296: How Lola Banjo Launched Luxury Handbag Brand Silver & Riley While Side Hustling
Side Hustle Pro
Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
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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| 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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