Monique Rodriguez

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1,123 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2025 last heard 26 Mar

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And sometimes if I don't know the right questions to ask, sometimes the best thing for me to do is just to sit and observe and watch everything.

You don't need to have an opinion on everything.

Like you don't have to be the loudest person in the room.

You just have to be humble enough to know like, okay, what can I learn from each person in this room?

Because I don't want to be the smartest person in this room.

So he was an instrumental mentor.

He introduced us to his investment banker and that's what positioned us to do our private equity raise.

That was a six figure investment.

And you know, at that time, no, I'm sorry, not six figures, nine figures, nine figures.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

I'm not thinking.

Yeah.

So that was the great thing about the leverage that we had was because, you know, raising a nine figure investment and it was so powerful because...

I was the first African-American woman in the textured hair care space to raise that much.

And I still maintain majority ownership.

So I didn't even give away, you know, all of my ownership.

I still had a lot of leverage.

And because we were so profitable.

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