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"Everyone has a side hustle": how to turn your natural skills into a moneymaking venture

Family Freedom Center

Xavier Bell says these days, where people have more than one job just to make it from month to month, everyone is trying to parlay their skills into a gig that can help out.

But while he says many people have natural skills, that doesn't mean they have a natural ability to run a business.

So the Family Freedom Center is teamed up with the Neighborhood Development Center (NDC)to help develop Freedom Start-Ups, a micro-business incubator program to support entrepreneurs Duluth's Black community.

The goal is not only to create a safe space for folks to share their ideas and learn the skills they need to create a business from the ground up, it's taking into account strong cultural norms of community, cooperation and reaching out a hand to draw your neighbor alongside you.

More information about the Family Freedom Center's Start-Ups Orientation is available here.

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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