 Every day I wake up, I want to help shape and change the narrative of how people look at millennials, how people look at black people, how people look at women. My name is Brittany B. Brown, and I am the founder and principal publicist of the B Agency Public Relations. The small business owners of Detroit help build the strength of the community and fully represent the resilient spirit of Detroit. My name is Nega Julia, I'm a writer, photographer, creator, and Detroit local. In this series I'll be taking you around the city and introducing you to the small business owners and entrepreneurs that help power it. This is Icons of Detroit. The B Agency offers client representation as well as strategy and event PR. I started the B Agency actually when I was in college and I knew a lot of individuals who were building brands and businesses in Detroit and at this time so much negative light was being shed on Detroit and how it was crumbling. And I was like, that's not the Detroit that I know. And so I started working with different brands to where let's shift the narrative to saying this amazing entrepreneur who is a Detroit native is creating a movement that's bringing together the city and so that's how the B Agency was founded. Being an entrepreneur is not easy. It's the hardest thing I've ever done in my life and really understanding who I am and the gifts that I was blessed with to being able to share stories as well as help other people realize their greatness is something that I cherish all day by day basis and I wouldn't be able to do that. If I didn't understand my own personal journey. I lost my mom when I was 18, it was unexpected passing. I didn't know like how I was going to move forward, how I was going to keep going and something really resonated to me like this is what you're blessed to do and this is what you're born to do. Our clients who work with us are very loyal because we really make their brands our brands and it's not just a project, it's not just an account. I learned the ins and outs to why it is that you created this concept. I'm really excited to have the B Agency by my side as we get ready to do this expansion. So I'm going to knock it out of the bar. It's been exciting to join the B Agency full of great females leading the pack for a PR. My amazing project manager, she's actually a sorority sister of mine. That's how we connected and we know each other. It's always good to have someone who's a part of your team who they know you like the back of your hand and if I'm having a bad day, if I just need to cry. If I'm having a day to wear, it's like, OK, I need you to keep me on top of everything. We're a city who's really hungry. We're a city full of underdogs where you wouldn't expect people to be able to pull themselves up and create more opportunities. But that's exactly what we do. Being an entrepreneur in the city of Detroit, I see on a grassroots level the impact that one person can have on their community. I think the evolution of Detroit is going to be put on the backs and carried by the small businesses and entrepreneurs that continue to pour into the people that they serve. Becoming your brand is a curriculum course that we developed for individuals who want to really go in depth and understand who they are outside of a website in a local. We started working with Cooking with Q. She's one of our newest clients, and we absolutely adore her. It's Detroit's first and only demonstration kitchen. And she specializes in sustainability in urban communities that are known as food deserts. And it'll be like Chef Talk with Q or something. That's Q. We like to work with clients and individuals who really are the game changers in any lane that they represent. And she's open to sharing her personal story, which is what we feel is so important in working with clients that are the agency clients. She's one of those people who has the ability to just take what she's been given and make it amazing. Like, can you believe in our own city that we have such a powerful person in such a little package? We're celebrating our 10-year anniversary, and it just goes to show you that dreams do really come true. And sometimes you may not know where the journey may lead you, but just trust it. That's the beauty of being an entrepreneur is where you come in and break those traditional modes that's already in place. And that's what we strive to do every single day.