Going Legit with Rachel Dorsey

In this episode Rachel coaches Mara through the first steps of turning her idea into a business. They discuss moving through the fear of failure, making time, creating the right conditions to work, finding the drive, narrowing focus, building an action plan, monetizing and future-proofing her business idea.

@karen__santos

Karen is a photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She shoots often in Brooklyn, New York.

With a BFA in Photography from Academy of Art University, she specialize in portraits, lifestyle, and creative images.

She is known for bright colors, warm tones and her use of shadow to add intrigue.

During the shelter in place mandate, Karen has embarked on a 30 day photo challenge. In this episode, she discusses her lifeline: art making.

Lawrence Kalogreades is a psychotherapist based in Limasol Cyprus. He works with individuals, couples and families, to find new and more productive ways to overcome old problems. In this episode he discusses the impact Covid and similar heath crises can have on a person and on a society and offers recommendations for maintaining a healthy mental state during this time.

Jade Rivera is the founder of Sunnyside Micro-School for neuro divergent

children. She is an author, educator, coach and innovator. You can follow

her work online at @sunnyside_microschool

She is a fullbright scholarship recipient and former chemist. Her book:

Micro-Schools: Creating Personalized Learning on a Budget, has inspired

countless passionate individuals and her most recent publication, Could You

Live Underwater: A Design Thinking and STEM Curriculum is available now.

She is an advocate for project based learning and a dedicated tarot

practitioner. She lives in Oakland with her husband, Sam and their two

cats.

Layoffs, pivots, and surviving pandemic.

A Practical Wedding is a Womxn’s media company that focuses on weddings and relationships. Bold and unapologetic, it’s made by, and for, smart feminist womxn.  Founded in 2008, APW has spent the last decade as a pioneer in the wedding space, constantly pushing for inclusive, authentic, accessible stories of love and relationships.

Liz Stanley is the Founder of The Huddle Retreat, an intimate retreat for women entrepreneurs and is the Creative behind Say Yes, an award winning lifestyle site that celebrates family life with practical tips for home, travel, and personal style.

She is a mother of three.

Priscilla Vega is an eternal optimist and a strategic communicator. Priscilla dives deep into the needs of each and every client to create something uniquely intentional for every brand on the PR Vega roster.

Priscilla’s background as a media specialist for NASA, PR strategist for The Nature Conservancy and events producer for Oracle and Cisco creates a trifecta of an executive-level communications expert with full-service boutique agency accessibility

Magda Besser is the Founder and CEO of Wealth In Hand, a financial wellness provider.

You can find her online @wealthinhand

She started her career in private wealth management as a certified financial planner, where she went on to train and manage a team of advisors.

A self-proclaimed finance nerd, Magda has been fascinated by money for as long as she can remember. She has been educating around finance since the 6th grade, when she gave a presentation titled: “how the stock market works.”

I joined her in her new home in Oakland to record this conversation

Shannon Broyles-Beale is the founder and principal strategist of @sbfactoryny.

A former merchant and executive of Donna Karan and Brunello Cucinelli North America, Shannon launched S/B in 2012 after nearly a decade of product development and business management. 

S/B Factory is full-service brand development consultancy that provides early to advanced stage strategy for luxury, fashion and lifestyle brands. Her team applies a multi-disciplinary brand management approach that sits at the intersection of image, commerce and sustainability.  


After a full work day, but before turning back into Mom to son Asher, (you'll hear him in the background at the end) Shannon called in from the East Coast to record this conversation.