Speaker: Guy Rivers, Kaleidoscope & Co LLC
Guy Rivers: entrepreneur, I was feeling pretty lost and demoralized, uh, career-wise and also, um, thinking about how to get out of this pattern of being uh microaggressed.
Could you describe where you started with Intersectional Entrepreneur and how it helped you to get to where you are now?
Guy Rivers: Hello, um, OK, so I think when I started with the intersectional entrepreneur, I was feeling pretty lost and demoralized, uh, career-wise and also, um, thinking about how to get out of this pattern of being uh microaggressed. Um, at jobs and, uh, feeling like I was just in a continuous loop of being excellent at a job, being resented for my excellence at jobs, and then Um, quitting or being, you know, constructively dismissed, and I think intersectional entrepreneur helped me to see that I could offer my skills, uh, directly to people who were interested in buying them, um, and it gave me a lot of confidence in My own ability to um sell my own skills, to market myself and so I, um, the community that it provided was extremely helpful. The, um, The tools and the education of it all were extremely helpful. The modules really gave me some great frameworks to think through, uh, who I wanted to sell to and what I wanted to sell, and so. Uh, with the help of intersectional entrepreneur, I have launched a career coaching business and I have clients, and, uh, I'm helping my clients achieve amazing things, and I'm achieving amazing things and feeling great about that. So, uh, it was very helpful and I, yeah. 00, yeah, and I got top surgery cause um through intersectional entrepreneur, I created a business offer that helped me fundraise for top surgery. So, I almost forgot that. But yeah, uh, intersectional entrepreneur helped me get gender affirming care or the
How would you describe Intersectional Entrepreneur in three words?
Guy Rivers: um, the, yeah, 3 words to describe intersectional entrepreneur. I would say one is empowering because it is very empowering to know and to receive the message that Um, that the skills you have to offer are valuable and marketable, and uh, that you can create a business from the ground up just using, uh, what you know and using support from your community and, uh, learning how to um provide a service to a client. So that's one word. Um, I would say supportive. Uh, I felt very supported in my journey as a newbie entrepreneur, um, supported with the materials, supported with the conversations and the community, and I think all of those things helped me to launch an offer, so. Um, I guess the third word that I would use would be aligned. Um, it was really aligned with a lot of things that I feel and believe about justice and capitalism and money and how to To make money work for marginalized people. So I don't think that I would have gotten the same thing out of an offer that didn't have that lens. Um, so I forgot the words already, but empowering, um, aligned and supportive are how I would describe intersectional entrepreneur and my experience.
Why is Intersectional Entrepreneur different from other similar products or services? What are you grateful for?
Guy Rivers: Hi, so I have never engaged with any business coaching apart from uh the intersectional entrepreneur uh course and community, um, but I definitely would not have engaged as deeply or at all if it weren't an offer that was uh focused on. People with marginalized identities, so I'm really grateful for a space where I could come and be my authentic self and bring all of um my thoughts and beliefs and reservations about owning a business or being in business and uh that I didn't have to censor myself or to say things in um in a way that's, you know, aware of. Uh, people who may be offended by the things that I have to say about um being marginalized in my experiences with, um, With capitalism, I guess. Um, I think, I think one of the things that made it really great was the community, um, and just the support I received from other members of the group. So I'm grateful for that. Um, I'm grateful for, um, for, for Terra's guidance and support. Uh, she really knows her stuff. And I, yeah, I had a great time. I encourage anyone to um check out the community, to check out the course, and to see what you can accomplish.