Female Founder World

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Ty Haney's our guest on the Female Founder World podcast! You might know Ty as the founder of Outdoor Voices (we get into that!), or as the visionary behind TYB (Try Your Best), a web 3 platform empowering consumer brands to build community and loyalty programs on the blockchain. Ty raised $10 million in 2022 to launch TYB, and in today's episode combines her experience as a consumer brand founder...

Christine Chang and Sarah Lee are the founders of Glow Recipe and today's Female Founder World guests! The pair turned their friendship and $50,000 of savings into Glow Recipe: A beauty brand estimated to have earned $100 million in revenue in 2021. Our Female Founder World host Jasmine Garnsworthy figures out how they did it in this episode of the podcast. We talk about transitioning from an Inst...

We have Nori Press cofounder Annabel Love on Female Founder World! Annabel and her cofounder are reinventing the iron and steamer for fashion girls. Join our host Jasmine Garnsworthy as she explores what it takes to reinvent a household staple, how to grow through partnerships, tips for raising money on just an idea, and the contractors, freelancers and agencies that are scaling this consumer star...

We've got Ali Wyatt on Female Founder World! Ali's a veteran of the start-up world and led teams at Goop, Refinery29 before launching Female Founder Collective with Rebecca Minkoff. She's a business builder, advisor to start-ups, an investor, and a huge supporter of the female founder community.  Your Female Founder World host Jasmine Garnsworthy dives in during this episode of the pod. Enjoy! And...

Kathryn Winokur, founder of Hally Hair, is our guest on Female Founder World! Hally's a modern, ammonia-free foam hair dye biz.  Kathryn's using Roblox, advertising within in-app games, and Twitch influencers to reach Gen Z customers—and we dive into her strategy, what it costs to get started, and why personal care brands should be getting into gaming. Enjoy! And don't forget to drop us a review (...

Stephanie Hon’s on Female Founder World today! She’s the founder of Cadence, the business behind the customizable, leakproof, magnetic travel containers you’ve been seeing all over TikTok and Instagram.  Steph started this business during the pandemic, raised money just on an idea, and basically ignored most of the business advice that was given to her. Today she manages a team of 25 and a thrivin...

Olivia Landau's my guest today—New Yorker, fourth generation diamond expert, and blogger-turned-ecommerce entrepreneur. Olivia built The Clear Cut from a side hustle selling engagement rings over Instagram DM into a tech-powered jewelry destination making more than $1 million in sales every month.  It's quite the story—let's go!      If you're enjoying the pod and haven't left us a review yet, gir...

We've got Dandy founder, Danielle Sobel on the show! Danielle launched her personalized dog supplement startup in 2020, raising a total of $1.2 million before being acquired by Fuzzy two years later. It sounds like a neat little entrepreneurship story in hindsight, doesn't it? But what did Danielle have to give up when she launched Dandy? Why did she decide to sell after just two years? And what d...

When Beauty Independent Editor-in-Chief Rachel Brown went looking for an answer to which beauty segments win and lose in a recession, she found an answer that might surprise our founder fam.  We dive into Rachel's reporting on the downturn, and how it impacts consumer brands, in this mini episode of the Female Founder World podcast.  If you're enjoying the pod and haven't left us a review yet, gir...

Andrea Hernández is the trend forecaster Forbes, the New York Times, Bon Appetit, and more mastheads turn to when they want to know what's coming next in the food and beverage industry.  She's the creator of Snaxshot, an irreverent and smart newsletter and community that predicts grocery trends and brings people together around snack culture. She predicted the hibiscus water trend years before the...

We have Kayla Castañeda on Female Founder World! She’s the founder of Agua Bonita, a better-for-you agua fresca business that launched in 2020 and sold 10,000 units in the first month. Kayla has never lost a pitch competition. In fact, she’s raised nearly half a million dollars for her business this way. We get into her approach and why it works so well in this episode of the Female Founder World...

Suze Dowling has helped launch more than 50 consumer brands as General Manager and Partner at agency Gin Lane, including Harry’s, Hims, Smile Direct Club and Quip. She’s now scaling home startups as cofounder at Pattern Brands where she’s launched and acquired businesses like Open Spaces, Letterfolk, GIR and Equal Parts. Open your Notes app, you’ll want to write down everything Suze says in this e...

Brightland is best known for its slick white bottles of olive oil and punchy, modern branding. Founder Aishwarya Iyer was among the first entrepreneurs to spot an opportunity to modernise olive oil back in 2018, and in the years since has built a thriving DTC food business. Partnerships have been the backbone of Brightside's success, along with some punchy press hits and a killer product. We dive...

Fashion girls know Allison McNamara as the host and fashion and beauty editor fronting content for POPSUGAR, Who What Wear, Refinery29 and ET Online. Now, she's carving out space on beauty shelves at Credo with her algae-based skincare line, Mara Beauty. Allison's the A-list influencer marketing guru we all need to hear from in 2022, having successfully cut through a very crowded beauty scene to s...

When Sandra Velasquez says she bootstrapped her beauty brand, she means she made the leather and the laces on the way up.  Sandra's today's guest and the founder of Nopalera, a Mexican bath and body brand getting a ton of attention right now. She launched the business when she was more than $100,000 in debt after deciding she needed a drastic shift to change her final future.  This is a great Fema...

Sarah Paiji Yoo is a serial entrepreneur with multiple successful businesses on her scorecard. She's best known for launching Blueland, a company that's raised $35 million to end single use plastic. Since launching in 2019 Blueland's locked up 40 patents (and patents pending). In the past year, it grew more than 400% and saw an 80% increase in customer lifetime value (LTV).  But enough with the st...

Today's guest Ali Kriegsman is the co-founder and COO of Bulletin, a B2B wholesale marketplace.    A "Forbes 30 Under 30" recipient and one of Fast Company’s "Most Creative People in Business," Ali has helped thousands of brands expand their distribution and sell in both offline and online stores all around the US and Canada. She's a salesperson, self-taught publicist, marketer, and growth strateg...

My guest is Eliza Blank, a bootstrapping baddie who built her plant startup The Sill to $1,000,000 in revenue before taking on investors and continuing to scale. Eliza launched the business from her bedroom floor with $30k pulled together from a Kickstarter campaign and credit cards.  Today The Sill has physical stores across the United States, a thriving ecommerce business, and is on her way to b...

We've got Babba Rivera on the pod, founder of Ceremonia, a clean haircare brand rooted in Latin heritage. Babba's an award-winning marketer, former Uber partnerships lead, impressive entrepreneur, and just the person to motivate you to *follow your dreams* today. Links: ceremonia.com instagram.com/babba instagram.com/femalefounderworld instagram.com/jasminegarnsworthy  Get the free 10-minute newsl...

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Nadya Okamoto, cofounder of sustainable period care company August, is a Gen Z marketing expert. Not only is she growing the buzziest Gen Z company on TikTok (3 million followers ya'll!!), she's consulted with other consumer brands on how to reach a Gen Z customer, and also built a closed Geneva.com community of likeminded people around her mission to destigmatise periods.  LINKS This episode is b...

Welcome Michelle Ranavat to Female Founder World!   Michelle’s the founder behind Ayurvedic beauty brand, RANAVAT. You may have seen them in Sephora, Credo, Free People, Harrod’s, or one of their (many!) other stockiest around the world. Michelle switched gears in her 30s, leaving a career in the pharmaceutical industry to launch a hair and skin line rooted in South Asian heritage.  Michelle and J...

Sana Javeri Kadri founded Diaspora Co. in 2017 with a big vision and just $3,000. She bootstrapped her way to become an industry-changing spice brand that champions more than 150 regenerative family farms and 1500+ farm workers.  Since 2018, Diaspora's grown more than 20x! Enjoy my chat with Sana as we dig into her tips for creating an ethical supply chain, content that converts, SBA loans, intent...

It's my first solo episode! The solo series will break down consistent themes I've spotted across my conversation with successful founders on the show. Today I'm looking at... DRUMROLL.. Hero product strategies! And what we can learn from four brands winning with this approach.  ------- Let me know what you think about the solo episode. Should I do more? Drop a review, or shoot me a note on IG @ja...