Brightland Founder, Aishwarya Iyer, on Olive Oil and Imposter Syndrome
Bad On Paper
Becca Freeman
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, we chat with Aishwarya Iyer, founder of Brightland. We talk about what motivated her to start an olive oil company, her tips for finding high-quality cooking oils, and a new Brightland launch coming this fall! She also shares her advice for those starting their own brand and her tips on how to overcome imposter syndrome.
We also talk about Becca's need for a beach day, Grace's salad with potatoes, and RomComPods making it to the Sunday Arts section of the New York Times!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome back to Baton Paper Podcast. I'm Becca Freeman and I'm Grace |
| 0:22.4 | Atwood. And today we're talking to Ashwarya Iyer who is the founder of Brightland Olive |
| 0:28.5 | Oil, which is one of our most used things in our kitchens. So we're very excited to |
| 0:33.8 | talk to her. Yeah. But before we get into the episode, this episode is sponsored by |
| 0:39.5 | Knight, the makers of our favorite pillow. We're going to tell you more in the episode, but |
| 0:44.0 | Knight is retiring our favorite face mask. This would be sad news except now they're 50% |
| 0:49.6 | off and you can use our code Knight, B.O.P. to get an extra 20% off. So Grace, before we |
| 0:55.3 | get into the interview, what is your high? I'm just a really nice weekend. We went out |
| 1:01.5 | to the beach in Kioa, which was so nice. My friend Natalie and then my boyfriend and Natalie's |
| 1:08.0 | two kids all went out and like we played in the waves, read a little bit, we drank a little |
| 1:13.3 | bit, we got the kids ice cream, we got dacaries for us. It was weird because I haven't been |
| 1:19.4 | to the beach enough here. Like I love the beach, but I don't drive. So I like kind of I'm |
| 1:23.7 | relying on another person and my family. When they go to the beach, they go at like eight |
| 1:28.8 | because of Zoe and I don't go to the beach at eight. That's way too early. Grace, the |
| 1:34.1 | last time I was at the beach was in 2019 when we went to Harbor Island with Katie. That |
| 1:40.6 | was the last time I was at the beach. Wow. That makes me sad. We too. I mean, we're going |
| 1:46.2 | to be at the beach very soon together, but in 24 hours, I will be at a beach. But yeah, |
| 1:52.1 | I miss it so much. So I'm so jealous of your beach. Yeah. I feel like I've been really |
| 1:57.0 | spoiled because I got to go to the beach every day when I was on the cape. Then anytime |
| 2:02.0 | I go out to LA, we go to the beach like for sure. And then I just haven't been doing |
| 2:06.4 | the Charleston Beach thing quite as much, but I love the Charleston beaches. And doing |
| 2:11.1 | Kioa was the right move because we parked at this really nice hotel. So then we went to |
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