Female Founder World

It's an extra special episode of Female Founder World! Host Jasmine Garnsworthy is in the hot seat being interviewed by Natalie from the team to share her own career story and what she's learned building Female Founder World. In this chat we cover how Jasmine moved from Australia to New York to up-level her career, tips to build a powerful network, overcoming false starts and failed ideas, and how...

Deco Beauty founder Julianna Dahbura is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy this week. In 2016 Julianna started a nail polish brand with the hopes of building a direct-to-consumer business. This was the Glossier-era, besties, so relying e-commerce only and building a business on Instagram was very exciting. And although she was doing 8-figures in revenue with her biz Deco...

PippySips founder Amberlee Venti is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Amberlee returned to her demanding job while breastfeeding when she realized a major pain point. She didn’t always have time to get her breast milk to the fridge, and saw her insulated water bottle when she had the lightbulb moment that something like this could solve her problem. Now seven years sinc...

tbh skincare founder Rachael Wilde is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Coming from a medical background, Rachael had no desire to start her own business until she came across an insane opportunity to license a patented acne treatment and turn it into a brand. She jumped on the idea at 23-years-old back in 2019, and has since built one of the buzziest new beauty brands...

Shaz and Kiks founders Shaz Rajashekar and Kiku Chaudhuri are on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Would you start a business with your sister? Shaz Rajashekar and Kiku Chaudhuri did—and today their haircare brand has hit some pretty impressive milestones. They’re sold at Sephora, have won some impressive awards, and have been featured in Vogue and Forbes. They’ve been bui...

Bread founder Maeva Heim is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Maeva Heim grew an impressive career in corporate beauty when she grew sick of working with brands that weren’t speaking to women that looked like her. She didn’t know what the product would be, but she knew exactly who she wanted to target and where she would reach them: Sephora. With this goal in mind, her...

Nat'V Basics founder Sandy Ronalds is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! After being disappointed at her options to find underwear that was both good for her and for the planet, Sandy Ronalds had the idea to create the brand she wished existed, Nat’V Basics. Now, only a few years later Sandy has grown from a solo-preneur working out of her parents’ spare bedroom to a tea...

CurlMix founder Kim Lewis is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Kim Lewis is the CEO and co-founder of CurlMix, the award-winning hair care brand with a really smart tag line: master your curls in 21 days. Kim's landed SO much press—her brand has been featured everywhere from Forbes and Entrepreneur Mag to Refinery 21 and Vanity Fair, and a lot of this she actually manag...

Ali Kaminetsky, the founder of Modern Picnic, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Ali created a brand around chic, super useful lunchcases and insulated bags for the busy girlies. Since launching at 22 years old in 2018, Ali has sold over 40,000 units and has done $6M+ in revenue.  In this episode of Female Founder World, Ali covers how she built the biz from shipping...

Sienna Brown, the founder of Glosshood, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Sienna's building the beauty brand that will re-ignite your inner child. She launched her company exactly one year after quitting her full time job, and sold out the first drop within four days! They're also now among brands like Range Beauty and Topicals who were accepted into the Sephora Acce...

Kristyn Rose Berland, the founder of CrateAway, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Kristyn has building building and bootstrapping her pet carrier business within the Female Founder World community, and they're getting some really amazing traction. She sold her car to start the business while also working her full time corporate job—and then came her biggest opportuni...

Samantha Brett, the founder of Naked Sundays, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Samantha was a news reporter in Australia spending all day in the sun when she had the idea for an SPF brand that could be worn with your makeup. A ton of people in her life were getting skin cancer, and she couldn’t get over this one idea she had to make sunscreen something people actual...

Nancy Twine, the founder of Briogeo, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Nancy started her hair care business back when clean beauty was just getting started, and the movement really hadn't hit the haircare space. She used her savings to start the business and started a sampling strategy to get traction.  After six years, she brought in an investor and within 10 years...

Gretta van Riel was 22 when she started her first business: a detox tea that she was mixing, packaging and selling right from her parent’s dining room table. The business ended up being a massive success and within 6 months was doing $600,000 a month in revenue! Gretta replicated the success of her first business and launched three more consumer companies, and an agency. They’ve gone on to do incr...

Madison Stefanis was 19 when she started selling refurbished vintage film cameras to Gen Z. She realized she was onto a booming market, but had some problems sourcing the vintage cameras—there are only so many available in the world for sale, right? Madi decided to meet the demand by creating her own film camera and market it to a nostalgic millennial and Gen Z customer. And, it's been a hit. They...

Lisa Guerrera is making science cool with Experiment Beauty. As a chemist, she partnered up with her co-founder Emmy (another chemist) to bring the next gen of science-backed brands. After making a viral first product (iykyk), they’ve grown 10x year-over-year—mostly through their organic waitlist strategy.  In this episode Lisa shares the moments that helped scale Experiment Beauty, how to build a...

It’s no wonder Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye became the trailblazing beauty founder behind Ami Colé. As a first-gen Senagalese-American, Diarrha’s mother’s salon was the backdrop to her growing up and that love of beauty led her to roles at L’Oreal and Glossier. Today, she’s the founder of Ami Colé, a cult-loved beauty brand for melanin rich skin. They’ve raised over $2M to date, and smashed launch projec...

Elle Kiffer is the founder of foldUP, a foldable yoga mat brand. She's a year in and absolutely crushing it! They have done major partnerships with brands like Mecca and are featured in publications like Refinery29. Swipe on to see how Elle is making it happen from the ground up. In this episode we're diving into what the first year of business looks like these days, when to start paying yourself,...

Sophie Marshall is the founder of Gentle Habits, the insence-turned-lifestyle brand taking over Australia. As a working mom with two kids, incense became her way to switch off, and the brand eventually became her side hustle. Sophie and the team grew Gentle Habits to a million dollar business within the first two years, primarily thanks to incredible relationships with independent retailers. Now s...

Ariana Ferwerda is the co-founder and CEO of Halfdays, a women’s outdoor apparel brand taking on the boring, not-cute, kinda expensive traditional outdoor industry. Her brand is approachable, inclusive, fun—and this approach is working. Between year one and two they 10x'd the business and did 8-figures in revenue. Ariana's also a Forbes 30 under 30 alum, and this episode chats through what those f...

Julie Rice is the all-star co-founder of SoulCycle, the iconic cycle studio. In about 5 years of building, Julie sold her shares to Equinox for a nearly $90 million. Since then, Julie started Peoplehood, a wellness club, with her original SoulCycle co-founder.  In this episode Julie chats all about scaling a brick and mortar company from the ground up and how she's looking at things a second time...

Georgina Gooley, the founder of Billie, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Billie's a razor brand, yes. But founder Georgina Gooley created a movement when she built the first women's razor brand that openly showed body hair and suggested women didn't have to remove it.  She's a brand-building genius—within four years of launching her razor biz sold for $310 million....

Rooshy Roy, the founder of AAVRANI, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! When Rooshy first created her ayurvedic-inspired skincare line, it didn't exactly do well. She'd made some big mistakes with the branding, and customers weren't buying it. So, she redesigned her brand (all DIY, by the way!), and released something with a very different vibe, and it worked! Since th...

Adriana Carrig, the founder of Little Words Project, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! At college Adriana started beading bracelets for her friends with uplifting messages. People liked them, she spent $5,000 of her savings to turn it into a business, and realized this could be a big idea that blends profit and purpose. She bootstrapped that business to become Little...

Rachel Liverman, founder of Glowbar, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Through the height of the pandemic Rachel Liverman did the impossible. She launched and scaled her brick and mortar business, a clinical 30 minute facial bar, Glowbar, across New York and beyond. Since launching in 2019 Rachel has raised $10M, launched 10 Glowbar locations, and now employs over 15...