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#134: The Power of Integrating Your Culture Into Your Toy Dreams with Keewa Nurullah
Making It in The Toy Industry with The Toy Coach
English - July 13, 2022 07:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDesign Arts Business Entrepreneurship toy industry how to design a toy how to make a toy toy design fit toy design make my own dolls entrepreneur small business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Becoming an entrepreneur looks different for each person who chooses this path. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to it! However, one thing that can help any entrepreneurial project is putting yourself, including your background and your history, into the story and finding a meaningful motivation for your ideas. That meaning may drive your mission in interesting and new directions, like it did for today’s podcast guest.
Keewa Nurullah, today’s podcast guest, is the founder of Kido Chicago, a brick-and-mortar kids’ store that also has an online shop. Keewa started the business because she wasn’t finding the things that a “cool Chicago mom” would want to buy, so she created them! It started as a store for kids clothing that Keewa designed herself, and then branched out into books and toys.
Keewa talks about how her family’s entrepreneurial background going back to Black Wall Street and her history as a Black performance artist shaped her vision. Learn about how she designed her store, the frustrations she has encountered with the photos on product packaging, and the number one piece of advice she received when starting her business.
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