164: How The Founder of The Village Market Is Bringing National Exposure To Black-Owned Businesses (w/ Dr. Key Hallmon)
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Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Today in the guest chair we have Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon (also known as Dr. Key), Founder, and CEO of The Village Market. I was blessed to cross paths with Dr. Hallmon at Summit 21; shout out to past Side Hustle Pro guest Jewel Burks Solomon for introducing us!
Dr. Key started her career in education, but she wanted more freedom and flexibility. She wanted to be able to take her students outside. Soon got the idea for what was then called The Village Cafe, an economical vehicle that empowers the Black community through cooperative economics. From that seed, The Village Market has grown into an economic vehicle for #blackownedbusiness like no other.
Prior to launching The Village Market, Dr. Hallmon had no experience at all planning events. She had never even booked a venue for an event, much less create her own event with hundreds of vendors, but she had a vision and she wasn’t scared to make it come to life.
The Village Market is now not only a market, but also offers summits, trainings, and workshops for small Black-owned businesses.
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- Side Hustle Pro Live Show
- The Village Market
- Who Moved My Cheese
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| 0:00.0 | My grandmother taught me the adage, it takes a village. The work that I do is very village |
| 0:09.0 | oriented, is very people centered and deeply rooted in passion and purpose. |
| 0:14.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your |
| 0:20.7 | Side Hustle. From Passion Project to profitable business and I'm your host |
| 0:25.0 | Nakela Matthew Zakome. So let's get started. |
| 0:28.4 | Okay hey guys welcome welcome back to the show. |
| 0:33.7 | So I am so excited this week because last week |
| 0:37.1 | I announced that Side Hustle Pro Live |
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| 1:06.7 | We'll have a live on-stage conversation with special guests, Maya Elias. |
| 1:10.7 | There'll be Q&A, a pre-show shopping experience with Side House of Pro guest |
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| 1:20.3 | Plus if you get a VIP meet and greet ticket we'll get to spend some time together before the show and we have some other surprises in store. I am really excited. I have been overwhelmed and blessed by the response. As you guys know, this is something I've wanted to do for a while but I really just |
| 1:34.5 | wanted to understand how to do it first and I'm glad I did it because it has been a lot, you know, a lot goes into putting on an |
| 1:41.9 | event and I'm learning so much and it's making me really, really appreciative and grateful for the response and the support. |
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| 1:55.6 | You know, my taught you retreat sisters coming as a group, like it's really, really dope. |
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