Starting a Fashion Design Company + Tips for Finding Business Grants | with Gynella Ngounou
Release Date: 05/14/2021
A Prayer For You For 2023 | Let’s Break The Odds
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Join us as we begin the new year with a time of prayer. Press play to listen. • Know a friend who this would encourage? Invite them to also tune-in. Let’s break the odds together! — LET’S CONNECT ON INSTAGRAM: LET’S CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: LET’S CONNECT ON TIKTOK: EPISODE NOTES & BLOG:
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A Life-Changing Encounter with God Seconds Before Attempting to End His Life | with Pastor Jon
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Joining us on the show is guest Pastor Jon! During the conversation with our host Elease Dillard, Pastor Jon shares with us his story of the life-changing encounter he had with God seconds before attempting to end his life + how The Lord has helped him break the odds ever since. Press play to listen. - MEET PASTOR JON: Pastor Jon is a United States veteran whose best friends died while they were serving overseas together. After his best friends died, Pastor Jon struggled with PTSD, substance abuse, and as he described: “the voice of death” that would not go away. After...
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Keeping the Faith: Believing God’s “Yes” (Over Someone’s “No”) | with NeNe Terri
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Joining us on the show is guest NeNe Terri! During the conversation with our host Elease Dillard, NeNe shares with us her story of trusting God and breaking the odds, despite what someone had spoken over her life. She also shares tips for how to keep the faith and hold onto the vision and dream that God has given you. Press play to listen. - MEET NENE: NeNe Terri, also known as Niesha Ham-McMillian, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Marnie Enterprises, LLC. Raised in New Zion, SC she attended and graduated from East Clarendon High School in 2005, and went on to pursue a...
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Going to Counseling: What It’s Like, Myths, & Tips for Families | with Dr. India Dillard, PharmD
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Join us as we continue our conversation with our guest, Dr. India Dillard for part 2 of her interview! As a former Co-Chair within the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) for their Mental Health Initiative, in this episode India chats with our host, Elease Dillard about the topic of mental health. She shares free and low-cost places to get counseling, the behind the scenes of what it’s like going to counseling (including counseling myths), and as sisters—Elease and India both share how their parents broke the ice with introducing and integrating counseling as a resource...
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Using Your God-Given Gifts to Serve Others + Debt-Free Funding Tips for Grad Students | with Dr. India Dillard, PharmD
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Joining us on the show is guest Dr. India Dillard! During the conversation with our host Elease Dillard, India chats with us about how to use your God-given gifts to serve others, and transparently shares the behind the scenes of her journey of graduating college debt-free + debt-free funding tips for those interested in pursuing an advanced degree. It is also National Pharmacy Week—so if you are interested in graduating with a degree in Pharmacy, India shares her success tips as well! Press play to listen. - MEET INDIA Dr. India Dillard is a Doctor of Pharmacy graduate...
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Forgiving Yourself & Others | with Ashlee Garrison
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Join us as we continue our conversation with our guest, Ashlee Garrison for part 2 of her interview! In this episode, Ashlee chats with our host, Elease Dillard, about breaking the odds with forgiveness—including transparently sharing how her relationship with her mother was restored after 20 years of estrangement. (Plus practical tips that could help with forgiveness). Whether you also have an estranged relationship with someone in your life, or if someone did you wrong years ago, or if someone was rude to you recently—we all could grow in the area of forgiveness. Press play...
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Living a Healthy, Healed & Whole Life | with Ashlee Garrison
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Joining us on the show is guest Ashlee Garrison! During the conversation with our host Elease Dillard, Ashlee transparently shares her story of breaking the odds with becoming healthy, healed, and whole + practical tips that could help you, too! Press play to listen. - MEET ASHLEE: Ashlee Garrison is the founder and host of Social Hour With ASH—a visual podcast that is “done by inspiration!” As a native to the Bay Area, Ashlee lives to inspire, bring hope and it is her mission in life to help people overcome to become! Ashlee advocates for everyone to fight to be...
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Peace During the Process | with Elease Dillard
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Are you in a waiting season, waiting for a breakthrough? Pivoting in your life/career? Or simply going through day-to-day life? Join our host Elease Dillard (award-winning entrepreneur, author, speaker) in this episode as she shares a major shift she made that broke the odds with having peace during the process! Press play to listen. — LET’S CONNECT ON INSTAGRAM: LET’S CONNECT ON FACEBOOK: LET’S CONNECT ON TIKTOK: EPISODE NOTES & BLOG:
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Let's Live Again! | with Elease Dillard
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Hey friend, Elease here. I questioned whether to share this… I reached a point where I felt like I was alive but not really living. In this episode, I share a VERY VERY deep-dive into my entrepreneurship journey and how I got to that point of feeling like I was alive but not really living. But most of all, I share how the odds were broken from that heavy place. …now I feel light, I feel free, and most of all—I feel ALIVE! I also have this new sense of purpose that’s different than anything I’ve never felt before. Regardless of where you are in life, I...
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Let's Live Again! | with Elease Dillard
Break The Odds
Hey friend, Elease here. I questioned whether to share this… I reached a point where I felt like I was alive but not really living. In this episode, I share a VERY VERY deep-dive into my entrepreneurship journey and how I got to that point of feeling like I was alive but not realy living. But most of all, I share the life-changing experience where the odds were broken from that heavy place. …now I feel light, I feel free, and most of all—I feel ALIVE! I also have this new sense of purpose that’s different than anything I’ve never felt before. ...
info_outlineDo you have a dream yet have had some setbacks towards making that dream a reality? Are you struggling with how to come up with the funds to take your dream to the next level? Are you longing for mentorship and guidance for pursuing your dream yet don’t know how to find a mentor?
Friend, you are in the right place because today’s guest not only broke the odds by becoming a fashion designer but she is also the founder + CEO of her own fashion design company, a mentor to aspiring fashion designers, and also a PRO at successfully receiving business grants and pitching her company in front of investors. On the show, she shares tips for how you can too! Press play to listen.
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Joining us today is Gynella Ngounou:
(Gynella’s bio)
Gynella Ngounou is an award-winning fashion entrepreneur, who stutters. She developed a passion for fashion and design at a young age, and was admitted to study at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). However, due to financial constraints, she withdrew and became a self-taught designer struggling to find resources to fulfill her designer needs.
In 2018, she launched Students Expressing Life through Fashion (better known as SELF) to equip at-risk fashion designers and hobbyists with affordable, quality fashion education and sustainable careers. The company would go on to partner with Dillard’s, Quaint Revolt Media, and New York Fashion Week independent designers. Today, Students Expressing Life through Fashion is an award-winning Academy providing certificate programs, direct mentorship, industry placements, and business services in a resourceful sewing and tech incubator. With SELF looking to graduate its first class next Fall, Gynella is also excited to launch her eco-luxe women’s wear fashion label called NGOUNOU.
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