On this episode of Eating While Broke, host Coline Witt sits down with entrepreneur Pinky Cole—founder of Slutty Vegan—for an honest conversation about money, mindset, and rebuilding after major setbacks. Over a homemade **Tofurky sandwich**, Pinky breaks down vegan label-reading, food costs, and why she stopped eating meat in 2007.

Pinky shares her upbringing in a Jamaican family, her father’s 22-year imprisonment, and how early exposure to her mother’s music career shaped her ambition. She recounts hustling as a teen party promoter, working in TV production (including Maury), and opening a Harlem Jamaican restaurant that later burned down without fire insurance. She explains how that loss—and other setbacks—ultimately led to new opportunities, including launching **Slutty Vegan** in Atlanta.

She also discusses Slutty Vegan’s rapid rise, later restructuring, personal bankruptcy, $20M in debt, and the lessons she learned about transactional relationships, team alignment, and ego.

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John Hope Bryant brings you a special, solo episode titled: “The Ownership Generation,” warning that while the economy is essentially strong, outside forces may create short-term instability over the next six to eight months, which means listeners must make mature financial decisions.

John argues that a generation is being misled by social media and cultural narratives that romanticize renting, and stresses that “you don’t build a life by renting one,” using homeownership as a key wealth-building example.

While structural barriers like redlining exist, John urges people to “game” a rigged system through financial literacy, credit, investing, and an ownership mindset. He also warns that one trait—beauty, intelligence, degrees, or talent—is not enough without work, grit, wisdom, relationships, and legacy-building.

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Doug interviews Allison Kluger, a Stanford Graduate School of Business professor who teaches courses on reputation management, strategic communication, personal branding, and strategic pivoting. Kluger shares her AIM framework (audience, intent, message), discusses how Google and LinkedIn shape first impressions, and distinguishes visibility from credibility by emphasizing trust and front facing acts of service. She highlights the outsized impact of first impressions and outlines the “trust radar” for crisis recovery, using Will Smith’s 2022 Oscars incident as an example. Allison and Doug also discuss career pivots through transferable skills, the risks of AI-amplified misinformation, and using personal "feedback surveys" to identify the traits people most associate with you.

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In this episode of Earn Your Leisure, Sway The Pro breaks down the business behind the beauty industry and how salon suites have become one of the most profitable models for beauty professionals and entrepreneurs.

She shares how she got started, the stress of securing her first building, the pros and cons of buying vs. leasing, how to find the right real estate, why doctor’s offices can be perfect conversion spaces, and the average cost to build out a salon suite.

We also discuss client retention, revenue streams, management systems, ROI timelines, celebrity clientele, professionalism, punctuality, and the biggest mistakes beauty professionals make when trying to scale.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Lease Day Disaster
01:17 Meet Sway The Pro
03:05 From Hoops To Suites
06:09 Buildout Horror Stories
08:11 Salon Suites Explained
09:17 Design Tiers And Pricing
13:32 Lease Vs Own Expenses
17:58 Scaling And Franchising
20:06 Start Steps And TI Money
23:33 Retention Systems And Managers
27:41 Buildout Costs And Funding
29:25 Picking The Right Area
29:46 Picking The Right Location
30:30 Run The Numbers First
32:00 Wealth Mistakes And Service
33:50 Scaling With Systems
34:27 Franchise Costs And Support
35:25 Tenants Becoming Owners
37:27 ROI And Lease Negotiation
38:18 Selling And Diversifying
41:45 Salon Suite Vs Home
43:05 Pricing And Profitability
46:04 Stand Out With Punctuality
47:34 Apps Deposits And No Shows
48:38 Celebrity Clients Boundaries
50:20 Balance And Scheduling
51:03 Mentorship Program Breakdown
53:21 Invest Fest And Pivoting
57:06 Multiple Income Streams
58:29 Where To Follow Sway

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How do you turn a $67 investment into an 8-figure business? In this episode of Earn Your Leisure, we sit down with Jhalesa Seymour, founder and CEO of Salt.XO, to discuss how she built one of the fastest-growing feminine hygiene brands by solving a real problem, listening to customers, and creating a powerful community around her products.

Jhalesa shares the strategies that helped Salt.XO scale—from leveraging TikTok Shop and mastering logistics to pricing products correctly, expanding into retail, building partnerships, and managing rapid growth. She also opens up about turning a side hustle into a full-time business, taking control of her own warehouse, and balancing entrepreneurship with motherhood.

Beyond business, we have an important conversation about women’s health, pH balance, BV, and why these topics deserve more attention. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, e-commerce founder, or someone looking to build a brand from the ground up, this episode is packed with valuable lessons you won’t want to miss.

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On this episode of Money & Wealth, John Hope Bryant sits down with Kieran Shanahan, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Walmart U.S., for a powerful conversation on leadership, humility, opportunity, and building something that lasts.

Kieran shares his journey from starting at Walmart as a teenager in the UK to leading operations for one of the world’s largest companies, the lessons he learned from Sam Walton’s legacy, and why financial literacy is a key part of empowering employees and communities.

From AI and the future of work to creating pathways for people to grow, this episode explores what it really takes to lead at scale while staying connected to the people you serve.

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Doug Melville hosts Sarah Davis and Ben Hemminger, founder and co-founder of Fashionphile, now CEO and COO of the largest ultra-luxury handbag and accessory retailer in the U.S. They trace their roots from selling on eBay in 1999 and bootstrapping the business, including a strategic early base in Beverly Hills to build trust and credibility through authentication guides and strong feedback. They discuss partnering after an earlier startup, leaving stable career paths, and finding product-market fit in luxury resale. Fashionphile has grown to hundreds of millions in revenue, 400+ employees, 14 locations and major flagships in San Diego, LA, and New York, plus London and Tokyo offices. They cover supply-vs-demand dynamics, the “pay her fast and fair” seller strategy, brand relationships, pricing trends, and evolving authentication tools and anti-fraud efforts, and close with advice to start quickly and obsess over customers.

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