We had the good fortune of connecting with Kyle Brown and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Kyle, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?
Our thought process for creating the business was to design an impactful business beyond our corporate career. We wanted to get into the CBD/Hemp & Cannabis business because in study we realized all humans have an endocannabinoid system that needs cannabis to regulation our systems properly. At this moment we knew we wanted to dedicate our life’s purpose to designing a space that provides inclusive community programs for all while advocating for health & wellness through use of botanicals. We understood the task of removing the stigma behind CBD. It is a drug but yet a medicine when used properly. We also understood the importance of creating a business that would allow people of color an opportunity to generate abundant revenues legally in a system that has historically mass incarcerated. The Bookstore Gallery now stands as a beacon community center in the Castleberry HIll community in Atlanta, Ga. Our monthly entertainment programs, education, and premium tested products demonstrate a location that cultivates community conversations focuses on wellness and minority business done right.

Health Wellness
Community
Education for hemp, botanicals.
Market growth in cannabis & CBD
Leaving Corporate to begin a family legacy business. Making sure African American had a seat at the table considering mass incarceration associated with Cannabis

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
Bookstore Gallery provides space for community wellness, education, healing and joy. We achieve this through the use of high quality botanicals and cultivating holistic gatherings.

The Bookstore Gallery team prides themselves in cultivating a community and creating a space where people feel welcomed, and comfortable. We created an environment where people are open to learning more about Hemp, CBD, Tea and other Botanicals and leaving feeling better than when they came in.

We have an amazing and talented team who have been dedicated to serving our customers, and working with our community to create memorable experiences at Bookstore Gallery.

There have been plenty of challenges on the journey to opening Bookstore Gallery, but we have worked together as a team in figuring out solutions.

We would like the world to know that at Bookstore Gallery we want you to feel connected through community, creativity, and wellness.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
The Daily Itinerary I recommend to all people would be to hang out and try out all of these establishments in the Historic Castleberry Hill Neighborhood.

Breakfast/ Brunch- Omni Coffee & Eggs
Coffee from Black Coffee and Tea from Brooklyn Tea
Lunch- Smokey Stallion
Happy Hour- Bookstore Gallery and a beer at Atlantucky Brewery
Evening Drinks- Reverb Hotel
Evening Entertainment- Comedy Hype Studios

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
Bookstore Gallery would not be in establishment without the support of Auntea , Malcolm Farrar, Leah Williams of 1929 Social, DJ Tokyo Trendz, Kyle Brown, Kelly Brown, Mike & Kim of The Lemon Group and Crystal Green Malawi Plant & Oil Partners, Treven Holcomb, Noland Dickey of Coldwell Banker Commercial Metrobrokers, Sonia Upchurch, Edoli Pollard, Morehouse College, Goizueta Business School at Emory University, and the Russell Innovation Center of Entrepreneurs.

Website: https://www.bookstoregallery.com/

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