147: Side Hustle Spotlight: Her Side Hustle Zen in a Jar Helped Her Pay Her Tuition
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Today’s spotlight is Dr. Danita Nikki Brooks, the Founder of Zen in a Jar, a zen-focused home and body care line.
Dr. Nikki is an entrepreneur from Washington, DC. As you’ll hear in this episode, while working full time in government, and pursuing her Doctor of Science in Information Systems & Communication, she startled hustling. Side hustling that is. She started Zen in a Jar on the side, and it actually supplemented her income and helped pay her tuition.
Upon completing her doctorate, Dr. Nikki realized her passion is self-care. Through Zen in a Jar, she creates ways for women to access luxury experiences for the mind, body, and space with an emphasis on the power of aromatherapy.
“Respect your magic” is the mantra she lives by and her goal is to pour into other women and create experiences for them to tap into their very best lives. On today’s episode, we hear how she does it.
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| 0:00.0 | Something that is really important to me is this being an energy exchange |
| 0:06.0 | so it's not like I'm on here just like hey buy my stuff oh my picture is pretty |
| 0:10.8 | I'm so great look where I am for me it's really important for you to know like hey I'm a human being and I was at work all day |
| 0:17.4 | today and now I'm up all night and I'm making your order and you matter to me. I like to share those |
| 0:22.4 | kinds of experiences online. |
| 0:24.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, |
| 0:28.0 | the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your Side Hustle |
| 0:32.0 | from Passion Project to profitable business. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm your host Nakela Matthew Zocome. |
| 0:37.8 | So let's get started. |
| 0:38.8 | Today's episode is brought to you by Gusto. |
| 0:44.0 | Gusto offers modern, easy payroll benefits and HR to small businesses across the country. |
| 0:50.0 | They were even named Best Online Payroll by PC Mac. |
| 0:54.0 | And as a Side Hustle Pro listener, you will get three months free |
| 0:58.0 | when you run your first payroll. |
| 1:00.0 | So sign up and give it a try at gusto.com slash shp. That's gusto.com slash |
| 1:06.4 | shp. |
| 1:07.4 | Hey hey guys welcome back to another side hustle spotlight edition of |
| 1:14.3 | side hustle pro. This is where we spotlight someone who is still |
| 1:18.4 | side hustling or just recently took their side hustle full time with a real company, real brand that they are building. |
| 1:27.0 | We want to see how they're doing it while they are still in or barely removed from the side hustle journey, |
| 1:32.9 | like just quit their job within a couple years ago. |
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