We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful La Porsche Jackson. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with La Porsche below.

La Porsche, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Let’s start with education – we’d love to hear your thoughts about how we can better prepare students for a more fulfilling life and career

I would change children seeing representations of themselves within the education field. I believe young boys should be able to relate to seeing a male teacher even in higher academia as well as being more inclusive and diverse with professors and or teachers that come from minority based background such as African American, Asian Mexican American and everything else in between. I would also change the early childhood education by having corporate America and the education system pay ECE educators just as much as you pay high school teachers as the children in the early years need that great foundation of structure, guidance, and quality education so that when they reach elementary school they will already be set in a grounded foundation for them to be active members of society in the future. We’ve all heard the same education is your future However in order for one to be properly educated they must pay the educators with their due or we will continue to have minorities fall between the cracks and suffer instead of flourish and create a future for those behind them.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I started my business back in 2018 originally called K&L Creations By La Porsche ( custom lip gloss brand). The brand was inspired after the birth of my second child, I was going through postpartum depression and needed something to lift me up so I decided to feel good about myself by coming up with the custom lip gloss that all women could wear no matter what they look like they should all be able to feel just as beautiful as they are. I started off with just four lip glosses and in 2019 I was able to relaunch my brand adding an additional four lip glosses. My brand promotes confidence, pose , Entrepreneurship , consulting, and Educating the community. My primary background is in education I have a bachelor’s, and psychology an associates and early childhood education, and I am now studying for my masters in curriculum and instruction. I quit my teaching job in May of 2023 to take a leap of faith and open up my own home daycare to service the children in my community. K&L Creations is not just the lip gloss it’s a brand.

How did you build your audience on social media?

When I knew that I was going to open my business I immediately started marketing and promoting my brand, promoting my idea, and getting feedback for my peers. I asked my peers what types of colors of lip glosses with a like to see, along with how large, and typically how much they would spend on one bottle of lip gloss. I also did model calls asking women of all backgrounds who would like to promote my brand and get free lip gloss along with some free photos to add to their own personal portfolio. My social media following on Instagram as well as Facebook has been pretty large. I was able to use that platform to market and promote my lip gloss By the time I initially launched my brand I already have people purchasing the the lip gloss before it was even made. The pre-order is what sets you aside from others because it’s showing you that people are willing to spend their money before your product even reaches them based off of their confidence, and you and what you’ve already been showing them. You have to show people that the item that you have will make them feel good about themselves and that they won’t break their pockets trying to support it. With any brand or idea you want to have something to show, something that your audience and/or customers can see. Having a blueprint having a model having the item will always get you more support because individuals can see, here taste or touch what you were trying to market. Do not put all your eggs in one basket, have more than one marketing idea and strategy. Marketing plays a big part and how much revenue and business you will get. You can market via text message, You can use business cards as marketing, Your car could be an advertisement billboard, shirts hats pens anything with your logo or idea is a marketing strategy. Always believe in yourself and if you need help don’t be afraid to ask you’d be surprised how many people are willing to help finance or support an idea when you already have everything else laid out.

Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?

Resilience is something that I believe we all have in us, it’s just the drive and the confidence that it takes to bring the resilience out of the individual. I received my license to open my home daycare in February of this year, The next month I found out that my mom’s cancer had spread. Not to mention being a full-time mother, wife, and teacher. The timing was so off however everything that I have worked for was starting to happen. I needed to continue to move forward and use my negative experience as a positive to push me so that I can continue to be the best example to my children like my mother was to me. In life we cannot control the bad things that happen to us The only thing we have control over is our actions and what we do with the bad things that happen to us. Never give up Lean on those who have always been your supporters, and counseling always works Don’t believe the stigma.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://kandlcreationsbylaporsche.com/
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