Making The Brand With Damian And Timeesha Duncan

Diamonde Williamson’s mission is to empower women by living her own dream and creating inspiring digital and television content. After producing shows on networks such as OWN, USA, TV One and WETv, Diamonde is determined to create more opportunities for black women to see an expanded view of themselves and tell their authentic stories. During this episode, Diamonde shared with us how she started her career in television, what challenges she faced going into an industry that exploits African Americans on “rachet tv” and how she plans to make a difference in showing people of color in a way that promotes excellence through her new broadcast channel, Blossom Network TV.  She also shared how getting fired 4 times was the best thing that ever happened to her.

In this episode, we had a lovely chat with the very beautiful Danielle Hughes, former News Anchor, now Co-Founder of Detroit Speaks, a rising non-profit organization with a mission of inspiring youth in Metro Detroit to increase social awareness, community involvement, and achieve their dreams. In 2015, she created the "Oh, the places you'll go!" vision board series for youth ages 13-18 to define their goals and dreams, build a personal vision board and prepare for their future. Since it's inception, the series has partnered with the Augusta-Richmond County Library to hold monthly workshops and was the headlining event for the world renowned Augusta Literary Festival this year. Danielle is a proud member of the National Association of Black Journalists and a current contributor for Black Enterprise Magazine. Topics Discussed in this Episode: Danielle shares how she was inspired to become a news reporter The transition points that had happened when Danielle decided to let go of her job as a news anchor and fo

In today’s episode of Quit Your 9 to 5 Podcast, we are have an amazing guest, Chatoya Antwine, helps entrepreneurs and professionals become more organized and productive throughout their success journey. Chatoya shares about her businesses and different strings of income and more about Creative CoLAB.   Chatoya Antwine is the Owner and Executive Planner of A la carte Galore, LLC. A la carte Galore, also referred to as a One-Stop Shop, provides services nationwide for event planning, travel planning, financial planning, and career planning. A la carte Galore was officially formed in Detroit, MI in March 2014 and attracts most of its business in the Metro Detroit area and Chicago, IL.   Chatoya is a native Detroiter holding a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from Michigan State University and Masters in Accounting from Wayne State University. Chatoya is passionate about planning and helping entrepreneurs and professionals become more organized and productive throughout their success journey. She enjoys providing var

As the best selling author, Master Life Coach and founder of TheChampagneDiet.com, Cara Alwill Leyba empowers women to live their most effervescent lives, celebrate themselves every day, and make their happiness a priority. In the past three years, she has self-published four Amazon best-selling books and in 2015 she was named one of YFS magazine’s “Top 10 Female Entrepreneurs That Will Inspire You.” Her glamorous approach to self-help has attracted thousands of women to attend her workshops, currently sold out into 2016. She is often sought out by the media to help women challenge their fears and create their best lives and has been featured in Glamour, Shape, Vibe, Huffington Post, PopSugar, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, MSN.com and The Daily Mail to name a few as well as on broadcast programs including nationally syndicated BetterTV, the Pix11 Morning News in New York City, Good Day Chicago, Good Day Austin and more. In this episode, Cara shares with us the strategy she developed to leave her job with MTV, a

Amber Aziza, founder and CEO of Amber Aziza Enterprises which houses ASquaredCoach.com and MidnightMillionaireClub.com has made it her life’s work to help amazing and talented Millennial and Millennial-at-heart Entrepreneurs build their businesses into 6 and 7 figure success! She built and sold her first multimillion dollar  business before turning 30, and turned around and sold her second company shortly thereafter. Amber helps her clients all around the world through the entire process of biz ownership—from the spark of an idea all the way to their first million dollar year! Named by Huffington Post as one of the top seven Periscopers to follow for Business, Amber speaks about  Business, Millennials, and Public Speaking. She currently owns 3 successful Entrepreneur ventures and operates them from Headquarters in Washington, DC. In this episode, Amber shares what happened in a board meeting that made her quit her job right on the spot with no warning, the one thing she regrets doing when she quit, the first

In this episode, we interviewed the Queen Bee of LinkedIn, Tajuana Ross, otherwise known as The LinkedIn Professor. Tajuana teaches entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs how to go from being the HUNTER to the HUNTED on LinkedIn.  This by far is one of our favorite interviews because we learned sooo much about how to leverage LinkedIn for your business.  Make sure you listen to the entire interview where you'll learn:  The biggest mistake people make on their profile what type of content you should be posting on LinkedIn Where you should be hanging out on LinkedIn Why you should be very choosy who you send a connection request to and what to do instead The most important page on LinkedIn   

In this episode, we talked with Revenue Coach, LaDawn Townsend around one of the most dreaded and nerve-racking topics that entrepreneurs have today... SALES!  We go behind the scenes with LaDawn as she shares with her, her simple sales strategy that allowed her to create over $20,000 in her business her first 90 days of full-time entrepreneurship and climbing! 

In this episode, we talked to self-made entrepreneur, Personal Brand and Online Business Strategist, Kimra Luna. Kimra helps freedom-seeking entrepreneurs stand out and captivate their audiences' attention and monetize their authentic brands online.  This one is juicy! In this interview, Kimra shares:  What secret tip she does to grow her business  The one question she uses to get insight on how to create content What platform she's using (that people are neglecting) to get more brand exposure What she does to stay to build her brand authority and stay ahead of the competition (and how she really feels)  How she was able to create her first 1.2 million dollar launch  And the one thing people don't know about her!   

In this episode, we sat down with Regan Hillyer. Self-made millionaire and business expert.  Regan shares with us her secret sauce to how she built her brand empire and earned over 1 million dollars in her business in less than a year.  

Yes, Mark Zuckerburg has done it to us once again. He’s changing the Facebook algorithm and it’s not in your favor. According to Marky Mark, he wants the platform to be more “social” and will push engagement from “family and friends” more than your content on your business pages. Almost every business took a hit from the last FB algorithm change and your business pages went from getting tons of engagement to only getting 1-3% of engagement from your audience. So what does this all mean? I have been saying this forever that eventually Facebook was going to force your hand in paying to play. Using Facebook Ads to get in front of your audience is more important than ever before. Listen, I know we all want to slap Mr. Z for getting us all juiced up and dangling this juicy carrot in front of us (the Facebook audience) and then literally snatching it right from under us. But unfortunately, that’s the nature of the beast. So how can you hack THIS Facebook algorithm?  We show you how in this episode!

Power Couple, Damian and Timeesha Duncan are introducing their latest podcast show, Making The Brand, designed to help entrepreneurs navigate the crazy world of entrepreneurship. This show will help you filter through all the noise of running a successful business, by providing the most relevant tools, tips and tricks you need to not just create a business, but a successful brand. Join in as they share their expertise and go behind the scenes with some of the most influential brands to reveal their top business secrets to success.