Follow The Leader: Building a Business That Lasts with Tren’ness Woods-Black
Radio Cherry Bombe
The Cherry Bombe Podcast Network
4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Bombs Squad. This is Carrie Diamond, host of Radio Cherry Bomb |
| 0:10.7 | Magazine and editor-in-chief of Cherry Bomb magazine. Welcome to our new mini-series, follow the leader. |
| 0:18.6 | These days, everyone is hungry for more advice, especially about being an entrepreneur or finding |
| 0:23.9 | smarter ways to run a business. |
| 0:26.1 | For this series, we're talking to four women at different stages of their careers about how |
| 0:30.9 | they handle key aspects of their business. |
| 0:33.8 | For this, our final episode, we're talking about building a business to last and in turn |
| 0:39.2 | building a legacy with Trinise Woods Black, the vice president of communications for the historic |
| 0:45.5 | Sylvia's restaurant in Harlem. Trinise is the granddaughter of Sylvia Woods, who against |
| 0:50.9 | great odds opened the restaurant in 1962. |
| 0:54.9 | It's an iconic institution, and we're talking with Trinze about how this family business has evolved, |
| 1:00.1 | yet stay the same over its 57-year history. |
| 1:04.1 | Let's thank Uber Eats for supporting this series. |
| 1:07.3 | Here's my interview with Trinez Woods Black. |
| 1:16.6 | So Sylvia's is a family business. |
| 1:17.8 | It is. |
| 1:22.7 | So even though you have a specific title, I'm guessing that doesn't really encompass everything you do. |
| 1:24.6 | So tell us what you do for Silvias. So for Silvias, I do everything that allows guests to interact with the brand |
| 1:32.6 | outside of the restaurant. So I manage all of our community relations. In addition to sitting on the |
| 1:39.8 | board of NYC and company, I sit on four other boards. Yeah, I think I'm at five. And our government |
| 1:47.0 | relations, our public relations, our media relations, interviews like today, as well as |
| 1:57.0 | creating different platforms that allow the brand to just interact with folks outside of the restaurant, |
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