HeyJaredButternomics the Business of Culture
Butternomics: The Business of Culture takes a deep dive into the intersection of business and culture, showing how brands, entrepreneurs, and tastemakers use culture level up.
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Why Ownership Is The New Black With Congresswoman Nikema Williams (opens the original)
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On this episode of Butternomics, our host, Brandon Butler, talks with Congresswoman Nikema Williams about why ownership is the new black and how Atlanta keeps proving it. She drove here at 20 in a 1991 Honda Accord knowing nobody, taught in Fulton County schools, and lived at Centennial Place with the spot Roosevelt cut the ribbon on the country’s first public housing project sitting right outside her front door. Twenty years later she represents that district in Congress and sits on the committ
How Earn Your Leisure Made Financial Literacy Cool (opens the original)
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On this episode of Butternomics, our host, Brandon Butler, talks with Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings, the founders of Earn Your Leisure, about how they turned financial education into something the culture actually wanted. Before there was a podcast, there were two years of daily social content and a classroom full of students, and the show only got made because the audience kept asking for it. That same instinct built everything after it. Free networking events in city after city with no cover
Why You Can’t Scale Without Systems With Connie S. Falls (opens the original)
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On this episode of Butternomics, our host, Brandon Butler, talks with Connie S. Falls, founder of Connie S. Falls and the operational systems expert known as Systems Bae. With 19 years of experience building the back end of everything from federal agencies to mega churches to record labels, Connie breaks down why there is no scaling without systems, and why most people saying “scale” actually just mean growth. She and Brandon get into the difference between a business and a hobby that makes mone
How The 2 Live Stews Changed Sports Talk Radio Forever (opens the original)
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On this episode of Butternomics, our host, Brandon Butler, talks with Doug and Ryan Stewart, the brothers known as the 2 Live Stews. It started with an argument. Two brothers screaming about a preseason game in a living room full of people who couldn’t look away. That energy became a pitch nobody in radio had heard before: an all Black sports talk show in the Blackest city in the country. They took the late night slot on 790 The Zone in Atlanta. Did it for free. Then called every frat brother, e
How Two Different Worlds Built One Atlanta Brand With Big Block and Ralph Sorrentino (opens the original)
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On this episode of Butternomics, our host, Brandon Butler, talks with Big Block, the East Side Chevy rider and founder of Block Entertainment, and Ralph Sorrentino, VP of Operations for the Jim Ellis Automotive Group, about what happens when the music business and the car business come together to build something Atlanta hasn’t seen before. Block breaks down his run from Tupac and Bad Boy to building his own label, and why ownership is the only real way to scale. Ralph pulls back the curtain on
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