The Black Create Connect Podcast, is hosted by the founder of the community and job board, Alicia Latoya Richardson. This podcast explores the journeys, key life experiences and lessons from black creatives, professionals and business owners. Alicia seeks to gain an understanding of how each individual reached their current level of success, whilst addressing racial barriers and challenges. The purpose of this podcast is the educate allies on black professional and life experiences, and inspire the black wider community informing them of what options they truly have access to and where various career paths or life experiences may take. To see more about Black Create Connect follow us on Linked In and Instagram @BlackCreateConnect. To engage with the founder please connect with her on Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-richardson/ or follow her on instagram - @alicialatoyaldn
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The Black Create Connect Podcast, is hosted by the founder of the community and job board, Alicia Latoya Richardson. This podcast explores the journeys, key life experiences and lessons from black creatives, professionals and business owners. Alicia seeks to gain an understanding of how each individual reached their current level of success, whilst addressing racial barriers and challenges. The purpose of this podcast is the educate allies on black professional and life experiences, and inspire the black wider community informing them of what options they truly have access to and where various career paths or life experiences may take. To see more about Black Create Connect follow us on Linked In and Instagram @BlackCreateConnect. To engage with the founder please connect with her on Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-richardson/ or follow her on instagram - @alicialatoyaldn
Ep 90 - Changing the way Black women buy hair care products Ft Jamelia Donaldson Founder Treasure Tress
Black Create Connect Podcast
1 hour 51 seconds
1 year ago
Ep 90 - Changing the way Black women buy hair care products Ft Jamelia Donaldson Founder Treasure Tress
Jamelia Donaldson is the founder and CEO of TreasureTress — a monthly product subscription service for girls and women with kinky-curly hair and also the co-creator of The Teen Experience, a monthly workshop series which offers young black women to attend a series of personal development workshops, network with other like-minded individuals and be inspired by mature and successful women. Workshops to date have included creating vision boards and discussions about self-care.
Since launching in 2015, with a huge online community, and an active and thriving offline presence, Treasure Tress has proven that natural hair and black sisterhood can truly go hand in hand.
As a solution to the beauty industry’s difficulty connecting to their Black, female consumer in the UK, Jamelia added a consultancy arm to TreasureTress as a way to guide brands in the US on the unique experience of the Black, UK natural hair consumer. Providing them with strategy, social, digital and influencer marketing.
Jamelia has been featured in Forbes, Buzzfeed, Good Housekeeping and Pride Magazine just to name a few.
In this episode Alicia and Jamelia discuss:
Her experience as an intern in NYC
Studying 7 subjects at A level
Why she started Treasure Tress
How Treasure Tress can save black women 100s a year
Overcoming challenges; building a product based business at home
Winning over 100k work of TV ads & Billboard space
Learn more about Treasure Tress here - https://www.treasuretress.co.uk/
Connect with Jamelia Here - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jamelia-donaldson-73952237
Black Create Connect Podcast
The Black Create Connect Podcast, is hosted by the founder of the community and job board, Alicia Latoya Richardson. This podcast explores the journeys, key life experiences and lessons from black creatives, professionals and business owners. Alicia seeks to gain an understanding of how each individual reached their current level of success, whilst addressing racial barriers and challenges. The purpose of this podcast is the educate allies on black professional and life experiences, and inspire the black wider community informing them of what options they truly have access to and where various career paths or life experiences may take. To see more about Black Create Connect follow us on Linked In and Instagram @BlackCreateConnect. To engage with the founder please connect with her on Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-richardson/ or follow her on instagram - @alicialatoyaldn
