“Having a good support team is vital, a support team of individuals who can help you navigate those different areas [of business] and support you as you delegate.  You can't do it all yourself…[Don’t] be afraid to
bring those people on board and utilize them.”
​- Paula McDade

This week’s guest is the amazing Paula McDade. Paula has taken on many ventures and continues to succeed against the odds. She is a speaker, graphic designer, editor in chief of her magazine Brilliant Awakening, and CEO of her company Stellar Creative.

As a child, Paula was quick to adopt the entrepreneurial spirit as she used to sell hand drawn cartoon characters to her friends. As she grew, so did her ambition. On top of her graphic designing business, Paula uses her other avenues to help women who have been through traumatic experiences, such as sexual abuse, to express themselves so that they can one day experience a new type of future.
Paula describes her journey as well rounded and I couldn’t agree more. She has business experience in both the corporate and creative spheres. More importantly, however, she has valuable life experience that she uses to help other women overcome the odds. I highly recommend checking her out.

In this interview, Paula McDade discusses:

• More about what she does as a graphic designer. [1:30]
• Her new venture into publishing, writing, and creating a magazine [3:33]
• What inspired her to get into graphic design. [4:31]
• Knowing what she knows now, would she go back and begin her career in the creative space earlier on and not enter the corporate realm. [7:05]
• Why she speaks to help women overcome trauma and abuse. [8:10]
• How she overcame the abuse she faced. [13:17]
• The biggest learning curve she had to overcome in her business. [16”21] 
• what she wanted to be when she grew up. [20:35] 
• what’s next for her. [22:32]
• What her magazine is about. [26:33]
• How the idea for a magazine came about. [27:14]

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Overcome the obstacles and awaken your creative self in this episode of the Succeed Against the Odds podcast.

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