396: How Alexis Barber Balances Being A Wharton MBA, Influencer, and Founder
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week in the guest chair we have Alexis Barber, a lifestyle influencer and founder of Too Collective, a modern wellness and loungewear brand. At just 25 years old, Alexis is the host of the top-rated Too Smart For This Podcast and has worked with brands like Lululemon, Rare Beauty, Microsoft, and Miss Dior as a content creator.
In this episode she shares:
- How growing up low-income provided the foundation for having confidence and an ambitious mindset to overcome the limitations of her past
- Her transformative experience as an MBA candidate at The Wharton School at UPenn
- How she makes a living off of content creation and the opportunities being an influencer has provided
Highlights Include:
00:00 Intro
03:00 Confidence and putting yourself out there
09:55 Becoming a lifestyle influencer
12:04 Navigating side hustling and a corporate role
19:27 Collaboration with Rare Beauty
20:48 Launching a robe company
29:09 MBA program at Wharton
39:20 Transparency in content creation
44:07 The importance of building a team
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Links mentioned in this episode
- Too Collective Website: https://toocollective.com/
- MLT Program: https://mlt.org/
- Harvard Summer Program: https://www.hbs.edu/svmp/Pages/default.aspx
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Too Collective Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toocollective/
Alexis’ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@alexisbarber_
Alexis’ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexisbarber/
Alexis’ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexis_barber
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| 0:00.0 | Can you make it to the end Piano playlist to help you drift off to sleep, sleep. |
| 0:24.0 | sleep. |
| 0:25.0 | sleep. |
| 0:27.0 | Listen now, on Spotify. You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your |
| 0:39.5 | Side Hustle, from Passion Project to Profitable Business. |
| 0:43.0 | And I'm your host, Nakela Matthew Zakome. |
| 0:46.0 | So let's get started. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey, friends friends. Welcome, welcome back to the show. It's the Kayla here and today in the guest chair I have Alexis Barbara. |
| 1:00.0 | Alexis is one of my new found favorite lifestyle content creators as well as business founders. |
| 1:06.2 | So Alexis is a lifestyle influencer and she's also the founder of Two Collective, |
| 1:11.1 | which is a modern wellness brand that helps to fill the gaps in |
| 1:14.5 | self-care for ambitious material girls through innovative loungewear and on |
| 1:19.6 | filtered wellness content. Alexis is also the host of the top rated too smart |
| 1:24.9 | for this podcast and has worked with brands like Louu Lemon, Rare Beauty, |
| 1:29.2 | Microsoft, and Miss Deior as a content creator. |
| 1:32.8 | She's currently an MBA candidate at the Wharton School |
| 1:35.9 | at the University of Pennsylvania |
| 1:37.8 | and splits her time between Philadelphia and New York City. |
| 1:41.1 | In today's episode, we had a really robust conversation about all |
| 1:45.1 | that Alexis is doing, where she came from, how she came into this world of |
| 1:48.8 | creating content and also starting her own business, and why you can do it too and you are enough so let's get right into it. |
| 2:01.1 | So guys welcome Alexis to the guest chair I'm so happy to have you here. |
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