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Courtney Phillips is the co-founder of Gumbo Media, a storytelling platform and content engine that expands the narrative of Black life. She's also the co-founder of Gumbo Fit, a unique community powered by Nike Running that thoughtfully bridges the worlds of underrepresented populations and the fitness mainstream through a diversity of programming and content curation, while prioritizing the coalescing of Black and Brown fitness and wellness enthusiasts across Chicago to start, with a particula...

Courtney Phillips is the co-founder of Gumbo Media, a storytelling platform and content engine that expands the narrative of Black life. She's also the co-founder of Gumbo Fit, a unique community powered by Nike Running that thoughtfully bridges the worlds of underrepresented populations and the fitness mainstream through a diversity of programming and content curation, while prioritizing the coalescing of Black and Brown fitness and wellness enthusiasts across Chicago to start, with a particula...

Courtney Phillips is the co-founder of Gumbo Media, a storytelling platform and content engine that expands the narrative of Black life. She's also the co-founder of Gumbo Fit, a unique community powered by Nike Running that thoughtfully bridges the worlds of underrepresented populations and the fitness mainstream through a diversity of programming and content curation, while prioritizing the coalescing of Black and Brown fitness and wellness enthusiasts across Chicago to start, with a particula...

When I reached out to Lesley Eccels - co-founder of fantasy sports app FanDuel and founder of the relationship health app Relish - it was the height of sheltering at home. Because of that, events coalesced that made me absolutely want to talk to her. I'd found Relish as my husband and I were at each others' throats one day - it was probably about the dishes, if I'm being honest. And shortly after my husband and I started using Relish, he listened to the book Billion Dollar Fantasy by Albert Che...

When I reached out to Lesley Eccels - co-founder of fantasy sports app FanDuel and founder of the relationship health app Relish - it was the height of sheltering at home. Because of that, events coalesced that made me absolutely want to talk to her. I'd found Relish as my husband and I were at each others' throats one day - it was probably about the dishes, if I'm being honest. And shortly after my husband and I started using Relish, he listened to the book Billion Dollar Fantasy by Albert Che...

When I reached out to Lesley Eccels - co-founder of fantasy sports app FanDuel and founder of the relationship health app Relish - it was the height of sheltering at home. Because of that, events coalesced that made me absolutely want to talk to her. I'd found Relish as my husband and I were at each others' throats one day - it was probably about the dishes, if I'm being honest. And shortly after my husband and I started using Relish, he listened to the book Billion Dollar Fantasy by Albert Che...

Here's a sobering statistic that keeps Ashley Connell up at night: 43% of women leave the workforce to have children, and if out for just 3 years, a woman loses 37% of compensation power (Harvard Business Review). But at the same time, research shows that having women in leadership roles benefits the company in major, measurable ways. For example, firms with female CEOs often perform better in the stock market than those with male CEOs, and one study showed that female CEOs achieve up to 18 per...

Here's a sobering statistic that keeps Ashley Connell up at night: 43% of women leave the workforce to have children, and if out for just 3 years, a woman loses 37% of compensation power (Harvard Business Review). But at the same time, research shows that having women in leadership roles benefits the company in major, measurable ways. For example, firms with female CEOs often perform better in the stock market than those with male CEOs, and one study showed that female CEOs achieve up to 18 per...

Here's a sobering statistic that keeps Ashley Connell up at night: 43% of women leave the workforce to have children, and if out for just 3 years, a woman loses 37% of compensation power (Harvard Business Review). But at the same time, research shows that having women in leadership roles benefits the company in major, measurable ways. For example, firms with female CEOs often perform better in the stock market than those with male CEOs, and one study showed that female CEOs achieve up to 18 per...

When we met Beau Schmitt, co-founder of Sunday Scaries, he exuded an overwhelming sense of chill. But like so many entrepreneurs in wellness, his story is one of finding his purpose through adversity. He and his co-founder Mike owned a bar with upwards of 50 employees - a time of 14-hour days and "putting out little tiny fires" all the time. Around 2015, they were looking for something to calm them down without setting them up for failure the next morning. A friend turned them onto CBD - a cann...

When we met Beau Schmitt, co-founder of Sunday Scaries, he exuded an overwhelming sense of chill. But like so many entrepreneurs in wellness, his story is one of finding his purpose through adversity. He and his co-founder Mike owned a bar with upwards of 50 employees - a time of 14-hour days and "putting out little tiny fires" all the time. Around 2015, they were looking for something to calm them down without setting them up for failure the next morning. A friend turned them onto CBD - a cann...

When we met Beau Schmitt, co-founder of Sunday Scaries, he exuded an overwhelming sense of chill. But like so many entrepreneurs in wellness, his story is one of finding his purpose through adversity. He and his co-founder Mike owned a bar with upwards of 50 employees - a time of 14-hour days and "putting out little tiny fires" all the time. Around 2015, they were looking for something to calm them down without setting them up for failure the next morning. A friend turned them onto CBD - a cann...

Leaned up against his car, Brian Kent, waited outside of my home on a winter morning in Chicago with a proof of his book "Walked On" tucked under his arm. I've known Kent for a while - we trained together, we worked together, and I consider him a friend. On the pages of the book he hands me are the formative years of his life as an athlete spelled out in the details of opportunities and setbacks, which seem to occur in alternating order. I've heard some of the stories - I knew he met his wife i...

Leaned up against his car, Brian Kent, waited outside of my home on a winter morning in Chicago with a proof of his book "Walked On" tucked under his arm. I've known Kent for a while - we trained together, we worked together, and I consider him a friend. On the pages of the book he hands me are the formative years of his life as an athlete spelled out in the details of opportunities and setbacks, which seem to occur in alternating order. I've heard some of the stories - I knew he met his wife i...

Leaned up against his car, Brian Kent, waited outside of my home on a winter morning in Chicago with a proof of his book "Walked On" tucked under his arm. I've known Kent for a while - we trained together, we worked together, and I consider him a friend. On the pages of the book he hands me are the formative years of his life as an athlete spelled out in the details of opportunities and setbacks, which seem to occur in alternating order. I've heard some of the stories - I knew he met his wife i...

One of my favorite things in the world is to find and try new products trying to shake up the grocery store. Cruising through food-instagram, I stumbled upon Lovebird Foods, which felt like a growing better-for-you brand. After three clicks that led to a half hour down this company's organic, whole-food cereal rabbit hole. I bought a three-pack of this cereal that's made of good stuff like cassava flour, honey, coconut oil, collagen, and sea salt. It's all stuff I can eat with my extra sensitiv...

One of my favorite things in the world is to find and try new products trying to shake up the grocery store. Cruising through food-instagram, I stumbled upon Lovebird Foods, which felt like a growing better-for-you brand. After three clicks that led to a half hour down this company's organic, whole-food cereal rabbit hole. I bought a three-pack of this cereal that's made of good stuff like cassava flour, honey, coconut oil, collagen, and sea salt. It's all stuff I can eat with my extra sensitiv...

One of my favorite things in the world is to find and try new products trying to shake up the grocery store. Cruising through food-instagram, I stumbled upon Lovebird Foods, which felt like a growing better-for-you brand. After three clicks that led to a half hour down this company's organic, whole-food cereal rabbit hole. I bought a three-pack of this cereal that's made of good stuff like cassava flour, honey, coconut oil, collagen, and sea salt. It's all stuff I can eat with my extra sensitiv...

Vizer, an app that allows you to track your steps and donate meals, is currently one of the most popular Health and Fitness apps in the app store. If my email inbox is any indication, there are approximately infinity new wellness apps created every day. Vizer is doing something right - its users have donated 1.32 million meals to date. This app's concept is incredibly simple as you'll hear Dylan Barbour, co-founder and CGO, and Samantha Pantazopoulos, co-founder and CEO, explain on this week's ...

Vizer, an app that allows you to track your steps and donate meals, is currently one of the most popular Health and Fitness apps in the app store. If my email inbox is any indication, there are approximately infinity new wellness apps created every day. Vizer is doing something right - its users have donated 1.32 million meals to date. This app's concept is incredibly simple as you'll hear Dylan Barbour, co-founder and CGO, and Samantha Pantazopoulos, co-founder and CEO, explain on this week's ...

Vizer, an app that allows you to track your steps and donate meals, is currently one of the most popular Health and Fitness apps in the app store. If my email inbox is any indication, there are approximately infinity new wellness apps created every day. Vizer is doing something right - its users have donated 1.32 million meals to date. This app's concept is incredibly simple as you'll hear Dylan Barbour, co-founder and CGO, and Samantha Pantazopoulos, co-founder and CEO, explain on this week's ...

"When we saw the initial purchase orders come in, they were larger than the revenue from our previous year," Chomps CEO and co-founder Pete Maldonado said of getting the bootstrapped businesses' goods into Trader Joes. "We had to survive on the cash we had in the bank and we absolutely did not have the cash for this kind of production run." So, he and co-founder and COO Rashid Ali put in the work to raise just over $1m from eight separate lenders from Friday to Monday - without giving up any eq...

"When we saw the initial purchase orders come in, they were larger than the revenue from our previous year," Chomps CEO and co-founder Pete Maldonado said of getting the bootstrapped businesses' goods into Trader Joes. "We had to survive on the cash we had in the bank and we absolutely did not have the cash for this kind of production run." So, he and co-founder and COO Rashid Ali put in the work to raise just over $1m from eight separate lenders from Friday to Monday - without giving up any eq...

"When we saw the initial purchase orders come in, they were larger than the revenue from our previous year," Chomps CEO and co-founder Pete Maldonado said of getting the bootstrapped businesses' goods into Trader Joes. "We had to survive on the cash we had in the bank and we absolutely did not have the cash for this kind of production run." So, he and co-founder and COO Rashid Ali put in the work to raise just over $1m from eight separate lenders from Friday to Monday - without giving up any eq...