On the Season 3 premiere of Mompreneurs, Codie Elaine Oliver opens up about motherhood and her journey as an entrepreneur. The mom of three and Chief Artistic Officer of Black Love, Inc. juggles a number of ventures throughout the Black Love model that she based with husband and filmmaker Tommy Oliver. From the unique Black Love docuseries on the Oprah Winfrey Community (OWN), the model has advanced right into a thriving digital platform and extra. Nonetheless, success got here with sacrifice. Oliver is sincere in regards to the laborious work that she and Tommy put in to make all of it work. Oliver joins Mompreneurs host Nancy Redd to inform her story as a spouse, mom and rising media mogul.
Life Opened Surprising Doorways
Oliver stresses that regardless of the unbelievable success of the Black Love model, there was no clear imaginative and prescient or roadmap for what it could turn into. Wanting again, she will respect that every little thing labored out for the most effective. “There have been so many issues that didn’t go based on plan,” she tells Redd. “Now I can look again and say every little thing was occurring the best way that it was alleged to. The issues that didn’t go based on plan finally opened completely different doorways that I wasn’t anticipating.”
The ‘Black Love’ Journey
The couple constructed their celebrated media firm from the bottom up. It began with taking pictures Black Love, interviewing actual {couples} and documenting their tales. “I made a decision I wished to create a spot the place Black love tales lived,” Oliver says. “I didn’t need anybody to really feel like they couldn’t see examples.”
The acclaimed docuseries challenged the Black marriage disaster narrative when there wasn’t an area for these tales. Oliver, a movie and TV producer, was decided to doc actual tales of affection and marriage, and the present has resonated with audiences ever since. From famous person {couples} like Academy Award profitable actress Viola Davis and husband Julius Tennon, to simply married newlyweds, the sequence intimately captures the complete spectrum of Black love.
Oliver’s ardour for constructing neighborhood has advanced the model far past the docuseries. Slightly than gatekeeping, the podcast host thrives on sharing info and constructing relationships. The significance of neighborhood stays an necessary theme in Oliver’s journey, permitting her to make significant connections and construct a robust community that finally nourishes her enterprise.
Balancing Enterprise With Motherhood
This journey was nonstop from day one. The Olivers started taking pictures interviews for Black Love as newlyweds whereas Codie was pregnant with their first son. It was across the time of his start that they struck a cope with OWN to license the docuseries whereas permitting them to take care of possession of the model. Six seasons later, the couple had added twin infants to the combo all whereas operating their rising media empire.
Balancing children, marriage and a number of ventures “is all the time a piece in progress,” Oliver admits. It’s about making time on your targets and searching for assist to make it occur. Whether or not you rent a nanny, pay for a laundry service or faucet a good friend to “watch the children for 2 hours whereas I begin penning this ebook,” as Oliver says, it’s about working with what you’ve acquired. There’s no proper or unsuitable technique to go about it, she says.
“I all the time knew I wished to be a mother, so I used to be all the time mentally making ready myself for that,” Oliver shares. “Parenthood goes to be troublesome. However if you’d like that, then these sacrifices are simply that a lot simpler.”
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