402: Inventing Wad-Free with Cyndi Bray
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
How entrepreneur Cyndi Bray invented and marketed Wad-Free - a practical home-laundry product that keeps your bed sheets from wadding up. Cyndi shares her story and how she invented, developed and launched her product, including an appearance on Shark Tank, all during the pandemic!
Henry Lopez is the host of The How of Business podcast – helping you start, run and grow your small business. The How of Business is a top-rated podcast for small business and entrepreneurs.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run and grow your small business. |
| 0:13.4 | And now, here is your host. |
| 0:15.7 | This is Henry Lopez. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome to this episode of The How a Business. |
| 0:18.8 | My guest today is Cindy Bray. Cindy, welcome to the show. |
| 0:23.0 | Thank you for having me, Henry. Looking forward to this conversation. Cindy's going to share |
| 0:27.8 | her story of how she invented, developed, and launch a very practical, what I call home laundry |
| 0:34.8 | product, and including in the process, an appearance on truck tank, |
| 0:40.0 | and all of this during the pandemic. |
| 0:42.9 | If you want to receive more information about the Hawa business, including the show notes page for this episode, |
| 0:48.3 | and also if you want to schedule a free coaching consultation with me, just visit the howab business.com. |
| 0:55.6 | So let me tell you a little bit more about Cindy. Cindy Bray is an entrepreneur and an inventor, and she's the owner of Brainiacs LLC |
| 1:02.5 | and the inventor of Wad free, Wad free, Wad free. So during the pandemic, Cindy decided to tackle a problem that had been irritating her for years, |
| 1:14.5 | which is the bed sheets that wad up in the washer and dryer. And I've had that experience myself. I understand what you're |
| 1:23.2 | saying. And so she launched the company to solve this problem, her invention Wad Free, which is |
| 1:28.7 | recently featured, as I said, on Shark Tank. We'll talk a little bit about that experience and has |
| 1:33.4 | been positive really reviewed and featured on various sites and publications. So she's with me |
| 1:39.5 | today to share her small business success story. Cindy lives in Denver, Colorado. So once again, |
| 1:46.6 | Cindy Bray, welcome to the show. Thank you. So I want to start where we usually start, |
| 1:51.0 | Cindy, which is what were you doing before you did this product and invented this? What was your |
| 1:58.2 | career or what were you doing before this? My career actually started in |
| 2:03.5 | advertising and graphic design. I ran my own company for nearly 20 years, but I had stopped |
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