When you first start your business, it can be challenging for anyone. Still, for Black women who are also trying to navigate a world where they're underrepresented in leadership roles and where they face discrimination at the intersection of their gender and race, well, it can be downright demoralizing. 

There can be many obstacles to overcome when starting or running your own business. And those obstacles are even more significant when you're doing it as a Black woman. But if we work together and support one another as women of color in business, we can make change happen. In this episode, I share the “how’s it going” to episode one’s “how it started” of my story on how I got to where I am today. Tune in to learn more!

Timestamps

[00:55] The story of how I got here today

[02:40] Working with a Black woman principal

[07:40] Journey into school leadership

[11:20] Consulting in education

[13:03] Working with the second Black woman principal

[17:16] Fear of betting into myself

[20:00] Launching my consulting business

[22:00] Going back to class

[22:40] Making $60,000 while teaching and consulting part-time in a pandemic

[23:55] Proving to myself that I could bet on myself

[24:58] The power of email marketing

Notable Quotes:

• “The world does not bet on Black women even though we built this place.”
• “Black women have always embedded the entrepreneurial spirit to make something fire out of nothing.”
• “Entrepreneurship is the safest place for Black women.” - Sable Mensah

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