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Entrepreneur Networking Event at The Upgrade Food and
Spirits
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
On Wednesday, January 16,
Blair Johnson, local entrepreneur and founder of Breaking
the Glass, LLC, hosted a networking event for local business
owners and entrepreneurs at The Upgrade Food and Spirits –
2640 W. Laskey – to meet and to kick off the new year.
Approximately 50 visitors
stopped by to meet and speak with the dozen or so business
owners who came to share their experiences and expertise
with each other and the general public.
The purpose of the event,
said Johnson, was to highlight local businesses and connect
them to Toledoans who might need their services.
“It’s not what you know,”
he emphasized. “It’s who you know.”
Several of the attendees
received awards for their contributions or achievements.
City Councilman Nick Komives received the City Leaders
Award; Precious received the Breaking Barriers Award and
Lance Self of Taylor Hyundai, Nicholas Harper of Eden
Tailoring and Jasmine Pope of Blessings in Disguise were the
guest speakers and were the highlighted entrepreneurs of the
month.
The event was co-sponsored
by a number of other businesses, including BMJ Enterprises,
Frogtown Financial, City Clutchz, Blessing in Disguise,
Re’Stylez, The League of Love, JSSW Investments and the
Northwest Ohio Young Black Democrats.
Nicholas Harper, Jasmine Pope and Lance Self
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Blair Johnson
and Irshad Bannister of Transamerica Financial Advisors
Councilman Nick Komives and Precious Tate
Brittany Moore of Northwest Ohio Young Black Dems and
Christopher Coleman of Breaking the Glass |
