COSIGN Conversations

In this episode, we sat down with Benjamin Vann, the Founder & CEO at Impact Ventures to discuss his early beginnings, how he got into finance, and the amazing work he and his colleagues are doing at Impact Ventures.  

Benjamin J. Vann (Ben), is an award-winning social entrepreneur, impact investor, public speaker, and economic justice advocate. He is the Founder and CEO of Impact Ventures, a 501c3 startup accelerator and integrated capital fund with a mission to empower talented, yet underestimated Women and Communities of color through inclusive entrepreneurship, community wealth building, and integrated capital.  

Impact Ventures envisions an economy where access, opportunity, and prosperity is shared. Our mission is to empower talented, yet under-estimated Women and Communities of Color to build generational wealth through inclusive entrepreneurship, community wealth building, and integrated capital.

Impact believes our communities already posses the genius necessary to lead vibrant, healthy, and stable lives. Through direct entrepreneurial support services, equitable investing, and community wealth building we manifest our greatest equalizer in closing the wealth divide. By creating more equitable and diverse economic systems, we envision an economy where access, opportunity, and prosperity is shared.  

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In this interview we sat down with Marty McDonald, Founder of global media empire, Boss Women Media. In this episode we discuss her early beginnings, how and why she started Boss Women Media, how she produced her very first event out of pocket for $25k, scaling her business, and doing $950,000 in partnerships during the pandemic, plus more.  

Marty's bio: 

Like many, she wants to live her best life, so she decided to leap after her dreams of creating a community of empowerment, change, and freedom after an 11-year corporate career with various fortune 500 companies.  She took an idea based on connection and turned it into a movement including the multi-city Black Girl Magic Tour, the annual Boss Woman of the Year Summit, and a loyal community of more than 100,000 women. Marty’s plan is to continue to expand the growth of the community of women she is building and to help them empower one another through connection, networking, and workshops.  Marty knows that most women are allowing fear to hold them back from accomplishing the goals they want to achieve. She is on a mission to help women achieve more and remove fear as the barrier to the women who have big goals & big dreams. Marty believes we can chase and achieve them every single day.

In this episode of #COSIGNConversations, K.G. sat down with Scottie L. Smith, real estate investor/entrepreneur and founder of Scottie Smith & Associates to talk all things real estate and South Dallas.

We kick off season 2 of #COSIGNConversations with Qu & Yaya, the team behind KLA Beauty, the #1 leading eyelash academy in Texas. 

In this conversation we discussed everything from: 

-How Qu & Yaya got started in the beauty industry 

-What led them to the Lash industry 

-How to make 6-7 figures doing Lashes 

-How to build your own Lash business 

-The expenses to start your own Lash business 

-How KLA Beauty became the #1 lash academy in Texas 

-Plus more  

In this interview we sat down with JT, the founder of Empire Clothing to discuss how he became an entrepreneur, how fashion has embedded in his life early on, creating Empire, how to get a store in a mall, and what it takes to build an Empire, plus more.

In this episode of #COSIGNConversations K.G. sat down with Taylor Nikole, an amazing and extremely talented artist, creative, entrepreneur, and model based in TX and NY. Taylor creates handmade statement earrings and has been seen in global publications such as Vogue, Paper Magazine, and Cosmopolitan to name a few as well as have had amazing women like Tracee Ellis Ross and Zendaya wear her earrings.

In episode #45 of #COSIGNConversations K.G. sat down with Xavier Miller, Investor, Entrepreneur, & Co-Host of the Millionaire Mindset Podcast. In this interview Xavier shares his journey being in the military, how writing out a will pushed him to save $25k, how he turned that initial investment to six figures through investing in real estate and crypto, and now hosting a top ranked business podcast, plus more.

For this #COSIGNConversations we sat down with Lambo Luke, founder of The Classic, the go-to exotic car rental company in Dallas. Luke shares his journey on how he founded The Classic, how he got into the exotic car rental game, advice for others who want to enter the industry, how he had to pivot during COVID to sustain his business, and how he coined his name Lambo Luke, plus more.

In this interview we sat down with Andrew Howard, Entrepreneur & Real Estate investor. We discuss Nipsey Hussle, his entrepreneurial journey,  how he got scammed in a real estate deal, teaching people how to wholesale houses, plus more.

In this interview we sat down with Tammy Allison, entrepreneur, attorney, politician, and former prosecutor for the DOJ. Tammy shares her experience as a former prosecutor, why she decided to open up her own practice, clemency, and breaks down the differences between copyrights and trademarks.