James Sampson is the Vice President/Chief Operating Officer of One Day Came Inc., a Black-owned construction company in Florida. He has over ten years of construction industry experience managing projects ranging from $500,000 to $50 million. H

Episode 20 - Helping Relationships with Dessert & Discussion (Interview w/ Alex Merritt)

Mar 13th, 2017 33m 30s

Alex Merritt is the creator and host of Dessert & Discussion who is affectionately known as The LOVE Engineer --- Dessert and Discussion is an engaging unscripted discussion between men and women about love, sex, and relationships. Ms. Merritt

Episode 19 - Removing Innovation Deserts from Our Communities (Interview w/ Felecia Hatcher)

Feb 27th, 2017 35m 21s

Felecia Hatcher is on a mission to rid our communities of innovation deserts by working with community leaders and government officials to create inclusive and diverse startup ecosystems as the Co-Founder of Code Fever and Black Tech Week. Code

Episode 18 – Social Media Mastery with LiveWire Collaborative (Angela Pitter Interview)

May 17th, 2016 33m 45s

A technologist at heart, Angela connects people withtechnology in a humorous and non-intimidating manner. Angela is Founder and CEOof LiveWire Collaborative, a social media consultancy. Their services includesSocial Media Training for corpo

Episode 17 – Living "The Kinetic Life" in order to Drive Influence (Interview w/Mel Mitchell)

May 1st, 2016 36m 16s

Melerick“Mel” Mitchell believes we all have the power and obligation to influence theworld for the better. In 2009, Mel founded Drive Influence to serve currentexecutives as well as their rising talent, teams, and organizations in a wider

Episode 16 – How Intellifunda created a motivational tutoring app that helps students succeed in Math (w/ Dr. Maria T Earle)

Apr 17th, 2016 34m 25s

Dr. Maria T. Earle is CEO and Founder of IntelliFunda. Intellifunda designs motivational practice tutoring apps. IntelliFunda’s vision is to become known as a world-class Tech-Ed company offering superb customer-facing products at an affordab

Episode 15 – Helping Girls have a Foundation “INTech” with User-Centered Design Professional, Khalia Braswell

Mar 13th, 2016 34m 54s

Khalia Braswell has been a User Experience professional for several yearscreating responsive web user interfaces for enterprise solutions and startups.She applies User Centered Design concepts to technology solutions, which sheh

Episode 14 - How this Solopreneur Became a SAP Consultant for some of the Biggest Brands in the Game! (Interview w/Richard Z. White)

Feb 29th, 2016 32m 25s

Richard Z. White has over 20 years as SAP certified Basis Consultant, and over 25 years designing, delivering and developing integrated solutions. His development expertise includes delivering database, Internet, and imaging solutions to a v

Episode 13 – A Business housing the Brilliance of Musical Artist, Speaker, Forest Scientist, Professor, and Pastor Dr. Thomas Easley

Feb 21st, 2016 34m 50s

Dr. Thomas R. Easley is a native of Birmingham, Alabama. He has held positions with the US Forest Service and other non-profits. Easley serves as CEO of his business The Easley Branch, LLC and the Director of Community for Diversity in the Co

Episode 12 – Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform Built to Solve a Pain Point with Mentoring (Interview with Brit Fitzpatrick)

Feb 9th, 2016 36m 12s

Brit Fitzpatrick is founder & CEO of MentorMe - a SaaS mentoring platform. Brit is a 2014 FOCUS100 Fellow and a member of the Fall 2014 Points of Light Civic Accelerator. She's been named one of the top 50 under 40 emerging leaders in social

Episode 11 - How to Find Your Next Business Idea F.A.S.T.

Feb 1st, 2016 29m 18s

This NSBEpreneur podcast episode is one on the topic of finding the right business idea. Our host, Nehemiah Mabry discusses the acronym F.A.S.T. and uses it as a rubric to provide some insight on how to determine where your effort should be foc

Episode 10 – A Great Recession Layoff Lead to Leveraging Her Experience in the Launch of an Entrepreneurship Journey in Professional Development (Interview w/ Vivian Blade)

Jan 18th, 2016 34m 17s

Vivian H. Blade works with ambitious professionalswho want to win in their careers and in their everyday work lives. She workswith organizations and individuals to Build Leaders and Develop Excellence sothat they can achieve their vision of

Episode 9 – A Background in Business aided in the Launch of an Independent Music Career (Interview w/ KJ Scriven)

Jan 11th, 2016 43m 2s

KJ Scriven is an entrepreneur, singer, and prolific songwriter hailing out of North Carolina. K.J. brings an anticipated freshness and excitement to the gospel music industry. One of his most noteworthy achievements was that of penning the s

Episode 8 - Happy Holidays!: 7 Gifts from the First 7 Interviews (+ 7 "Must Play" Christmas Songs ;)

Dec 22nd, 2015 30m 1s

Our Final Podcast Episode of 2015 will feature a collection of the best "gifts" (i.e. Advice) provided in our first seven interviews. Each guest shared lessons that they would give themselves, back before starting their business and reaching t

Episode 7 – Double Duty: Entrepreneurship as a franchisee and publishing company owner (Interview w/ Keith Sylvester)

Dec 14th, 2015 32m 49s

Keith Sylvester’s entrepreneurial pursuitsbegan shortly after he graduated from college. He owns a franchise withLegalShield, a company that provides high quality legal and identity theftservices. The legal plan gives members acces

Episode 6 – It’s Not Complicated: INC Tutoring is making a direct impact in the lives of students. (Interview w/ Jay Veal)

Dec 7th, 2015 33m 54s

Jay Veal is the Founder and CEOof INC Tutoring, a private,prescriptive tutoring company specializing in individual one-on-onetutoring that achieves RESULTS. Serving clients at all academiclevels in math, science and standardized test prepa

Episode 5 – Blendoor: A new app to combat discrimination and bias during the job application process. (Interview w/ Stephanie Lampkin)

Nov 30th, 2015 35m 58s

Stephanie Lampkin is the founder and CEO of Blendoor - a mobile job matching app that facilitates diversity recruiting in tech companies by circumventing unconscious bias. Despite very humble beginnings, Stephanie first learned to code at 14

Episode 3 - Michael Garvin (Interview): A Military Veteran and former Science Major Join Forces to start a Sneaker Boutique

Nov 17th, 2015 30m 44s

Michael Garvin is co-founder of REDtro Habitat, a sneaker restoration and consignment apparel store. The business provides restoration of old or new sneakers, redesigning custom or exclusive sneakers, and consignment apparel. The initial restor

Episode 2 – Dr. Maeling Murphy (Interview): How a personal passion turned into a lucrative business.

Nov 8th, 2015 29m 28s

Dr. Maeling Murphy is the creator of NaturalChica.com, aleading natural hair and lifestyle site, which was started in 2009. She is awife, mom and an avid learner with interests in healthy living, web development,photography and video product

Episode 1 - Jewel Burks (Interview): How noticing a market "hole" at work led to the launching of Partpic

Nov 1st, 2015 31m 51s

Jewel Burks is co-founder and CEO of Partpic, an Atlanta based startup designed to streamline thepurchase of maintenance and repair parts using computer vision technology. On this episode of the NSBEpreneur podcast we find out how she got her

Episode 0 - What is this all about?!? (Podcast Introduction)

Oct 29th, 2015 18m 28s

Welcome!Thank you so much for sharing your headphones with us! TheNSBEprenuer™ S.I.G. has launched a brand new podcast series produced by mediacompany, STEMedia™ Incorporated. The podcastwill focus on sharing stories of successful minority

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