Hot Girls Have IBS Too w/ Katie Wilson

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Violet Benson

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🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Hey Besties! Today, Violetta sits down with BelliWelli founder Katie Wilson. Katie shares how her love for chocolate cookies and not being able to eat them during her pregnancy led to the creation of her very first product. When she shared it with her community, she realized there were so many girls with gut issues, even hot girls have gut issues.

Let's listen to Violetta and Katie go through the ups and downs of being a woman entrepreneur with gut issues dealing with growing a business, overcoming a health crisis, and becoming a rapidly growing brand.

What to Listen For:

00:00 Intro
02:38 Did you personally have gut issues?
04:06 Signs that you have gut issues
06:37 Suffering from gut issues throughout pregnancy
09:53 How one chocolate chip cookie changed everything
11:18 Getting funding from angel investors
13:59 First packaging, deck presentation
17:20 Finding more investors
20:55 The greatest piece of advice
22:14 Things happened while preparing for the product launch
28:11 Everyone hated Stevia in the BelliWelli bars
33:17 How did you approach the product?
38:51 Building a company next to bunch of friends
39:48 Hot girls have IBS campaign
42:49 Secret sauce to successful billboards
50:25 Inspiring stories from customers
53:46 Talk about why something isn’t working rather than what’s working
57:40 What is keeping the business successful?
01:00:04 We love feedback!
01:01:47 BelliWelli is at Target

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0:00.0	You can spend all you want on skin care or you just spend 20% more effort fixing your gut.
0:07.0	You notice like almost an overnight difference.
0:10.0	I stopped caring about expensive skin care when I was like, oh, if I just do these three things for my gut, it's the same.
0:16.5	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:19.2	It's Violet Benson, your favorite meme queen and the big sit you didn't ask for but see
0:24.0	you know welcome to almost adulting. Are you ready? Are you ready?
0:33.0	Hi everyone and welcome to a brand new almost adulting, the largest self-love
0:37.4	podcast and movement, your number one destination for personal growth and
0:41.6	mental health. I am your podcast host and
0:44.4	your big sister violetta. So today my special guess meet Katie Wilson. A
0:52.3	it's just so great to finally have a guess
0:54.4	where I can pronounce their name so easily
0:56.6	without even having to ask,
0:57.6	to pronounce it, so, all righty,
0:59.4	we are off to a good start.
1:00.8	Secondly, Katie Wilson, a little introduction on her, I wrote it down, she is the
1:05.2	co-creator of Belli Welli. She was a chief dating strategist and match and then she created
1:10.0	Belli Welli in 2021 with her husband Nick Wilson. It's a snack bars company and the
1:16.1	first lifestyle food brand that creates bars specifically designed for people
1:20.9	who suffer from IBS and gut issues which is super cool they have loads of
1:25.1	flavors I eat it I mean I actually discovered your snack when I was working out
1:31.3	at Alo Gym my friend Sophie handed me belly
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