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Entrepreneurs take note – a new virtual office and a business incubator will be open five days a week by month’s end, on Tiger Drive inside the former driver’s license office in Thibodaux.
Full Circle Entrepreneurial Business Center will be open to the community five days a week, with conference rooms, printing, telephone and even mail box use, to anyone who is seeking a virtual office.
Former Warner Bros Records Regional Market Manger Terrell Broom, originally from Raceland, and Zintrise Lawson, an entrepreneur fashion designer, singer, and motivational speaker and author, are launching and managing the project, inside a section of the former state building on Tiger Drive.
Broom said while he had the dream job at Warner Bros, he had hit the glass ceiling and it was time to move on. When he returned to the state, he actually started working for the government in child protection services.
“One day, we got a note that we had to start cleaning up our areas, on our own. The janitor had quit. Well I thought, my last name is Broom, why don’t I ask if I could do that job as well, and see what they say,” he said.
“Eventually, I wound up working in this very same building for the state, as the janitor for the hole building. Now look what I’m getting ready to launch. People say, ‘Wow, you went from dealing with big name artists to being a janitor. I tell them, you’ve got to get out of a traditional mind set, and realize a job, is a job, is a job, to get you in thinking pattern and position to launch your own goals,” he added.
At Full Circle, Broom said their philosophy will be to turn folks’ business ideas into reality.
“Our philosophy is to start your own job, don’t depend on someone else, use the gifts God has given you to do your own thing,” he said. “The time you went to work for a company for 30 years, well that is over with.”
Lawson said she has returned to the area to complete work she left unfinished, when she moved to Nashville 10 years ago.
“So many folks are scared, and they don’t have the confidence to launch their ideas. That’s why I am here, to inspire them,” Lawson said. “You don’t have to leave the area. You need to awaken your gifts, and be woke to the situations that are going on around you.”
She said she formerly ran Master Builder’s Community Center.
There are 13 office spaces in the incubator, seven will be rented and three will be used for virtual offices. There will also be a conference room, mailboxes, computers, printing, all the equipment needed to launch a start-up business.
The center will be on Facebook soon as Full Circle EC. Broom can be reached at 985-226-4292.
