Ep.27 “An Hour Before We Served Him Papers, He Served Us Papers” Nearly Losing It All With Entrepreneur Hannah Bronfman
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
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4.2 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Hannah Bronfman is an entrepreneur, angel investor, DJ, activist and author. She is among New York's most renowned health and well-being professionals, responsible for building the popular online portal HBFIT. Before this, Hannah built a reputation as a celebrity and influencer through her work as a set DJ, playing at events for high-profile brands including Gucci. Hannah’s first book “Do What Feels Good” was published in January 2019.
Having spent most of her career balancing multiple streams of work, Hannah is no stranger to the hectic New Yorker lifestyle. As a DJ, Hannah's early twenties were particularly manic, the late nights and junk food leading to eventual burnout. As a result, Hannah pivoted and took measures to prioritise her health, documenting her recipes and workouts on Instagram along the way. Now, with fans located globally, HBFIT stands as a bible to anyone looking to put their well-being first, whether this is adding to your unique skincare routine or gaining access to productivity and business advice.
Over the years, Hannah has established herself as an angel investor across multiple industries. Her investment ethos and strategic involvement is to help minority founders who make ‘better for you’ and ‘better for the planet’ products and platforms. Alongside this, Hannah talks about entering motherhood, after sharing her incredible journey with IVF online. Hannah is also a vocal advocate for social and racial justice and is dedicated to using her platform to increase her followers’ awareness of Black History and the challenges the world faces when it comes to diversity and racism.
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| 0:32.3 | When I actually decided that I wanted to be an entrepreneur and start my first company. I was met with so |
| 0:38.9 | much trepidation. People were like, you're a DJ. What are you talking about? We met our other co-founder. |
| 0:45.7 | Fast forward when we were doing our operating agreement. He withheld equity from us. We went to all |
| 0:51.4 | of our investors and we said, listen, we need to get this guy out of our company. |
| 0:55.0 | An hour before we served him papers, he served us papers, and he completely shut us out. |
| 1:03.0 | I will never forget, I went to my friend's bar drinking so much tequila, thinking my life was over. |
| 1:25.1 | What is up, guys? I am recording live and direct from New York. I would do you a New York accent, but I can't, and I don't think anyone would like it, so I won't. I love this episode. You know when you just sit down and you just chat, |
| 1:33.1 | and it feels like you could just chat for hours? This was one of those episodes. We talked about |
| 1:37.6 | everything from failed business, Hannah giving the insight into her crazy lawsuit that she had about her previous business, |
| 1:45.5 | but also beyond that in terms of health, in terms of IVF, in terms of periods, in terms of |
| 1:50.5 | female founders, pretty much everything in between. |
| 1:53.6 | So I really think you'll love this episode. |
| 1:55.3 | If anything, it's just a fun chat. |
| 1:57.3 | It's great to be reporting live from New York, the Working Hardly Working |
| 2:01.0 | Hardly Working Podcast on tour. So I hope you really enjoy this episode and as always, |
| 2:04.3 | have a great day. Hannah Bronfman is an entrepreneur, angel investor, DJ and author. She is |
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