What would you do if you sold your business to Unilever? Delete the email app from your phone forever, maybe? Not Nyakio Grieco. She decided one win wasn't enough and started two more beauty companies. Through the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, Nyakio saw more support for her business than ever, and she realized a ton of Black and Brown brands were experiencing the same thing. She chatted with other founders and the wheels started turning for her second business, thirteen lune.

When Amanda Zuckerman was looking for bedding for her college dorm she was not thrilled with what was out there, and like any normal 18 year old (totally kidding, Amanda’s next level) she turned to her mom and said “we should design our own!” 12 years later Amanda’s vision has become Dormify, a cult-loved multi-million dollar brand, raising over $5.6M from some pretty incredible investors like American Eagle Outfitters.

Jane Lu was 24 when she felt like she'd hit rock bottom. She had quit her safe corporate job to start a business that failed, leaving her $60,000 in debt. This was mid-GFC and a hard time to find a job, so she felt her only option was to start business #2.

Showpo, her second biz, did more than $63 million in sales in 2019, and is now hitting over $100 million. Today, she's one of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs.

Olivia Landau is a 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 $1M in sales every month.

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 and an expert in web 3 to share digestible and easy-to-follow ways for founders in the consumer space to leverage the blockchain in their businesses.

Jaclyn Fu, founder of Pepper, launched a DTC intimates brand selling bras for small-chested women, and since hitting the market with her Kickstarter campaign has sold over one million bras.

Check out Jaclyn's thoughts on marketing online in the current landscape, funding a business that traditional VCs just don't understand, and how to scale up your team.

With nearly a million followers on TikTok, Coco Mocoe acts like a crystal ball for pop culture and brand trends, predicting where digital culture is moving next.

We chatted with Coco to get specific about what brands need to be doing if they want to succeed on TikTok over the next year, and where she sees the platform changing.

Karen Danudjaja’s superfood latte business, Blume, hit $7.5 million in sales last year and has landed in more than 2000 stores, including Whole Foods and Nordstrom and she landed those numbers fully bootstrapped.

The idea for a better-for-you latte line came to Karen in 2017 while working in corporate real estate, having multiple coffee meetings each day and then getting the caffeine jitters.

Jing was working in the food scene, running an underground supper club, when she saw a gap in the American market for higher-quality ingredients and better tasting Chinese flavors and started making and bottling her own sauces for friends and family. Her food business, Fly By Jing, took off and in their second year, Jing 10’x her business. Here’s how she did it.

Iskra Lawrence is a model and body image activist who built a 5 million-strong Instagram following before launching an inclusive body care brand, Saltair.

Meet Olivia Deramus, the bootstrapping baddie behind Communia, an app for women and marginalized genders to connect on taboo topics like money, sex and mental health, in a way that doesn't happen on Instagram and Twitter. Communia now has over 100,000 downloads and over 20,000 daily users.

Jess is the cofounder of Frank Body, one of the OG Instagram-brands that grew into company on track to hit $100M in annual sales. Jess and her cofounders bootstrapped the body-care business after first pooling together $10,000, and launching with a very distinct, cheeky tone of voice. By the end of their third year in business Frank hit $20M in sales, landed in top retailers and had hundreds of thousands of IG-users sharing their product-shots under #letsbefrank and #thefrankeffect.

Sandy Lin is a content creator and the founder of Creobase, a platform helping creators monetize their content. She also has over a half a million TikTok followers, and is one of the app's rising stars.

Michelle Hu launched Etoile Collective, a brand known for cute beauty accessories, mirrors, and cases, from her bedroom in Melbourne, Australia back in 2016. By 2020, she had bootstrapped a business doing more than multi-seven figures in annual revenue. Here's how.

Influencer and editor-turned-entrepreneur Siff Haider came up with the idea for her supplement business Arrae in 2019 after spotting a gap in the market for organic, high-quality supplements that solved targeted problems while being beautiful. She teamed up with her partner and used their wedding savings to get her idea into the world. The idea took off—fast. After six months Arrae hit profitability. They reached $1 million in revenue in one year. Three years post-launch, following a small seed round, Arrae's revenue has grown 10x to hit 8-figures.

Michelle Cordeiro Grant sold her first startup, Lively, for $105 million only three years after launching. She took on Victoria’s Secret to bring women underwear they’d actually want to wear daily (so, not a corset)—and won. Her second act is Gorgie, an energy drink with beauty benefits for women. Energy drinks are an $18 billion industry that, Michelle says, isn't catering to women. This means we have a front row seat to follow a proven founder's pre-launch strategy unfold in real time—an experience that's harder to come by than tickets to Taylor Swift.