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I think you think you know what I'm going to say audience but I'm not going to start it off with

I'm excited but of course I am because I have a founder of a company she's a founder of

Reli of Natalie Barbu with me here today.

Natalie, it's great to have you on the podcast.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

All right, so founding a company is exciting,

but it's a tough road you got to raise some money so how did you get the why

this company and then we'll get into the you know the hard road of raising money and

starting a company.

Yeah, so I actually started as a content creator.

So that's my background.

I've been doing content creation for the past 12 years.

And I had a pain point of being a full-time creator of using all of these different tools to manage my business.

So I was using a bunch of spreadsheets, notes on my phone, project management tools, content planners, and I just knew that there needed to be something better out there for a content creator like myself and someone on social media.

And so I looked for something, I asked friends, and there was nothing out there that really helped me address this problem of using all of these tools having things slip through the cracks and being pretty disorganized as a creator trying to run this as a business and so I decided how hard can it be I want to start my own

tool start my own application and so that's what rela is is that tool for creators to manage their

content and their business anywhere from content planning to keeping track of revenue, keeping track of your income, brand deal deliverables like working with organizing all of your brand deals.

And so yeah, we started last year. organizing all of your brand deals.

And so, yeah, we started last year

and it came out of a pain point that I had,

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