Purpose over Profit with Thrive Causemetics CEO Karissa Bodnar

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

How do you run a thriving company that cares more about impact than about profit and margins? Karissa Bodnar is a genius CEO who dedicated herself to building a cause-based company. Thrive Causemetics started out of her one-bedroom apartment and now it’s a massively successful brand that has donated over $139 million of value to those in need. We sat down to talk about finding your purpose, leading younger generations, and so much more. This is… A Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	It's really hard to start a company.
0:09.0	And as if there's not enough pressure just keeping the doors open, ensuring everything
0:13.1	you do is consistent with your cause adds another level of difficulty.
0:18.2	And this is why Carissa Bodner is special, because that's exactly what she did.
0:23.2	She built thrive cosmetics to be completely cause-based and extremely profitable.
0:31.6	Starting out of her one bedroom apartment nearly a decade ago, she has given away over
0:35.2	$135 million to charity.
0:39.2	So we sat down to talk about what it takes to lead a cause-based company and how a young
0:44.0	leader leads this is a bit of optimism.
0:51.6	I don't know if you know this, you may know this, you are one of my favorite entrepreneurs.
0:56.2	Thank you so much.
0:57.4	You're one of my favorite authors.
0:58.4	Oh, thank you very much.
1:00.1	The reason you're one of my favorite entrepreneurs is because there's this new breed of entrepreneur
1:05.2	that's coming up through the ranks that has a very different point of view about how business
1:09.9	should run that is different from how our parents were told to run businesses or even
1:14.8	how some of your investors or some of your mentors may be telling you how you should be running
1:18.4	your business.
1:19.6	You're trusting your gut and you're doing it differently.
1:22.1	You care about people so much.
1:24.6	You care about doing the right thing so much.
1:27.1	And though finance is important to you, not at any cost.
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