Female Startup Club

Female Startup Club
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Sep 1, 2020 • 25min

The step-by-step guide to getting your first 10,000 TikTok followers with The Queen of Social Media, Rachel Pedersen

In today’s episode I’m chatting to the queen of social media (literally), Rachel Pedersen. Rachel has built a wildly successful digital agency and an even crazier social media following, and the purpose of this episode is to give you a step by step plan to launching your business TikTok account and reaching your goals.LINKS WE MENTION:Rachel PedersonIn partnership with Klaviyo, the best email marketing tool for ecommerce businesses.  📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe→ Apply to join our inner circle: https://apply.femalestartupclub.com/apply→ Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub→ Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin→ Get opportunities delivered to your inbox here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 30, 2020 • 33min

How Olivia Landau, Founder of The Clear Cut, is revolutionising the jewellery industry one engagement ring at a time

On today's episode I'm chatting with Olivia Landau, CEO and founder of The Clear Cut.Olivia’s business, The Clear Cut, is a direct to consumer jewellery business that’s completely disrupting the industry. They’ve flipped the traditional jewellery on its head through marketing, zoom call appointments and supply chain. She's a diamond expert, GIA Graduate Gemologist and 4th generation jeweller with social know-how and millennial charm. We learn about how she and her now husband came to start the business, the accelerator program that gave them the structure they needed to scale and what’s working for them right now.LINKS WE MENTION:The Clear CutThe Clear Cut on InstagramIn partnership with Klaviyo, the best email marketing tool for ecommerce businesses.   📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe→ Apply to join our inner circle: https://apply.femalestartupclub.com/apply→ Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub→ Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin→ Get opportunities delivered to your inbox here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 27, 2020 • 1h 6min

How a $50K investment turned into a business that‘s projected to do a sparkling $20M in 2020, with Founder of Packed Party Jordan Jones

Joining me on the show today is Jordan Jones, the Founder of sparkly lifestyle brand Packed Party. Packed Party launched 7 years ago in 2013 after a lightbulb moment she had late at night; her mum had told her she needed to throw herself a pity party and basically - the rest is history! Fast forward today Jordan has been named one of Forbes 30 under 30, the brand has had explosive growth and expanded to the likes of Wholefoods, Walmart and thousands of other retail stores. Her story is so inspiring and I came off this recording feeling so sparkly having had the chance to learn more about behind the scenes.In this episode you’ll learn how Jordan took this side hustle from a $50,000 investment to a multimillion dollar company and her learnings in between.LINKS WE MENTION:Packed PartyPacked party's Instagram Book: Big MagicFemale Startup ClubIn partnership with Klaviyo, the best email marketing tool for ecommerce businesses. 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe→ Apply to join our inner circle: https://apply.femalestartupclub.com/apply→ Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub→ Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin→ Get opportunities delivered to your inbox here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 25, 2020 • 53min

Modern Fertility Co-Founder Carly Leahy on disrupting the future of fertility for women and tactical advice for starting a startup

Today I’m joined by someone I’ve been admiring from afar for a very long time, Carly Leahy, co-founder of Modern Fertility. Modern fertility is a women’s healthcare company that set out to launch the world’s first at home fertility hormone test in 2017 alongside Afton Vechery. Since launching they’ve successfully gone through Y-Combinator, raised 22 million dollars in funding, been named as Fast company’s number 1 company for innovation in healthcare and expanded their product range to a pregnancy test, an ovulation test and an app for women to track their cycle. Their mission is to empower women to understand their bodies and their fertility in an easy to digest manner, that takes out the fear you can experience when going through this important milestone in a woman’s life. Carly’s background in lead creative roles for huge companies like Uber and Google has been a major factor in the success of this business. Her skill in creating and marketing a brand for the modern day woman really shines through and in this discussion you’ll find so many tactical pieces of advice and information that you can take directly into your own venture.LINKS WE MENTION:Modern FertilityModern Fertility's InstagramCarly on InstagramDoone on InstagramFemale Startup Club on Instagram And... drumroll for a very exciting announcement!! From today we are proudly partnered with Klaviyo. If you haven’t heard of Klaviyo, please make yourself familiar immediately. Especially if you have an online ecommerce biz. They’re an email marketing platform created specifically for online businesses. Their software features powerful email marketing tools and SMS marketing automation. Basically I’ve been a cheerleader slash customer since I got into ecommerce world and I’m so excited to be partnering with them now! You’re going to be hearing a lot more about them in the coming weeks and months and we’ve got some really great stuff planned for you guys📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe→ Apply to join our inner circle: https://apply.femalestartupclub.com/apply→ Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub→ Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin→ Get opportunities delivered to your inbox here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 23, 2020 • 46min

How to finance a brand without giving away equity & overcoming adversity, with Vivian Weyll, Founder of Joie de Viv

After losing her first business through a relationship breakdown, Vivian got straight back in the game working on her second and most cherished jewellery brand Joie de Viv. After learning about the jewellery industry and the dark side of gold and diamonds, she set her intentions to create a brand full of transparency, being completely ethical and sustainable. Viv invested 1 million dollars of her own money and started creating her new venture, but what she didn’t expect was to launch and be met with zero sales. She shares the real heartache of going through major ups and downs in business and how she came out the other side.We also talk about a company that’s been critical in her success, Wayflyer. They offer revenue based growth financing for commerce brands of up to 500,000 to support inventory purchases and scaling through performance marketing without taking any equity. It’s a great solution for brands who are doing well and need cash injections on an ongoing basis.LINKS WE MENTION:Joie de VivJoie de Viv's Instagram WayflyerDoone's InstagramFemale Startup Club's InstagramThe Ads MBA📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe→ Apply to join our inner circle: https://apply.femalestartupclub.com/apply→ Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub→ Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin→ Get opportunities delivered to your inbox here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 19, 2020 • 37min

How this Kickstarter campaign raised $2M and created a world-first product, with Emma Rose Cohen, Founder of Final

Joining me on the show today is Emma Rose Cohen, the founder of Final - the company who advocates for sucking responsibly. In 2018 Emma set out to create the world’s first collapsable straw and make an impact on our oceans and the planet. She launched her idea on Kickstarter with the goal to raise around $12,000 and instead it went absolutely bonkers, raising 2 million dollars in total with around 100,000 straw orders. You might think it was a good enough reason to celebrate, but there were plenty of hurdles that came with it’s success. Today we’re chatting about what makes a good kickstarter and what happened after the campaign went viral. Why it’s important to protect your intellectual property against the manufacturers who are out there specifically to steal your ideas and flood the market with cheap knock offs, and how to set your own campaign up for success.LINKS WE MENTION:FinalFinal's InstagramThe Deepak Chopra Free 21 Day Meditation Experience Waking up with Sam HarrisBook: The Culture CodeBook: The Way of the Superior ManDoone's InstagramThe Ads MBA 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe→ Apply to join our inner circle: https://apply.femalestartupclub.com/apply→ Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub→ Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin→ Get opportunities delivered to your inbox here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 16, 2020 • 29min

How a 20k investment turned into 4.4 million in just 3 years, with Hayley Worley, Founder of bedding mecca The Sheet Society

The Sheet Society is in the business of creating cosy sweet dreams and disrupting the global sleep industry, growing over a staggering 300% in just twelve months. Born out of a desire to make purchasing bed linen uncomplicated and accessible, while also giving customer’s an extension of their personal style, and making sheet shopping sexy, Hayley & her husband Andy started The Sheet Society in 2017 with just $20k.Fast-forward to 2020 and the bedding mecca is set to turn over $4.4million this financial year.We’re chatting about how she hustled in the beginning working two other jobs and upskilling in digital marketing in the evenings, LINKS WE MENTION:The Sheet SocietyThe Sheet Society's Instagram 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe→ Apply to join our inner circle: https://apply.femalestartupclub.com/apply→ Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub→ Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin→ Get opportunities delivered to your inbox here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 12, 2020 • 40min

How to transform your business through TikTok and the key advice you need to know with Catie O'Neill and Liv Burrows, Co-Founders of My Glow 2

On the show today is Catie O’Neill and Liv Burrows, the Australian founders behind the brand that’s gone completely viral on TikTok recently, My Glow 2. My Glow 2 is an Australian skincare company that’s inspired by ancient beauty rituals, they’re based in country Victoria and in this episode we cover why they started My Glow 2, and everything you need to know about winning at TikTok. Because the thing about this brand is that Catie and Liv posted a random video of a foot on TikTok that went completely viral racking up millions of views and buzz around their brand and it lead them down the path of becoming best in the biz at the TikTok game. And yes, If you’ve been humming and airing about whether you should jump onto TikTok I’m absolutely certain this episode will inspire you to sign up immediately and start carving out your own niche. After we recorded his session I actually took the leap myself onto TikTok and you can find me @dooneroisin sharing daily quick tips that will help you win at business. So definitely pop into my comments and say hello if you find me on there!LINKS WE MENTION:My Glow 2's Website  My Glow 2's TikTokMy Glow 2's InstagramThe Ads MBA by Female Startup Club📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe→ Apply to join our inner circle: https://apply.femalestartupclub.com/apply→ Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub→ Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin→ Get opportunities delivered to your inbox here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 9, 2020 • 27min

How Sara Panton, Founder of Vitruvi, is building her business through sophisticated scent

Say hello to a company that’s changing the world through scent, Vitruvi. Founded by Sara Panton, Vitruvi sells sophisticated essential oils and diffusers to scent your day to day. Sara’s sharing her journey of growing up in a rural town, going through med school and making a change in her life that lead her to launching this business with her brother and co-founder Sean. We’re covering the hustle from the early days when they were making everything by hand, to becoming a 20 person team today, named as one of Fast Companies most innovative companies in 2019 and stocked in more than 300 stores, and a very special project they support for women in Kenya. LINKS WE MENTION:Vitruvi's WebsiteVitruvi's Instagram 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe→ Apply to join our inner circle: https://apply.femalestartupclub.com/apply→ Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub→ Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin→ Get opportunities delivered to your inbox here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 5, 2020 • 55min

Driving global change with Mera McGrew, Founder of Soapply

Joining me on the show today is Mera McGrew, the founder of Soapply. Soapply is a purpose driven business that’s doing good in the world both on a local level and a global level.  Mera started Soapply to make the best soap for your skin and our planet, and they use every sale to help improve and save lives around the world. Every ounce of Soapply is tied to a direct donation that funds water, sanitation and hygiene around the world. More specifically, every 8 ounces of Soapply sold is tied to a $1 donation— that goes towards a local grassroots organisation in Ethiopia called REST.Mera started this brand with a big idea and a mere $5,000, and has grown it into what it is today entirely through partnerships, experiential events, word of mouth marketing and hustle. And if you’re inspired by this episode and want some Soapply for yourself, Female Startup Club listeners can get 20% off their first Soapply purchase and unlock a double donation attached to their order when they use the code FSC20 at checkout at soapplybox.com.LINKS WE MENTION:Soapply's WebsiteSoapply's Instagram 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe→ Apply to join our inner circle: https://apply.femalestartupclub.com/apply→ Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub→ Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin→ Get opportunities delivered to your inbox here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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