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Today I’m chatting with Taran Ghatrora, co-founder of Blume. We’re talking through the decision she made early on to completely pivot the brand into a new direction, how to finance your company using an angel syndicate, what happens to 60% of girls when they go through puberty and who their first hire was.
If you haven’t heard of Blume before, it’s the outspoken skin, body and period collective for Gen Z and beyond. Made with gentle, safe and effective clean ingredients, their community-curated self care essentials are made for all skin types, with sensitive ones in mind. Blume celebrates real skin as they continue to amplify acne positivity, healthy skin, and skin barrier protection. This women-led team of 11 is on a mission to make periods and self care easier and healthier, while smashing taboos about acne, periods, puberty, and sex ed—nothing is off limits).
At the end of this episode Taran talks about the importance of network and surrounding yourself with other female entrepreneurs who are building businesses. That’s why we’ve launched our private network for women who are building product based ecomm businesses. If that’s you, pop your name on our waitlist to claim a Founding Member spot when we launch at Femalestartupclub.com/waitlist.
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Funding: Early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator
Books: Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
Podcast: How I Built This with Guy Raz
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Today I’m joined by Margaret Wishingrad, Founder of Three Wishes Cereal.
In the 12 months since launching, Margaret and her husband slash business partner Ian have built a multi-million dollar business through thoughtful retail expansion, unique guerrilla marketing moments and a tasty better-for-you product that people want to keep buying. We’re going through the blueprint to launch and why it’s important to keep your customers' behaviour front of mind.
Three Wishes is healthy cereal that tastes like childhood indulgence, led by the cereal aisle’s first female founder, Margaret Wishingrad. While other cereals on the shelf force customers to choose between flavor and nutrition, there’s no compromise with Three Wishes. It’s high protein, low sugar, gluten and grain-free and made from ingredients like chickpeas, pea protein, and tapioca.
By the way! We’re just a few weeks away from opening our private network up to Founding Members. If you’re a woman in ecommerce and you’re looking to build your network, get access to women on the show for mentorship and experts to help you build your brand - join the waitlist. We have a limited number of Found Member spots available and you can pop your name on the list at femalestartupclub.com/waitlist.
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Today I’m chatting to Sally Mueller, the founder of Womaness, about how to launch your brand directly into a retailer like Target and how to market to a completely different demographic. So many gems in here, you’re going to get so much value learning from Sally.
Womaness is a collection of modern, innovative menopause products developed for women, by women that offer solutions from head to toe (and everything in between). With community, education, and inspiration, Womaness sparks the power of menopositivity.
We also talk about the power of your network and mentorship and if you haven’t heard already we are launching our private network for women in ecommerce where you can access guests from the show like Sally through what we’re calling modern mentorship. You can add your name to our waiting list at femalestartupclub.com/waitlist and you’ll be the first to know when we open our doors for Founding Members.
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Today I’m chatting to Priyanka Ganjoo, the Founder behind Kulfi Beauty.
Kulfi Beauty is a premium beauty brand and digital platform celebrating South Asian beauty with fun and approachable beauty products created with our community. Founded by Priyanka Ganjoo, Kulfi Beauty was started with the mission of creating products that meet the unique needs of South Asian skin tones and undertones and challenging beauty standards in the community.
We’re chatting about her insights into approaching manufacturing and where to start, cultivating community, what the Sephora Accelerate program is really like and what made her launch successful.
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Podcast: NPR’s How I Built This with Guy Raz
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Today I’m joined by Debbie Mullin, the founder of Copper Cow Coffee.
Equal parts Vietnam and equal parts California, Copper Cow Coffee is the brainchild of Vietnamese American Debbie Mullin, who blended her love for Vietnamese coffee and culture with her background in sustainability. It brings an authentic, yet modernized, pour-over barista quality coffee experience to homes across the nation. Dedicated to the environment, Copper Cow Coffee is quality-obsessed, eco-friendly, and proud to be part of the 2% (and growing) of women-owned companies with venture funding.
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Today I’m joined by Krystal Duhaney, the Founder of Milky Mama.
After having her second child and returning to work, Krystal struggled with her milk supply and realized that there were very few resources for breastfeeding mothers in the same predicament. Using her knowledge as a Registered Nurse and love for baking, Krystal developed a milk-making cookie recipe and fell in love with the results. So, in November of 2015, Milky Mama was born.
Today, Milky Mama is dedicated to educating, supporting and empowering parents to have the best breastfeeding journey possible. And in 2020, Milky Mama announced the formation of The Milky Mama Foundation, which sponsors Black women who aspire to become Certified Lactation Consultants.
This is such an inspiring episode, it started from her kitchen and slowly grew into this huge wonderful amazing thing. We talk about those early days and the moment that things started to change, her email marketing strategy with Klaviyo and a viral moment they’re having right now.
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Today I’m chatting with Ali Kriegsman, Co-Founder of the YC backed tech startup, Bulletin.
Bulletin is a premium, B2B wholesale marketplace where retailers and buyers go to discover, shop and support the best brands on the planet. So this episode is highly relevant to anyone listening in who has a product based business and wants to work with cool retailers to sell their products and reach new audiences.
We’re chatting about the humbles origins of Bulletin starting as as e-comm newsletter and how that grew into popups, retail stores and went on to be accepted into Y-Combinator which lead to a major pivot into a thriving tech platform... we’re talking about Ali’s top 3 pointers if you want to pitch for VC money and - important to note she just released a really bloody cool book about her journey and you should absolutely check it out, I have linked it in the show notes and it’s called How to build a goddamn empire.
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Book: The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Book: Untamed
Book: Designing Your Life
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Joining me is Jing Gao, the founder of Fly by Jing.
Where highly charged flavors meet 100% real ingredients. Fly By Jing is the first premium Chinese food company that brings thoughtfully-crafted pantry staples to the modern kitchen.
We’re chatting about her successful kickstarter campaign that lead to over 3000 customers at launch, the key moments of growth that have lead to an 8 figure revenue business in 2 years and key learnings that women-in-progress can keep in their back pocket.
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NY Times article
Newsletter: Leanluxe
Podcast: How I Built This with Guy Raz
Newletter: 2PM
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On today’s episode I’m chatting with Julissa Prado, the founder of Rizos Curls.
Founded in October 2017, Rizos Curls is a clean hair care brand creating products that embrace and celebrate the beauty of curls, coils & waves everywhere. In just under three years, Rizos Curls has amassed a global following of more than 300,000 followers on social media and ships to over 57 countries.
We chat about the origins of Julissa’s business, creating her own potions and formulas for hair to give to women and girls since she was in the 9th grade, and how she took her $80,000 of savings since she was a little girl and went all in to develop hundreds of samples over 4 years before finally landing on her best selling products that we see today.
We also talk through the importance of small business owners standing up and shouting loudly to get noticed - the key thing to remember here is that everything is negotiable - but you’ll get to that in the episode. There’s so much love and energy and emotion throughout this talk - lots of lols and even some tears. I could speak to Julissa for literally ever and ever and I came away feeling so grateful to have met her and to hear this incredible and deeply personal story.
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Book: Rework by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
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Joining me today is Angela Kim, the founder of Savor Beauty.
Angela Jia Kim is a retired concert pianist-turned-founder of Savor Beauty, a natural skincare, facial spa, and self-care journal brand inspired by Korean beauty rituals with the award-winning serums, creams, cleansers, peels, and masks are made sustainably and ethically by women in the Hudson Valley.
We’re chatting about Angela’s approach to building this business, bootstrapping it with credit cards and why it’s important to use your passion to drive you forward in life and business.
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Savor Beauty's Instagram
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News: The New York Times
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