What's the formula to successfully sustaining an evolving career? How do you keep going when new opportunities and challenges arise? We chat with - Renae Bluitt a Brooklyn-based digital content creator, filmmaker, and PR strategist. Renae is a student and curator of the Black woman’s narrative – a passion she recently channeled into her first film, “She Did That.” This documentary uncovers why and how Black women are the fastest growing segment of entrepreneurs in America.
Listen in as Renae shares the many legs of her #dreamdriving journey, and gives tips on how to chart a career you love, the power of mentorship and collaboration, executing with intention, igniting your inner flame, and more.
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RENAE'S KEYS TO SUCCESS:
1. Faith
2. Resilience
3. Support
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Do ideas have expiration dates? Are you wasting time and letting fear and doubt stop you from putting your dreams in motion? Learn how this determined founder was able to go from ideation to execution, test her product concept, launch her company to the world - all within a few months!
Meet Jacquelyn Rodgers - co-founder of Greentop Gifts- a wrapping paper and gift company she founded to fill a void of what was missing during the holidays for people of color. Jacquelyn is also an Account Manager for a large consumer package goods company with more than 12 years of sales experience and works to implement new and innovative ways to sell, merchandise, and market key brands.
Jacquelyn takes us along her dream driving journey and outlines the steps she took to make Greentop Gifts a reality. We discuss the importance of product innovation, market research, a good story, and moving quickly. Jacquelyn also shares her tips on balancing a passion project while working a 9-5, working with a partner successfully, recovering from perfectionism, balancing motherhood and more.
JACKIE'S KEYS TO SUCCESS:
1. Industry knowledge
2. Finding the right people
3. Short-term memory
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What's your approach to #dreamdriving? Are you an executor or are you someone who waits for things to happen in your life?
We chat with Lisa Bilyeu - the co-founder and president of Impact Theory, a media company focused on empowering content. In addition to co-founding Impact Theory, she co-founded the billion dollar brand, Quest Nutrition, 8 years ago. Lisa career trajectory went from housewife to entrepreneur and transformed her business focus from nutrition to entertainment media. Lisa now hosts the show, "Women of Impact," that centers on female empowerment, as well "Relationship Theory" with her husband and business partner, Tom Bilyeu, in which they discuss relationships, business, and how to manage both.
On this episode, Lisa discusses:
LISA'S KEYS TO SUCCESS:
1. Resilience
2. Be the learner
3. Believe that anything is possible.
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EP 191 guest Beth Beth Diana Smith - Owner and Principal Designer of NJ-based Beth Diana Smith Interior Design - returns for a candid conversation about what it means to be a Black creative and a Black woman putting her #dreamsindrive. How do you keep your dreams in drive when other people are trying to press the brakes based on their own ego, hate, or race?
Listen in as Beth and host Rana Campbell reflect on the ways that race (and gender and other things) have played out along their journeys as creators of color.
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What do you do when you're doing well in your corporate career but have an itch to try something completely new? Do you give up on the old dream for a new dream?
We chat with Beth Diana Smith - Owner and Principal Designer of Beth Diana Smith Interior Design, a New Jersey based interior design company. Beth, her work, and her design advice have been featured on television and in various print and online publications including NBC, HGTV, Vogue, EBONY, Design*Sponge, and The New York Times.
Beth dives into her pivot story and how she went from a successful corporate accountant to following her strengths (planning & budgeting) and building a new career in interior design. Beth outlines everything that made this pivot successful: learning the industry, building relationships & collaborating, goal-setting & more. She also opens up about the challenges she has encountered along the way and gives tips on why being purposeful with design is important for all dream drivers.
Some of the topics we discuss:
BETH'S KEYS TO SUCCESS:
1. Thick skin
2. Tribe
3. Resources
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