All Gas, no breaks. That is the slogan of 43 year old April showers and she is the CEO of

Afro Unicorn. We're getting into the licensing business right here at the NASDAQ market site

for our Forest BL okay newsletter CEO series.

Hello everyone is Jabbar Young senior editor here at Forbes

and at the NASDAQ market site.

And behind me is April Showers.

He is the CEO of Afro Unicorn April.

Thank you so much for joining me on the Forest

BLK newsletter CEO series.

We're talking to startups and smaller companies

like yourself making waves and impacts in the

business. We're talking right now and it is Women's International History Month, right?

So I'm going to tell you, I'm going to ask you, give me a notable figure, a woman figure who you might have looked up to as you

and you see your journey as running Afro unicorn.

Oprah Winfrey. That was an easy one. I know you should have known you was going to say that. Why Oprah?

Because Oprah was able to build something. Yeah and I'm a builder. Yes and so she had her show but she took her show and she built the network.

So that's why I looked up to Oprah and she also found a way to make her show be inclusive and although I'm a black woman-owned brand, my

brand is for everyone. Yeah absolutely listen I have so much fun looking into your

business and researching it I'm telling you I mean the license and business is something that people do not take advantage of you have me watching the toys that made us on Netflix I mean I dove right in tell me take me into your business because you are a competitor for the

Disney's of the world. They got their Cinderella's, their princesses, and then right next to that is

the Afro unicorn and all the products, right? We're talking school supplies, party supplies, bonnets,

all that stuff.

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