Desiree Rogers and Cheryl Mayberry McKissack
Comeback with Erica Cobb
They are the co-owners of two iconic black beauty brands, Black Opal and Fashion Fair, which they bought in 2017. Acquiring not one, but two of the most iconic beauty brands, is unheard of in the beauty business especially by two black women, Desiree Rogers and Cheryl Mayberry McKissack plan to impact the beauty and business industry in unprecedented ways!
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Amber Abundance
Comeback with Erica Cobb
Amber J. Phillips is a storyteller and filmmaker. She creates world building narratives using warm visuals and vulnerable performances through her lens of being a fat Black queer femme auntie from the Midwest. Amber recently released her first short film, Abundance about the limitations and radical possibilities of identity. Amber is the producer, writer, and performer of Abundance that was most recently a 2021 BlackStar Film Festival selection and won the audience award for Best Short Narrative. Amber’s written and visual work...
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Comeback LIVE from Clayton Members Club & Hotel Denver
Comeback with Erica Cobb
It’s a Comeback first, a podcast in front of a studio audience! I enlisted some of my favorite entrepreneurs to talk about navigating their post pandemic comeback. You’ll hear from Vasileia Sergakis (Creator of “Cloud 111”) Angel Martinez (Owner of Angel Aesthetics) and Dana Ford-Buerger (Owner of Lariat Boutique). For more on my panelist as well as future LIVE events. Please visit my Instagram @EricaCobb
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Dominique Mallard: Creator of “Bill of Rights” for Foster Siblings
Comeback with Erica Cobb
Dominique Mallard entered the Colorado welfare system at just 16 years old with her younger brother. She and her brother were both sent into foster care where they stayed in close contact for two years until they were seperated. After spending years dealing with the grief and pain of losing her brother, who was relocated without her awareness, Dominique wrote the “Bill of Rights” for Foster Siblings, ensuring that no other siblings in the State of Colorado be separated from each other without access to information of there whereabouts, amongst other rights. Follow Dominique on...
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Buffie Purselle: Author of “Crawl Before You Ball”
Comeback with Erica Cobb
Buffie Purselle returns to Comeback to talk about her book, “Crawl Before You Ball.” As a Certified “Crawler” myself, I was anxious to speak with Buffie, who has over twenty years of expertise in the financial field. As the founder of Buffie, LLC, her success derives from her professional and innate ability to demystify the daunting world of taxes, personal finance, and small business management with skilled, practical, and sometimes sassy guidance with her clients. She is passionate about teaching financial literacy with her book and e-course, Crawl Before You...
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McKensie Mack: Founder and CEO of MMG Research and Change Management Firm
Comeback with Erica Cobb
McKensie Mack is the expert we turn to when discussing the thorniest and most complex problems surrounding social and racial justice. McKensie is an anti-oppression consultant, researcher, the Founder & CEO of MMG, and the Creator of #BoundaryWork. For more on MMG visit: www.MMG.Earth
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Damien Navarro: Executive Director of OUTFEST
Comeback with Erica Cobb
Damien S. Navarro was selected by the Board of Outfest (est. 1982), a globally recognized media, arts and entertainment non-profit organization, as Executive Director. This native Angeleno is a graduate of film studies from California State University, Fullerton. In 1998, Damien founded the Los Angeles based award-winning media + technology studio, Brighter (nee Earthbound Media Group), departing after its sale in 2013. Since then, he has been tapped as a c-level executive for several mid-sized corporations as well as consulted for recognized organizations such as the Sundance Institute,...
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Sirena Rolfe: Inventor of Tempus Hood Inc.
Comeback with Erica Cobb
Sirena Rolfe, is one of the few African-American women to receive a patent since the late 1860s. She is also believed to be the only african-american woman to have received a patent in Colorado in this century! She joined me to talk about how her entrepreneurial journey took her from a professional career in digital marketing to her invention - Tempus Hood Inc - the only patented transferrable product designed to help protect women's hair from unexpected weather. For more on Sirena and Tempus Hood go to Tempushood.com.
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Natalie Wilson: Co-Founder of Black and Missing Foundation
Comeback with Erica Cobb
Natalie Wilson, Co-Founder of Black and Missing Foundation as well as the founder of the NWR Communications Group, joined me to amplify their mission to find our Black and missing. Natalie also offered advice on getting your community serving organization off the ground as well as shared her journey from cultivating a community mission to getting an HBO docuseries, "Black and Missing." For more on Natalie, Black and Missing and how you can help go to: BlackandMissinginc.com
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Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: CEO of Promise - Former Manager of Prince.
Comeback with Erica Cobb
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins is an American social justice advocate and businesswoman, the co-founder and CEO of Promise, a technology platform that helps people pay their government debt, she is also most notably known as being the manager of the late icon Prince.
info_outlineCoach Gessie Thompson is one of the 90% of Black Women affected by fibroids by age 50. The CEO of DETOX LIVING personally battled the epidemic for 14 years and the resulting infertility for 10 of those years to have her miracle baby Nia. Her grueling journey included 10 surgeries, five IVF cycles, a devastating miscarriage and even her heart stopping on the delivery table.
Her story gained national attention when ESSENCE published her profile titled "My Fertility Journey" in the 2014 Mother's Day issue sparking a chain reaction of transformation that included releasing her bestselling book HOPE BEYOND FIBROIDS: Stories of Miracle Babies & the Journey to Motherhood.
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