Founder/CEO Anas Andy Shallal shares his most valuable lessons learned as an artist and social entrepreneur who “didn’t have a pro forma, business plan, excel sheets, or big decks,” yet managed to launch and successfully scale Busboys and Poets, a group of culturally conscious restaurants that also function as bars, bookstores, coffee shops and event spaces in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. With refreshing candor, Andy opens up about hard decisions and growing pains, how to learn fro...
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Founder/CEO Anas Andy Shallal shares his most valuable lessons learned as an artist and social entrepreneur who “didn’t have a pro forma, business plan, excel sheets, or big decks,” yet managed to launch and successfully scale Busboys and Poets, a group of culturally conscious restaurants that also function as bars, bookstores, coffee shops and event spaces in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. With refreshing candor, Andy opens up about hard decisions and growing pains, how to learn fro...
Making the World Brighter, Sassier and More Colorful: Alice Wong on Disability Justice
Be The Boss Now
1 hour 2 minutes
3 years ago
Making the World Brighter, Sassier and More Colorful: Alice Wong on Disability Justice
Activist Alice Wong talks to Gregory about disabled culture and queer communities, why failure is essential, and how she got the confidence to boldly “make the world a brighter, sassier, and more colorful place.” She unpacks “crip” as a form of kinship, reclaiming disabled wisdom, and community organizing in political spaces. Finally, they bond over both being born in the Year of the Tiger and celebrate Alice’s debut memoir, Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life. About Alice: Alice Won...
Be The Boss Now
Founder/CEO Anas Andy Shallal shares his most valuable lessons learned as an artist and social entrepreneur who “didn’t have a pro forma, business plan, excel sheets, or big decks,” yet managed to launch and successfully scale Busboys and Poets, a group of culturally conscious restaurants that also function as bars, bookstores, coffee shops and event spaces in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. With refreshing candor, Andy opens up about hard decisions and growing pains, how to learn fro...
