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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fortunate enough to get a scholarship to go to college in the United States. By the time I graduated, we had a full-blown civil war in both Liberia and Sierra Leone. I couldn't go home.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father ran an insurance company, but he passed away when I was 8. My mother was an economist working for the government of Liberia. But both my grandmothers were entrepreneurs in rural West Africa.
- Lesson
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- Nov 07, 2020
A critical lesson I learned is that we have to make sure all our employees, particularly new hires, have a full immersion in our culture.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the hardest things to do is to get capital. That's where we, as black business, struggles. And the other place we struggle is scale, and because we don't have an access to capital, we cannot scale.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once a company develops out of its consumer base, you will often see a well-funded multinational company come in and take over that space. The black-owned company either stays a niche company or just disappears. This is something we don't want to happen.
- Firsthand
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother was a single mother. My mother's a single mother, and I have four daughters. I've experienced firsthand the challenges of what it is to be a single mother. And many of those challenges are challenges that, if we all just got together and worked together and thought about it together, we could help solve.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're doing something that hasn't been done before, and you're trying to build something that hasn't been built before on a platform that hasn't existed before, you are going to make mistakes. The biggest advice that I can give is to not run away from issues when they occur. Own it. Your consumers deserve that.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about 'Essence' that we more than like - that we really love: the history of the community, the forward-thinking leadership.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
By questioning the very concept of a normal standard, especially as it applies to beauty and to hair type or texture, we can begin to see how arbitrary, narrow, and potentially destructive it is and course-correct ourselves on a path to where everybody gets love.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our forward track must focus on including everyone, embracing everyone, and celebrating the beauty - and normalcy - of everyone's differences.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of our missions has been to create an all-natural hair care line that caters to meet the unique needs of multi-ethnic consumers, which has traditionally been an underserved group in the mass market.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, Mary, has been a guiding force for as long as I can remember through the examples she's set as a single mother. She demonstrated her confidence and faith in me by investing everything in me and the business at a time when she had just lost everything.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am proud of all of our products across every category we're in - hair, bath and body, face, cosmetics, baby, and men's - because they reflect the highest quality natural, organic, fair trade, and community commerce-sourced ingredients available.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
We started our company out of a need to survive, but we've built it based on a mission not only to help others survive but to prosper. Because of that, our purpose - to empower people to live more beautiful lives - compels us to keep community at our core.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were presented with limited opportunities to get distribution when we went to retail, so we made the hard decision to build the brand and win the community first.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
This natural-hair movement has opened up the door for us to do so many things, for us to have conversations that we weren't able to have. We need this in our communities.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to be able to express ourselves and to show the world who we are and how we are.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our love of people has always been our motivation and our competitive advantage.
- Business Model
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- Nov 07, 2020
While we have been presented several opportunities to be acquired by multinational corporations, we are most excited that our collaboration with Bain Capital fulfills our commitment to remain an independent family-owned and operated company with a purpose-driven business model that puts community at our core.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole life has been about building community, building business in our community, empowering people in our community.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted Sundial Brands to be an inspiration to other minority-owned companies of how a business against all odds can achieve excellence, have significant social impact in our communities, and be successful on a world stage.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am excited Sundial and Unilever have created this partnership, rooted in a purpose-driven ethos, that represents an incredible opportunity to take our Community Commerce economic empowerment and impact model to another level.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could say I was born into entrepreneurship. My grandmother, who was from Sierra Leone, was left to raise four children in the 1940s in a rural village in West Africa after becoming a young widow. To support her family, she made natural skin and hair care preparations and sold them primarily to missionaries and villagers.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
As our company grew and we began growing our family stateside - with heritages ranging from Liberian and Sierra Leonean to Irish, Indian, Swedish, Filipino, German, and beyond - our different cultural influences and walks of life helped us even better understand the criticality of an inclusive point of view.
- Help Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
We started our company out of a need to survive, but we've built it based on a mission not only to help others survive but to prosper. In fact, we view ourselves as a mission with a business, rather than a business with a mission.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We began Sundial Brands as young entrepreneurs, and as we move forward towards our goal of becoming the number one global family company serving our communities in a way that is aligned with their needs and our core values, we will always be entrepreneurs.
- Nov 07, 2020