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Henri Nyakarundi is a native Rwandan who moved to the US in 1996 to study computer science.

After graduation, he soon realized that a 9-5 was not his calling, and he was an entrepreneur at heart. Over the next 10 years, he founded and developed trucking and construction businesses in both the US and Burundi. However, the green sector is his true passion.

He has been developing ARED for the past three years, and as of 2013 has returned to Rwanda to startup this company full time. For over 10 years, Henri has been a well-respected voice on entrepreneurship in Africa, renewable energy, innovation & technology impact and more.... As a mentor, speaker, strategist on social entrepreneur in Africa, he was able to shed the light on some of the challenges in the African marketplace, but also the key solutions needed to solve some of the major challenges we encounter today as a continent such as unemployment, lack of access to energy, access to smart funding. http://henrinyakarundi.com/

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Aleron Kong, The Father of American LitRPG

Dr. Aleron Kong is a physician by training, best-selling author by love. He writes in the new genre LitRPG, Literature Role Playing Game and is based of Atlanta, Georgia. Best known for his series “The Land”, Aleron has published seven titles in the last two years, and continues to write passionately, with a goal to continue the series to fifty books and a movie or TV series. He hopes to break the mold of SciFi writers, bringing more diversity to the genre. He is Audible's Customer Favorite of the Year out of their hundreds of thousands of titles and his series has earned more than 100,000 5-star reviews.

The youngest of four, Aleron was born in Wisconsin, but moved frequently as the son of a successful cooperate ladder climber. He was inspired by his Mother’s journey with medicine, and decided to pursue a career in it as well. He began his college education at Dartmouth, and later attended Morehouse, where he completed his medical education. Throughout his college career, and to this day, Aleron is a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the same fraternity that Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Owens were members of. He enjoys spending his free time with his family, including his six nieces and nephews,

Dr. Al, as his patients fondly refer to him, has a lifetime goal of leaving the world a better place than he found it. He has worked to raise over $100,000 for charities including The Water Project, Able Gamers, Texas Blue Armor Brotherhood, and recently helped to raise funds for those impacted by Hurricane Irma. He also has donated books to the 704th Military Intelligence Brigade as well as various Pediatric hospitals. His charitable works in progress include a Women’s Health Initiative, as well as plans for a Breast Cancer Fundraiser.

When Aleron isn’t saving lives or writing, he is working hard to help the genre of LitRPG and the authors within it, to grow. He has created countless resources for new authors in the genre, and continues to mentor those entering the field. He hopes to inspire continued growth and recognition of LitRPG.

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Welcome to Episode 46 of Dreams Inspire Reality Podcast!

Arion Long is the Founder and CEO of Femly, a tech-based menstrual hygiene company that aims to provide healthier alternatives to toxic menstrual care products including tampons, panty liners, menstrual pads, and other body care products. Since launching in 2015 with a fabulous subscription service, it expanded to reach thousands of monthly shipments and are in the patent & the development phase of manufacturing proprietary menstrual products that will change and have a great impact on society.

Arion is also a speaker and a coach who has gained thousands in funding and won lots of pitching competitions, including the Grow Your Biz Contest in New York on November 8. The competition awarded her $25,000 and access to individual coaching. Arion now hopes to reach and help more women in need around the world.

Arion speaks on her stillbirth in May 2017 that surprisingly after 15 days, she got out of bed to attend a pitch competition to secure more funding for Femly and won. She talks about her journey in starting Femly and why she started it, how she decided to start pitching, despite being an introvert, to build her brand, how she won her first pitch competition and became addicted to it. She then realized through pitching you will not only gain funding but will also gain awareness, leverage, and network expansion. Be who you are and don’t be afraid to ask for help from someone else.

This inspiring lady gives special importance to investing yourself and joining pitch competitions if you feel the need to because there will be lots of opportunities there. If you don’t want to apply, just being in the room and listening and being there will help you to build your connections that can be used in the future.

Also, Arion shares lots of nuggets about pitch competitions including the pros and cons, things to expect when you go out and pitch, the key to winning, what qualifies as a good pitch, what are the things that need to be included in the pitch and what to look for when you are trying to secure and find events to pitch for. We talk about why some people are more successful in pitching than others, what to look for when answering in a pitch competition, pros and cons of payouts, what to avoid, knowing the right things to do, why she didn’t invite anybody she knows during the competitions, tips on choosing a competition through the expenses and why your story is important in pitch.

Moreover, Arion answers few frequently ask questions like why you need to do lots of travel for contests, how to find a pitch competition, do you apply for the same contest if they come back along and how she handled anxiety when she first started.

“Imagine the world where charcoal is up and you never see your self-image.”

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Welcome to Episode 45 of Dreams Inspire Reality Podcast!

Crystal Swain-Bates is a Children's Book Author and Diversity Publishing Pro, the Author of "Big Hair, Don't Care" & more. Her children’s books have been seen on platforms including CNN and Huffington Post and have been used as props on hit television shows such as BET’s “Being Mary Jane” and “The Game”. Named by the Huffington Post as one of "21 Children's Books Every Black Kid Should Read" and cited by numerous media outlets, including Essence magazine, as a top book emphasizing natural hair and brown girl beauty, my book "Big Hair, Don't Care” is one of Amazon’s most highly reviewed black children’s books on the market.

She created BrownGirlsClub.com, an online store featuring books, T-shirts, party supplies, wall art, and other children's gifts featuring black characters. In addition to writing, she provides book publishing services (Publish with Crystal) to other authors who would like to self-publish but have no idea how to proceed.

Crystal is not an overthinker. She always wanted her idea to be realized and not just a mere thought. She really wanted to be an author at an early age. Her passion for writing finds her time to pursue it along with her full time 9-5 job. She wanted to fill the gap in the market and start things that were not yet in the market. She writes books for black children and published 6 of them in one year. What was supposed to be a side hustle, in the beginning, lead her to various recognitions and opportunities that started to require a lot of her time. She then decided to quit her job as a Cyber Analyst last year to focus her writing career. Crystal worked hard and sacrificed a lot. Currently, she has over 100,000 books sold worldwide and that number is growing continuously.

Crystal opens up about when & how it all started, what pushed her to publish the books she has written and how she positions herself and her books differently in the market. She speaks on the importance of knowing your unique selling proposition, how she wisely marketed her books, how things were for her as she started her writing career, the point where she decided to quit her job and focus on her writing career and how she feels paving the way for other authors out there.

In addition, she will walk us through the process of writing and publishing a book, some of the things that most failing authors skip on and her advice for people who are always worrying about everything in the process of reaching their goals. Crystal also talks about the amazing recognition and things she received from Amazon that gives her incredible experience and opportunities, and how she helps people who didn’t know how to publish their books.

Crystal gives a lifetime impact to the children who she writes for while making a living for her own family from her books for a lifetime.

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, you just have to start taking the first step.”

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Welcome to Episode 44 of Dreams Inspire Reality Podcast!

Marketing is the key to making your business successful. It brings awareness to your brand, but copying your competition’s marketing strategy is very popular today. How does it affect your brand? How do you protect your brand from cloning?

Audria Richmond is the founder of UnCloned Media, LLC, an award-winning marketing and launch consultancy for top-notch brands who want to command first-rate profits. As a highly sought-after marketing and launch strategist, Audria champions entrepreneurs to stand in front of their brands—UnCloned and unafraid to be seen. With her incomparable formula of innovation, unquenchable creativity and tech-savviness, Audria is a force to be reckoned with.

Audria has left her mark on personal and company brands all over the world, from the United States to Singapore and continues to do so with her elite UnCloned Marketing Membership. She is always the woman who is thinking of—and executing on—a master plan. Since changing the game with her signature system, The UnCloned Marketing Method; a revolutionary system that teaches clients how to build wildly profitable marketing systems and personal brands from the ground up, with proven practices, tools and strategies to go big and stay there, she released three bestselling books in 2017. The books are titled Are You Ready for the Yes: How to Prep Your Brand for Lucrative Opportunities, UnCloned: Seven Epic (Un) Rules for Owning Your Shit, and The Yes Experience.

She also lends her expertise and unconventional, never-inside-the-box perspective, to her digital marketing platform the UnCloned Marketing Membership.

Audria has a background in photography and graphic design before she got into marketing. She uses her creativity in marketing strategy. Audria wanted to be different, therefore she challenged the norms and always wanted to be “the first to do it”, the first in everything that people said she couldn’t do.

Audria speaks about Uncloned Marketing, how she came up with the idea, and when it all started. She spoke on the virtual conference, which is her most recent and sizeable achievement, the difference between marketing and selling, how she deals with people cloning her ‘uncloning marketing’, how she protects her brand, how she’s able to secure her clients and getting the clients she wants.

Furthermore, she shares how she deals with clients who want guaranteed results. Audria tells us what her biggest takeaway from entrepreneurship is, that helps her to where she is right now. She gives advice to people who want to own space and industry, and to listeners who want to become successful entrepreneurs.

Audria believes in making time for yourself to learn and invest in yourself to attract clients. She encourages listeners not to look at failure as anything other than a lesson. “Fail fast and keep moving”, she says, level up and don’t let yourself put in the box, but find keys to unlock the motivation to do whatever you want.

“Marketing is fun.”

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