253: How The Spice Suite’s Angel Gregorio Expanded Her Spice Shop Into A Lifestyle Brand
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
I’m celebrating the 5 Year Anniversary of Side Hustle Pro all this month with video interviews with some of my favorite guests of all time! (So you can listen to this episode on your favorite podcast app or watch on the Side Hustle Pro YouTube Channel)
Today in the guest chair, we have Angel Gregorio, the founder and owner of The Spice Suite, a growing community-centric spice boutique, located in Washington DC’s Takoma Park community.
When we first spoke with Angel on the Side Hustle Pro podcast in 2018, she shared how she walked by a vacant storefront with no plan or desire to be a small business owner and decided on the spot to turn it into a spice shop.
That spice shop has since become a dream incubator and haven. Voted Best Spice Shop in Washington City Paper’s Best of DC, The Spice Suite offers fresh spice blends and cooking oils from around the world, handcrafted and customized to disrupt the typical dining experience.
And as a way to pay it forward and support fellow dreamers, Angel offers space at The Spice Suite for pop-up shops, free of charge. No fine print. No commission.
On this episode, hear how Angel:
- The first steps she took to get her very first product made (and how she started all wrong!)
- How she makes the margins work for her in eCommerce:
- How her approach to life and business has shaped her business expansion
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your |
| 0:08.6 | side hustle from passion project to profitable business. |
| 0:12.4 | And I'm your host, Michaela Matthews, a co-man, so let's get started. |
| 0:19.4 | Hey, hey guys, welcome, welcome back to the show, welcome to the very first video interview |
| 0:28.0 | episode of Side Hustle Pro. |
| 0:29.7 | This is new for me. |
| 0:30.8 | This is exciting. |
| 0:31.8 | So today we're chatting with one of the all-time most adored Side Hustle Pro guest, Angel |
| 0:38.4 | Grigorio. |
| 0:39.9 | And I have to say the most stylish too, the all-time fly is Angel is the founder and owner |
| 0:47.6 | of the Spice Suite, which is a growing community-centric Spice boutique located in Washington, |
| 0:53.6 | DC's Tacoma Park community. |
| 0:56.1 | Angel is also a mommy, she's a home cook, activist, and educator with a knack for blurring |
| 1:01.2 | the line between food and fashion. |
| 1:04.3 | And when we first spoke with Angel on this show back in 2018, can you believe it was that |
| 1:09.2 | long ago? |
| 1:10.2 | So she you told us that you walked by a vacant storefront with no plan, no desire to be |
| 1:17.6 | a small business owner that day and decided on a spot to turn it into a spice shop. |
| 1:23.5 | So that spice shop has now become a dream incubator and haven. |
| 1:29.0 | It was voted Best Spice Shop in Washington City Papers, Best of DC. |
| 1:33.5 | And so the Spice Suite, it offers fresh spice blends and cooking oils from all around the |
| 1:38.1 | world. |
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