Female Startup Club

Today I’m joined by Keira Rumble, founder and CEO of Krumbled Foods - the home of Beauty Bites, Australia’s first and only collagen bars. They’re tiny sweet treats that are packed with goodness to illuminate your skin, help with anti ageing and make you glow from the inside out.  During our talk, Keira shares her experiences in building a brand of this size and what went wrong when she first start...

Imagine having an idea so big that it changes the way we live and betters the world… Meet Blueland, a company that’s disrupting what’s under your kitchen sink and the way you clean your house.  Sarah Paiji Yoo went from Harvard Business School to investment banking, launching multiple startups to Blueland. A purpose driven company that’s reimagining cleaning products and the way we consume plastic...

Running a business can be really isolating, and when Sapphire Bates when through that sense of loneliness herself while running her first business she decided to do something about it and start The Coven. It’s an online community for female founders and freelancers, where you subscribe to a monthly plan that suits your budget and gets you access to workshops, events, online resources and a highly...

Omg I never knew how fab soap bars could be. Kassi Emadi started her conscious brand a few short years ago with the vision to bring sparkle back into a tired industry, through a millennial focused brand. She moved back in with her parents and grew her UK made brand out of the garage, and it’s nuts how quickly she grew it and found her tribe. Nuddy is stocked in retailers around the globe like Urba...

A conversation about footwear with Lisa Seskin, the founder of Australian label LMS. If you’ve ever wondered what the process is to manufacture and produce a footwear label from scratch - this is an episode for you. We’re going over the challenges Lisa faces in building this business and the big wins she’s had - like being worn by mega celebs Bella Hadid and Emma Roberts - and exactly how she did...

Today I’m chatting to Eva Goicochea, the founder of a sexual wellbeing company called Maude. A brand that's championing the path for modern intimacy, sexual health and education. Eva started the brand back in 2015 and has pioneered the path forward for changes in how we see and speak about our intimacy, mental health and sexual wellbeing.  We managed to squeeze this episode in after a few tech iss...

Imagine being able to add new pieces to your wardrobe every month, and then give it back once you’re over it. Today’s episode is about a startup company that does just that, Onloan is a fashion rental subscription that sends you new pieces of your choice every month, from the cult brands we’re all obsessed with on Instagram. The 2 female founders are on a shared mission to reduce waste, curate bri...

Today I’m chatting to Nia Davies about her self funded CBD wellness startup called Yugenial. This was such a fascinating episode and I was learning a lot about an industry I know little about. We’re covering the challenges Nia faces in building a business that fits into what the government calls a ‘high risk’ space, how she works around the fact that normal marketing channels aren’t accessible for...

Hey guys! Welcome back to Female Startup Club. If you’ve been following along on my Instagram you’ll know how excited I was to be recording this next episode with Sarah Lee and Christine Chang, the founders of Glow Recipe.  You’ve probably seen this brand on social media — their Instagram has more than 725,000 followers at the time of recording — or maybe you’ve heard about their most loved Waterm...

Welcome back to another episode of Female Startup Club. The flavour of the hour today is a nifty brand called True Gum that produces all natural, plastic free chewing gum out of Denmark. And yes I know exactly what you're thinking... And it is true. Chewing Gum has plastic in it and how gross is that. But the funny thing about this brand is that I actually spotted them in my favourite cafe in Gene...

Do you love puzzles? Do you love puzzles but not so much love the boring stock images we often see used on puzzles? In today’s episode I’m talking to Jiggy, a startup company that makes stunning puzzles in partnership with female artists, that you can then glue and hang up on the wall should you so desire!  Kaylin started the brand after her own journey of a late night love of puzzling and soon de...

Today’s episode is with Phoebe Greenacre, the co-founder of a women’s activewear brand, Silou London. When Phoebe and her business partner Tatiana weren’t able to find premium, sustainable activewear that they wanted to wear day in and day out, they knew they’d spotted a gap in the market and went for it.  And what’s really special about this episode is actually how the brand has been able to thri...

Welcome to episode 8 with Amy Rushworth. This is the first episode of @femalestartupclub that I’ve recorded from the comfort of my bedroom floor, and I’m pretty sure that's what you’d call seriously *adapting* to quarantine life.  Today I’m chatting to Amy Rushworth, she’s a confidence coach, speaker and host of her namesake podcast The Amy Rushworth Show — and it’s an episode full of the feel goo...

Welcome to episode 7 of Female Startup Club with Renee Mets. My name is Doone and if you’re new here, let me bring you up to speed. I’m a year and a half into my own entrepreneurial journey with my sparkly jewellery brand called Kincs and I started this little corner of the internet to connect with all the badass female founders that I’m inspired by on the reg - and all you really need to know is...

Welcome to episode 6 of Female Startup Club with entrepreneur Gretta Rose van Riel. My name is Doone and if you’re new here, let me bring you up to speed. I’m a year and a half into my own entrepreneurial journey with my sparkly jewellery brand called Kincs and I started this little corner of the internet to connect with all the badass female founders that I’m inspired by on the reg - and all you...

Welcome to episode 5 of Female Startup Club with entrepreneur Sammy Leo. My name is Doone and if you’re new here, let me bring you up to speed. I’m a year and a half into my own entrepreneurial journey with my sparkly jewellery brand called Kincs and I started this little corner of the internet to connect with all the badass female founders that I’m inspired by on the reg - and all you really need...

Welcome to episode 4 of Female Startup Club with Fashion Designer Innika Choo. My name is Doone and if you’re new here, let me bring you up to speed. I’m a year and a half into my own entrepreneurial journey with my sparkly jewellery brand called Kincs and I started this little corner of the internet to connect with all the badass female founders that I’m inspired by on the reg - and all you reall...

Welcome to a mini episode of Female Startup Club. In these mini eps I ask successful female founders 6 easy questions and today I’m chatting to Erika Geraerts. She’s one of the original founders of the wildly successful business Frank Body, a 20 million dollar business that’s become a household name in Australia and around the world, to launching a new startup that’s setting out to revolutionise t...

Welcome back to episode 2 of Female Startup Club, this one’s a quickie. My name is Doone and if you’re new here, let me bring you up to speed. I’m a year and a half into my own entrepreneurial journey with my sparkly jewellery brand called Kincs and I started this little corner of the internet to connect with all the badass female founders that I’m inspired by on the reg - and all you really need...

Welcome to my first ep of Female Startup Club where I chat to a very talented (read: boss) woman I’m lucky to be able to call a friend, Gen George. Gen’s successfully exited two businesses in the last 8 years, she runs a Facebook community called LMBDW for women in business that’s grown to more than 120k women worldwide AND she’s working on a third brand that’s disrupting the men’s skincare space...