The HUSTLR Podcast

In today’s episode, I have Samia Gore. Samia is an author, wellness expert, CEO and founder of Body Complete RX, a wellness and supplement company. She was a mother of four when she dove into entrepreneurship through developing a social following sharing her message on Instagram. 

With her company, she wanted to address weight management, obesity, cognitive decline, and overall health. Although her company is relatively new, close to 3 years on the market, her flagship product BCRx has garnered over $4 million dollars in sales. She made history because she is the first African American female CEO to ever break significant ground in the male-dominated and highly competitive supplement industry in the United States.

Hustlers, this is girl power right there. Stay tuned to the end of the episode to listen to Samia’s story and how she started and grew her company.

Check out her site at https://bodycompleterx.com/. For more episodes like this, check out https://www.hustlr.com/podcast.

Hey hustlers! On today’s episode, I have Pamela Wagner joining me. She runs a digital marketing agency, Ajala Digital - where she helps 6-7 figure businesses grow efficiently through Google & Facebook advertising. She’s a Forbes 30 under 30 honouree. Ajala Digital is a certified Google Partner and since it’s inception, has worked with 2000+ advertisers all over the world, advertising in more than 10 different languages.

One interesting fact is, Pamela used to work for Google. And after quitting her job and starting her agency, she has been operating it location-independently. To give you a perspective, she’s visited and lived in over 80 countries.

Pamela sounds like a true digital nomad and world traveler, if this kind of lifestyle is something you’re interested in learning more about, stay tuned to the end of the episode.

She regularly runs a webinar on teaching people how to succeed as a location independent entrepreneur, check out her website at locationindependent.today.

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On today’s podcast, I am joined by the founders of East Meets Dress, Vivian Chan and Jennifer Qiao. East Meets Dress is a very interesting company. They are dedicated to bringing more transparency, quality and customization to cheongsam dress shopping. 

A bit of a backstory of the company, while planning her wedding, Jenn struggled to find cheongsam outfits and tea ceremony supplies that were designed with the modern Chinese American woman in mind. The choices seemed to be dealing with sketchy sellers on Alibaba or impatient grannies in Chinatown. She found it hard to celebrate her Asian roots without compromising quality and style. That’s when she decided to start East Meets Dress with her best friend Vivian.

Hustlers nation, it’s an interesting one so stay tuned to the end of the episode to find out more about Jenn, Vivian and East Meets Dress.

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In today’s episode, I have Tristan Sopp, Product Designer and founder of Resident joining me. Resident is a DIY Paper Craft Animal Kit company that creates fun paper products that are perfect for kids and adults alike. Resident focuses on creating animal-inspired paper products that are extremely interesting but simple, easy and fun to make. Resident DIY paper animal kits are great for any skill level and range in price from $25 onward and ship for free nationwide (in the US).

Mr. Sopp has always been a creative that believes in making high-quality designs that people will love and appreciate. Mr. Sopp is an architecture student in college. During this time, he realized he was attracted to the construction aspect of making items - not just buildings. Ultimately this realization led him to founding Resident in 2015 and he’s been running it ever since.

Stay tuned to the end of the episode to listen to Tristan’s journey. For more episodes like this, check out The HUSTLR Podcast.

Hello hustler nation, on today’s episode I am joined by John Holloway, a serial digital entrepreneur who has founded several websites since 2008. He’s exited two businesses. The first one, a network of affiliate website in the online poker space, the second was an eCommerce project motocrossgear.com - that was acquired by revzilla.com and merged into their current store. For those of you who don’t know, Revzilla is one of the top motocross gear eCommerce websites in the world with more than 4 million visits to their website each month.
 
 That’s apparently still isn’t enough for John. He started another business called noexam.com in 2013 - No Exam is a digital life insurance brokerage. It started off as a traditional insurance agency, but over the last few years they’ve been doing more affiliate marketing and lead generation for the insurance industry.

Hello Hustlers, welcome back to the podcast. Today, I am joined by Brittany Finkle, Founder & CEO of an eCommerce startup called Happily Ever Borrowed, a luxury eCommerce site offering rentable bridal accessories so couples don’t have to go broke for their dream wedding. It started off as a side hustle but has now grown enough for her to quit her high paying full-time job as an executive in the top fashion firms in the world. So far, her company has rented to over 2,000 brides and counting - and recently, she launched & designed her own collection of veils, jewelry & headpieces.

A little bit of backstory on Brittany, before she started her business, she worked with multiple luxury brands like Saks Fifth Avenue, Ralph Lauren, Hermès (air mess) and Chanel. She definitely has a ton of experience in the high fashion industry so hopefully, we get to learn a thing or two from Brittany in this episode. Stay tuned if you want to find out more.

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Hello hustlers, it's that time of the week again. Today I have Ryan Collett, CEO & Founder of Jasper Organics - a CBD oil brand in the United States. He previously built and sold another CBD oil brand - which was largely attributed to very successful influencer marketing but that does not work anymore due to competition.

Learn how he started and adapts his business development strategies in Jasper Organics in this episode.

Key Learnings:
- Keep learning and experimenting with new things
- Be aggressive and reinvest your profits when it's a new business
- Delayed gratification > Immediate profits
- Online events as a marketing channel

Interested in the product? Check out Jasper Organics website at https://www.jasperorganics.com. For more episodes like this - visit https://www.hustlr.com/podcast.

On today’s episode of the HUSTLR’s podcast, I have Antti Alatalo joining us. Antti is the co-founder of Cashcow Ltd, an affiliate marketing company. Their main moneymaker is a website focused on lead generation for the European Gaming/Casino industry called Casino-Professor.com. The company was started only 2 years ago. In the first month they started the business, they made 0 dollars, the second month they made about 100 euros and on the third month - they made 10k Euros in affiliate marketing revenue. Fast forward two years later, they now have a team of 15 employees and their revenue is consistently over six figures euros every, single month.

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Welcome back hustlers, today - we have Gene Caballero on the show. He grew up living in South America and Middle Tennessee. He has an MBA in Finance and worked as a corporate sales coach for Dell before co-founding GreenPal - a gig economy startup very much like Uber and Lyft with a focus on lawn care. GreenPal started off as a side hustle and he’s been working on it while maintaining a full-time job as a sales coach for 5 years. In 2018, GreenPal has an annual revenue of $15m USD and projected to close at $30m USD in 2019.

Key Learnings
- Don't take money if you don't have to.
- Don't have money? Put in your sweat and hustle hard for your first customers.
- Don't leave things to luck, make your own luck. Work your ass off.

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On today's episode, I have Wednesday & Sky from Two People Studio joining me. These two motion designer love birds are also business partners. Coming from full-time backgrounds, they decided they wanted to run the show and express their creativity in their own terms.

The company was incorporated in 2015 by both of them, wanting to express their passion for design and everything that's fun. From the conversation we had, it sounds like they didn't expect their company to grow bigger (hence the name Two People Studio - they now have a team helping them out). Their mission is to create a healthy community of motion designers that help each other out, promote professionalism in the industry and pool resources to achieve bigger, better things.

I must say this was an interesting episode about the state of the motion design and animation industry in negaraku Malaysia.

Check out their website at https://www.twopeoplestudio.net/.