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Allowlist
Hosted by Lauren Tierney, Stef Caldwell · EN
Allowlist is a weekly podcast taking you behind the scenes with disruptive founders and the consumer companies they’re building, hosted by Stef Caldwell and Lauren Tierney,
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Remedy Place: The First Social Wellness Club w/ Dr. Jonathan Leary
Nov 6, 202400:51:44Tap to summarizeIn this episode Lauren and Stef sit down with Dr. Jonathan Leary, the founder of Remedy Place, the world's first social wellness club. They discuss:Dr. Leary's journey from being a chiropractor to creating Remedy Place, a unique social wellness club focused on holistic, non-surgical, and non-drug approaches to health.The importance of building a community-oriented space where wellness practices like cryotherapy, infrared saunas, acupuncture, and breathwork ice bath classes become social experiences.Working with Kim Kardashian on her 6 minute ice bath time. The growing trend of social wellness and preventative care as the future of healthcare, and how Remedy Place is leading the way.The role of social media in spreading awareness about alternative medicine and self-care, and how authentic word-of-mouth marketing has been essential in growing the brand.Key leadership lessons around embracing discomfort, resilience, and effective communication within teams as drivers of success.https://www.remedyplace.com/ Dr. Jonathan LearyThe List: WhoopEight Sleep
Transcribe →Weed, Sex, and Consumer Investing | w/ Listen Ventures, Miss Grass & Dame
Oct 30, 202400:55:20Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Lauren and Stef sit down with Ellen Wilcox, Head of Listening at Listen Ventures, Alex Fine, co-founder and CEO of Dame, and Kate Miller, co-founder and CEO of Miss Grass. What do all of these fabulous women have in common? Dame is a brand dedicated to empowering women's sexual pleasure, while Miss Grass addresses the gap in the cannabis industry specifically for women. Both are female-founded consumer brands backed by Listen Ventures, an early-stage consumer-only VC firm that backs brands and consumer-obsessed entrepreneurs! They discuss: The founding stories of both brands and the challenges of raising capital in taboo industries as well as the insights from Listen Ventures' report on middle-aged women's preferences in the consumer market.The challenges faced by female founders in raising capital and building successful consumer brands.The taboo surrounding women's health and wellness is discussed, as well as the gender imbalance in the investor community.The importance of understanding and catering to the needs of the target consumer is highlighted, along with the power of building a strong brand and community.The role of venture capital in supporting founders in hiring and building a strong team is also touched upon.The List:Dame, Recs: Com, Arc, AerMiss Grass, Recs: Fast TimesListen Ventures, Must Read: Mindset's from the Middle
Transcribe →SZN 5! We're back baby.
Oct 16, 202400:22:43Tap to summarizeLauren and Stef are back and kicking off Season 5! Lauren's married, Stef made it through the first year of motherhood, and they've got some epic guests lined up for this season.
Transcribe →Hokas, Podcasts, Face Rollers, & Buying Knock-offs. w/ Stef and Lauren
May 15, 202400:11:02Tap to summarizeIn this episode Stef and Lauren sit down for a chat about their brand faves (bc what else do they talk about?) to wrap up season 4. Yep, the gals are taking a summer vacation and they'll be back in a few weeks with season 5 of Allowlist. If you want to keep up with them follow along on LinkedIn. AND huge thank you to our season 4 sponsors Pinch and Alice Mushrooms! *Lauren now works for Pinch so if you're in Chicago and not getting your Tox at Pinch ????*SEE YOU SOON!Allowlist Season 4 is brought to you by Pinch Med Spa, the med spa that comes to you. With ‘Botox, Chemical Peels, Filler, IVs and more, book your in-home appointment today and have a board-certified nurse practitioners come to you! Use code AllowlistVIP at checkout for $50 off your first service.Allowlist Season 4 is brought to you by Alice Mushrooms, mouth-watering functional mushroom chocolates for a better you! Up-level your daily routine with delicious chocolates like Brainstorm to help you focus, Nightcap, for great sleep, even Happy Ending, for great sex. Use code Allowlist20 for 20% off your first order.
Transcribe →De Soi: Katy Perry's Non-Alc Sparkling Apéritifs
May 8, 202400:56:06Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Stef and Lauren sit down with Scout Brisson, the CEO of De Soi, an award-winning line of sparkling non-alcoholic apéritifs co-founded by Katy Perry and Morgan McLachlan.We get into:How Scout went from Pre-Med at MIT, to Management Consulting, to M13, to co-founding Deux, to becoming CEO of De Soi Scout’s predictions about the future of the no-low alc space What it’s like leading a celebrity-packaged-goods company – the unique opportunities and challenges Scout’s favorite De Soi products and why you should give them a try The best advice Scout has for ambitious women and aspiring founders Connect with Scout: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scout-brisson-558674121/Buy De Soi: https://drinkdesoi.com/Allowlist Season 4 is brought to you by Pinch Med Spa, the med spa that comes to you. With ‘Botox, Chemical Peels, Filler, IVs and more, book your in-home appointment today and have a board-certified nurse practitioners come to you! Use code AllowlistVIP at checkout for $50 off your first service.Allowlist Season 4 is brought to you by Alice Mushrooms, mouth-watering functional mushroom chocolates for a better you! Up-level your daily routine with delicious chocolates like Brainstorm to help you focus, Nightcap, for great sleep, even Happy Ending, for great sex. Use code Allowlist20 for 20% off your first order.
Transcribe →Dotti: The Cleaning Essentials Your Home Deserves w/ Amanda Riva & Rachel Garbutt
May 1, 202401:01:07Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Stef sits down with Amanda and Rachel, co-founders of Dotti. Dottti is reimagining everyday cleaning tools. Dotti is your lasting cleaning companion made of antibacterial, durable materials like silicone. The cleaning essentials that deserve a place in your home are stunning, and we are neat freaks, so it's a match made in heaven. In this conversation, we get a behind-the-scenes look at how they concepted Dotti and how they're disrupting the tired, dusty cleaning aisle. We get into:What led them to building Dotti â a new age homecare line of cleaning hard goodsHow consumer market research informed their products, colors, and launch strategyHow they funded the businessAdvice on making your first hire, deciding if entrepreneurship is for you, and getting into business with familyThe products they're obsessing over right nowThe whitespace areas they are interested in investing in right nowConnect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandariva/ ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-garbutt-11ba6051/Get Dotti: https://getdotti.com/Allowlist Season 4 is brought to you by Pinch Med Spa, the med spa that comes to you. With ‘Botox, Chemical Peels, Filler, IVs, and more, book your in-home appointment today and have board-certified nurse practitioners come to you! Use code AllowlistVIP at checkout for $50 off your first service.Allowlist Season 4 is brought to you by Alice Mushrooms, mouth-watering functional mushroom chocolates for a better you! Up-level your daily routine with delicious chocolates like Brainstorm to help you focus, Nightcap, for great sleep, and even Happy Ending, for great sex. Use code Allowlist20 for 20% off your first order.
Transcribe →Upbeing: The App That Can Tell You Why You're in a Bad Mood. w/ Sam Daviau
Apr 24, 202400:55:10Tap to summarizeLauren sits down with Sam Daviau, the co-founder of UpBeing. UpBeing is an application that helps you discover what impacts your well-being and creates emotional visibility with the people in your life without any meticulous journaling or tracking.We get into:Why the social dynamics of wellbeing are crucial, as people often see issues in others more than in themselves and are more willing to act on those issues.The key market trends Upbeing taps into such as the negative impact of social media on mental health and the increasing need for values alignment in technology.How LLMs are used in Upbeing's data science pipeline to translate unstructured well-being data into readable insights.Advice for founders building a B2C app Connect with Sam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-daviau/Download UpBeing: https://www.upbeing.ai/Allowlist Season 4 is brought to you by Pinch Med Spa, the med spa that comes to you. With ‘Botox, Chemical Peels, Filler, IVs, and more, book your in-home appointment today and have board-certified nurse practitioners come to you! Use code AllowlistVIP at checkout for $50 off your first service.Allowlist Season 4 is brought to you by Alice Mushrooms, mouth-watering functional mushroom chocolates for a better you! Up-level your daily routine with delicious chocolates like Brainstorm to help you focus, Nightcap, for great sleep, and even Happy Ending, for great sex. Use code Allowlist20 for 20% off your first order.
Transcribe →Blade: Commute by Helicopter for the Price of Your Uber w/ Roisin Branch
Apr 17, 202400:58:34Tap to summarizeStef and Lauren sit down with Roisin Branch, CMO of Blade, a rapidly growing air mobility platform that lets you commute by helicopter around cities, jetting to and from popular destinations for (in some cases) less than the cost of your Uber fare.Hate the traffic between Manhattan JFK/Newark? No stress, Blade can get you from A to B in 5 minutes by helicopter. Want to skip traffic and jet up to the Hamptons for the weekend? Blade has you covered.Stef actually flew via helicopter from this recording with Roisin to Newark airport and can attest, Blade is all it’s hyped up to be.In this conversation we get into:Roisin’s impressive career building brands at companies like Diageo, AB InBev, Equinox, and Soul Cycle.Her approach to identifying the right companies to throw her career behind and what she looks for when she hires.Her advice to ambitious listeners, those inspired by her journey, and the consumer brands she’s putting her name behind right now (*** watch these companies ***).Connect with Roison: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roisinbranch/Book Blade: https://www.blade.com/Allowlist Season 4 is brought to you by Pinch Med Spa, the med spa that comes to you. With ‘Botox, Chemical Peels, Filler, IVs, and more, book your in-home appointment today and have board-certified nurse practitioners come to you! Use code AllowlistVIP at checkout for $50 off your first service.Allowlist Season 4 is brought to you by Alice Mushrooms, mouth-watering functional mushroom chocolates for a better you! Up-level your daily routine with delicious chocolates like Brainstorm to help you focus, Nightcap, for great sleep, and even Happy Ending, for great sex. Use code Allowlist20 for 20% off your first order.
Transcribe →Our latest CPG Obsessions w/ Stef and Lauren
Apr 10, 202400:38:20Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Stef and Lauren sit down for a catch-up. They discuss all the latest consumer products they're obsessing over and what's to come on the next episodes of Allowlist.
Transcribe →Sound Advice: Next Gen Financial Advice w/ David Lyon
Apr 3, 202400:54:40Tap to summarizein this episode, Stef and Lauren sit down with David Lyon, co-founder of Sound Advice. Sound Advice is a subscription-based mobile app designed for a new generation of wealth-builders, offering trusted, personalized financial advice designed for those who have been left behind by traditional financial institutions and their high-priced products, helping democratize wealth-building for the majority.Takeaways:The many issues with the financial services system todayThe companies David built and sold before building Sound Advice and what led him to create itTypes of questions you can seek answers to with sound advice / how this product aims to support people in their post-grad era and beyond.New ways of making money = new ways of managing moneyConnect with David: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-l-2269755/Get Sound Advice: https://soundadvice.ai/Allowlist Season 4 is brought to you by Pinch Med Spa, the med spa that comes to you. With ‘Botox, Chemical Peels, Filler, IVs, and more, book your in-home appointment today and have board-certified nurse practitioners come to you! Use code AllowlistVIP at checkout for $50 off your first service.Allowlist Season 4 is brought to you by Alice Mushrooms, mouth-watering functional mushroom chocolates for a better you! Up-level your daily routine with delicious chocolates like Brainstorm to help you focus, Nightcap, for great sleep, and even Happy Ending, for great sex. Use code Allowlist20 for 20% off your first order.
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