Ep 59: MunaLuchi Creator Jacqueline Nwobu on Reshaping the Wedding Industry
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest and the platform she created provided me the most assistance and resources with planning my wedding. Her name is Jacqueline Nwobu, and she is the Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of MunaLuchi Bride Magazine, the leading nationally distributed wedding magazine catering to women of color.
Women of color are major contributors to the billion dollar wedding industry, yet, our presence within major bridal publications and websites/blogs is rare. Jacqueline had a vision and determination to fill this void. Today, MunaLuchi is a multi-cultural global technology company serving the $200 billion international wedding and events industry. It caters to the growing multi-cultural wedding and events industry throughout the world with a vertical online marketplace connecting engaged couples to event professionals.
Today on the show, we’ll hear how Jacqueline and her husband launched MunaLuchi with no prior experience and obtained national distribution within major retailers including Target and Barnes and Noble. Plus, hear how she’s continuing to grow the brand and what she’s learned about hiring the right people.
On today’s episode, Jacqueline gets into:
- How she started MunaLuchi Bride Magazine with no distributor and no plan
- How she got MunaLuchi into Barnes & Noble, Safeways and other major newsstands across the country
- When she knew it was time to leave her job
- What led her to launch The Coterie, the vendor and education arm of MunaLuchi
- How she juggles love and business with her business partner and husband, Chike
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Munaluchi Bride - @MunaluchiBride
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow a |
| 0:05.4 | Side Hustle from Passion Project to Profitable Business. |
| 0:09.2 | And I'm your host, Nikala Matthews. |
| 0:11.6 | So let's get started. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey, hey guys, it's Michaela here coming to you live from right after my mini honeymoon. I know you have seen that we went through a little bit of an unexpected hiatus with |
| 0:33.8 | everything that picked up for a wedding week but I'm back and since we last spoke I |
| 0:39.8 | got married. Moio and I tie the knot in a beautiful two day ceremony blending our |
| 0:46.0 | Jamaican and Nigerian cultures and then in a surprising and historical turn of |
| 0:50.9 | events one of our videos from our traditional Nigerian ceremony |
| 0:55.6 | actually went viral and it's so funny to see ourselves become one of these means |
| 1:00.9 | on Instagram, but that's exactly what's happening. So hey we're just |
| 1:05.4 | happy that everyone is able to share in the joy of our day and our multicultural |
| 1:10.3 | wedding and if you would like to see our videos and photos to see what I've been up to, |
| 1:15.3 | of course I posted a few on my Instagram page at Sidehouse of Pro and our hashtag was |
| 1:21.1 | Okomi ever after so you can check that out as well. |
| 1:25.0 | Speaking of weddings and hashtags, today's guest and the platform she created |
| 1:29.7 | provided me with the most assistance and resources while planning my own wedding. |
| 1:34.4 | Whether it was looking for a dress or decor examples or checking out the work of |
| 1:39.0 | vendors I was interested in using, I would not have been able to plan my wedding without this woman and her business. |
| 1:46.1 | Her name is Jacqueline Wobu, and she is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Munaluchi Bride magazine, the leading nationally distributed wedding |
| 1:54.7 | magazine catering to women of color. One thing I learned in the wedding planning process |
| 2:00.4 | is that women of color are major contributors to the billion dollar wedding industry, |
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