Ep 112: How to Run a Business with Your Friends with Curly Girl Collective
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Today in the guest chair are the ladies of Curly Girl Collective. Curly Girl Collective is comprised of Charisse, Gia, Melody, Simone and Tracey. Curly Girl Collective’s vision is to be a change agent in the beauty industry by connecting, empowering and celebrating women of color around the world.
Their mission is to create innovative experiences that celebrate natural beauty and showcase the best brands for women of color. And they have done so with signature events that have taken the natural world by storm. You may know them best for their signature event, CURLFEST, which takes place annually in the summer in Prospect Park.
These ladies went from dreaming up a vision for this business during a potluck in one of their apartments to now producing a large scale, activation filled experiences for natural hair women with brand partners like Shea Moisture, Target, BET and more! Most importantly, these women are dear friends, and running a business with your girlfriends is no easy feat.
On today’s episode we get into:
- How to run a successful business with close friends
- How they each juggle their full time careers with a major and successful side hustle that is Curly Girl Collective
- You’ll also learn a fun fact about my personal connection to Curly Girl Collective
- And so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Like your eye can't be set on the dollar. I think that the dollars will come, but I think in the beginning your eye has to be set on why are you there? Why are you doing it? Who gets the benefit from what you're doing and focus on that |
| 0:15.3 | woman or that girl or that family or that community or whoever it is that gives |
| 0:21.4 | to experience or benefit on what you're bringing to the table with your business, |
| 0:25.6 | focus on that. |
| 0:29.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your Side Hustle, |
| 0:35.0 | from Passion Project to Profable Business. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'm your host, Nakela Matthew Zocome. |
| 0:40.8 | So let's get started. Today's episode is brought to you by Gusto. |
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| 1:38.0 | Hello, hello guys. Welcome back to the show. Today in the guest chair, I have the ladies of Curly Girl Collective. |
| 1:43.2 | That's right, I have not one, not two, |
| 1:45.6 | but five women in the guest chair today. |
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