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How Tashell Williams Turned Natural Hair Care Into a Purpose-Driven Brand
Hair can be a service, but for Tashell Williams, it became the beginning of a much deeper business mission. In this episode of Entrepreneurship Now, LaShay LaRue sits down with Tashell Williams, salon owner, clean beauty entrepreneur, certified professional coach, and author of One Lung to Live, for a conversation about natural hair, self-love, wellness, purpose, and building a business from the lessons life forced you to learn. Tashell shares how her childhood dream of ownin
May 282 min read
The Two-Hour Operational Review That Keeps Your Business From Quietly Failing
Most businesses don't fail all at once—they fail slowly through unnoticed gaps in systems, processes, and performance. Learn the two-hour monthly operational review framework that helps service-based entrepreneurs identify issues early, strengthen business systems, and prepare for sustainable growth.
May 279 min read
How to Delegate Without Creating More Work for Yourself
You keep saying you need help. You keep saying you are going to hire someone. And then you do not. Not because you cannot afford it. Because you cannot imagine anyone doing it the way you do it. The last time you tried to hand something off, you spent more time explaining and correcting than it would have taken to do it yourself. So you took it back and told yourself the problem is finding the right person. It is not. What you need is a delegation readiness checklist: a struc
May 269 min read
How Omolola Taiwo Built a Digital Therapy Practice With Stronger Systems
Being a great counselor does not automatically mean you know how to run a counseling business. In this episode of Entrepreneurship Now, LaShay LaRue sits down with Omolola “Lowe” Taiwo, licensed professional counselor and founder of Omi Wellness and Counseling, for a conversation about mental health entrepreneurship, integrative wellness, digital systems, and what it really takes to build a sustainable service-based business. Lowe shares how she moved from working in a group
May 212 min read
Better Beats More: How to Find the Gaps Slowing Your Business Down
You have spent the last six months building. A new offer. A new funnel. A new lead magnet. A new platform presence. Maybe a new brand identity. And you are exhausted. Not because the work is hard, but because nothing you built is working as well as it should. The funnel is up but the conversion rate is mediocre. The offer is live but the inquiries are inconsistent. The content system exists but it stalls every time life gets busy. The answer is not another launch. It is a bus
May 209 min read
If You Stepped Away for Two Weeks, Would Your Business Still Run?
If you got sick for two weeks, would your business keep running? Not in a theoretical, worst-case-scenario way. In a practical way. If you could not check your email, could not log into your booking tool, could not send a client their next steps, and could not post a single piece of content for 14 days, what would happen? If the answer is "everything stops," you do not have a business. You have a job that depends entirely on you showing up. And that is not a growth problem fo
May 198 min read
How to Turn One Piece of Content Into a Month of Visibility
If you are starting from scratch every single week — new idea, new caption, new email, new everything — you are working five times harder than you need to. The content you already have is your raw material. And the content you create this week can fuel every platform you are on for the next four weeks — if you have a repurposing workflow in place. This is the companion post to Tuesday's piece on building a content system. If you missed it, the short version is this: a content
May 145 min read
Katherine Thompson on Burnout Prevention for Entrepreneurs
Burnout prevention for entrepreneurs isn't about working less. It's about building a business that can grow without constantly draining you. In this conversation, Katherine Thompson joins LaShay LaRue to unpack what burnout really looks like, why high achievers often miss the warning signs, and what it takes to build a healthier way of working. Too many entrepreneurs confuse burnout with having a busy season. They push through exhaustion, ignore what their bodies are telling
May 142 min read
The Business Relationships That Help You Stop Guessing and Start Growing
There is a decision you have been sitting on for weeks. Maybe it is about pricing. Maybe it is about whether to fire a client who drains your energy but pays consistently. Maybe it is about restructuring your offer, pivoting your niche, or finally investing in something that scares you. You have turned it over in your head a hundred times. You have made a pros-and-cons list. You have asked your partner or your best friend, and their advice was kind but not useful because they
May 138 min read
Your Email List Is Not Dead. Your Follow-Up Is.
You have an email list. And you feel guilty about it. Not because it does not work but because you are not using it. You collected those emails with good intentions. You told yourself you would send a newsletter every week. Then it became every other week. Then once a month. Then you sent one email about a launch, felt weird about it, and went silent again. And on the rare occasion you do send an email, you spend 45 minutes agonizing over the subject line, another 20 minutes
May 1210 min read
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