Building Your Brand Brick by Brick with Highbrow Hippie’s Kadi Lee
Confessions of a Female Founder with Meghan
Lemonada Media
4 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Meghan sits down with Kadi Lee, co-founder of Highbrow Hippie and the go-to colorist for some of Hollywood’s biggest names. What began as a blog has since grown into a brick-and-mortar salon and a thoughtfully crafted product line, all built with heart and the utmost attention to detail. The pair discuss what it means to grow something from the ground up, how to lead with your values, and why staying connected to your community is the ultimate marker of success.
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| 0:00.0 | As the co-founder of a fully remote company, I have the benefit of being able to hire people who live all over the country. |
| 0:06.7 | But that candidate search can be overwhelming. |
| 0:09.3 | That's where LinkedIn jobs comes to the rescue. |
| 0:11.9 | LinkedIn makes it easy to post your job for free, share it with your network, and get high-quality candidates all in one place. |
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| 0:21.7 | quickly get your job in front of the right people with deep candidate insights. Find your next |
| 0:26.6 | great hire on LinkedIn. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com slash female founder. That's |
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| 0:41.4 | and I have been having so much fun updating my wardrobe thanks to Jenny Kane. Jenny Kane creates |
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| 1:29.8 | Lemonada. |
| 1:42.1 | I think about what I knew back then, which was absolutely nothing about color and the gall that I had to be like, yeah, I'm going to be a colorist. |
| 1:45.9 | And the first day showing up and then handing me my shampoo apron. |
| 2:01.9 | I'm Megan, and this is Confessions of a Female Founder, a show where I chat with female entrepreneurs and friends about the sleepless nights, the lessons learned, and the laser focus that got them to where they are today. No time to get down because I'm moving up. No time to get down because I'm moving up. No time to get down because I'm moving up. |
| 2:09.6 | Ah. Okay. Real talk. Running a business is a lot. Building something new is a long road of making decisions in the dark and then holding this vision in your head when no one else can even see it yet. It can be slow. It can be scrappy, it can be exhausting. |
| 2:37.7 | It's a process. |
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