City Entrepreneur

Mauli Agrawal is the UMKC Chancellor. He tells his story of how he dreamed of coming to the US as a kid in India. He also talks about choosing a career that challenged his families expectations.

Dj Flip and Le Magicien tell their childhood story of how Afro-beats influenced their lives and how the music genre is now taking over the world.

Marissa Vidler is the CEO/Founder of a marketing research company called Clear Box. She is also an author of the book ‘Millennial With Kids’. She tells the story of how she started a successful research company in Kansas City.

Carolyn Kovar is a Public Relations student at UMKC who interned for Congress man Emanuel Cleaver. She also had a TedX talk on mending the economic divide between minorities races in the Us and the majority race. B Willy is a Business Administration student at UMKC. He plans to use his music career to bring positive change to the world.

Chekwas Okafor is a New York City based fashion designer. He runs an online African Luxury Fashion store. He tells his story of how he transitioned from wanting to be a medical doctor to becoming a fashionista. He also gives us a glimpse of his vision for Africa.

David Lloyd is a Law Professor at UMKC. He tells his story of how he found his passion in teaching and inspiring young people.

James and Isiah are UMKC Alumni’s who have their own podcast. On this podcast we talked about pursuing your purpose vs doing a job just to pay bills.

Changing your mindset from fear to faith.

Darien Case is a Kansas City poet who is passionate about using poetry to speak the truth for Black people. He also had a Ted X talk about his poet.

Brandon McNace is an inspirational believer from Eternity Church in Iowa. He is passionate about helping young people find their purpose through God.

Terri Jordan is the CEO/Founder of WizeWebz; a digital marketing company. Wizewebz focuses on helping companies enhance their marketing strategies by improving either their websites or advertisements. Terri tells the story on how she started the company while battling Cancer at the same time.

Thai Lam is the founder ‘Luke18’; an on-campus Christian Fellowship in Kansas City. He is passionate about spreading God’s word and giving hope to young people. He tells the story of how he started his organization and the vision behind it.

We will be answering five life questions about purpose and success.