Jakiya, popularly known as the Travelingfro is a Brand Strategist, CMO and Founder of The Travelingfro Brands L.L.C. A location independent consulting & media company that uses a strategic, fresh, and realistic approach to marketing to transform stories into influential brands.
After traveling the world, being featured in notable publications like Oprah Magazine, Refinery29, HuffPost and more, Jakiya now spends most of her time in her ocean view corner office with an iced latte in hand, developing strategies for invested, post-corproate entrepreneurs like herself, helping them solidify, structure, and scale beautiful brands that impact, inspire, and sell; working towards her vision of generational wealth and closing the Black ecomomic wealth gap.
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With 6+ years of corporate experience as a lead marketing brand manager at companies like L'Oreal & COTY INC, Jakiya quit her 9-9 to pursue her dream of full-time travel. Along the way she was able to recconnect with her unique gift of developing ideas into business drivers. Her use of story telling and flipping corprate marketing strategies into a more relevant approach to building brand awareness, was the key to achieving her goals faster.
She has since built a community of over 20,000 people, been featured in publications like Oprah Magazine, and worked with 100s of companies and personal brands helping them create income & impact with her fresh & proven branding strategies and techniques.
Jakiya now consults tired “9-5ers” and aspiring entrepreneurs like herself, on how to turn their story into an inspiring, viable brand - that sells.
"My journey would not have had the success it's had without great branding. No matter who you are, a clear and packaged story is far more impactful than having millions of followers. Every successful idea started with good branding."
