Camille Rose CEO, Janell Stephens, Talks Growing A Beauty Empire During Uncertain Times “Due to high order volume, we are currently experiencing shipment delays. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working as quickly as possible to ship your orders.” This is the alert firmly anchored at the top of Camille Rose’s website, the total wellness brand with its name…
Beyoncé And NAACP Partner To Help Fund Black-Owned Businesses Pop culture icon Beyoncé has been busy. She’s just wrapped up directing and executive producing the visual album Black Is King, which premieres globally on July 31, one year after the release of Disney’s The Lion King in which she voiced the character Nala. But being at the peak of her career has not…
4 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Rebuild Stronger Businesses Post COVID-19 Few were prepared for a crisis the magnitude of COVID-19, and many feel the pain of unemployment. Yet somehow, women faced the brunt of this impact the most with an unemployment rate three percentage points higher than men’s (16.2% to 13.5%). Rebuilding in the wake of a novel event takes a…
Fashion Meets Activism With Cara Santana’s New Collection Actress, entrepreneur, producer, writer and activist Cara Santana is striking out on her own and out of the shadow of big retailers by creating her own fashion collection, to be sold online directly to consumers a price point of under $100. The collection was set to launch as a second season in partnership with Kohl’s, but due…
4 Tips for Aspiring Women Business Owners Despite decades of corporate diversity efforts, change has come slowly. Women still hold just 25 percent of five critical C-suite positions in the nation’s 1,000 largest corporations, and the problem persists far beyond that. The drop-off of women in leadership starts with the first promotion to management, where a woman is 18 percent less likely to…
How This Entrepreneur Makes Six Figures As A Freelancer Here’s the real American dream: you can work from anywhere in the world (this laptop has lived a good, adventurous life), you get to make your own schedule, you’re always working with new clients, you’re your own boss, oh, yeah – and you aren’t strapped for cash, either! Isn’t that what…
Fashion Editor Esther Lee Leach: Community And Content Are King Building a brand online is no easy feat. While ease of accessibility to all the elements of starting a business, such as building a website, product availability, payment gateways, etc. make it seem simple, the truth of the matter is that it’s a very crowded space, making it quite difficult…
30 Black-Owned Brands to Support Today In the wake of George Floyd‘s death and the nationwide protests against racial injustice and police brutality, it’s important not to give up on the momentum and continue the fight to dismantle systemic racism in our society. There is an outpouring of support to organizations such as the George Floyd Memorial Fund, Minnesota Freedom Fund, and Campaign Zero,…
The Female Founder Behind The Better-For-You Comfort Food Revolution The disruption of frozen pizza couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. As much of the country shelters in place, comfort foods are making a raging comeback. But, paradoxically, better-for-you foods are selling well, too, with organic produce sales jumping 22% in March. One barely three-year-old brand is forging a path to…
3 Ways to Make Businesses More Welcoming to Women Women are undeniably good for business. Numbers consistently show that gender-diverse companies are more likely to experience above-average profitability. Also, from my experience I have observed that women add an important complementary perspective to the business issue at hand, which often results in a wider range of solutions. Thus, it is…
