70: This Brooklyn-Bred Entrepreneur is Breaking Barriers, One T-Shirt At a Time

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🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Today in the guest chair is Brooklyn-bred and Baltimore-based entrepreneur, Kalilah Wright. Kalilah is the Owner and Creative Director of t-shirt company, Mess in a Bottle. Through Mess in a Bottle, a cutting-edge brand with timely and to-the-point messaging, she hopes to give voice to the voiceless.

Kalilah has always had a business spirit and, in 2016, quit her job and hit the ground running with a fierce work ethic and grind mentality. As an accomplished designer and trained architect, she used her Master's degree from Morgan State University and Bachelors of Arts from Penn State University to establish her brand in Baltimore City, Maryland.

I met Kalilah at the Rise Empowerment conference in DC in 2016. All I remember is her dressed in her Mess in a Bottle Gear and handing out free product to the conference speakers. Almost immediately, when I checked the conference hashtag one of the conference speakers had already shared Kalilah's gift on Instagram. I was impressed by her guerilla marketing and hustle mentality then and have been watching her journey ever since.

On today's show, Kalilah shares more of the real deal holyfield of what it's like to be a new entrepreneur.

Kalilah gets into:

Why she left her dream job at Under Armour even though she didn't have everything all figured out
How she used craigslist and $500 to buy her early equipment
How she found and pays for her first business space ever
Her conference hustle strategy that helps her to get her name and brand out there and much more!

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0:00.0	You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow a
0:07.6	Side Hustle from Passion Project to Profitable Business.
0:11.3	And I'm your host, Nkala Matthews.
0:13.8	So let's get started.
0:19.0	So I'm really pumped about today's show.
0:21.7	And that's because oftentimes I feature women who are a
0:25.4	little further ahead in their entrepreneur experience and have spent years
0:29.4	growing and scaling their businesses. But I also like to connect with new entrepreneurs
0:35.2	who have a viable business but are still learning to actually run that business.
0:40.2	And today's episode is just that.
0:42.6	Today in the guest chair I have a woman who has a message to share with the world.
0:47.1	Her name is Kalele Wright and she's the owner and creative director
0:50.9	of T-shirt brand Mess in a Bottle.
0:53.0	Mess in a Bottle is a cutting edge relevant company that gives voice to the voice list
0:57.4	with bold statements and reusable packaging.
1:00.1	I first met Kaleh at the Rise Empowerment Conference in DC in 2016.
1:05.6	All I remember is her dressed in her mess in a bottle gear and handing out free product
1:11.1	to the conference speakers.
1:12.3	And immediately, when I to the conference speakers.
1:12.8	And immediately, when I checked the conference hashtag,
1:15.6	one of the conference speakers had already shared
1:18.2	Kaleila's gift on Instagram.
	...

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