This week: 

• Market vs. in store setup
• Early days
• Sink setup within the shop
• Removing labels from Jars 
• Free container donations
• Local food pantry support
• Prioritizing local
• Running a business while working another full time job
• Word of mouth marketing & social media

Where to find The Eastwood Refillery

• Website
• Instagram
• Facebook

Name Drops

• Faire
• Rustic Strength
• GoGo Refill in Portland, ME
• Dip 
• Little Seed Farm
• Yaya Maria’s 
• Beth’s Bounty - SUNY ESF student food pantry
• Mama Suds
• Full Circle Refillery
• Dr. Bronners
• Suds Refillery in Shawnee, KS
• Reuse Refuge in Auburn, NY
• Marilla’s Mindful Supplies in Rochester, NY
• Refillery Collective

Question from Tiffany, Owner of Full Circle Refillery: “If you had to do it all over again from day one, is there one thing or what is one thing that you would do differently? 

Question to the next refill shop owner: “What do you do to bring customers in and keep them coming back?”

Email [email protected] with your questions, topic requests, and feedback! 

Find more with Jessica & Andrea on Episode 24 of the Capitalism for Good podcast project (Apple | Spotify)

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This week: 

• The early days of Full Circle Refillery in Chattanooga, TN
• Branding, Buzzwords, Marketing, Green Terminology and what it all means in practice
• Brick & mortar as it compares to consignment booths, pop ups, home garage appointment shopping
• Customer engagement through Instagram polls, especially for feedback
• Finding the next best option to bridge the gap, even when knowledge and/or priorities changes while making sure products work well
• Prioritizing finding a disposal method for products sold in the zero waste store
• Transitions between working for someone else to working for yourself
• Building up inventory
• Changing your mindset about competition 
• How great the Chattanooga community is 

Acronyms 

• SLS = Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
• PVA = Polyvinyl Alcohol

Name Drops

• Faire
• The Good Fill
• Small Business Development Center
• Plaine Products
• Wonderfill Refillery (Cookville, TN)

Where to find Full Circle Refillery

• Website
• Instagram
• Facebook

Email [email protected] with your questions, topic requests, and feedback! 

Find more with Jessica & Andrea on Episode 24 of the Capitalism for Good podcast project (Apple | Spotify)

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Early Release & Video Episodes can be found at Patreon.com/CapitalismForGreen

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This week: 

• Community givebacks of all shapes and sizes
• Lauren Singer’s Package Free Shop in New York
• The early days of BYOC and how it all started
• Initial inventory
• Pricing with refill vs. solid products
• Transitioning from a pop up model to brick & mortar
• Shipping costs
• Marketing and social media
• The role of the business owner
• Becoming a hub of knowledge for your community
• Extended Producer Reliability Program (via Packaging Dive)

Email [email protected] with your questions, topic requests, and feedback! 

Find more with Jessica & Andrea on Episode 24 of the Capitalism for Good podcast project (Apple | Spotify)

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Early Release & Video Episodes can be found at Patreon.com/CapitalismForGreen

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This week: 

• Branding terms
• Poly vinyl alcohol
• Balancing values as they change
• Big retailers vs. small businesses, especially exclusivity clauses 
• Accessibility & sustainability crossovers
• Sustainability challenges
• Green Business Challenge
• Lessons learned: 
• Order while restocking and rearranging layouts
• Starting with unscented products and wait to see what people request

Email [email protected] with your questions, topic requests, and feedback! 

Find more with Jessica & Andrea on Episode 24 of the Capitalism for Good podcast project (Apple | Spotify)

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Early Release & Video Episodes can be found at Patreon.com/CapitalismForGreen

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This week: 

• Business classifications
• Planning ahead
• Differences in work style
• Flexibility in business structures and working hours
• Delegation of duties
• More social media discussions including time, effort, purpose, and impact
• Feeling failure
• The link between capitalism and hierarchy
• Emergency planning

Email [email protected] with your questions, topic requests, and feedback! 

Find more with Jessica & Andrea  on Episode 24 of the Capitalism for Good podcast project (Apple | Spotify)

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Early Release & Video Episodes can be found at Patreon.com/CapitalismForGreen

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The January 2026 CFG Community Giveback Partner is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

This means that 10% of all Patreon membership dollars from all projects within the CFG universe will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

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This week: 

• How the podcast gets edited & made
• AI & preparedness
• Marketing, advertising, and the impact of different types on community building
• Clothing swaps, container donation pauses, and resell parameters
• Community building
• Social Media
• More marketing! 

Email [email protected] with your questions, topic requests, and feedback! 

Find more with Jessica & Andrea  on Episode 24 of the Capitalism for Good podcast project (Apple | Spotify)

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Early Release & Video Episodes can be found at Patreon.com/CapitalismForGreen

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This week: 

• Free container shelves
• Chemistry degrees
• Things you need when you’re first getting started
• Why stainless steel funnels & silicone molds are the best
• Sustainable stickers & tape
• People pleasing 
• BYOC’s upcoming refill machine! 
• Andrea’s vibes and mission thoughts on a future store
• Competition with other similar stores
• Suburbs
• Brick & Mortar vs. Delivery vs. Popups 
• The warm & fuzzies of people saying this is this is their happy place
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Email [email protected] with your questions, topic requests, and feedback! 

Find more with Jessica & Andrea on Episode 24 of the Capitalism for Good podcast project (Apple | Spotify)

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Early Release & Video Episodes can be found at Patreon.com/CapitalismForGreen

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Listen to us figure out how to introduce ourselves, talk about how to set up a business that is essentially meant to put ourselves out of business, how to organize a values matrix to evaluate potential product sales, and also how to filter feedback when it's so personal.

Find more with Jessica & Andrea on Episode 24 of the Capitalism for Good podcast project (Apple | Spotify)

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Early Release & Video Episodes can be found at Patreon.com/CapitalismForGreen

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Welcome to BYOC Co.in Ann Arbor, MI! Take a look around. Let us know what you need. Are you curious about what it's like to shop at a refill store? We've got you covered with a tour. Follow Jessica & Keegan in as they walk us through how it works.

We'll also talk about homemade repurposed decor, knocking down walls, testing out new product manufacturing, and all the ins and outs of a refill store while Jessica shows us around. We highly recommend the video version for this one, but also do our best to talk you through what we're looking at. 

Find more with Jessica & Andrea  on Episode 24 of the Capitalism for Good podcast project (Apple | Spotify)

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Early Release & Video Episodes can be found at Patreon.com/CapitalismForGreen

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