“The racism that we’re experiencing now and every day in this country is a product of design. Not just in our policies and practices and communities, but also in our relationships. So with equityXdesign, we’re creating a premise that says, ‘If racism and equity have been designed one way, they …

“Members post and comment much more than they message or email me. They're helping each other out.”

“We’ve been open for 10 months now on Mighty Networks, and we’ve had more members join in that amount of time than we did in two and a half years on our previous website.”

“Boston has a reputation of being not that welcoming, and a lot of people of color have a hard time feeling like they belong. It’s hard to find a community here, period.”

“I went, ‘Wait, this is really important.’ It became my passion project. I spent hours and hours every week for months and years cultivating and growing this community. Then, at a certain point I realized, ‘Oh wait, I can't sustain this without an income.”

“I mean, you can always be nervous. You can always be a little scared of trying something new. However, that type of mentality is what keeps people from actually making that leap of faith and pursuing a dream. Sometimes you just have to believe in your idea, and hard work …

“We launched the Category Design Academy Mighty Pro app in November 2023, and it doubled our revenue that year.”

“We started out investing in Mighty Pro with a premium course, and we're building backward from that. It gives us the runway to build other things in the future. We’re not interested in playing small. We’re building the next generation of Category Designers — and Mighty Pro gives us the …

“We had so many people asking us, ‘Do you guys train? Are you guys teaching the skills that you’re writing about’ And that’s when we decided to begin offering courses and certifications.”

“And then we all chuckled. Because we couldn’t actually do that either. It would have been incredibly expensive and very, very time-consuming.”

“We hit 2,000 members in less than two weeks! That kind of growth confirmed what we suspected — creatives were craving a space like this.”

“We had been running our two businesses, we had written a book, we were managing communities, we were planning in-person events, and we were still podcasting every single week. We got to a point where we were just like, ‘No more new things'."

“At the end of every eight-week course, people would say, ‘Wow, that was so cool. That was transformative. Now what.”

"We tell every creator we know to get on Mighty Pro. Last year, we earned over $900,000 and helped 6,000 members achieve breakthroughs in their life.”

“They basically said, ‘You create the course and we’ll sell it,’ but they never sold it. It was rough because it was a lot of work. But afterward, I thought, ‘I need to do this on my own."