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Building Businesses with Roei Samuel, take a LEAP of faith, Bejay podcast feature, and January reading recommendations!

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Blocks2Bags Team
January 25, 2024

⬇️ THE DOWNLOAD

  • 📝 Block-Posts: See our exclusive top tips from Roei Samuel about building businesses that last

  • 📆 Round the Block: Unmissable events happening soon in and around our community.

  • 📣 Block Shoutout: Our top picks of people making moves to amaze and inspire us all.

  • 📝 Block-Posts

How to Build Businesses That Last and Navigate Risk in 2024 With Connectd’s Founder Roie Samuel

If you’re a long-timer at Blocks2Bags, you know that we’re always searching for the people who carry themselves to the bag with authenticity, whichever way this might be. This week’s guest, Roie Samuels, encapsulates this to the core. As founder and CEO of Connectd, exited founder, angel investor, and host of podcast Big Risk Energy, Roie’s work ethic goes hand-in-hand with the risks and failures that are inevitably intertwined with entrepreneurship. With his work at Connectd spanning across multiple continents, and revolutionising access to investors for early-stage startups, directly reflected is an active knowledge of the common struggles many people face when venturing on an entrepreneurship path.

Read the full article below:

How to Build Businesses That Last and Navigate Risk in 2024 With Connectd’s Founder Roie Samuel

By Hanaa Yousof As we wrap up another year, we again return to the processes of restarting, reevaluating, and reframing. Where did it go right — and where did it go wrong? What patterns have we scoped out as we’ve carried ourselves from one venture to another, and how can we apply this to our day-to-day life? Whatever this looks like for you — maybe you’re vision boarding for the new year, or resetting planning systems that haven’t quite gone to plan — the creeping realities of another year pass

www.blocks2bags.com/block/how-to-build-businesses-that-last-and-navigate-risk-in-2024-with-connectd-s-founder-roie-samuel

📆 Round the Block

Welcoming Adesola Akerele and Stephanie Okereafor! These are the girls behind LEAP - a documentary showcasing their journey as they took a leap of faith and headed to Los Angeles asking the question "Can one trip change your life?". We follow their adventure alongside the stories of industry trailblazers, Avelino, Joivan Wade, and Hamzaa. 

Make sure to grab some tickets to the screening next Tuesday:

Leap Documentary

LEAP is a film which explores the unfiltered realities of betting on yourself in the 21st Century. It’s told through the lens of Black British filmmakers, Adessy & Stephanie who took a leap of faith and headed to Los Angeles asking the question "Can one trip change your life?". We follow their adventure alongside the stories of industry trailblazers, Avelino, Joivan Wade, and Hamzaa.

www.leapdocumentary.com/?utm_source=blocks2bags.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=founders-message-up-your-linkedin-game-with-elfried-samba-see-new-movie-leap-and-more

📣 Block Shoutout

This week we wanted to give a shoutout the awesome Alicia from Black Create Connect. Our co-founder Bejay featured on the latest episode of her podcast. They discuss: 

  • How Bejay started investing into businesses 

  • The realities of being an entrepreneur 

  • His entrepreneur journey starting from school

  • Creative ideas to scale companies 

  • The challenge Black entrepreneurs' may face with investment access

  • Investing into smart people 

  • Blocks 2 Blacks & SupaNetwork

Watch the full episode here: 

http://open.spotify.com/episode/0FtFeiMjuQ0EF2aqcCUtV

📚 Block Library

As we approach the end of January, we wanted to remind you that it is not too late to give up on your habit-building and goal-setting. It is around this time that people start to slow down or give up, so this is your push to keep going! Here are a couple of books that can help motivate you to push push push! 

Eat That Frog!: Get More Of The Important Things Done Today: Amazon.co.uk: Tracy, Brian: 9781444765427: Books

Buy Eat That Frog!: Get More Of The Important Things Done Today by Tracy, Brian (ISBN: 9781444765427) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk/Eat-That-Frog-Important-Things/dp/1444765426

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results: Achieve your goals with one of the world's bestselling success books: Amazon.co.uk: Keller, Gary, Papasan, Jay: 9781848549258: Books

Buy The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results: Achieve your goals with one of the world's bestselling success books by Keller, Gary, Papasan, Jay (ISBN: 9781848549258) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk/One-Thing-Surprisingly-Extraordinary-bestselling/dp/1848549253

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