Britt Happens, hosted by Brittany Sharpton, is an interview-based audio show where successful entrepreneurs, professionals, and thought leaders share unexpected career curveballs and discuss how they’ve rebounded and turned those setbacks into wins.
Outstanding discussion with New Orleans native, highly sought-after motivational speaker, successful entrepreneur, and internationally acclaimed STEM advocate and educator Dr. Calvin Mackie. Dr. Mackie, the FIRST Black tenured Tulane Engineering professor, founded STEM NOLA in 2013 to expose, inspire and engage students in learning STEM. Their award-winning programs provide activities, events and virtual learning to under-resourced communities.
When Dave Salvant, Co-Founder & President of Squire Technologies, launched tech startup Squire in 2016, he wanted to help barbershops achieve greater success by streamlining operations. What he didn’t anticipate was a global pandemic hitting a few years after launching that would immobilize their customer-base for months.
After seeing their net revenue drop to zero in March 2020, when barbershops across the country were forced to close, the Black-owned tech company has tripled its valuation from $85 million to $250 million with the help of investors in its latest round of funding.
This episode features a very special guest, Francis X. Suarez, the Mayor of my hometown paradise, Miami, FL, one of the fastest growing and most dynamic places in the world. In addition to year round enviable weather, nightlight, and cuisine, Miami is the only major U.S. city founded by a woman, the second most entrepreneurial city in the US, and a cultural crock pot teeming with unique flavor and energy. It is no wonder we are known as The Magic City!!
Tune in as Brittany Sharpton and Mayor Suarez discuss how his personal experience with COVID-19 influenced his approach on public policy, his plan on re-opening Miami, how traffic, technology, and a pandemic, surprisingly, go hand-in-hand, his current thoughts on parks overlaying highways, mass transit, and the SMART plan (Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit Plan), the after effects of the coronavirus on future building design & development, and….a potential future presidential bid??!
In this episode, JP Galvao, co-founder and CEO of Vai (which means ‘Go’ in Portuguese) shares his story of why he brought the concept of CaaS — Car as a Service — to Brazil, how partnered with Uber, the challenges he’s faced as an entrepreneur, advice on overcoming those obstacles…and why he hates body wash! Tune in to learn about the birth of Brazil’s Netflix of Car Rental Service!