Hi everyone I'm Naha Gandhi, the CEO of Girl Boss and your host for this bonus episode of Girl Boss radio.

That's right, thanks to our friends at Toomey, we're able to bring you a special bonus episode of the podcast. We recorded the show in front of a

live audience at the Girl Boss Rally so things might sound just a little bit different.

But don't worry. You can still expect a great conversation with a trailblazing guest who's accomplished so much, and she's here and willing to share all of her secret success with you.

Which of course brings me to today's guest.

Aurora James, founder and creative director of Brother Bellies.

If you've been listening to Girl Boss radio over the years,

you might actually remember Aurora from a previous episode of the years. You might actually remember Aurora from a previous

episode of the podcast. In that episode, Aurora chatted with Sophia about how she

founded Brother Vellies as a way to introduce traditional African shoes to the rest of the world.

Aurora's work with Brother Vellies has caught the attention of the fashion industry and led her

to winning the prestigious CFTA Vogue Fashion Fund.

Since winning it, Aurora has opened her own showroom

in Brooklyn and kept scaling her business,

all the while dealing with copycat designs

in a market where fast fashion looms large.

Here's a bit of what Aurora had to say.

And I think that in the last few years especially women have become incredibly thoughtful about their exchanges of power and when I say exchanges of power I just mean how they're spending their money because every time you you know spend your money or spend your time or like a photo or do any of those things

that's a power exchange and you're empowering that thing and you are helping that thing

grow. I think that we as women are becoming more

cognizant of that and they think for that reason people have been getting

extra excited about Brother women. And the girl boss radio, the show Four and About Ambitious Women, exploring

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