Create Your Life Series

CYLS 036: How I Built 5 Successful Multi-Million Dollar Clothing Companies With CEO & Founder of Mecca USA, Enyce, Parish- Nation, Born Fly & Staple c...

In this EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW for the CYLS, Evan provides the secrets of his success with the companies he has built. Learn his tips on sacrifices, decision making, making a jersey for rapper Notorious B.I.G and selling a company for $114 Million Dollars.

 

Tips from Evan:

1. I always said to myself if I keep the product strong it will masquerade a lot of the mistakes that I don’t know
2. Pay attention to fashion trends
3. Be humble
4. No matter your level of success, treat people with the same respect that you want to be treated with
5. For me its important to be profitable, I’m not in business to loose money but not at the expense of it consuming your whole day
6. Control what you can control but also be adaptable
7. I had to sacrifice some friendships to become successful
8. I focus on very few things and would rather give my best effort to those few things
9. 3 things to create your life – “Love What You Do, Treat Others How You Want To Be Treated, Be Honest And Direct With People”
10. "I like to play checkers not chess...  I like to keep things simple"

 

 Keep up with Evan:

https://born-fly.com/

https://www.instagram.com/bornflyclothing/

www.parish-nation.com/

https://www.instagram.com/theparishnation/

https://twitter.com/theparishnation?lang=en

 

https://www.staplepigeon.com/

https://www.facebook.com/staplepigeon

https://twitter.com/staplepigeon

https://www.instagram.com/staplepigeon/

https://vimeo.com/staplepigeon

edavis@parish-nation.com

 

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CYLS 034: Don’t Stop... Manage Your Fear, Guilt & Shame lessons in Business From CEO of Sudsy Water Laundromat Lachena Clark

In this episode of the CYLS, Lachena Clark gives us her top strategies for entrepreneurial survival, tips of how to get the community involved in your business, how to invest in great partnerships and how to study the market to gauge risk. 

Tips from Lachena:

1. Don’t stop... manage your fear, guilt and shame.
2. Understand even your employees are human and will make mistakes.
3. You can’t just be a researcher you have to make a decision to do something, you have to shoot the gun.
4. Look for business relationships that will have longevity, Go into business relationships that you only want to end a partnership if the person dies or retires.
5. Study your market and understand what is being offered by competitors around you. Go out and see whats’s happening in the neighborhood and research the cost of goods.
6. Ask about both sides of what if, what if something goes wrong and what if something goes right.

 

Keep up with Lachena:

www.sudsywater.com

https://www.instagram.com/sudsywater/

 

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CYLS 035: 10 Ways To Reach Your New Years Goals And Make Your Year Great

In this episode of the CYLS, Kevin provides the worksheet that he uses to create his goals every year and also gives his top 10 strategies to reach your goals and have a successful year. www.createyourlifeseries.com/resources

 

The 10 Ways to reach your goals and have a successful year

1. Plan out your goals early
2. Fill out the 12-month productivity sheet (www.createyourlifeseries.com/resources)
3. Get an accountability partner
4. Track your progress invest in your health,
5. Don’t give up - repetition
6. Create a daily affirmation audio track
7. Listen to 15 minutes of motivational or positive audio every day

 For the last 3 ways, plus the additional tips download this podcast episode.

 www.createyourlifeseries.com/podcast

 

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CYLS 031: From Corporate Star to Broadway Dreams with Actress, Fitness Model & Motivational Speaker Lisa Nicole Wilkerson

In this episode of the CYLS, Lisa Nicole Wilkerson describes her journey being in the less than 1% of artists who survive in NYC and the 3 major keys that guide her. Find out the attitude & work ethic needed to sustain a career on broadway. 

 

http://lisanicolewilkerson.com/

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Tips and quotes from Lisa.

 

“Life And The Quality Of Life Is Not To Be Wasted.” - Lisa Nicole Wilkerson past guest on the Create Your Life Series 

Lisa makes sure these three things are in alignment before she makes a move on anything - 1. Opportunity 2.  Energy to do things 3. Desire

 

“The Work Is What Gets You The Job, And The Job Finances The Work” - Lisa Nicole Wilkerson past guest on the Create Your Life Series 

“You can’t win if you don’t play, you’ve got to put yourself in the ring” - Lisa Nicole Wilkerson past guest on the Create Your Life Series 

“Being an artist is also being a business…. know your value and know your worth” - Lisa Nicole Wilkerson past guest on the Create Your Life Series 

Advocate for yourself

The training never stops

Use youtube to learn new accents 

“Life and the quality of life are a gift” - Lisa Nicole Wilkerson past guest on the Create Your Life Series 

“If your not making a choice you are choosing to stay put” - Lisa Nicole Wilkerson past guest on the Create Your Life Series 

Tips on how to find an agent that works for you

Scrapbook to overcome success amnesia

“Life can make choices for you or you can make choices for your life” - Lisa Nicole Wilkerson past guest on the Create Your Life Series 

 

**How to deal with rejection or critique

Have an internal conversation to avoid shutting down

Listen to feedback and take action on the feedback/instruction

Empower yourself to keep going

Know that you are your biggest advocate for yourself both inner and external 

 

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CYLS 030: 25 Ways To Save Money In College

In this episode of the CYLS, Kevin provides 25 Secrets of how to save money while in college. This is an in-depth perspective before the release of one of his upcoming books for Debt Free College Academy.

 

1. Have a Budget System
2. Use Debit over Credit
3. Use coupons everywhere you go
4. Relax with your meal plan
5. Get free food at campus events
6. Be a Resident Assistant
7. Ask Strategically

 

For the last 18 tips Listen to the podcast episode or enroll in one of our online Debt Free College courses at

www.debtfreecollegeacademy.com

 

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CYLS 033: Listener Questions In The CEO Hot Seat With CEO Of Intellio Eric Fondren

In this episode of the CYLS, Kevin & Eric answer questions from listeners about being a CEO & how to run a successful business. 

 

Tips from the show:

1. Scale up
2. Be conscious of how your employees view you
3. Be aware of yourself and how you communicate: Gauge it by the reciprocity in your relationships - He gives tips on how to gauge relationships
4. Engage team members through ownership and responsibility in the brand/company
5. How to understand your employee's way of thinking and how to incentivize them
6. Fire fast & Hire slowly
7. "Never count your feathers until you are 6 months in with an employee, you don't know if they are productive or not"
8. Break big tasks into small steps
9. Look at where people were before they became professionals
10. Self-knowledge costs money, how you decide to spend that money, you'll get better at as you do it, but always invest in self" - Eric Fondren CEO of Intellio
11. "The only thing that will make you a millionaire is work" -Eric Fondren CEO of Intellio

 

Keep up with us:

Eric:

https://twitter.com/ericnfondren

www.itell.io

 

Kevin:

https://twitter.com/kevinybrown

https://instagram.com/kevinybrown

https://instagram.com/cylseries 

 

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CYLS 032: How To Make Yourself an Invaluable with Entrepreneurial Entertainer George 2.0

In this episode of the CYLS, George 2.0 gives the secrets of how making himself invaluable has taken him around the world MC'ing & DJ'ing for Janelle Monae, running his production company & touring with his one man show "Any1Man". 

 

Tips from George:

1. Having and being good energy is important
2. Make yourself invaluable
3. Make sure to take on challenges that you may not want to do, step up
4. Live in the moment
5. Doubt yourself and then get over it
6. Recognize that you can change the tradition

Keep up with George:

http://www.georgetwopointoh.com/

https://www.instagram.com/twopointoh/

https://twitter.com/twopointoh

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcDZVvL1kWaQ-6ZXelqA3dA

 

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CYLS 029: 10 Ways To Make Mentoring Work For You

In this episode of the CYLS, In addition to the 10 Ways To Make Mentoring Work For You, Kevin provides the specific examples and stories of the value of mentorship and how it has propelled him to the level of success that he currently has.

www.kevinybrown.com

@cylseries

@kevinybrown

 

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CYLS 028: How To Excel In Corporate America To Fund Your Personal Goals with Gregory Nesmith

Former Mondelēz International Director of Strategy & Innovation Greg Nesmith shares his secrets to reviving global brands such as Kool Aid, Sour Patch Kids, finding a mentor and how to get corporate America to fund your entrepreneurial career.

 

Tips From Gregory Nesmith:

*Key things to turning brands around - empower people to do their work, think big picture, take work ethic and a good attitude over what seems like the perfect candidate

 

*How to rise in corporate America

1. Get feedback - Ask whats being said about you, what people like about you, what they don’t like about you
2. create a relationship with everyone
3. Get a mentor

*Ways to find a mentor

1. Pay attention to who likes you
2. Be willing to give credit to folks when they do well and take the blame when things don't go well.

 

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CYLS 027: 20 Tips to Travel The World Without Breaking Your Bank

In this episode of the CYLS, Kevin provides 20 Secrets to how he travels the world without breaking the bank and what pitfalls to look out for when traveling abroad. 

1. Stay away from touristy restaurants
2. Travel during the low-peak season
3. Don’t go overboard on souvenirs
4. Plan out your trip so you know where your money will be going
5. Make sure you have travel insurance

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