Built By A Boss
Welcome to Built By A Boss. On this smart, funny, enlightening and elevating podcast, you’ll hear unique origin stories, business growth strategies and personal finance tips. Hosted by Evolyn Brooks, a journalist and award-winning television producer with an MBA, each episode encourages listeners to unlock their highest potential with game changing business tips and actionable insights from successful female founders and entrepreneurs who are leading conscious businesses with intention. Connect With Evolyn Brooks: builtbyaboss@gmail.com
Built By A Boss
How CEO, Petra Starke of SweatNGlow, created a brand new wellness business after surviving the bikram yoga scandal.
Our guest on this show is Petra Starke. She's the CEO of Sweat N Glow, a new, global hot yoga franchise. She started the business after surviving a scandal that rocked the yoga community around the world.
In this exclusive interview, the former senior legal advisor to the Obama administration and former President and CEO of Bikram Yoga, shares her personal stories about growing up in Czechoslovakia, working in the White House while eight months pregnant and leaving her coveted position to work with a yoga guru, who would soon be facing allegations of rape and sexual assault. Petra offers advice on how to pick up the pieces of your life, mend your professional reputation and rebrand your business.
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ABOUT EVOLYN BROOKS:
Evolyn Brooks is an award-winning TV Showrunner, Digital and Experiential Events Executive Producer with major market and syndicated talk, news and reality show production credits from OWN, Telepictures, King World, Lifetime, BRAVO, WE Network, MTV, FOX, BET, CBS and NBC.
She's developed, launched and produced television in live event, unscripted, food and lifestyle, home design, variety, pilot, hidden camera and one-hour talk formats. Evolyn has produced episodes with A-List celebrities such as Queen Latifah, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Mary J. Blige, Lenny Kravitz, Beyonce, and Tyra Banks.
As an Experiential Event and Content Producer, she has produced global corporate experiential events and activations for companies such as Facebook, Instagram, west elm, beautycon, bumble bff and the BET Experience.
Evolyn began her career on-air in television news as an anchor and general assignment reporter. She has been nominated for an Emmy Award, two Namic Vision Awards and is the recipient of an NAACP Image award. Evolyn is a member of the Producer’s Guild of America and the Screen Actor's Guild.