Karissa Bodnar: Thriving as an Entrepreneur with Purpose
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Karissa Bodnar launched Thrive Causemetics, a vegan direct-to-consumer cosmetics brand in 2015 with the mission of “Bigger than Beauty.” She began her career as a makeup artist and product developer/cosmetic chemist prior to starting Thrive Causemetics and now Bigger Than Beauty Skincare. Thrive Causemetics® and Bigger Than Beauty® Skincare exist to empower their customers, employees, and Giving Partners to live their most confident life. Thrive Causemetics has donated over $135 million in products and funds to over 500 nonprofit Giving Partners around the world. Their Giving Partners help communities enduring battles with cancer, emerging from homelessness, surviving domestic abuse, fighting for racial and social justice, pursuing education, supporting LGBTQ+ causes, uplifting underserved marginalized youth, and assisting veterans. Acknowledging her amazing work and success, Karissa has been named in Forbes’ 30 Under 30, Forbes’ America's Richest Self-Made Women, Marie Claire’s Most Powerful Women, and Inc.’s Badass Female Founders list.
We absolutely loved having Karissa live in studio for this podcast! We are utterly inspired by how and why Karissa started this brand and what she's accomplished and continues to do with the Thrive and their 500+ giving partners. Thrive is self-funded and has grown into one of the most impactful philanthropic organizations around. If you are an entrepreneur, this episode is a must listen.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.0 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | You got it. |
| 0:13.5 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by Cockpunch Coffee. |
| 0:20.6 | Yeah, you heard that right. |
| 0:21.5 | Cock Punch Coffee. So let's set the stage. I'm obsessed to coffee. You're not. Unobsessed to the coffee yourself. Oh, I mean, it is like the fluid of our ability to function in life. I mean, if there's a Dune reference in here, it is definitely the water of life. Yes. So what's really fun about Cockpunch Coffee is that it was created by our friend Tim Ferriss. |
| 0:41.8 | Now, Tim Ferriss, if you don't know, podcast, Extraordinary Thinker, he created this whole universe as a creative outlet called the World Land of Cockpunch. |
| 0:50.5 | It's NFTs, fictional writings, a whole bunch of fun things, and this coffee. |
| 1:11.1 | The coffee is really good. It's really tasty. Very snobby. I don't know if you know this, but I actually have vacuumed out coffee. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's like a regular occurrence. If we pour a bag in that we don't like, like we vacuum it right out. People give us a bag. The first time I had cock punch, |
| 1:14.2 | they literally, our friends and Tim were like, |
| 1:11.1 | did you vacuum it right out. People give us a bag. The first time I had cockpunch, |
| 1:27.2 | they literally, our friends and Tim were like, did you vacuum it out? And I was like, no, I didn't have to vacuum it out. This is great coffee. It's super tasty coffee. It's roasted with the lowest carbon footprint available. And we're delighted to introduce it to you all. The other thing is that Tim donates 100% of the proceeds to his foundation |
| 1:29.6 | Sisei. |
| 1:30.6 | And the Sisy Foundation's nonprofit focused on cutting-edge scientific research that explores widely untreatable or conditions that are considered untreatable, like treatment-resistant depression, anorexia, things like that. |
| 1:41.8 | It's pretty amazing. |
| 1:42.9 | And you can actually go to Sise Foundation and check out more about that about that. And learn more. And what we love is it's coffee with |
| 1:48.3 | a cause. Yeah. So we love supporting it. Coffee with the cause. So if you want to just say cockpunch a lot to your family, hey, what are you drinking? Cockpunch? Because that's really funny. Go to cockpunchedcoffee.com |
| 1:58.6 | slash tRS and use code |
| 2:00.7 | tRS for 20% off |
| 2:02.7 | your first purchase. |
| 2:04.6 | We are excited. cockpunched coffee.com slash tRS and use code TRS for 20% off your first purchase. |
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