Black Entrepreneur Experience

Nikita Banks is a serial entrepreneur, therapist and educator, she has a great work around, love, respect, relationships and mental health. She resides in Brooklyn, New York with her son.  "Respect Is Love.” The passion that drives her work is her need to help women improve the quality of their loving relationships and improve their quality of life. “Respect is Love,” is a love centered psycho- educational program that helps women and girls examine the quality of their relationships and helps them to explore the root of why they are accepting less than they deserve. My goal is to help one woman at a time to be a beacon of light to guide healthy love to them and give them strategies so they can infuse love into everything they do. http://www.nikitabanks.com/finding-happy-landing-page/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

Trudy Bourgeois is the founder of The Center for Workforce Excellence. She is known as a Leadership strategist, speaker, trainer, consultant and coach.  She is also an author and featured blogger for The Huffington Post. Trudy is a renowned and respected authority on leadership development. Her organization specializes in the development of women and people of color. She is known for change management initiatives that move the needle on diversity and inclusion. After a successful career as a senior sales and marketing executive who managed teams of thousands and a $3 billion budget, Bourgeois took all her experience and passion and founded The Center for Workforce Excellence in 2001. CWE is a professional coaching, training, consulting and teaching organization    Website: workforceexcellence.com           Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about

Fayth Thomas, Daycare Owner, educator and author released her book titled  'Being the Best You!' Author pens interesting children book that deals with Type 2 diabetes'. She resides in Washington, DC and is on a mission to teach children about being healthy and taking care of their bodies.  Website:fayththomasdaycare.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Healthy Roots is the first line of natural hair dolls to enter the toy industry. Their mission is to bring diversity to the toy aisle with products that reflect the diversity of our reality. Founder Yelitsa Jean-Charles and TedxTalk Speaker represents the voices of young girls of color in the toy industry with products that empower, educate and inspire self love. Healthy Roots is a toy company that creates dolls and storybooks that reinforce positive self-perceptions of the richly diverse, varying shades of complexion and natural hair textures among girls of color. Societal beauty standards negatively impact the self perception of girls of color.    Website: https://healthyrootsdolls.com/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn mor

Miracle Olatuni, CEO + Founder of @Opportuni_Me a technology startup with the mission to help high schools and their students find and participate in quality experiential learning, enrichment, and employment opportunities. OpportuniMe also creates new opportunities that did not previously exist by partnering with companies, universities, and organizations to bring them to life. OpportuniMe's motto is to seize the best opportunities that exist and to create opportunities that do not exist.  Miracle was a panelist at the "Financing Education" at the #MillSummit.   https://twitter.com/mirolatunji?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/miracleolatunji http://about.me/miracleolatunji Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad

The Kid Griot, Kalimah McKeaver is the brilliant teen on a mission to educate her clients about African Heritage through the creation of fun, colorful, and engaging products from her craft design firm.  As a kid entrepreneur, clay sculptor, and teen historian, Kalimah started her trek as a young artisan entrepreneur at the age of 6, with a lemonade stand. Growing in thought and creativity with Dinkra Stylez, she was commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art to conduct a workshop on how to make her handcrafted bowties. As a youth entrepreneur Ambassador for the Baltimore Children’s Business Fair, she presented her business and showed the correlation between science and the sculpting process of her craft. The entrepreneurial journey has been fruitful for this young business visionary. She was accepted into the YEA (Young Entrepreneur Academy), a nation academy geared towards helping young entrepreneurs succeed, featured on WUSA9 DC News for the success of her entrepreneurial endeavors and

Black Butterfly Beautiful is a subscription box created by 17-year-old Journi Prewitt to empower, uplift, and encourage young people of color to embrace who they are.  These monthly boxes are curated based on subscriber age, gender and the month’s theme featuring books and other accessories from black-owned brands to help address underrepresentation, uncover black history, and provide inspiration. Fun Facts about this Young Entrepreneur: She is a senior and honor roll student at Power Center High School, as well as a fellow in the Bridge Builder Change program through Bridges USA and a Spring 2018 Finalist of L.I.T.E Memphis.  She is an avid volunteer, having accumulated more than 2000 volunteer hours during her middle and high school career.  Featured in publications including the Huffington Post, The Memphis Business Journal, NewsOne, Black America Web, Blavity, MadameNoire and Black Enterprise.  The Memphis City Council honored me with a resolution for my entrepreneurship and community contributions as fou

Classy Technology, Michigan based business owner, young entrepreneur, marketing professional devoted to volunteering and supporting her local community.  Abi Togunde, founder of Classy Technology based in Michigan provides technology consulting services for its clients. Lead Generation specialist focusing on local businesses coaching, guiding, consulting and providing creative digital marketing strategies. She helps with new clients  Classy Technology’s services are extremely helpful for local businesses owners because it’s important that they know how to survive in today’s busy and fast-paced digital world. From creating a dynamic web presence, marketing your business online, managing customer orders, and utilizing creative methods to connect with customers– there is a lot to do. Technology won’t guarantee the success of a business. The business owner needs a viable business idea. But technology can help them reach more people and grow their customer base faster. It can help them simplify or automate their b

Kompass Events, App to share local events, Keith Wilson CEO + Founder  Expert marketing executive and tech startup founder used his skills and knowledge to develop KOMPASS events.  Kompass is an event sharing platform known as the "Waze and Yelp of events" that utilizes community sourced real time event mapping. A talented young marketer with experience in Fortune 10 sales, brand management product development and global strategy, Keith is a collaborative leader with the experience in facilitating lean start-up business approaches and agile product lifecycle actions that result in enhanced profitability and traction. Who can use the App: Host Businesses (big or small) looking to communicate their latest deals!  Event Promoters looking to spread the word on their upcoming festivals, parties, concerts, etc. Casual event goers looking to share the love with unique events typically reserved for "very special people" GUEST Avid travelers who often find themselves in new places with no idea of what's going on in th

Women empowerment is Cheryl Sutherland, Founder/CEO of PleaseNotes focus. Her specialty notes were created to be both inspiration and relatable. You will find Cheryl teaching people the 3 C's to success, creativity, clear vision and clarity.    PleaseNotes was created to empower women to really see how invaluable they are, and to use the gifts they have to create a life they truly love.   She launched the "#WhatsYourHustle?” Campaign with a focus on millennial woman entrepreneurship. She currently lives in between Calgary and Los Angeles, California.    https://pleasenotes.com/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi

Brittany Harry, Founder of Sleepover Envy is Alabama's first slumber party specialist working with clients to create an unique and unforgettable experience.  The company has confirmed that they will be offering a wide variety of themes for both boys’ and girls’ slumber parties. Clients will be able to choose from a range of themes, and they will be able to customize the fine details of their special evening.   According to Sleepover Envy, their sleepover solutions aren’t just for kids. The company will be serving up a range of solutions to cater to various needs. For instance, Sleepover Envy’s #HelloHeaven and package is designed to be tailored for ladies nights-in. The Sleepover Envy team can customize their services for unique needs, as well. Clients can even choose packages for “sweet 16” birthday parties, and Sleepover Envy can even tailor packages for safe sleepovers after prom.   For those seeking a special and unique celebration or night in, Sleepover Envy offers a menu of premier solutions backed by w

Brandelyn Anderson, founder of Love by Bee care packages, cards and gifts are the perfect way to show your loved one or colleague how much you care.  Established in 2012, Love by Bee care packages, cards and gifts are the perfect way to show your loved one or colleague how much you care. Our cards are handmade with love and can be customized to fit any occasion. Our care packages are created based on the favorite color, hobbies, interests and dietary restrictions of the recipient. Love by Bee allows customers to save time and energy while sending a box filled with love and care! Customized for your loved one, a gift or card from Love By Bee are truly one of a kind. bee@lovebybee.com https://www.lovebybee.com     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.

John Ballantine - Founder Toadlane.com, previous experience founded bevpost, an interactive mobile coupon distribution company in Minnesota.  Toadlane is a company dedicated to creating an amazing customer experience for both buyers and sellers across the wholesale industry, worldwide. We have released a brand-new, trademarked and patent pending software solution that facilitates the distributor's process of selling wholesale goods -- which makes both the sale easier for suppliers and the purchasing process easier for buyers.   http://www.toadlane.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stacii Blake Boat Handler and TV Personality, Sta'cii StaySea Blake, has translated over 12-years experience in entertainment, love of being on the water and Jamaican cultural heritage into becoming the youngest and first black-female owner of a yacht charter business: Island Chill Yacht Charters, based in the historic sailing capital of Annapolis MD   https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-secrets-me-ssshhh-sta-cii-blake/   https://www.facebook.com/staciistayseablake/   https://www.blakevisualartistry.com bookings@staciiblake.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Testimony Lyrical, is a Visionary Founder of a creative arts company, Covington Creative Group, LLC, an artist on the move who commands the stage to inspire and paints bold strokes to engage. Our main goal is to "shift souls" through the Arts. This artist has been dubbed, the "Artistic Soul Shifter", perhaps it's the way God chooses to use her that causes a shift in the souls of her audience. "every encounter with Covington Creative Group is an experience...".   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rohan Gilkes a serial entrepreneur and founder of several companies. He has recently bought the subscription service business, ‘Wet shave club’ through Reddit and through re-branding , re-designing and re-launching, has taken it from $300 per month in revenue to $62K per month in profit in less than a year. Rohan saw the benefits that the business already had and knew that the model works.

Elzie Flenard, a Christian, Gospel/Devotional/Spiritual, Hip Hop, R&B/Soul artist from Waukesha.  www.enterprise-now.biz https://twitter.com/elzieflenard   https://www.facebook.com/elziemusic  https://www.cdbaby.com › Elzie Flenard

 Leonard Young is the founder of NBG Network / Delawareblack.com LLC. He brings integrity and unity to the diverse communities of Delaware and throughout the country. He is a graduate of Florida A & M University (FAMU), with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He has successfully enhanced the promotions and success of numerous Delaware events, organizations and businesses since he founded Delawareblack.com in 2006. He creates his own events/promotions to edify others and creates networking opportunities to promote businesses and organizations. Through Delawareblack.com, he founded the Delaware Black Expo and the Delaware Black Awards. In 2008, Leonard took the NBG Network (community based website concept) to 4 other cities. Now in 15 cities, the NBG Network websites provide ever valuable information to its fans and subscribers. Currently, Leonard actively gives back to the community and assists other organizations in providing hands on opportunities for them to build upon their dreams. NBGNetwork - www.nbg

Ryan D. Burton is an ADHD Advocate, Life Coach, Entrepreneur and Executive Youth Director for the last decade. His desire for change in the urban community and at-risk youth population with ADHD is not his only mission but it is his deepest passion in life. His purpose is to develop and lead social and individual initiatives aimed at improving at-risk youth with ADHD and urban communities through life coaching, college readiness, professional development and educational empowerment.

Wine, Sip and Read with International Jazz Musician and Owner of FLO Brands, including FLO Wines. Meet Marcus Johnson, CEO and Founder of the FLO Brands. He is an independent Billboard ranked musician, NAACP Image Award nominee, JB, MBA, Philanthropist, Father and Friend to many.  www.marcusjohnson360.com