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Permission to CEO

Permission to CEO

Abu Fofanah

Permission to CEO is the podcast for anyone tired of playing by the rules and ready to redefine what’s possible—on their own terms.. In Permission to CEO, Abu dives into the raw, unfiltered truths of entrepreneurship, sharing stories and strategies from his journey of building multiple 7-figure businesses, reinvention, rebuilding, and grief. This podcast is for the dreamers sitting on the sidelines, wondering if they’re ready to take the leap. It’s for the ones who think they need permission to start a business, chase an idea, or lead a team—but deep down, know they don’t. Through candid conversations, actionable insights, and real-world advice, Abu explores topics like overcoming imposter syndrome, building a business with purpose, and navigating the mental hurdles of entrepreneurship. Whether you’re a first-time founder, a creative with a big idea, or someone who’s been waiting for the “right time,” this podcast is your reminder: you don’t need permission to start. Success isn’t about having it all figured out—it’s about having the courage to start, even when you don’t feel ready.

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Episode 76: Abu Fofanah (@theabufofanah) answers one of the most asked questions, When should I begin to hire? What positions should I Hire First? Who should I hire?

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  • Join the Power Your Launch Marketing Accelerator
  • learn how to market your product or service based business online and on social media.
  • You’ll learn how to find your ideal customers, target new customers, craft effective marketing campaigns that resonate and drive sales.


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Past guests on the Powered AF Podcast include Teri Ijeoma “Trade and Travel”, Sevetri Wilson, Emmelie De La Cruz, Maya Elious, Charm City Buyers, Jubril Agoro, Terri Lomax, Danielle Holmes, and more.

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Permission to CEO - EP 2: Building Marketing Teams with Emmelie de la Cruz
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08/16/21 • 81 min

Emmelie De La Cruz is an entrepreneur, author and speaker with one goal: change the way that people think about earning a living. After a decade in Corporate America working for top tech and consumer brands, she developed her One Day CMO consultancy to rescue overworked entrepreneurs that are held hostage by their marketing.

Inside her workshops and VIP days, she teaches CEOs and marketers how to get their life back by developing marketing strategies and campaigns for their fast-growing product brands.

Her unapologetic approach to life and business have earned her a highly engaged following on social media, features across top publications like Forbes, and the opportunity to work with brands like Staples, Dropbox, Capital One, Black Enterprise, and Coca-Cola. You can connect with her across social media: @Emmeliedelacruz or on her site onedaycmo.com

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I’m a multiple 7-figure online business owner. Whether you’re building a business or working to be at the top of your craft, I created this podcast to explore what it actually takes. We highlight conversations around business, becoming an expert, mental health, relationships, family, finding balance, imposter syndrome and so much more!

This episode is also brought to you by Power Your Launch Marketing Accelerator: With over 10,000 students trained, Power Your Launch is designed to help entrepreneurs and business owners learn how to market their business online. Whether you run a product or service based business, Power Your Launch can help. Learn how to drive more visibility, generate more leads, and drive more sales to your business. Power Your Launch helps you develop the skills necessary to put your business in front of your ideal customers.

FREE RESOURCES:

Interested in learning about the podcast or growing your business, or do you have questions for me | PowerYourLaunch.com/pod

LEARN MORE ABOUT MY PAID PROGRAM:

Get 50% Off Enrollment | Learn.PowerYourLaunch.com

Say HI on Social:

Host IG | instagram.com/abufofanah

Pod IG | instagram.com/poweredaf

Twitter | twitter.com/theabufofanah

Youtube | Watch Videos & Interviews

If you enjoy the podcast, it would mean a lot to us if you followed the show, leave a review, and share the podcast with your peers, friends, and family!

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Episode 89: Abu Fofanah (@theabufofanah) brings back Khadija Bingham (@MsMoneyHoney) and the conversion focuses on how should small businesses think about marketing at each stage of their growth. Abu's also answering some of the rapid fire questions Khadija is asking him on the fly. This is a really great interview especially if you're trying to figure out how you should spend your time and money when it comes to marketing... let's begin this week's podcast!

Guest Links:

Follow Khadija Bingham Instagram

Learn more about Money Honey Financial Services

Follow Khadija Bingham on Twitter

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Have a question? Click here to go to our website and click on the corner of the website, leave a voice note and we'll answer it.

Our website: https://www.poweredaf.com/

Subscribe to Our Community Here for exclusive content: AbuFofanah.com

Join the Power Your Launch Marketing Accelerator -

learn how to market your product or service based business online and on social media.

You’ll learn how to find your ideal customers, target new customers, craft effective marketing campaigns that resonate and drive sales.

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Do you love Powered AF? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.

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Past guests on the Powered AF Podcast include Teri Ijeoma “Trade and Travel”, Sevetri Wilson, Emmelie De La Cruz, Maya Elious, Charm City Buyers, Jubril Agoro, Terri Lomax, Danielle Holmes, and more.

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Permission to CEO - EP 32: Welcome Back: Why Time Away is Important
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02/07/22 • 35 min

Welcome Back! Season 2 of the Powered AF Podcast is Finally here!

In this episode, we discuss the sabbatical I’ve been on for the past few months and what to expect moving forward. We also have an unfiltered conversation about being stuck in your journey as you continue to grow and what that looks like outside the “highlight reel” of social media.

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I’m a multiple 7-figure online business owner. Whether you’re building a business or working to be at the top of your craft, I created this podcast to explore what it actually takes. We highlight conversations around business, becoming an expert, mental health, relationships, family, finding balance, imposter syndrome and so much more!

This episode is also brought to you by Power Your Launch Marketing Accelerator: With over 10,000 students trained, Power Your Launch is designed to help entrepreneurs and business owners learn how to market their business online. Whether you run a product or service based business, Power Your Launch can help. Learn how to drive more visibility, generate more leads, and drive more sales to your business. Power Your Launch helps you develop the skills necessary to put your business in front of your ideal customers.

FREE RESOURCES:

Interested in learning about the podcast or growing your business, or do you have questions for me | PowerYourLaunch.com/pod

LEARN MORE ABOUT MY PAID PROGRAM:

Get 50% Off Enrollment | Learn.PowerYourLaunch.com

Say HI on Social:

Host IG | instagram.com/abufofanah

Pod IG | instagram.com/poweredaf

Twitter | twitter.com/theabufofanah

Youtube | Watch Videos & Interviews

If you enjoy the podcast, it would mean a lot to us if you followed the show, leave a review, and share the podcast with your peers, friends, and family!

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Sevetri Wilson is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of two companies, Solid Ground Innovations (SGI) and, most recently, Resilia, New Orleans based technology start up. Sevetri bootstrapped her first company, SGI, to seven figures with zero capital, and she raised over $3MM For her second company, Resilia, Which launched to the public in 2016. She is the first black woman in New Orleans to raise over $1MM in venture capital. In 2010, she was honored with the Nobel prize for public service, the Jefferson award and was featured in the Senate report to the White House on volunteerism in America during the Obama administration. Sevetri Has been featured in Forbes, Black Enterprise, Essence, Inc., Entrepreneur, USA Today, CNN in other news outlets for her work in business and technology.

In 2019, she released her first book Solid Ground: How I Built a 7-figure Company with Zero Capital, which spent six weeks at No. 1 on Amazon Startup category. In 2021, a second book Resilient: How to Overcome Anything and Build $1 Million Dollar Business With or Without Capital was released.

Today, Sevetri Continues to cultivate a community of support, resources, tools, and conversation that helps our leaders all today and tomorrow hacker their next level in life and business.

Website: https://sevetriwilson.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sevetriwilson

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sevetriwilson

Purchase her latest book Resilent: How to Overcome Anything and Build a Million Dollar Business With or Without Capital: https://sevetriwilson.com/product/resilient-how-to-overcome-anything-and-build-a-million-dollar-business-with-or-without-capital/

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I’m a multiple 7-figure online business owner. Whether you’re building a business or working to be at the top of your craft, I created this podcast to explore what it actually takes. We highlight conversations around business, becoming an expert, mental health, relationships, family, finding balance, imposter syndrome and so much more!

This episode is also brought to you by Power Your Launch Marketing Accelerator: With over 10,000 students trained, Power Your Launch is designed to help entrepreneurs and business owners learn how to market their business online. Whether you run a product or service based business, Power Your Launch can help. Learn how to drive more visibility, generate more leads, and drive more sales to your business. Power Your Launch helps you develop the skills necessary to put your business in front of your ideal customers.

FREE RESOURCES:

Interested in learning about the podcast or growing your business, or do you have questions for me | PowerYourLaunch.com/pod

LEARN MORE ABOUT MY PAID PROGRAM:

Get 50% Off Enrollment | Learn.PowerYourLaunch.com

Say HI on Social:

Host IG | instagram.com/abufofanah

Pod IG | instagram.com/poweredaf

Twitter | twitter.com/theabufofanah

Youtube | Watch Videos & Interviews

If you enjoy the podcast, it would mean a lot to us if you followed the show, leave a review, and share the podcast with your peers, friends, and family!

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This week we have a discussion about Lifetime access vs limed access. This is geared toward my course creators and some of you who are thinking of starting a course. In this episode, we review the Pros & Cons of each and read a few responses to the following questions: What are your reasons for or against? which do you prefer? and what is the argument for both sides?

Take a listen to this week’s episode!

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I’m a multiple 7-figure online business owner. Whether you’re building a business or working to be at the top of your craft, I created this podcast to explore what it actually takes. We highlight conversations around business, becoming an expert, mental health, relationships, family, finding balance, imposter syndrome and so much more!

This episode is also brought to you by Power Your Launch Marketing Accelerator: With over 10,000 students trained, Power Your Launch is designed to help entrepreneurs and business owners learn how to market their business online. Whether you run a product or service based business, Power Your Launch can help. Learn how to drive more visibility, generate more leads, and drive more sales to your business. Power Your Launch helps you develop the skills necessary to put your business in front of your ideal customers.

FREE RESOURCES:

Interested in learning about the podcast or growing your business, or do you have questions for me | PowerYourLaunch.com/pod

LEARN MORE ABOUT MY PAID PROGRAM:

Get 50% Off Enrollment | Learn.PowerYourLaunch.com

Say HI on Social:

Host IG | instagram.com/abufofanah

Pod IG | instagram.com/poweredaf

Twitter | twitter.com/theabufofanah

Youtube | Watch Videos & Interviews

If you enjoy the podcast, it would mean a lot to us if you followed the show, leave a review, and share the podcast with your peers, friends, and family!

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Episode 91: Abu Fofanah (@theabufofanah)(https://twitter.com/theabufofanah) talks about HIRING. This is a big topic for small businesses because hiring is one of the most challenging things you can do and hiring the wrong person or agency can also put you out of business. In this episode, Abu talks about how he hires now and evaluates his hires vs what he used to do in the past... let's begin this week's podcast!

Links:

Have a question? Click here to go to our website and click on the corner of the website, leave a voice note and we'll answer it.

Our website: https://www.poweredaf.com/

Subscribe to Our Community Here for exclusive content: AbuFofanah.com

Join the Power Your Launch Marketing Accelerator -

learn how to market your product or service based business online and on social media.

You’ll learn how to find your ideal customers, target new customers, craft effective marketing campaigns that resonate and drive sales.

--

Do you love Powered AF? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.

--

Past guests on the Powered AF Podcast include Teri Ijeoma “Trade and Travel”, Sevetri Wilson, Emmelie De La Cruz, Maya Elious, Charm City Buyers, Jubril Agoro, Terri Lomax, Danielle Holmes, and more.

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Additional episodes you should listen to:


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LEARN MORE ABOUT ME:


Say HI on Social:


If you enjoy the podcast, it would mean a lot to us if you followed the show, leave a review, and share the podcast with your peers, friends, and family!

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Permission to CEO - EP 103: Tesla's Advertising Problem
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04/19/23 • 29 min

Episode 103: Tesla has been in the news a lot lately and there's been a debate on whether they should start advertising as new competitors enter the market. Tesla has always claimed it has never spent money advertising and instead have used that money to invest into making better products. In this episode, we're going to talk about Tesla's advertising dilemma and perceived value based on the market today.

This episode is brought to you by the Power Your Launch Marketing Accelerator; The largest virtual marketing education company focused on helping business owners learn how to market their products or services online and on social media. Join the 6 week accelerator today!

Have a question for the podcast? Click here to go to our website and click on the corner of the website, leave a voice note and we'll answer it:

https://www.poweredaf.com/

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Check Out Abu's stuff:

The Marketing Accelerator * Permission to CEO Newsletter

Marketing Insights Newsletter * AbuFofanah.com

Links:

Do you love Powered AF? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.

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Past guests on the Powered AF Podcast include Teri Ijeoma "Trade and Travel", Sevetri Wilson, Emmelie De La Cruz, Maya Elious, Charm City Buyers, Jubril Agoro, Terri Lomax, Danielle Holmes, and more.

LEARN MORE ABOUT ME:

Say HI on Social:

• Host IG | instagram.com/abufofanah

• Pod IG | instagram.com/poweredaf

• Twitter twitter.com/theabufofanah

• Youtube | Watch Videos & Interviews

• Tik Tok | tiktok.com/whereisabu

Additional episodes you might enjoy:

EP 74: Who Should I Hire? All About Assistants (Executive, Personal, Virtual)

EP 23: [Powered Chat] Facebook iOS Updates and Data Privacy Laws How to Navigate the Landscape Today (Part 3)

EP 28: Harsh Truths to Myself

EP 30: Marriage and Real Estate with Charm City Buyers

EP 18: How to Position Your Content on Social Media with Merlyn Melesia

EP 20: How to Build Successful Business Partnerships with Jubril Agoro

EP 26: Business Structure, Intellectual Property, and Trademarks with Jessica Bull

EP 11: [Powered Chat] Paid Ads vs Organic Marketing with Maya Elious (part 1)

EP 8: How to Make $1,000 A Day Trading and Create the Life You Want with Teri Ijeoma

EP 3: Half a Million Dollars in 10 Minutes with Danielle Holmes

EP 2: Building Marketing Teams with Emmelie De La Cruz

If you enjoy the podcast, it would mean a lot to us if you followed the show, leave a review, and share the podcast with your peers, friends, and family!

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Permission to CEO - EP 106: Your Approach to Hiring Is All Wrong
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05/19/23 • 16 min

In this weeks episode we explore what you can expect during the hiring process and gain valuable insights from my firsthand experience as a hiring manager. As I’ve interviewed applicants for a position within my company, I've come to realize the opportunities for growth.

Throughout the episode, I offer a unique perspective from the hiring manager's point of view: What factors do I consider when making a hiring decision? Additionally, I provide practical advice for individuals looking to ace their interviews. By examining both perspectives, you'll have the opportunity to reflect on past experiences and discover effective strategies to ensure the interview is a success.

This episode is brought to you by the Power Your Launch Marketing Accelerator; The largest virtual marketing education company focused on helping business owners learn how to market their products or services online and on social media. Join the 6 week accelerator today!

Have a question for the podcast? Click here to go to our website and click on the corner of the website, leave a voice note and we'll answer it:

https://www.poweredaf.com/

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Check Out Abu's stuff:

The Marketing Accelerator * Permission to CEO Newsletter

Marketing Insights Newsletter * AbuFofanah.com

Links:

Do you love Powered AF? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.

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Past guests on the Powered AF Podcast include Teri Ijeoma "Trade and Travel", Sevetri Wilson, Emmelie De La Cruz, Maya Elious, Charm City Buyers, Jubril Agoro, Terri Lomax, Danielle Holmes, and more.

LEARN MORE ABOUT ME:

Say HI on Social:

• Host IG | instagram.com/abufofanah

• Pod IG | instagram.com/poweredaf

• Twitter twitter.com/theabufofanah

• Youtube | Watch Videos & Interviews

• Tik Tok | tiktok.com/whereisabu

Additional episodes you might enjoy:

EP 74: Who Should I Hire? All About Assistants (Executive, Personal, Virtual)

EP 23: [Powered Chat] Facebook iOS Updates and Data Privacy Laws How to Navigate the Landscape Today (Part 3)

EP 28: Harsh Truths to Myself

EP 30: Marriage and Real Estate with Charm City Buyers

EP 18: How to Position Your Content on Social Media with Merlyn Melesia

EP 20: How to Build Successful Business Partnerships with Jubril Agoro

EP 26: Business Structure, Intellectual Property, and Trademarks with Jessica Bull

EP 11: [Powered Chat] Paid Ads vs Organic Marketing with Maya Elious (part 1)

EP 8: How to Make $1,000 A Day Trading and Create the Life You Want with Teri Ijeoma

EP 3: Half a Million Dollars in 10 Minutes with Danielle Holmes

EP 2: Building Marketing Teams with Emmelie De La Cruz

If you enjoy the podcast, it would mean a lot to us if you followed the show, leave a review, and share the podcast with your peers, friends, and family!

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How many episodes does Permission to CEO have?

Permission to CEO currently has 122 episodes available.

What topics does Permission to CEO cover?

The podcast is about Entrepreneurship, Podcasts and Business.

What is the most popular episode on Permission to CEO?

The episode title 'EP 76: One Question Friday: How to Hire as You Grow Your Business' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Permission to CEO?

The average episode length on Permission to CEO is 23 minutes.

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Episodes of Permission to CEO are typically released every 3 days, 22 hours.

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The first episode of Permission to CEO was released on Aug 9, 2021.

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