“If you’re not a little embarrassed by your first launch, you launched too late.”

Shan Clark (“Shanberries”) tells the real story: radio heartbreak, holy redirection, and turning revenge into purpose with Shades By Shan—a beauty brand that now sits in 600+ JCPenney stores and funds single parents through the MamaBerries Foundation. We get into faith, grit, motherhood, and the unglamorous work behind “overnight” wins.

In this episode:

• Garage beginnings → national retail (and why she first said no to a million-unit deal)

• Kindness > clout: how to get hired, rehired, and referred

• Postpartum, the Revival collection, and sharing the messy middle

• Traveling founder life, boundaries, and paying your village

• Practical advice for leaving news/radio and starting your thing

Guest: Shannon Clark aka Shan Berries — Founder/CEO, Shades By Shan; Co-founder, MamaBerries Foundation; Radio host Host: Paulina Bucka — The Honey Pod 🍯

Sponsors Medrala Law Firm — legal insights for creators and founders Metamorphosis — set design & staging True Core Wellness — mental health & aftercare for high performers

Music credit: “Touch of Kindness” — Denis Pavlov (DPmusic) Source: Pixabay Music (royalty-free) Track URL: https://pixabay.com/music/your-track-link-here License: Pixabay Content License — free for commercial and non-commercial use; attribution not required; redistribution of the raw track is not allowed.