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Ep. 108: Creating the First Nut-Free Granola Butter, Using Influencer Marketing to Grow Your Business, and How to Land Your Products in Whole Foods ft. Ali Bonar

The Real Reel

Natalie Barbu

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

I interviewed Ali Bonar, Founder of Kween + Co. Kween + Co has created the world’s first delicious spreadable granola. In this episode, we talk about starting a business, using influencer marketing to your advantage, and getting your product into bigger chains. We also talk about the importance of being persistent, business finances, and asking for what you want. This is one of my favorite episodes and you don’t want to miss it! Ali IG: https://www.instagram.com/alibonar/ Kween + Co IG: https://www.instagram.com/kweenandco/ Kween + Co Website: https://kween.co Where can you find us? Natalie's IG: @nataliebarbu IG: @therealreelpodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/natalie-barbu4/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. Hello everybody and welcome back to the real real podcast with me

0:17.2

Natalie Barbu. I am so excited for today's episode I am

0:20.8

interviewing Ali Bonar she is the CEO and founder of Queen

0:25.5

Granola Butter. She has founded the one and only granola butter out there. So if you

0:31.4

like peanut butter, almond almond butter but you want a

0:34.4

nut-free version yeah this is it it's amazing she sent me a few of them to try and

0:39.6

they are so so delicious so you need to them. They also sell them at a few local

0:44.4

Whole Foods and a few local supermarkets. So definitely check it out on their

0:47.8

website to see if it's being sold near you or order it online because you don't want to

0:51.3

miss these. They are literally so good but

0:53.7

today's episode is with Ali we talk a lot about how she's one of the co-founders

0:57.1

of Queen Granola Butter how her journey to create this granola Butter came

1:00.9

about how she's running a business and then we also do talk

1:04.8

about her previous eating disorder very slightly in this episode so if that is a

1:09.5

trigger warning for you

1:15.0

just wanted to throw that out there that there is some mention of an eating disorder so just wanted to put that out before you listen to this episode.

1:18.0

But overall this is such an amazing episode.

1:21.0

Ali is so inspirational. I have actually heard another

1:24.6

episode with her and she was just so so so so inspiring. So I had to have her on my

1:30.5

podcast and we actually did a podcast swap. So my episode is going

1:34.2

up on her podcast on Wednesday. So if you guys happen to be watching this on

1:37.6

Wednesday or later, you can check out her episode on her podcast where she

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