238: How a “No” Pushed Marvina Robinson Into Creating Her Company, B. Stuyvesant Champagne

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🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Marvina Robinson is the founder and CEO of her own boutique brand champagne company, B. Stuyvesant Champagne that was launched in February 2020.

Her journey was anything but “ordinary.” She puts it this way: “There was no direct correlation.” With a Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Master’s degree in Statistics, and the career path of working in finance on Wall Street for over 20 years, the entrepreneur bug hit her, big time. Prior to Stuyvesant (as it’s affectionately called), Marvina had her own indoor cycling studio, which she later converted into a café.

After the landlord of the building the café was hosted in wouldn’t allow her to sell beer or wine, she took his “no” as a lead to make her vision a reality, and open up a champagne bar. So she took the next lead, and ventured to France to make connections in the champagne and wine world.

While sitting down eating crepes in France at 5 a.m., she met someone who would help her make the introductions she needed to succeed, and the outcome of that is what you see today.

Although Marvina didn’t know what she was looking for, at first, and her business plan was in her brain, notebook and laptop, she’s proud that she built her business incrementally, and her “true business” is now falling into place. The insane grind included red eye flights between Manhattan and France for almost a year. For Marvina, it was all worth it.

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0:00.0	For me, I don't wait for something to come to me, I create it for me to go and get it.
0:08.0	Like if I know what I want to do, I don't take no as an answer.
0:11.1	I don't take rejection as an answer, I'll just say, okay, I got to find a new path in
0:15.3	way.
0:16.3	You're listening to Side Hustle Pro.
0:20.0	The podcast that teaches you to build and grow your side hustle from passion project
0:24.7	to profitable business.
0:26.4	And I'm your host, Nikaela Matthews, a co-man.
0:29.3	So let's get started.
0:30.3	Hey guys, to the end of guest chair, we have Marvina Robinson.
0:37.3	Marvina is the founder of Beast Divecent Champagne, a boutique brand of champagne that launched
0:42.8	in February 2020.
0:45.1	Marvina's love for her hometown, Bedford Stivecent in Brooklyn, New York, is what inspired
0:50.1	the name of the brand Beast Divecent Champagne.
0:53.3	Marvina first came up with the idea of even having her own brand of champagne when she
0:57.7	decided to have it served as the private house label for her upcoming champagne bar that
1:03.2	she was open in in Brooklyn.
1:05.3	In order to achieve a goal of having her own brand of champagne, she worked directly
1:09.2	with a vineyard in France to create the champagne.
1:12.7	Marvina, whose love affair with champagne began in college, is now one of the few African-American
1:17.5	women who owns a champagne brand.
1:20.4	How cool is that?
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