Ep. 76 - Fernanda Böhme Birkeland - Entrepreneur, Fashion Icon, Latter Day Saint

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

Society & Culture

4.5 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Fernanda Böhme Birkeland is a successful entrepreneur and fashion icon. She and her sister founded and manage Böhme, the popular chain of clothing stores. In this episode, we talk about moving from Brazil to the U.S. at a young age, working with her parents through her teen years, how she started her business, how she met and married actor and comedian Michael Birkeland, their beautiful family, and how being a member of the church affects it all. Fernanda's story is truly the American dream.

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
0:07.8	Day Saints. Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host and
0:12.8	guests and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:27.7	Hello, friends, and welcome to episode number 76 of the Latter Day Lives podcast. My name is Sean Rupier. I'm your host. Thank you so much for joining us again this week. Before we get
0:32.8	into the episode, I just want to give a special thanks to a few people. Last week, I begged and pleaded for more reviews on iTunes.
0:42.3	And again, the reason we always look for reviews on iTunes, especially because iTunes
0:47.0	kind of drives the podcast market is it helps us to be found.
0:51.3	The more reviews we have, and especially the more good reviews,
1:00.4	when people search for Latter-day Saint-based content, they find us much more easily. And just for January alone, I want to thank for the five-star reviews, listener 1874,
1:07.0	Morrow 2450, Craig's reviews, MC72 in the RIV, Kyla Sass, Me Mike D, and Schauser, all left five-star reviews for January.
1:20.8	Thank you so much.
1:21.6	It means the world to us, and it certainly helps out.
1:25.4	This week in the conversation, wow, what an amazing guest I have.
1:32.3	Fernanda Bohm, Berkland. It's just an incredible, incredible entrepreneur. She is inspiring.
1:40.0	Her story is just amazing and you are going to absolutely love it.
1:50.2	And this week in my latter day life, I'll tell you some thoughts I had while in the temple this week.
1:52.1	It was a wonderful week in the temple.
1:53.6	It's all coming up.
1:54.7	What a great episode.
2:07.2	Sit back, relax, and enjoy this week's conversation. And today I am privileged to be in the home of our guest.
2:11.6	And we just had a bunch of awesome little kids running around.
2:15.2	There's so much energy in this home.
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