100Knoxville: Knowing Your Value with Tonya Hairston

On this week's episode, guest host Jalynn Baker is joined by the founder of Hairston's Naturals, Tonya Hairston.


Jalynn and Tonya dig into her background in dermatology and herbalism, her family’s impact on her creative process, building community with small businesses, and lessons learned from the 100Knoxville business accelerator from Knoxville Entrepreneur Center.

Learn more about Tonya and Hairston's Naturals: https://www.hairstonsnaturals.com/

Learn more about 100Knoxville 

100Knoxville is a business accelerator program from the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center with a  goal of growing Black-owned businesses in Knoxville by $10,000,000 over 5 years through investment of time and talent, and access to social, political, and financial capital.

Listen to all episodes of the Big Ideas Welcome podcast, available now on your favorite streaming platforms and at bigideaswelcome.com.

This Big Ideas Welcome podcast is brought to you by Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, hosted and curated by KEC chief of strategy  Chris McAdoo, and produced and edited by Palm Tree Pod Co.

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Listen to all episodes of the Big Ideas Welcome podcast, available now on your favorite streaming platforms, YouTube, and at bigideaswelcome.com.

This Big Ideas Welcome podcast is brought to you by Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, hosted and curated by KEC Chief Experience Officer Chris McAdoo, and produced and edited by Palm Tree Pod Co.

A special thanks to K BREW for making this episode possible.

Original theme music “Thinking of You” courtesy of and copyright Kelsi Walker.