Becoming Visible with Christina Payne

🎙️Join us as we close out season one with Octavia Morgan of Octavia Morgan LA, a gender neutral clean fine fragrance brand. We’re excited to hear her thoughts on 3 crucial growth milestones!

🎙️September 2025 is the kickoff of a boycott of non-black owned hair care products by black women. The goal is to demonstrate the economic impact and power that comes with the spend in this market. But more importantly shift that spend to support black owned brands. In this episode I break down 4 key considerations during this time. Host: Christina Payne Assistant/Producer: C’Maji Gilliam

🎙️In this episode we interview the lovely Kim Roxie of Lamik Beauty and discuss her journey to building a healthy vegan beauty brand that she could use despite her alopecia and proudly in honor of her diva mother. She will also share her entrepreneurial views on establishing realistic revenue targets and learning to use financial statements to track them (P&L Statement, Cash Flow Statement, and Ba...

🎙️Hiring to grow, not just to fill seats. As your business grows, your biggest bottleneck becomes people. Hiring the wrong team slows you down. Hiring right, multiplies your impact. Host: Christina Payne Producer/Assistant: C’Maji Battle

🎙️Polycules, Kink, Sex Therapy…meet a therapist intentionally growing her practice to increase representation for minority and underserved communities. How do you scale that business? Listen and find out with Ya-Shi Duhon, MS, MEd, LPC-Associate supervised by Joey Santos III, PhD, LPC-S, LPCC supervised by Robyn Flores, PhD, LMFT-S, AAMFT-S, CFT

Are you ready to rise up? Tricia Vincent founder of Launch Your Influence is our Guest Founder today and she is sharing her journey to scaling a career and personal branding business.

Managing Growth Capital as a Black-Owned Business Objective: Help founders understand the shift in financial management when transitioning from bootstrapping to capital-backed growth. Host: Christina Payne Producer: C’Maji Battle

How to Grow and Stay True To Your Brand Objective: Help Founders understand how to scale their business while staying rooted in their values, culture, and mission. Host: Christina Payne Producer: C’Maji Battle

🎙️”3 Signs You’re a Growth Company” 🎯 EPISODE OVERVIEW Objectives: ​Define what it means to be a “growth company” (vs. early stage). ​Share 3 key signs your company is entering the growth phase. ​Inspire founders to recognize growth indicators early — and prepare accordingly. Key Points: ​Revenue consistency and team expansion ​Systems strain and the rise of bottlenecks ​Shift from founder-does-e...

🎙️Welcome to Becoming Visible with Christina Payne - Episode 1 - We’re HERE! Let’s showcase black owned growth companies that are scaling! Subscribe. Share. Connect. Host: Christina Payne Producer/Assistant: C’Maji Battle Episode Notes: In this introductory episode we give our audience a behind the scenes view into what our new podcast, Becoming Visible will be about, who it’s for, what you can ex...