Karissa Bodnar, Founder of Thrive Causemetics: What To Know About Clean Beauty, Giving Mission, Building a Community, Business Tipping Point, and The Mascara That Sells Every 8 Seconds
The Dream Bigger Podcast
Siffat Haider
4.8 • 625 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Today, I’m chatting with Karissa Bodnar, Founder of Thrive Causemetics. If you haven’t heard of this brand, search for it on Youtube and be prepared to be blown away by the results. Since Karissa has built one of the most successful clean beauty brands AND has a giving mission, our conversation is all about clean beauty and her journey to building one of the biggest beauty empires.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys and welcome back to the Dream Bigger podcast. I'm your host SIF and I'm the founder of |
| 0:12.5 | Array, which is a wellness brand, an icing and glitter, which is a blog, Instagram page, |
| 0:16.8 | and YouTube channel. Today I'm chatting with a fellow entrepreneur and beauty junkie Carissa Bodner, |
| 0:22.5 | and she is a big deal. She's built a beauty empire which got her on Forbes's list of America's |
| 0:28.7 | richest self-made women, you know, the same list that includes the likes of Oprah and Kylie Jenner. |
| 0:35.2 | Carissa built Thrive Cosmetics, a clean beauty brand which is as efficacious as it |
| 0:39.7 | is ethical. If you haven't yet, go on YouTube and search of Thrive Cosmetics. The results will have |
| 0:44.9 | you shook. You will find an endless number of videos, which is a testament to how Carissa has |
| 0:50.8 | successfully managed to build a hugely loyal community of customers. |
| 0:55.2 | If you haven't heard of their mascara, you are really missing out. It is supposed to be one of |
| 1:00.0 | the best mascara on the market, not to mention it's clean. On today's episode, we chat about |
| 1:06.5 | clean beauty and how Carissa built Thrive Cosmetics, which has skyrocketed to success in just a few short years. |
| 1:12.6 | So without further ado, let's welcome Carissa to the show. |
| 1:18.6 | All right, so Carissa, first things first. You used to be a makeup artist and product developer at L'Oreal. |
| 1:24.6 | So why don't you tell me about that time, about that time in your life? |
| 1:30.0 | Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here today. And I, yes, I started in the beauty industry |
| 1:37.2 | as a makeup artist when I was in college. That was one of the ways that I helped support myself through |
| 1:42.1 | college. And then, yeah, it was so great. |
| 1:46.7 | And I loved being able to connect with women face to face and really help them feel |
| 1:54.0 | confident in their day-to-day lives. |
| 1:56.0 | And so that was really what I loved about makeup artistry. |
| 2:00.1 | But going back even before then, I've been a lifelong |
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