Today we’d like to introduce you to Omar Scott.
Hi Omar, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I’m the child of a married couple from Baltimore, raised in a military household that led me into a 13 years information technology career in federal employment during the “War On Terror” that I started in my last year of high school as an intern. I learned what it takes to build organizations built to accomplish missions and played a hand in the management and execution of many projects. My heart always lied in more creative and free-spirited industries, and I spent a lot of time in the music and party life that plays a big role in the cultures of Baltimore and Washington DC, two areas that the HBCU I attended, Bowie State University, for a few years were just a 30-minute drive away. They say DMV (DC -Maryland – Virginia) culture can be brutal. We’re the north of the south, and though there’s southern charm and hospitality the area can be very dangerous and often times to be known in the public can be a liability. After stepping a way from my comfortable career that was another reason to stay under the radar, I managed to traverse a lot of different subcultures and verticals of business from real estate to education and everything in between.
Having serviced so many thousands of people from help desks at facilities the size of a small town to consulting countless people in business and creative services, I knew that my talents would allow me to find problems solve and relationships to build anywhere I go. Outgrowing my area I decided during the COVID pandemic to LA, something I wanted to do way sooner in life but feels like happened at the right time. My ideologies of uplifting business and community leaders manifested under the brand Ambitious Moguls, a consulting brand that not only represents me but the countless subject matter experts that I’ve communed and worked with over the last two decades of creating and pushing culture forward in the areas we exist in.
My background in music started with me rapping but lead to me developing other talent and leading production teams. My first commercial studio space taught me a lot and made me lose my love for music for a time, where I started focusing on merchandise and workforce development, I learned I had a knack for replicating success and moving products. This talent has followed me to LA where I’ve created a cold-pressed juice & seamoss gel business that’s making a name and starting to grow an organization around LA. We are one of the only companies in existence to take the superfood seamoss and blend it into cold-pressed and filtered organic juice blends that are delicious.
What really got me into the health food business was coaching clients who were making seamoss smoothies and a client that came to my production team in Baltimore for jinges and commercials to promote a health brand that focused on seamoss and superfoods. The latter client gave me access to a quality product at a price that made me entertain being a distributor, but after falling in love with making juice for my daily diet, I had ideas of forming a marriage between taste and nutritional value.
Aside from the juice business, my time in LA has been reinforced by the Frenzee Broadcasting team house in 4000West Media facility and offices in Burbank. Elani Kay and Fatell have embraced me and given me opportunities to challenge myself and enhance my media production skills while sharing resources and networks with me. I just recently got my first big tv credit performing the role of DIT on the WeTV network show Hip Hop Homocides. I’ve had a lot of organic things happen since I moved to LA, but I’m actively seeking more chances to show my talent. I think success and wealth are just the byproducts of me doing what makes my spirit feel good, and that’s being creative and solving problems.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
I think life and business is about overcoming challenges, smooth is subjective. I think in the bigger scheme of things I’ve been blessed to have a series of things occur that prepared me for the strategic and independent thinking that’s required to be a successful business owner. The mistakes and bumps in judgment, spending, even the projects I decided to focus on based on passion as opposed to financials, they all became personal case studies to analyze and think about how I could have avoided them to begin with.
When I was in my 20’s I think I made a lot of emotional decisions in business, most of them related to my passion for creating a record label. The music industry doesn’t come with a lot of mentoring for many of us, we had talent, but a process that wasn’t based on sound business. I also felt safe in surrounding myself with a bunch of other talented people, our male bravado created and energy, but one that often felt like Lord of The Flies, with a lot of alpha energies and loose leadership. The funny thing is I worked in rigid work environments daily during that time, I think subconsciously the chaos felt liberating, we were a band of land pirates searching for treasure lol.
My mistakes in music led me to focus on more solid business and brand development, with an emphasis on merchandise creation and integration into lifestyle-focused media. These days with brands like AM Wellness, I have my fingers on the pulse of a community that I’ve only been in a couple of years, but hundreds of people have encountered me through my work in film, problem-solving and stimulating their vitality with our fresh juices.
I’ll be honest I’m tightening up my hustle and going corporate in the sense of getting right as a business on paper, we recently incorporated and our taking steps to build our business credit and court investors. In the past I often time had great ideas but the way the ideas our structured in writing, the accountability to operate as a registered entity, I procrastinated our sat aside. Where I’m at in my life, I know in pushing myself further, I naturally create opportunities for other people around me so to grow this business is to really affect communities in the way I’ve always imagined, with job and business opportunities that can be replicated in any environment we mobilize our ideology in. My time in my Federal career taught me the value of structure and operating procedure, if your business doesn’t develop one you aren’t doing full business, things I learned the hard way.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I specialize in problem-solving, learning the culture of a space and performing in any role that my skills allow me to impact, when given the liberty to pull others in I know how to put together a specialized team and lead them to knock out any project. I’ve worked in so many industries and understand what the grunt to the CEO should be performing and how they all work as a machine, I’ve worked in large militarized systems of people, not running around in a uniform with a gun in hand as a soldier, but a project and technical professional building computer networks and workspace equipment to run office buildings the size of large college campuses.
I’ve always been creative so I’m more than a tech nerd, I use the best possible practices which are always changing, to enhance the way we get art out. Music has always been something I have a knack at, but film has always intrigued me, the way that full sensory experiences touch people, and I think that’s led to me becoming a blossoming filmmaker. People love my guerilla tactics for setting up and capturing shots, and I can also lead shooters and editors that have a variety of styles and ways of looking at the world through a lens.
I’m proud of the amount of spaces that I’ve affected over the years, the people who have told me I inspired them, I think what truly defines our legacies is the way we inspire others, the wisdom we pass on. I was inspired by legendary people in my family, I take a lot of pride in knowing what I come from and holding myself to a standard that I think shows in the quality of the things I produce. I don’t mind talking about what I do, but I really want my film and deliverables to the world to say way more than I say. I think I’m really proud of being a college dropout who spent a couple of years teaching at a college to turn around and say buck the system, I’ve turned people into disciples of all kinds of practices and work skills that led to them putting food on their table, and I think that’s one of the most beautiful things you can give to another person.
What do you like and dislike about the city?
I love the weather, the land, the beaches, LA speaks to my energy in a lot of ways. I’d love to see the drug and mental health problems get better, I think those are some of the things that make the homelessness issues in LA bad. But one thing I’ll say is after living in the Baltimore/Washington DC metro areas, I’m kind of used to seeing beautiful and rugged environments all put into a small vicinity of each other. I walk the street with the people and allow myself to feel the city in a different way and its beauty in the struggles and decadence of the city.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.AmbitiousMoguls.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/mogulwellness
- Youtube: https://youtu.be/-9KymGjIGZk
Image Credits:
www.ambitiousmoguls.com
