Episodes
Sienna Brown, the founder of Glosshood, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Sienna's building the beauty brand that will re-ignite your inner child. She launched her company exactly one year after quitting her full time job, and sold out the first drop within four days! They're also now among brands like Range Beauty and Topicals who were accepted into the Sephora Accelerate program.  In this episode of Female Founder World, we're covering a lot of really good...
Published 03/11/24
Sienna Brown, the founder of Glosshood, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Sienna's building the beauty brand that will re-ignite your inner child. She launched her company exactly one year after quitting her full time job, and sold out the first drop within four days! They're also now among brands like Range Beauty and Topicals who were accepted into the Sephora Accelerate program.  In this episode of Female Founder World, we're covering a lot of really good...
Published 03/11/24
Kristyn Rose Berland, the founder of CrateAway, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Kristyn has building building and bootstrapping her pet carrier business within the Female Founder World community, and they're getting some really amazing traction. She sold her car to start the business while also working her full time corporate job—and then came her biggest opportunity: Kristyn and her business landed a starring role the new Roku show, Side Hustlers, created...
Published 03/04/24
Kristyn Rose Berland, the founder of CrateAway, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Kristyn has building building and bootstrapping her pet carrier business within the Female Founder World community, and they're getting some really amazing traction. She sold her car to start the business while also working her full time corporate job—and then came her biggest opportunity: Kristyn and her business landed a starring role the new Roku show, Side Hustlers, created...
Published 03/04/24
Samantha Brett, the founder of Naked Sundays, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Samantha was a news reporter in Australia spending all day in the sun when she had the idea for an SPF brand that could be worn with your makeup. A ton of people in her life were getting skin cancer, and she couldn’t get over this one idea she had to make sunscreen something people actually wanted to wear. Her brand, Naked Sundays, has executed so well on that idea–it's grown...
Published 02/26/24
Samantha Brett, the founder of Naked Sundays, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Samantha was a news reporter in Australia spending all day in the sun when she had the idea for an SPF brand that could be worn with your makeup. A ton of people in her life were getting skin cancer, and she couldn’t get over this one idea she had to make sunscreen something people actually wanted to wear. Her brand, Naked Sundays, has executed so well on that idea–it's grown...
Published 02/26/24
Nancy Twine, the founder of Briogeo, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Nancy started her hair care business back when clean beauty was just getting started, and the movement really hadn't hit the haircare space. She used her savings to start the business and started a sampling strategy to get traction.  After six years, she brought in an investor and within 10 years had built a nine-figure company that soon sold to Wella. tbh it's rare to find someone who...
Published 02/19/24
Nancy Twine, the founder of Briogeo, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Nancy started her hair care business back when clean beauty was just getting started, and the movement really hadn't hit the haircare space. She used her savings to start the business and started a sampling strategy to get traction.  After six years, she brought in an investor and within 10 years had built a nine-figure company that soon sold to Wella. tbh it's rare to find someone who...
Published 02/19/24
Gretta van Riel was 22 when she started her first business: a detox tea that she was mixing, packaging and selling right from her parent’s dining room table. The business ended up being a massive success and within 6 months was doing $600,000 a month in revenue! Gretta replicated the success of her first business and launched three more consumer companies, and an agency. They’ve gone on to do incredibly well—one even sold $1M worth of product in one day! Listen in to see how Gretta did it. ...
Published 02/12/24
Gretta van Riel was 22 when she started her first business: a detox tea that she was mixing, packaging and selling right from her parent’s dining room table. The business ended up being a massive success and within 6 months was doing $600,000 a month in revenue! Gretta replicated the success of her first business and launched three more consumer companies, and an agency. They’ve gone on to do incredibly well—one even sold $1M worth of product in one day! Listen in to see how Gretta did it. ...
Published 02/12/24
Madison Stefanis was 19 when she started selling refurbished vintage film cameras to Gen Z. She realized she was onto a booming market, but had some problems sourcing the vintage cameras—there are only so many available in the world for sale, right? Madi decided to meet the demand by creating her own film camera and market it to a nostalgic millennial and Gen Z customer. And, it's been a hit. They're crushing it on TikTok and Instagram, and in 18 months sold 40,000 units and did AU$3.6M in...
Published 02/06/24
Madison Stefanis was 19 when she started selling refurbished vintage film cameras to Gen Z. She realized she was onto a booming market, but had some problems sourcing the vintage cameras—there are only so many available in the world for sale, right? Madi decided to meet the demand by creating her own film camera and market it to a nostalgic millennial and Gen Z customer. And, it's been a hit. They're crushing it on TikTok and Instagram, and in 18 months sold 40,000 units and did AU$3.6M in...
Published 02/06/24
Lisa Guerrera is making science cool with Experiment Beauty. As a chemist, she partnered up with her co-founder Emmy (another chemist) to bring the next gen of science-backed brands. After making a viral first product (iykyk), they’ve grown 10x year-over-year—mostly through their organic waitlist strategy.  In this episode Lisa shares the moments that helped scale Experiment Beauty, how to build a brand that lasts, and their launch strategy we should all be copy-pasting rn. Links  Join...
Published 12/29/23
Lisa Guerrera is making science cool with Experiment Beauty. As a chemist, she partnered up with her co-founder Emmy (another chemist) to bring the next gen of science-backed brands. After making a viral first product (iykyk), they’ve grown 10x year-over-year—mostly through their organic waitlist strategy.  In this episode Lisa shares the moments that helped scale Experiment Beauty, how to build a brand that lasts, and their launch strategy we should all be copy-pasting rn. Links  Join...
Published 12/29/23
It’s no wonder Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye became the trailblazing beauty founder behind Ami Colé. As a first-gen Senagalese-American, Diarrha’s mother’s salon was the backdrop to her growing up and that love of beauty led her to roles at L’Oreal and Glossier. Today, she’s the founder of Ami Colé, a cult-loved beauty brand for melanin rich skin. They’ve raised over $2M to date, and smashed launch projections thanks to Diarrha's community-led approach. Links Join the group...
Published 12/13/23
It’s no wonder Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye became the trailblazing beauty founder behind Ami Colé. As a first-gen Senagalese-American, Diarrha’s mother’s salon was the backdrop to her growing up and that love of beauty led her to roles at L’Oreal and Glossier. Today, she’s the founder of Ami Colé, a cult-loved beauty brand for melanin rich skin. They’ve raised over $2M to date, and smashed launch projections thanks to Diarrha's community-led approach. Links Join the group...
Published 12/13/23
Elle Kiffer is the founder of foldUP, a foldable yoga mat brand. She's a year in and absolutely crushing it! They have done major partnerships with brands like Mecca and are featured in publications like Refinery29. Swipe on to see how Elle is making it happen from the ground up. In this episode we're diving into what the first year of business looks like these days, when to start paying yourself, who to hire, and how to go from idea to a successful business.  Links Get a ticket to our...
Published 12/06/23
Elle Kiffer is the founder of foldUP, a foldable yoga mat brand. She's a year in and absolutely crushing it! They have done major partnerships with brands like Mecca and are featured in publications like Refinery29. Swipe on to see how Elle is making it happen from the ground up. In this episode we're diving into what the first year of business looks like these days, when to start paying yourself, who to hire, and how to go from idea to a successful business.  Links Get a ticket to our...
Published 12/06/23
Sophie Marshall is the founder of Gentle Habits, the insence-turned-lifestyle brand taking over Australia. As a working mom with two kids, incense became her way to switch off, and the brand eventually became her side hustle. Sophie and the team grew Gentle Habits to a million dollar business within the first two years, primarily thanks to incredible relationships with independent retailers. Now she's making big moves launching into stores like Anthropologie US. In this episode Sophie gives...
Published 12/05/23
Sophie Marshall is the founder of Gentle Habits, the insence-turned-lifestyle brand taking over Australia. As a working mom with two kids, incense became her way to switch off, and the brand eventually became her side hustle. Sophie and the team grew Gentle Habits to a million dollar business within the first two years, primarily thanks to incredible relationships with independent retailers. Now she's making big moves launching into stores like Anthropologie US. In this episode Sophie gives...
Published 12/05/23
Ariana Ferwerda is the co-founder and CEO of Halfdays, a women’s outdoor apparel brand taking on the boring, not-cute, kinda expensive traditional outdoor industry. Her brand is approachable, inclusive, fun—and this approach is working. Between year one and two they 10x'd the business and did 8-figures in revenue. Ariana's also a Forbes 30 under 30 alum, and this episode chats through what those first few years have looked like going from zero to 8-figures, how she's looking at hiring, and...
Published 11/27/23
Julie Rice is the all-star co-founder of SoulCycle, the iconic cycle studio. In about 5 years of building, Julie sold her shares to Equinox for a nearly $90 million. Since then, Julie started Peoplehood, a wellness club, with her original SoulCycle co-founder.  In this episode Julie chats all about scaling a brick and mortar company from the ground up and how she's looking at things a second time around, building an incredible internal and community culture, and how she's fostered such a...
Published 11/15/23
Georgina Gooley, the founder of Billie, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Billie's a razor brand, yes. But founder Georgina Gooley created a movement when she built the first women's razor brand that openly showed body hair and suggested women didn't have to remove it.  She's a brand-building genius—within four years of launching her razor biz sold for $310 million. Before that big milestone though, Georgie had to figure out how to create a thriving ecommerce...
Published 10/27/23