Ola Swarn, founder and owner of J'adore le Décor, joins us today to share her Freed story! Having gotten started by opening a business in 2016, Ola is an interior stylist who specializes in transforming spaces of 1,000 square feet or less, a sp

Interview with Antonia Royal-Whitmore of Mind of Gold

Aug 17th, 2021 8m 55s

We welcome Freed fellow Antonia Royal-Whitmore to the podcast in this episode so that she can share her Freed Story! Antonia is the founder of Mind of Gold, a publishing company whose main mission is to educate, empower, and entertain via media

Interview with Chantel Estrada

Aug 10th, 2021 11m 24s

We hope that you will join us in this episode of Freed Stories as Chantel Estrada of Designs By Moneè shares her Freed story with us! Designs By Moneè has been in business for six years now and makes shirts, birthday outfits, shoes, candles (wh

Interview with Sheri Munsell

Aug 3rd, 2021 11m 3s

Join us as we welcome Sheri Munsell of Legit Work from Home to this episode of the podcast! Sheri is the C.E.O. of the company which helps people who don't wish to work traditional brick and mortar jobs find work-from-home jobs that they can do

Interview with Alexis Jefferson-Huff

Jul 27th, 2021 11m 49s

Founder and owner of Equipped to Impact Solutions, Alexis Jefferson-Huff joins us today to share her unique Freed story! She goes into detail about Equipped to Impact Solutions and where her love for etiquette comes from. She always loved to se

Interview with Zach Moldof of Skate Bud

Jul 20th, 2021 22m 55s

Co-founder and owner of Skate Bud Zach Moldof joins us in this episode of the podcast to share his Freed story! Skate Bud is a marketplace and community for skateboarders that was born about four years ago but came to be what it is today about

Interview with Lauren Fleming, founder of The Factor Formula

Jul 13th, 2021 12m 31s

We are joined today by Lauren Fleming, founder of The Factor Formula, a skin care company that caters to all types of skin. The company has grown from a multivitamin to a skin cleanser to a skin toner and, most recently, a moisturizer, so Laure

Interview with Kayla Castañeda of Agua Bonita - Part 2

Jul 6th, 2021 25m 12s

Returning from the last episode is Kayla Castañeda, C.E.O. and co-owner of agua fresca company Agua Bonita. She is here to elaborate more on her journey and discuss some topics such as what it was like to launch a company amid the COVID-19 pand

Interview with Kayla Castañeda of Agua Bonita - Part 1

Jun 29th, 2021 34m 5s

Andy and Maggie take the reins in this episode of Freed Stories to interview our Freed fellow of April, Kayla Castañeda! Kayla is the C.E.O. and co-owner of Agua Bonita, a company that makes healthy and ready-to-drink agua frescas (a traditiona

Interview with Blair Paysinger of Post 21

Jun 22nd, 2021 11m 53s

Joining me in this episode of the podcast is Blair Paysinger! Blair is owner of Post 21, an online marketplace for Black-owned businesses with approximately sixty vendors. They have been in business for a little more than a year, having initial

Checking in with Tyla's Writing Services

Jun 15th, 2021 8m 55s

Those of you who have been listening to the podcast regularly may recall our having chatted back in the sixth episode with Tyla Hansen of Tyla's Writing Services, and we are touching base with her again now to get an update on where her busines

Q & A - Part 2

Jun 8th, 2021 33m 1s

Andy Louis-Charles and Nathan Rodgers are back to answer more questions about entrepreneurship sent in by the Freed community! In this session of answering these questions, we start by discussing how to go about attracting customers. Andy argue

Q & A - Part 1

Jun 1st, 2021 24m 50s

It's Maggie here stepping in for Jackie in this episode of the podcast, and I welcome Andy Louis-Charles and Nathan Rodgers back to the podcast, both of whom have been on the show in the past. (If you haven't heard the episodes in which they ar

Interview with Maggie Partin

May 25th, 2021 27m 46s

Freed partner Maggie Partin joins me again to talk about her new company and what has changed in her professional life since you heard her in the first episode of the podcast. Maggie's new company is called The Seventh Sense and is a loungewear

Interview with Natalie Maniscalco and Irene Zervoudis of Wonder Girls

May 18th, 2021 32m 23s

Tune in as I chat with Natalie Maniscalco and Irene Zervoudis of Wonder Girls, one of the winners of the Freed Fellowship grant! Wonder Girls was founded in 2020 and is an after-school program for female high school students. The mission statem

Interview with Tami Thornton

May 11th, 2021 14m 48s

Freed fellow Tami Thornton, owner of Beehive Soap & Body Care, joins me today to discuss her business and how she got started with it. Beehive Soap is based out of Utah (the Beehive State, hence the name of the company) and has been in business

Interview with Elif Ekin

May 4th, 2021 13m 17s

Freed fellow Elif Ekin, culinary artist and owner of Bohemian Baklava and of a Turkish cafe called Kahve Cafe, joins me in this episode of Freed Stories to share her journey and how she became an entrepreneur. Initially deciding to go into psyc

Getting Country with Becky Pool

Apr 27th, 2021 15m 22s

I am joined today by fellow Freed member Becky Pool, founder and C.E.O. of Country Chick's Solutions, an online virtual assistant service for coaches, mentors, and online business owners who are looking to be online in a greater capacity or are

Freed Minds Behind the Magic with Andy Louis-Charles

Apr 20th, 2021 27m 46s

We have a very special episode in store for you today as we welcome our fearless leader of Freed Fellowship, Andy Louis-Charles. Andy was only eight years old when he started his first business, and he continues to do great work as our inspirat

Down the Funnel with Nathan Rodgers

Apr 13th, 2021 35m 56s

Join me as Nathan Rodgers shares his own freed story this week! Nathan is currently a digital marketer and has a background in the public sector in the Peace Corps (which he joined after college). He then worked at UNICEF and had the opportunit

The Life of a Busy Bee with Nto

Apr 6th, 2021 15m 10s

Join me as I talk to Nto, of the company Busy Bumblebeees, about her business and how it got started, how she had been a content creator and manager at a restaurant but was laid off because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how she got started as a

Getting it Write with Tyla Hansen

Mar 30th, 2021 9m 6s

Imagine, if you have to, having a career that allows you to encapsulate pretty much all of your interests. Most of us aren't that lucky, right? Well, Deja Tyla, founder of Tyla's Writing Services, is that lucky! With a background in project man

Taking It Digital with Sammy Kelly

Mar 23rd, 2021 15m 59s

Freed fellow Sammy Kelly, one of two co-owners of Digivangelism, is here to share her freed story with us! When Sammy was younger, she always saw herself as a missionary, excited by the prospect of a lifestyle other than the typical 9-5 grind,

From Saving Animals to Saving Businesses with Shawna Robles

Mar 16th, 2021 11m 48s

Beginning her journey networking on social media for various animal rescue sanctuaries, fellow Freed member Shawna joins me in this episode to share her Freed story, sharing how she got into virtual assistant business six or seven years ago whi

Leaving The Corporate World with Jackie Heil

Mar 9th, 2021 9m 5s

Switching things up a bit in this episode by doing a reversal of what we did in our first episode, co-founder of Freed Media Maggie Partin now interviews me, fellow co-founder and host of the Freed Stories podcast Jackie Heil, who, like Maggie,