Making it in business isn’t about spreadsheets, this or that. It’s about guts, tenacity and, above all, street smarts.Join Sarah Shaw as she talks with successful entrepreneurs about all the hard won lessons they’ve learned on the mean streets of the business world. If you’ve ever felt stuck, stifled or even just scared to get out there and make your mark, you’ll learn how even the most successful entrepreneurs overcame failure and found the power to move forward. So forget about learning about business in school, because all you need to make it big is a Street Smart MBA.Sarah chats candidly with Venus Williams, Daymond John, Barbara Corcoran, Marcus Lemonis, Trina Turk, and other famous entrepreneurs.
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When I saw Banana Loca on Shark Tank I knew they were a winning team. What peeked my interest was how they LOVED to visit inventor shows together and look at new creative ideas. I mean who does that right? Well luckily they did as it helped them realize their awesome invention of he the Banana Loca. A fun way to eat a a banana and add some flavor to it. They have been growing rapidly since being on Shark Tank so tune in to hear all about it.
More about Banana Loca: For years, best friends Bechara and Renee frequented invention trade shows and shared cool gadget finds. One fruitful day when Bechara was talking about eating Nutella and bananas as a child in Lebanon, Renee commented about how her 15 nieces and nephews love banana slices with peanut butter. And the idea of Banana Loca was born! Besides wanting to do it because there's nothing like it on the market, bananas are just inherently funny right?! Just saying the word seems to make people smile, so they decided to make Banana Loca a reality. The thought of Banana Loca helping families have fun in the kitchen while giving tummies something yummy is everything to them!
https://bananaloca.com/
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18 Feb 2022
Pink Picasso Shares Shark Tank Surprise
Join me and Ashley as we chat about how she launched Pink Picasso, went on Shark Tank and wait for it........ check out the surprise. Ashely shares a lot about her start up story, being a stay at home mom with a business, dealing with Covid, shipping delays, product development issues and more.
More about Ashley:Ashley Silfies is the CEO, Co-Owner, and Designer of Pink Picasso and Wear Your Sole. Ashley’s background in photography and manufacturing allowed her to create a fresh start for her and her family, including her wife and business partner Brittany Silfies.
Over the last three years, this wife team has worked from home while raising three kids and creating multiple consumer brands that their fans love. Right now, they are ripe for growth and see a bright future of expanding their existing brands.
Ashley and Brittany have won the attention of Oprah’s Favorite Things not once, but twice, and were offered four separate deals by the Sharks on ABC’s Shark Tank in November 2021. What comes next is yet to be discovered, but they hope to continue creating what the world needs in order to feel creative and be their own kind of artist.
When they are not taking the entrepreneurship world by storm, Ashley and Brittany enjoy spending time with their family (the kids, the dog, the cats, and the horses) and inventing new and exciting ways to work together doing what they love.
https://pinkpicassokits.com/ (https://pinkpicassokits.com/)
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20 Jan 2022
Biodegradable Pooch Paper
Do you have a dog?
Wonder how long it takes for that poop bag to biodegrade? Eons.
Well I did until I met Tracey who created Pooch Paper, the first biodegradable paper pooch paper. Tracey is slowly changing the world of poop. Yep I said it again.
Dive into our conversation about how she created Pooch Paper, where it's being sold ( like everywhere) and how she is expanding into dog parks and city parks with her Pooch Paper dispensers, all to help our landfills degrade faster.
Tracey is passionate about Pooch Paper and I just love her attitude.
Made in the USA, Pooch Paper is a recycled, non-chlorine bleached paper alternative to single-use plastic dog waste bags.
Our sheets are 100% biodegradable, 100% compostable and are manufactured using renewable energy. Our fluorochemical-free, oil and grease resistant coating is made naturally during the pulp drying process in order to ensure your doggie’s doodie remains inside the paper and not on your hand! Most manufactured products contain PFAS chemicals that are nearly impossible to break down; Pooch Paper is PFAS-free.
There are an estimated 22 billion pounds of doggie doodie dropped each year in the U.S. alone.
While not all dog parents pick up after their dogs, roughly ten million tons of dog waste and over 500 million plastic doggie bags end up in landfills each year.
Most doggie parents have become sensitive to the growing awareness around single-use plastics, and have begun to consider how dog waste bags play into this environmental concern. Some pet parents have chosen to “up cycle,” or reuse plastic bags that come from the grocery market, for example. Others use oxo-biodegradable plastic bags, which purport to be eco-friendly. The latest initiative to hit the dog waste bag market includes bioplastics.
While all of these efforts are one step closer to being eco-friendly, there still remains one common denominator across all of these categories: plastic.
Research suggests dog owners use more than 500 million single-use plastic bags for dog waste annually. Plastic is generally not biodegradable - it can take over 500 years to degrade, if it ever does. Some bags are manufactured as oxo-biodegradables, meaning that a formula called EPI is added during the manufacturing process to enable the plastic to break down quicker. However, oxo-biodegradables often do not fully disappear. Instead, they break down into millions of micro-plastic particles that enter the air we breathe, the water we drink and ultimately the food supply we consume.
Such micro-plastic particles may, among other things, carry toxic or carcinogenic chemicals used in making the plastic, or they can act as a carrier for pathogens and heavy metals.
Our planet and our pups are made to be loved!
https://www.poochpaper.com/
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Meet Fashion Icon Rebecca Minkoff
Published 13 Feb 2017 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so once you had that part of the line going, you know, sort of what, I mean, I know, well, things I've read about you, and maybe it's true or not true, but, you know, kind of your bio and other articles about you talk about your first handbag line, I think in 2005, and that that really put you on the map in a different way. Did you feel like you were really successful prior to that? in the same way, or did bringing in the accessories kind of change your business around for you? I think there was, you know, when I did launch the handbag, it was just the idea that it was going to be a one-piece accessory to the clothing line. […]
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