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Joining me on the show today is Alicia Scott, Founder of Range Beauty!
Range Beauty was created out of a need for more diverse shades and less toxic ingredients in the cosmetics industry. It’s a brand that encourages you to express yourself, while still allowing your true skin to shine through. Range Beauty was formed for people ranging from all shades, skin types and genders who have felt left out or underrepresented.
If you’re creating a brand in the beauty space tune in to learn how she went about making a new foundation formulation from scratch and How she landed an iconic beauty industry mentor and stick around for the end where Alicia shares her advice for anyone just getting started. This episode was so much fun and there’s plenty of actionable tips packed throughout so make sure you’ve got your notepad handy.
LINKS WE MENTION:
Range Beauty’s Website
Range Beauty’s Instagram
Alicia’s Instagram
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Joining me on this episode is Christina Pardy from Sh*t That I Knit.
Sh*t That I Knit is a knitwear and accessories brand dedicated to creating high-quality, handmade products using premium, sustainable materials and are handmade by a team of 170 artisan women in Lima, Peru. Working with companies like STIK allows these women to knit from home, enabling them to take care of their children while earning a viable income to support their families.
In this episode we’re covering how Christina turned her love of knitting into a million dollar business, how she went about outsourcing production to women in Lima and how she’s learned to approach failure when things don’t go to plan.
LINKS WE MENTION:
The Tory Burch Female Entrepreneurship program
Sh*t That I Knit Website
Sh*t That I Knit Instagram
Christina’s Instagram
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Joining me on the show today is Nina Zilka, Co-Founder of natural skincare brand Alder New York.
Alder New York is a queer and woman-owned independent skincare brand that makes products designed to work for all skin types, no matter your age, gender, or ethnicity. Their vegan line is formulated with the best plant-powered extracts and clean, dermatologist-approved ingredients for healthy skin.
In this episode we’re talking about how Nina and her co-founder David started their first brand in fashion back in 2008 and have since gone on to create a wildly successful skincare company - started through self made formulations in her kitchen. We cover how they’ve funded the business to date and what it really means to do a friends and family round, how they’ve grown by making their way into hundreds of super cool retail stores around the US and the 3 things they do that set them apart from the rest on the top shelf.
LINKS WE MENTION:
Read Like The Wind by Molly Young
Social Media:
Alder New York Website
Alder’s Instagram
Nina’s Instagram
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Read Like The Wind by Molly Young
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/148355.My_Life_So_Far
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Joining me on the show today is Jordan Taylor, Co-Founder of a platform called Medley.
Medley is a membership platform redefining personal and professional growth, on a mission to make high-quality experiences accessible to broader audiences. Members are algorithmically matched into small, diverse groups that meet monthly in sessions led by certified coaches. Medley members benefit not only from these curated sessions, but also a community built on diverse perspectives – leading to positive, enriching, and engaging interactions.
In this episode we’re covering Jordan’s experiences that lead to her launching this business in partnership with her mum, Edith Cooper, the importance of testing your idea and speaking to your customer before building a product, and her experience on fundraising including lessons learned and tips.
LINKS WE MENTION:
Novel - Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
The Tree-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Medley's Website
Medley’s Linkedin
Jordan’s Linkedin
Female Startup Club's Instagram
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Novel - Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
The Tree-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
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Joining me today is Carly Stein, the founder behind Beekeepers Naturals.
Founded by Carly Stein in 2017, Beekeeper's Naturals is an innovative company on a mission to reinvent the medicine cabinet. Using unique remedies from the beehive (like royal jelly and propolis), the beekeeper-led team is committed to providing the cleanest, most powerful solutions to modern health issues—like brain fog, chronic stress, poor sleep, and scratchy throats. Unlike competitors, they apply scientific rigor to their product development and commit to third-party pesticide testing to ensure they’re creating natural remedies that actually deliver.
This has been one of my favourite episodes to date, Carly has such a special story and shares so much of the actual how of building her company, you’re going to get plenty of valuable pieces of gold throughout so make sure you’ve got a notepad and pen handy!
LINKS WE MENTION
The Portal by Eric Weinstein
Not Overthinking by By Ali & Taimur Abdaal
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Podcast from Standford University
Invest Like the Best by Patrick O’Shaughnessy
Principle: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
Social Media:
Beekeeper’s Naturals Website
Beekeeper’s Naturals Instagram
Carly ‘s Instagram
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Joining me on the show today is Ju Rhyu, Founder of Hero Cosmetics.
Hero makes super-powered skincare products to put you back in control of your skin and to help restore your confidence and they’re best known for their Mighty Patch acne patches
And here’s a super Fun fact, they sell a box every 15 seconds with over 2 million boxes sold in over 8,500 retail doors.
In this episode we’re covering why they decided to launch the brand exclusively through amazon, how she she went about finding her manufacturer and what they do today to drive crazy growth.
LINKS WE MENTION:
Podcast - Pivot by Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway
https://www.morningbrew.com/daily
https://theglossymagazine.com/
https://www.beautyindependent.com/
Social Media:
Hero Cosmetic’s Website
Hero Cosmetic’s TIkTok
Hero Cosmetic’s Instagram
Ju Rhyu’s Instagram
Female Startup Club's Instagram
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Joining me on the show today is Priscilla Tsai, Founder of COCOKIND.
COCOKIND is a clean, conscious, and accessible skincare brand, dedicated to providing natural products at an accessible price. After years of using severe prescription acne treatments, Priscilla realized that traditional approaches to fighting skin concerns were unsustainable, unhealthy, and stigmatizing. Instead, she wanted to find a solution that would create long-term yet gentle results for her skin, mind, and body.
This is her story of leaving Wall Street to pursue a career in wellness, how she stays ahead of the game in a saturated market and her advice for women who have a big idea.
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COCOKIND’s Website
COCOKIND’s Instagram
Priscilla’s Instagram
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Tuning in with me today is Bethany McDaniel, the founder of Primally Pure.
Primally Pure is a holistic skincare and wellness brand that handcrafts natural and non toxic products with a whole person approach to well-being for skin, body, and mind. Based out of Southern California, they formulate each product with real, recognizable ingredients.
What started with a $250 investment from her in laws kitchen, Bethany has grown this business over the last 6 years to now having 40 full time staff, crazy product expansion of more than 50 products and their own full time formulator.
This episode has so many nifty tips and bits of tactical advice I know you’re going to get so much out of it!
LINKS WE MENTION:
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard
NPR’s How I Built This podcast
Goal Digger Podcast by Jenna Kutcher
Social Media:
Primally Pure’s Website
Primally Pure’s Instagram
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Joining me on the show today is Alex Taylor, Co-Founder of Perelel.
Perelel is on a mission to create a world with healthier babies and moms by offering women’s pre and postnatal vitamins and supplements designed to adapt to each unique phase of motherhood, along with educational content and an intimately supportive community.
A first of it’s kind to be Co-Founded by an OB/GYN, Perelel vitamins provide comprehensive nutrition that changes with you throughout your motherhood journey, timed to when you need specific nutrients most. These OB/GYN-developed formulas use only the most natural and bioavailable ingredients to ensure women get what they need, when they need it.
Listen in to this episode to hear what happened to two women that sparked this idea inside of them, how they used the medical community to help market their product and the lessons learned along the way.
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Perelel’s website
Perelel’s Instagram
Alex’s Instagram
Victoria’s Instagram
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Joining me on the show today is Maeva Heim, founder of Bread Beauty Supply. Or Bread for short.
Now, I Actually met Maeva by chance last year when I was in Melbourne visiting a friend and I recognised her voice from a podcast I’d listened to her speak on before and the rest is history - now she’s here with us sharing her story.
But, back to the episode - Bread is the best shampoo alternative and co-wash for kinky, curly, coily hair. We’re talking about how she took a third door approach to launch exclusively with Sephora and what she’s learned so far while we have a few giggles along the way.
LINKS WE MENTION:
The Magic of Thinking Big by David J Schwartz
The Hard Thing About Hard: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
Eckhart Tolle’s books
Bread Beauty Supply Website
Bread Beauty Supply Instagram
Maeva Heim Instagram
Female startup club Instagram
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