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Balanced Black Girl

Girl Bossing Too Close to the Sun: Entrepreneurship Real Talk with Raven Ross

Balanced Black Girl

She's So Lucky

Health & Fitness, #Shessolucky, Balancedblackgirl, Lesalfred, Balancedles

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

#286: What is entrepreneurship really like behind the glossy Instagram photos?

We’re welcoming back Raven to talk about the wild ride of entrepreneurship — figuring it out, failing, and building something real.

In this episode, Raven and Les sit down for a catch-up sharing the highs and lows of entrepreneurship and you’re invited to join the conversation. Raven shares what it took to go from juggling multiple jobs to building a thriving Pilates brand.

Les and Raven also get real about investing in your business, rebranding, asking for help, choosing purpose over clout, and why success is more than just going viral.


We Also Talk About…

  • Raven’s journey from working multiple jobs to building a pilates business.
  • Navigating the awkward in between, and handling perceived success.
  • The real cost of starting a business and what expenses to prepare for.
  • What a successful brand’s team looks like and the key roles that keep things running.
  • How to structure your day as an entrepreneur so you can work smarter, not harder.
  • How to build your empire on your own terms.


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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production.

0:20.4

Welcome to this week's episode of She is So Lucky, which I think might be the first official time that I've said that because this is the first episode that I'm recording after the rebrand is live. And I don't know if y'all noticed, but for the past two months, every week, I'd be like, welcome to the podcast.

0:37.8

Because sometimes, and I was very vague about what podcast that was, because sometimes I don't

0:42.0

always know when things are going to air. We just move around our ed cal a lot based on a lot of

0:46.5

factors. And so there were a lot of episodes recorded where I was like, I don't know if this

0:50.2

is still going to be balanced black girl. I don't know if this is still going to be she's so lucky. So I'm just going to say, welcome, just so that I could be, you know, just

0:57.7

mindful of what it was going to be. But now, she's so lucky is out there. And I can officially welcome

1:03.3

you all to She's So Lucky where I am talking to women who create their own luck. And I am very excited to be bringing back a really fun guest today.

1:11.5

But we're kind of having more of like a Kiki than an interview.

1:15.1

I am joined again on the podcast by Miss Raven Ross.

1:19.4

Welcome back, Raven.

1:20.7

Oh, my God, thank you.

1:21.7

That's a Raven.

1:22.8

She's so lucky.

1:24.4

Singing all the songs.

1:25.1

She's a star.

1:27.4

Absolutely. She definitely crying, crying She's a star. Absolutely. She definitely cried. I was crying on the way here.

1:34.9

Accurate. I'm so excited to have you back on the podcast because when I think about someone who really created their own luck, you're such an amazing example of that.

1:44.3

And I know you sell yourself short and may not think that, but it is very true.

1:49.2

Thank you.

1:50.2

So if y'all didn't know, last fall, I had Raven on the podcast.

1:54.8

Listen to that episode if you haven't already because that was where we got more into your backstory, your background, your dance background, how you got into Pilates.

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