A wedding can be the most beautiful day of a bride's life, but it can also be the most stressful. Between the time invested, money and planning required, and having to find the balance between familial and societal expectations, the bride's mental health can take a serious hit.
Shonté Parrish-Norgriff can relate. She planned her wedding during the pandemic, and through her own struggles, she knew that something needed to be done to help the brides coming after her. She founded Woosah Bride to create awareness for melanated brides and their support systems on the importance of prioritizing mental health.
In this episode, she joins Daniel to talk about the brand, how she brought her vision to life, the importance of setting boundaries, finding balance, and what's next for her.
Check out the brand: https://woosahbride.com/
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TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@woosahbride
0:00 - Intro
2:49 - The Woosah Bride brand overview and how it started
6:31 - Shonté's first entrepreneurial venture in consulting and dating service
9:14 - What she did to make the business official
12:20 - The challenges that come with working with your own people
15:14 - How Shonté crafted the rest of the Wooah Bride Experience
21:42 - Learning when and how to have downtime
29:02 - Coming up with the business model and becoming profitable
32:37 - Daniel takes the Woosah Bride quiz; Shonté breaks down his wedding personality
39:04 - The importance of enforcing boundaries
43:46 - The biggest challenge with running the business so far
48:59 - Biggest regret
50:37 - Biggest reward
52:30 - What she wishes someone would've told her before going into business
53:49 - Shonté gives advice to future business owners
55:23 - What's next for Woosah Bride
58:56 - What she does for self care
1:01:32 - What Daniel does to find balance
1:08:05 - Closing
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