Bartering for Creative and Entrepreneurial Success
Barter Black: The Business of Trade
Release Date: 09/10/2025
Bartering for Creative and Entrepreneurial Success
Barter Black: The Business of Trade
The Afros & Audio and Barter Black Partnership In the final episode of Barter Black: The Business of Trade, host Talib Jasir and Nicole Murphy, founder of Barter Black®, explore how bartering can be reimagined as a powerful tool for economic empowerment and community connection. They discuss the newly announced partnership between Afros & Audio and Barter Black, which creates a structured framework for creators, entrepreneurs, and professionals to exchange services, resources, and expertise without relying solely on financial transactions. The conversation covers the value of...
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Rethinking Entrepreneurship
Barter Black: The Business of Trade
The Power of Bartering and Collaboration In this episode of Barter Black: The Business of Trade, host Talib Jasir and Nicole Murphy, founder of Barter Black®, explore the mindset shifts needed to build sustainable, connected businesses. They discuss moving beyond traditional business models to approaches rooted in trust, collaboration, and collective growth. Nicole shares her experience starting Barter Black and the importance of building a team, leveraging bartering to access resources, and strengthening community ties. Talib reflects on the value of cooperation in his work with Afros...
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How to Determine the Value of Your Services
Barter Black: The Business of Trade
In this episode of Barter Black: The Business of Trade, host Talib Jasir, founder of Afros & Audio and Vanguard Podcast Network, joins Nicole Murphy, founder, and CEO of Barter Black®, to unpack one of the most important topics for entrepreneurs: knowing your worth. They explore how to identify the true value of your skills, time, and services, and how to translate that into both cash-based and barter-based economies. Nicole shares common challenges Black entrepreneurs face when pricing their services, along with strategies for creating equitable exchanges that strengthen...
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What is Bartering (Beyond Theory)?
Barter Black: The Business of Trade
In this episode of Barter Black: The Business of Trade, host Talib Jasir sits down with Nicole Murphy, founder and CEO of Barter Black®, a platform designed for Black entrepreneurs to exchange goods and services through a unique trade credit system called Barter Bucks. Nicole shares her journey from running a property management company to creating Barter Black® to address common struggles faced by Black entrepreneurs. Together, they explore what bartering truly means beyond theory, how it works in real life, how it breaks down barriers, and how it builds community wealth through...
info_outlineThe Afros & Audio and Barter Black Partnership
In the final episode of Barter Black: The Business of Trade, host Talib Jasir and Nicole Murphy, founder of Barter Black®, explore how bartering can be reimagined as a powerful tool for economic empowerment and community connection. They discuss the newly announced partnership between Afros & Audio and Barter Black, which creates a structured framework for creators, entrepreneurs, and professionals to exchange services, resources, and expertise without relying solely on financial transactions.
The conversation covers the value of honoring skills and time as currency, the opportunities and challenges of bartering, and how this approach can strengthen business sustainability in uncertain economic times. Talib and Nicole share how this partnership will help both communities grow their networks, expand market reach, and build long-term wealth through collaboration.
Listeners will gain insight into how mutual aid, trust, and cooperative exchange can fuel success for creatives and entrepreneurs while fostering a stronger, more connected ecosystem.
Join Barter Black today and secure your ticket to the Afros & Audio Podcast Festival to take part in this transformative collaboration.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction: A Personal Episode
00:24 The Concept of Barter Black
01:15 The Importance of Community and Collaboration
02:32 Building an Ecosystem for Creators
04:45 Barter Black: Turning Theory into Practice
06:43 The Value of Community in Business
07:54 Challenges and Opportunities in Bartering
09:00 Sustaining Long-Term Success
13:08 The Future of Barter Black and Afros & Audio
22:16 Conclusion: Changing the Game Together
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