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LBW 005: Meet Juliet Ibrahim, Nollywood Actress and Entrepreneur
Actress, Philanthropist and Serial Entrepreneur Juliet Ibrahim on her Five Businesses, Steps to Launch Your Own Business, Acting, Divorce & more!
The Ladybrille African Woman Entrepreneur feature focuses on the African Woman in Business and the steps it took her to launch her business and make it successful. In this first installment of the feature on the Ladybrille Woman Podcast show, our special guest is actress, entrepreneur and philanthropist Juliet Ibrahim. The twenty eight year old shares the steps she took to launch her salon, modeling agency, retail store, and her production house. She also discusses her music, her work with her kidney foundation and how she launched the foundation. Finally, she opens up about her divorce from her husband, lessons learnt and provides tips for fellow African women in business. It is an interview you do not want to miss! Listen in and share!
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Quick Preview of the Podcast
- Juliet shares her past on experiencing three wars. (09:18 mark)
- Her father as a role model entrepreneur.
- Wanting to be the most influential woman in Africa (16:17)
- Becoming a model . (17:27)
- Becoming an actress. (17:45)
- Finding her calling/cause and her work with Kidney cancer. (19:20)
- Her dream to set up dialysis center across Africa.
- Obesity, smoking, diabetes increasing the chances of Kidney cancer.
- Things she learned from watching her father operate his businesses.
- How unwanted sexual advances and harassment motivated her to launch her business.
- What it takes to launch a salon, modeling agency, foundation, retail store.
- Management issues.
- Work as a brand ambassador.
- Her divorce and its impact on her life. (48:00 mark)
- Tips for African Women Entrepreneurs (57:30 mark)
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“My personal failure will be my marriage because I am divorced now… I got married at age 24. We were happy, young people in love but we really didn’t get a chance to really know ourselves. . . somewhere along the line, family members kept coming in saying “oh no, she’s an actress…” I will be there and people will be saying all kinds of stuff and sending him messages saying I am in another man’s car even though I was right there with him…” – Juliet Ibrahim
How to Get in Touch with Juliet
- Juliet Ibrahim Website
- Juliet Ibrahim Twitter
- Juliet is looking for qualified managers to work with. Listen to the podcast and send your resume to ([email protected]) if qualified.
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Founded in 2007, Ladybrille® Magazine is a California based pioneer digital publication demystifying the image of Africans in the west through contemporary African fashion and celebrating the brilliant woman in business and leadership, with an emphasis on the African woman in the diaspora. Our coverage includes stories on capital, access to markets, expertise, hiring and retention, sales, marketing, and promotions.
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LBW 004: Meet Amabel Niba, Publisher and Ladybrille Woman of the Month September 2014
What Does it Take Launch & Successfully Operate a Niche Magazine? Our Ladybrille Woman of the Month for September, Amabel Niba sheds light on what it takes to launch and successfully operate a niche magazine. The Ladybrille ‘Woman of the Month’ is a monthly feature on the magazine’s podcast show ‘Ladybrille Woman Podcast Show and website, that celebrates outstanding women, locally and internationally, for their brilliant contributions to society.
Amabel Niba is a motivational speaker, wife, mother, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Los Angeles based African Vibes Magazine. She earned her Bachelors’ degree in Business Information Systems at Devry College and her MBA at Keller Graduate School, both in Long Beach, California; and was a recipient of a Stanford University Fellowship where she studied Publishing.
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BBES International:BBES international is a passport to other markets. BBES makes the connections needed to take brands and companies where they want to go.
Quick Preview of the Podcast
- How the idea for African Vibes Magazine (AVM) was born.
- Amabel’s research into the publishing industry.
- Reaching out to the publishing industry heavy weights.
- The rejections.
- Determined and figuring how to publish AVM.
- Financing AVM.
- Operational costs and reality of running a publishing business.
- Obtaining sponsorship and advertising.
- The success of African Vibes Magazine.
- Brand expansion to ‘I Wear African.’
- Personal challenge and juggling family and business.
- The breakdown.
- Becoming a mommy.
- Getting back up.
- Tips for hopeful publishers and women entrepreneurs.
Links Mentioned in the Podcast
Amabel Niba’s Personal Website
Contact & Links
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Thank you for listening!
A running feature for 12 years on Ladybrille.com, The ‘Ladybrille Woman of the Month’ celebrates women in business and leadership, who empower themselves and others through their contributions and actions in their local and international communities. In 2014, the feature expanded to include a podcast show. If you would like to nominate a woman to be celebrated, please email [email protected].
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Stella Jean’s partnership with the Ethical Fashion Initiative continues to grow as she returns to her roots in Haiti to work with Haitian artisans. Stella Jean’s Spring Summer 2015 collection, was inspired by her recent trip to Haiti with the Ethical Fashion Initiative Team. Stella Jean met and worked with metalsmiths, papier-mâché and horn artisans …