You have to be very, very critical about your own products and be able to look at them from the point of view of the consumer.

When it comes to anyone's personal brand, you have to define from day one what is your brand you know what is it that you

represent I did have faith and faith and my gut feeling is something that still

guides me to this day.

Welcome to the Boss Bay Podcast, a place that we share with you the real behind the scenes

of building successful businesses, achieving people performance, and learning how to balance it all.

I'm Danielle Akanti, your host with this week's episode and co-seo of Boss Babe.

Now if you know Boss Babe, you'll know that we're pretty famous for our sassy

insightful quotes and so every single episode it feels only right that we start by

sharing a new quote with you so for this episode the quote is this. There are two things in life

that you have control of, your attitude and your effort. Now I chose this quote

because it leaves in perfectly to this week's episode where I was joined by Maria Hattus Stephanus, the founder and CEO of not only one but two huge beauty product lines, Riddeale and Nipp and Fab.

Now in this conversation Maria shares how she chose to see her dismissal from her job

as an opportunity.

She changed her attitude and with a lot of effort that dismissal

led her onto the path of creating an international beauty empire. As always in this interview I got Maria to get super specific on all the details

that I knew you guys would want to know.

We chatted about everything from how to start a product-based business, how to find a manufacturer, how to brand your products, Maria's experience, working with the one Lily Kylie Jenna,

but also about dealing with rejection and taking risks.

Now this episode is such a jam-packed interview,

so I hope you love it and also make sure

that you do have your pen and paper ready.

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