172: Entrepreneur in Residence Check-In with Lisa Pegram, Founder of Belle 51
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Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
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🗓️ 6 November 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Today in the guest chair, we have our Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Lisa Pegram. She is a Data Scientist who launched a cutting-edge home laser for melanated skin. Listen to Episode 155 to hear when she was first introduced to Side Hustle Pro listeners.
She has built a career in analytics and is currently in pursuit of her PhD at Columbia where she studies meta-cognition and data sciences. At the time of our last conversation, she was getting ready to launch her business Belle 51; a company dedicated to the specific woes of black and brown skin.
Belle 51’s first product is Solèy, the first home laser therapy device that can achieve rapid clearing results at home for all skin types, particularly black and brown tones for whom existing laser technology has until now been ineffective or unsafe.
Let’s check in with Lisa to see where she is in her entrepreneur journey.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're in school it's not necessarily a deterrent you can always find a way to make a |
| 0:08.1 | partnership or use like relationships to you know get to the next level. |
| 0:15.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, |
| 0:17.0 | the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your Side Hustle, |
| 0:21.0 | from Passion Project to Profitable Business business and I'm your host and |
| 0:24.8 | Kayla Matthew Zakomey so let's get started. |
| 0:27.6 | Hey everyone welcome welcome back to the show today we are back with a check-in with our |
| 0:35.3 | entrepreneur in residence you guys were first introduced to Lisa Pegram back in July in |
| 0:40.5 | episode 155 of Side Hustle Pro, Lisa is a data scientist that launched a cutting-edge |
| 0:47.0 | home laser for melanated skin. She's built a career in analytics and is currently in pursuit of her PhD at Columbia. |
| 0:55.7 | At the time of our last conversation, she had just launched her business, Bell 51. |
| 1:01.1 | Bell 51 is a company dedicated to the specific woes of black and brown skin. |
| 1:06.0 | And their Solay Laser is the first home laser therapy device that can achieve rapid |
| 1:12.3 | clearing results at home for all skin types, |
| 1:14.7 | particularly black and brown tones for whom existing laser technology has |
| 1:19.7 | until now been ineffective or unsafe. |
| 1:23.0 | So let's jump right in with Lisa and find out what's new post-business launch. |
| 1:28.0 | Lisa, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:31.0 | Hey! So, since we last spoke, you left your full-time job and officially started at Columbia. |
| 1:41.2 | Tell us about that whole transition. Are you a full-time student now or are you still |
| 1:45.5 | side hustling? What's that been like? So there is, so I am a full-time student at Columbia right now and it's it's sort of like a sad hustle in itself |
| 1:56.2 | because they kind of with these doctorate programs they pay you to go to school so you know not a lot. |
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