193: Meet Kesha Watkins: Founder of Black-Owned BPolished Beauty Supply Store
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Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
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🗓️ 25 March 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Today in the guest chair we welcome Kesha Watkins, a true side hustler! Although she has a successful 13-year career in the Human Resource profession, she is also passionate about entrepreneurship and being her own boss.
Her latest venture, BPolished Beauty Supply offers an array of hair care needs and provides an unparalleled level of beauty experience to customers in Arlington, TX and online. Kesha’s hope in opening BPolished Beauty Supply is to provide representation as an African American Owner in the beauty supply industry and promote entrepreneurship to other women.
Prior to opening, Kesha didn’t have any experience in beauty retail, so she decided to work at Sally’s Beauty Supply to learn the ins and out of running a store. She knew she was heading in the right direction because she loved the in-store experience, especially interacting with customers. Only a few months later, she was able to leverage her learnings and open a store that her community loves.
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- BPolished Beauty Supply
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BPolished Beauty Supply (Instagram) - @bpolishedbeautysupply
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Kesha Watkins (Instagram) - @bpolished_ceo
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| 0:00.0 | Word of mouth is our biggest advocate. I have new customers that come in every single |
| 0:08.0 | week and they say, oh such and such told me about you or I saw you on Facebook. |
| 0:13.2 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, |
| 0:17.1 | the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your Side Hustle, |
| 0:20.8 | from Passion Project to profitable business business and I'm your host |
| 0:24.3 | Nakela Matthew Zakomey so let's get started. |
| 0:29.6 | Hey guys welcome welcome back to the show it's nakela here and today I am back with a special |
| 0:35.8 | side hustle spotlight episode I'm featuring a true side hustle pro Kisha Watkins |
| 0:42.4 | Kisha is the owner of the Black Own Beauty Supply Store, B Polish Beauty Supply in Arlington, Texas. |
| 0:49.0 | Now Kisha has had a successful career in the human resource profession, which she still works in, she works full time, but she's also passionate about entrepreneurship and being her own boss. |
| 1:02.0 | Her Beauty Supply Store, Be Polish Beauty Supply Store. being her beauty supply store be polished beauty supply offers an array of hair |
| 1:06.8 | care needs and provides an unparalleled level of beauty experience to |
| 1:12.1 | customers her hope in opening B |
| 1:15.4 | Polish beauty supply is to provide representation as an African American |
| 1:20.5 | owner in the beauty supply industry and promote entrepreneurship to other women. |
| 1:26.4 | Kisha is also the owner of Watkins Way Consulting, a member of Delta Sigma Theta, |
| 1:31.5 | and Distinguished Black Women. |
| 1:34.4 | In this episode, Kisha shares how she juggles working full-time in HR |
| 1:40.6 | while also operating a seven day a week business. |
| 1:44.7 | She also gets into the financial and tactical aspects |
| 1:47.7 | of opening a beauty supply store, |
| 1:50.1 | and how she manages the mental highs and lows of being an entrepreneur, |
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