Ep 15: How Vivian Kaye of KinkyCurlyYaki Turned Her Side Hustle Into a Million Dollar Business
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
How did a former wedding planner turn her side hustle into a million dollar business? Today’s guest has the answer. If you’ve ever heard the phrase “bias for action” she is the epitome of that. When she thinks of an idea, she doesn’t just sit on it, she acts on it. She’s founded two successful businesses in her lifetime with no business degree and only education from the school of hard knocks. I’m talking about Vivian Kaye, the Founder and CEO of KinkyCurlyYaki, a successful natural hair extensions brand.
Known by fans as The Queen of Kank, Vivian founded KinkyCurlyYaki in 2012 to provide natural hair solutions for women who wanted the ease and flexibility of kinky curly hair extensions.
On this episode, you’ll learn how she got the idea and started her business from her living room and is now at the head of a soon to be million dollar brand.
Topics discussed:- How her Ghanaian upbringing influenced her entrepreneurial fire
- Why she never felt the pressure to complete school to start a business
- How getting laid off gave her the final push to dive into entrepreneurship full time
- How she started two successful businesses from scratch
- Balancing entrepreneurship and motherhood
- Side Hustle Pro has a buzzing Facebook group! Get the support you need to create and grow your side hustle in the welcoming Side Hustle Pro Community on Facebook.SideHustlePro.co/Mastermind So much great convo and connection is already happening in there.
- Side Hustle Pro – @sidehustlepro
- KinkyCurlyYaki – @KinkyCurlyYaki
- Vivian Kaye – @queenofkank
- #SideHustlePro
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | So let's get started. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:20.0 | This is episode 15, |
| 0:22.0 | and today's guest is truly an inspiration to me. |
| 0:25.2 | If you've ever heard the phrase bias for action, |
| 0:28.0 | she is the epitome of that. |
| 0:30.5 | When she thinks of an idea, she doesn't just sit on it. |
| 0:33.4 | No, she acts on it. |
| 0:35.1 | She's founded two successful businesses in her lifetime with no business degree |
| 0:39.8 | and only education from the school of Hard Knox. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm talking about Vivian Kay, the founder and CEO of Kinky Curliyaki, a wildly successful |
| 0:50.0 | natural hair extensions brand. |
| 0:52.3 | Known by fans as the Queen of Kank, Vivian founded Kinky Curlyaki in 2012 |
| 0:58.0 | to provide natural hair solutions for women who wanted the ease and flexibility of kinky curly hair extensions. |
| 1:04.0 | On this episode you learn how she got the idea and starting her business from her living |
| 1:09.0 | room and is now at the head of a soon-to-be million- dollar brand. Let's get into it. |
| 1:17.1 | Welcome to the show Vivian. Tell us more about your background and what you're |
| 1:20.3 | currently working on. Well background, you know I'm from Ghana so that's |
| 1:26.3 | where I was born I immigrated to Canada when it was about three years old so I live in |
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