Flint is home to more than 75 fashion-focused businesses whose owners strive to keep pace with ever-changing market demands. Among the most visible is Kala Wilburn, the founder of her original clothing line Fannie Lucille as well as Flint Vehicle City Fashion Week and its signature Fashion Against Violence event, which she launched to raise […]
The energy was hard to describe. The networking was at fever pitch and the camaraderie so thick, it could be cut with a knife. No, it wasn’t the a summit of world leaders, but of local ones, gathered at the First Trinity Missionary Baptist Church for the GoGetHER Conference, the first of its kind in […]
Donyale Walton was accustomed to “slaying it.” Young, attractive and talented, the Flint native jumped into the New York fashion scene with both feet, gaining corporate experience with such known brands as Brooks Brothers. When she returned to Michigan the slaying – impressively succeeding in goals and in life – continued. She took jobs at […]
You can make it. That was a central theme of Flint’s recent GoGetHER Conference, which showcased the success stories of women like Naturalicious Hair Care Products Founder & CEO Gwen Jimmere. As an unemployed, single mother, Jimmere launched her national business with only $32 in assets and a desperate mandate to support her young son. […]
The GoGetHer conference coming up on April 21 will encourage women to take risks by pursuing their own career and personal dreams. Panelist Danielle Hughes, co-founder of Detroit Speaks, will have a lot to say about that. She suffered huge disappointments in her first career as a TV reporter and anchor. Hired as a reporter […]
At one point in her life Ebonie Gipson was making large profits for some of the biggest brands in the world. Now she is using her experience to build local companies. Gipson, owner of I’m Building Something Consulting LLC, is a small business consultant. Although she’s spent only one formal year operating her company, she […]
There was a time when Tachina Mack preferred a sure thing, professionally – regular work hours and checks that arrived on regular paydays. Risk-taking wasn’t a path she traveled in her career. But years later she’s the owner of Gifted Dezyns Graphics and Printing, a company that operates in three states. At the GoGetHER Conference […]