NASA Engineer Turned Business TV Anchor Turned Men's Skincare Entrepreneur with Mia Saini Duchnowski
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Mia is the Co-Founder and CEO of Oars + Alps - a direct to consumer men's grooming company providing premium, natural products without the markup. She graduated from MIT and has her MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Mia's website - Oars+Alps
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Who's ready to rock today Fire Nation? |
| 0:04.5 | JLD here and welcomed episode 1852 of EO Fire. |
| 0:10.4 | We're right chat with entrepreneurs on fire, seven days a week. |
| 0:15.4 | And check out our free podcast and course Fire Nation over at freepodcastcourse.com. |
| 0:21.5 | So you can create, grow and monetize your podcast. |
| 0:25.4 | Now let's chat with today's featured guest Mia Dushnowski. |
| 0:30.4 | Mia, are you prepared to ignite? |
| 0:33.4 | Oh yeah, yes I am. |
| 0:35.8 | Mia is the co-founder and CEO of Oars and Elps. |
| 0:40.4 | This is a direct to consumer men's grooming company providing premium natural products without |
| 0:46.0 | the markup. She graduated from MIT and has her MBA from Harvard Business School. |
| 0:51.8 | Mia, take a minute, fill in some gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse into your personal life. |
| 0:57.6 | Sure, so yeah, as you can tell, I'm kind of a bit of a nerd and I professed to that. |
| 1:03.6 | I thought I was going to be an astronaut which is why I went to MIT. |
| 1:07.1 | Couldn't figure out computer science, so I studied a new kind of emerging field, |
| 1:11.6 | which was like computational neuroscience, which is a mixture of neuroscience and artificial |
| 1:15.7 | intelligence. I worked at NASA for a couple summers and then this investment bank called |
| 1:21.0 | Goldman Sachs found me. I had no idea what they did, but I decided I would give it a try and I |
| 1:27.7 | quickly fell in love with the trading floor environment and it was actually on the trading floor |
| 1:32.8 | where I decided to pivot into my next career move. I was on the floor at Goldman Sachs when |
| 1:38.7 | Bear Stearns Claps and I saw these people on TV really struggle to explain what was happening |
| 1:43.1 | in the financial markets and I thought they were doing a huge disservice to the overall population |
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