Tanisha Brown: 75 Readers. Zero Sponsors. 200,000 People Monthly.
Tanisha Brown left Merrill Lynch, lived on unemployment, and funded Impact Magazine herself for 11 years before a single corporate dollar arrived. Hear how purpose, sacrifice, and faith built a platform reaching over 200,000 people monthly, changing who gets seen.
Built Different: Passion, Purpose and the Cost of Sacrifice
Tanisha Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of Impact Magazine, a publication she started in 2007 in Trenton, New Jersey with 75 readers and zero sponsors, and that today reaches over 200,000 people monthly. She spent almost nine years at Merrill Lynch before a 2009 layoff, then self-funded the magazine for 11 years as a single mother, moving from New Jersey to North Carolina to Atlanta before relocating to Salt Lake City during the pandemic. She has been featured in Essence, O Magazine, and on BET, with partnerships across NASDAQ, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Meta, Comcast, PBS, and Facebook. City Bank named her a woman to watch, and the complete archive of Impact Magazine now sits in the University of Utah's Marriott Library. In Utah she founded the Women of Impact honors and now partners with Terrace Metrics to bring self-awareness and affordable mental-health tools to Black women. What this conversation gives you: How a layoff became a doorway into purpose, and why Tanisha took a full year to research before she ever launched. What 11 years of self-funding actually cost, and why survival mode leads entrepreneurs to say yes to the wrong money. How to turn a platform into a force for change by choosing partners that solve a problem instead of just writing a check. In Esther Jackson-Stowell's words: "But sometimes God has a way to like create situations so that it can shift you into your purpose." Every season-one episode now has fresh clips going out on our channels. Comment PLAYBOOK on any clip and the Season One Collection, every playbook, guide and worksheet from the season for $79, lands in your DMs.
What to remember
Tanisha Brown
Tanisha Brown is the founder and editor-in-chief of Impact Magazine, a publication she started in 2007 in Trenton, New Jersey with 75 readers and zero sponsors, and that today reaches over 200,000 people monthly. She spent almost nine years at Merrill Lynch before a 2009 layoff, then self-funded the magazine for 11 years as a single mother, moving from New Jersey to North Carolina to Atlanta before relocating to Salt Lake City during the pandemic. She has been featured in Essence, O Magazine, and on BET, with partnerships across NASDAQ, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Meta, Comcast, PBS, and Facebook. City Bank named her a woman to watch, and the complete archive of Impact Magazine now sits in the University of Utah's Marriott Library. In Utah she founded the Women of Impact honors and now partners with Terrace Metrics to bring self-awareness and affordable mental-health tools to Black women.
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Christ WarrenAcross the Table
Clara CapanoAcross the Table
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