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How The Shade Room Founder Angelica Nwandu Went From the Brink of Eviction to Collaborating With Issa Rae
Essence to Forbes, found success on her own terms.We spoke about realizing your value, keeping a dream alive in the face of rejection, and what it’s been like working with Issa Rae and LaLa Anthony on her horror-comedy film, Juju.I was always interested in stories, whether it was people’s love life or what was happening in the media. So, when I was unemployed after I had lost my job, I just started telling stories and then relaying those stories to my friends who were too busy to engage in that type of stuff.
