Another day, another female founder cancellation. Today Jasmine's unpacking the Matilda Djerf headlines we're all talking about.

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Aliett Buttelman is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy!

Aliett is the co-founder of Fazit Beauty, the company that created Taylor Swift’s viral glitter freckles (and tons of other incredibly innovative beauty and skincare products). They launched the first XL acne and nose pore patches in 2022. 

Aliett talks about how they pivoted from not being able to raise VC money, their strategy behind entering retail, finding their new hero SKUs, and of course, how Taylor Swift supporting their business has changed everything.

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Samantha Coxe is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy! Samantha is the founder and CEO of Flaus, the company making flossing cool and easy.

After a painful and expensive trip to the dentist, Samantha started looking for an electric flosser to compliment her fave electric toothbrush. Nothing existed and she knew there was a huge gap in this market, so she created the world’s first electric flosser.

Samantha was working as a lawyer, and for nearly two years she stayed working as a lawyer to fund Flaus. When they finally launched, Flaus did $1M in their first year, and have gone on to raise over $4M. It wasn't all that easy, though—Samantha has dealt with tons of faulty production runs, dealing with copycats, and even losing a co-founder. 

In this episode she's spilling all the tea on the serious grind the electronic consumer hardware industry is, but she shares tons of resources that have helped her navigate the grind.

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Pickle cofounder Julia O’Mara is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy!

Julia is the co-founder and COO of Pickle, an app that’s essentially AirBnb for your closet, allowing you to rent out and borrow from peers. Julia and her cofounder met while working in investment management and were drawn to the idea of understanding purchasing decisions. They raised $250,000 from friends and family to start an app that was totally different to the Pickle we know today. The original idea didn't work and ran out of money. But Julia and her team identified the peer-to-peer clothing rental idea and, with no cash left, built a new app themselves. A little over a year later, they raised $8M for Pickle 2.0 and since then have been seeing 80% organic growth—wild!

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Laura Henshaw is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy!

Laura is the co-founder and CEO of KIC, a health and wellness app and lifestyle brand. After spending her college years modeling, she teamed up with her bestie Steph Claire Smith, who was also dealing with body image issues and disordered eating, to start a business.

They launched an ebook on all things healthy eating and living and it was a major hit. From there they launched a subscription website. Now KIC has grown to a massive app, a media empire, and even an acquired grocery food business.

In this episode, Laura talks about the reality of building a tech company as a non-technical founder, the unique way they’ve grown community, 

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Lisa Sahakian is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy!

Lisa is the founder of one of the coolest jewelry brands around, Ian Charms.

After designing jewelry first as a gift when she couldn’t find anything she liked, Lisa’s brand has become a fave of A-list celebs like Justin Bieber and Dua Lipa.

In this convo Lisa shares how she started getting her pieces on celebs and the impact it’s made on her business, how she’s intentionally building her team and business to grow with her, and how she scored a free popup store in downtown Manhattan.

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Jasmine Garnsworthy is on the Female Founder World podcast today sharing exactly how team the Female Founder World team pulled off a 700+ person even in New York City last week! 

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Emily Whittaker is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy.

Emily is the Executive VP of North America and Global Marketing at VistaPrint, Female Founder World's presenting sponsor this season!

In this episode Emily chats about leading a large team, how she’s developed the leadership skills necessary to execute on a big vision, and learnings from the small businesses she’s supported over the 15 years at VistaPrint

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Shana Davis, founder of Ponte Firm, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy!

Shana is the founder of Ponte Firm, the influencer agency that has managed to sign the most impressive lineup of creators. After starting her career at major fashion houses and publications like Tom Ford, WWD, and Vogue,

Shana launched her own influencer agency. In five years she went from zero clients to managing hundreds of top influencers across her team. She started by managing micro-influencers, and now Ponte is known for finding the most promising up-and-coming talent before they blow up—and then sticking with them to guide their careers as they grow.

In this conversation Shana shares a mini masterclass on influencer marketing and building a successful agency.

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Kristin Charbo, founder of Glonuts, is on the Female Founder World podcast with Jasmine Garnsworthy!

Kristin is the founder of Glonuts, the healthy donut replacement that’s been a major hit at places like Erewhon, Alfred and Bristol Farms. After starting a mobile coffee cart business, Kristin and her partner (in life and business partner) realized their healthy donuts were the sellout item. They doubled-down on the donuts, and pretty immediately got picked up by Erewhon.

Now, five years since launching the coffee cart, Krisin has seen a lot; from scaling her business right from her kitchen where they made, packed, and delivered hundreds of thousands of Glonuts, to now being launched nationwide and growing a community of brand fans. Kristin gives us all the tea on building a food brand from the ground up, how to work with distributors and co-manufacturers, how she’s raised money from all-star founder angel investors, and what’s next for Glonuts.

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Check out Kristin’s business: https://eatglonuts.com/