Episodes

Ep 126: From CFO to Venue Owner with Nadia S. Anderson of Lavender Hill Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 What do you do when you buy the building, follow every rule they gave you, and then they change the rules? Nadia S. Anderson left her CFO job at lunch one day and never went back. Ten years later she runs Virginia Grace Event Management and owns Lavender Hill, a 1934 brick colonial in Richmond she turned into an event venue with garden grounds and a coworking space. She'...

Ep #124 — Closing the Health Literacy Gap with Dr. Madalyn McKnight of Project Healthvocate Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 Did you know 9 out of 10 people don't understand basic health information, and that the fix might just be talking like real people talk? Dr. Madalyn McKnight built Project Healthvocate to close the gap between complex medical language and the way people actually speak, born out of her time in the Southern Poverty Law Center's Advocacy Institute. What st...

Ep #123 — From Camera Gift to Creative Empire with Rhonda Nunn of Just Keep Smiling Productions Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 What happens when you refuse to pick just one lane — camera, director's chair, mic, or sewing pattern? Rhonda Nunn got her first camera from her dad in sixth grade, walked onto Chicago State's campus determined to be known as "the photographer," and built that into Just Keep Smiling Productions — an apparel line, photography and videography business...

Ep #122 — Building Community for Autism Moms with Sabrina Bonaparte of Monochromatic Mommies Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 What do you do when you love your child fiercely, but no one around you understands what your life actually looks like now? Sabrina Bonaparte built Monochromatic Mommies — a nonprofit supporting mothers of children with autism and special needs — after her son Aiden was diagnosed at age two and she realized there were plenty of resources for him, but a...

Ep #121 — From Coloring Books to Culture Trips with Tiffany Heard of Hues of Africa Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 What if the way we learn about Africa has been broken this whole time — and the fix is a coloring book? Tiffany Heard built Hues of Africa, coloring and activity books plus culture immersion trips after a six-week study abroad trip to Ghana left her crying because she didn't want to leave. What started as one book has grown into three, with group trips to Ghana...

Ep #120 — Building a Green Space for Youth with Ted Gloster of The Forgin Initiative Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 What happens when you come home during a pandemic and realize the community that raised you is stuck in survival mode? Ted Gloster left Detroit's District 2 in 2018 and came back during the pandemic — and instead of leaving again, he built The Forgin Initiative, a green space and after-school program teaching young people economic literacy, civic engagement, a...

Ep #119 — From Loss to Home Care Business with Que Maxwell of Two Caring Hearts Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 What do you do with your grief when you couldn't save the people you loved most? Que Maxwell built 2Caring Hearts — a home care and wellness business serving elderly, disabled, and post-hospital clients — after losing her father and her husband suddenly, within years of each other, and feeling the weight of not being able to do anything for them. Now she and her si...

Ep #118 — "Start With What You Have" Denzel Turner on Building Black Fridays Podcast Part of noseyAF's 31 Days of Black Business series 🖤 What if the podcast you started on Zoom during 2020 became the reason you're now running black-owned business bus tours through Detroit? Denzel Turner built Black Fridays — a podcast with 200+ conversations with Black entrepreneurs — out of a need to get civically engaged after George Floyd's murder, and it's since grown into brand deals, a coaching business...