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I’m wondering if people who are listen to this interview will be thinking, “Enough with COVID-based interviews.” But the truth is 2020 really was a challenging year. There are some entrepreneurs who jumped and found solutions and found ways to grow despite the chaos in the...

Today’s guest is Blake Mycoskie, the founder of TOMS shoes. He made the slip on shoes that got everyone’s attention because every time somebody bought a pair of shoes, he donated a pair of shoes to somebody in need. The company has donated 86 million pairs of shoes over the years....

Joining me is an entrepreneur who wanted to get into clothing—specifically undergarments. I wonder how she can build a real business while competing with all the brands that feel intimidatingly large. But she’s growing and recently expanded to activewear which means she’s now competing...

Today I have a founder who not only is in physical products, she manufactures physical products. Suuchi Ramesh is founder of Suuchi, a technology company that designs and manufactures clothing for fortune 1000 brands and emerging labels. I want to find out how she bootstrapped and pivoted it to...

Joining me today is a guest who said before we started the interview: “Push my buttons.” He doesn’t want a weak interview. Karn Saroya is the co-Founder of Cover, a nationally licensed insurance brokerage that offers coverage for just about anything you can capture on camera. You’ll...

Today’s guest is the founder of a company that makes sunglasses for kids. My first thought was, “What babies are wearing sunglasses?!” Turns out a lot of them. Molly Fienning is a co-founder of Babiators, which makes sunglasses for kids and babies. I invited her here to find out how big...

I am not about to build a shoe company; I am not about to do anything like today’s guest has done but I’m still in awe of what he’s been able to do. He’s created dress shoes that are as comfortable as sneakers and a business that he’s built from scratch. Justin Schneider is the...

How does a guy who doesn’t have a team create a clothing company that’s going up against giants? And I’m talking about a crowded field, a mature industry. One of the things I remember learning from my business classes at NYU is when you’re in a mature industry,...

How Roman Kirsch sold Casacanda 9 months after launch and turned around and built an even bigger company with Lesara. Roman Kirsch is the founder of Lesara, which is an ecommerce site that sells clothes at a deep discount. Roman Krisch created Lesara back in 2013 and within three years had over...

Today’s guest is Ryan Moses, the cofounder of Myles Apparel. They make things like that jacket you heard me talk about with Noah Kagan in this interview. They make a specialty line of menswear and activewear and we’ll find out why the world needs another line of activewear. I also...

Ecommerce and direct to customer opportunities have made it possible for companies to build things and sell things we couldn’t have done before the earliest days of the Internet. That’s why I’m excited to bring on today’s guest. Josh Meyer founded a men’s brand, a...

Joining me is Daymond John. He’s one of the stars of Shark Tank, the incredibly popular show where entrepreneurs try to raise money from him and other investors. I heard of Daymond back when I worked for my dad’s store as kid in Brooklynn. One day this guy walked into the store wearing a...

Emilie Whitaker is the co-founder of Beija-Flor, a jeans company that makes jeans for women by women. In this interview you’ll hear how a gift from Emilie’s mom led to a denim company that solved a specific problem for women. The two launched the company from a living room and...

As I read the bio for today’s guest, I thought, “Wait, is she really going to talk about that?” It was a bio full of incredible accomplishments but also disasters that most people don’t want to talk about outside of dinner at my house or a scotch night. Sarah Shaw is the...

Almost all the founders we have on Mixergy are tech entrepreneurs, like the founders of Airbnb, Y Combinator, etc. But I’ve found that when I have non-tech founders on, the audience really connects with them. So today I have for you an actress who started a clothing line. I want to find out...

Do you ever feel like maybe we're overthinking things with the tech startup space?

Scott Jordan got his start in the family business selling cemetery plots door-to-door…

Joining me is a Mixergy fan who wondered what would happen if he took everything he knew about online marketing and...

Today's guest says she read one book that changed her life...

In this interview you'll find out how Andrea worked on multiple companies simultaneously, using profit from one company to bootstrap another...