Fantashia, Unleashed!

Huge thanks to Camilla for allowing me to guest blog here on Unleashed Imagination.

I want to introduce you to Fantashia Stevens, a young entrepreneur who isn’t afraid to take risks with her business!

Fantashia founded and created Fizzalae Botanical Blends. She creates customized bath and body products for people with sensitive skin and personal hygiene needs. She also sells to local bed and breakfasts in Cleveland, Ohio. With the slogan, “Wash Away Today for a Better Tomorrow,” Fizzalae Botanical Blends produces and sells a unique line of homemade bath and body products including soaps, lotions, bath salts, and more.

She has been in business since November of 2005 and has won over NINE awards, including Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Growing up CEO and more!!

She is part of the E CITY program for five years and has a goal to open up four boutiques on each coast then expand to four stores off each store until the year 2020.

With such amazing aspirations, I’ll simply let Fantashia do the talking …. listen in on our chat!

NH: What’s more important — - trust or knowledge?
FS: Knowledge because if you don’t know what to look for then trust can just fly out the window. All trustworthy people start off learning before they learn to trust people.

NH: What was the scariest thing about launching Fizzalae?
FS: Funding was the scariest thing.

NH: What surprised you the most about starting/running your own business?
FS: The requirements of starting a business, there are so many different reqiurements for running your own business, most of them through the government.

NH: With your time that you’ve been involved with E CITY … what’s the most valuable concept you’ve learned from your time in the program?
FS: To be persistent without pushing them pushing me I wouldn’t have gotten as far as I have now

NH: Who is your biggest fan?
FS: My mother but I have family and friends behind me the entire way all across the world.

NH: Who is your #1 hero?
FS: My mother for putting up with me, just kidding, but my mother is my hero I love her for loving me.

NH: What piece of advice would you give a young person wanting to follow their dream?
FS: Never let anyone tell you that its not possible because more and more young people are doing it everyday, just look at the entrepreneurship rate of today’s youth. It’s Working!

NH: What advice are you sure to pass on specifically to other young female entrepreneurs? Something that no one else told you at the beginning of this road for you . . . but that you’ve learned along the way?
FS: Never let anyone tell you that its easy for women because its harder for us to start a business, there’s minimum help for women but its out there.

NH: Your website address for ordering is?
FS: My website is www.freewebs.com/fizzalae

NH: Who would you most like to meet?
FS: I would love to personally meet Kimmora Lee Simmons she is my idol and I would love it if she carried my products.

Support young entrepreneurs! Support the programs that encourage these brave business owners and creative thinkers! Do you know a young person with a great idea?

Naomi Hattaway

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