317: Launching Stryx with Jon Shanahan
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Men's corrective cosmetics company co-founder Jon Shanahan shares the story of starting and growing Stryx, and his personal entrepreneur journey. Jon is an entrepreneur, a men's fashion expert, and the Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer at Stryx. After successful careers in technology and the retail industry, he turned his passion and knowledge of men's fashion into a menswear review website and YouTube channel dedicated to helping guys look better, feel better, and live better called The Kavalier.
Henry Lopez is a serial entrepreneur, small business coach, and the host of this episode of The How of Business show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business. (TheHowOfBusiness.com)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The How of Business with Henry Lopez and David Begin, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. And now here are your hosts. |
| 0:14.8 | This is Henry Lopez and welcome to this episode of The How of Business. My guest today is John Shanahan. John, welcome to the show. |
| 0:22.0 | Thank you for having me on. Henry, excited to be on. Yeah, looking forward to it. |
| 0:24.7 | John's going to share the story of co-founding and launching Strick's. Strix is a men's corrective |
| 0:30.6 | cosmetic company, and he's got a very interesting journey as to how he got to where he is today. |
| 0:36.2 | So that's what this episode is going to be |
| 0:38.2 | about to receive more information about the Howa business, including links to the show notes |
| 0:43.2 | page for this episode. Just text the word biz, B-I-Z, to 31996. So John Chanahan is an entrepreneur, |
| 0:51.3 | a men's fashion expert, and the co-founder and chief marketing officer at Strix. |
| 0:57.5 | After successful careers in technology and the retail industry, Don turned his passion and knowledge of men's fashion into a very popular menswear review website and YouTube channel dedicated to helping guys look better, feel better, |
| 1:11.9 | and live better. That channel and that website is called The Cavalier with a K. And then in |
| 1:17.6 | 2019, he co-founded Stricks. As I mentioned, it's a pioneer in the men's cosmetic industry, |
| 1:23.5 | very interesting industry that I have some thoughts about, and that's why I was excited to have John on the show. |
| 1:29.6 | John lives in the Pittsburgh area. |
| 1:32.2 | And so once again, John Cheneyhan, welcome to the show. |
| 1:35.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:35.9 | Yes, I'm excited and make me sound much more accomplished than I feel sometimes. |
| 1:41.1 | Well, listen, you're youngish, but you've accomplished a heck of a lot at your age. |
| 1:46.4 | There's no doubt. I'm kind of jealous. And it's inspiring. That's always why I like to have |
| 1:51.6 | younger entrepreneurs on the show. You know, one thing, to that point, I was a big screw up in high |
| 1:57.1 | school and I really found myself in college. And so I also feel all right that I made |
| 2:01.7 | the turn when I did. And I never really heard that type of story, which is why I like to seek that sort |
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