He and Nicola eventually spun up a number of companies focused on real estate, consulting, design, and even baby food companies out of their home.
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Late in the first decade of the twenty-first century, he figured out how to put an email list together and offer services online. But if I had to compare the two, I would love to do it on my terms as opposed to somebody else's.”Īnd so, in internet time and terms, Randy turned himself into a bit of a pioneer. He was also “never a big punch clock puncher. “I had my hands full, and I wanted to figure out different ways” of working and making a living, Randy says. Today his three kids are fifteen, thirteen, and ten-but ten years ago, when Randy began having designs on the online world, they were five, three, and a newborn. Randy was also drawn to online business because of a desire for flexibility. A number of his relatives have run successful businesses, including his great uncle, who owned the first Black pharmacy in all of Western Pennsylvania. Randy has always possessed an entrepreneurial spirit that blossomed from a foundation of family go-getters. Hunt, as well as the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where Randy lives with his wife, Nicola, and their three kids. While “Northwest Arkansas” might not readily light up the mental map, this region near the borders of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri is the home of retail stalwarts Walmart, Tyson Foods, and J.B. So I said, let me figure out, let me learn a little bit more about this place.” I knew the gate agents at my local airport better than I knew people in town. “When I left the company that I moved here five years ago to work for, I didn't really know anybody. “I started that podcast here because I didn't know anything about this area,” Randy says.
I Am Northwest Arkansas covers the intersection of business, culture, entrepreneurship, and life in the Ozarks of-you guessed it-Northwest Arkansas. Randy, who was featured in our first volume of “ Black Entrepreneurs Speak Out,” is also a self-professed “serial podcaster” whose latest project has an especially local flavor. In Randy’s words, he helps engineers and architects, environmental consultants, and planners “be better leaders, better communicators, and ultimately better people.” Randy Wilburn is the founder of Encourage Build Grow, an agency that focuses on leadership development, communication and personal development for design professionals.
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