WITH ULANIE WILSON, CO-FOUNDER OF PLANTED HAIRCARE

Motherhood - a topic I am yet to delve into with my guests in the Lounge.

With Black women being the largest group of entrepreneurs in the US, I feel it necessary to find out what the impact of motherhood has been in starting and running their businesses. Did they give up their dream? Put it on hold? Pivot? What about their own identities? Did they lose or manage to keep it, in the process?

I saw a sub-headline in a magazine that I cut out and pinned to my vision board. "Yes, you can create a business and a baby" and vowed to bring this up in my conversations, because, I believe we can, but let's be aware of what might come up.

In this episode, Ulanie Wilson, co-founder of Planted Haircare, joins me in the Lounge; and here's what we talk about:

• The meaning behind her name, Ulanie

• Current book she is reading: Divine Disruption by Dr. Tony Evans

• Her zone of genius

• Insecurity she grew up with and overcoming it

• Why she launched Planted Haircare

• How she put her business plan on pause but kept her dream alive for seven years

• Challenges she faced when returning back to her business, full-time

• Most satisfying career moment (Essence magazine feature)

• Knowing when to outsource the work

• Importance of branding

• Why Ayuverda

• Her go-to plant-derived ingredients and why

• The one product in her line she would recommend to first time users

• The balancing act of being a mother, wife and business owner, and the hat she wears the most

• Identity lose in motherhood and tips to avoid this

• How she carves time out for herself and what she sacrifices to honor it

• Favourite self-care moment and when she feels most beautiful

• Signature question: Got 15 mins. Hair or makeup?

• Where to buy Planted Haircare (shop at: My Curl ID)

• Follow Planted Haircare on IG: @plantedhaircare or their website

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