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It’s time for a discussion on the challenges and rewards of owning your own businesses. In this edition of Living It Up with Lenise, Carita Koen shares the story of how she and her husband started their landscaping business. She offers advice to other minorities thinking about entrepreneurship. She says it’s important to know your local market, take advantage of business training programs, and don’t be afraid to start small and grow.

The Metro East Black Wealth Builders is committed to provide quality education, networking opportunities, and build a collective of Black owned businesses in the St. Louis Metro East region to increase business capacity, growth, and achieve scalability based on the results of the Black Business Survey results. Ms. Jo Ann May of the Illinois Small Business Development Center, SIU-E/East St. Louis office discussed how to access and utilize SBDC resources including free training and webinars, as well as registering for their ongoing webinar series. It is important to build community and stakeholder engagement to connect minority businesses to access resources necessary for business sustainability, and to identify potential ways to secure funding as well. 


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The Metro East Black Wealth Builders is committed to provide quality education, networking opportunities, and build a collective of Black owned businesses in the St. Louis Metro East region to increase business capacity, growth, and achieve scalability based on the results of the Black Business Survey results. The first workshop dedicated to providing educational resources to promote sustainable growth features Sean Haire, Better Business Bureau - St. Louis. Mr. Haire discussed how the BBB can assist businesses raise their profile and the accreditation process to provide credibility to services rendered. The BBB provides a vetting system to ensure that complaints filed are valid prior to affecting an organization’s accreditation rating, and use of its features may include a direct quote request for future clients and stakeholders who may be interested in an organization’s services.

For more information, please contact Sean Haire, shaire@stlouisbbb.org, 314-584-6741 or Dr. Terrence Duncan, drterrenceduncan@gmail.com, 314-643-7923.

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As a black woman or woman of color, what would you do with 10 Million Dollars? Tune in as we talk about what a little green would inspire in our lives. Then ask yourself what would you work life look like if you could actually do what you want to do for work? How do you stay inspire, what motivates you? What wakes you up in the morning and what keeps you up at night. I would love to hear your answers. 

This week we talk with Safiyyah Nawaz, the founder of ARTXBLM, and Shirleen Bredée, an operations and social media member, for an amazing conversation about their collective! ARTXBLM aims to encourage and facilitate a collaborative exchange of art to raise money for anti-racist action. Visit their site and purchase artworks at www.artxblm.com. Featured creatives in this episode include:
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Joy Houlder
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Are you having a difficult time raising money and growing your business? If you are a person of color, you are not alone. Jacquette welcomes guests Siddiq Bello (of SocialMBE), Lauren Gall (co-founder of VaVa Virtual Assistants) and Jeffrey Jacque (founder of CeeBaK), to discuss the unique difficulties that African American business owners face, how COVID-19 has exacerbated those issues and what it will take to overcome them.

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Are investments the best or easiest way to start a business? It's debatable. What's certain is that with the right preparation, planning, and love from your community you can build a thriving business. Just ask Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon (@drkeyhallmon), founder of thriving The Village Market (@thevillagemarketatl) in Atlanta, Georgia. On today’s episode Dr. Key breaks down how she decided to do something about the lack of Black businesses being showcased in Atlanta...without a single dollar of investor money, just donations from her own village. She also discusses how The Village Market has successfully pivoted during a global pandemic and national racial unrest. Keep listening after Dr. Key’s interview for another special Bonus Boss segment with Blackbird House founder, Brigid Coulter, sponsored by Pine-Sol.

• UnBossed Host: Marquita Harris (@marquita_harris_)
• Producer: Tiffany Ashitey (@misstiffsays)
• Associate Producers: Ashley Hobbs (@ashleylatruly) + Shantel Holder (@shadesofshan_)
• Bookings: Marquita Harris, Tiffany Ashitey
• Audio: Anthony Frasier (@anthonyfrasier) + Josh Gwynn (@regardingjosh) 
• Music: Gold Standard Creative (@gscdotnyc)
• Designer: Imani Nuñez (@profoundly_imani)

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E and King continue their "Minding My Black (Owned) Business" series with a conversation on the state of Black businesses. 

Listen in as they discuss the “Homie discount” and how it plagues Black businesses, why it’s time for Blacks to have a bigger stake in the hair and nail industry, and how HBCUs and Black businesses have more in common than you think. 

They’ll also share their personal experiences with Black businesses; those that left them walking away ✊🏾 in the air and those that made them say “C’mon now 😒.”

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