About Jamelia Jamelia Donaldson is the award-winning founder and CEO of @TreasureTress Europes largest and first monthly product discovery subscription service for women with kinky-curly hair and also the co-creator of The Teen Experience, a monthly workshop series that offers black and mixed-race teen girls personal development skills and more. She is the creator of the TT AWARDS an online event that showcases the best beauty products as well as the creator of the TreasureTress Trend Report which was birthed out of the need to make the Black British Consumer visible. Her work and her company are regularly featured in Forbes, Buzzfeed, Gal-Dem, Good Housekeeping and Pride Magazine just to name a few. She is the host of ShesObsessedThePodcast highlighting the experiences of successful and game-changing Black British Women. Connect with Jamelia

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Some topics we cover in this episode:

• Having a passion for hair from when she was 4 and being dissuaded by her parents from pursuing her passion.
• How a rejection turned into a redirection
• Internships and mentorships are so valuable
• Why it is important to always stay ready
• How the hunger to be creative which her role in finance did not allow her to do birthed Treasure Tress
• Why she had to quit her finance without telling her family and why you should never burn bridges
• The journey of growing TreasureTress in a market that did not exist in the UK
• One of the major keys to pitching
• Leadership, difficulty with growing a team and being intentional about your culture
• Investing in yourself and your personal development

Connect with me

• Website: https://mindsetshift.co.uk/

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