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Happy Black History Month! We're so excited to talk about the incredible things black horror has contributed to the genre, and we have a massive list of resources for you as well!

Further reading / listening / watching:

Horror Noire
Graveyard Shift Sisters
The Black Artist Hollywood Couldn’t Buy via the Criterion Collection

Black-created brands / creators / designers:

Nightlight Podcast
The Real Queen of Horror
Sinister Sisters
Adorned by Chi
Elegy Clothing
Pretty Boy Gothic
Samantha Rei
Sweet Bitz
Spooky Kidz
In Control Clothing
FunkyPunk NYC
HO99O9
 

End music: "BloodSucker" by Marshmallow Ghosts

Music courtesy of TerrorVision Records

Sirens of Scream are:

Jackie DeVore- @Jackietherobot

Sierra Houk- @sierrahouk

Blue Coble -  @blueironworker

Melissa Megan- @Lissapunch

Sirens on Twitter - @SirensPodcast

Sirens on Insta, Tumblr, and Facebook - @Sirensofscream

Email - sirens@sirensofscream.com

Editing and production by Drew DeVore

Jared Aka Prominent J.A. interviews Bar, the owner of Bar Got Juice. During this interview, Bar discusses the opening of his juice bar during the pandemic. He also discusses his trials and tribulations from his young adulthood, that changed his life to make him the man he is today. 

Tune in to see how Bar wanted to make a change for not only himself but for the people in his community. 

Special Guest: Bar
Instagram: Bargotjuice 

Shot by: Ish Catchings
Edited by: Me 
Music: Ky Kiddy (Still Waiting) 

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The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast is a weekly conversation, with Business Coach Nia Lewis, about how to build a successful solo business while maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. The Solopreneur Hustle community is a safe space for women of color in entrepreneurship to connect, celebrate success, and support each other.

In this episode, Nia shares several mental barriers that might be holding you back from reaching your greatest potential. 


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The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast is a weekly conversation, with Business Coach Nia Lewis, about how to build a successful solo business while maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. The Solopreneur Hustle community is a safe space for women of color in entrepreneurship to connect, celebrate success, and support each other.

In this episode, Nia shares her story about how she got a business grant, and tips you can use to secure grant funding.


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The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast is a weekly conversation, with Business Coach Nia Lewis, about how to build a successful solo business while maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. The Solopreneur Hustle community is a safe space for women of color in entrepreneurship to connect, celebrate success, and support each other. 

This week, our solopreneur guest is Cynthia Pong. Cynthia is a NYU-trained lawyer turned career coach whose passion is helping women of color realize their ambitious career goals. Cynthia especially loves strategizing with mid-career women who are pursuing unconventional paths. In this episode, we discuss:

• How to negotiate like a boss so you can earn what you deserve
• How to navigate career transitions and change 

Cynthia just came out with a phenomenal book that’s a Career Change Guide for Women of Color called Don’t Stay in Your Lane. Order it here: https://embracechange.nyc/book

Connect with Cynthia: https://embracechange.nyc/
Social: LinkedIn, Instagram
COVID-19 Career Guides for Women of Color


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The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast is a weekly conversation, with Business Coach Nia Lewis, about how to build a successful solo business while maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. The Solopreneur Hustle community is a safe space for boss women to connect, celebrate success, and support each other. 

This week, Nia shares the first Solopreneur Diary Entry where she reflects on how her business has evolved since she got her start in entrepreneurship. She also shares tips you can use to welcome change and evolution in your life and business.

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The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast is a weekly conversation, with Business Coach Nia Lewis, about how to build a successful solo business while maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. The Solopreneur Hustle community is a safe space for boss women to connect, celebrate success, and support each other.

This week, our solopreneur guest is Shenequa Johnson. Shenequa is a graphic designer, creator, and illustrator based in Brooklyn, NY. Shenequa graduated from the New York City College of Technology with a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Design. She’s the CEO of SJohnson Designs, a creative design studio offering design services for small businesses as well as unique goods. In this episode, Shenequa gives us an inside look at her journey to entrepreneurship, lessons she’s learned so far as a business owner, and she also leaves us with advice about how we can use design to help us grow our businesses.

Connect with Shenequa here: https://www.sjohnsondesigns.com/

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The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast is a weekly conversation, with Business Coach Nia Lewis, about how to build a successful solo business while maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. The Solopreneur Hustle community is a safe space for boss women to connect, celebrate success, and support each other. 

This week, Nia shares 3 strategies you can use to display authenticity in your marketing. A huge part of telling your brand story is being authentic, and transparent with your customers so you can connect with them on a deeper level. A huge part of building a successful businesses is building relationships, and the best way to build relationships, is to be authentic. 

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The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast is a weekly conversation, with Business Coach Nia Lewis, about how to build a successful solo business while maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. The Solopreneur Hustle community is a safe space for boss women to connect, celebrate success, and support each other. 

This week, our solopreneur guest is Danielle Meadows-Stinnett. Danielle is the owner of Octane Design Studios, a digital branding agency based in Lexington, Kentucky. Octane Design Studios has been in business for 10 years, and they are a full-service creative studio specializing in digital branding, and marketing strategy for small businesses. In this episode, Danielle shares with us how she tells her brand story so the world knows that what she does is about #MoreThanGraphics. She gives us expert insight about what we can do to use transparency and authenticity to build a meaningful online presence and connect with our customers on a deeper level. 

Connect with Danielle here: http://www.lexoctane.com/

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The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast is a weekly conversation, with Business Coach Nia Lewis, about how to build a successful solo business while maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. The Solopreneur Hustle community is a safe space for boss women to connect, celebrate success, and support each other. 

In this episode, host Nia Lewis shares 5 sets of questions to reflect on about how we will do business post quarantine. What are you taking with you, and what are you leaving behind as you move into this new season?

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The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast is a weekly conversation, with Business Coach Nia Lewis, about how to build a successful solo business while maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. The Solopreneur Hustle community is a safe space for women of color in entrepreneurship to connect, celebrate success, and support each other. 

In this episode, host Nia Lewis shares strategies you can use to stay motivated when you're promoting your business and it feels like no one sees you. The road to success is not straight and narrow. It’s full of bumps, wrong turns, potholes, and maybe even a few flat tires along the way. Learning how to stay motivated during the lows will propel you to even greater levels of success when you’re experiencing highs.

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> THE SOLOPRENEUR SATURDAY NEWSLETTER
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The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast is a weekly conversation, with Business Coach Nia Lewis, about how to build a successful solo business while maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. The Solopreneur Hustle community is a safe space for women of color in entrepreneurship to connect, celebrate success, and support each other. 

This week our solopreneur guest is Chase Hunter. Chase is a Lead Brand Strategist at her company, The Winning Brand. Chase has helped hundreds of small business owners build their brands. In this episode, she gives us her expert insight about how to build a successful brand, and what we, as solopreneurs should be doing to establish a strong brand identity online. I hope you all enjoy this insightful conversation. 

Connect with Chase here: https://www.winningbrandpodcast.com/

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The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast is a weekly conversation, with Business Coach Nia Lewis, about how to build a successful solo business while maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. The Solopreneur Hustle community is a safe space for women of color in entrepreneurship to connect, celebrate success, and support each other. 

In this week’s episode, Nia shares some of the best and worst purchases she’s made for her business so far. For those of you who are just getting started, it’s important to make the best use of the funds you have available to get your business off the ground. Listen to this episode to learn what to invest in that will bring the most long term value to your business.

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> STAY CONNECTED   
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The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast is a weekly conversation, with Business Coach Nia Lewis, about how to build a successful solo business while maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. The Solopreneur Hustle community is a safe space for boss women to connect, celebrate success, and support each other. 

Marketing can be a huge obstacle for solopreneurs like us. We’re running our businesses, managing customers, while simultaneously trying to promote what we do in the most effective way so we can continue to generate business. This can be really hard. And while trying to do all this, many times, we don’t even know whether or not the marketing strategies we're using are even working! Can you relate? Listen to this episode for marketing tips you can use to promote your business.

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The Solopreneur Hustle Podcast is a weekly conversation, with Business Coach Nia Lewis, about how to build a successful solo business while maintaining a balanced and fulfilling life. The Solopreneur Hustle community is a safe space for women of color in entrepreneurship to connect, celebrate success, and support each other. 

This week, our solopreneur guest is Tamika Shuler Washington. Tamika is the founder of Converspace, a shared workspace for entrepreneurs located in Columbia, SC. 

Through Converspace, Tamika has created a supportive community that helps entrepreneurs connect and collaborate.   

In this episode, Tamika shares with us how she built Converspace, and important lessons she’s learned about entrepreneurship along the way. 

I hope you all enjoy this insightful conversation. 

Connect with Tamika here:
https://theconverspace.com/converspace
https://iamtamikal.com/

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