Shows
Your Hero’s JourneyHow to Build a Food Empire: Insights from 5 Culinary EntrepreneursWhat does it really take to build a thriving food business from scratch?
In this season wrap-up episode of Your Hero’s Journey, I’m pulling together the biggest gems from our five game-changing entrepreneurs from this season — Alex Hill, Dan Sabia, Scotty of Las’ Lap, Midi of Shmackwich, and Stanley Lumax of African Chop House.
From navigating burnout to building communities to raising money, this is your crash course on building a brand that feeds people while also feeding your purpose.
If you're a creative, entrepreneur or aspiring food founder, this one's for you.
2025-06-301h 01
Grow There With CheriaStanley Lumax on Culture, Career Pivots & Owning Your Mission | Grow There with Cheria | S2 | EP7We sit down with Stanley Lumax—a dynamic force in culture-driven marketing whose career spans from Nike to Complex to JP Morgan Chase. But his story is more than titles.Stanley shares how a moment of deep pause during the pandemic helped him realign not only with his passion but with his purpose. From building brands to building community—through ventures like African Chophouse and Teranga—he walks us through what it means to lead with values, anchor in culture, and stay committed to impact, even when the path is uncertain.T...
2025-05-2744 minYour Hero’s JourneyFeeding the Diaspora: Stanley Lumax on African Chop House, Teranga, and Scaling AuthenticallyWhat does it take to turn a cultural vision into a global community movement?
In this episode of Your Hero’s Journey, Savannah sits down with Stanley Lumax, founder of African Chop House and co-founder of Teranga, to explore how he’s bringing the African diaspora to life in the U.S. through food, storytelling, and intentional brand building.
Stanley opens up about his entrepreneurial journey—from curating African-forward experiences in NYC to opening a West African restaurant in Harlem. He shares the highs and lows of navigating funding, building brand partnerships, and balancing person...
2025-05-1951 min
JudeslistStanley Lumax: The Taste Of West AfricaIn this episode I speak with Stanley Lumax the Executive Brand Marketing Director at JP Morgan Chase, overseeing the strategic management of the brand’s prestigious Sapphire and Freedom Unlimited portfolios. Before his current role, Stanley co-founded Climate, an in-house agency at Complex Media Networks, to empower advertisers to leverage youth culture.Stanley has an extensive background working with iconic brands such as Nike (Basketball), the NBA, Converse, Beats By Dre', the Brooklyn Nets, Pepsi, and Budweiser. His work has helped shape the tapestry of popular culture.Stanley highlights the recent launch of the Taste of...
2024-05-1540 min
Glocal CitizensEpisode 190: Come Chop with Stanley LumaxGreetings Glocal Citizens!
This week on the podcast I have the pleasure of hosting a social innovator who intersects not only my local experiences in Brooklyn and Accra, he is the husband of my guest on Episode 139, Asmeret Berhe-Lumax and on the Advisory Committee of Episodes 42/43 guest, Nana Eyeson-Akiwowo’s African Health Now. A fellow Ghanaian, Stanley Lumax is currently the Executive Brand Marketing Director at JP Morgan Chase, where he manages the Sapphire and Freedom Unlimited portfolios. Prior to this role, he partnered with Complex Media Networks to create Climate, an agency built to help brands ha...
2023-09-0547 min
A Dose of Black Joy and Caffeine[Season 6: EP96] Stanley Lumax (Executive Brand Marketing Director) JP Morgan ChaseStanley Lumax is currently the Executive Brand Marketing Director at JP Morgan Chase, where he manages the Sapphire and Freedom Unlimited portfolios. Prior to this role, he partnered with Complex Media Networks to create Climate, an agency built to help brands harness the power of youth culture. He has also managed the basketball business at Nike. During his time at several agencies including Wieden and Kennedy, Anomaly and Translation, he managed the Converse, National Basketball Association, Indiana Pacers, JBL, Mountain Dew, Beats By Dre’ an and an host of other brands that have impacted popular culture. He’s taken this expe...
2023-06-2245 minPSFK[New report] Strategies To Engage & Sell to Gen ZThis PSFK How-To will help brands and retailers understand and engage Generation Z customers, with additional insights around brand experience transformation.
Gen Z, the first truly digitally native generation, are used to moving seamlessly between the online and offline worlds, freely expressing themselves across platforms and in real-life interactions. Generation Z, the generation of consumers born between 1995 and 2014, has come of age during an unprecedented period of technological evolution, demographic shifts, and changing cultural norms, many of which they are leading.
According to PSFK's Gen Z's Consumer Survey 2022, 57% of the Gen Z audience surveyed seeks out like minded community online w...
2022-03-1900 min
Modern MinoritiesBlack History’s (current) meaning considered“It's important for the community to be teaching our history — the reality with our history is we have to be the ones to tell the story.”Black History is not just one month - it’s being made every day. But since we are NOT experts about the Black experience - especially when it comes to Black History, we sat down with FrieMMds of the Pod (past guests) — Stanley Lumax (Founder of African Chophouse AND Teranga), and Suzanne Sinatra (Founder & CEO of Private Packs — to unpack what Black History meant to two folks with very interesting backgrounds and experien...
2022-02-2151 min
Modern Minorities2020: Learning from our (Guests’) Lived ExperiencesOne year and nearly SIXTY episodes later, we decided to take a step back and reflect on what we heard from all the conversations we had about “work and life through the lens of race and gender.” The whole point of this show (and this episode)? For us to just get out of our own way and let the guests tell their story - whether they’re doctors, reporters, athletes, entrepreneurs, diversity experts, getaway car drivers, lawyers, comedians, and yes, even marketers. And what's so surprising - we can all find ourselves in the majority OR the minority relative to som...
2020-12-2842 min
Modern MinoritiesStanley Lumax builds (diaspora) community thru foodStanley Lumax is the founder of African Chop House, which celebrates African culture through good food, music and people. As a professional marketer and a photographer - Stanley’s also worked with Nike Basketball, the NBA, Converse, Beats By Dre’. Growing up in a Ghanaian household, Stanley combines all of his experiences to ignite the African Diaspora together. His latest endeavor is the restaurant Teranga, a Harlem-based Pan-African restaurant led by celebrated Senegalese Chef Pierre Thiam. In a candid conversation about giving back to our heritage (and homeland), Stanley challenges us to think about how we live in a socie...
2020-11-2252 min
Travel and Turn Up PodcastTravel and Chop with Stanley LumaxIn this episode we chop it up with Stanley Lumax, the creative marketing guru and restaurateur behind African Chop House. Started in New York in his living room, the event is now a global celebration of the culture. We talk about growing up with West African roots (1:35), why its difficult for people to unite beyond made up borders (07:35), how African Chop House uses food and culture to connect the diaspora (20:00), taking the culture global with the NBA and NY Fashion Week (32:10), supporting African brands and the appeal of authenticity (43:10).Big Chune: Young T & Bugsey - Don't Rush...
2020-05-2253 min
THE MAJORS PODCASTTHE MAJORS PODCAST: Episode 8 Mic'd Up w/ Stanley LumaxCo-hosts Ashley Blackwood and Shana Renee mic’d up sports marketing guru, Stanley Lumax. We discussed entrepreneurship, new goals for the new year, and how this major player made it to the top with some major mentors.
2019-01-1258 min
3 Fearless Questions023: 3 Fearless Questions with Stanley LumaxStanley Lumax is the current Group Director at Translation LLC in New York, where he manages major sport and culture accounts such as the NBA, Champs Sports and Apple Music. In this episode, our student host Kiara has the opportunity to interview Lumax where he shares his experience becoming aware of his own race as a small child and discovering his love for Black artists and activists such Tupac and Assata Shakur. Stanley also shares his insights on the importance of diversity in the creative industry– a topic on which he has also written an article for Adweek.
...
2018-10-1005 min
3 Fearless Questions3 Fearless Questions with Stanley LumaxIn this episode of 3FQ, student host Kiara interview Stanley Lumax. Stanley is the current Group Director at Translation LLC in New York, where he manages major sport and culture accounts such as the NBA, Champs Sports and Apple Music. Stanley shares his experiences on becoming aware of his own race as a small child and discovering his love for black artists and activists and the impact that had on him. Stanley also shares his insights on why diversity is necessary in the creative industry.
Continue the conversation online with the hashtag #3FQ or go to www.thebrandlab.org/fearless...
2018-10-1000 min
The Fragmented WholeCounternarrative #4: Wakanda Forever: Normalcy is ExcellenceThis week’s episode celebrates African diasporic representation in media, fine arts, and entrepreneurship by acknowledging the works of the African Chophouse founder, Stanley Lumax, and those of the Black Joy Project founder, Kleaver Kruz. If you aren't already, prepare to be inspired and mobilized to action. #WakandaForever
---
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fragmentpodcast/support
2018-02-1945 min