Making The Brand with Timeesha Duncan

• Danielle shares how she was inspired to become a news reporter
• The transition points that had happened when Danielle decided to let go of her job as a news anchor and focus on Detroit Speaks full time
• How Danielle continued pursuing her passion despite her struggle with depression
• How being an entrepreneur has changed her life
• How Detroit Speaks is changing lives for the youth in Metro Detroit

Chatoya Antwine is the Owner and Executive Planner of A la carte Galore, LLC. A la carte Galore, also referred to as a One-Stop Shop, provides services nationwide for event planning, travel planning, financial planning, and career planning. A la carte Galore was officially formed in Detroit, MI in March 2014 and attracts most of its business in the Metro Detroit area and Chicago, IL.

Chatoya is a native Detroiter holding a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from Michigan State University and Masters in Accounting from Wayne State University. Chatoya is passionate about planning and helping entrepreneurs and professionals become more organized and productive throughout their success journey. She enjoys providing various tips, tools, and resources to assist with planning strategically, prioritizing goals and tasks, and managing their busy lifestyles.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• What Creative CoLAB is all about
• How to design and create the life you want to live
• Why collaboration is better than competition
• What made Chatoya pursue her business full-time
• She shared about the things she started to do in setting up her business before leaving her 9 to 5
• How she decided to leave the corporate world for good
• Chatoya talked about her other strings of income to get her by the first few weeks she left corporate America
• Why less is more
• How to handle telling parents and the family in leaving the corporate world
• Tools to use on a regular basis in running a business
• How seeing your goals visually can help you
• Why writing your plans down can help you in achieving goals better
• How to mitigate stress from handling copycats
• Why you should have revenue goals
• Chatoya shares what she is currently working on

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• The ONE Thing by Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan
• Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-being, Wisdome and Wonder by Arriana Huffington
• Shift Your Creative Mindset Journal by Chatoya Antwine

This interview is a must listen for entrepreneurs who want to be part of a community of entrepreneurs and creatives!

Chatoya Said:

• "Whatever I'm doing I make sure that I'm doing something that'll get me to the next level."

Damian Said:

• "Mind your own business and watch it grow."

More From Chatoya:

• Website:
  • https://www.alacartegalore.com/ (Event Planning)
  • https://www.creativecolab.co/ (Virtual Members-only Community)
• Facebook: Chatoya Antwine
• Twitter: @chatoyajaneil
• Instagram: @chatoyajaneil

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In this episode, Cara shares with us the strategy she developed to leave her job with MTV, and pursue her passion full time. She talks about her journey starting The Champagne Diet, her world-famous lifestyle blog, becoming a Master Life Coach and self-publishing her now best-selling books, even after being rejected 19 times!

Named by Huffington Post as one of the top seven Periscopers to follow for Business, Amber speaks about  Business, Millennials, and Public Speaking. She currently owns 3 successful Entrepreneur ventures and operates them from Headquarters in Washington, DC.

In this episode, Amber shares what happened in a board meeting that made her quit her job right on the spot with no warning, the one thing she regrets doing when she quit, the first thing she did to jumpstart her biz and how others would have probably shamed her for this, the low point she had in her business when she had to sacrifice her prized possessions, and how she manages to have an omnipresence across social media.  This interview is a must listen for any side hustler who wants to quit their 9 to 5.

In this episode, we interviewed the Queen Bee of LinkedIn, Tajuana Ross, otherwise known as The LinkedIn Professor. Tajuana teaches entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs how to go from being the HUNTER to the HUNTED on LinkedIn. 

This by far is one of our favorite interviews because we learned sooo much about how to leverage LinkedIn for your business. 

Make sure you listen to the entire interview where you'll learn: 

• The biggest mistake people make on their profile
• what type of content you should be posting on LinkedIn
• Where you should be hanging out on LinkedIn
• Why you should be very choosy who you send a connection request to and what to do instead
• The most important page on LinkedIn 

In this episode, we talked with Revenue Coach, LaDawn Townsend around one of the most dreaded and nerve-racking topics that entrepreneurs have today... SALES!  We go behind the scenes with LaDawn as she shares with her, her simple sales strategy that allowed her to create over $20,000 in her business her first 90 days of full-time entrepreneurship and climbing! 

In this episode, we talked to self-made entrepreneur, Personal Brand and Online Business Strategist, Kimra Luna. Kimra helps freedom-seeking entrepreneurs stand out and captivate their audiences' attention and monetize their authentic brands online. 

This one is juicy!

In this interview, Kimra shares: 

What secret tip she does to grow her business 

The one question she uses to get insight on how to create content

What platform she's using (that people are neglecting) to get more brand exposure

What she does to stay to build her brand authority and stay ahead of the competition (and how she really feels) 

How she was able to create her first 1.2 million dollar launch 

And the one thing people don't know about her! 

In this episode, we sat down with Regan Hillyer. Self-made millionaire and business expert.  Regan shares with us her secret sauce to how she built her brand empire and earned over 1 million dollars in her business in less than a year.  

Yes, Mark Zuckerburg has done it to us once again. He's changing the Facebook algorithm and it's not in your favor.

According to Marky Mark, he wants the platform to be more "social" and will push engagement from "family and friends" more than your content on your business pages.

Almost every business took a hit from the last FB algorithm change and your business pages went from getting tons of engagement to only getting 1-3% of engagement from your audience.

So what does this all mean?

I have been saying this forever that eventually Facebook was going to force your hand in paying to play. Using Facebook Ads to get in front of your audience is more important than ever before.

Listen, I know we all want to slap Mr. Z for getting us all juiced up and dangling this juicy carrot in front of us (the Facebook audience) and then literally snatching it right from under us. But unfortunately, that's the nature of the beast.

So how can you hack THIS Facebook algorithm?  We show you how in this episode!