Have you ever wondered what sets the Googles and Amazons of the world apart from the rest? Why are some companies more successful than others? What makes them great?

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Episode 152: 9 Traits Of Great Companies

In today’s episode, I’m talking about the adjustments that new entrepreneurs need to make as they navigate the journey of running their own businesses. This topic isn’t talked about much even though we all go through it, which is why I’m breaking down the five things every new entrepreneur needs to know before they make the switch to full-time.  Click that play button if you’re ready to start your entrepreneurial journey off on the right foot using the tips and tools that helped me build a successful business.  Listen on Apple Podcast You’ll learn: The importance of setting KPIs for your goalsHow to stop comparing yourself to other entrepreneursHow to maintain focus and execute what’s in front of youWhy you need a tribe for growth and mental health Resources Mentioned:  Side Business lab waitlist Ready to Launch Your Side Business?  Join the Side Business Lab - a guided blueprint for validating, building, launching, and landing your first online business customer. The Side Business Lab not only shows you exactly how to build your online business but also shows you how to repeatedly get customers WHILE working your 9-5. https://www.serwaaadjeipelle.com/SideBusinessLab

Episode 151: 5 Things Every New Entrepreneur Needs To Know Before Going Full-Time

In today’s episode, I’m offering a different perspective to some popular business advice we often see on beautiful Instagram graphics. While on the surface this advice may seem harmless, if not inspirational, I’m breaking down

Episode 150: The Worst Pieces of Instagram Business Advice

In today’s episode, I’m giving you my 5 best tips on quitting your job to start a business or go full-time in your current side business. It’s not an easy decision and certainly shouldn’t be made in haste. That’s why I break down how to determine if this is the right decision for you, why you need to get a realistic idea of what it takes to be successful as an entrepreneur, and the importance of setting up a solid plan for when you actually follow through with quitting your job.  Click that play button if you’re ready to quit your job with a solid plan in place so you can do something more fulfilling or run a business that you’ve always dreamt of running full time.  Listen on Apple Podcast You’ll learn: How to have a conversation with your employers about meeting your needsWhy what we see online isn’t the real storyHow to use the Leap Tracker to calculate your savingsThree things you should do with your side business before you quit Why you need to get comfortable with selling Resources Mentioned:  Leap TrackerSide Business lab waitlist Ready to Launch Your Side Business?  Join the Side Business Lab - a guided blueprint for validating, building, launching, and landing your first online business customer. The Side Business Lab not only shows you exactly how to build your online business but also shows you how to repeatedly get customers WHILE working your 9-5. https://www.serwaaadjeipelle.com/SideBusinessLab

Episode 149: 5 Tips To Help You Create A Plan To Quit Your Job & Start A Business

In today’s episode, we meet Briaan Barron, the Creative Director, Strategist, and CEO of Grail, a streaming and social network platform that helps people of color source and share simple, how-to video tutorials for hair, skin, nails, and body care. After several mediocre experiences at her local salon, Briaan took beauty matters into her own hands and created an online destination dedicated to high-quality self-care rituals for people of African descent. During our conversation, Briaan and I talked about her journey from ideation of a melanin-friendly platform to raising funds that helped her build an early version of her app with beautiful original video content. Briaan also shares how to approach creating original, high-quality content, why patience is key to achieving your goals as a startup, and how her targeted platform, Grail, uplifts black and brown creators, brand owners, and consumers. Click that play button if you want to learn how to build a startup with a unique platform from scratch and raise the capital required to get it off the ground. Listen on Apple Podcast You’ll learn: The idea behind starting an independent streaming platform Ways to balance original content and crowdsourced contentHow to approach financing when outside capital is requiredHow to raise grant capital and where to allocate it within your businessThe user acquisition strategy behind the Grail platform Mentioned in this episode: Business Website: gotograil.comBusiness Instagram: @gotograil Ready to Launch Your Side Business?  Join the Side Business Lab - a guided blueprint for validating, building, launching, and landing your first online business customer. The Side Business Lab not only shows you exactly how to build your online business but also shows you how to repeatedly get customers WHILE working your 9-5. https://www.serwaaadjeipelle.com/SideBusinessLab

Episode 148: From Ideation To Raising Capital For A Video Streaming Startup with Briaan Barron

In today’s episode, we meet Jasmine Womack, a six-figure storyteller helping coaches, consultants, speakers, agency owners, and professional service providers to write, self-publish, and launch books that grow and scale their businesses. After building a side business while working a 9-5, Jasmine decided to go all in and write, self-publish and launch a book that highlighted her expertise and funneled other entrepreneurs into her online programs. During our conversation, Jasmine and I talk about what it takes to get your story written down and published so that you can share your expertise and help others get results. Jasmine also shares the benefits of self-publishing a book when you’re still working in corporate, a realistic timeline of a self-published book, how to raise awareness around your launch, the best places to publish your book, and so much more. If you want to learn how to self-publish your next book and integrate it into your online coaching business, click that play button. Listen on Apple Podcast You’ll learn: Three mistakes people make when they self-publish booksThe five phases of the writing process and how to approach themHow to find the right editor for your bookThe marketing process behind her $235k launchHow to generate sales for your book with a small audience Mentioned in this episode: Business Website: jasminewomack.mykajabi.com Business Instagram: @thejasminewomack  Ready to Launch Your Side Business?  Join the Side Business Lab - a guided blueprint for validating, building, launching, and landing your first online business customer. The Side Business Lab not only shows you exactly how to build your online business but also shows you how to repeatedly get customers WHILE working your 9-5. https://www.serwaaadjeipelle.com/SideBusinessLab

Episode 147: How to Self-Publish A Book: From Writing To Launching with Jasmine Womack

In today’s episode, we meet Jasmin Foster, the founder, and owner of Be Rooted, an inclusively designed stationery brand created to uplift and celebrate women of color.

Episode 146: How To Get Your Product On The Shelves Of Major Retailers with Jasmin Foster

In today’s episode, we meet Berrion Berry, a Holistic Menstrual Health Educator, and Practitioner. She’s also the creator and CEO of Optimize Your Flow, a business that helps women biohack their cycles. After a long, toxic relationship with her period, Berrion used science to eat her way to a perfect period, and now she helps other women do the same. During our conversation, Berrion shares how actively optimizing your menstrual cycle can have a direct impact on your productivity and, as a result, the revenue you produce in your business, the mindset barriers you need to overcome when integrating your period into your business, plus she shares how to move, nourish, and thrive in the four phases of a menstrual cycle.  If you want to learn how to eat your way to a healthier, pain-free period, click that play button. Listen on Apple Podcast You’ll learn: How to optimize your period & what the journey looks likeWhy painful periods don’t have to be the status quoThe four phases of a menstrual cycle and how to eat for each phaseWays to identify which phase we’re in to become more awareHow your menstrual cycle can impact your business Mentioned in this episode: Business Instagram: @optimizeyourflo/ Podcast: www.berrionlberry.com/podcast Website: www.berrionlberry.com/optimize-your-flo Graphic: Foods to support your flo Graphic: Aligning menstrual cycle phases to business activities Ready to Launch Your Side Business? Join the Side Business Lab - a guided blueprint for validating, building, launching, and landing your first online business customer. The Side Business Lab not only shows you exactly how to build your online business but also shows you how to repeatedly get customers WHILE working your 9-5. https://www.serwaaadjeipelle.com/SideBusinessLab

Episode 145: Harness The Power Of Your Period To Grow Your Business with Berrion Berry

In today’s episode, we meet Janice Omadeke, CEO of the Mentor Method, an enterprise SAS platform that helps companies build inclusive mentorship programs. After finding that her male counterparts were getting more concrete mentorship on the golf course than she was receiving at her in-office coffee chats, she set out to solve the gaps in the mentorship process.  The Mentor Methods patent-pending algorithm removes the bias in the mentorship process. It leverages potential compatibility to find ideal matches using a customizable framework focused on retention, development, and relationship nurturing so that companies can bolster their employee retention initiatives and advance underrepresented professionals within those companies in a systemic way. During our conversation, Janice shares how she side-hustled for four years before going full time, how her experience in corporate America drove her to build a mentorship program, how she navigated pivoting her business, what it took to raise capital, and so much more.  If you’re interested in finding a mentor for yourself, Janice also shares the best traits that make for a great mentor-mentee relationship. Listen on Apple Podcast You’ll learn: The process of building The Mentor MethodWhy you should leverage support when and where you can get itWhat drove the decision to pivot from previous business modelsThe decision behind going for VC funding now versus when she first launchedWhy mentorship is essential for business and personal well-being Mentioned in this episode: Business Website: www.thementormethod.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/janiceomadeke Email: janice@thementormethod.com Ready to Launch Your Side Business? Join the Side Business Lab - a guided blueprint for validating, building, launching, and landing your first online business customer. The Side Business Lab not only shows you exactly how to build your online business but also shows you how to repeatedly get customers WHILE working your 9-5. https://www.serwaaadjeipelle.com/SideBusinessLab

Episode 144: Modernizing Mentorship In The Workplace with Janice Omadeke

In today’s episode, we meet Dr. Lisa Williams, creator and founder of the World Of EPI, a toy company that creates a line of multicultural dolls that reflect the beauty and brilliance of children of color.

Episode 143: Building A Line Of Inclusive Dolls with Dr. Lisa Williams

In today’s episode, we meet Ericka Dukes, CEO of Social Ink Co., a social media management agency that helps brands stand out online and connect with their followers. Erika also coaches others on how to use Instagram to launch and scale agencies of their own. After she was unexpectedly let go from corporate America, Erika took it as a sign to finally go out on her own and start the social media management business she’d been dreaming of.  During our conversation, we talk about what it takes to run an agency and how to know when you’re ready to go from freelance social media management to an agency model. Erika also gives her best tips on how business owners can approach hiring their first Social Media Manager and what to expect.  Listen on Apple Podcast You’ll learn: How to scale a social media management businessThe importance of creating a social media strategy based on your business goalsHow to streamline tasks by planning content in advanceWhen to hire a social media manager and what to look forWhy your business goals need to be in place before you hire a SMMThe top three Instagram “hacks” for new accounts looking to grow Mentioned in this episode: Business Instagram: @socialinkcoWebsite: socialinkco.comBlueprint Accelerator: socialinkco.com/blueprint-accelerator-waitlist/ Ready to Launch Your Side Business?  Join the Side Business Lab - a guided blueprint for validating, building, launching, and landing your first online business customer. The Side Business Lab not only shows you exactly how to build your online business but also shows you how to repeatedly get customers WHILE working you’ 9-5. https://www.serwaaadjeipelle.com/SideBusinessLab

Episode 101: How To Become A Social Media Manager with Ericka Dukes [Summer Refresh]

In today’s episode, we meet Tasha Booth, founder and CEO of The Launch Guild, a full-service launch support agency. She’s also a coach and mentor for virtual assistants, online business managers, and project managers who want to learn how to start, grow, and scale their businesses.

Episode 103: How To Prepare & Execute A Successful Launch with Tasha Booth [Summer Refresh]

In today’s episode, we meet Xayli Barclay, a video content creation coach who helps people get confident on camera so they can share their passion and purpose while also monetizing it.

Episode 77: How To Use Video To Promote Your Business with Xayli Barclay [Summer Refresh]

In today’s episode, we meet Afua Osei, an entrepreneur and global growth coach who helps digital entrepreneurs grow beyond their borders using high value global partnerships.

Episode 112: How To Build A Global Brand with Afua Osei [Summer Refresh]

In today’s episode, we meet Latasha James - coach, educator, and owner of the creative marketing agency James + Park, where she provides social media marketing and video marketing services to clients

Episode 107: How to Become A Freelancer with Latasha James [Summer Refresh]

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