Stickers on the Mic Podcast

Brittanie and Marcus Jones made a decision to adopt a vegan lifestyle and create a brand around healthy meal planning and engaging cooking videos. They created a YouTube channel called Fineapple Vegan, and Brittanie served as the video talent and inspiration for the brand, while Marcus serves as the producer and creative director. Their newest product Liquid Gold is coconut milk-based cheese sauce...

Laura McLeod leads Partnerships Marketing at 99designs. She was a History of Art major at University College London, and she is passionate about the visual arts, design and aesthetics. Laura has over a decade’s experience of B2B & B2C marketing for global brands, and she brings that insight to partnerships at 99designs, including the partnership with StickerGiant. That's right, StickerGiant has pa...

Jim Pollock of Pollock Prints is best known for his art for the band Phish, starting with his iconic album cover art for the band's first album Junta. Since the mid-1980s, when he met members of the band at Goddard College in rural Vermont, Jim's artistic journey has been motivated by a singular urge: to create unique pieces that evoke a spirit of discovery and that are open for interpretation. Th...

Darnell Brown has always loved entrepreneurship. Since age 12, he's been working hard, whether he was selling pecans in the fall, mowing lawns in the summer or drawing family portraits. His current projects demonstrate his entrepreneurial range. He co-founded LETELLIER Skincare, a brand conceived by his wife Kim who is a master aesthetician. He has his own brand & entrepreneurship coaching busines...

Ellie Lum is the founder, pattern designer, and head educator at Klum House. With over twenty years of professional bag making experience, she draws on her roots in the industrial sewing industry to make heavy-duty bag making fun and accessible to home stitchers. Ellie has taught hundreds of makers to sew over the years and is passionate about inviting makers to work with their hands, build new sk...

Izzy Fischer is Colorado-born entrepreneur and endurance athlete that found a plant-based lifestyle through a combination of her personal battles with inflammation and food allergies while training for triathlons. Currently, she lives in Boston and works as a data analyst at the Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University while pursuing her Masters in Science in Nutriti...

Sergio Ojeda is the musician behind TexMexChex, an inventive folk dance project offering up soul-filled music packed with electrifying melodies and the drumbeats of the cumbia norteña. TexMexChex channels the joyous communal experience of a Mexican dance and Ojeda’s Tex-Mex roots. Ojeda’s work showcases his deep passion for Latin American folk music as well as his fine-tuned ear for production, su...

Jenny Penton is the founder of Planner Perfect, a company whose mission is to inspire women to Write a Better Story and become a visionary that can and map a life they love. She's sold over 200,000 planners, notebooks, journals and leather traveler's notebooks; plus countless rolls of washi tape and stickers. Planner Perfect ships to all 50 states and numerous countries world wide. Jenny created t...

Merline Engle is a Haitian-American who is passionate about education, hospitality and entrepreneurship. She’s committed to continuing her family’s legacy of giving back to her motherland. Merline remembered well how her grand father would make his students repeat: “Education is the only key to a better life.” Growing up in a diverse and international household helped Merline learn to serve as a b...

Co-hosted by Harris Kenny and Shawn Hymel, Hello Blink Show is a practical podcast for technical people who want to start their own company. From founding to building your business, Harris and Shawn are there to help. We spoke about business strategy and growth planning and how they strive to give aspiring entrepreneurs value through their podcast. We also touched on how their professional experie...

Alejandro Rodriguez and his business partner Edward Perea started Summit Tacos as a taco truck, their dream was to open a storefront in Longmont to serve their passionate fans who adored their take on Mexican Street food. Now that they have their restaurant, they are focused on serving the cuisine of Mexico City to fans old and new. They worked hard from day one with their brand, and the many mile...

Welcome to Stickers on the Mic, the podcast from StickerGiant. On our show, we talk to our customers about business, growth and marketing, and we are going to share the stories behind the custom stickers and labels that we print in our factory. Every day millions of people use stickers to promote their brands and to label their products, and it's these people that will be the focus of this podcast...

Keith Stoeckeler is the VP/Group Director of Digital at MKTG, an advertising and marketing agency. We connected with Keith on Twitter, and we invited him on the show to talk about digital strategy, content development, social listening and advertiser insights in the early days of Covid-19. He brought to our show a perspective based on early trends and marketing efforts during the coronavirus situa...

Stephanie Baudhuin from Crummies Meatless Crumbles talks about how their delicious plant-based meat alternative behaves like ground meat in any recipe using seven ingredients come from the land and not the lab. She started building this food idea in 2017 after cutting out commercialized meat full-time. Then she testing and refined the recipe. Now this online business is adapting to Covid19, and St...

Long-time friends and nonprofit professionals Brittny and Nia started The Nonprofit Reframe Podcast to talk about the realities of the sector that nobody wants to talk about. They wanted to create something different that wasn't just another nonprofit best practices podcast. The show covers topics like dysfunctional boards, gala mishaps, the issues with philanthropy and much more. Nia and Brittny...

Crystal Sagan started Cocktail Caravan to serve custom drinks for bespoke events. To create the concept, she took her mixology background and then applied her ingrained entrepreneurship to build out an old camping trailer that travels around Colorado to weddings, trade shows and corporate parties. She talks with our team about the new Community Support Cocktail project she launched in the midst of...

Pete Jokisch started Teakoe Teas as an alternative energy source during his time as a professional lacrosse player, and he's grown the business in a nationwide distributor with three product lines. In this episode he talks about how the company grew and how they are contributing to the #ColoradoStrong campaign to recognize front-line workers during Covid-19 in Colorado.

Dave Hamilton started The Mac Observer in 1998, and then created BackBeat Media with his business partners. By 2005 he had started the Mac Geek Gab podcast where each week he talks all about Apple developments in the world of Apple products. In 2015, he started The Small Business Show to share the successes and growing pains of small businesses. In this conversation, he also discusses how he's spe...

Eric Kean from Left Hand Brewing joins us to share a special announcement about the Colorado Strong Pale Ale project, a benefit beer made with Colorado ingredients by Colorado breweries to support the local supply chain, neighborhood breweries, and raise funds for the Colorado Strong Fund to provide aid in response to the impacts of Covid-19 across Colorado. StickerGiant provided the label design...

Julie Benoit and Stephanie Sterling are the duo behind Longmont’s newest brick and mortar shop, Maker General. The two Baltimore transplants were inspired to open the shop after years of working creatively, teaching, and toying with the idea of opening a creative space. The vision behind Maker General is to be a "general store" for makers who are working with textiles and fibers and to build the m...

Kenny McMillan that specializes in original, branded, and short-form content. His company OWL BOT provides premium production and post production services as well as turnkey content creation for independent outlets and large corporations alike. Learn how he's growing his brand and produce high-quality work for clients in all industries.

Brendan Leonard started Semi-Rad in 2011 as a blog, and since then he's gained acclaim as an author, speaker and now the purveyor of branded illustrations and other merchandise on his sponsored website. Semi-Rad is more than a brand, it's an ethos for those who love to get outdoors and experience nature.

Cliff Couvillon started Leisuremann's Cocktails after a backcountry hiking trip with his friends. Cliff found that a portable cocktail mix paired well with adventure and travel, and in this episode he shares how he's coming up with new flavors and label designs to grow the Leisuremann's brand.

Mia Semingson of Two Hands Paperie talks about how she's growing a nearly 30-year-old brick-and-mortar artist supply business using a mix of new product acquisitions and in-store classes that enhance the retail experience on Pearl Street in Boulder.

Kiptoe is creator who makes his work come to life through stories and animations infused into paintings and videos. Listen in as Kiptoe chats with Andrew about how his new sticker packs are an example of his ability to transform his large-scale, real-world murals into compact, portable pieces of art. Read more at: https://www.stickergiant.com/blog/globetrotting-mural-artist-kiptoe-creates-travelin...