Keri Henderson
69 episodes listed below
Black business lessons with cultural context.
The Kickback With Keri is a business-and-culture show centered on Black founders, creators, and community-focused ventures. Its strongest episodes turn real ventures into usable lessons about funding, visibility, product fit, safer products, and brand trust.
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The Kickback With Keri sits at the intersection of Black business, culture, and practical founder education. The show’s recurring question is simple: what does it take to build something useful without losing the community it was meant to serve? Interviews often start with a specific gap. A founder cannot find greeting cards for her girlfriends. A magazine builder wants stories beyond celebrity filters. A beauty advocate learns that many products marketed to Black women may contain harmful chemicals. A bartering platform tries to help entrepreneurs exchange services when cash is tight. From there, the conversation widens. The show talks about grants, pitch competitions, apps, customer feedback, product-market fit, brand awareness, and the cost of scaling too soon. It also asks what business responsibility looks like when Black-owned branding, audience trust, and community resources are on the line. The advice is plainspoken. Test the website before paying for the app. Look for money that does not need to be paid back. Make sure the brand move matches the story the audience has already seen. Protect the purpose of the work, especially when growth starts to look tempting. The Kickback Briefing episodes add a sharper culture lane. Stories around Cardi B’s hair care launch, Issa Rae’s TikTok partnership, Trick Daddy and the AKAs become case studies in alignment, storytelling, and event judgment. The show is not only interested in founders who win. It is interested in how they explain the work, serve people, and make decisions when resources are limited. That gives the interviews a grounded rhythm. There is enthusiasm, but it usually comes attached to a lesson. For small business owners, creatives, nonprofit builders, and people tracking Black consumer culture, the show offers a useful mix of encouragement, critique, and tactical detail.
Made for: The show is for Black founders, creatives, small business owners, nonprofit builders, and culturally engaged listeners who want practical lessons from real ventures. It also suits people interested in branding, grants, ethical growth, and community-centered commerce.
What sets it apart: The show connects founder interviews with cultural business analysis, moving comfortably from pitch competitions and bartering platforms to celebrity brand alignment and safer beauty advocacy. Its edge is the way it treats Black community context as central business intelligence, not background color.
The Kickback With Keri is where Black brilliance, bold storytelling, and business strategy meet. Hosted by Keri Henderson, entrepreneur and community builder, this podcast goes beyond feel-good conversations, spotlighting Black-owned brands, creators, and changemakers who are building wealth, breaking barriers, and rewriting the rules of entrepreneurship.Each episode delivers actionable insight and inspiring real talk from launching purpose-driven ventures to navigating visibility, growth, and impact in today’s economy. Whether you're a small business owner, creative, or community-minded doer, you'll walk away with gems you can actually use, plus the motivation to keep going.Join a growing m…
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A clear look at Black-owned commerce, community curation, and what an indie magazine is trying to do differently.
Adrienne Randall keeps the point simple: if Black-owned media and shopping guides are going to matter, they have to center real businesses and real community needs, not trendy labels.
Barter Black offers a practical path for Black-owned businesses trying to scale with limited cash flow.
Barter Black presents Black entrepreneurship as a scaling problem and answers it with a practical model: trade skills, services, and products through a platform built to help founders start, grow, and scale.
Beauty labels, regulation, and Black women's safety stay tightly linked.
The conversation frames beauty products as a safety issue, with Hannah McCall tracing Clean Beauty for Black Girls back to a question about products sold to Black women and the chemicals inside them.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Remi Roy says passion alone cannot sustain an independent podcast, while Podground meetups and vetted coaches offer support.
Keri Henderson examines KevOnStage Fredericks’s multi-project, multi-year Tubi partnership, which includes two more seasons of Safe Space, a scripted workplace comedy, a comedy special, and a feature film.
Keri Henderson interviews Angelique Warner, founder of GoGoV Premium Baby Carrier, about turning a 2005 nursing-and-parenting problem into a patented product.
"Human hair is just a title that does not mean it's actually coming from a human's head."
Some businesses only lean into being Black-owned or Black-facing when it helps them.
Keri Henderson starts with a hard number.
At the 73rd South Atlantic AKA regional conference in Florida, Trick Daddy’s performance ended after regional director Tiffany Moore Russell said the agreed requirements were ignored.
Hannah McCall joins as the founder of Clean Beauty for Black Girls.
This episode features an interview with Krystal Henry, founder of Around the Way Parchment, discussing how she built a greeting card business from a personal need, won $45,000 in grants and pitch competitions, and emphasizes the importance of community in entrepreneurship.
Brian Taylor discusses building his 7-figure social impact marketing agency by prioritizing meaningful work and core values over profit, covering topics like client selection, AI in marketing, and cultural influences.