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296: How Lola Banjo Launched Luxury Handbag Brand Silver & Riley While Side Hustling

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Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media

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4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This week in the guest chair we have self described dreamer and doer Lola Banjo, the Founder, Creative Director and Designer of Silver & Riley, a premier luxury travel and fashion leather goods brand made exquisitely in Italy. Lola launched Silver & Riley in October 2019 with one main goal—creating stylish, functional and luxurious pieces that do not break the bank, yet make you look and feel like a million bucks. This Black-owned and Black-woman owned luxury handbag line is making waves. And it took years to get here.

In this episode we discuss:

  • What inspired Silver & Riley and why it took her 10 years to finally launch her business
  • The painful lesson that cost her $20,000 due to a shady manufacturer
  • The response she received once she launched in October 2019 and what happened once the pandemic hit!
  • & so much more!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Here I'm listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow

0:06.8

your side hustle from passion project to profitable business.

0:10.8

And I'm your host, Nikaela Matthews of Comet, so let's get started.

0:15.9

Hey, hey guys, welcome, welcome back to the show.

0:22.1

Today in the guest chair, we have Lola Vanjo.

0:25.1

Lola is the founder, creative director and designer of Silver and Riley, a premier luxury

0:31.0

travel and fashion leather goods brand made exclusively and exquisitely in Italy.

0:37.3

Self-described as a dreamer and a doer, Lola launched Silver and Riley in October 2019

0:42.4

with one main goal, creating stylish, functional and luxurious pieces that do not break the

0:49.4

bank yet make you look and feel like a million bucks.

0:53.5

Each Silver and Riley product is designed in a way that combines her passion for problem

0:58.1

solving and building things better through her experience as an engineer and now as a

1:02.9

corporate strategist with her love for fashion, which she picked up from her late mother

1:08.4

whom the brand is dedicated to.

1:10.6

She draws, conceptualizes and then works with her manufacturers to bring all Silver and

1:17.0

Riley items to life.

1:18.9

In today's episode, Lola shares how she manages a high level executive position at a global

1:24.6

tech company while managing a booming business.

1:28.2

Let's get right into it.

1:34.9

Thank you for being here.

1:35.9

It's such a pleasure to be able to chat with you and interview you.

1:39.7

You know, I've done some Instagram stalking, so I'm just loving your brand Silver and Riley

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