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We Need More
by Jeanelle and David
We Need More is a podcast driven to provide more positive representation in our community by interviewing professionals and business owners. Our audience is geared towards future entrepreneurs of all ages - specifically in the African American community. Our guests provide background on their profession or business, their inspiration, peaks and pits of their journey and the legacy they want to leave behind.
Episodes
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Jerri Evans - Owner of Turning Natural
When Jerri Evans, Owner of Turning Natural first opened her juice bar she could have only dreamed that it would infuse her life, her staff's life, and her customer's life, with such vitality and opportunity. It was Evans' late mother Annette Turner, who started Turning Natural, after being...
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Dr. Gina Paige - Founder of African Ancestry
African Ancestry is a company that helps expand the way people view themselves and the way they view Africa! African Ancestry is the world leader in tracing maternal and paternal lineages of African descent having helped more than 750,000 people re-connect with the roots of their family tree.…
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Jimmy Wise - Owner of Wisecuts Barbershop
Jimmy Wise is the owner of Wisecuts Barbershop and Barber School. He dropped by with the crew of We Need More to share practical tips on how his idea of opening his own shop became a reality. We even learn about the haircut he received from his mother. Press play to find out how that turned out....
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Brandon Frame - Founder of TheBlackManCan
Brandon Frame is a visionary leader, social innovator and mentor. He is the Chief Visionary Officer of TheBlackManCan, Inc. an award winning and internationally recognized non-profit and digital media platform focused on celebrating, educating and inspiring boys and men of color. Started as a…
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Samantha Josaphat - Founder of Studio 397 Architecture
Samantha Josaphat: Principal of Studio 397 Architecture, a New York City based design firm specializing in Architecture and Interior Design. The world of architecture is not known for diversity, hence Samantha being the 397th African American Female Architect to achieve licensure in the United...
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Kier Gaines - Creator of Kier & Them
Kier & Them is a multi-passionate millennial family featuring Kier, a mental health professional, his wife, Noémie, an intellectual property lawyer, and their sassy 2-yr-old daughter, Emery. Do we look familiar? You may have seen us online already - Emery’s french fry dance or our surprise...
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Khadijah Robinson - Founder of The Nile List
In this weeks episode, meet Khadijah Robinson, the founder and owner of The Nile List. A Southern girl through and through, Khadijah was raised in Savannah, GA and Montgomery, AL. Her life is a manifestation of the Issa Rae phrase, “I’m rooting for Everybody Black.” After graduating from Spelman...
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Erica Buddington - Founder of Langston League
Erica Buddington is a career educator, based in Brooklyn, New York. Complex Magazine called her the “most fire teacher ever.” She left her post as Director of TRUCE Media and Arts at Harlem Children’s Zone to found Langston League. She’s been a teacher, grade team lead, Dean of Students, and/or...
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Destinee Swindell and Duclas Charles - Founders of Strivers' Row
Strivers’ Row celebrates doers - those among us who are pursuing their passions, putting their talents to use and in turn, establishing new standards. Each quarter a cohort is featured, making the masses aware of their work and motivations, and providing information for how to support their...
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Jasmine Jones - Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Cherry Blossom Intimates
EVERY WOMAN DESERVES TO FEEL BEAUTIFUL Jasmine Jones is changing what post-mastectomy shopping looks and feels like, creating beautiful lingerie shopping experiences for all women, and using innovation and inclusion to be impactful across the globe. Inspired by her grandmother’s battle with…
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Lauryn Fanguen - Challenges of Black Immigration
Lauryn Fanguen - Shares with We Need More about the challenges of being a black immigrant in America.
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Kaine Hampton - Entertainment Lawyer
Kaine Hampton is an Entertainment Law attorney; he served as Counsel with the Global Entertainment division of Viacom Networks, servicing MTV, VH1, BET, and Logo Networks. In this role, Kaine works to execute agreements for on-air and off-air productions across the Viacom Media Network channels…
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Anika Hobbs - Owner and Lead Curator of Nubian Hueman & The Black Love Experience
CURATE. CREATE. CELEBRATE. Nubian Hueman is a catalyst for culture, community, and the development of the creative economy by connecting the consumer to independent artists from across the world. Bringing popular culture, and fair-trade to a modern brand experience by serving as a means to…
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John Ledbetter - Founder & CEO of Sunchase Media
Sunchase media is short-form video production company located in Washington DC. Sunchase Media uses video to tell the stories of people, of companies, of products. Whatever your story is, they want to tell it. From the moment of an idea’s conception to the very final color correction before...
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J'Vonn Forbes - Owner of 548 Construction, Real Estate Investor & Developer
J'Vonn Forbes shares his story growing up in Philadelphia, graduating from the campus of Morehouse College and launching non-profits to better serve communities across the nation. This episode, we focus on the story behind the development of one Forbes' many companies, 548 Construction. Follow...
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Ronald Draper - Owner of the RD Showroom, Art Educator & Activist
Ronald Alexander Draper is a visual artist born and raised in Harlem, New York. The NAACP and Urban League award-winning artist and Art Educator also serves as the Director of Contemporary Arts and Culture at Harlem Hospital Center, creating displays for individual spaces across the 200,000...
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Rondel Holder - Founder & Creative Director of Soul Society 101
What Is Soul Society 101? The premiere travel, food and culture blog curated for Young Black Professionals. Soul Society 101 queues suggestions on travel destinations, social and adventure-seeking activities, restaurant, bar and nightlife suggestions, and food and cocktail recipes – from the cool...
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Ashley Rouse - Founder & CEO of Trade Street Jam Co.
Trade St. Jam Co. is a chef, woman and minority-owned business that started in a tiny apartment in North Carolina on Trade Street. Our passion for all things food grew into something more: a company built on the foundation of culinary innovation. We strive to share our 10+ years of culinary...
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Marjuan Canady - Canady Foundations of the Arts
Marjuan Canady, a native Washingtonian with Trinidadian/African American roots, is an award winning entrepreneur, writer, performer, director, educator and producer for both film and the stage. Marjuan is a graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts and holds a B.A. in Theatre/African American...
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Brandi McAlister - Pray The Impossible
Brandi J-E McAlister, MS is a New Jersey native. She obtained her BA in Mass Communications from Virginia State University. Later she completed her MS in integrated Marketing Communication from Manhattan College. Brandi is a dedicated member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Brandi coins…
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Jerron Hawkins - President Obama Mentee & Reach Foundation
Howard University student Jerron Hawkins was recently honored during the Obama Foundation’s first national My Brother’s Keeper Rising! conference by being granted the opportunity to share his social justice story on President Barack Obama’s Instagram account. Hawkins, a political science and...
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Music & Passion with Eric Hall
Eric was exposed to music at an early age. Blessed with a musical family, his Mother a singer and pianist, his father a trumpet player, and his older brother on the trombone, it was only right that he followed suit. Being exposed to artist such as Stevie Wonder, Take 6, Earth Wind and Fire, and...
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Philip Garner - Garner's Garden
Philip Garner started Garner’s Garden in 2012 with one thing in mind – make affordable, 100% natural skin care products. Garner’s Garden had humble beginnings, first being available at local farmer's markets and at local events. Since then, the company has experienced tremendous growth, and has...
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Tamra Sease - Queendom Come
Tamra Sease is an unfiltered author and craver of Christ. She prides herself in evolving into a versatile essayist, freely writing on various topics from the depths of her heart. Tamra lives to empower women to own God’s truth and practically apply principles of scripture in order to propel God’s...
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DJ Economix - A Conversation on Music & Coffee
DJ Economix is a creator of the moment. Hailing from West Philadelphia, he discovered a passion for music at an early age. It wasn't until he finished school with an undergrad and graduate degree in Economics that he realized his passion was much more than a hobby. Thus creating the name…
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Mahalia Jessup - C'est Belle Events
C’est Belle Events is a premier event planning and design group that specializes in curating timeless celebrations with expert level attention to detail. Bringing together top professionals in the industry to flawlessly execute any celebrations while making it uniquely your own. The approach is...
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Sean Williams - The Dad Gang
Sean Williams is changing the way that Black Father's are viewed. The founder of The Dad Gang showcases active black fathers who aim to defy the misleading negative stereotypes that surround it. "We’re here to show the world that black fathers do exist and take an active role in raising our...
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Shaquana Robotham - BrideHive & The Brand Label
The Brand Label is a fashion line created for women in search of who they are today and who they are destined to become through their unique sense of style and creativity. Inspired and designed by two women, Shaq & Nola sought to create garments that would allow women to express themselves while...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We Need More is a podcast driven to provide more positive representation in our community by interviewing professionals and business owners. Our audience is geared towards future entrepreneurs of all ages - specifically in the African American community. Our guests provide background on their profession or business, their inspiration, peaks and pits of their journey and the legacy they want to leave behind.
HOSTED BY
Jeanelle and David
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We Need More is a podcast driven to provide more positive representation in our community by interviewing professionals and business owners. Our audience is geared towards future entrepreneurs of all ages - specifically in the African American community. Our guests provide background on their...
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