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You're listening to Side Hustle Pro. The podcast that teaches you to build and grow your side hustle from passion project to profitable business. And I'm your host, Nikayla Matthews of Kome. So let's get started.

Hey, hey, friends. Welcome. Welcome back to the show. It's Nikayla here. And today in the guest chair, I have Jacqueline Rogers, the founder of green top gifts today's episode is actually an update episode because Jacqueline was in the guest chair back in October 2020.

Episode 221. So go back and listen to that to hear all about how she started green top gifts as a side hustle and scaled it to her full time business.

So now today we are going to take it from there and learn about what's been going on since then how she was able to scale green top gifts to be in target stores and so much more and a little bit more background on Jacqueline.

So back by her 14 years of consumer package goods experience Jacqueline Rogers founded green top gifts with a purpose to create products that represent what the holidays look like for black and brown families.

Jacqueline and green top gifts have been leading the charge of diversity in classic holiday imagery and I've gone on to be recognized as one of the 2021 Google for startups black founders fund recipients.

A 2021 FedEx small business grant winner and an NFL PA playmaker since its launch green top gifts has received notable media attention from numerous outlets, including essence of Oprah magazine, good housekeeping and people.

Jacqueline embarked on her entrepreneurial journey in order to add much needed diversity and representation to consumer goods. And she uses Clark Atlanta University's model daily of

find a way or make one as she continues to grow her company. She holds a BA in business administration from Clark Atlanta University and she currently serves as a mentor for Atlanta tech stars.

She's married to Sean Rogers and together they have an eight year old son and four year old daughter and we talk all about how she juggles beat a full time mom wife and entrepreneur in today's episode.

So let's get into it.

All right, all right, all right, Jackie welcome, welcome back to the guest chair. Thank you so much for being here again.

Thank you for having me. Yes, I'm excited to have you. You know what? A lot of times I have people on the show and then they blow up and I'm like wait, I need to know how this all happened.

So this is why we have update episodes because at the time we chatted it was October 2020 so much has happened since then.

So let's chat about it. First of all, you are the queen of grant competitions every single day. I feel like you're posting about another program you're a part of.

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