By Creatives on the Rise Podcast
The podcast currently has 32 episodes available.
In this solo episode, LaTecia tackles the decision-making process creators should follow when recognizing a season of their life has ended. She explores ways to ensure alignment with your spirit and vision, in order to step fully into the next phase of your career, and she fully embraces her next career step.
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LaTecia connects with Mandela SH Dixon, CEO of FounderGym, to discuss the importance of creating new rules, building your tribe, and investing in continuous self-care. The two women discuss Mandela’s history of “firsts, her take on the expansive opportunity available to investors who invest in diverse founders, and how freelancers can benefit from the new creator economy.
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About our Guest:
In 2012, Mandela SH Dixon became one of the first Black women to raise venture capital from Silicon Valley investors. A few years later, she transitioned into the investing world, and became one of the first Black women to work at a venture capital firm. Now as the CEO of Founder Gym, Mandela leads the #1 training program teaching underrepresented founders how to raise venture capital. Founder Gym was launched in 2017 and leverages the best investors and funded-founders to help teach underrepresented entrepreneurs how to raise capital to scale their tech startups.
To-date, Founder Gym has trained 550 founders across 25 countries, spanning 6 continents who have gone on to raise over $106 million. According to the ProjectDiane Report, only 93 Black women in all of history have ever raised $1 million or more, and 1 out every 10 of these trailblazers are Founder Gym Graduates. Prior to Founder Gym, Mandela was the Founding Portfolio Services Director at Kapor Capital, and the Global Director of Startup Weekend Education (acq. by Techstars). Mandela is an angel investor, Limited Partner, Sequoia Capital Scout, and inaugural member of First Round Capital's Angel Track. Her frameworks for success have been shared on over 150 stages and in more than 100 publications. Mandela has received various recognitions, including being named Entrepreneur magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women, LinkedIn's Top 10 Voices in Venture Capital and Startups, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee.
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LaTecia sits down with Junae Brown, Founder of Browned 2 Perfection Agency, to discuss the future of the creator economy and digital creators. The two explore Junae's work through Browned 2 Perfection, her insights on creating timely content, and ways to continuously engage audiences.
About the Guest:
Junae Brown is a Marketing and Event Planning pro from Harlem, New York. The "Beyonce of Marketing", as she is regularly referred to, has always had a passion for connecting people and music. Recognized by both the public and her colleagues for her expertise, Junae has been recently featured in major trade platforms like AdWeek, Market Hire, AfroTech, and Morning Brew. After obtaining a Bachelors in Business Management with a concentration in music she dove straight into work and has worked with the best of them at Sony Music, Columbia Records, and RCA Records. In these roles she has had the opportunity to spearhead projects and work behind the scenes in various capacities with names like: Beyonce, AC/DC, Chris Brown, Usher, J. Cole., Tyler The Creator, T.I., A$AP Mob, Bryson Tiller, G- Eazy, Goldlink, H.E.R., Nao, Jazmine Sullivan, and more. It was within her cubicle at these office spaces that she created her business "Browned 2 Perfection Agency" where she and her team, comprised of all Black Women, offer traditional and digital marketing, brand strategy, and experiential event services.
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In this episode, LaTecia breaks down her lessons on the importance of doing the work and drowning out the noise.
In this episode, LaTecia sits down with recording artist, Jay Wile, to discuss his creative process for his last project "Better Times" and how the artist has adjusted to the new reality for musicians. LaTecia also recaps her experiences during the #BigFreeze that occurred earlier this month in Austin, TX, and how the storm impacted her.
About the guest:
Jay Wile is a 26-year-old San Antonio, Tx native approaching R&B with a fresh perspective blending elements of funk, pop, and hip-hop into his music. Pulling from his inspirations -- John Legend, Stevie Wonder, and Miguel -- his style of heartfelt lyrics and smooth melodies over refreshing production give the audience a raw glimpse into Jay's world.
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In this episode, LaTecia sits down with Career Karma’s, Ruben Harris, to discuss the future of work. The two explore Ruben’s work at Career Karma, his big predictions on technology, and how being a creator is a superpower.
About the Guest:
Ruben Harris is a Bay Area transplant from Atlanta, Georgia where he served as an Advisor for Forge and organized Atlanta's first Healthcare Hackathon.
Over the past decade, Ruben has worked with academics, organizers, politicians, and union leaders at Hustle, Honor and AltSchool focused on improving their personalized outreach, healthcare, and education.
Ruben began his technology career working in Partnerships and Sales after writing a viral blog post called Breaking Into Startups about how moved to San Francisco without a job and landed a position 3 weeks later.
After receiving thousands of e-mails asking how to break into tech, Ruben Co-Founded the Breaking Into Startups Podcast to demystify the process, resulting in a social media reach of ~3 million people, 200,000+ downloads, 10,000+ website visits per month, over 100+ reviews on iTunes, a Facebook Community of 10,000+ people, and invitations to be a Contributor for TechCrunch and Black Enterprise.
He is now using his skills as the CEO of Career Karma, the easiest way to find a job training program online. With a community of 150K+ people from all backgrounds and professions, Career Karma is helping over 1 million people navigate their careers each month through advice and coaching.
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In this episode, LaTecia sits down with Backstage Capital's Arlan Hamilton to discuss her book, "It's About Damn Time". The women explore themes creators should be focused on during this time of uncertainty and how they can utilize principles from Hamilton's book to get through any obstacle.
Arlan Hamilton’s name is synonymous with success. In 2015, while homeless, she launched her venture capital fund, Backstage Capital. Built from the ground up, Backstage has raised more than $7 Million Dollars and invested in over 130 companies led by high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT.
In 2018, Arlan Co-founded Backstage Studio, launching 4 accelerator programs for underestimated founders in Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and London; and in the same year, was featured as the first woman of color to be profiled on the cover of Fast Company. Now, she’s adding even more highlights to her career by becoming an author.
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I'm breaking down my tips on how creatives can cope during this time of collective reset and reinforcing that you don't always have to look to produce as a way through. Sometimes, simply existing is enough, especially for creative entrepreneurs who are facing feelings of being overwhelmed or feeling out of control.
This one is for the Independent Artist and their team. Spotify Wrapped has released an annual recap for listeners and artists since 2013, with Apple Music joining the fray in the fall of 2019 providing even more streaming data for artists and their teams, it's clear that streaming isn't going anywhere. As the onslaught and influence of data continue across the charts, providing reach will become even more tantamount to the ongoing success of the music industry.
Given the shifting tides of digital and the ongoing changes with algorithms, LaTecia breaks down the best ways to use data that is collected daily to build a strategy that will help indie artists and their teams to elevate to the next level.
This is a can't miss episode for every artist. #RiseOfTheCreatives
In this episode, LaTecia discusses how creators can protect themselves in the digital age and sits down with guest, Robin J. of Indie Creator Society, to explore Robin's experience and journey as a creative entrepreneur.
Starting as a brand strategist and editor, Robin J. has spent her career as an advocate for creative talents and entrepreneurs from the walls of record labels to media organizations. For four years, her music discovery platform The TakeOvah filled the void of quality press for emerging artists as mainstream musicians dominated the airwaves and most large publications.
Expanding her scope to tech, Robin transitioned to live programming to continue her mission of building pathways to success for creatives, this time working on amplifying a cross-functional creative workforce. While working for rideshare giant Uber, she recognized a unique opportunity for career creatives to pivot into or leverage tech companies for their own businesses, without the need for technical degrees or spending thousands of dollars. Her newest work Creator Week (under her creative community Indie Creator Society), is a free, 3 evening conference that opened doors to 500 creative entrepreneurs of color looking to transition into tech, entertainment or sustain scalable entrepreneurship. The 1st installment of the conference was featured in Forbes and dubbed a conference to watch. By day, Robin is a Creative Resource Manager at Apple, helping to manage the creative talents at the powerhouse company.
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Indie Creator Society
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The podcast currently has 32 episodes available.