Jen Gotch: ban.do Founder and Chief Creative Officer

Second Life

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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If you asked Jen Gotch in her 20s what her career might be like today, she'd have had absolutely no idea. "I'm a late bloomer," she tells Hillary Kerr on episode 17 of Second Life. The businesswoman and founder of the stylish gifts and accessories brand Ban.do spent college studying literature and philosophy with the goal of becoming a lawyer, only to realize that wasn't the path for her. Little did she know it would be a career in food styling that would ignite her creativity and lead to the beginning of her own brand then, later, a podcast about mental health.

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0:00.0	From MyDomain.com, this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring
0:11.2	careers.
0:12.2	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting
0:15.9	aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their second life.
0:20.9	I'm your host, Hillary Kerr, and today I am delighted to welcome a woman who many, many,
0:27.0	many, many, many of you have been asking for over the past few weeks.
0:32.5	The founder and chief creative officer of Bandeau, Jen Gotch, who is also the host of a new
0:38.1	podcast called Jen Gotch is okay, sometimes.
0:42.1	So Jen created this multi-million dollar brand that sells all kinds of lifestyle awesomeness,
0:47.6	from iPhone cases to Home Decor, to Mugs, to Graphics, to Jewelry, to Backpack's to Stationary,
0:52.7	and more.
0:53.7	It's optimistic, it's affordable, it's a little nostalgic, and it's unabashedly playful.
0:59.2	It's also wildly popular, and Bandeau products are currently available in more than 3,000
1:03.8	stores in over 50 countries, as well as on the brand's website.
1:08.2	They are emotional purchases, which is part of what makes them so powerful.
1:12.4	Also powerful, the story of how Jen got here.
1:15.6	From her early days as a food and prop stylist to her current place at the helm of Bandeau,
1:21.5	this is Jen Gotch on Second Life.
1:25.2	So Jen, as always, with this podcast we like to start at the beginning.
1:29.3	I have it.
1:30.3	Which seems like a logical place to start.
1:32.6	So, what did you study in school, and what did you think you were going to be?
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