How to Scale Your Business As a First-Time Entrepreneur with Brooke Graves of Kaleidoscope Juice

Earn Your Happy

Lori Harder

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest happens to be the owner of my favorite cold-pressed juice bar in Arizona, Kaleidoscope Juice, Brooke Graves. We talk about how she went from employee to owning the business at only 28 years old, googling how to write a business plan and figuring things out as she expanded to multiple locations. This is such a great conversation on what it takes to run a business from leading your team, to making tough decisions so the business can be profitable, and how to lead with your purpose at the forefront. Check out our Sponsors: Quince - Go to Quince.com/earn for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. BetterHelp - Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/LORI today. HelloFresh - Get FREE breakfast for life at HelloFresh.com/freeearn. Found - Try Found for free at Found.com/EARN. HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 The organic cold-pressed juice bar that I am obsessed with! 03:30 What led you to become a nutritionist and juice bar owner? 12:30 Challenges of being a young business owner with no prior experience running a business. 18:00 Tips to survive with a trial-and-error strategy. 20:15 How do you know what risks you should take in business? 26:00 How to create aligned partnerships to market your brand. 31:15 Ways to maintain a positive mindset. 38:15 Tips for hiring and developing your team. 44:00 Red and green flags I look for in my interview process. 55:00 How do you find the balance between growth and maintaining quality? RESOURCES Check out the BONUS CONTENT HERE! Get glōci HERE Use code: HAPPY at checkout for 25% off! Text DAILY to 310-496-8363 for daily manifesting affirmations, journal prompts, and motivation. Sign up for GrowthDay - https://www.growthday.com/lori?via=harder Watch on YouTube - @LoriHarder My book: A Tribe Called Bliss FOLLOW Follow Kaleidoscope: @kaleidoscopejuice Follow Brooke: @brookegraves10 Follow me: @loriharder Follow Chris: @chriswharder Follow Earn Your Happy: @earnyourhappy Follow glōci: @getgloci Girlfriends & Business: @girlfriendsandbusiness

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0:00.0	I know a lot of people have a huge ego where they hate having to tell other people I failed at something,
0:05.7	but that is the whole point of business. Like you're, not everything's going to hit.
0:10.7	Right. I make a bunch of really nasty recipes. They don't hit and people don't like
0:15.4	them and I have to be okay with that. Just because I like something doesn't mean everybody
0:19.6	will so you kind of have to let go of the idea of every decision you make is going to be great.
0:24.4	You try your best, you pray it works, and then if it doesn't have a swift exit plan and not take it personally. Welcome back to the Earn Your Happy Podcast. I have Brooke Graves on the show today and
0:46.5	something really exciting about Brooke is she is the founder of Klytoscope
0:50.7	Juice which is my favorite organic smoothie and cold-pressed juice bar in Arizona.
0:57.2	And when I lived there and whenever I visit I am always stopping in, sometimes you guys guys guiltily but not at all.
1:04.6	Also knowing that my friend owns it makes me really happy to purchase, give money and also just like I am so obsessive about their products.
1:17.8	Like if you have not been there yet and if you visit Arizona or you're in Arizona please go in and
1:24.8	try the mint chip smoothie and not just that I have to tell you that we have an
1:30.7	epic collab together.
1:33.7	So you guys can go and try the Summer Glow Refresher
1:38.6	which has a stick of glossy in every single one.
1:40.9	It's so incredibly good. Get some ice cubes in there, trust me, go grab it.
1:46.4	It's delicious and I just freaking love the whole vibe of this juice shop and I am officially made of kaleidoscope at this point in my career in life.
1:57.3	So not only is Brooke passionate about nutrition and making food and smoothies that help you optimize
2:01.8	your health.
2:02.8	But she's a genius businesswoman and she is so open about how she was not born great at business.
2:09.4	These are my favorite kind of people when they're like, look, I was like a a mess I did not know what I was doing this was so new to me
2:16.6	she is very clear that she learned these skills over time and that you can too so if you're wanting to
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