Honest Ecommerce

Vladimir Vukicevic is an entrepreneur and expert in the world of consumer products.  He has taught Fortune 500 companies how to build and leverage new businesses, has combined culture with management theory through his writing, and believes that innovation provides a new path to personal and global empowerment.  Vladimir is the CEO and Co-founder of Better & Better—a company that develops and sell...

Nish Samantray is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Arrae, a wellness brand that creates all natural solutions for your wellbeing.  Samantray led Arrae to achieving $1M in sales during their first year and a projected revenue of over $10M last year.  He has a formal education in engineering and strong background in entrepreneurship, sports and volunteerism.  Before launching Arrae in 2019, Samantray wa...

Paul is a leading subject matter expert in Ecommerce. He is Managing Director at Deloitte Digital, one of the leaders in the US Commerce practice.  He leads the Commerce Practice Eminence initiative. He brings more than 25 years of experience in strategy, consulting, technology, and digital transformation.  Paul has led some of the world’s largest and most innovative e-commerce initiatives. He is...

Graham Smith is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of No, Thank You.  Graham has spent the last 3+ years as an entrepreneur in the startup community. Prior to this, he worked in the financial industry for over 12 years, where he led cross-sector financings for middle market businesses across Europe.  Notable investments include Liberty London (a historic London department store), where he also served as a...

Angelina Ly founded her own company, Fireflyslime, at the age of 14 and is now celebrating her 5th year of business.  She single-handedly operates all aspects of her business while being a full-time college student.  In This Conversation We Discuss:  [00:00] Intro [01:31] What is Fireflyslime and its target audience [02:14] From a hobby to explosive growth [04:29] Angelina’s social media/organic t...

Amit is the co-founder and CEO of Richpanel - customer service platform for DTC brands on Shopify, Magento and WooCommerce.  Richpanel helps Ecommerce brands scale customer service without hiring more agents by automating more than 50% tickets through self-service.  The platform enables the CS team to become true revenue enablers and not just a back-end system.  Before co-founding Richpanel, Amit...

Anouck Gotlib was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and studied Fashion Design at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel.  She moved to New York to pursue a career in fashion—first at Zac Posen and later at Donna Morgan.  Anouck would return from long days on Fashion Ave to spend nights and evenings working on Belgian Boys' graphics, branding, packaging, and marketing, and she ultimately deci...

David Hayford is the Founder of Tether Tug, a unique interactive dog toy company.  The Tether Tug people are dog fanatics who passionately create interactive and interchangeable products to improve the overall well-being of dogs through physical exercise and mental stimulation.  Tether Tug’s mission is to help make it easy for pet owners to keep their dogs playing and having fun while helping to i...

Joe Moriarty previously worked in technology investing in Austin, San Francisco, and New York prior to creating Modern Mammals.  He has experience with both fundraising and buying other businesses, and spends time helping other founders now as well.  He's from a town near Rochester NY, studied economics at the University of Chicago and did his MBA at Harvard Business School.  In This Conversation...

Kyle is the founder and CEO of Win Brands Group, an omnichannel retail platform that buys and builds category-defining brands.  Win’s enviable stable of brands includes Homesick (scented candles and home fragrance), QALO (silicone wedding rings and accessories), Gravity (the original weighted blanket), and Love Your Melon (mission-driven outerwear).  Kyle has spent over a decade honing the art of...

Mike Beckham is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Simple Modern, a leading producer of premium drinkware and lifestyle products.  Founded in 2015 and based in Oklahoma, Simple Modern currently generates a nine-figure annual revenue and is committed to generosity, donating at least 10% of annual profits to nonprofit organizations.  Under Mike’s leadership, the company has grown into a categ...

R.T. Custer is a Serial Entrepreneur specializing in story-based marketing for consumer product companies.  He started Vortic Watch Company with his friend Tyler in college and grew it to a nationally recognized 7 figure luxury brand that’s now expanding into an 8,000 sq ft facility in downtown Fort Collins.  In 2020 R.T. spun off the expert team of marketers helping with Vortic to create a market...

From selling handmade leather belts and wallets out the back of his Chevy Station Wagon to becoming one of the top businesses for handmade leather hats, it’s safe to say Gary Watrous (our founder) doesn’t mess around.  He’s been perfecting his expertise for nearly 50 years and with the help of his son Garth, his daughter-in-law Hannah, his wife Merry-Lee, and several other family members who have...

Shai Eisenman is the founder and CEO of Bubble Skincare. As the first skincare brand created for young skin, Bubble sets a new skincare standard while truly listening to what its customers want and need.  Today, the Bubble line consists of seven products that work together to create a complete routine from face cleansers to face masks. It’s available on hellobubble.com, in 3,800 Walmart stores nat...

Arguably the most sought-after authority in men’s grooming, Vaughn did not find success by accident.  The son of a barber, his interest in hair piqued at an early age, and he gave his first haircut as a teenager in 1976.  Vaughn’s client list includes some of the most well-known names in the world—Bruce Springsteen, Richard Gere, Daniel Day Lewis, Tom Brady, President Bill Clinton, Jeff Gordon, As...

Dave Rodenbaugh is the founder of Recapture.io, an abandoned cart and SMS/email marketing service for WooCommerce, Shopify, BigCommerce, Magento, Easy Digital Downloads, Restrict Content Pro and more.  Founded in 2015, Recapture has processed over 1.9 billion in gross merchant volume (GMV) and recovered over $190,000,000 for stores worldwide.  Email is Dave's middle name.  Dave is also the co-host...

Wylie Robinson is the founder and CEO of Rumpl, a company that's on a mission to introduce the world to better blankets.  Robinson started as a designer (architecture degree) and worked in many creative fields including graphic design, architecture, branding, illustration, music.  Robinson is also a former professional mountain biker and avid surfer, skier, climber.  In This Conversation We Discus...

John Sheldon, Chief Marketing Officer, SmileDirectClub John Sheldon is the Chief Marketing Officer at SmileDirectClub.  In this role, he focuses on delivering the best possible experience to customers in order to continue growing SmileDirectClub and reach more people searching for affordable access to a straighter and more confident smile.  As the Chief Marketing Officer, John oversees all digital...

Michael Epstein has been in ecommerce for over 20 years, starting an online retailer and existing in 2013 to private equity.  He has served as a private equity operating partner and CMO for numerous 8 & 9 figure PE-owned Ecom brands.  He is currently co-founder & co-CEO of PostPilot, a direct mail automation platform built for ecommerce and direct to consumer brands.  In This Conversation We Discu...

Nate Axvig grew up in frigid North Dakota and moved to sunny Colorado after graduating from law school.  He practiced as a litigator for 16 years before moving to Oslo, Norway with his wife Leslie (also a litigator) and their two kids- Luke and Bekah.  While living in Norway and pursuing an advanced degree in Communications and Technology Law, Nate and Leslie discovered the world class quality of...

Megan Grassel is the Founder/CEO of Yellowberry.  Armed with her own hand-drawn sketch and the savings from her summer jobs, Megan Grassell set out to make her younger sister, along with tween girls everywhere, an age-appropriate bra.  In 2013, at age 17, she founded Yellowberry. With funding from a successful Kickstarter campaign, Megan created colorful, comfortable and supportive bras for young...

Prior to the NxTSTOP Brendan spent his career working in enterprise technology with Accenture and then VMware.  In 2015 he founded his first startup Fathomd to bring interactive business games into MBA coursework.  In 2020 Brendan launched NxTSTOP to outfit world explorers with functional sustainable travel apparel and scaled it to a multimillion dollar business in just one year.  He is a graduate...

Gilmar Arellano, who co-founded HAY! Straws and serves as its CEO, pursued the plastic straw alternative due to his unconditional love for nature.  “I wanted to protect the environment from the horrors of plastic waste,” he says, “and my experience in hospitality led me to identify one of the most egregious culprits: straws made from oil-based plastic.”  Hand- selecting straw from small farms, cut...

Noah’s love of hot sauce began well before he founded HEATONIST. In fact, he’s loved spicy food for as long as he can remember.  Growing up, Noah’s family joked that he got his love of spicy food from his mom’s mom. The family lived in Austin, Texas in the 50s and legend tells about a time his grandmother went to buy a garland of dried chilis for cooking.  The grocer tried to talk her out of it, s...

Kerrigan Behrens is the co-founder and co-CEO of consumer wellness brand Sagely Naturals.  Most recently, Kerrigan guided her team through an acquisition by HempFusion, expanded the brands ingestible offerings with gummies, and launched a non-CBD infused product collection in Target under the Sagely Naturals umbrella.  She and the brand have been featured in publications such as Forbes, Fortune, G...