Alongside her hosting duties on her IGTV Show, Mind Your Business, Vivian has been featured in The Toronto Star, Ted Talks “The Way We Work”, Shopify’s Expert Academy Series, is a founding Shopify Compass Instructor and has been featured in publications such as Black Entreprise, Refinery21 and podcasts such as Shopify’s Vanguard.
In this episode we talk about:
- growing up in an immigrant family from Ghana and feeling the pressure to fit into a box, but being the black sheep of her family
- being a parrellegram when the world was trying to fit her into a box
- moving through the workforce and being acknowledged but still fighting the feeling of not being smart enough because she hadn’t graduated from college
- how her sister getting married inspired her first business that was meant to just be a side hustle
- how a management change in her full time job led to her try her side hustle as a full on business
- how wanting to have “presentable” hair to be accepted professionally led her to her next business that has turned into a 7 figure business
- having her son and how that created major shifts in her life to stand up for herself so that her and her son could have their best lives
- the major AHA that happened when she crossed the finish line of a race
- how speaking up about her failures at a Fuck Up night she was empowered to start telling her story and coaching other’s
- how asking herself What Would Chad Do, gets her out of her own way
- how we each shine differently and how shining your light doesn’t take away from anyone else it invites them to shine also
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
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Check out her brand KinkyCurlyYaki at https://www.kinkycurlyyaki.com
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F THE SHOULDS. DO THE WANTS.
Forget what you have been told you should do or should be.
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Learn how to listen to what it is that you truly feel & want so that you are living your most present, aligned, and alive life.
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