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Episode 28 – How to get through the early side hustle stages, with Artie Freeman (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...
#27: From broke and homeless to billionaire investors: How to diversify Silicon Valley with Arlan Hamilton
In this episode of The Shontavia Show, I speak with Arlan Hamilton, an exceptional venture capitalist and the author of It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated into Your Greatest Advantage. Arlan is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital,...
Episode 27 – From broke and homeless to billionaire investors: How to diversify Silicon Valley with Arlan Hamilton (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...
#26: How to stop overthinking and second-guessing yourself when building your brand
Random fact: An article I wrote was recorded into audio by the Smithsonian. It really tripped me out when they reached out to get permission to do it, because I knew how far I had come. Less than a year prior, I had just started writing publicly to build my brand....
Episode 26: How to stop overthinking and second-guessing yourself when building your brand (transcript)
(00:04): Hey everybody, this is Shontavia Johnson and welcome back to another episode of The Shontavia Show where I want to inspire you to build a brand, business and life that you love. It's Thursday. And what I love to do on Thursday is answer questions from you. If...
#25: Excuses that keep you from starting your business and the ONE RULE that can eliminate them
"I don't have enough TIME to make this happen." "I don't have enough money to start a business." "I don't know all the steps I need to take to do this right." "Who would even buy anything from me anyway?" Is this you? Making aaalllll of the excuses to sabotage your...
Episode 25: Excuses that keep you from starting your business and the ONE RULE that can eliminate them (transcript)
(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 and breaking the...
#24: How to build a brand internally at work (especially at a law firm)
I used to believe that all people just went to work and came home for 5 days out of the week and then did whatever they did on the weekends. I didn't believe it was necessary to build connections or network and I wasn't really trying to do either. But then I started...
Episode 24: How to build a brand internally at work (especially at a law firm) (transcript)
Shontavia Johnson (00:04): What's up everybody. I'm Shontavia Johnson and this is another episode of The Shontavia Show, where I want to inspire you to build a brand, business and life that you love. It's Thursday ya'll and you know what I like to do on Thursday. I'd...
#23: Answering all of your intellectual property questions with Nichole Hayden, law firm partner
When it comes to starting a business, intellectual property (typically patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets) can seem like an expensive thing to be taken care of *later.* There are so many steps, process, discussions, and emails that need to happen that...