MINDSET OVER EVERYTHING: How do I grow and SCALE multiple locations

Alycia Levels Moore visits the UAB Collat school of business and speaks with students about cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset in preparation for their entrepreneurial journey and shares how she started and launched her businesses.

Special Guest: Brian "B Flat" CookFounder of B Flat Music, producer, songwriter, engineer, and vocalist Music Hyphenate, B Flat Shares with fellow creatives and artist about being in the right position to seize opportunities, harness relationships and ensuring you are set up properly as a business to make money from your work & art.

Special Guest: Chris SmootOwner: Memory LaneChris launched his company while in college and took a college refund check to launch his idea for a shoe company, and now Memory Lane has 3 locations preparing for its 4th location. Chris's story helps us to remove any excuses in our way to start and GROW the business that we know we should start.

Special Guest: Owner: Bridge & RootAlways a lover of fashion, Aisha moved through the world of fashion until taking a calculated risk on opening her mens retail company. Armed with the knowledge, skill, and ability to shake fear. Aisha invested in her company and launched her retail company Bridge & Root.

Special Guest: Kayla Gladney Owner: Dawn G MediaA student in film school but armed with a deep yearning of wanting to bet on her new idea of a company, Kayla took the best bet we can make, on ourselves! Listen in while she shares how the power of relationships and reputation helped to propel her company. and why the key is to just get started!

Special Guest: Troy WhestonFounder: The Modern House Coffee ShopTroy has an aeronautical aircraft cleaning company and then started a coffee company with no formal training and never having a cup of coffee before. Opening a coffee company with a mission, we explore managing multiple businesses and ideas, raising money in a pandemic, and the audacity to do what you've never done before.

Special Guest :Ashlee AmmonsCo-founder : MixtrozThere are several barriers facing women and minorities in tech when it comes to raising capital. Bias, limited access to funding sources, and lack of mentors. Listen in as Ashlee shares her journey of building a tech company with no formal training. Ashlee and her co founder mom, closed a million dollar round of funding becoming the 36th & 37th black women to ever close a million dollar round.