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#36: How to create your brand identity AND support anti-racism, with branding expert Jess Avolio
Creating a public facing brand in this era of cancel culture, performative allyship, and crowdsourced outrage can be tough. It's hard to know when to speak up vs. stay silent, stay in your lane vs. veer into another one, and engage vs. ignore. Long gone are the days...
Episode 36 –How to create your brand identity AND support anti-racism with branding expert Jess Avolio (transcript)
Shontavia Johnson (00:00): What's up, y'all. Welcome to The Shontavia Show, where my goal is to help you start a business based on your life's vision. This ain't gonna be your daddy's business advice. I'm laser focused on entrepreneurship in the 21st century, vision...
How to Build a Personal Brand and Stand Out in Business
Wondering how to stand out in your crowded field, especially against larger, more well-established businesses and entrepreneurs? Here are the 3 questions you need to ask yourself so that you start your new business in a way that attracts...
#35: How to build a movement and change the world while growing your own brand, with #FreeTheHair founder Wendy Greene
I love my natural hair. I stopped using chemical relaxants in 2007, did the big chop in 2008, and haven't looked back since! As is common with many black women, the natural hair journey is a process that can be an emotional roller coaster because of societal norms...
Episode 35 – How to build a movement and change the world while growing your own brand, with #FreeTheHair founder Wendy Greene (transcript)
Shontavia Johnson (00:00): What's up, y'all. Welcome to The Shontavia Show, where my goal is to help you start a business based on your life's vision. This ain't gonna be your daddy's business advice. I'm laser focused on entrepreneurship in the 21st century, vision...
#34: How to create content that skyrockets your brand’s growth with Miles Beckler
If you cringe when you: listen to an interview you gave, re-read an article you wrote, or watch an interview you gave, you know how hard it can be stay consistent when putting yourself out there. ESPECIALLY online. Thankfully, entrepreneur and content-creator...
Episode 34 – How to create content that skyrockets your brand’s growth with Miles Beckler (transcript)
Shontavia Johnson (00:00): What's up, y'all. Welcome to The Shontavia Show, where my goal is to help you start a business based on your life's vision. This ain't gonna be your daddy's business advice. I'm laser focused on entrepreneurship in the 21st century, vision...
The podcast and vlogging equipment I’m using in the COVID-19 era
Living during the age of COVID-19, protests, and a major global recession has been...I don't even know what. We are working from home, teaching from home, and staying at home #atthesamedamntime. There are a lot of unanswered questions right now about our jobs, our...
#33: Madam C.J. Walker, entrepreneurship, and connecting your business to social justice, with A’Lelia Bundles
As a child, my parents taught my siblings and me about Black history by any means necessary--from regular Eyes on The Prize viewings and museum visits to Black history coloring books. I annoyed more than a few teachers because I was constantly correcting them about my...
Episode 33 – Madam C.J. Walker, entrepreneurship, and connecting your business to social justice, with A’Lelia Bundles (transcript)
Shontavia Johnson (00:00): What's up, y'all. Welcome to The Shontavia Show, where my goal is to help you start a business based on your life's vision. This ain't gonna be your daddy's business advice. I'm laser focused on entrepreneurship in the 21st century, vision...