On this episode of the Entrepreneurial Minds podcast, we explore the wonderful career of Aishetu Fatima Dozie, Founder & CEO of Bossy Beauty in 2018 in order to ignite confidence in ambitious women through high-quality makeup, topical content, and essential services.

Aishetu's background was originally in investment banking (including Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, World Bank, Rand Merchant Bank & Morgan Stanley).

Since then she has created a first-of-its-kind children’s play and activity center in Lagos, authored a children’s picture book, became a mom, and filmed “African HERstory”,  about the ambitious and successful African women on the continent and in the diaspora to showcase their lives and amplify their voice.

In this episode, Aishetu shares her insight with regards to how she manages imposter syndrome, overcoming the biggest setback in her career, executes future-thinking parenting, positioning children for an advantage, and how COVID has affected her business (and more!).

Special ChatterBoss #Internship Episode: This is a special intern-led edition of the Entrepreneurial Minds podcast, hosted by ChatterBoss intern Alexandra Grebenyuk. Our guest on this episode is Matt LeBris who was invited for this special podcast episode. Matt has been heavily involved over the years in motivating students through University speaking engagements and mentoring young entrepreneurs through programs like CUNY Startups. Matt started his career by working with Damond John! He founded 1BBranding in March 2019. The company is a startup focusing on helping brands gain and foster the attention they deserve through creative strategy and implementation. They have also recently been nominated for the 2021 Best of the Boro award.

#COVID19 Special Coverage: Peter Stuart is the managing partner at outlier Realty Capital. Outlier’s mission is investing in spaces that meet the changing needs of people and communities. 

Their main focus is on naturally occurring affordable housing and co-living urban development. The company has been around for almost 7 years. Most recently, Outlier has secured a partnership with co-living giant, Common. Peter is also a member and mentor for Young President’s Organization and Young Entrepreneurs Council. 

Peter tells us about his ‘accidental’ fall into entrepreneurship. We go behind the scenes on co-living and the future of telecommuting, the realities of companies adjusting to remote teams, tips on how to make the most of your relationship with mentors, and more! 

#COVID19 Special Coverage: On this episode we have Mayer Mizrachi, the co-founder of Criptext. Criptext launched in 2014 originally as an encryption extension for Gmail that enabled users to have more security.

In 2015 during a trip to Colombia with friends, Mayer was arrested and served an Interpol Red Notice. He served 5 months in a Colombian prison, and is to date unable to travel outside of Panama. The government’s interference with Mayer and the company’s private data is what inspired the company to shift focus and create today’s version of CripText which is an open source, end to end encrypted email service. 

Since then, the company has expanded and reached 100,000 users, and just a few weeks ago launched their revenue model. The transparency of the CripText model has encouraged other competing services to release their code publicly. In this conversation Mayer talks about what makes him uniquely wired to endure trying situations, how building legos helps him think, managing remote teams … from prison, the role he sees himself playing within his organization, how he approaches goal setting for Criptext, and so much more. 

This episode is definitely worth a listen. 

#COVID19 Special Coverage: Today on this episode we have Ben Guttman, the partner and co-founder Digital Natives Group, an award winning digital marketing agency headquartered in Queens, New York. Ben didn’t skip a beat and started his agency straight out of college. Since then, he and his partners have grown the company with an impressive client roster, providing services for the NFL, ILoveNewYork, Comcast, and more. Ben is also a digital marketing professor at Baruch College. Ben dives into creating meaningful connections during the time of COVID, the key to communicating your brand to potential customers clearly, and the most important question of all: should those of us in our 30’s feel guilty about not being on Tik Tok? This and so much more, check it out!

#COVID19 Special Coverage: On today’s episode we have Brainard Carey, artist, author and entrepreneur. Together with his wife Dilia, he founded Praxis: the center for Aesthetic Studies, a learning space which focuses on professional development for artists. 

Brainard has sold over 50,000 copies of his best selling books and has had his work exhibited in prestigious venues such as the Whitney Museum Biennial. We discuss the power of mentorship, the place of traditional schooling in the art space, the distinguishing factor that differentiates artists from entrepreneurs and more!

#COVID19 Special Coverage: Berto Antunano is the Vice President Of Business Development at MIT National (who was recently acquired by Newmark Knight Frank) a title agency specializing in residential and commercial life insurance. Throughout his career, Berto has achieved Rookie of the Year, Diamond Club Member status, and was ranked in the Top 10 out of 75,000 executives nationwide. Berto was also been featured on the Million Dollar Listing a few times throughout his career. In this conversation Berto walks us through his belief of what every salesman and saleswoman should do at least once in their sales career, the power affirmations have when he’s having a bad day, how teaching men’s social bootcamps led to his own love story, and the unusual solutions and partnerships he’s seeing in his industry to be able to move deals forward in a time of COVID.

#COVID19 Special Coverage: Richard Gearhart, together with his wife Elizabeth, is the founder of Gearhart Law - a firm in New York city that specializes in intellectual property (patents, trademarks, copyrights, and more.) They are also the hosts and sponsors of an iHeartRadio show called Passage to Profit - a radio show and podcast for entrepreneurs. On this episode Richard gives us an intellectual property 101, advice on what start-up founders should focus on in the early days of starting a business, and an interesting glimpse into what the IP landscape is looking like in the days of COVID.