Startup to Storefront

Our episode today is a special one, a session we recently did on BrightLive.com . Sessions there are designed to help you level up your life by allowing you exclusive access to speakers, visionaries, and titans in their field. We've hosted a couple of sessions so far on the platform, and we love it because it offers listeners the chance to directly ask questions and learn firsthand from the expert...

Welcome to another episode of The Dial In, a new addition to the Startup to Storefront podcast group. We've partnered with Chobani to bring you this new podcast in which your hosts Emerson Haro and Brian Barnes take a deep dive into all things coffee. Today's guests are Ross and Didi Lower, husband and wife duo behind Miffies Coffee . As one of the only coffee trucks in Orange County, they became,...

Today's guest is Michael Cherman, founder of the clothing brand Market . Do you remember the trends that would ignite and spread like wildfire throughout your high school? You'd be walking through the halls and see everyone else wearing some new accessories, some new items. You had no idea where it came from, all you knew is that you had to be in on the fad. Well, Mike was the kid behind one of th...

Hello and welcome to a brand new addition to the Startup to Storefront podcast group. This is the first episode of The Dial In, a podcast in which your hosts Emerson Haro and Brian Barnes take a deep dive into all things coffee. They'll cover everything from how climate change is impacting the ways in which coffee shop owners source their beans to how they can create a community space that adds an...

Today's guest is Debbie Wei Mullin, founder of Copper Cow Coffee . In case you weren't aware, National Coffee Day is coming up on October 1st, and what better way to celebrate than with a conversation about the roasted beverage that jump-starts America every morning. The first phase of Debbie's path took her all over the world working for the World Bank. But even though she enjoyed the work, she k...

Today's guests are Megan and Jimmy Feeman, the married duo behind NoBaked Cookie Dough . Most of us can probably relate to sitting at work wishing we could just walk out the door and chase our dreams. Megan actually did it. She may have thought the music industry would be a good fit for her when she started her career, but once she felt the calling to branch out on her own, she was gone, and no on...

Today's guest is Trey Lockerbie, co-founder of the kombucha brand Better Booch . Trey's first experience with kombucha was an unpleasant one on many levels. His sister was going through treatment for breast cancer and trying everything under the sun, including kombucha. Trey tried it and hated it, but couldn't quite shake the thought from his mind that it could be better. After a few years and a w...

Today's guest is Harry Kargman , founder of the mobile advertising company Kargo . What started as a mobile platform to sell ringtones quickly shifted to advertising once the ringtone market was gutted. To say you've been in the industry since ringtone sales were popular is a flex that not many mobile advertisers can make. Harry has grown Kargo in tandem with the rise in popularity of the mobile p...

Today's guests are Ryan Goldman and Jonathan Friedman, co-founders of Volo, the beauty company that has reimagined the humble hairdryer . If you haven't given much thought to hairdryers lately, that's ok, because Ryan and Jonathan have spent the better part of the past decade doing exactly that. They saw the inefficiencies of the existing hair dryers on the market with their thousands of watts goi...

Ever since we began this podcast in 2019, we've been focused on uncovering the truth behind entrepreneurship. Through many conversations with founders, self-starters, and people who think outside the box, we've heard about the ups-and-downs of branching out on your own and building something new. Those conversations have always been focused on the guest sitting across the table from us, but in a w...

Today's guest is Jun Lee, co-founder of the cannabis wholesale distribution company Nabis . To anyone even remotely paying attention, it's clear that the public perception of cannabis is rapidly changing. To date, cannabis is legal for recreational use in 18 states, plus D.C., while another 13 states have decriminalized its use. The winds of change are blowing, and they're headed towards legalizat...

Today's guest is Sashee Chandran, founder of Tea Drops . She found a way to eliminate the tea bag by pressing tea into fun little shapes. Just drop them in hot water, et violà! You've got tea. What's most impressive about Sashee's story is not that she found a way to eliminate the tea bag, but that she shows how to build a successful company through incremental progress and learning from mistakes...

Today's guests are Sarah Lee and Christine Chang, co-founders of the K-beauty-inspired Glow Recipe . In this age of globalization and cross-cultural influence, it certainly seems like South Korea is having its moment in the sun. Between K-Pop, Korean BBQ, and K-beauty, South Korean culture is really taking the world by storm. Christine and Sarah met while they were working for L'Oréal in Korea, bu...

Today's guest is Sarah Sommers, a co-founder of the crowd-funding and entrepreneurial resource center IFundWomen . There are a lot of places you can go online in order to crowd-fund your next venture, but IFundWomen doesn't just give female entrepreneurs access to capital, they also provide coaching and help foster connections that are vital for any new enterprise to thrive and grow. In the world...

Today's guest is the one and only Diana Nyad . The author, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer has swum around the island of Manhattan, from the Bahamas to Florida, and most famously from Cuba to Key West. She is the first person to have ever done that swim without the assistance of a shark cage. She defied intense currents, venomous jellyfish, and even her own age in order to complete...

Today's guests are Cass and Andrew Walker, husband and wife duo, and co-founders of cold-pressed juice company Little West . Their journey began with their wedding—or more accurately—using the money they would've spent on their wedding to start Little West. They got some space in a yoga studio and threw themselves into making juice. They'll be the first to tell you that they knew absolutely nothin...

Today's guest is James Peter Henry, the artist best known for painting the mural in our very own studio! Ok, maybe that's not his most famous piece of work, but it's certainly up there in our books. James grew up on a farm in rural Australia, about five hours outside of Melbourne. As he explored the property as a kid, he discovered a set of caves that were adorned with Aboriginal paintings and dra...

Today's guest is Hannah Pilkes , the comedienne, actress, and writer. Hannah got her start in the Kevin Bacon drama The Woodsman . If you're familiar with that movie you'll know it's about as far from comedy as a movie can get. But acting in the movie was enough to reinforce Hannah's love for performing, and though it took a while, she did eventually find her own voice and a following on Vine. Tha...

Today's guest is Ivan Fatovic, founder of Modamily . Modamily is a mashup of the words "modern family", and Ivan is working to redefine what that means in modern culture. This country as well as many around the world have long held up the ideals of the nuclear family as something to strive for. The problem with that is for many, that ideal ranges anywhere from undesirable to unachievable. And for...

Returning to the show today are Victoria Fu and Gloria Lu, co-founders of Chemist Confessions and authors of the new book Skincare Decoded: The Practical Guide to Beautiful Skin . When we last spoke with Victoria and Gloria, they were busy running an online skincare platform and developing new skincare products. Somehow in the middle of all that, they managed to squeeze in writing a book as well....

Today's guest is Alex Bayer, founder of Genius Juice . Alex hasn't always been an entrepreneur, but he has picked up several valuable skills along the way that have given him a leg up when he did decide to start out on his own. He honed his sales technique while selling Afflack insurance, and he learned all about marketing and distribution during his time at a non-profit. So the preparation was al...

Today's guests are Emerson Haro and Tony Yuan, co-founders of Farm Cup Coffee and co-inhabiters with us in our new space at 7748 Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood, CA. Farm Cup and their one-of-a-kind coffee truck Sunny take up the front half, while we record in the space right behind them. So needless to say we all know each other pretty well. In the two years that we've been doing this show, n...

Today is our 100th episode! It's also the first time we've hosted a guest in our brand new podcast studio. We can't think of a sweeter way to celebrate this milestone than with some doughnuts. So with that being said, today's guests are Thom Furtado and Nancy Truman , the couple behind the LA sensation Fōnuts . Those that know Los Angeles know that LA is a doughnut-loving city. There are many, man...

Today's guests are Diego and Nick! We're in the process of opening up our brand new podcast studio, and so today we decided to break it in by recording our first episode in it. We'll be back next week with our normal content, but this week we decided to reminisce on how far we've come and where we plan on taking the podcast. We also offer up a lot of insights and tips we've learned along the way,...

Today's guests are Krissy Jones and Chloe Kernaghan, co-founders of Sky Ting Yoga. Krissy and Chloe began with a single brick-and-mortar studio in New York City, but their following quickly outgrew their studio's capacity. So naturally, they expanded into more locations. But just as it's difficult to keep expanding into new studios, it's also tough to find great teachers to staff them. To be fair,...