Active Ingredient Podcast

Jaclyn Johnson is a successful entrepreneur and founder of Create & Cultivate, an online platform and conference for women looking to create & cultivate the career of their dreams, host the Work Party podcast, a best selling author, and angel investor. Jaclyn launched and sold her first company by the time she was 29 and launched Create & Cultivate, her second company, after recognizing a gap in conversations, resources, events and community for female millennial entrepreneurs and small business owners. Cut to today Create & Cultivate is a cult favorite brand hosting hundreds of conferences each year, a community of 1 million plus women, a line at Target, a top business podcast and more. On this episode we get into Jaclyn's career journey and the many lessons she's learned throughout, how she sold her first business, how her role has changed as the business has expanded, her approach to hiring, going where the momentum is, the power of  literally JUST STARTING even if you don't have any resources, connections or skills in what you're interested in doing and having the mentality that if someone else could do it, you could do it too. 

Find Jaclyn's Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/jaclynrjohnson/

Find Create & Cultivate's website here: https://www.createcultivate.com/

Find the Work Party podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/workparty/id1404548949

Find Sophie's Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/

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Siffat Haider is the Co-founder of Arrae, a natural supplement brand that offers bloat and anxiety relief capsules, and also the host of The Dream Bigger Podcast.

On today’s episode we get into how the throughline throughout her career has always been to help women and show them that they can optimize their wellbeing and reach their business goals, how her own health journey led her to experiment with natural remedies to heal her own issues which ultimately led her to start Arrae, the connection between anxiety and bloating, the practice of manifestation and future-you journaling, working through self-limiting beliefs and believing that if your heart is in the right place, you can accomplish what you set your mind to.

Find Siffat’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/icingandglitter

Find The Dream Bigger Podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dream-bigger-podcast/id1436902528

Find Arrae here: https://www.arrae.com/

Find Sophie’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill

Resources we discussed:
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Spirit Hacking by Shaman Durek
The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone
The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
Gabby Berinstein
Abraham Hicks
Esther Perel

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Today’s episode is with Indré Rockeffeller who is the co-founder of Paravel, an industry-leading sustainable travel lifestyle brand. Before launching Paravel, Indré had a very interesting career - she started out being Anna Wintour’s first assistant at Vogue and then went on to work at several impressive companies like Moda Operandi and Delpozo.

On this episode we get into Indré’s love of ballet at an early age and how it led her to a career in the fashion industry, how one trip entirely changed her perspective which led her to make sustainability the #1 priority for her brand, how she pivoted during Covid-19 amid the travel bans, why an MBA is not necessary to launch a successful business, how identifying her mission changed her as a leader, why a narrow scope is liberating, and lastly we get into why the key to success is simply the willingness to figure things out as you go.

Find Indré ’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/indrerock/

Find Paravel’s Website here: https://tourparavel.com/

Find Sophie’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/

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This week’s episode is with Mayssa Chehata, the founder of Behave, a better for you candy company that just launched a few months ago with sweet and sour gummies that are low sugar, low net carb, chef-created and an elevated taste that has already been covered in Fast Company, Forbes and Business Insider.

On today’s episode, we get into Mayssa’s previous career journey having held brand partnership and business development roles at the NFL, Uber, Daily Harvest, and SoulCycle; we get into the details of how she found the right factory, partnered with a celebrity chef, fundraised, launched and everything in between, we get into the transformational personal work she had done on herself before starting Behave, the importance of being able to sit in silence with your own thoughts and how much clarity comes from that, and why putting one foot in front of the other with blinders on is the only way to make significant progress.

Find Mayssa’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/mayssa/

Find Behave’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/eatbehave/

Find Behave’s Website here: https://www.eatbehave.com/

Sophie’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/

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Farryn Weiner is an award-winning brand architect and founder of Farrynheight, a new-age brand marketing agency and she is also the host of the Farrynheight podcast. Prior to building Farrynheight, she was the Vice President of Marketing and Brand Innovation at sweetgreen, before that she was the Senior Global Director of Digital, Social and Creative Communications at Michael Kors Worldwide where she oversaw integrated editorial, digital and social media strategy and has held several previous impressive titles.


On today’s episode we get into Farryn’s career journey and how all of her previous roles led her to starting Farrynheight, the intersection of life and work and how building a brand is really similar to building a life, finding the courage to always follow what you’re in alignment with and letting go of things that aren't even if that disappoints people, living in the pursuit of clarity and lastly, we get into the importance of creating a filter of what matters most to you and how this will ultimately help you take decisive next steps.

Find Farryn's Personal Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/jetsetfarryn/

Find The Farrynheight Podcast: https://www.farrynheight.com/podcast

Find Farrynheight's Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/farrynheight/

Find Sophie's Personal Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/

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Bee Shapiro is the longtime New York Times beauty columnist and also the founder of Ellis Brooklyn, a clean luxury fragrance brand that she launched in 2015. Bee found out she was pregnant with her first baby, Ellis, at the height of the clean beauty movement and she began looking for alternative fragrances that felt both luxurious and also safe and clean for her while pregnant and she simply couldn't find it on the market which led her to create it herself in her home in Brooklyn. In today’s episode we get into her background and why she originally decided to go to law school for stability, the whole process of her leaving law to start from scratch and build a network from the bottom up, how she transitioned to journalism and her road from covering the fashion industry to beauty, why this idea stood out to her more than every other business idea she’d previously had, her approach to marketing fragrance/what actually resonates and why accountability is an essential part of sticking to something, getting it off the ground and ultimately executing.

Find Bee’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/beeshapiro/

Find Bee’s New York Times work here: https://www.nytimes.com/by/bee-shapiro

Find Ellis Brooklyn’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/ellisbrooklyn/

Find Ellis Brooklyn’s Website here: https://www.ellisbrooklyn.com/

Find Sophie’s Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/

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Danielle Duboise is the co-founder of Sakara Life, a 100% plant-based and organic ready to eat meal delivery service company but more than that Sakara is a full on lifestyle. The company has been featured in major publications such as Oprah, Vogue, the New York Times and too many to name here. 

On today’s episode we get into Danielle’s personal body image journey, how healing herself led her to create Sakara with the intention of healing others, she walks us through how she let go of her original career goal of becoming a doctor, the philosophy that food is medicine, we distinguish the difference between a mission and a passion and why mission-based companies are the ones who will ultimately have longevity and survive the pandemic, we get into the importance of not glorifying entrepreneurship and lastly her recommendation to focus on healing yourself if you are feeling lost about finding your active ingredient. 
Use code PN_ACTIVEPODCAST for $20 off your first order of Sakara Life (ships nationwide).

Find Danielle here: https://www.instagram.com/danielleduboise/

Find Sakara here: https://www.sakara.com/

Find Sakara's social here: https://www.instagram.com/sakaralife/

Find Sophie here: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/

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Today's episode is with Rachel Liverman the founder of Glowbar, a no fluff facial spa that offers 30 minute customizable facials at $65 dollars. This is Rachel's second time on the podcast and I invited her back because she, like the most of us, has REALLY been tested when it comes to her business. Glowbar had only been open for 9 months before having to shut down due to the pandemic. Her business was entirely closed for 6 months since facials were deemed "phase-less" in New York and still found a way to pivot quickly, work on the foundation of her business and just last week she opened her second location now that facials are finally allowed in NY again and I just knew I had to have her on to talk about resilience and what this experience has taught her.

On this episode I'm talking to her about the rollercoaster that was these 6 months, how she continued to stay so positive, the biggest learnings she's taken during this time, how she rallied her community to get Governor Cuomo's attention when he was ignoring the spa industry as a whole and of course, I ask her if her active ingredient has changed at all since the last time we spoke.

Find Rachel here: https://www.instagram.com/rachelista/

Find Glowbar here: https://www.getglowbar.com/

Find Sophie here: https://www.instagram.com/sophieiweill/

Link to Rachel's first Active Ingredient episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/founder-glowbar-on-learning-how-to-listen-to-your-gut/id1466712918?i=1000462344353

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Mimi Ausland is the founder of Free the Ocean, a website that gives anyone anywhere the opportunity to have a daily impact on the issue of plastic pollution. The way it works is by simply going to FreetheOcean.com and answering the daily trivia question. Just by doing that you fund the removal of 1 piece of plastic from the ocean and coastlines. Free the Ocean works with Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii, and together they have helped remove over 8.5 million pieces of plastic! They now have 30k+ unique daily visitors and people playing from over 160 countries.


Mimi actually started her first passion project at age 12 with a very similar model to Free the Ocean but her mission at the time was to feed animals so she started a website called FreeKibble.com that went viral and was featured on Ellen, Oprah and the Today Show. She then went on to college where she thought she wanted to pursue psychology but instead was confronted with the harsh reality of what our oceans are facing and decided to change paths and create Free the Ocean with the goal of not only cleaning up our oceans but really to work towards a hopeful future.


On today’s episode we talk about Mimi’s journey, she walks us through how she identified her need of creating and giving back, her first steps into creating Free the People, she gives us so many great insights into what is happening with our oceans and easy takeaways that we can all implement into our daily lives to reduce plastic consumption and why paying attention to what moves you is the best indicator in figuring out your Active Ingredient.

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Dianna is a master marketer and the founder of Crown Affair, a modern beauty brand on a mission to make haircare an everyday ritual. Before starting Crown Affair, she had an extremely impressive career in marketing and partnerships working in-house at some of the most covetable companies including Into The Gloss, Spring, and Away. She eventually launched her first business, Levitate, a brand strategy and marketing consulting company where she worked with some of the top direct-to-consumer brands including, Harry’s/Flamingo, Outdoor Voices, Yumi, Buck Mason, The Wing, and more. 
After running her agency 2 years, she decided she was ready to transition from building other people’s brands to finally launching her own and she launched Crown Affair, a direct to consumer hair care brand with the goal of helping people feel their best with their natural hair. On this episode we talk about Dianna’s many career transitions, how she fell into starting a consulting agency, at what point she realized she was ready to build her own brand and fold her agency, why a business coach was extremely valuable in helping her identify her active ingredient, the importance of maintaining relationships with past co-workers, fundraising, and why rituals are so important in setting the tone for our lives.

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