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Ep. 99: Starting a Health and Wellness Brand in a Small Town, Why Integrity Matters in Business, and Moving and Pivoting Quickly ft. Founders of Whimsy Official

The Real Reel

Natalie Barbu

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

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

I interviewed Jasmine Lee and Victoria Mcabee, co-founders of Whimsy Official, a modern beauty and wellness company focused on clean, plant alchemy and conscious luxury. In this episode, we talk about working with your best friend, opening a business in a small town, turning a passion for plant-based wellness into a business, and so much more! Whimsy Official IG: https://www.instagram.com/officialwhimsy/ Jasmine’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/jas.lee_/ Victoria’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/victoriaemcabee/ Whimsy Official Website: https://whimsyofficial.com 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 my podcast the real real

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podcast with me Natalie Barbu today's episode I have two amazing guests on

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Victoria and Jasmine. They are the founders of

0:25.0

whimsy official and if you guys don't know what whimsy official is, it is a

0:29.6

overall wellness brand and they believe that wellness and beauty are synonymous.

0:34.0

So pretty much they go hand in hand and they have created macha, ceremonial macha to be specific

0:40.8

because I didn't know what the difference was and we get into that in

0:44.0

this episode as well as some adaptive collagen they also have an amazing serum that

0:49.0

has been getting in the press and has been getting some raving reviews.

0:54.0

So I'm so excited to talk to them and we discussed how they came up with

0:58.0

whimsy in their town of Auburn, Alabama, where they actually went to college

1:02.0

and where they met, and also how it became from a food

1:05.9

truck essentially it was a matra truck is what they call it to a very powerful online shop today

1:12.1

and they are delivering wellness to people all over

1:15.0

the country and I think it is just really really inspiring their story on how they

1:21.0

created this and very very quickly I will say this is a very new

1:25.9

company and they are super super successful and you've probably seen them in press

1:31.1

lately because their macha their

1:33.2

collagen their serum has been getting some amazing reviews from some of the

1:38.1

biggest brands like Allure hello the literal Bible of Beauty have that alert sample of approval I think that you're doing a great thing and especially being such a young business

1:49.2

It's just really inspiring for me to see I also wanted to begin to be a little more personal in my

1:55.0

podcast intros. Some people like them long, some people like them short. I just

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