Leading by Example with Breana Patel
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2017
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Breana is a Founder & CEO of a minority woman owned Consulting firm Bonova Advisory providing strategy, business transformations, compliance advisory for regulatory reforms to banks and State/local and federal agencies. She is passionate about women empowerment, an active angel investor and mentors startups.
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| 0:00.0 | Fire Nation in the house, JLD here and welcomed episode 1817 of EO Fire where I |
| 0:10.3 | Chowla entrepreneurs on fire seven days a week. Check out our free podcasting |
| 0:16.5 | course so you can create, grow and monetize your podcast free podcast course.com. |
| 0:24.0 | Now let's chat with today's featured guest Brianna Patel. Brianna, are you prepared to ignite? |
| 0:30.8 | Yes I am. Yes. Brianna is a founder and CEO of a minority woman-owned consulting firm called |
| 0:37.4 | Bonova Advisory which provides strategy and business transformations to banks and federal |
| 0:43.6 | agencies. Brianna, take a minute. Fill in some gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse |
| 0:49.2 | of your personal life. Sure. So I'm the founder of my consulting firm Bonova Advisory and we |
| 0:56.5 | provide advisory pertaining to enterprise risk management and regulatory regulations for banks, |
| 1:04.7 | financial services and public sector agencies at state, local, as well as federal level. |
| 1:10.9 | About my personal life in addition to being in entrepreneur, I'm an investor, animal lover, |
| 1:17.2 | and a traveler, a daughter, wife, friend and a product of basically everyone who believed in me |
| 1:24.3 | including my business partners, mentors, sponsors, teachers, family and friends. I am attracted to |
| 1:31.9 | cultural dexterity and authenticity and I'm a strong believer in God and inspired by the strength |
| 1:38.8 | of human spirit. I was raised by my mom. She used to be a school teacher and very close to my |
| 1:45.1 | grandparents, happily married, have a dog and I guess I'm really obsessed about building |
| 1:52.0 | businesses, innovation and ideas and bringing a change in empowerment and lastly I'm proud of my |
| 1:58.7 | heritage and I'm most proud of this company that I've built that has the best people who |
| 2:04.0 | helps off some of the biggest challenges faced by various banks and public sector agencies. |
| 2:09.4 | Well that was an A-plus for filling in the gap so thank you for that Brianna. And where do you |
| 2:14.9 | say today your area of expertise is? I guess my area of expertise is really pricing your product |
| 2:25.2 | and service right and why I say this is because there's a lot of companies, businesses, entrepreneurs |
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