Female Founder World

Mia Plecic is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Mia is the founder of Slick Hair, the world's first hair slick stick. After COVID hit, Mia knew she had to reach customers online, so she started posting on TikTok. One night, a TikTok went viral and she ended up making $40,000 in sales overnight.  In this episode Mia shares how she's landed worldwide distribution at stores like Sephora, Urban Outfitters, and Coles, the content that's resonating in 2025, and the investments that are growing her business. LINKS Get 25% OFF your first VistaPrint order using the code FFW25 at checkout: https://www.vistaprint.com Sign up for Retail Bootcamp: https://bestie.femalefounderworld.com/retail-bootcamp Get the Female Founder World resource roundup https://femalefounderworld.beehiiv.com Become a Business Bestie subscriber: bestie.femalefounderworld.com Check out Mia's business: https://slickhair.com/

Annie Evans is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Annie is the creator of Dream Ventures, a fund and incubator built to connect female founders with investors. After building and eventually closing her own startup, Annie wanted to help women access resources and capital to build their business. She created Dream Ventures, which has helped kickstart the growth of companies like Topicals, House of Wise, iFundWomen and more.  In this conversation, Annie goes deep on when and if your company should fundraise, what makes her process different (and why it works!), and fundraising tips from behind the curtain as an investor. LINKS Get 25% OFF your first VistaPrint order using the code FFW25 at checkout: https://www.vistaprint.com Sign up for Retail Bootcamp: https://bestie.femalefounderworld.com/retail-bootcamp Get the Female Founder World resource roundup https://femalefounderworld.beehiiv.com Become a Business Bestie subscriber: bestie.femalefounderworld.com Check out Annie's business and apply for Dream Ventures: https://www.dreamventures.co/ Annie's book recommendation: Backable by Suneel Gupta

Damn, this one hurts. In 2021, Target committed to investing more than $2 billion in Black-owned businesses, including adding 500 Black-owned brands to its shelves. Except, now they're not. Target announced that they will be rolling back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, joining Walmart, Amazon and Meta who have made similar changes. Let's unpack it in the show today. LINKS Get 25% OFF your first VistaPrint order using the code FFW25 at checkout: https://www.vistaprint.com Indie store contact list: https://www.femalefounderworld.com/independent-stores-contact-list  Sign up for Retail Bootcamp: https://bestie.femalefounderworld.com/retail-bootcamp Get the Female Founder World resource roundup https://femalefounderworld.beehiiv.com Become a Business Bestie subscriber: bestie.femalefounderworld.com

Kelley Arena is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Kelley is the founder of Golden Hour Ventures, the fund and venture studio helping more women access capital. Kelley built a career in investment banking before launching her own venture firm. She's also the co-creator of Dream Ventures, an accelerator for founders looking for funding. This conversation is the fundraising wake-up call you've never had, but probably always needed. Kelley is sharing how founders can build traction to show to investors (or pitch competitions and grants if that's your jam), what founders should be thinking about when it comes to raising capital, how to build systems for fundraising, and so much more insider tea.  LINKS Get 25% OFF your first VistaPrint order using the code FFW25 at checkout: https://www.vistaprint.com Sign up for Retail Bootcamp: https://bestie.femalefounderworld.com/retail-bootcamp Get the Female Founder World resource roundup https://femalefounderworld.beehiiv.com Become a Business Bestie subscriber: bestie.femalefounderworld.com Check out Kelley's business: https://goldenhourventures.co/

Babba Rivera is on the Female Founder World podcast for the second time with Jasmine Garnsworthy. You can listen to our first conversation here. https://bestie.femalefounderworld.com/podcasts/female-founder-world/episodes/2148661332  Babba is the founder of Ceremonia, the venture-backed clean haircare brand that's blown up in the last few years. They've won 45 beauty awards, have been featured by every major publication, and Babba is on a mission to show more Latina representation in entrepreneurship and beauty. This week we're asking Babba about her mindset as a venture-backed founder scaling something big, how she's been able to grow her team intentionally, and her tips growing a super engaged community. LINKS Get 25% OFF your first VistaPrint order using the code FFW25 at checkout: https://www.vistaprint.com Sign up for Retail Bootcamp: https://bestie.femalefounderworld.com/retail-bootcamp Get the Female Founder World resource roundup https://femalefounderworld.beehiiv.com ' Become a Business Bestie subscriber: bestie.femalefounderworld.com Check out Babba's business: https://ceremonia.com/

Charlotte Cruze, founder of Alice Mushrooms, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Charlotte is the co-founder of Alice Mushrooms, the functional mushroom chocolate bar that went from zero to Erewhon/Forbes/celebrity investors in two years! In 2022 Charlotte and her cofounder launched Alice, a functional mushroom chocolate brand that is blowing up. In this conversation Charlotte shares how she connected with her cofounder (they didn’t meet IRL for the first four months after starting the business!), lessons from their launch and the strategies that helped Alice raise money from celebrities, get stocked in hundreds of stores, and become a beloved brand by wellness girls everywhere. LINKS Get 25% OFF your first VistaPrint order using the code FFW25 at checkout: https://www.vistaprint.com Sign up for Retail Bootcamp: https://bestie.femalefounderworld.com/retail-bootcamp Get the Female Founder World resource roundup https://femalefounderworld.beehiiv.com Become a Business Bestie subscriber: bestie.femalefounderworld.com Check out Charlotte’s business: https://alicemushrooms.com/ Charlotte’s Shopify subscription app recommendation: https://stay.ai/

Priyanka Ganjoo is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Priyanka is the founder of Kulfi Beauty, the first-ever South Asian-owned beauty brand to join Sephora shelves. After building a career in the beauty industry, Priyanka saw first hand how underrepresented South Asian communities were in beauty. She sought to create the brand she wished existed, and Kulfi beauty was born.  Since launching three years ago, Kulfi was accepted into the Sephora Accelerate program, launched exclusively at Sephora, and now sells one of their bestselling Kajal eyeliners every five minutes. Wild! In this conversation Priyanka shares her learnings in building and scaling super quickly, what founders aiming for Sephora should know, the content strategy that keeps them going viral, and how she’s scaled her team without a ton of full time hires.  LINKS Get 25% OFF your first VistaPrint order using the code FFW25 at checkout: https://www.vistaprint.com Sign up for Retail Bootcamp: https://bestie.femalefounderworld.com/retail-bootcamp Get the Female Founder World resource roundup https://femalefounderworld.beehiiv.com Become a Business Bestie subscriber: bestie.femalefounderworld.com Check out Priyanka’s business: https://kulfibeauty.com/ Priyanka’s PR agency recommendation: https://www.goodapplepr.com/ Priyanka’s operations agency recommendation: https://www.haecpg.com/ Priyanka’s brand design agency recommendation: https://superspicy.com/ Priyanka’s beauty consulting agency recommendation: https://viewfrom32.com/ Priyanka’s beauty publication recommendations: https://www.beautyindependent.com/, https://www.businessoffashion.com/topics/beauty/

This is the second part of Ali Kriegsman's convo on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Ali is the co-founder of Bulletin, the acquired venture-backed retail tech company and the author of How to Build a Goddamn Empire. She's been on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and was named one of "The Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company. After selling her company Ali has been supporting the coolest startups scale their businesses, flexing her major marketing and sales skills. In this second part of our convo with Ali, she's deep diving on why retailers aren't taking your products or why customers aren't buying your products, and what you can do with a real-world example from our community.  LINKS Get 25% OFF your first VistaPrint order using the code FFW25 at checkout: https://www.vistaprint.com Sign up for Retail Bootcamp: https://bestie.femalefounderworld.com/retail-bootcamp Get the Female Founder World resource roundup https://femalefounderworld.beehiiv.com Become a Business Bestie subscriber: bestie.femalefounderworld.com Check out Ali's book, How to Build a Goddamn Empire: https://www.amazon.ca/How-Build-Goddamn-Empire-High-Tech/dp/1419742906 Ali's site analytics tool recommendation: https://www.luckyorange.com/ Ali's book recommendation for gaining customer insights, The Mom Test: https://www.amazon.ca/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone/dp/1492180742 Ali's creator reccomendation: https://tealswan.com/selfhealing-a/?gc_id=21387257672&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiApsm7BhBZEiwAvIu2X6JlTl83hZsveW-Qs-NhLflJvD3Cg9du8eCkwJJDsDtuYyxVdMGUixoCyzMQAvD_BwE

Ali Kriegsman is on the Female Founder World podcast for the second time with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Part 2 of this conversation with Ali will be released on January 2. Ali is the co-founder of Bulletin, the acquired venture-backed retail tech company and the author of How to Build a Goddamn Empire. She's been on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and was named one of "The Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company.  After selling her company Ali has been supporting the coolest startups scale their businesses, flexing her major marketing and sales skills. This week we're asking Ali all about how startups can start to find their momentum and why your business might not be growing in the way you want it to. LINKS Get 25% OFF your first VistaPrint order using the code FFW25 at checkout: https://www.vistaprint.com Sign up for Retail Bootcamp: https://bestie.femalefounderworld.com/retail-bootcamp Get the Female Founder World resource roundup https://femalefounderworld.beehiiv.com Become a Business Bestie subscriber: bestie.femalefounderworld.com Check out Ali's book, How to Build a Goddamn Empire: https://www.amazon.ca/How-Build-Goddamn-Empire-High-Tech/dp/1419742906 Ali's site analytics tool recommendation: https://www.luckyorange.com/ Ali's book recommendation for gaining customer insights, The Mom Test: https://www.amazon.ca/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyone/dp/1492180742

Gloria Allorbi is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Gloria is the founder of Gloria’s Shito, a food brand bringing the flavors of Ghana to the United States. Gloria's business is fully bootstrapped and it's pretty crazy how far she's gotten without investors. She has been doing her own PR, and landed on the Today Show and Food & Wine, launched the brand into Erewhon, and participated in Target’s Accelerator program. Gloria’s also a recent star on Hello Sunshine's Side Hustlers show! Listen to her story. LINKS Get 25% OFF your first VistaPrint order using the code FFW25 at checkout: https://www.vistaprint.com Sign up for Retail Bootcamp: https://bestie.femalefounderworld.com/retail-bootcamp Get the Female Founder World resource roundup https://femalefounderworld.beehiiv.com Become a Business Bestie subscriber: bestie.femalefounderworld.com Gloria's paid ad agency: https://www.amazon.ca/Secrets-Sand-Hill-Road-Venture/dp/059308358X Gloria's book recommendation - Secrets of Sandhill Road: https://www.ventureresults.com/ Check out Gloria’s business: https://www.gloriasshito.com