Living the American Dream and Believing in Your Product with Adina’s Jewels

Just Grow With It with Natalie Barbu

Natalie Barbu

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.8 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Episode 146: The American dream can be defined as the belief that anyone, regardless of where they were born or what class they were born into, can attain their own version of success through sacrifice, risk-taking, and hard work, rather than by chance. The creator of Adina’s Jewels, Adina Kamkhatchi Mizrah, completely embodies this definition and is a true American Dream success story. She joins Natalie to share her incredible story about starting a jewelry company in her bedroom, to leasing three floors of workspace in Brooklyn with 60 employee including her entire family. The two connect over their similar upbringing as both their parents are immigrants and supported their entrepreneurial dreams without question. Adina is overflowing with passion and gratitude and shares her own growth and marketing strategies that have taken her company to the multi-million dollar level. It is likely you have seen her pieces on Ariana Grande, Bella Hadid and Katy Perry and today, you get to meet the woman behind the jewelry. Adina Kamkhatchi Mizrah grew up in NYC and began designing and curating jewelry in college as a hobby. She quickly fell in love with the world of fashion jewelry and decided to turn her passion into a business. Adina’s Jewels is named after her late grandmother and truly is a family business. With pieces for everyone at a reasonable cost, Adina’s Jewels has grown into a household name and is worn by fashionistas around the world. Today’s episode dives into: Bootstrapping basics and the benefits of reinvesting in your brand Marketing tactics to reach a diverse range of consumers What it's like to work with your entire family How to gain the attention of major celebrities and influencers. Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast community! Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and of course, post to your highlight reel. Follow your host Natalie on Instagram @nataliebarbu and @therealreelpodcast. Follow Adina's Jewels @adinas.jewels and Adina @adina.kam. Check out their website at adinasjewels.com. Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: CUROLOGY - Go to curology.com/real for a free 30-day trial and just pay for shipping and handling! PRINCESS POLLY – Go to princesspolly.com and use the code REAL20 for 20% off your next order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.
0:04.0	You don't know how far your business can go, so don't just reach for the stars thinking that that's the limit because it's not.
0:20.0	There are so many things that you can achieve when you have the right support system,
0:26.0	when you are happy and content with yourself, and that's something that I always say,
0:30.0	you need to be in a good place.
0:32.0	You have to care for your mental health. You have to care for all of these things. You need to also love yourself, love your business, love what you do, love those around you. And I can promise you that there is nothing that will
0:47.2	stand in your way that can stop you from achieving what you want. Welcome to the Real Real, where I take you behind the Instagram Real and into the real lives of
0:59.5	entrepreneurs, content creators, and anyone who inspires me and may inspire you too. I'm your
1:04.9	host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it. Hello everybody welcome back to the real
1:17.1	to the real podcast with me Natalie Barboo I am very excited to be on the mic. I always feel so professional on here. I feel like I'm just like
1:28.9	ready to take on the world whenever I come to the microphone. So highly recommend you starting a
1:33.7	podcast if you want to feel this way. But anyways I'm currently in Miami and it has
1:39.4	been cold here and I know you're gonna laugh and be like what the heck it's not been cold to Miami but it actually has so the past week it has gotten down to the 40s which is unheard of in Miami it was 45 degrees the other. It gets up to like the 60s which is actually really nice but it was down to the 40s. I was
1:57.9	freezing and in Miami when it gets down below 70 people are wearing wearing puffers, they're wearing
2:03.2	scarves, they're wearing beanies, they're doing, they're bringing out the
2:06.5	winter clothes and so I was just shocked. I went out in shorts and like a
2:11.2	little sports brog on my way to the gym and I was like what in the world like I was so so so so so so cold.
2:17.6	So the next day I was prepared and I made sure to have like a sweatshirt on leggings like the works because I was just freezing and I have just come back from North Carolina.
2:27.1	So I was recently in Raleigh and then I was also in Charlotte for a day and it was actually
2:31.8	freezing there. It was like 20 degrees and it was actually freezing there it was like 20
2:33.5	degrees it was snowing we had a huge snow day there it was actually a lot of fun
2:38.5	but it was actually freezing there and then coming back to Miami to have it be 45 I was like this
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