We recently connected with Ava Sanders and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Ava , so excited to talk about all sorts of important topics with you today. The first one we want to jump into is about being the only one in the room – for some that’s being the only person of color or the only non-native English speaker or the only non-MBA, etc Can you talk to us about how you have managed to be successful even when you were the only one in the room that looked like you?
For many years as a Resident Care Director(Director of nursing over an Assisted Living Center) I was often times the only one that looked like me but found comfort and confidence in my nursing knowledge base and dedication to learning the scope of practice within my job.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
Nick and Ava as a team are focused on establishing and maintaining a successful business, that leads into more business ventures, where we want to teach the next generation how to successfully run a business. Nick is a serial entrepreneur with several business ventures under his belt. Ava is a career nurse with almost 30 years in the nursing field. Both are career focused and driven to succeed. Selfie wrld Xtreme is an opportunity to expand our brand via franchise and do something we love all while creating generational wealth and stability for our grandchildren’s future and setting the tone for the next generation of entrepreneurs. Creating the Selfie wrld Xtreme brand is what we are hoping to launch in several cities by adding different levels of technology and engineering to make the Xtreme brand be different from all the other sister brands..
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
One of The most impactful qualities during this process is the ability to collaborate with vendors of all walks of life and take from each details that allow for growth and development of the SWX brand. The ability to visualize a fantasy space and bring it to life inside of our museum. Taking bits and pieces of ideas from throughout the world and bring them together under one roof has its challenges, but has proven to be one of our toughest yet interesting skills. We have adapted to sharing ideas with our team and working together to create SWX(Selfie wrld Xtreme) brand.
Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?
Covid has changed a lot of the county’s permitting processes. There was a time where you could walk into the county offices and take care of your business with a support team, but now it is all online and via appointment. We had an initial opening date several months back but do to changes and processes we are several months behind in our opening date. We are learning things that we can surely pass on to others who are wanting to start a business. The do’s and don’ts of starting a business. It has the abilty to stall and fail before the doors even open. The ability to focus and overcome these obstacles have been extremely challenging and tiresome but must be defeated in order to obtain the goal of being a newly black owned business.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://selfiewrldxtreme.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/selfiewrldxtreme/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/selfiewrldxtreme/
- Other: TIKTOK- https://www.TikTok.com/selfiewrldxtreme/
Image Credits
These are selfies taken by myself. Owned by myself. I own and have rights to the images.
