The BlkWomenHustle Podcast

S2 Episode 11 - Scaling Your Business with Monique Rose

Entrepreneur, restaurateur, and beauty business owner Monique Rose speaks to the best way to earn multiple streams of income through one brand, how she mastered serial entrepreneurship, the key to building the right team, the risks of overleveraging your business, and the importance of showing up and doing the work. For more info about Monique and her brands, visit milkandhoneycafe.com [//milkandhoneycafe.com] and minkhoney.com [// minkhoney.com] Monique Rose personifies brains and beauty. As a successful businesswoman, entrepreneur, restaurateur, author and culinary visionary, Monique is building a restaurant empire by fusing creations and niche restaurants that are appealing to foodies worldwide. With a fifteen-year proven track record of increasing sales and revenue for more than a dozen restaurants throughout America, in 2016, Monique created Milked, LLC. With Chef Sammy at the menu’s helm, the pair opened their first restaurant Milk & Honey Café, an all-day-brunch-themed bistro in Beltsville, MD, where Monique oversees the day-to-day operations. In less than two years, she helped grow a 55-seat café into four thriving restaurants. Catapulting off the success of Milk & Honey Café, Monique has embarked on a new adventure by entering the beauty space and launching her new beauty brand, Mink & Honey, which features powerful skincare products, lavish ink lashes, and wellness products so all can feel beautiful from the inside out.

S2 Episode 10 - Make Room for Your Gifts with Kim Coles

Actress, Comedian, and Entrepreneur Kim Coles discusses what it means to unearth your gifts by broadcasting your brilliance, pivoting on purpose to grow your business, making a professional and financial comeback after hardships, how to effectively monetize your skillsets,  the power of collaboration among women and sharing opportunities with others, and she gives it to us straight about the nostalgic, classic television show Living Single. As a beloved multifaceted actress, comedian, best-selling author of "Open Your G.I.F.T.S.", and speaker, Kim Coles has delighted audiences all over the world for over 32 years including ground-breaking shows like In Living Color and Living Single. A sought after online academy teacher and intuitive strategic coach, Kim also guides women on the incredible healing journey Broadcasting their Brilliance by telling and leveraging their own authentic stories to inspire others to learn, laugh and leave their own powerful legacy. For more information about her brands, events, and the KimUNITY Mastermind, visit www.kimcoles.tv [https://www.kimcoles.tv] and work with her at storywithkim.com [http://storywithkim.com/]

S2 Episode 9 - Taking Your Talents to TV with Kayla Beal

NBC Universal Producer Kayla Beal discusses getting started in the media industry, how an HBCU prepared her for professional success, ways you can prepare to have your content featured on major networks, and the current sociopolitical climate. For more information about her brands and media opportunities, follow Kayla @kayla_way on IG. Kayla Beal is a natural born innovator in today’s society, a television producer, writer, model and entrepreneur. She was raised in Queens, New York where her parents showed her the importance of education. She excelled in her academic goals, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree and graduated magna cum laude from Virginia State University. She cultivated a remarkable track record of influencing her peers as Vice President of Academic Affairs. Kayla’s career began as a public relation representative for The Source Magazine and BET Networks. Her career flourished as an award-winning producer for NBC Universal, creating content for daytime talk and court shows. In addition, she produced commercials for Tri-Star Studios, worked with several celebrities such as Jerry Springer, Steve Wilkos, Kimberly Locke, Wendy Williams, Tobias Truvillion, and many more. She is an active member of New York Women in Film and Television, which provides a platform to learn, enlighten, and inspire women in the film and television industries. Kayla also runs her own company, Perception For You, providing services of production which includes directing, producing, writing, editing, event planning, marketing, hosting, talent consulting, and casting. Behind the camera, she ultimately enjoys serving at church and participating in charity events.

S2 Episode 8 - Legally Protecting Your Brand w/ Lerae Funderburg

Lerae Funderburg, Esq., founder of Lawyer Mommy-The Brand and Funderburg Law, discusses the importance of legally protecting your brand through trademarks, her resource for filing a trademark yourself, what to look for in a lawyer for your brand, being your authentic self while running a business, and making motherhood a priority. Lerae the mother of 2 sweet, beautiful, and lively children, Preston Chase, and Mahogany Rose, and the founder of Funderburg Law and Lawyer Mommy-The Brand. Funderburg Law is an Atlanta based boutique law firm that focuses on entertainment and business transactions, trademarks, copyrights and estate planning.  Lawyer Mommy-The Brand was developed to assist female business owners in the early stages of building their businesses who couldn’t necessarily afford the fees that came along with hiring an attorney. Lerae has received extensive drafting and negotiating training, particularly in the areas of music and film, from top-notch industry professionals. She brings excellence, professionalism, integrity, and humility to every issue presented. Her philosophy for success is individual attention coupled with high quality work product, completed on time and always with the client’s overall vision in mind. Lerae’s love for her family and the black community as a whole has caused the expansion of her practice into estate planning, where she focuses her efforts into helping others to build black businesses, create legacies, and develop tools and plans to obtain and sustain generational wealth. Find more information about Lerae and her brands at lawyermommylerae.com and funderburglaw.com.

S2 Episode 7 - Creating Your Own Lane in Media w/ Nikki Woods

Media Producer & Influencer Nikki Woods discusses the advantages of creating your own lane,  why black women shouldn't apologize for taking up space, how to provide value to media outlets when pitching, the do's and don'ts of pitching, building relationships for business partnerships, obtaining affordable media exposure, and not being fearful about the unknown. Nikki Woods has more than 20 years of experience as an on-air personality and former senior producer of the Tom Joyner Show, the most successful syndicated urban radio show in history. Woods is also the CEO of Nikki Woods Media, a corporation that rocks with entrepreneurs and influencers who want to grow their business to 6+ figures by leveraging the media and monetizing their expertise. To her credit, Nikki has: Written 6 Best-Selling Books Been featured by CNN, Huffington Post, Black Enterprise, The New York Times, and more Positioned her students and clients to be seen by over 873 million people and generated over 8 figures in sales from the media Mentored more than 500 authors to best-selling status Nikki is a trendsetter, a social media influencer, author, blogger, motivational speaker and most importantly, she's the mother of two teenage boys and two dogs who think they are teenage boys. With her wide-spread and diverse social platform, Nikki continually empowers, educates, and enlightens those who are looking to impact the world with their message. For more information on Nikki and her brand, visit www.nikkiwoodsmedia.com.