneurial ego in check and to work with technology and tools already available. We discuss that it’s ok when things take longer than hoped, as building a business simply takes time and that it is ok to work a full time job while building your business, suggesting to use that job as a seed investor. You can be your first seed investor!
Again, so much valuable information in this episode. If you are thinking of starting a business, or are building a business, you do not want to skip this episode!
My favorite quote from this episode: ‘You can do this on your own”. What was your favorite part of the interview? Let us know!
YouTube Channel: Miss Charlotte Burley
Seasoned Tees: https://seasonedteesbymcb.store
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