Talking Money In The Morning Live!

Vanessa Braxton, founder and CEO of Black Momma Tea & Cafe has some very lofty goals for your new start up. She's looking to do for the tea industry what Starbucks has done for the coffee industry. Not only is she looking to expand to some 500 stores nationwide in the next 5 years, she sees that as an opportunity to help others. She's already begun the process of creating partnerships with other some producers and manufactuers of quality high end products that will compliment her vast variety of teas. "We are purveyors of teas from different countries. We source directly from the plantation, so there's no middleman. Black Momma Tea & Cafe is the physical extension of our existing brands: Black Momma Vodka, Black Momma Tea, Black Momma Agave, and Black Momma Mixers, which currently have 26,000 total customers and totaled $2.5 million in online sales last year. We're building two locations in N.Y. to create physical extensions of our e-commerce business and to jump-start our expansion."  In addition t