Ep 111: How The Shade Room Founder Angelica Nwandu Launched A Media Company on Instagram
Today in the guest chair is Angelica Nwandu. Angelica is the founder of The Shade Room, a media company that covers celebrity news and celebrates black culture. With over 14 million followers on Instagram alone, The Shade Room has become the it-destination for breaking national stories. Angelica herself was named as one of the Forbes "30 under 30" in 2016 and has created an empire that inspired Refinery 29 to dub her "the Oprah of our generation.\u201d
Angelica, as you\u2019ll hear on the episode, is someone who is so fascinating to me, because she didn\u2019t have a blueprint. But her confidence is contagious. She may not have known for sure that what she would create would work, but something inside of her made her believe it would work. That\u2019s the kind of confidence we all need to have.
On today\u2019s episode, we\u2019ll get into:
- How Angelica got her start
- How her foster care upbringing influenced her life\u2019s path
- And how she revolutionized celebrity news starting with a laptop, wifi, and an Instagram account
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