Jan 23, 2020
In this episode, we talk to Dana James-Mwangi(Founder of Cheers Creative) as she shares with us her journey of entrepreneurship, a teacher that made an impact on her early, and the one brand she can not live without.
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From corporate
employee to full-time entrepreneur, Dana’s career has evolved from
being an in-house print designer to creative agency founder,
branding and website strategist, speaker, and teacher.
After undergrad, Dana designed marketing pieces for SunTrust and
Wells Fargo and package design for home storage items sold in major
retail stores, including Walmart and Target. This experience shaped
her understanding of brand design consistency and sparked the
desire to offer her knowledge to passionate business owners. With
love for clean design and the belief that everyone has a story to
tell, Dana founded Cheers Creative, a Memphis-based agency that
builds award-winning brand visuals and websites for creative
professionals, industry leaders, and
art platforms.
Using the workbook that she developed called the Brand Journal,
Dana teaches branding and design workshops in schools including
Memphis College of Art and Memphis Grizzlies Preparatory
Charter School.
Since the opening of Cheers in 2012, Dana has developed an
international client roster. Her writings, design work, and talks
about branding, web design, tech, and entrepreneurship have been
featured and referenced in Forbes, Essence, Canada Learning Code,
Net Magazine, and more.
Dana gained endorsement from the creators of X, which is one of the
most potent and fastest-selling WordPress website themes on the
market today. She has built X Theme website templates that help
over 170,000 X Theme customers create beautiful websites. Dana’s
web design work is also featured on various WordPress website
showcases around the web.
Dana received a BFA with a concentration in Graphic Design from the
University of Memphis. When she’s not working or contributing to
the Memphis arts scene, Dana mentors underserved middle-school-age
girls about entrepreneurship through the non-profit organization
Envision Lead Grow and spends time with her husband and
children.
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Written by: Dominic Lawson
Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson
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