How to Start Your Own Brand (How Much it Costs, How to Find Manufacturers, How to Build Community)

House Guest with Kenzie Elizabeth

Dear Media, Kenzie Elizabeth

Mentalhealth, Mental Health, Productivity, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, I Love You So Much, Society & Culture, Kenzieelizabeth, Relationships

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week's episode Kenzie sits down for a solo podcast episode to celebrate the second birthday for her home brand, Friend of Mine. She's sharing how she started the brand, how much it costs, how to find manufacturers, how to build community and so much more. Hope you enjoy!! <3

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:07.0	Hi y'all.
0:08.0	This is houseguess, and I am your host, Kenzie Elizabeth.
0:10.9	Think a Gen Z wannabe Martha Stewart meets Dolly Parton, trying to live in a Nancy
0:15.1	Myers movie in her 20s.
0:16.9	We talk all about life, relationships, navigating your 20s, closing at the bars, or waking up at 5 a.m.
0:22.4	Depending on our vibe that week.
0:24.3	Ultimately, living our best lives and figuring it out along the way.
0:28.3	So come hang out.
0:29.1	Sometimes I have guests on who do really cool things, some of my best friends, or it's just me in my house that I spend way too much time in.
0:36.0	So let's get into the show.
0:40.4	Hi, house guests. You guys are coming over this week for a little birthday party, okay? Friend of mine, my literal child,
0:46.0	my baby, if you will, the brand that I'm building, my home and lifestyle brand designed to help
0:50.9	you gather in the home is turning two. Okay? If you guys were watching on
0:55.6	YouTube, you would see that I have a whole birthday party set up right now. It actually looks quite cute.
0:59.4	You should be watching on YouTube. But anyway, I am very excited about this. I cannot believe it's
1:05.0	been two years. It's been two years of a lot of work. And we are going to get into the Genesis story,
1:10.1	why I started it, how I started
1:11.8	it, like how much stuff cost, how I got the brand into anthropology wholesale. So many of the
1:16.6	questions that you guys have, questions about products, like all of the things. If you guys are
1:20.0	interested in either the brand or like brand building in general, I think you guys are really
1:24.3	going to like this episode. I haven't done just like a sit down solo on more of like my entrepreneurial journey, if you will. And I am wearing a two-year-old hat right
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