Erika Brown is a real estate investor, agent, and serial entrepreneur who is working to close the wealth gap by teaching Black and Brown communities how to build a passive income by investing in property. In this episode, Tara and Erika discuss how much you actually need in order to start investing in real estate, and what they wish they’d known before starting to buy properties. 

00:00 Intro

00:15 “House Hacking”

04:16 Good housing markets for multifamily homes

09:25 What to consider when thinking about your cashflow numbers

12:27 What Tara and Erika wish they’d known about being a real estate investor before they started buying properties

19:29 How much money you actually need to start investing in real estate

25:52 Why you should buy a home

29:17 Advice for young entrepreneurs 

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Allison Ellsworth is the founder, chief brand officer, and creative marketing genius behind Poppi—the prebiotic soda brand that boasts more than 2 billion likes across social media platforms. In this episode, Allison shares with Tara her top tips on how to grow your brand by making authentic, hooky, and engaging social content.

00:00 Intro

01:37 How Poppi’s social media took off

06:50 Poppi’s social mentality 

11:12 The art of the hook

15:10 How to use humor in your content

17:00 The value of social media giveaways

19:56 What a “good watch time” on a TikTok video actually is

22:28 Allison’s biggest piece of advice for social media

25:33 Finding the balance between following trends and making your own original content

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Codie Sanchez, author of Main Street Millionaire, is an expert in the art of buying, investing in, and starting businesses, and has made millions doing so. In this episode, Codie talks to Tara about her evolving relationship with risk-taking, the pros and cons of buying a business vs. starting one, and her best advice for buying your first business.

00:00 Intro

02:45 The difference between buying a business vs starting from scratch

05:16 How Codie’s relationship with risk has changed over time

12:23 How Codie is fueled by the haters and trolls

16:38 Harnessing “character work”

17:35 Talking about appearance in business

22:54 Advice for buying a business

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Bozoma Saint John has had a storied corporate career leading immense marketing projects at Pepsi, Apple, Uber, and Netflix. Now, she is making the pivot to reality TV, joining season 14 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, as well as launching her new company Eve by Boz. In this episode, Bozoma talks with Tara about how she knows when it’s time to make a pivot, her secret to honing her intuition. 

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Anne Chow was the first woman of color to lead AT&T Business in the company’s 140+ year history, and while she was CEO she led the company with grace through one of the biggest crises in the world—a global pandemic. In this episode, Anne talks with Tara about how to lead bigger at your company and navigate crisis with vulnerability, inclusivity, and inspiration, and why leadership is more of a choice than a quality.

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In the 80s and 90s Kathy Ireland was a household name and top supermodel, but secretly her passion had always been entrepreneurship. Today, Kathy Ireland Worldwide (kiWW) is one of the top female-owned licensing businesses in the US. In this episode, Kathy tells Tara about her lessons in rejection, experimentation, and following your passion when it comes to starting a business and building an empire.

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What’s the big swing that you’ve been too afraid to take? For our guest this week, Julia Haart, taking big swings and making bold moves is a way of life. In this episode, Julia talks to Tara about what it takes to follow the ideas that scare you, how to keep yourself accountable when running your business, and why she’d never go into business with a romantic partner again. 

00:00 Intro

01:40 What Julia’s realized about fear

04:30 What Julia learned from working with a romantic partner

12:15 What helps Julia fight imposter syndrome

16:58 Tara’s “courage sprints”

23:55 How Tara and Julia hold themselves accountable

28:25 Julia’s advice for making bolder in your career

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How much should you rely on intuition vs. data when growing your business? Angelica Nwandu, founder of The Shade Room, breaks down how she grew a single Instagram account into a digital media powerhouse with over 30 million followers. She shares insights into how The Shade Room shapes its content strategy and her hot takes on celebrity founders like Kylie Jenner and Beyoncé. We dive into the most important metrics for new founders to focus on, and how to look past the early growth stage and focus on building a business for the long term.

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Consistency isn’t just for logos. Jillian Michaels, fitness expert and entrepreneur, joins BOSSY to talk about the power of consistent branding in building long-term success. From resisting fleeting trends to delivering on “sexy promises” that keep customers coming back, Jillian shares how she’s remained true to her brand while evolving in the fitness industry.

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How do you scale your business into an empire? UFC President and CEO Dana White joins us to talk about the importance of finding and recruiting great hires, and how his "hire slow, fire fast” philosophy manifests in the UFC. Dana breaks down how he found cash to scale his business, and the ways his vision for the future of the UFC have helped him grow it to a billion-dollar business

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