Episode: 23 See Jane Design A Beauty Brand with Hope Gillerman
I’ve met many entrepreneurs who are really drawn into the wellness beauty space. It’s an exciting, lucrative, and highly competitive niche. That’s why I’m so excited to introduce today’s guest, founder of H. Gillerman Organics, Hope Gillerman.
H. Gillerman Organics is a line of aromatherapy essential oils. Hope curated this line after an ongoing battle with sciatica. After aromatherapy helped her tremendously, she developed her own line and launched in 2008. Hope has since been featured in the US, UK, and Japanese versions of Boat magazine, Dr. Oz The Good Life, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Town & Country, Cosmopolitan, and Organic Spa.
I’ve met many entrepreneurs who are really drawn into the wellness beauty space. It’s an exciting, lucrative, and highly competitive niche. That’s why I’m so excited to introduce today’s guest, founder of H. Gillerman Organics, Hope Gillerman.
H. Gillerman Organics is a line of aromatherapy essential oils. Hope curated this line after an ongoing battle with sciatica. After aromatherapy helped her tremendously, she developed her own line and launched in 2008. Hope has since been featured in the US, UK, and Japanese versions of Boat magazine, Dr. Oz The Good Life, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Town & Country, Cosmopolitan, and Organic Spa.
Notable Moments:
How to stand fast in a cutthroat industry.
What started H. Gillerman Organics.
Hope’s background as a dancer in New York City.
How the use of essential oils for therapeutics was her gateway into a revelation.
Her journey from a private practice to creating organic essential oils.
What it was like in 2008 when the economy crashed after her launch.
The biggest challenge of working with a luxury product like essential oils.
How Hope has scaled her company after 10 years.
The unique challenges of the spa and luxury space.
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Episode: 22 See Jane Invest in Retail with Sapna Shah
One of the cool things about being an angel investor is that you're surrounded by some pretty incredible colleagues. Today’s guest, Sapna Shah, is certainly one of these people!
Sapna is an Angel Investor who, like me, has made a point of investing in female founders and other founders who are underrepresented. On top of that, she has zeroed in on tech, fashion tech, and e-commerce startups. She's the founder of Retail X Series, a co-founder of independent equity research firm Retail Eye Partners and the menswear startup Mind the Chap. She's also held executive strategy roles at Linens 'n Things and Ann Taylor.
One of the cool things about being an angel investor is that you're surrounded by some pretty incredible colleagues. Today’s guest, Sapna Shah, is certainly one of these people!
Sapna is an Angel Investor who, like me, has made a point of investing in female founders and other founders who are underrepresented. On top of that, she has zeroed in on tech, fashion tech, and e-commerce startups. She's the founder of Retail X Series, a co-founder of independent equity research firm Retail Eye Partners and the menswear startup Mind the Chap. She's also held executive strategy roles at Linens 'n Things and Ann Taylor.
Notable Moments:
How Sapna “accidentally” fell into retail 21 years ago.
Her first two startups in the e-commerce space.
What's different in the retail space compared to a tech startup or a medical startup.
Determining if something is best suited for e-commerce or retail.
How e-commerce brands like All Birds and Casper are competing against retail brands.
The genesis of Retail X.
How she answers questions about building businesses on Facebook vs. Instagram.
Some things that she’s excited about in the retail startup space right now.
The Google networking community she started.
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Episode: 0 See Jane Start A Podcast With Kelly Keenan Trumpbour
Welcome to the See Jane Invest Podcast. I am so excited to present the inaugural episode of this podcast. I'm an angel investor & venture capitalist who backs businesses founded by women because I believe in creating diversity and inclusion in places of power. So if you're craving a conversation that goes beyond fighting for a seat at the table and instead talks about how to take over the whole lunchroom, get ready to See Jane Invest in her idea, See Jane Invest in her community, See Jane Invest in her!
Welcome to the See Jane Invest Podcast.
Women like you are launching their own companies, securing funding, growing successful businesses, and trying to have a life among the hustle. I’ve seen it all play out when I advise women led companies in my work as an angel investor, venture capitalist and film producer. I’ve worked with some of the most diverse, rebellious, innovative and creative entrepreneurial minds in business today. In this weekly podcast, I invite these investors, founders and influencers who are shaking things up to share their stories and wisdom. But this show is more than just pitch advice. These conversations are about the women who are unsatisfied with just a seat at the table, and instead want to take over the whole damn lunchroom.
See Jane Invest in her idea.
See Jane Invest in her community.
See Jane.
Invest in her.
