Making The Brand with Timeesha Duncan

Today, Damian and I chatted with Funding Expert and Harvard Grad, Ms. Arielle Loren. Arielle Loren is the founder of 100K Incubator, the first business funding mobile app for women in Apple and Google's app stores.  She's helping 100,000 early-stage women entrepreneurs get funding for their businesses and scale to 100K+ in yearly sales.   In this episode we discussed:   

How to prepare your business to get funding

The different types of funding and options you have

How to acquire funding as a startup, or seasoned entrepreneur 

The right way to use funds to grow and scale your business 

And so much more! 

 

Arielle also shared her 100K Incubator app and how she is helping thousands of women acquire 30,000+ in funding for their business. 

 

Connect with Timeesha: 

www.TimeeshaDuncan.com

Instagram: Instagram.com/TimeeshaDuncan

 

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www.ArielleLoren.com

www.100KIncubator.com

Instagram: Instagram.com/ArielleLoren

If you are an Event Planner, Designer, Photographer, DJ, Florist, Caterer, Speaker, etc… and your clients have requested to cancel their events due to the Coronavirus pandemic this episode was created just for you. 

Today I'm speaking with Contract Lawyer, Casey Handy-Smith, to give you some advice on how to handle these situations.  Specifically, what to do if a client cancels and requests a refund, how to protect yourself and your assets and what to do going forward so you're not out of work AND broke. If you are hosting an event and your attendees are requesting refunds what should you do and more. 

 

Connect with Timeesha Duncan: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timeeshaduncan/

Website: https://www.timeeshaduncan.com/

 

Connect with Casey Handy-Smith:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/contractcasey/

Website: https://www.contractcasey.com

In today's episode, Timeesha is talking about how to foolproof your business during coronavirus. 

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Tonya Rapley is a nationally recognized millennial money expert. She was deemed the "New Face of Wealth Building" by Black Enterprise magazine and was selected as a Modern History Maker by TV One. Her mission is to help millennial women break the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck and look fabulous while doing it.

Because of her relatable personality and fabulous flair, Tonya is a highly sought after media personality. Her work has been featured in Women's Day, EBONY, and on CentricTV. Tonya's expertise has also been recognized by popular media outlets such as, the NY Daily News, Yahoo! Finance, and Marketwatch. As a writer, Tonya has also contributed to Credit.com, Buzzfeed, and TheRoot.com, making a powerful influence on the financial lives of millennials.

Tiffany is a Vision Ignitor, Online Business Strategist & Clarity Coach helping experts and purpose-driven entrepreneurs build authority online and monetize their message so they can impact the world doing work they love. In this episode, Tiffany talks about how she quit her 9 to 5 back in 2012 and turned her boss into her first client. She shares how she went broke after 6 months of quitting with $20 in the bank, maxed out her credit card to go to an event to learn how to blog for business and create digital courses and programs and then in 2013, took a break to learn everything she could about online business and personal branding.

Tiana Patrice is a captivating bestselling author, thought leader and empowerment speaker who holds a deep-rooted passion for supporting the personal and entrepreneurial development of women all over the world.  She is an award-winning author, entrepreneur, speaker, and business mentor who specializes in equipping women to shift their mindsets, own their power, and push through their fear. She is also the CEO of Tiana Patrice Consulting, a consulting company that focuses on bettering small businesses and corporate entrepreneurs through personal and professional development. Her message of empowerment has been spotlighted on The Huffington Post, WTVY News (A CBS Station), WGRX News (A NBC Station), WOOF FM, MMIA Magazine, The Freedom Biz Podcast and more… Tiana Patrice is the author of the bestselling book Fifty Two Shades of Fearless: Powerful Declarations For The Purpose Driven Woman. In this book she inspires women to shift their mindsets, declare greatness over their lives, stand on faith and make the conscious decision to fear less. She encourages them to own their power, stop playing small and make things happen.

Tiana's vulnerability of sharing her story empowers women to keep pushing when things seem impossible. Her vibrant personality and conversational tone incites a spark among her audiences to take immediate action outside of their comfort zone, let go of the self-limiting beliefs, divorce their fear and reach their fullest potential.

Tiana's personal story is one of determination and resilience. In her journey, she repeatedly demonstrates the power of imagining and cultivating your dreams and possibilities all while divorcing your fear. From a very young age she developed a strong belief that she would not become a product of her environment, and with the life skills she learned from her hard working mother and grandmother, she set out to create a different reality for herself.

Immediately after graduating high school, Tiana set off to college at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and quickly jumped into the work force landing a number of well-paid positions in Corporate America. For nearly 10 years, she built a career that most deemed comfortable. But, it wasn't enough for Tiana.

After having her daughter Khloe, she yearned for more. Her spirit became restless. Her life seemed mundane. She knew she was destined for greater things. So she decided to do the unthinkable, she ditched her 9-5 to set out on her own path. Tiana redefined mommy-hood for her daughter. In just a few short months, Tiana launched her LLC, Launch Your Dreams, and began mentoring purpose driven women along their journey of life and business.

Because she made the decision to walk fearlessly in her purpose, without apologies, other women now have the courage and the hope to do the same. Tiana authentically shares the truths about entrepreneurship and her journey of following her purpose, which continues to inspire women to push through and reach their goals, even in the face of challenges, fear, doubt and setbacks.

Tiana has indeed impacted the lives of thousands of purpose driven women through her life-changing principles of fearlessly walking in one's purpose.

In this episode, Tiana shares her story of how fear pushed her to quit her job and take a leap of faith to pursue her passion.

Koereyelle made her mark in 2011 when she founded The Single Wives Club, an education and empowerment organization that inspires single ladies to become better women before becoming wives. She is also the creator of ReadyToWERK.com, a branding boutique that offers classes and consulting for entrepreneurs.

Koereyelle has truly become the voice for single women, representing the "new single woman" who wants love and marriage, but has not detoured her focus from her education and career. She's been featured nationally by ESSENCE Magazine, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, MadameNoire, Rolling Out and many more outlets for her work with The Single Wives Club. Most recently, she's added Author to her resumé with the release of her debut title, WERK101: Get-Your-Life-Together Guide.

In this episode, Koereyelle shares with us how she left what was supposed to be her dream job as an elementary school teacher, after a marriage proposal had ended, and gave up everything to relocate to Abu Dhabi.  Two weeks before she was scheduled to leave, she decided not to go. She knew going to Abu Dhabi was not what she really wanted to do, and that it was only a means to running away from what she didn't want to deal with in her life. With no plan, she decided to stay and shares with us what she did next and how The Singles Wives Club was born, and how she built her successful business empire!

In today's episode of Quit Your 9 to 5 Podcast, we are talking to Maya Elious, a personal branding strategist teaching content creators how to monetize their content. Maya takes us backstage on the process her clients go through in creating amazing content successfully.

 

Maya Elious is a personal branding strategist that teaches content creators and experts how to strategize, organize, and monetize their online business.

She creates online courses and coaching programs with a focus on teaching her students how to create a magnetic message and captivating content that's aligned with their purpose so they can build a powerful, meaningful online presence.

Through her blog MayaElious.com, she shares dozens of blog posts and resources that help experts curate content and products that will help them make money online.

She enjoys sharing her story about transitioning into a full-time entrepreneur with young professionals and aspiring businesswomen to help them reach their life and career goals. She does this by speaking, writing, coaching, and hosting workshops about branding, strategy and personal development.

When she's not helping her clients take over the world, she can be found traveling, tweeting, or Netflixing.

 

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Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• What process to go through in creating killer content
• What are best practices in driving traffic to a website and in drawing audiences to check out your content?
• What are different platforms to use in engaging with audience?
• What a content calendar is and how to utilize it in a business
• Which content should be given away for free and which content should be paid

 

This interview is a must listen for entrepreneurs who want to create impressive content!

 

Maya Said:

• "When you're creating content, you always want to think about what it is your audience is struggling with, what are the questions that they would ask and then create content based on answering just one question and that also helps you diversify your content instead of trying to put all of the answers in one platform."
• "It's not about the quantity of your content, it's really about the quality of your content."
• "You want to give away for free the things what people should be doing and why they should be doing it. And the things that people pay for is how they should be doing it."
• "Don't give up on the things that taught you to where you are in the first place."

 

Damian Said:

• "When you try to serve everyone, you serve no one."

 

More From Maya:

• Website: http://www.mayaelious.com/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mayaeliousdotcom/
• Twitter: @MayaElious
• Instagram: @mayaelious
• Join Maya's Get Paid Challenge, HERE!

 

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Today we will be talking again with the amazing Apryl Beverly! Apryl is walking us through her step by step process on EP 23 // How to Use Facebook Ads to Build a Six-Figure Empire.  About Apryl Beverly, Million-Dollar Word Stylist and founder of BAAB Writing is an award-winning copywriter who has helped solo entrepreneurs, small business owners, CEOs and marketing executives of big profitable brands generate millions in revenue – all by tapping into the power of words. Known for her educated, "tell-it-like-it-is" writing voice, Apryl has broken just about every grammar rule she ever learned and survived the wrath of her English teachers. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University in Journalism and the University of Phoenix in Masters of Business Administration in Marketing. She's mom to the most amazing kid in the universe and is married to the masterful "money man." This Episode is Brought To You By: Quit Your 9 to 5 Academy, an academy created to help entrepreneurs create the perfect exit strategy to quit their day jobs, eradicate the fears of the unknown of being an entrepreneur and follow their passions full-time along with helping them to discover the necessary tools to monetize their passions. Hey! Check this out!... Join our Private Community aka our and continue the conversation on how you can quit your 9 to 5 and connect with more biz hustler's to grow your business. This one is important - If you like the Quit Your 9 to 5 Show, please rate and review us on iTunes. It helps us connect with more hustlers and grow our bomb community! Have you listened to our After Show? It's lit. Seriously. That's were all the action happens. Join the Rich Life Society Get access to secret episodes. Topics Discussed in this Episode: Why Entrepreneurs Need To Use Facebook Ads? How Do You Find Your Target Market? Boosting Facebook Post – How To Do It The Right Way How Much To Spend on A Facebook Ad? How Do You Know A Good Conversion Rate? How To Create Copy That Converts Tips on How To Evoke Emotion in Writing This interview is a must listen for people/ entrepreneurs who wanted to earn money from Facebook by using Facebook ads to promote their businesses. Apryl SAID: "You need to think outside of the box and think differently.." "Even if you're not running ads… still you can use Facebook to get insights – free info of who wants your stuff.." "Look at what the larger companies are doing and duplicate that on a smaller scale..." "You got to feed the machine…you got to go heavy and then you win yourself back.." "when it feels real, it doesn't feel imitated...it feels authentic to people.." Timeesha SAID: "we won't be all trying to be everything to everybody because you'll end up being nothing to no one" Damian SAID: "Facebook, with all of that information, is a whole lot better reason to go on Facebook and start re-purposing that data for your benefit to make some money…" Resources Discussed in this Episode: F.A.S.T. Money! The Easy Way to Use Facebook Ads to Hook Smokin' Hot Leads by Apryl Beverly More From Apryl: http://baab.biz/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BAABWriting Twitter: @baabwriting Instagram: @baabwriting More From Damian: www.DamianDuncan.com Instagram: @DamianDDuncan More From Timeesha: www.TimeeshaDuncan.com Crush the Competition Book I CONNECT WITH US ON INSTAGRAM: • Quit Your 9 to 5 Academy - @quityour9to5academy • Apryl - @baabwriting • Damian - @damianduncan • Timeesha – @timeeshaduncan • #quityour9to5podcast