“Free Enterprise” with Brian Hamilton ’87 shares journey of people following American dream Sacred Heart University alumnus Brian Hamilton ’87 is an executive producer and stars in a new ABC television series, Free Enterprise, which follows formerly incarcerated people as they pursue their dreams to start their own small businesses. Hamilton is a lifelong entrepreneur, philanthropist […]

Brian Hamilton and Lawrence Carpenter, of Inmates to Entrepreneurs, talk about their new reality show “Free Enterprise” in which they help formerly incarcerated people make money with their business ideas. (April 2) Video Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] – Starting a business would change my life drastically. I’m tired of just surviving. I want to live. BRIAN HAMILTON: Why […]

Brian Hamilton and Lawrence Carpenter, of Inmates to Entrepreneurs, talk about their new reality show “Free Enterprise” in which they help formerly incarcerated people make money with their business ideas.

CHARLESTON, S.C., March 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Litton Entertainment today announced the original series Free Enterprise as the newest addition to Litton’s Weekend Adventure, the multiple Daytime Emmy-award winning programming block airing every Saturday morning on ABC stations nationwide. Free Enterprise, featuring one of America’s foremost entrepreneurs, financial-technology (fintech) pioneer and Inmates to Entrepreneurs founder […]

Learning how to become an entrepreneur is a matter of experience and education. I’ve often wondered whether you can be a great entrepreneur without the hard experiences that come along with it, but my guess is there’s no substitute for getting out and doing it. On the education side, however, I do think there are […]

Toccara King loves people. The 39-year-old was a gregarious Florida kid — a dancer, cheerleader, and gymnast — raised by her military grandparents and later joined the military herself. She said she’s always had the spirit of a self-starter. After working as a Verizon telemarketer for eight years and then relocating to Charlotte, North Carolina, […]

When the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was announced last year as a congressional remedy for businesses bruised by COVID, I had strong reservations about the program and wrote about them. My fear was that businesses would not get the money they needed fast enough. It is rare when you are laying on a track, see a […]

Claudia Shivers, a lifelong entrepreneur, began her first business as a child in Lexington, NC. “I was selling honeysuckles, but that venture failed before it could leave my front yard. My mother refused to buy the product I was selling. She told me that the flaw in my business was that the product I offered […]

Since the start of the new year, Americans have once again begun to receive more COVID relief checks. In addition to the analysis about the effects on the economy, there has been some discussion about the implications of this for our national debt but. But, to me, there hasn’t been enough. I often wonder whether […]