Ready.Set.Glo!: Business, Brands, & Beauty

Julie B. is a prominent speaker, strategic advisor, author, and leader. With her wealth of experience and passion for leadership, Julie guides listeners on a transformative journey of discovering the true essence of leading and managing.

Her philosophy is centered around the belief that timing is always perfect. She recognizes that the challenges we face often pave the way for the most effective solutions, not only for ourselves but also for those we seek to assist. As an advocate for personal and professional growth, she imparts invaluable wisdom on how to navigate obstacles and unlock the potential within. 

Julie extends her expertise to business owners, helping them navigate the complexities of their most pressing issues. With a focus on uncovering "Very Important Possibilities" (VIPs), she assists entrepreneurs in identifying hidden opportunities and developing strategies to propel their businesses forward.

Join us as Julie shares her insights, anecdotes, and practical advice on leadership, problem-solving, and the pursuit of success. Uncover your own VIPs and learn how to lead with purpose. Tune in 🎙️ to "Uncovering VIPs: Leading with Julie B." and embark on a journey of personal and professional growth!

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Lana Ivanov is a spa business owner, Business Coach  medical aesthetician, Microblading Artist, and host and producer of 2 TV show The Beauty Queen and Passion to Profits, she loves multitasking and make different every day, helping people stay beautiful, teaching self care and self love, importance of healthy skincare and proper home regimen, with Microblading eyebrows helping people change their life, by giving them self confidence back and see that smile on their faces, also teaching beauty business owners to provide high quality services, customer service and systems to scale their business, and with TV show teaching audience what is the coolest things that they can do to stay beautiful, keep their skin glowing with Vonavi Pro skincare, interview others to show up and promote their business/products and to inspire others.

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Website: Lanaivanov.com

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Chandanni is a Board certified Ayurvedic practitioner and CEO/founder of Chandanni Organic with significant experience in promoting, selling, and developing whole health and wellness products. Expertise in brand development, formulations, and manufacturing of various organic beauty products. Over twenty years of experience in the health lifestyle and sustainability space that includes owning and publishing yoga magazines such as Common Ground - San Francisco, leading the publishing team, and heading distribution. She also managed and was co-owner of one of the largest yoga studios in the country, Golden Bridge, LA. Chandanni is experienced in event management, which included one of the largest women’s festivals in India with more than six hundred attendees from around the world. Co-Founder of Chandanni Scholarship fund (www.chandannischolarshipfund.org) not-for-profit company, brings young adults from underserved communities to India where they experience mindfulness and diversity.

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https://www.instagram.com/chandanni_organic/
chandannidetox.com

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Mara  Smith is a former attorney, corporate strategist and stay-at-home mom who is the founder of Inspiro Tequila.  Mara began her legal career at a large law firm in Chicago before joining the corporate strategy team at a Fortune 500 Company.  After her twins were born prematurely, Mara decided to leave the corporate world to focus on her family and charitable work.
 
She never stopped thinking about what was next.  Mara always envisioned running her own company and in February of 2020 she set out on her journey to create a new tequila brand.

Mara started drinking tequila when she was looking for a clean, gluten-free spirit that fit into her active lifestyle. She searched for a tequila brand that was additive-free with a look, taste and aroma that appealed to her as the consumer. That perfect tequila did not exist, so she decided to create one.

Inspiro Tequila was born with a vision to redefine what it means to enjoy tequila, by crafting a clean, smooth and sippable 100% Blue Weber Agave tequila without any additives. Everything from the sleek and sophisticated bottle to the refreshing easy to drink tequila was meticulously created with our thoughtful female consumer in mind. The goal was not just to create a one-of-a-kind tequila, it was also to help make women feel seen and relevant in the spirits industry.  Inspiro Tequila is proudly created, owned and led by women.

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Born and raised in Hong Kong, Swire immigrated to Los Angeles in 1996. He is a proud Chinese American who speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and English. He trained as a sound engineer, working at recording studios and entertainment agencies before starting his own firm, Hellman Production, Inc, 2003 in Los Angeles. Swire and his team successfully produced attractive, personalized DVD and CD cases and custom merchandise like T-shirts, earning a Score award in 2009, for small business success. His business eventually grew so popular, he decided to sell Hellman Production in 2013 to focus exclusively on the promotional product industry.

Garuda Promo and Branding Solutions are led by founders Shirley and Swire Ho with years of experience in promotional items and advertising specialties. With a sourcing platform of over 3,500 vendor partners, we have manufacturing capabilities that cover any custom products imaginable.

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Gee is the CEO of KEXINO, an award-winning marketing agency helping start-ups and small businesses grow awareness, reputation, trust - and sales.

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute Of Marketing, Gee is also Visiting Professor at a European business school, teaching Marketing and Behavioral Economics to final-year MBA students.

KEXINO founded the agency in 2008 which was probably the worst time to start a marketing agency! But thanks to a fair bit of luck, and some AMAZING clients, they weathered the storm and came back better and stronger than ever.

Gee's goal is to educate and inform with real-world actionable advice and recommendations on how to better align your business with the continually-evolving demands of an expectant customer base.

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KEXINO Instagram
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Genea Slaughter is a creative mind and founder behind the small business Playwood Crafting. She creates planters/activity boxes. There are different versions, the garden version is great for giving little ones ages 2-6 their own garden space—some double as sensory boxes with different tubes for scooping the sensory items into.

Genea created her own business by combining something she loves doing and marketing to see where it would go. Goldman Sachs also awarded her an opportunity to help her grow as an entrepreneur. Genea is here to tell her story of how she got started, and the doors that have opened along the way because of her spirit to say "Just do it." She's gonna give encouragement to others that might be thinking about pursuing their idea, and we talk about the feedback she's been getting on her product, even how her whole family, including her kids, helps her stay motivated and spread the word about her play children's boxes.

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Instagram @Playwood Crafting 

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In this episode, we have amazing aesthetician @theskingal 

Elizabeth leads both skincare clients and skincare colleagues the same way - with vast amounts of educational experience. Soon after getting licensed she realized the need for not only post-graduate education but the difference it made in outcomes and expectations for her skincare practice and is on the pursuit to bridge the gap of needs and value in programs. She is a full-time clinical-holistic Esthetician at Premier Med Spa and the Head In-House Aesthetician with Dermascope Magazine. In her off time she is helping manage her Texas-based esthetics Facebook group - Texas (A)esthetician Circle.

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@TheSkinGal
Texas Estheticians Circle
Premier Med Spa
Dermascope
Aesthetic Report Podcast

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Addie Gundry, founder, and CEO of Pluie the first and only self-sanitizing diaper changing table for public restrooms. Pluie solves a decades-old problem: changing tables are outdated, dirty and uncomfortable. Powered by a patented UV-C light, killing 99.9% of germs, bacteria, and viruses, Pluie lends peace of mind to consumers and cost-savings to business owners, ensuring a clean surface after every use, every time. The Pluie changing table includes other first-to-market features including: a plush, leak proof cushion, a retractable security strap, and multipurpose stainless bag handles providing comfort for little ones and convenience for caregivers.

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Pluie Instagram

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 Donna Conley is an advocate for mental health, moon healer, life coach and author. She started Wild Moon Healers with the intention of shattering the current mental health paradigm and restructuring a total wellness approach to health—body, mind, and spirit—using powerful healing modalities while energetically syncing with lunar cycles. Donna seeks to bring the healing power of transformation to every individual willing to improve their life and mental health by seeking their inner truth and shifting their energetic vibration.

Tune in as we discuss Donna's healing journey, winging it in business, and Lunar Cycles.

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Facebook
Official Wild Moon Healers Website

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Jenny Eversole is the founder of Stylespace.com a virtual styling platform to connect online with expert stylists and elevate your style. After nearly a decade running her own fashion label, she learned how personal style can make a big difference in one's confidence, happiness and overall success. Jenny founded Style Space for people to discover their best style and to look, feel, and BE their best.

Style Space has just launched their free mini e-book for people to discover their dream style in 5 steps. Download this guide here!

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Jenny Eversole Linkedin
Style Space Instagram
Style Space Facebook

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Nicci Levy is the CEO and founder of Alchemy 43, the first-ever brand to be centered on expertise with injectables and a natural results approach.  Alchemy 43 is an innovative aesthetics bar founded a half-dozen years ago to make cosmetic injectables more accessible and inclusive, as easy as walking into a juice bar. Its “microtreatments” are minimally invasive, both on your skin and your pocketbook, performed by a team of licensed medical practitioners.  Nicci is passionate about sharing her knowledge and expertise about cosmetics and skincare. Her goal is to emphasize the importance of building trust and loyalty in aesthetic services.

As the past leading BOTOX®, Juvéderm and Latisse Business Development Manager for Allergan in Beverly Hills for four consecutive years, Nicci has since ventured into launching her own brainchild, Alchemy 43 - a revolutionary medical aesthetics brand with locations in both Los Angeles and New York City. Alchemy 43 specializes in cosmetic injectables or as she likes to call it, microtreatments. Prior to her career in aesthetics, Nicci enjoyed 10 years in corporate cosmetics at companies including MAC, Nordstrom (where she piloted a personal shopping program), and most notably as the Director of Global Sales and Education at Calvin Klein where she was responsible for launching their cosmetics line.

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Nicci Levy Instagram
Alchemy 43 Instagram
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Jenny Belanger is the CEO and Creative Director of JennyB Designs, a website design studio. She helps entrepreneurs and small businesses build websites that communicate and connect with visitors and attract their ideal clients. With a background in nonprofit and corporate marketing + communications, she has been designing websites for 20 years. Jenny understands that building a brand and website can be overwhelming. She strives to simplify the process so that busy entrepreneurs can be proud of their online presence, land more clients, and get back to business. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, two kids, and dog, and is addicted to her Peloton.

Jenny learned that success isn't just talent, but more so mindset which took her to a new level. She found that it's always the toughest before you make a leap.

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Elizabeth is a Minnesota-born girl living in Texas with her husband and 3 kids. If she could tell her 13-year-old self she was a quilter, she would have laughed in disbelief! However, a few years ago she discovered how cool quilting (and having a business in quilting) really is! 

Now Elizabeth designs fabric, writes quilt patterns, and helps other creatives learn how to grow their own successful careers.

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Quilters Candy Pinterest
Quilters Candy Facebook

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Cindy Gersch is an award-winning marketing professional.  She has a deep-rooted career in marketing and is here today to share her knowledge and tips for better branding brand strategy and how to grow your brand organically, in a very short time.

She's grown a Facebook group of over 25,000 members supporting small businesses. She runs a course called guaranteed clients now and runs her marketing business called new marketing grew from a background in news reporting to now passionately helping small businesses grow and charity she's interested in.

In addition, she offers reasonably priced longer programs through my consulting firm.  All to help small businesses THRIVE not just survive!

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Carrie Hunt is a wife, mama of three, artist, trainer, and business coach. Carrie has spent the last decade perfecting her signature techniques and helping women all over the world feel confident and beautiful. She is the founder and CEO of Stella’s Room, located in Roanoke, Texas.

Her obsession with creating the most natural looking healed results led to developing her Signature Blended Brow Technique.

Carrie’s passion for helping others has resulted in over 8,000 permanent makeup procedures on clients all over the world.

Since then, She began sharing her technique with other passionate artists, training hundreds of permanent makeup artists worldwide.

Her mission is making an impact on her clients heart by restoring their confidence, while helping other passionate artists build a business and a life they adore.

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Stella's Room
Carrie Hunt

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Brandon White is an entrepreneur with two exists (so far), lots of strike outs, angel investor, former venture capitalist, and worked in Marketing at America Online.

He is a Co-Founder of FileFinder.io, ISC Security Training Co, angel investor in startups and hosts several podcasts from his recording studio in Half Moon Bay, CA.

His first company was a wild ride where among other things, he had a partner from Sequoia Capital show up on his doorstep in Easton, MD, do the business plan on the back of a placemat at lunch and on the way back from fishing that same day writes him a check with no contract, just a handshake.

Brandon's main goal is to bring you lessons learned from over two decades of successes and failures in the trenches as an entrepreneur and business owner.

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My EDGE Podcast
Inquiries
Brandon C. White
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Heather's mission is to change food by strengthening local food systems so everybody wins: the community, our health, and our planet!

 In 2016, she founded Prep To Your Door in an effort to make that a reality. The company serves Austin and Houston organic, farm-to-table meals in zero-waste packaging. All products are plant-based, gluten and dairy free.

Heather has spent the last 17 years rebuilding her life after being incarcerated for one year. Her promise upon release was to grow, be honest, and do good things. She’s been named on Forbes, Austin Under 40, and graduated from Harvard University in 2020.

For more information visit Prep To Your Door. To try out a meal click here!

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Prep To Your Door Instagram

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On the next episode of Ready.Set.Glo! Podcast we have the incredible Kacia Ghetmiri!

Kacia is a life enthusiast, multi-passionate entrepreneur, speaker, and podcaster who's on a mission to help women unapologetically share their voice & message with the world.

Along with hosting her own podcast empowerHER which surpassed 6 million downloads (in only 3.5 years), she has helped over 350 women launch grow and monetize their own shows! She's also hosting her first live women's event, "EmpowerHER Live" in October 2022!

Kacia has found that what's often holding women back is the thoughts that they think about who they are & what they are capable of so she takes her knowledge from working with hundreds of entrepreneurs over the years, paired with her high energy bubbly personality and a "Come with me, let's figure this out together" approach to light a fire under their booty to get out of their own way & go!

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Kacia's Instagram
EmpowerHER Instagram
Twitter
Website

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On the next episode of Ready.Set.Glo! Podcast we have Valerie Nah!

Valerie is a Lash Artist, Educator, and Licensed Esthetician from Fresno, California.  Valerie is here to help you on your lash journey and to share with you all her own experiences. She offers a safe space in the lashing community where you can ask her all the questions you are wondering.

She's a 26-year-old businesswoman who started as a solo entrepreneur and is building her brand for herself and her clients. As she talks about things she's done to reclaim the balance in her life, what she's doing as far as offering training in person and online, and her big goals for the future. Not only is Val an expert in Mega Volume but she also makes cute, funny, trendy, and relatable reels, which has really helped her to grow her following!

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