Episode No. 150 How To Secure Funding For Your Business With Brianna Hairlson

Feb 12

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Starting a business is all fun and games until you realize how much it costs to make your business do what it do! There's equipment to buy, annual state fees to pay and inventory that needs to stay stocked. You have to pay employees, pay rent, basically pay everybody and their momma, forever and ever amen.

So how do you do it? How do you start a business or keep it running when the money just isn’t there?

You could take out loans, but not everyone wants that debt.
You could try and get investors, but we all know how bogus venture capital is towards women and people of color.
Your next best bet? Free money!

Now, don't you go rolling your eyes at me. There is legit all kinds of free money floating around out there called grants. The only catch is that you have to apply for them. Yep, that's it and that's all!

Sound too good to be true? Well, listen to today's episode and let Brianna Hairlson change your mind. She opened up her dance studio in 2020, right at the height of the pandemic, and as fate would have it, signed a pretty lengthy lease. With a brand new studio and no in-person classes in sight; Brianna got down to business and started applying to ALL the grants. And guess how much free money she secured for her business? $120,000! Not only did she secure hella money, but she also received equipment, radio and tv commercials, and even a billboard in Times Square!

Brianna is a genius when it comes to finding + securing grants. So in today's episode, she's sharing how she did it and how you can too.

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