Hustle Over Everything

George Floyd’s death this past week has brought a whirlwind of emotions to the lives of black people all over America and the world. It’s the same story that happens again & AGAIN where a black man or woman gets murdered by police. This week was and continues to be full of pain, sadness, anger, and a period of searching for answers on how to overcome police brutality for black people all over the world.

The murder of George Floyd has become the catalyst of all the deaths where a black person dies due to police brutality. The world has come together to fight this broken system of systematic racism and oppression towards African Americans. Individuals from different backgrounds are rallying with the black community to show support and fight this battle together to find justice, and create solutions that can permanently fix this problem. We are tired of seeing trending hashtags of black people who are killed by police and have the police acquitted of no wrongdoing.

We decided to take this opportunity to talk about the issues that plague African Americans in North America and living life as a black person in the western world. We are taking this opportunity to use our platform to have this conversation about race. We aim to have this episode as an educational tool for individuals to gain a deeper understanding of the black experience.

In this episode we spoke about: 

-The murder of George Floyd and how it impacted us as black men.

-The protests all over the world, the riots, & looting.

-Origins of police brutality and how it shapes law enforcement today.

-Jim Crow laws & segregation.

-The origins of white privilege, how it exists today, and how to use it to help marginalized groups.

-Black entrepreneurship.

-The history of racism and how the root of it is economic inequality.

-How to support black movements, groups, and black businesses.

-How to support your black friends, colleagues, and most importantly how employers can provide opportunities to black individuals.

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Marsha Druker is the founder of Fuckup Nights Toronto! She first discovered the platform while living and working abroad in Tel Aviv. Before this event, she had never seen or experienced people telling their stories of failures so honestly and openly.

Since that night, it sparked something in her and wanted to continue going to these types of events when coming back to Toronto, but to her surprise, it hadn't existed. So she took it upon herself to create it, and since then it has exploded in the city! Marsha's passion birthed something that has inspired so many people in Toronto and allowed them to feel not so alone in their failures and to hear amazing success stories throughout those failures.

Today we have Marsha on the podcast to share her journey of starting Fuckup Nights Toronto, entrepreneurship, and building community.

In this episode, we spoke about:

This was a great chat about embracing our failures as entrepreneurs. We glorify our wins all the time but we are sometimes ashamed to talk about the things we did wrong to get to our wins.

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This is one of the craziest episodes we've ever recorded. We had the special opportunity to interview a pure-bread hustler in Pierre Laguerre.  When you hear this story, you will understand what the power of perseverance and strong will power is like. 

Pierre is the CEO of Fleeting, a trucking marketplace that connects businesses that need qualified vetted drivers.  He’s a father of three and recently has been featured on The Pitch, and won $100,000 from Chamilionaire, and the Daymond John Pitch Competition AND won 50,000 from the AASU Harvard Business Fund.

We have Pierre on the podcast today to learn about how he built his trucking marketplace, raised venture capital, and building a business that is focused on serving customers problems in trucking. Through the podcast he talks about the challenges he had to endure to build a fledging business. He talks about moving to the United States from Haiti when he was young to settling in a rough neighbourhood and how this helped him with his start in business. He fell in love with the trucking business when he dropped out of college and pursued it on a full time basis to explore the country and escape from his surroundings. 

On his way to founding, Fleeting, Pierre founded several businesses. He started a window cleaning business in New York, he built a staffing company called Mac Transport Staffing which did $2 million in revenue within 2 years. He started a trucking company called JP&L Transportation which had 11 trucks and did $1.2 million in revenue within it's first year. He founded Fleeting after experiencing a major setback for himself and being inspired by his young son who was fighting for his life in the hospital. He saw how he kept fighting and he gained this inspiration to build a technology company with his passion for trucking. 

In this episode we spoke about:

-Pierre's journey into trucking

- How trucking logistics work

- Starting a marketplace business

- Building a solution to a unique problem and 

- Raising money from investors

- Winning prestigious pitch competitions and the things you should do when you pitch 

- How to overcome setbacks to keep pursuing your dreams

- Scaling an online business 

This is is a Hustle Over Everything story from start to finish! Get your popcorn ready!

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Website: https://www.fleetingpro.com/

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In this week’s episode, we have Andrea Henry on the podcast to talk about the legal side of starting and building a business. Andrea is a Cambridge-educated lawyer with more than a decade of experience working with businesses of all sizes and at every stage of the entrepreneurial journey. She started Henry Business Law to help ambitious entrepreneurs to feel safe and secure in their businesses and enjoy the exhilaration of taking a risk with the knowledge they have the right legal protections in place.

Building a business is an exciting process! We think about the fun and creative activities that come from building our products. We sometimes tend to neglect the legal side of building a business and leave legals tasks for a later time.

Your business is built upon the foundations of the law. Every aspect from your marketing, finance, human resources, production, taxes, and etc deals with the law. Understanding how the law impacts all these areas of your business will help you build a sustainable company with peace of mind.

In this episode we discuss:

This episode is packed with a lot of tangible advice you can apply to your business today. Press play and enjoy!

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Swish Goswami has built a multi-hyphenate career. He is a serial tech entrepreneur (CEO & Founder of Trufan), LinkedIn Youth Editor, three-time TEDx speaker, and UN Youth Ambassador.

Swish has been recognized for curating the world’s first youth social capital fund and an application to fight malnutrition on college campuses. He has been awarded the United Nation’s Outstanding Youth Leadership Award, Startup Canada’s Young Entrepreneur Award, and Plan Canada’s Top 20 under 20. Swish has also been recognized as a top LinkedIn creator with over 100M content views and as the “Face and Future of Canadian Entrepreneurship” by UPS Canada.

Swish has previously worked as a Fortune 500 consultant (for Google, Western Union and American Express), and venture capitalist (at JB Fitzgerald Venture Capital founded by NBA player Trevor Booker).

Beyond working to grow his companies, Swish sits on the advisory board for numerous companies including the League of Innovators (charity started by Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes) and Dunk Media (11M follower network focused on basketball). He is an investor in the world’s most popular eSports organization FaZe Clan, the creator of a limited edition shoe with K-Swiss and the author of an upcoming book that will be released through U.K. publisher Kogan Page.

In this episode, we get a chance to explore Swish’s entrepreneurial career and what he’s learned so far. Swish has launched multiple businesses, raised money from investors, acquired a company, and is currently building Trufan.

Trufan is a social intelligence platform disrupting the influencer marketing space by helping brands activate grassroots communities made up of super fans and micro-influencers. Take the power of word of mouth marketing from the streets to social. Convert consumers from people who just buy to advocates who buy in.

We discuss:

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In today’s episode, we have O’shane Howard in the house to talk about the grind of being a photographer and building a sustainable business. When we think of side-hustles to start, photography is one that commonly comes to mind. Building a photography business takes time and putting in the hours of developing your portfolio to build your clientele. You’ve got to develop your craft and forge your own niche in the photography world to stand out. 

O’shane is a photographer, videographer and creative director. His work has appeared in publications such as City Life, Splendor, and Blanc Magazine. He was one of the top 5 artists highlighted in Ollie Quinn’s ‘Create Your Own Vision’ campaign. O’shane has been seen on Vogue Italia, L’Uomo Vogue, CNN Africa, and Amplify Africa Inc. Working as a videographer and creative director, O’shane has collaborated with brands including CBC, Red Bull Canada, Joe Fresh, Simon Marcus, Dan Kanter, Tedx Toronto, and New York Times bestselling author Rupi Kaur. O’shane has also worked with the UK brand GymShark. 

In this episode we talk about how to build and establish a photography business as a solo entrepreneur. We spoke about: 

Tune in for a solid episode in the grind of being a photographer and building a sustainable business.

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In this episode, we have Eden Hagos. Eden is the founder of Black Foodie which is an online platform that helps spotlight the best of African, Caribbean, and Southern cuisine from around the world.

Eden’s passion is helping people to truly experience the rich culture of food and communal process that comes from the African diaspora.

The secret lies in seeing the intersection of food, travel and culture through a Black lens. There are no other platforms that address these themes in the unique and informative way as Black Foodie does.

We brought Eden to talk about growing her online platform and showcasing food from a black lens. She began Black Foodie out of frustration from a lack of representation on black food and the people behind these amazing restaurants.

BlackFoodie is the go to resource for anyone who wants to enjoy , delicious food and good vibes, amazing cultural experiences, & unique storytelling: documenting people, places, cultures and flavours.

Since beginning Black Foodie in 2015, Eden has amassed a large following on social media. Her content on showcasing food from all over the world from has positioned her as the go to source for discovering new dishes and restaurants.

Eden has grown Black Foodie to become a prominent media company in the hospitality industry. She has grown her business by forging partnerships, and brand deals with restaurants and travel companies in North America. Eden plans on expanding her business by creating new media offerings with travel shows, online meets, and many more.

In this episode we spoke about:

-How Eden’s frustration in representation lead her to start Black Foodie

-Building a digital brand online

-Monetizing on your passion online

-Strategies on creating revenue streams for a digital brand

-Growing a community

-Adapting your business during COVID-19

-Advertising on Facebook

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In this week’s episode we have Chris Mitchell on the pod. Chris has travelled to over 80 countries and has documented his journey throughout his process.

His travelling experiences lead to him and his wife, Bri, to co-found Traveling Mitch. Traveling Mitch is a travelling blog that is dedicated to sharing stories on travelling in places all over the world, and how-to tips on being a creator.

Chris is also the Founder of the Toronto Bloggers Collective, a community dedicated to supporting content creators like myself in making a career out passion.

He joins us on the podcast today to talk about what it’s like building an online brand. A lot of us are curious on how it’s like to be a content creator and making a living out of your passion. Chris has built is business where he has partnered with a lot of brands through his online brand.

He will talk about:

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It’s a begin of a new era for the Hustle Over Everything podcast. From our previous episode, you got to learn about Alex Whitfield. We spoke to him about building a service based business and generating a clientele. After several conversations, Alex and I have decided to join forces and work on the podcast together. This is our inaugural episode together as co-hosts and partners.

In this episode, we talk about a variety of topics:

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