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351: How CultureCon CEO Imani Ellis Went From Side Hustling VP to Full Time Entrepreneur

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4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week in the guest chair we have former Side Hustle Pro guest Imani Ellis, CEO and Founder of CultureCon and The Creative Collective NYC. While working as Vice President of Communications at NBC Universal, Imani founded The CCNYC and began her journey to becoming the full-time CEO of her company and CultureCon.

In this episode she shares:

  • How CultureCon and The CCNYC has hugely expanded since we last spoke

  • The steps she took to firmly make the decision of becoming a full-time entrepreneur

  • How she effectively built and manages a team of 25 people

  • And so much more, you don’t want to miss this episode!

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0:00.0

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0:09.4

Now, this is a podcast by two millennials talking about all things tech, pop culture,

0:13.8

and life. I recently checked out their AI special episode where they talked about if chat

0:19.3

GPT is a job killer, predictions, and so much more. And like all of us, I'm still learning how

0:24.4

to best leverage AI. So I found this episode really enlightening, and I think you might too.

0:29.0

So listen to Techish wherever you get your podcast.

0:34.6

You're listening to Side Hustle Pro. The podcast that teaches you to build

0:39.0

and grow your side hustle from passion project to profitable business.

0:43.3

And I'm your host, Nikayla Matthews of Comet. So let's get started.

0:53.4

Hey guys, hey, welcome back to another episode of Side Hustle Pro. I'm your host, Nikayla,

0:58.2

and today we have an update episode with Imani Ellis. Now you may remember meeting Imani back

1:05.4

in episode 187 of Side Hustle Pro. And while she was here, she shared about how she manages being

1:12.4

a side hustler juggling her role with CultureCon and the Creative Collection with her full-time

1:18.3

role at NBC. Well, wouldn't you know it? Here we are three years later, and Imani is now a full-time

1:24.4

entrepreneur. So she is back to share with us all about what goes into that decision and that

1:31.5

planning and preparation to go from having a side hustle or as she would call it two full-time

1:38.0

jobs to a full-time entrepreneur role. So let me give you guys a little bit of background in case

1:43.7

you haven't listened to that episode. So Imani is the CEO and founder of CultureCon and the

1:49.6

Creative Collective. That is a community dedicated to facilitating brave spaces for black and brown

1:56.4

creatives. It was born in Imani's one-bedroom apartment as a means of fostering meaningful

2:02.5

connection. And since then, the CCNY has since parlayed into the fastest growing community devoted

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