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Your Brand Amplified

Building a Curated Community: How DJ Nate Ishe Lappegaard Found His Way to Business Coaching

Your Brand Amplified

Bleav + Anika Jackson

Management, Entrepreneur, Public Relations, Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Marketing, Marketing Trends, Business Trends, Ai, Women-owned, Business, Sales Strategy, Artificial Intelligence, Sales, Social Media, Branding, Podcast, Communications

5.0132 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Nate Ishe Lappegaard is the founder of Kite and Dart, a group of business strategists supporting nontraditional entrepreneurs. He has a wealth of experience in marketing, club promotion, DJing, and the cannabis industry, and is passionate about helping entrepreneurs of all backgrounds achieve financial autonomy.Nate Ishe Lappegaard had a long journey of learning and understanding of business, not only through his wife's accomplishments as a realtor, but also through his experience as a Dubstep DJ. Through conversations and experiences he learned the importance of a curated community, the co-creation of energy between a DJ and their audience, and the need to create a business that adheres to the values of those who are running it. His experience and understanding of whiteness and privilege taught him to help nontraditional entrepreneurs feel confident their business will be successful, and to approach entrepreneurship with bodily autonomy and agency.In this episode, you will learn the following:1. The Myth of Class Mobility in Our Culture2. The Impact of Toxic Masculinity and Patriarchy on Dance Culture3. The Role of Curated Communities in Business Co-CreationWe're happy you're here! Like the pod? Visit our website! Check out our sponsor PitchDB! Start your trial on Simplified!

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0:00.0

Welcome to Your Brand Amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and

0:06.5

brands to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a difference.

0:15.0

Welcome back to your brand amplified. I am Anika Jackson, and today I am here

0:18.0

with a very like-minded marketer,

0:21.0

so I'm very excited about this conversation.

0:24.0

Nate Ishi Lapguard, who's the founder of Kite and Dart,

0:28.4

a group of business strategists supporting

0:30.5

nontraditional entrepreneurs.

0:32.2

Nate, welcome to the show.

0:34.6

Thanks for having me, Anica.

0:36.0

Absolutely.

0:36.7

So in your mind, what do you mean

0:38.8

when you're talking about non-traditional entrepreneurs?

0:41.6

Oh, right into it, we go.

0:43.0

Yeah, let's do it.

0:45.0

So there's a myth of class mobility in our culture.

0:47.6

In sociology, which I consider to be a science, shows that class mobility has never really been

0:52.4

a factor, at least within our lifetimes and it's certainly

0:55.2

diminishing since 1980, 8182. So there's this kind of this mythology around entrepreneurship,

1:01.9

this bootstrap mythology that you know we've all been brought up to believe. And I have a son who's an immigrant and he's from Honduras and he walked here in a caravan.

1:11.0

And I'm clear that he has much more opportunity here than he did back there.

1:17.0

And this idea that we can make ourselves or that we make ourselves is based solely on merit or that hard work is the only

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