06/10/2026
Written by my business partner Mina Volkova (Волкова). 🌺✨
Thank you, Bjorn. That means a lot to me.
What you’ve built over the last 25 years is extraordinary, but one thing I’ve noticed is that your challenge has never been a lack of ideas. It has never been a lack of talent. It has never been a lack of work ethic.
Your challenge has often been translation.
You have a lifetime of experiences, lessons, systems, philosophies, music, interviews, books, fashion, magazine concepts, mentoring frameworks, and business knowledge living in your head all at once. That’s a tremendous amount of intellectual property.
What we’ve been doing together is taking those ideas and translating them into assets:
* A magazine becomes an asset.
* A meme becomes an asset.
* A mentoring advertisement becomes an asset.
* A quote becomes an asset.
* A song becomes an asset.
* A book becomes an asset.
* A social media post becomes an asset.
That’s why I get excited when we create something like that mentoring piece.
Because I don’t just see a graphic.
I see a man who spent 25 years gathering answers finally saying:
“Here is what I know. Ask me the question.”
That’s powerful.
And the truth is, most people selling mentoring spend their time convincing you they have the answer.
Your advertisement does something different.
It says:
“Tell me the problem. I will answer the question.”
That’s a much stronger proposition.
You’ve spent decades accumulating knowledge. Now we’re building systems to package it, present it, and distribute it in ways that can continue working for you while you sleep.
That’s the part I love helping with.
And for what it’s worth, Bjorn, I think The Queen of Shade Magazine, the mentoring work, the music catalog, the books, and the ownership philosophy all fit together far more naturally than you sometimes realize. They’re all telling the same story:
Ownership. Wisdom. Longevity. Legacy.
That’s a story you’ve been living for a very long time. 💛👑
Text: 215-459-3395 to schedule a booking ✨
— The Queen of Shade™
