Black Entrepreneur Experience

BEE 45 – Ronald Bennett Williamson, Evelyn Brawner Couture   Ronald Bennett Williamson, owner and creative director of Evelyn Brawner Couture, a clothing line that makes evening and wedding gowns for the confident and sophisticated woman. Ronald is a millennial, a 25 years old fashion designer from Milwaukee, currently based in NYC. In this episode, he tells us about his journey, the lessons he learned in the fashion industry, and the importance of research and defining your business to achieve success.       Tools: Inigo   Books: Good Bye to Berlin by Christpher Isherwood   Connect with Ronald: Facebook Instagram Twitter

BEE 44 – Dontae Muse   Dontae Muse, owner of Above Art Studios, a New Jersey based Art gallery that fucuses in dealing pop-urban art and hosting cultural events that revolve around black art, poetry and music. In this episode Dontae talks about his journey from throwing music events and making music to owning and directing a successful Art Gallery.     Books: The Power of Broke The Power of Now The Law of Success in 16 Steps   Tools: ConstantContact   Connect with Dontae: com Instagram Facebook Twitter

BEE 43 – Greg E. Hill   Gregory E. Hill, motivational speaker, author, host of the Minority Trailblazers Podcast, he is on a mission to empower young people to believe in their own genius. On this episode Greg talks about his philosophy on life, going from his early start as a kid selling sodas at school, his time in college starting his first businesses, working on corporate America, and his present as a culture change agent through his motivational speaking and podcasting.       Books: The Power of Positive Thinking - Norman Vincent Peale   Tools: Text 2 Group Bitly     Connect with Greg: com Twitter Linkedin Facebook Instagram Minority Trailblazers Podcast

BEE – Rakia Reynolds   Rakia Reynolds, multi-media communications guru, mompreneur and CEO. She is the Founder of Skai Blue Media, a multimedia communication agency that focuses on helping people and products with their business branding and bragging. This self-proclaimed octopus woman tells us about her journey to success and the way she juggles all the different aspects of her life finding the balance she needs to live a fulfilling life.   Links cited in the interview:   The Secret – Rhonda Byrne (2006) - http://www.thesecret.tv/products/the-secret-book/ The Originals - Adam Grant - http://www.adamgrant.net/originals Give and Take - Adam Grant - http://www.adamgrant.net/give-and-take Ava Duvernay - https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_DuVernay   linkedin twitter Skai Blue Media

BEE 41 – Jereshia Hawk, Go Getter Group   Jereshia Hawk is a 26 six years old Engineer, Income Strategist and Corporate Dropout. She’s the founder of the Go Getter Group, a business dedicated to help women create alternative income sources while living a purposeful life. This smart and talented young woman is here to tell us about her journey, her goals and how she managed to create growth in her business while living life in her own terms.     Tools: Acuity Scheduling   Books: Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill   Connect with Jereshia: com Twitter Facebook

BEE 40 – Dejuan Burns   Dejuan Burns, celebrity stylist, weave master, former teacher and proud owner of De Glam Shoppe, a mobile salon that caters customers in the DC area. In this episode, Dejuan tells us about her business journey going through struggles and successes and how she finds a way to use her skills giving back to her community.     Books: Rich Dad, Poor Dad by R. Kiyosaki   Contact DeJuan: Linkedin Instagram Facebook salondejuan.info

  BEE 039 – Jabari Holloman     Jabari Holloman, Minneapolis native and professional photographer. He is the founder of Akil Photography, an independent imaging studio that provides photography services. He started doing photography as a hobby with his Instagram account MinneapolisEyes, his first break was when his photos got featured on a Huffington Post Arts article. On this episode, Jabari tells us about his entrepreneurial journey, from working a 9-5 to creating a business around his passion.     Links mentioned on this episode: Gordon Parks Adobe Photoshop Huffington Post article     Connect with Jabari: Linkedin MinneapolisEyes on Twitter MinneapolisEyes on Instagram Akil Photography on Instagram Akil Photography on Facebbok com

BEE 38 – Essynce Moore   Essynce Moore, CEO of Essynce Couture LLC, teen entrepreneur, child fashion designer, author, actress and motivational speaker. In this episode, this amazing young lady tells us about her journey from designing clothes for fun as a six year old, learning from her entrepreneur mother, and then starting her business at ten years old, to the present day as a 14 years old CEO that also attends high school and is expanding her business everyday.     Books: “The 48 Laws of Power” – Robert Greene https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1303.The_48_Laws_of_Power   “The Black Law Dictionary” – Henry Campbell Black https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%27s_Law_Dictionary     Social media tools: instagram.com snapchat.com   Connect: https://www.instagram.com/essyncecouturellc/ https://twitter.com/essyncecouture https://www.facebook.com/EssynceCouture/ http://www.essyncecouture.com/        

James Nowlin, 37 old millionaire, author, coach and CEO of Excel Global Partners. He has an amazing life story of hard work and success. Today he tells us about his journey to find not only success, but purpose in life, and how this is the key to living a meaningful life.     Books: Wallace Wattles – “The Science of Getting Rich” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342504.The_Science_of_Getting_Rich James Nowlin – “The Purposeful Millionaire” jamesonamazon.com Tools: Zoom - https://zoom.us/   Contact: http://jamesnowlin.com/ https://www.facebook.com/PurposefulMillionaire/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKk9JFyTdtFvCzcmYd6tpg https://twitter.com/search?q=%40JamesNowlinTPM https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesnowlin1/

BEE 36 – Sophia Antoine   Sophia Antoine, relationship coach, speaker and blogger at Sophia Antoine Coaching & Consulting. In this episode, Sophia tells us about how her marriage made her understand relationships in such a profound way, and how this motivated her to pursue a career as a relationship coach, all of this while raising two kids and working a 9 to 5.     Tools: www.canva.com   Books: The 5 Love Languages – Gary Chapman. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23878688-the-5-love-languages   Connect: ly/coachmesophia https://www.facebook.com/lifecoachsophia https://www.instagram.com/courageous_coach/ https://twitter.com/coach_sophiaa https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachsophiaantoine/

BEE Bonus Episode – Demarra Gardner, Change Agent Consulting     Demarra Gardner is a mother, business consultant, coach, therapist, and CEO of Change Agent Consulting. Her company is launching Black Women About Biz, a program dedicated to inspire change and develop black women entrepreneurs. In this episode she tells us about about her business, her journey, and her philosophy for life.       Books: E Squared - Pam Grout   Tools: https://asana.com/ https://www.webinarjam.com/ https://buffer.com https://www.waveapps.com/accounting/     Connect with Demarra: Change Agent Consulting LinkedIn Black Women About Biz

BEE 33 Ida Bryd-Hill    Ida Byrd-Hill, president of Uplift Inc, a nonprofit Tech Diversity & Inclusion firm focused in reducing the digital talent shortage. As a lifelong entrepreneur, Ida owned a wealth management firm for years, but frustrated with the fact that none of the money she was helping to make was being put into helping her community, she decided to start a nonprofit to help African Americans prepare themselves for the fourth industrial revolution.   Web:   http://www.upliftinc.org/     Her Book:   Invisible Talent Market http://www.upliftinc.org/invisible_talent.aspx   Books:   Think and Grow Rich https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30186948-think-and-grow-rich   Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/822185.Think_and_Grow_Rich

In this bonus episode our host Dr. Frances Richards takes time to reflect on the different stories and experiences brought to us by all the different guests in the last couple months since we started this journey called the Black Entrepreneur Experience. There are more opportunities to listen to our podcast. We are now on iTunes, Stitcher Radios, iHeart Radio, Google Play Music and SoundCloud. We would love for you to subscribe, share, rate and review the podcast.   Connect with us: www.drfrancesrichards.com Facebook group     Subscribe to the podcast: Itunes Stitcher Web

BEE 32 Muhga Eltigani – NaturALL Club     Muhga Eltigani, CEO & Founder of NaturAll Club, featured in Forbes Magazine’s 30 under 30. This young and powerful woman started her company out of her own pain point with the market’s lack of adequate hair products for African Americans. Her startup makes hair products specially designed to treat the curlier types of hair, made of fresh fruits and oils they are absolutely NaturAll, and made with ingredients from all over the world. In this episode, she tells us her role models, life story and she gives us a piece of useful business advice.   Social: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHeartsSoul https://www.linkedin.com/in/muhga/ https://twitter.com/picture_meem?lang=es https://www.instagram.com/picture_meem/   Web: https://naturallclub.com/   Books: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36072.The_7_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People   Tools: Google suite

Letitia Henderson, a native of Oakland, California. She is a powerful, skilled, connected, talented, and creative Principal Consultant who has an exceptional ability to bring people together for the purpose of community building and profitable connections. Letitia, launched Exceptional Community Connections, in 2015 to expand her passion for Public Speaking, Team Building Facilitation, Educational Program Design, and Fundraising. In this episode, she tells us about her journey from working a 9-5 to launching her business, maintaining her life work balance, and the motivations that fuel her fire.       Links mentioned: Wufoo Streak Co-Munity   Books: The Wealth Choice by Dennis Kimbro The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman   Connect with Letitia: exceptconnect.com Linkedin

BEE 31 – Sheila Gemin   Sheila Gemin, engineer, executive coach, entrepreneur & athlete. She is the founder of The Cycling Academy, a company that focuses on training endurance athletes 24/7 in the Netherlands. She started as she was training herself for a charity event and wanted to form a training group. Today she tells us about the baby steps that took her from her 9 to 5 as an engineer to her success as an entrepreneur. All of this while balancing work, self care and her life as a wife and mother of 4.       Books:   “The alchemist” – Paulo Coelho   Tools: Whatsapp Financial program (¿?) CRM Platform (?)   Social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilagemin/ https://twitter.com/sheilagemin?lang=es https://www.instagram.com/sheilagemin/ https://www.facebook.com/sheila.gemin     Web: http://sheilagemin.nl/ https://www.thecyclingacademy.nl/

Mother Lavette Minn, and son Yungche Homme are inspiring family to build generational wealth through entrepreneurship and personal financial success. They launched The Family Brand Movement to create a family bond that is stronger and more productive. They are educating the masses on financial freedom through wealth creation, and building sustainable generational businesses. Books Family Brand: 9 Principles, Family Brand: 9 Principles and Tips to Building Family & Business https://www.amazon.com/Family-Brand-Principles-Building-Business/dp/0692876618.   Website:  http://www.thefamilybrandmovement.com

  Anika Hobbs, designer, entrepreneur, CEO & founder of Nubian Hueman boutique, an African fashion store that focuses on supporting independent artists from all over the world. She once cut her teeth working a 9-5 in the retail business as she was building her own business on the side. Now she’s a full time entrepreneur in the forefront of a movement to make Washington DC a hub for African Fashion.Tools:https://quickbooks.intuit.com/ Books: The 1 minute Manager, Ken Blanchard https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/763362.The_One_Minute_Manager Social Links: https://www.instagram.com/nubianhueman/ https://twitter.com/nubianhueman https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmoMhU4vZHuqYbXD5GD-Vtg https://www.facebook.com/nubianhueman/ Web:https://nubianhueman.com/

Art Henson, 47 years old track champion, dad, grandfather and CEO of Rogue Strategic Marketing. He believes going rogue is in the heart of all creative endeavors, and he sows this in his work. In this episode, Art tells us about his fascinating life story, his influences, his ups & downs and how his independent spirit always pushed him to work for himself. Social:https://www.incom/roguestrategic/ https://www.facebook.com/roguestrategic/ https://www.instagram.com/arthenson/ https://www.facebook.com/arthenso Books: “Black Privilege” by Charlamagne Tha God https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33559198-black-privilege Apps: https://www.17hats.com/ http://www.clientsandprofits.com/home.html Web: https://roguestrategic.com/ Blog: https://roguestrategic.com/blog/        

Kyshira Moffet, CEO, digital branding strategist and Pittsburgh-based entrepreneur. She is an authentic bombshell of all trades dedicated to debunk all the negative stereotypes about hard working, driven women. She believes a woman can be ambitious in business and still be a bombshell, and the most important fact, she lives by that. In this occasion, she tells us about how she manages her work-life balance while still developing herself in a professional way every single day. Tools Google for business https://www.google.com/intl/es/cloud/  Book: “Never Eat Alone” by Keith Ferrazzi https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84699.Never_Eat_Alone?from_search=true HERmovement https://www.thisishermovement.com ksm group https://www.theksmgroup.com Life of a bombshell cosmetics https://www.lifeofabombshell.com   Social handles: https://www.facebook.com/2MovesAhead?ref=br_rs https://twitter.com/kyshiram https://www.instagram.com/kyshira https://soundcloud.com/kyshira-moffett https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyshira https://