Ep 95: From Side Hustler to C-Suite Coach With Angelina Darrisaw Cheeks
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Today in the guest chair is Angelina Darrisaw Cheeks. Angelina is a social entrepreneur, an international business and career coach and a digital media strategist. As the founder and CEO of C-Suite Coach, a career-coaching platform that provides accessible professional development resources to diverse working professionals, Angelina collaborates with employers to create business solutions that empower and educate teams, as well as retain and engage diverse employees. She also facilitates transformative career workshops and experiences that have reached over 4,000 working and aspiring professionals.
Angelina’s company C-Suite Coach has a growing global client footprint with companies and individual entrepreneurs and across the United States, Israel, Australia, Canada, and more. C-Suite Coach has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Business Insider, Fast Company, Forbes, Essence, and more.
Angelina also services small businesses as a Google Digital Coach, joining Google in bridging the digital divide by offering free coaching and resources to over 2500 NY-based diverse small businesses.
On today’s episode, you will learn how Angelina successfully side hustled and transitioned from her full time role as a Senior Manager of Digital Business Development at Viacom to owning her own business.
Angelina shares:
- How she made a business case for her company sponsoring her Coaching certificate
- How she transitioned her business model from B2B to B2C
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Angelina Darrisaw Cheeks - @linadarrisaw
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm a daughter of a teenage mom. My mom was a teenage single mom and actually I'm from four generations of teenage single mom. That's what my college essay was about. |
| 0:12.0 | And all too often I just didn't see people |
| 0:15.0 | that look like me, or that even had a background |
| 0:18.0 | like I did in the rooms that I was sitting in. |
| 0:20.0 | So I thought about how could I create something to help change this so that I'm not an anomaly and that there are more people in rooms that have varied backgrounds coming from all different sorts of situations, family lifestyles, first generation, whatever the case might be, |
| 0:37.0 | that there's room to make sure that they are prepared to succeed at work as well. |
| 0:41.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your |
| 0:48.8 | Side Hustle from Passion Project to Profitable Business. |
| 0:52.5 | And I'm your host, Nakela Matthew Zakome. |
| 0:55.4 | So let's get started. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey, guys, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:01.5 | I'm really excited to share with you today's guest |
| 1:03.9 | because this is an example of someone |
| 1:06.1 | who really side hustles strategically and successfully |
| 1:10.2 | and was able to transition to her job |
| 1:12.3 | and still have her employer keep her on for a little while because they just couldn't let her go. |
| 1:18.0 | That's what we all want, right? |
| 1:20.0 | Her name is Angelina Darasaw Chiques. She is a social entrepreneur, an international business and career coach, and a digital media strategist. |
| 1:30.0 | As the founder and CEO of C-suite Coach, a career coaching platform that provides accessible professional development resources to diverse working professionals. |
| 1:40.4 | Angelina collaborates with employers to create business solutions that empower and educate teams, as well as retain and engage diverse employees. |
| 1:51.0 | She also facilitates transformative career workshops and experiences that have reached |
| 1:56.6 | over 4,000 working and aspiring professionals. |
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