The LIVELY Podcast: No Makeup Needed

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Episode 306: Becoming the Successful Latina She Never Saw Growing Up with Babba Rivera Jun 14, 2022

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Babba Rivera, Founder & CEO of Ceremonia, is a hustler who tells it like it is. Being born in Chile and growing up in Sweden, Babba often felt like an outsider, but today, she credits that upbringing with giving her the tools she needed to become successful. Aspiring entrepreneurs and Small Biz Owners, take notes on this one!

In this episode, we cover Babba’s incredible brand marketing career journey at Uber, which led to a role with another well-known DTC brand. A few months in, she decided to quit this steady job despite being on a work visa and without having much savings, in order to launch her own marketing agency. When the pandemic created challenges for many of her agency’s clients, she got the push she needed to launch an innovative, clean hair care brand rooted in Latina heritage, and to be the founder that other Latina girls & women could look up to.

In addition to her career journey, you’ll hear about Babba’s thoughts on “having it all, but not having it all at once,” the shame and double standards she faced as a new mama while her business was still early stage, and how her white husband opened her eyes to perspectives she never even thought of as a minority woman.

We’ll also hear from LIVELY ambassador DeAna Fierce, who teaches women how to build sustainable confidence in their lives so they can show up more confident & authentic on and offline.

Babba’s LIVELY Spotlight: Ami Colé

Michelle’s LIVELY Spotlight: Dana’s Bakery

You can follow Babba on Instagram @Babba and @MyCeremonia

The LIVELY Podcast is hosted by its CEO & Founder Michelle Cordeiro Grant.

Produced by Ali Alquiza and edited by Amanda Kay Wang

Special thanks to our LIVELY team.

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Episode 305: Following The Rainbow To Build a Colorful Jewelry Brand with Stephanie Gottlieb May 31, 2022

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Stephanie Gottlieb is an entrepreneur, a jewelry designer, a social media expert, and a mama making unique & colorful diamond and wedding jewelry. In this episode, we’ll hear about how her struggle to get a job after college and taking an internship with a family friend’s jewelry business with no intention of staying, actually staying for 5 years, and the YOLO moment that led her to launch her own jewelry biz.

Listen in to learn some major hustle tips from Stephanie on the importance of getting a foot in the door somewhere even if it may not be your dream job, not burning bridges in business, the mistakes she made along the way, how she built her brand with jewelry styling photos and through working with influencers on Instagram before Instagram was even a widely-used platform, working with her sister, and the power of strategic partnerships.

We’ll also hear from LIVELY Ambassador Ciara Perrone, who is the Founder and Designer of Brinn, an intentionally-designed and responsibly-produced handbag and accessories label that uses plant-based leathers and recycled materials to make statement pieces. She walks us through making the tough decision to quit her bartending job so she could focus full time on bootstrapping and building Brinn.

Stephanie’s LIVELY Spotlight: Zara of Terez and Worthy Threads

Michelle’s LIVELY Spotlight: Ali Kaminetsky at Modern Picnic

You can follow Stephanie on Instagram @StephanieGottlieb

The LIVELY Podcast is hosted by its CEO & Founder Michelle Cordeiro Grant.

Produced by Ali Alquiza and edited by Amanda Kay Wang.

Special thanks to our LIVELY team.

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Episode 304: Asking Yourself ‘What’s the Worst That Can Happen’ with Noura Sakkijha May 17, 2022

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Noura Sakkijha is gold baby, solid gold. As Co-Founder and CEO of Mejuri, the brand that encourages and empowers women to “buy yourself the damn diamond,” Noura also balances motherhood, running a business with her husband, and more. In this ep, we dive in on where Noura started her career journey (which was anything but linear), the learnings along the way, and how she is truly disrupting an industry that once catered to men buying jewelry for their significant other.

Noura offers incredibly thoughtful insights around channeling the courage to start something of your own, and embracing the inevitable mistakes along the way as learning opportunities. Listen in to be truly inspired by the woman heading up one of the best fine jewelry brands on Instagram.

We’ll also hear from LIVELY Ambassador Hayden Gibbs, who is the Founder of The New Principle, a brand making skincare, accessories and home goods. Listen in to hear the challenges she faced building the business off the salary of an entry level job and worrying about when she’d have the time to make her products.

Noura’s LIVELY Spotlight: Claude Home

Michelle’s LIVELY Spotlight: Omsom

You can follow Noura on Instagram @NouraSakkijha and @Mejuri

The LIVELY Podcast is hosted by its CEO & Founder Michelle Cordeiro Grant.

Produced by Ali Alquiza and edited by Amanda Kay Wang.

Special thanks to our LIVELY team.

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Episode 303: A Clean Slate — Building a Clean Beauty Brand Before Clean Beauty Was “A Thing” with Sasha Plavsic May 03, 2022

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Sasha Plavsic is the Founder & Chief Creative Officer of ILIA Beauty, and a beauty industry pioneer truly ahead of her time in the Clean Beauty space…but more than that, she’s a mama to two girls, and SUPER relatable. Sasha started working on ILIA beauty in 2011 after turning 30, leaving a guy, her job, and moving home with her parents for a bit. In this episode, Sasha breaks down the real deal, you don’t want to miss it!

Listen in to hear all about what inspired Sasha to take a stand to create clean beauty products at a time when no one else was talking about the toxic ingredients in the products we use everyday, how she pushed through some of the hardest and most unexpected times in her life, and the power of delegating when you need help and support.

We’ll also hear from LIVELY Ambassador Cait Khosla, the founder of Botany Box, a succulent gifting brand, who shares her YOLO moment, the challenges she faced, and how she’s been able to grow her brand.

Sasha’s LIVELY Spotlight: Love Wellness

Michelle’s LIVELY Spotlight: Womanness

You can follow Sasha on Instagram @SashaPlavsic and @iliabeauty

The LIVELY Podcast is hosted by its CEO & Founder Michelle Cordeiro Grant.

Produced by Ali Alquiza and edited by Amanda Kay Wang.

Special thanks to our LIVELY team.

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Episode 302: Put It On The Internet and See What Happens with Trinity Mouzon Wofford Apr 19, 2022

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Trinity Mouzon Wofford is a Founder, an innovator who is making wellness more accessible, the youngest Black woman to have products stocked at Sephora, and one of the most patient, down-to-earth, and resilient people we know. She is the Co-Founder & CEO of GOLDE, a brand (with beautiful packaging) that makes superfood for all bodies.

In this episode, Trinity walks us through how getting fired from one of her jobs gave her the push she really needed, the experience of building & bootstrapping a brand with her partner in their early 20s and not really knowing what they were doing, the impact of #BLM on herself, her team, and her business, and how she approaches making her knowledge on entrepreneurship more accessible to everyone. Take out your pen & paper because there’s A LOT of good learnings to take with you in this one!

We’ll also hear from LIVELY Ambassador Zoe Stoller, who is a writer, educator and social work student who shares LGBTQ+ education and mental health visibility with her community, and opens up about vulnerable topics that provide support for herself and others.

Trinity’s LIVELY Spotlight: Wooden Spoon Herbs

Michelle’s LIVELY Spotlight: Hilma

You can follow Trinity on Instagram @Golde @TrinityMouzon

The LIVELY Podcast is hosted by its CEO & Founder Michelle Cordeiro Grant.

Produced by Ali Alquiza and edited by Amanda Kay Wang.

Special thanks to our LIVELY team.

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Episode 301: Finding Success in Failure with Erin Foster Apr 05, 2022

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Erin Foster is the definition of authenticity, and always keeping it real while laughing (and making other people laugh) along the way. She is the Co-Founder of Favorite Daughter, a podcaster, a writer & producer (see: VH1’s “Barely Famous”), an advisor & investor, and most importantly, a daughter, sister, aunt, and wife. In our newest episode, we chat with Erin about the hardships of relationships, insecurities around status and feeling “less than,” and what it’s like launching and running a brand with her sisters (cue all the #SisterFights).

In the first new episode of 2022, Erin walks us through what it was like taking a job at Bumble without having prior tech experience, feeling seriously underestimated, but finding that moment of discomfort was actually a superpower. She also shares how failures in various areas of her life (like relationships) led to successes, and the YOLO moment that led to the birth of the sister co-founded clothing brand, Favorite Daughter. The realness, relatability, and inspo knows no bounds in this episode - you don’t want to miss this one!

We’ll also hear from LIVELY Ambassador Desiree Curry, who co-founded Dare 2 Be with her mom, an organization creating a safe space and community for women and girls to learn, heal, and grow. She shares her journey with mental health and healing, and how that led to her YOLO moment to create a community for women.

Erin’s LIVELY Spotlight: CASA (@nationalcasagal), Exponent (@exponent.beauty)

Michelle’s LIVELY Spotlight: August (@itsaugust)

You can follow Erin on Instagram @ErinFoster @FavoriteDaughter

The LIVELY Podcast is hosted by its CEO & Founder Michelle Cordeiro Grant.

Produced by Ali Alquiza and edited by Amanda Kay Wang

Special thanks to our LIVELY team.

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Episode 208: Passion and Perseverance: How Supergoop!’s Holly Thaggard Changed The Way The World Sees SPF Jul 08, 2020

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Holly Thaggard is the #SPFQueen making sunscreen an everyday part of everyone’s skincare routine. In our final episode of Season Two, Holly takes us on her unlikely journey from teacher, to harpist, to Founder & CEO of Supergoop!

You may know Supergoop! as that all-natural sunscreen brand from Instagram and Sephora, but what you may not know is the hustle that included playing the harp to fund the business in the early days. We go behind the scenes of Holly’s early life growing up as the daughter of two entrepreneurs, to her musical talents that helped fund her business, to the emotional event in her life that made her so passionate about building a brand that would “de-seasonalize” SPF, and all the in-betweens!

We’ll also hear from LIVELY ambassador and wellness blogger Morgan Raphael, who quit her 9-5 job and turned her fitness community and accountability platform into a thriving, approachable wellness blog on Instagram and Youtube, which is called Bun Undone. Holly’s LIVELY Spotlight: Lizzie Means Duplantis and Sarah Means of Miron Crosby

You can follow Holly on Instagram and Twitter @HollyThaggard and @Supergoop

The LIVELY Podcast is hosted by its CEO & Founder Michelle Cordeiro Grant.

Produced by @ArcCreativePod with @RoseEReid and Sabine Jansen.

Special thanks to our LIVELY team.

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Episode 207: Career Pivots, Big Risks, and Kicking Perfectionism with Rumble Trainer Julia Stern Jun 23, 2020

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Julia Stern is a woman who has hustled to make her passion(s) her career. She is a full-time Rumble trainer who has traveled around the country and lived in new cities for months at a time. In the second to last episode, we dive into Julia’s early career as a middle school math teacher while she was simultaneously dancing for professional basketball and hockey teams.

We go behind-the-scenes to the moment when she chose not to continue teaching math, and how she made a name for herself in the fitness world before becoming a Trainer at Rumble and Obe Fitness. She also takes us through super relatable moments of self-doubt and anxiety, which ultimately inspired her to start her podcast and share more openly on Instagram.

We’ll also hear from LIVELY ambassador Sophie Weill, who is the founder of Nude Nation Relations and host of the podcast, Active Ingredient, about her Aha moment to get out there and launch her own business.

Julia’s LIVELY Spotlight: Adriana Carrig Little Words Project

Michelle’s LIVELY Spotlight: Studs

You can follow Julia on Instagram and Twitter @JuliaLStern

The LIVELY Podcast is hosted by its CEO & Founder Michelle Cordeiro Grant.

Produced by @ArcCreativePod with @RoseReid and Sabine Jansen.

Special thanks to our LIVELY team.

If you liked this episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, and be sure to tell a friend about it! We love this community and want to make we reach as many friends as possible :) For the up-to-the-minute scoop, follow us on Instagram @wearlively

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Episode 206: Persistence, Confidence, And The Power Of Relentless Cold Calls with Year & Day’s Kathryn Duryea Wyndowe May 19, 2020

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Kathryn Duryea Wyndowe is a tableware designer with an incredible journey reinventing her career several times. She is the Founder and CEO of Year & Day, but she had humble beginnings where she admits she did a lot of cold calling.

In this episode, we’ll dive into Kathryn’s journey from a stint at the White House, to Tiffany & Co Marketing pro, to truly changing the tableware and home entertaining industry with Year & Day. Kathryn touches on how her upbringing and her move from NYC to SF inspired her YOLO moment, and how she got the confidence to cold call and meet with people to build relationships and advance her career.

We’ll also hear from LIVELY ambassador and blogger Vanessa Gatlin, who decided to leave the traditional 9-5 work structure when she realized her role was no longer serving her, started working part-time in a yoga studio, blogging, and then eventually starting her own business called Pretty Creative.

Kathryn’s LIVELY Spotlight: Nichole Powell of Kinfield

Michelle’s LIVELY Spotlight: Polina Veksler and Alexandra Waltman of Universal Standard

You can follow Kathryn on Instagram and Twitter @KDuryea (IG) and @kathrynduryea (Twitter), and @YearandDay

The LIVELY Podcast is hosted by its CEO & Founder Michelle Cordeiro Grant.

Produced by @ArcCreativePod with @RoseEReid and Sabine Jansen.

Special thanks to our LIVELY team.

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Episode 205: Enjoying The Process: Motherhood, Activism and Showbiz with Actress Erinn Hayes May 05, 2020

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Erinn Hayes is a mama of two, an actress, and a kickass activist. Where do you know her from? Adult Swim’s Children’s Hospital, Jennifer Aniston movie “Rumor Has It,” and most recently, Netflix’s “Medical Hospital.” In this episode of The LIVELY Podcast, No Makeup Needed, we get real with Erinn about moving to LA without having friends or family there, how she got the confidence to break into the world of Hollywood acting, the anxiety that comes with not always having a job, balancing motherhood with acting, and her activism efforts.

We’ll also hear from LIVELY ambassador Becca Freeman, who is co-host of “Bad on Paper” podcast, which she launched while working a full-time job, and has since featured guests like Cindy Crawford and Eva Chen.Erinn’s LIVELY Spotlight: Morgan Walsh of Gender Nation, Kate Lindello of Noihsaf Bazaar

Michelle’s LIVELY Spotlight: Abigail Stone of Otherland

You can follow Erinn on Instagram and Twitter @hayeslady

The LIVELY Podcast is hosted by its CEO & Founder Michelle Cordeiro Grant.

Produced by @ArcCreativePod with @RoseEReid and Sabine Jansen.

Special thanks to our LIVELY team.

If you liked this episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, and be sure to tell a friend about it! We love this community and want to make reach as many friends as possible :) For the up-to-the-minute scoop, follow us on Instagram @wearlively

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