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The 10 Minute Entrepreneur

INTERVIEW: Kanessa Muluneh - "A Bored Entrepreneur Is A Dangerous Thing!"

The 10 Minute Entrepreneur

Sean Castrina

Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8308 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

From growing up in an immigrant family in a new country, to founding and exiting multiple companies and starting a women's American Football league in Europe, Kanessa story is fascinating. Her latest company is a fashion brand, mulu.love

 

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0:00.0

You are listening to the 10 minute entrepreneur podcast with host Sean Castrina.

0:07.0

I'm excited about today's podcast. I have Canessa Moline with me. She's the

0:16.8

founder of Mulu and the Queens Football League. It's great to have you, Canessa, on the

0:21.1

podcast. Thank you. Thank you for having me okay so I'm we're

0:26.1

gonna get into your story which I'm fascinated by obviously an immigrant a great

0:30.7

you know a great story about that but how do you get involved in the Queens Football League?

0:37.0

So actually everything I ever did started as a joke or as something that someone challenged me to do.

0:46.0

So the Queen's Football League, I saw a video of women playing American football.

0:51.2

For the record, I lived in Europe back then I lived in

0:54.7

Amsterdam and I saw women playing America football and I was like what is

0:59.6

this is so cool I want to do this and did some research on how I could get involved in American football and I came to the conclusion that it was just there were mill teams like there were teams for men but they weren't for women but I you know took my chance and I messaged the head coach I found them on Facebook and I was like hey listen I have this on my bucket list how can I get it off my bucket list and he said well you can come and play with the men and I said well that's not an option so he he suggested like if you can

1:38.0

find girls who are just as passionate I can teach you the game and you can go from there.

1:43.0

And I basically use the same video that got me excited.

1:49.0

I use that same video I posted on my Facebook asking

1:52.0

like, hey, are there any other girls who want to do this with me I need 11 at least or 15 no 14 girls there so we can play seven for seven and my inbox exploded like there were women from all over the country the Netherlands you know asking me like how can I get into this and we did a trial we did a

2:16.9

clinic one clinic that turned into a team that turned into a league and

2:21.8

before I knew it I had like a serious operation going on.

2:26.7

It's funny because a lot of your story is so true on that.

2:30.4

There's so many times we start things and it's just kind of a curiosity, a challenge.

2:36.2

But people that tend to be successful tend to things end up being ten times greater than what an average person would have done.

2:44.4

Like the average person would have joined a team.

2:47.1

But no, no, no, no, no, our personality types aren't like that.

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