Legal-ease For Entrepreneurs: Empowering Creatives About The Legal Aspects Of Running A Business

Archel Bernard has taken her love for design and sewing African fashion to unprecedented heights.  She is the owner of The Bombchel Factory and Mango Rags boutique in Monrovia, Liberia.  When Archel moved back to Liberia after graduating college, she wanted to get into journalism and thought a great way to stand out on YouTube but blend into the community would be to wear West African fashion. What started as a need to represent her Liberian heritage has now turned into training disadvantaged women to sew her designs and empowering the women to become self-sufficient. Archel's mission took a significant turn amid the deadly Ebola outbreak in Liberia. She saw the devastation in a country she loved; a country still struggling to overcome civil war. Archel decided to open a factory to help the people of her ancestral homeland to rebuild.  She named it The Bombchel Factory. We talk about selling her first pieces out of her mom’s garage, her business surviving the Ebola virus, being mentioned in the New York Times