Beyond the Boycott: The Business of Black Haircare

Becoming Visible with Octavia Morgan

🎙️Join us as we close out season one with Octavia Morgan of Octavia Morgan LA, a gender neutral clean fine fragrance brand. We’re excited to hear her thoughts on 3 crucial growth milestones!

Beyond the Boycott: The Business of Black Haircare

🎙️September 2025 is the kickoff of a boycott of non-black owned hair care products by black women. The goal is to demonstrate the economic impact and power that comes with the spend in this market. But more importantly shift that spend to support black owned brands. In this episode I break down 4 key considerations during this time. Host: Christina Payne Assistant/Producer: C’Maji Gilliam

Becoming Visible with Kim Roxie

🎙️In this episode we interview the lovely Kim Roxie of Lamik Beauty and discuss her journey to building a healthy vegan beauty brand that she could use despite her alopecia and proudly in honor of her diva mother. She will also share her entrepreneurial views on establishing realistic revenue targets and learning to use financial statements to track them (P&L Statement, Cash Flow Statement, and Balance Sheet) Host: Christina Payne Producer/Assistant: C’Maji Battle

Building the right team to SCALE

🎙️Hiring to grow, not just to fill seats. As your business grows, your biggest bottleneck becomes people. Hiring the wrong team slows you down. Hiring right, multiplies your impact. Host: Christina Payne Producer/Assistant: C’Maji Battle

Becoming Visible with Ya-Shi Duhon

🎙️Polycules, Kink, Sex Therapy…meet a therapist intentionally growing her practice to increase representation for minority and underserved communities. How do you scale that business? Listen and find out with Ya-Shi Duhon, MS, MEd, LPC-Associate supervised by Joey Santos III, PhD, LPC-S, LPCC supervised by Robyn Flores, PhD, LMFT-S, AAMFT-S, CFT