An Intimate Conversation With A 9 Figure CEO - Pinky Cole #349
Social Proof Podcast
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4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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From her beginnings in a shared kitchen to a food truck to 3 locations and pandemic grand openings, Pinky Cole is building an empire as the owner and visionary of Slutty Vegan, an Atlanta based restaurant. Just two years old, the company’s revenues grew to 4 million within the first 6 months of its grand opening. With a rotating menu and a standard 2-hour wait, to pick up made to order food, Slutty Vegan is a game changer. If you think the phenomenon is only about food, you’d be greatly mistaken. Cole has hit the trifecta of community, commerce and compassion.
COLE’S IMPACT DOES NOT STOP THERE.
Serial Entrepreneur, Brand Strategist, and a Veteran Television Producer, Cole pours all her love, experience and talent into a recipe for success increasing revenues this year by 15%. When restaurants are closing, Slutty Vegan opened two locations with socially distanced lines down the block. While record numbers of people are unemployed, Slutty Vegan is providing sustainable employment. Cole’s impact does not stop there. As an economic engine for the Atlanta community, Cole (in partnership with another philanthropist) has also paid rent for local businesses, paid the tuition of 30 Clark Atlanta students, and provided coats to those in need. Cole also purchased a car and life insurance for the family of Rayshard Brooks who was slain by police in the Spring of 2020 outside an Atlanta fast-food restaurant. She is on a campaign to support the health and generational wealth of the community by encouraging Black males under a particular income threshold to get life insurance, among other initiatives.
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| 0:00.0 | I really redefined the word slut and made it a word in a term of endearment. |
| 0:05.7 | I have redefined a word and made it a positive term to make people feel better about themselves. |
| 0:12.9 | The word slut, do I think that it will affect the sales you're damn right? |
| 0:16.8 | People are gonna buy it and people are gonna buy it because it's authentic, it's real, it's raw, |
| 0:22.8 | it's in your face. Sometimes you gotta slap people in the face to get them to pay attention. |
| 0:26.8 | What have you had to learn about leadership though? |
| 0:28.5 | What I had to learn a lot about leadership, and I'm still learning about leadership, |
| 0:31.7 | I'm very impulsive, right? So how I've grown this company is, if I want something I want it done |
| 0:37.8 | right now, right? Like it needs to happen right now, but I realize as I grow the company and I have |
| 0:43.8 | so many people in place, there's something called a chain of command. So I used to like skip pass |
| 0:49.1 | everybody, like if I paid you to be everybody boss, now I used to skip pass everybody and tell that |
| 0:53.9 | person directly, but what I was doing was I was undermining the person who was in charge. |
| 0:58.8 | So I no longer do that anymore. I follow the chain of command even as the CEO and the creative |
| 1:04.5 | of this company. And if I keep coming through a monkey branches in their operation, it's just |
| 1:09.5 | everything is always chaotic because people are always going to listen to the CEO before anybody else, |
| 1:13.8 | right? So I now follow the chain of command, something that I took a long time to learn how to do, |
| 1:19.4 | and I'm finally in a place where I've gotten a lot better. So I'm out of me. And when you have |
| 1:24.4 | power, there are no limits. And when there are no limits, you can make impact. And that level of |
| 1:31.6 | impact will change the course of how people think about the world and the things in and around the |
| 1:36.4 | world. Welcome to another edition of social proof podcast. This young lady needs no introduction, |
| 1:41.2 | man. She's a boss. She's no, nobody needs to introduce. Yo, because for one, I don't even know if |
| 1:48.5 | I can say just the founder, slutty vegan, because you're doing a lot, yeah, especially I was seeing, |
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